Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and ios 14.4.2 and ios 14.5 beta 8 have been out for a few
days and a few weeks depending on which version we're talking about so i wanted to share some new
features or some new changes that have been found and then also talk about the overall experience
of both ios 14.4.2 14.5 beta 8 and all the information based off the youtube community poll
so the first thing is a new feature or something that was recognized by a viewer that sent this in
and if you're using your apple watch to unlock your iphone when you're wearing a mask
if your apple watch is too far away you'll get this notice that says unlock with apple watch
is not available apple watch moved out of range so maybe you set your apple watch down somewhere
although generally it wouldn't unlock it anyway but i suppose if you stretched your arms out far
enough that could be a potential for that to show up so you do need to be nearby for that to happen
now the other new thing that was discovered was by braden and this is specific to the youtube app
apparently youtube is rolling out some changes and if you're changing your quality it can look
a little bit different generally it will look more like this when you're changing your quality
now it has this for some people where it says auto higher picture quality data saver and advanced and
then once you tap on the advanced you can select your different resolution for example up to 4k
so it just depends on which youtube app you have sometimes youtube rolls out different features to
different people to try it out i personally have not seen this but some people are seeing this
now as far as the overall experience of ios 14.4.2 i've talked about this at length since it's been
out for a few weeks but the problems don't seem to be getting any better i'm running it on my 11 pro
max and the overall issues generally are focused around wi-fi and bluetooth and lte connectivity
for example many people didn't see a difference between ios 14.4.2 and ios 14.4.1 but generally
bluetooth is an issue apps lagging and stuttering when you're closing them from time to time
sometimes them crack they're crashing they're lagging and just general slowness seems to be
a problem for some people also the phone seems to be getting unusually hot for some people although
less with 14.4.2 than the previous version but i think that'll be fixed in upcoming versions also
people continue to have issues with imessage for example so imessage is acting on and music
is acting out for some people as well so there's continued issues these should be fixed along with
all the other issues or new features coming to ios 14.5 now there was a surprise this week with
ios 14.5 beta 8 this is the first beta 8 in the 0.1 update so generally apple will go up to beta
8 for example with ios 14 or ios 13 or ios 12 but not after the initial release generally they'll be
up to seven or six or five beta updates and then they'll release it so this is a little bit new
i think they were waiting for the apple event that comes out next week and i'll talk more
about that in a little bit now i've been using ios 14.5 beta 8 full time on my iphone 12 pro max
i also have it on the iphone 11 here as well as ipad os on my ipad pro 12.9 from 2020 and
so these updates seem to be a little bit better than before not hugely different but the first day
battery was absolutely terrible for me so it was doing a lot in the background a lot of background
processing going on definitely something going on with that but it's since improved and i'll
talk about overall battery life in just a moment the other issue i continue to have is bluetooth i
thought this would be fixed by now but for example if i connect my airpods pro maybe connect them
sometimes they'll have some static and they'll cut out then i'll have to reconnect them and they work
just fine and then they'll work fine 90 of the time but these are problems i didn't have before
where they would just sort of cut out from time to time it's very odd it's very unusual and not
something i normally see with these sort of updates or with apple products for example
so you'll see it's connected sometimes it just acts really odd and i'm not sure why that is that
carries across to airpods pro airpods max any bluetooth headphone that you're connecting to
and a lot of people in the youtube community poll are saying the exact same thing bluetooth and
wi-fi connectivity issues while i haven't had any wi-fi or 5g 4g switching issues with this
update quite a few people have and it seems to be an issue going back and forth between 5g and 4g
and back and forth between those so there's definitely some issues going on with that so
that's still the number one issue with this as well as airpod connectivity issues where they
don't switch automatically from say your iphone to your ipad and back that seems to work okay
for me the major issue i have with the airpods is going from the iphone to the mac sometimes that
doesn't work but generally between the ipad and the iphone it works well also people are saying
that their widgets are still disappearing so if you're using the weather widget for example or a
different widget sometimes it just goes away and then it will come back it will sort of disappear
and then it will just show back up so for some reason that keeps happening hopefully it will
be fixed in the release candidate and also people are having random display issues so stuttering and
flickering and people are still having green tint some people have said that they're even worse in
it than it was before and others are saying even the black colors are sort of off for some people
some people are also saying touch responsiveness is off when you're using certain apps they didn't
specify which apps per se but some apps seem to have touch responsiveness issues for some people
so there's definitely some issues going on there now generally for me my overall performance has
been good and i haven't had any issues with it whatsoever performance has been nice and smooth
for me on my iphone 12 pro max and the iphone 11 is giving me the same sort of experience i'm
not having any issues with that whatsoever and no problems there now as far as performance and
overall experience on the ipad for example i've talked about this at length where i had some
issues with battery and that seems to still be an issue so on my ipad pro it's been working fine but
again my battery is just okay i'm at 51 and if we take a look at settings we'll go to battery wait
for it to load here go to the last 10 days and you'll see it was last charged to 63 at 1 25 pm
today that's that was before recording a different video about a one year later version of this
particular ipad and i did talk about the battery life using coconut battery this has a battery
health of 96.6 percent with 102 cycles currently so it's not that old of a battery it's still only
getting me about five hours of screen on time like i said before if this does not improve with future
versions then i'll have to completely wipe it and start again someone else has mentioned in
the comments as well that they're having similar issues with this beta where the just battery life
overall is not what you would expect with an ipad everything else on the ipad is absolutely fine
just as fast if not faster than when i first got it so no complaints there of course we should see
a new ipad at the upcoming apple event very soon now my overall battery life on my main phone here
is pretty good i really have no problems i said it was bad the first day after that it
sort of stabilized so if we go to settings go to battery battery health you'll see i'm at 100
battery health i fast charge this wire or fast charge it wirelessly using magsafe every single
night i've had no issues and then it's wirelessly charged when i drive if we go to the last 10 days
you'll see yesterday i had a screen on time of 2 hours and 32 minutes screen off time of 3 hours
and 58 minutes and i only used 25 of the battery this is an increase over what i had before where
i was getting about 2 hours at 50 and now if we go and use this 100 percent of the way if i continued
to use this i would get 9 to 10 hours of screen on time and even more screen off time so it's
actually doing quite good now it's back to about the 10 to 12 hours of screen on time depending on
which day we're looking at if we go a few days ago you'll see i used almost a hundred percent
at four hours and fourteen minutes of screen on time that was probably the worst and that's when
we had different betas and things so now it seems to be okay and it it's pretty much back
to what you would expect now i'm at fifty percent of my battery life with four hours or three hours
and 55 minutes of screen on time two hours and 58 minutes of screen off time it's doing quite well
now i'm happy with that i go to bed with over 50 percent and i have no issues whatsoever this
phone has been on a lot today just for recording videos and things and seems to be doing just fine
whether i'm recording video or playing a game or more so it's doing really well as far as that goes
now that leads me to should you install ios 14.4.2 well if you haven't installed it already on your
main device you probably won't at this point unless you weren't familiar with it but ios
14.4.2 has important security updates so i highly recommend it until ios 14.5 comes out now should
you install ios 14.5 beta 8 well if you're already on the betas absolutely i've said this before we
need to test that report feedback and let apple know what's going on so that they can fix the
issues the major issues with bluetooth that we're all having for example make sure you're reporting
that in feedback they take a log off your phone a system log and then determine what the most
important issues are and then fix that but if you are on ios 14.4.2 and wanting to try the betas i
said this in the update video this is probably the time where it's safe to try it but if you're still
worried about problems i would just hold off until the final release which wouldn't or shouldn't be
too far away at this point so the final release of ios 14.5 will come after the release candidate
based off what we know it looks like according to mark german we should have an announcement
on tuesday from apple as far as new products and that after that event according to mark
german we should have some sort of announcement or during that event we shouldn't even have an
announcement of when to expect the final release so i would expect the release candidate after
the event on tuesday and then after that we'll know the final release whether it be later in
the week or the following week at the latest so i would expect it probably later in the week like
apple normally does but it could come the week of the 25th but we'll have to wait and see on tuesday
to see what exactly happens with that but it's very close and then we'll get into ios 14.6 maybe
and we'll have new ios 14 updates until september when they release ios 15. we'll see ios 15 for the
first time on june 7th and you'll see here at 1 pm eastern time we'll see that event we'll see ios 15
ipad os 15 and all the others mac os 12 and we'll get an idea of what that is we'll have a beta that
day and then we'll have the final release in september so we're still not done with ios 14
we'll have a few more versions i think probably up to 14.7 14.8 maybe before we see ios 15
in september now as far as the overall youtube community poll and what you had to say here are
all the statistics based off the youtube community poll that i pulled from the comments that you made
if you gave me information about your battery or lag or freezing or heat and also what device
you're using as well so these are all the devices people are using that commented in the poll and if
you did comment i really appreciate it as it helps us get a better idea of what to expect overall
from this update now let's go into youtube and take a look at the community poll so as you can
see it's been a little while i'm actually getting ready for the weekend at this point but it has 11
000 votes at this point so i really appreciate everyone that voted eighteen percent of you said
it's great three percent said it's terrible which is pretty low but pretty consistent five percent
are still having some bugs sixty three percent are on the public version of ios 14.4.2 or earlier
and 10 percent of you are not using iphone so you're using android or something else
even windows phone potentially someone commented last week now there's 123 comments at the time
of this video let's go ahead and take a look at some of them so we'll sort by newest first and now
let's see what you have to say and startech77 said it's been great 12 pro max larry b said updated
my daily driver iphone 11 due to issues with messages on ios 14.4.2 the beta fixed the issues
i was having nicole still plays said battery life on my ipad pro from 2020 has decreased
battery life when playing games the same issue happens on my iphone 10 and iphone 11 pro max
other than that i've had no further issues with ios and ipad os 14.5 beta 8 but the two new siri
voices do sound a little depressed whenever you trigger it via the hey command and then
saying the assistant's name they need to sound happier jeffrey vener said battery is better
with this beta iphone 12. nicholas said display problems are really bad with beta 8
raised blacks are driving me crazy and that's an issue they do say that they're fixing with
this so we'll have to wait and see what the release candidate has as far as that goes
johnny martin 10 said i took the plunge based on your reviews iphone 12 is incredibly smooth
no battery issues everything works better than ever not too impressed so far with battery on
on the 2020 ipad pro 12.9 i seem to be using a lot or losing a lot of power very quickly compared to
fourteen point four point two hopefully it will settle over the weekend overall i rate this beta
as good as a release candidate hasseb niyaz says better than others but still have heating problems
leonid k said weather widget disappeared from the home screen a few times otherwise it's not bad
mauricio rodriguez says i would honestly want an rc today in a final version the day of the event
amit kharar said a couple of times the keyboard and spotlight search hung up on me
and the only way to get it to work was to restart or restarting my 12
pro max otherwise very stable and blazing fast aaron lee says shortcuts widget's still broken
but has been for a long time so not exclusive to this release 11 pro max daniel printi says
my iphone 12 mini seems fine although my battery life seems a little short my ipad 12.9 2020 has
been rock solid with no problems the names gabe said using iphone 10s max really good stability
and performance using this phone as my primary device have no complaints just waiting for the
final update matt mills says 11 pro max podcast episodes take up to an hour or more to come
to the new episodes list widgets go away until you swipe back between pages and then it comes back
ram management is very poor apps keep resetting in the background calls keep dropping randomly the
only app i've noticed as far as ram management is actually twitter i've had some issues going back
and forth with twitter but specific to that app nothing else so i think it's an issue with that
app specifically apple tech said it's been great for me on my 12 pro max no issues as far as i can
tell battery and performance have been super good for me can't wait to watch your next video as you
put in the best content thank you khalid ahmed says the reason i switched to the betas because
i was having connectivity issues as soon as i lose wi-fi the mobile data won't work i had to toggle
airplane mode to turn data on i'm on beta 7 and i still have this problem quite frustrating or i am
on beta since beta 7 and still have this problem mario goucher says iphone 12 pro and 10 are here
this beta has been great it could be released to the public and most users would be fine
with it batteries back to normal compared to beta 6 was somewhat okay with beta 7. craig's
paranormal said there's a lot of app reloads and lockups the battery on my iphone 11 after
the recalibration is horrible getting 3 hours at most of screen on time for this being right before
the event for the official public release this is kind of bad not sure if the internal news
new ways of updates is better or worse i'm not a fan of ios 14.5 regardless of features
my battery life and the app freezes and reload are so bad it's out of anything good they brought
also the unlock with watch maybe works one in four times i would say you have something wrong
with that particular install or something using your background data because generally most people
say battery life's phenomenal my imp mine improved greatly even after recalibration on the iphone
11 for example it seems to be usually if there's dramatic battery drain or something there's an app
using it so hopefully it's something that simple otherwise you may have to fully reinstall to fix
it and then finally mate licharet says i've been using it on my iphone 11 pro max and it's perfect
i'm really happy that apple didn't release the rc build yet lately apple has had too many bugs and
this is a step in the right direction for me at least battery life is amazing i easily get
eight hours of screen on time i'll go over here eight hours of screen on time and usually have
fifteen percent left at ninety one percent battery health and all the bugs that i experienced in beta
6 and older have been resolved so that's it for ios 14.5 beta 8. that was a pretty big
surprise for most of us we thought the release candidate would be out a couple betas ago
but i think it was because of the apple event coming up where we'll see a new ipad airpods
apple tv and hopefully a new imac let me know what you're most excited about in the comments below if
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