what's up guys my name is brandon and today apple released ios 14.8 to the public
about a month and a half after the release of ios 14.7.1, and just weeks before the release of ios
15. And in addition to this iOS release, we also got ipados 14.8 watchos 7.6.2 and macos big sur
11.6 - but of course in this video we're talking all about ios and ipad os and what's new along with
when to expect ios 15 and if we will see any more ios 14 updates or not so let's go ahead and take
a look at the size of this update you can see here on my iphone 12 this update came in at around 307
megabytes on this device but of course it will vary depending on your device and the version
you're coming from and if you're not seeing this update you may need to delete your beta profile i
actually had to delete my beta profile because this update was not appearing in my software
update section until i deleted that so that could also indicate and probably will indicate
that we are not going to be seeing any more ios 14 betas since we are going into ios 15 of course so
let's go and check out the build number for this update so we go to our settings general about
14.8 you can see the build here is 18 h17 and if we go down to the modem firmware down here
that is actually unchanged yet again at 1.80.02 so we have not had a modem update in quite a while
now so now what's new here in ios 14.8 and when you tap on learn more when you see the updates
all it says here is that this update provides important security updates and is recommended for
all users that's all it says it's very vague but if we go to apple's security page we can actually
see that there are two pretty big security patches in this update so we have this webkit bug and the
impact is processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited so it looks like this
bug was being used out in the wild prior to ios 14.8 and you can see the description of the fix
is a use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management but by far the
more important bug that was fixed is this core graphics bug right here so you can see it says
processing a maliciously crafted pdf may lead to arbitrary code execution apple is also aware
of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited and the description is an
integer overflow was addressed with improved input validation now webkit bugs are always dangerous
out in the wild but the big story with ios 14.8 is going to be that core graphics patch because that
is one of the infamous pegasus spyware bugs that is codenamed forced entry and that was one that
was being actively exploited for several months by the nso group who targeted and successfully hacked
bahraini activists iphones using this specific bug and this was major news last month i mean a ton
of publications were talking about this this was all over the place so right when i saw that i knew
exactly what this update patched and that's going to be pretty major news like i said so you know
this is a major bug fix and it likely does not affect you unless you were a bahraini activist but
still it's something that you don't want to ever have the chance of affecting you on your iphone so
not to mention that webkit bug was also actively exploited so that's one that you definitely want
to make sure you're updated for because that's not going to target specific people it could happen
to you so you definitely want to make sure you update so you get the patches for both of those
bugs that were being used or being exploited out in the wild but as far as the release notes go
there's really been you know nothing mentioned in apple's release notes since like ios 14.5
several months ago so it's no different for ios 14.8 really nothing mentioned in the release
notes at all nothing really you know that big or that major that most people will care about
so it's pretty interesting but also expected i mean we are near the end of the cycle for ios 14
so there's really only so much left for apple to do while most of their focus right now is on ios
15 because of course every device that can run ios 14 can also run ios 15. so apple is of course
focusing mainly on that next big ios release now as far as bugs and bug fixes go the 15 second
apple music bug and the green tent issues both appear to be fixed as i have not seen or heard
anybody talking about that for months either one of those two issues so those seem fixed however
i am still having a poor experience with the airplay to homepod feature so when i go here
and you know airplay to one of my home pods it's really laggy sometimes the music cue doesn't show
up properly just a ton of issues with that still it's been like that for pretty much the entire
ios 14 life cycle especially with the handoff to the homepod mini it's really bugged out ios
15 fixes it somewhat but it's still pretty slow so apple is still working on that but
don't expect it to get any better here with 14.8 and as far as performance goes performance feels
really good here on ios 14.8 but really it's going to be the exact same as 14.7.1 in my
opinion however the geekbench scores tell kind of a different story i mean we got a 1600 single core
and a 4061 multi-core score which is extremely strong if we take a look here at 14.7.1 we had a
1594 and a 40-39 so some nice improvements in both the single core and the multi-core and i've also
seen reports of people saying that applications are faster safari is faster things just feel
better so you might see a minor performance boost but i would not expect anything major at all
and again to me personally it feels the same as 14.7.1 but these geekbench scores you know do tell
that it might be slightly improved here on the performance front but as far as battery life goes
battery life was fine for me on ios 14.7.1 and it was the same for most people i really didn't have
too many people complaining about battery life on 14.7.1 but you know i am mainly using ios 15 now
but i would not expect anything to change here with battery life on 14.8 so if you're having bad
battery life and 14.7.1 you very well could still have that in 14.8 now of course there is always
the possibility that this actually fixes battery drain for you but for most people i'd say 99 of
people battery life is going to be about the same as it was on 14.7.1 just because this is a simple
security patch update and really nothing else was touched so should you update to ios 14.8 and i say
absolutely i mean this is a must update in my opinion just from a security standpoint now if
you're planning on updating to ios 15 then you could wait i mean obviously we're gonna get ios
15 in a couple of weeks so you could just go ahead and wait but if you're not planning to update to
ios 15 right away go ahead and install ios 14.8 as soon as possible just because it does have some
pretty important security patches all right so now what is next for apple and the first thing i
want to address actually is if this is going to be the final update for ios 14 and i think that 14.8
is likely the final major ios 14 release since all devices that can run ios 14 can also run ios
15 but some may opt to stay on ios 14 after ios 15 releases and it's looking like apple will actually
allow those users to just install security updates like point updates like 14.8.1 14 8.2
and so on and you'll be able to install those without needing to update all the way to ios
15. so for that reason i can see multiple versions of ios 14.8 you know coming over the next several
months now as for ios 15 i would expect to see the rc build get released tomorrow on the 14th
for both public beta testers and for developers so we should see the rc build of ios 15 on the 14th
after apple's event of course the iphone 13 launch event is tomorrow tuesday on the 14th and then as
far as the final public release of ios 15 i would expect that to come the following week so if i had
to guess a specific day i would say wednesday the 22nd but it could be any day on the week of the
20th when we see ios 15 get released to the public and of course we will see the new iphones come out
right there at the end of the week on the 24th so next week is going to be very very busy and
very fun for you guys and also for me here on the channel but that's what i'm expecting for ios 15
and of course for the ios 14.8 point x updates that could possibly be coming in the future but
anyways guys there you have it that is ios 14.8 let me know what you guys think about this update
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a lot of you guys are just on ios 15 right now and just waiting for ios 15 coverage and not 14.8 or
ios 14 stuff but luckily this will probably be one of the last ios 14 videos i ever make so moving
on to ios 15 very very soon but anyways guys thanks again for watching and i'll see you soon
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