Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and iOS 14.5 beta 2 has quite a few new features in it
i mentioned a lot of them a couple days ago but there's even more that i wanted to cover since
there's been more discovered since then and so the first thing is some people have been telling me
they were able to update over cellular so maybe you don't have a wi-fi connection and you got
the update they were able to update over cellular now this was not everyone and it seems to be hit
or miss but some people were actually able to do that so that's a really nice feature if you are
because i know not everyone has access to wi-fi at all times so it seems like
that should be something that will be coming hopefully soon to everyone as i know a lot
of people could benefit from this but a lot of the times carriers don't want people to have it
just because it will use a lot of data if you had a million people updating on your network
at once so it makes sense why they didn't want it i think we should be able to do it now but
hopefully we'll see that in the future to everyone the next thing is apple has added
cycling directions in apple maps for Portland and San Diego now this is available to ios 14.4 also
they pushed it to all devices but if you go to say San Diego i just found a route here i've actually
am not familiar with this area so you'll see that we have cycling directions now and it will show
you the elevation if you take that route and what it's like and it says side roads and shared roads
may require walking if you take that route to go there and you can avoid hills and busy roads
so those cycling directions are there in both San Diego and Portland now so that's really
nice that they've added that now the next thing is there's even more changes in music that i didn't
mention in the first video that people have discovered so if we go into music for example
one thing is you can actually share lyrics so i'm in a song here if i press and hold on a lyric and
just maybe tap these different lyrics i can then share them so i can do share a song but now i can
share these individually so messages and i can share the lyrics along with a clip of the song
right there to someone showing them those lyrics so that's a new feature within music
we'll cancel that now within the lyrics if we turn off lyrics and go to airplay
airplay the menu is a little bit smaller it's just a little bit different depending on who
you ask some people see a larger menu this doesn't look too much different to me but some people are
seeing a big change just like i showed the change here there's a little bit of a different menu here
but if we go out go to the songs themselves tap on the three dots we have this smaller menu as well
with a newer animation so you have that as well as if you press and hold it'll pop up a little bit
differently sort of like it always did before so there's just different ways to interact with those
things now now if i go over to apple music maybe i want to pick a song that's not on here so we'll
just go to this one tap on the three dots and you can see the download icon has changed slightly so
they've updated this download icon it's just a little bit different than what we had before
so minor changes within music and some extra sharing options have been added as well now
one thing though is if you use the equalizer or eq for music you go to settings go down to your music
and then you go to well we'll find it down here eq and you turn it on and you use it for any of
these i've found and others have reported that no matter what you do it doesn't seem to modify
it so maybe you switch it to jazz or bass reducer or bass booster it doesn't seem to do anything at
all so this seems to be broken and of course i'll report it in feedback and make sure you do as well
if you're seeing the same thing now if we go to reminders the first time we open reminders on
ios 14.5 beta 2 we'll open it up it will give us a new pop-up and you'll see it says sort reminders
sort reminders by title due date and more we knew we could do that in the first version of the beta
and then also print your list now it's easy to print lists and take them with you so this is just
a new pop-up telling us about that that shows up in reminders the first time you open it in beta 2.
now if we go back to the iphone let's go ahead and open shortcuts so let's see if i can find
that here we'll just search go into shortcuts and maybe we'll create a new shortcut and then maybe
search for an action the other day i told you about a new one where you could add a screenshot
that's a new action they've added however there's two more that they've added as well one of them
is orientation lock so you have the option to set an orientation lock if you want to do that
and you also have the ability now for voice and data modes so if we type voice and data if you go
and set a voice and data mode you'll see right here it says 5g if we tap on this we have the
option for lte 5g auto or 5g so we can create a shortcut that modifies this based on what we want
so the new ones are shortcuts to add orientation lock the cellular data modes and also screen
captures as well or screenshots so that part's really nice as well now within the app store
if you're using dark mode apple has tweaked the privacy a little bit so i'll go into a game like
call of duty for example and if you scroll down to privacy they've tweaked it a little bit so that
it's a little bit easier to read compared to what we had before with ios 14.4 so you'll see here's
app privacy on 14.4 on the left and then verse the right and this is the same game for example
so it looks a little bit different in dark mode with some additional information and you can see
details here if we go to see details see details they've supposedly made it a little bit easier to
read it doesn't look too much different to me but there is some slight changes so that's something
that some people have noticed now the next thing is the discover button within the apple watch app
is a little bit different again so now we're back to discover before this they keep changing it back
and forth and we saw this with previous versions of betas before 14.5 where they would actually
switch the icon back and forth in the home app for example so they brought it back to discover now
and that's what it looks like currently now also apple has made the bluetooth option to specify
your connected device available again so if we go into settings we'll go back go to bluetooth
and i'll select my car for example you'll see we have device type back this was removed in beta
1 and they've brought it back in beta 2. usually they'll remove it if there's a problem and they'll
put it back once they solve that problem so it looks like it's all fixed and good to go there
now all of those same changes carry over to the ipad as well and the ipad has those exact same
changes to shortcuts and things in music as well and so this update probably has a lot more in it
but so far that's all i'm aware of plus all the other things in the original video i did now as
far as battery life i thought i'd comment on this since i will be doing a follow up in a few days
but battery life on my ipad continues to be fairly poor and the apple pencil some people suggested
removing it seeing what it's like it didn't make a difference i actually removed it for a day
to see if it made any difference whatsoever and it didn't so my battery life has not been great
you'll see it was last charged at 1 20 in the morning last night and since then it's had about
three hours and 34 minutes of screen on time and i'm down to 60 battery life now that's kind of
okay compared to what it was but still it's not great compared to what i was having before so
let's go ahead and put that back on and close that now there are definitely some bugs still
in this update it's better than beta 1 was but i'll have more details about that when we get
closer to sunday where i normally do a follow-up video about the overall experience and be sure to
check back for the youtube community poll if you haven't seen it already so i'll put that out there
and then take the data from that and do a follow up with all the information compiled from there
so a lot of great features in this particular update still the most handy one or the one i
use the most is probably with the face mask in the apple watch helping to unlock it when i'm
out in a store or something like that it makes it super easy to unlock and it's very convenient
but if you found anything more i'd love to hear from you in the comments below i'm always looking
for new things within the os that people have noticed and of course i'm going to start doing
more with that in giving people a shout out that have helped me directly since more and more of you
are starting to do that so feel free to message me on twitter or contact me via email and i'll
give you a shout out if you were the one to tell me about the new feature that i didn't already
know about if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper i'll link it in the description
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