Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and ios 14.2 beta 1 has been out
unexpectedly for about a week or so it was sort of a surprise ios 14.2
skipped ios 14.1 so i want to talk about a major problem with ios 14.2
talk a little bit about maybe why you should hold off installing it and also
let's talk about the ios 14.1 release date
now the first thing is ios 14.2 has been okay on my iphone 11 pro max
so it's actually been okay but it's been terrible in one respect on my ipad pro
12.9 from 2020. so the first thing is the overall
stability at least on the iphone for me has been okay
i really have not run into many issues and overall
stability and speed seems to be okay i really haven't had any app crashes
the overall performance has been really good you'll see scrolling is nice and
smooth opening music has been fine no issues
there and you'll see everything just seems to
be fairly fast and fluid and this particular update does fix
some issues that are in ios 14. but this update seems to have a huge issue
for some people and this was an issue for me last night
on my ipad pro and what i mean is my 12.9 ipad pro
i was using it without a problem and then all of a sudden i noticed hey my
battery's low so it was draining quickly but i noticed
my battery was not at 94 percent like it is now
but rather it was at 10 and then i went to plug it in and i didn't have
any charge there was no indication of a charge i couldn't charge it at all
so i tried various chargers i tried a macbook charger
i tried the ipad pro charger and this is the one that comes with it
i also charged tried third party chargers and nothing seemed to work
so i took the cable this is this specific one is from a macbook
but it's the same usb c cable and you'll see it's charging now
and that's because i was able to downgrade it so i was able to downgrade
it to ios 14 in fact i had no way to charge it except
for the magic keyboard now what i mean by that is if you have a magic keyboard
you'll know that there's a usbc port built into it and i was able to
charge with that now had i not had an accessory with that that uses the pogo
pins to charge through the ipad i would have had no way to charge my
ipad in fact i plugged it in tried multiple cables tried multiple
multiple plugs then i plugged in my ipad with the
charge cable to the magic keyboard and it charged
so i knew that it would accept a charge but this was a software bug
i thought maybe the port had gone bad and it's under warranty so that's not
too much of an issue other than that the stores near me are closed
so i would have to send it in or something along those lines
but what i found is once i was able to connect it to a computer using a usbc to
lightning cable that took a couple tries i was
able to get it to connect to my macbook then i downgraded it using the ipsw file
to the official ios 14 version as soon as it rebooted i was able to
charge it now the scary thing to me with this is
had you not had a magic keyboard or a computer to downgrade
the problem is if you drop below 50 you can't
upgrade your ipad to the next version and so
if you actually came out with ios 14.2 or
ipad os 14.2 beta 2 for example i wouldn't have been able
to update this to the next version unless i had more
than 50 charge so that's a little bit scary and that's
why i would highly caution you against updating to ios 14.2
right now now with future updates i'm sure they'll
fix this and apple seemingly fixes this and in fact if you were using ios 14.2
on an iphone 11 or XR they've since pulled that so it's not available for
even the developer or public beta initially it was then the XR and 11
were pulled from it now that could have done had to do with
something with the screen resolution or the charging
but this is why i caution people not to use betas
unless they have computers to deal with the problems at least early on anyway
later on in the betas when you get closer to say a letter b
or a at the end of the build number you're usually pretty safe to try it but
early on i highly caution against it and so i
think apple released ios 14.2 so that they had some software to install
in the hardware manufactured iphone 12 and 12 pro or 12 pro max like this
prototype here so apple's already started producing
them and in order to produce them and have the correct firmware on them that
they want to support all the features in the next iphone
they needed to have it ready maybe that's what ios 14.2 is for
and so that leads me to ios 14.1 so i think apple
is going to release ios 14.1 as soon as tomorrow
now i thought it would be today and the reason i say that is
last night apple actually stopped signing ios 13.7
so what that means is once they stop signing and update it means you can no
longer downgrade and you can't go back to ios 13 anymore
so maybe you have a device that runs ios 12 you'll be fine with that
you can continue to run ios 12 if your device doesn't support ios 13.
but for all ios 13 supported devices the next time you go to update it
or you want to downgrade it will be an ios 14 version
not 13.7 so we're done with ios 13 and looking forward is ios 14. now this
is a good thing and a bad thing some people really liked
ios 13 and it seems like they really fixed all the bugs with it
all the crashing and weird things and a lot of people don't like things like
this new weather widget for example but in the newest version i think
they're going to fix a lot of issues with ios 14.1 so i would hope to
see either 14.1 or 14.0.1 i would be really surprised if it wasn't
14.1 since they released 13.1 only five days
after ios 13. so i think we'll see 14.1 pretty soon as
soon as tomorrow it could be early next week but
hopefully as soon as tomorrow based on what they've done in the past
the only version you can downgrade to is ios 14 right now
normally they leave two so we've got 14.2 beta
ios 14 14.1 should be right around the corner so expect ios 14.2 around the
launch of maybe iphone 12 and ios 14.1 to come to all of your
devices as soon as tomorrow hopefully we see that
i'd love to see that available with a bunch of bug fixes ios 14
definitely still has some issues and let's quickly talk about battery life
on 14.2 if you're already on it i'd love to hear from you below
my battery health is at 95 after about a year of usage and over the last 10
days i've gotten okay usage so for example
we'll see two days ago i got four hours and 54 minutes of screen on time
four hours and 12 minutes of screen off time and use 75
of my battery this is not really great usage on this beta
before that it seemed to be a little bit better depending on what i was doing
but in general some people are having phenomenal battery life with ios 14
other people are having a terrible experience it's very much dependent on
which apps you use now as far as ios 14.2 beta 2
i would expect that probably within another week or so
usually early on in betas apple goes on a two-week schedule sometimes even three
but more likely seems to be two so we'll be
on a bi-weekly schedule until we get closer to the final release
now apple of course could change this at any time but seeing that we're getting
ios 14.2 and already skipping 14.1 which may not
even come out in beta form probably will be on a two-week schedule
and they'll just have this next week at some point now again this
particular beta in general surprised us at about 6 pm eastern time
at least on the east coast of the united states so again apple's been doing
things very randomly these days and we may or may not see it next week or
maybe we'll see it as soon as tomorrow also they could release both at the same
time hopefully they don't do that and we can
get some more time with the standard version of ios 14 or maybe
who knows what apple will do at this point but i definitely think we'll see
that final release of ios 14.1 or 14.0.1 whatever they decide to do
fairly soon now i'll have some battery tips coming up soon like i do every
single year with ios 14 and how to save battery
according to apple and specifically according to apple and
also a few extra tips that might help as well that'll be in a future video along
with a few others but for now stay away from 14.2 if you
can if there's some bugs that are really
really bugging you with 14 it's fine but try and stay away from
14.2 beta 1 at least wait until beta 2 and see if it fixes
those issues that charging issue is pretty major but let me know if you've
had that issue in the comments below a couple people have sent me messages on
twitter saying that they had issues not only
with their ipad but their iphones and things so
that's pretty major i think so again i would just hold off
wait for the official release if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper
this is from ar7 2014 on twitter this is a combination of
the light and dark mode wallpapers that come with ios 14. so i
think it's really nice you can kind of separate it by widgets
or create whatever you'd like but you've kind of
got a split personality on your device i think it's kind of neat but if you'd
like to get your hands on that i'll link it in the description like i normally do
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