Hi, everyone. Aaron here for Zollotech.
And today Apple released iOS 14.3 to the public.
That means it's available to all iOS 14.3 supported devices from the iPhone six
S iPhone S E all the way to the newer iPhone,
12 pro and 12 pro max. Now,
depending on which device you're installing this on the update size will be a
little bit different, but on the iPhone seven,
it came in at 567.9 megabytes.
And so it's a few hundred megabytes all the way up to gigabytes,
depending on which version you're coming from. Now, if you're on iOS 14.3,
RC2 you're a beta tester or public beta tester. Well,
then this particular update is the same thing you've already had.
You just had it early, so you won't have an update if you're on the beta.
Otherwise go ahead and check for an update. Now, if you're not seeing it,
all you need to do is go to settings, go to general than software update,
and the update should show up. If it's not showing up,
go to automatic updates and turn off, download iOS updates automatically,
and then check again, and it should be there.
Now there's a lot of new features and bug fixes in this particular update.
So let's go ahead and talk about those,
but first we'll talk about the build number and then we'll take a look at what's
new. Now, along with iOS 14.3, Apple also released iPad. 14.3, tvOS14.3,
watchOS 7.2, as well as macOS 11.1.
So all of those updates are available right now to all the supported devices.
So it's really nice.
They're pushing all of these out before the end of the year. Now, like I said,
if you're a beta tester or a developer, you won't have an update,
just delete the beta profile and you'll be good to go.
And if you're a beta tester, you'll know what that is, just delete it.
And you'll just have the update like everyone else,
which has the exact same build number as the final release.
So you just had it early, like I said, so let's take a look at the build number.
We'll go to settings, then we'll go up to general than about, as you can see,
the build number is 18 C6 and this particular update includes a lot of
new features. Yeah. And bug fixes as well, which I'll cover in a moment. Now,
the first thing is, if you're coming from iOS 14.2, you'll have a modem update.
So maybe you were having connectivity issues.
Those should be resolved or better. If you're coming from the beta,
you won't have an update.
So you'll have the same modem number that you had before. Now,
Apple updated a lot of things in this update, but the first thing is,
if you go into the fitness app, just search for fitness.
If you don't have it already, it used to be called the activity app,
go into fitness and you'll have a new tab fitness.
Plus this is a new update that is available as a subscription that you can get
with a monthly subscription. I believe there's a free trial as well,
but this helps you work out between your devices. It's available for iPad,
Apple, TV, and Mac as well. And you can just look through the different updates,
workout with different trainers.
And there's some reviews about this as well for those people that have actually
had it a little bit early. So if you're a beginner,
you can get started that way. So it's nice that they've included this.
They actually showed it off a little while ago,
and now it's available for everyone.
If you have a supported device now to go along with Apple fitness,
plus Apple is also updating the health app today.
So along with this update is an update to health.
So if we go into the health app and the first time you go into it,
if you have watchOS 7.2,
you'll be presented with some new options and functions.
But if you go to browse and go to heart and it's already set up,
you'll see we have cardio fitness notifications and cardio fitness notifications
can be customized.
And there's more information about it along with VO two max and tracking that
information.
So you've got all of those options as well as some new updates to ECG as well.
So you can see it's measuring ECG when I take it.
And there's some additional updates to that.
If your country supports it and your watch supports it,
sometimes it's up to your local government, whether or not it supports it. Now,
along with that,
there's some updates for categories here with health categories.
So under cycle tracking,
there's some additional updates to things like pregnancy, for example.
So if you go back and you just search for pregnancy, it's under there as well,
but you'll have the option for pregnancy if you want to keep track of that
information.
So it's pretty nice that they keep updating the health app with more trackable
information. If you want that in there. Now, if you use shortcuts,
Apple has updated it so that it no longer goes into the shortcuts app.
If you have a fully customized home screen, so maybe you have an app set up,
tap on that app.
It now opens the app directly instead of going into shortcuts and then popping
up on your display. Now it will just notify you that you've opened that.
So if we go into the shortcut, you'll see, it just says app shortcuts.
And another thing in short cuts, let's go into that. We'll go to short cuts
and in short cuts, you can now create a wallpaper again,
so you can set wallpaper back in shortcuts. So if you hit the plus,
you'll see that we have the option to set a lock screen or home screen
wallpaper, if you'd like to, with a shortcut.
So you can set that in here as well. That was here before they removed it.
And now it's back now on Apple music. If you're using Apple music,
they've updated it for 14.3,
where you can actually have animated album covers.
So it's only supported on certain artists. So here's Pearl jam.
You can see it's an album, an album cover that sort of animated.
Not everyone is doing this yet, but it's one of the new features of iOS 14.3.
So hopefully more and more artists do this now to go along with music,
Apple is updated 14.3 with support for AirPods max.
So the AirPods max technically are not available to the public yet,
but AirPods max, our new headphones that go over the ears.
If you hadn't seen them, they're fairly expensive at $550,
but you can see AirPods Macs are now supported.
It's a little choppy here as I go through on the iPhone success plus,
but you get the idea it's just added support for that particular headphone.
So that's nice that they've updated it. Of course,
that should be out as soon as hopefully tomorrow. Now,
if you have an iPhone 12 pro or an iPhone,
12 pro max Apple has added the ability to use Apple pro raw.
This was promised with the, of iPhone 12 pro and 12 pro max,
you'll see in the upper, right. We have an option for RA.
Now you have to turn that on in your settings.
So if we go into settings and then we go down to our camera.
Under camera, we go.
To our formats and under formats,
we have the option for Apple pro raw. As long as you turn that on,
on the 12 pro or 12 pro max you'll have the option.
Of course you can turn it off if you'd like,
but it does capture nicer photos and allows them to be edited more.
You can adjust exposure and hint and retain more detail while adjusting
brightness and things like that.
They've also added video supported modes for pals.
So if you're in the UK or Europe,
you'll have Pell for my options now. So in the United States, we use 24,
30 and 60 frames per second and Europe. They generally use 25 and 50.
So you'll now have the option for 25. Maybe they'll add 50 later on,
but now you'll have the option for 25. If you want to select that,
and you can turn that on and off,
depending on if you want to use it along with HDR video and things like that.
If you have a supportive device now on older phones,
they've brought back the option to mirror the front camera again.
Now this was here before it seems like they've removed it and then they've
brought it back.
So if you go into your settings on an iPhone six S plus or newer,
and you go to your photos and your a camera options, rather,
you'll see it says mirror front photos. That option is back.
And this is a success plus one of the oldest supported devices.
And you'll be able to have that option again.
So it's back on everything from the iPhone success,
plus seven S E all of the older phones as well. Now, as far as privacy,
there's some updates for the app store. Now these are not showing up yet,
but Apple has made their developers update their privacy policies to show you
more information about what data they may or may not be collecting.
And so on their webpage, they actually have an example of this.
So you can see there's little data tags,
and these are sort of like nutrition labels that they'll have from different
apps that tell you what's being tracked. So it may be using your contact info,
your location, or identifiers purchases and things like that.
Under the app store, this will be added to all apps in the future.
So for example, if we go to this one here, let's just go to YouTube.
For example, go down to privacy.
Eventually there'll be a little label here,
and you'll be able to see that information that they're gathering Apple is
requiring this of developers. And hopefully we'll see it very soon. Now,
along with that, there's a new feature with your camera to scan app clips. Now,
app clips is something Apple introduced with iOS 14,
but we haven't seen much about that. However, this is an app clip QR code.
So it's a new custom QR code.
And if your phone sees that it will recognize it and you can see here,
it says no usable data found, but it will recognize that sort of QR code.
And if there's an app available, it will show you the app without installing it.
And then you'll be able to maybe use that app for a purchase in a store.
For example, I haven't seen this yet,
but this is something that's coming to all I-phones eventually,
once this feature is available for everyone now,
I haven't seen these out maybe in local stores,
but hopefully there'll be there when everyone's back in stores regularly.
Anyway, now in the TV app, there's some additional updates as well.
So if you go into TV and then you tap on search,
you'll see that we have a specific category for Apple TV plus.
So you can go in here, see everything that pertains to Apple TV,
plus select the different shows or movies you want to watch.
They've also updated this with different genres as well.
So it's easily viewable to see maybe action or comedy, for example,
and you can go in and it shows you different genres of movies,
and it's not just Apple TV plus movies or genres.
So you'll be able to easily sort through it that way.
You can also more easily search for movies, for example, maybe elf.
So he'd go to elf and it shows you top results and it searches it a little bit
easier and gives you better results overall.
So they've really improved this and this should follow across to Apple TV as
well.
And it just makes it a little bit easier to sort of sort through what you want
to watch. Now, in addition to that,
Apple has updated weather with air quality information.
Now there's some specific updates for mainland China, for example,
for maps and series showing different air quality for specific areas in
China's mainland. However, if you go into your weather app on your phone,
you'll see that we have air quality down here.
It says moderate and more data from Brizo meters. So if you tap on this,
you can get more information and it will tell you different air quality,
see a live map, and you can see that sort of information here.
And it just makes it a little bit easier to view.
So they've added that information directly into the weather app.
So it's nice as well.
And then they've also provided recommendations in Siri for the United States,
United Kingdom, Germany, India, and Mexico,
when there's certain air quality levels.
So the health recommendations are provided within Siri for that.
And then also they've updated data in maps and Siri to reflect updated national
scales for Germany and Mexico as well.
So if you're looking for air quality in specific areas,
it should give that information. Now,
if you're using Safari as your main browser, that's what I use.
And you want to change the main search provider.
They've added an additional option.
So if you go into your settings and then you go down to Safari under Safari,
go to search engine, we'll see that we have a new option. So we have Ecosia.
And so now we have Google Yahoo, Bing, duck, duck go and Ecosia,
you can search any of these or select any of these as your main search engine.
And you just have a new option here. So if you want to use that,
you can now in the earlier beta versions of iOS 14.3,
there was an option that's been removed from this version.
And that has to do with an accessibility option for sound recognition.
So if you go into your settings,
go to accessibility and then you go down to sound recognition,
turn it on. And if you're using it, it's turn that on. And if you're using it,
go to sounds, there used to be an option under people for coughing.
That's been removed. Maybe they'll bring it, but right now it's not there.
They've removed it from iOS 14.3 for now.
So if someone was coughing, it could recognize that and let you know,
but they've removed it from sound recognition.
Now that's it for all of the features in iOS 14.3 and all of those things
carry over to iPad OSTP as well. So if you're using an iPad,
all of those same exact features carry over to iPad iOS 14.3.
So the search engine options, for example, if you go down to Safari,
you'll have those same sort of search engine options under there.
So cozy is there as well.
So all of the same features carry across to iPad OS so you'll have all of those
updates as well.
Now there is a lot that Apple has fixed in this particular update.
So I wanted to go over that.
And so the first thing they've fixed is app folders used to have issues opening.
So sometimes you'd tap on an app folder, for example, and it would fail to open,
and now it's working just fine.
So it doesn't really matter which folder you go into.
It should work properly now and be nice and fast.
So that's something they fixed. Now,
Apple has finally addressed the messaging bug that's in this particular update.
So messages that were received,
weren't showing up in notifications that should be fixed now. And in fact,
as soon as they pushed out the update, I was getting messages,
even on other devices that I wasn't getting messages on before.
So whatever was going on,
they've now resolved it with this update and it should be working properly.
Also, if you're in photos and you're sharing a video,
sometimes the video wouldn't show correctly when you were sharing it,
that has been corrected in this update. So I'm glad to see they've fixed that.
I know it just wouldn't show up properly.
Sometimes you're sharing it to just different people and it wouldn't show
properly, and they wouldn't be able to open it if it was from the photos app.
So that's been resolved now, they fix the wireless charging issue as well.
So if you're using mag safe, they fixed that.
And they fixed an issue for mag safe duo chargers,
where it could wirelessly charged, but it wouldn't be at the maximum power.
So even if you were using the correct power brick with it,
it just wouldn't charge at maximum power. Now it will.
So if you have a med safe duo, that issue has been resolved as well. Now,
also spotlight search results and opening apps from spotlight work previously,
giving some people problems. So if you go in and maybe I searched for TV,
for example, tap on TV, it may not have opened in the past.
It should now work properly.
Also contact groups failed to display members when composing a message.
So maybe you were making a message to someone and it just wasn't showing the
different people within the group. It will now show that properly.
Also there's a lot of people that have mentioned problems with Bluetooth and
Bluetooth, for some wasn't even showing up as an option in settings,
or maybe it was disabled that is now working properly.
Now they have not mentioned whether or not they resolved any additional
Bluetooth problems, but they have fixed that part.
Now also wireless accessories and peripherals using the WAC protocol may
have failed to work when you were setting them up. They've resolved that.
And then also the keyboard could dismiss when you were adding a list and
reminders using voiceover.
So maybe you go into reminders and you add a list and then you want to use
voiceover YouTube list
that could have failed before.
So now it's working properly and it should work without an issue.
There's also additional security updates in this.
Now what those are specifically Apple actually publishes a little bit later.
Usually it may take a few minutes,
may take a few hours for them to publish that,
but there will be security updates in this update as well.
And so that leads me to, should you update to iOS 14.3?
And the answer for me is always,
absolutely because it introduces a bunch of bug fixes security fixes,
and while it's not perfect,
it does address a lot of issues and adds additional features.
So I would definitely update for stability.
I haven't had any lockups or reboots or anything like that.
I did have the few issues with the app stuttering when I closed some apps,
but in general, it's very solid and performance seems to be pretty good as well.
I've been using it on all of these devices, mainly my iPad and my 12 pro max.
And it's been great, but even on older devices,
other than the stutter I showed you earlier,
which this is a little bit older device, so it may not be super fast,
but in general, it's nice and fast opening apps. Switching through apps.
Ram management seems to be pretty decent as well.
Most people are reporting with this update. And just in general,
it seems to be overall fairly fast.
So just going between different applications,
opening the camera seems to work great. Now, as far as battery life, well,
battery life is pretty good, at least on the release candidates as well.
So if we go into settings and we go to battery,
we'll wait for it to load battery health is 100% on my 12 Pro Max.
So we'll go to the last 10 days and you'll see yesterday.
I used it for only a couple hours, but I only use 25% of my battery or so.
So one hour and 51 minutes of screen on time,
two hours and 43 minutes of screen off time,
either using YouTube audio or music and things like that, depending on the day,
it varies greatly,
but I'm easily getting 10 to 12 hours of screen on time with the 12 pro max.
Now, initially you may not have great battery life as it's going to do a lot of
things in the background. So just be aware of that. If you've just updated,
it may be getting a little bit warm processing,
a lot of things in the background, and it could take a little bit,
even a couple of days for it to stabilize.
And then you should see a much better battery life or battery improvement
overall. So that's it for.
IOS 14.3. Now this should be a pretty decent update for most people,
but I was 14.3 0.1 to fix other issues or maybe
14.4 beta one probably will not be out until the following
year 2021 based.
On what Apple did in the past. So we may.
Or may not see those by the end of the year,
but usually it doesn't come until January.
As Apple likes to take the rest of the year off for the holidays.
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