Hi, everyone.
Aaron here for Zollotech and today Apple released iOS 14.6 beta two.
This is available to developers and soon to public beta testers.
If it's not available later today, usually it's the next day,
but it's rare that it's a Saturday since this is an odd Friday release.
Usually by the time you're watching this video, it will be out. Now,
this came in at 305.4 megabytes. That's on my iPhone, 12 pro max.
It was similarly sized on the iPhone XR and the iPhone 7.
They were all about three to 400 megabytes.
And I also have it on the iPad where Apple also released iPad iOS
14.6 beta 2,
watchOS 7.5 beta two and also tvOS
14.6 Beta 2. So far, there is no macOS Big Sur 11.4 beta two.
Now let's go ahead and take a look at the build number and talk about what's
new. So we'll go to settings then we'll go to general than about as you can see,
the build number is 18 F five zero five five B. Okay.
A is usually when we get close to the final version and this part update being
the second version I did not expect within about a week of the other one.
However, there is no new modem update in this particular update.
There is no change to the modem update, at least from iOS 14.6,
that I could see now, as far as new features, well,
there's a couple small things to note and the first one has to do with updates.
So if you go to software update,
when you're looking for an update and maybe you don't have the access to wifi,
he'll now get prompted to update via cellular,
according to what's in the actual code. So if you weren't seeing this before,
some countries already had the option to update over cellular more countries or
more locations should now be able to do that,
but we'll have to wait and see once it rolls out to the public.
If everyone is seeing that, I'll try it next time when beta three comes out.
For sure though. Now in podcasts, there's some changes as well.
We're waiting for Apple to update podcasts.
So let's go into pod CAS and we're waiting for a new subscription service within
podcasts. And if we tap on the upper right where our new icon is,
this was released with iOS 14.5.
Let me tap on my icon here in here.
You'll now see we have the option to manage subscriptions.
This wasn't there before it's now present.
And while there are no subscriptions to manage it,
it's something that's a little bit new and that's changed. Now,
another new change has to do with air tags. Now,
whether or not this shows up there,
supposedly in emoji picker when you pair a new air tag. So let's try that out.
I'll pair this air tag that hasn't been set up yet.
Just pull the little thing here like that. There we go.
We'll bring it close to the iPhone. I want to pair it with, and there we go.
We'll hit connect and then we can name it.
So maybe a custom name and we can maybe just say
office and we'll change that a little bit later,
hit continues And now you can actually choose an emoji.
So if you're doing a customer name,
it will now ask you to choose an emoji for that particular custom name of
whatever you've you've chosen. So you could pick anything you want, maybe, Oh,
let's just pick this one for now. We'll hit continue.
And now it goes into the normal setup where you register it. You hit continue,
and now it's connecting. We'll wait for it here.
Just a moment it's setting up and now it's paired to my iPhone.
So that new part is the emoji picker that wasn't there before in iOS 14.5,
just something a little bit new with air tags. And if you have one,
you may see that if you pick a custom name now,
along with this Apple also pushed an update to maps.
This is available to iOS 14.5 as well.
And it allows for cycling directions in California, all of California now,
as well as Seattle Washington.
So if you want to maybe route this particular route here, we'll hit the bicycle,
hit go. It would take four hours. I'm not familiar with this area,
but now you can get cycling directions for that location.
And it gives you an overview and it should also show you different elevations as
well. So there's bike lanes, shared roads,
and it tells you all of the different bike paths.
If you wanted to maybe take a bike trip throughout California.
So that's available there in Seattle as well. And then additional to that,
the new app tracking privacy feature.
If you go into privacy and you want to disallow tracking while the easiest way
is just turn it off.
But some people were seeing this great out in iOS 14.6 beta one,
it looks like it's no longer grayed out for anyone. And even for some people,
it's actually sort of being unlocked for them on 14.5.
So apples being able to push a lot of server side fixes these days.
And so if you want to get a notification every time you an app wants to request
your information and share that, keep it turned on.
If you just want to disallow everything,
keep it turned off and you won't get prompts for it.
And it will block any tracking information between different apps.
The best way to do this is just leave it off. You won't get bugged by it,
and it will keep everything private.
If you do want to have maybe a specific app,
use your information for advertising, well, then you can turn it on. Now,
as far as anything else, that's obvious,
it does not appear that there's anything that's changed yet.
I assume most of the big changes will be coming with iOS 15. For example,
however, Apple I hope is still working on green tent. For example,
since some people still experience this with iOS 14.5, for example,
and maybe some lockups and things people are having with that, of course,
I do plan to have a follow-up this weekend about iOS 14.5 with thousands of
responses of what you had to say. But as far as within their notes,
they mentioned nothing else. That's specifically fixed in this update.
So by the time it comes out, there will probably be implemented bug fixes.
But at this point, there's not that they've mentioned no on the iPad.
There's nothing really any different other than what I've already mentioned,
as far as the air tags and podcasts, for example.
So you can set up your air tag,
get that custom emoji during setup podcast subscriptions will be coming.
So those things are here, but nothing specific to iPad.
I think of those changes are coming to iPad iOS 15, for example,
when that's in June or so with WWDC now,
as far as performance overall, well, it's only been out a couple hours,
so this is a surprise on a Friday.
Some people mentioned that it was a little bit slow and that they re-installed
using a computer and it was faster. I've never experienced that myself,
but if you are having major problems,
then definitely I would recommend doing that.
But performance overall seems pretty good.
And we'll take a look at the benchmarks in a moment,
but performance seems pretty decent. Even on the iPhone seven,
this has only been installed for a little while,
and I usually use music as sort of a standard open it live here on the screen.
And it's actually quite smooth. There was a little bit of a hiccup,
but quite smooth when you're first opening it,
maybe we'll go over to app library, go into the app library.
It does seem quite smooth for an iPhone seven. So that's a good sign.
I would imagine this will improve as we get closer to the final release,
but if you're still having issues, make sure you report those in feedback.
Of course, now let's go ahead and take a look at the benchmarks.
I did run them on all of these devices and then we'll talk about battery.
So let's go into geek bench. So we'll go into that.
And I ran in a couple times on the iPhone,
12 pro max and 10 are just to see if the score would improve.
And on the iPhone 12 pro max, I scored 1,595 for a single core,
4,153 for multi-core. If we go into history, go to CPU,
let's see if we can find this here. So today,
April 30th and verse beta one, which was April 22nd,
it is a little bit higher on single core and higher on multi-core.
So it seems to be performing well based off of this, of course,
it could speed up over the next couple of days.
Let's go ahead and take a look at all the devices so you can compare as well
from left to right. I have the iPad air two followed by the iPhone seven,
then the iPhone 10 R and then the iPhone 12 pro max.
And I did run it a couple of times on the 10 hours that was requested in the
beta one video. But this should give you a general idea of what to expect.
If you have any of these devices, both old, all the way up to the newest. Now,
as far as overall battery life will, it will take a few days to measure.
I've been using iOS 14.5, primarily on my 12 pro max, my blue version.
And now I'm using it on the graphite 12 pro max with 14.6 beta
two.
So I'll be switching to this full time after I do the follow-up video so I can
get more data about this and what the overall use is. But if I go to my battery,
of course, battery health on this is 100% generally.
It's been pretty good there. And if we go to the last 10 days,
of course you can see, I didn't use it a whole lot. Now,
people that were reporting iOS 14.6 beta one battery life were generally saying
it was about the same as 14.5.
Not too many people said it was much different if at all.
So most of the time it was pretty good as far as that goes. But again,
it will take a couple of days to know what it's like. Since you have to run it,
let everything complete in the background,
then use it throughout a day or two to sort of have it reconfigure the battery
after it's rebooted and free installed an operating system. Now,
if you're on an iPhone 11, still,
maybe reconfiguring and sort of recalibrating the battery.
So that could take time as well. Now,
as far as if you should install iOS 14.6, beta two. Well,
if you're already on beta one, then sure. I would try beta two.
And of course report feedback if you're having issues. However,
if you're on iOS 14.5, you don't really want to deal with bugs,
or you're trying to fix something from 14.5.
I would hold off until we're closer to a final release of this version and this
particular version I would expect to come out probably in the second half of
may. In fact,
it looks like Apple is going to release the new iMac that went for pre-order
today, as well as the iPad or start shipping them at least on the 21st of May.
They said the second half of may, and you need Macalester 11.4,
which is also in beta in order for those IMAX to be supported as well as the new
iPad. It looks like the 21st may be when we see this release,
although we could see a smaller update in between.
So somewhere in the last two weeks of may, I would expect it.
We're already moving quickly with beta one to beta two.
So maybe we'll have beta three next week as well.
So it looks like they're moving pretty quickly with 14.6. And of course,
like I mentioned earlier on June 7th, we'll see iOS 15 betas,
and then even iOS 14,
betas continue maybe 14.7 0.8 all the way until September
until I was 15 is released alongside the next iPhone.
We'll see all of those things very soon.
It's getting to be a very exciting time when we see maybe a redesign with iOS
15, for example, but as far as 14.6 beta two, it seems okay overall,
I'll be testing it on my other iPad as well, as soon as I update that.
But I generally try to keep it consistent between all of these videos,
but if there's a different device, you'd like to see,
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