what's up guys my name is Brandon and today Apple released iOS and iPadOS 14
beta 6 to registered developers, exactly one week after
the release of beta 5. so yes we are switching
to a one week cycle now which is great. we should see a lot more stability
be added in the coming weeks but anyways apple also released tvos 14 beta 6
and also watch os 7 beta 6 to registered developers and now that we have switched
over to a one week beta cycle we should start seeing the public betas
being released on the same day as well, and that is the case with beta6 so it's
out for both developers and for public beta testers. Taking a
look at the size of this update you can see here
much smaller as expected than beta 5 we're at 438.2 megabytes
on my iphone 11 pro here and that size will vary depending on your device
but it should be under 500 megabytes and apple just says that it contains bug
fixes but that's why you guys watch my channel because there's a lot more
than just bug fixes but anyways let's go and check out the build number for this
latest update settings general about 14.0 you can see
there the build number for beta 6 is 18a 5357e
so we have an e at the end of the build number there if we scroll down a little
bit we do also have a big new modem firmware
update so we went from 1.5 0.25 to 2.00.01
so that should be a nice improvement if you were having any type of connectivity
issues connectivity has been fine for me but i have seen some people complain
about their connectivity on ios 14 betas but this new update this new modem
firmware should solve a lot of those issues
so now let's talk about what's new here in beta 6. so first off
beta 5 was great so you guys saw my video where i said it's pretty much
smooth sailing from here on out and i still think
that's going to be the case especially now with the one week cycles
i don't think we're going to have anything near as bad as beta 4
and beta 6 seems to be you know lining up with what i said
so let's talk about some of the new features and changes here and the first
one is actually a pretty big one and it has to do with the airpods pro
and spatial audio so if you have the air pods pro if you go down to settings and
then go to accessibility and then down to air pods and then
scroll all the way down to the bottom you'll see we have a new toggle there
for spatial audio and it says follow iphone and if you read the little
description below it kind of gives you a brief description of what spatial
audio is so it says when follow iphone is on audio for
supported movies and tv shows will sound like it's coming from your
iphone instead of following your head movement
so this is a very awesome 3d audio type feature
and apple talked about this at the worldwide developers conference but we
never saw any hint of this coming until beta six now we have the toggle
here and you can turn it on and off but it isn't actually working yet so
it's just a toggle it's just basically for show saying that
apple's working on it for now i turned it on and off and listen to the
movies and multiple things over and over again
and i cannot tell any difference so i don't think that spatial audio is
actually added yet it's just kind of here inside of the
settings now in beta 6. so i think that we may have to wait until the final
release of ios 14 before we actually see spatial audio working properly
with the airpods pro and it's probably going to take an airpods pro firmware
update as well but it is cool that we now have a special audio toggle
inside of settings here in ios 14 beta 6. now another change here in beta 6 is
inside of the clock if we go to clock and then go to alarms and add a new
alarm as you guys know in beta 5 we got the
scroll wheel back but did you notice any difference here in beta 6
yes the scroll wheel is actually more apparent now which is exactly what i
requested apple to do in my beta 5 both beta 5 videos i talked
about how they need to make this more apparent
that there's actually a scroll wheel there and it looks like they listen so
here's beta 5 as you guys could see it's kind of just
you click on it and you cannot tell it's really a scroll wheel
now you get the little outline here and you can see the numbers you know behind
it so like you can see the 12 and the 13 more clear there in beta 6 whereas in
beta 5 you really couldn't see the numbers behind it
and there was no outline so now it's more apparent that there is a scroll
wheel and not just numbers that you have to
manually type in and i also found that typing in the numbers works a lot
better than it did in beta 5 as well it's just more fluid and it seems to be
a lot more polished than it was in any previous beta so thank you apple
for listening on that one now the next change
comes with the shortcuts widget so if you go to the plus right here and add in
the shortcuts widget let's go down to it right here
you'll notice that there is a little bit of change here so let me pull it up on
beta 5 just to give you guys a better idea of
the change so on beta 5 it just said favorites up top
and then it said quickly access your favorite shortcuts and it said that for
every single one of them well now with beta 6 it says shortcut instead of
favorites and also the description is slightly updated
as well it says quickly run one of your shortcuts instead of quickly access your
favorite shortcuts and then this also gets changed to
shortcuts folder instead of just remaining
as favorite so both of these are the same there as well so just some minor
changes to the shortcuts widgets and speaking of widgets that tall news
widget that i showed you guys in beta 5 has been removed thankfully that was
pretty pointless i mean you could really only use it on the widgets section you
couldn't even put it on your home screen but now this is the largest one inside
of news and you can put it on your home screen also if we go
to delete an application in beta 6 you can see that the order
has changed so now delete app is up top whereas it was on the bottom in beta 5
and then it's moved to app library and then cancel so you can see there
it's reversed now in beta 6 when you go to delete an application
also inside of the photos application if you go all the way down
on albums instead of other albums it now says
utilities right here so that's where you'll see your hidden folder as well
if you do have the hidden folder enabled which mine is currently hidden
on both devices but you can see there it shows the imports and the recently
deleted now under a new category inside of
photos we also got this new splash screen
inside of the maps application when you open it up for the first time here in
beta 6. and you can see here it shows cycling
navigation curated guides and speed cameras so basically it just tells you
about the new maps features in ios 14. also in beta 6 we get a fix for the
airplane mode icon not properly appearing inside of
the status bar so now it always shows up in the status bar
when you are in airplane mode so in beta 5
and other previous betas sometimes it would not show properly
up in the status bar but it seems to work every single time now also when
you're on the phone or you just get done making a phone call
it will actually show properly up in the top that the phone
used your microphone instead of just saying unknown used your microphone so i
noticed this i believe it showed this in beta 5 as
well but i didn't talk about it so that's also here
in beta 6 if you didn't see it in beta 5 that will be fixed as well
where it shows phone instead of just saying unknown as for
what was using your microphone and then apple also mentioned that encrypted apfs
files now appear in the sidebar inside of the files application in beta
6. and i'm sure there are additional new
features and changes here in beta 6 but i've only been using the
software here for a couple of hours so i haven't been able to cover everything
but in my follow-up video coming on saturday
i will talk about the new additional changes and features here
in a beta 6 that i did not cover in this video so definitely stay tuned
for that follow-up video of course i do those every single saturday now i also
wanted to discuss the instagram bug that plagued a lot of people in
beta 5. so i talked about this in my beta 5 videos and that was where in
instagram you could not post stories so just show a black screen when
you took a photo or when you selected a photo to post to
your stories it would just be completely black however
that was fixed in a update for instagram so it did not take a new beta
to be fixed so instagram did fix that this is not new in
beta 6 but you can now post the stories and you can see there it doesn't turn
black it actually takes the photo and you can
select photos as well so thanks to instagram for updating their
application to support these ios 14 betas
i also caught this little bug here in beta 6. so when i connected my airpods
pro take a look at the little text up top so instead of saying my airpods pro
connected it just says center text center content
item so basically just some placeholder code
right there instead of actually showing my text like my airpods connecting so
that's a pretty funny bug here in beta six and i've actually seen a couple
people have that as well so hopefully that will
get fixed i'm sure it will in the next beta now going back to the
bug fixes there are actually a couple more
bug fixes as well so there were some things in beta 5 that got pretty
annoying to me and one of those was that you couldn't always select
applications inside of the app library so sometimes
i would go to click on it and it just wouldn't click i'd maybe have to type it
like 10 times and then it would eventually open up
but sometimes you could click for an hour and the application would not open
up but now in beta 6 it looks like everything is
fixed and you can now go into every application no problem
also another issue i ran into is when i would search for something so if i just
search for maps sometimes the application would show up
and then it would disappear and i wouldn't be able to click on it from
spotlight search where i'd have to do it really quickly before it disappeared
but that has not happened here in beta 6 so i'm pretty sure
that has also been resolved there was also some keyboard lag in beta 5 so this
didn't happen in every application it didn't happen every day
but sometimes there would just be some stutter and some lag in the keyboard but
i've not had that one time here in beta 6 so that should also be fixed
here in this latest update and as for the clock and weather widgets those
appear to be fine for me as well i've not really had any
issues since the early betas but some people still say
that there's a little bit off so if yours is still off just remove the
widget and add it again and it should be fixed because i haven't seen
any issues at all with the clock or weather widget over the past few betas
and if you guys want to read about additional fixes and workarounds you can
do so by looking at the release notes here
i will leave this linked down in the description below
basically it shows certain things that are resolved known issues and things
like that here as well so if you want to get into the nitty-gritty
you can go ahead and look at these i will have this linked down in the
description below now as far as the performance goes
performance on beta 6 i would assume it's going to be exactly the same as
beta 5 except with some added bug fixes and
enhancements that may make it feel a little bit faster and a little bit
smoother overall but raw performance wise i would expect beta 6 to be pretty
much exactly the same as beta 5. i did also run a geekbench
test and the scores were actually a little bit lower
than beta 5 so 1330 versus 1338 and 3410 versus 3509 so just a little bit of a
decrease there in performance according to the geekbench scores but of course
those don't always tell the whole story and i will let you guys know how
performance really is in the real world in my update video coming on saturday
now as far as battery life goes battery life is pretty much going to be
the same situation as the performance so battery life was fine for me and beta 5
it was actually an improvement over beta 4
and beta 6 i would expect the exact same i would not expect
any type of decrease in battery life i would expect it to be about the same
if not a little bit better so we'll have to wait and see on that of course i will
talk about battery in my upcoming follow up video on
saturday as well so stay tuned for that and as far as if you should update if
you want to stay safe just wait for that follow-up video
so you guys can see my final analysis and you know everybody else's analysis
as well because i will talk about the community poll
and things like that so if you want to be safe wait for that but if you're on
beta 5 i don't think it's going to hurt too bad
to update to beta 6 just because i don't see
any future beta being as bad as beta 4 was and especially
if we're getting a release every single week i think the risk is a lot lower
with updating now versus you know previous betas where you had to wait
multiple weeks in between and you're kind of just stuck with that buggy
software so for most people i think you're pretty
much fine going ahead and updating to beta 6 now but if you want to be on
the safer side of things just wait for my follow-up video on
saturday now like i said we are on a one-week cycle so we can probably expect
to see ios 14 beta 7 on september 1st so that
is next tuesday the 1st of september that's when we can
probably expect beta 7 if not the first possibly on the second
but apple has been really liking these tuesday releases so i would expect
september 1st for beta 7. but yeah guys that is ius 14
beta 6. i hope you guys enjoyed this video if you did i would appreciate if
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