Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and ios 14 beta 7 has been out to both
developers and ios 14 public beta 7 came out
the same day just a little bit later and so i've been using it on my iphone 11
pro max i also have it on the iphone 11 here
as well as the iphone 6s plus and the 2020 ipad pro 12.9
now i've primarily been using it on the ipad and by iphone
so let's go ahead and talk about a couple new things that i missed in the
initial what's new video later we'll talk about bugs things
they've fixed and then the youtube community poll and how
it's been for you now the first thing is a couple small features some people are
seeing this dock turn a black color or change a darker
color now i'm on dark mode right now so you'll
see that it's going to be a little bit darker if i go back to light mode
go back to dark it will darken and that's pretty normal but some people are
seeing it go even darker than that so apple could continually be tweaking this
making it a little bit darker maybe more transparent it's hard to say but we'll
see once the final version comes out now another small change they keep
changing the page dots at the bottom so you can see the page dots here if i
bring in ios 14 beta 6 here on the iphone X
r you can see the page dot spacing continually changes it's
as though they keep moving it up and then back down now it's back up
some of the spacing around the dots has actually changed so it's a little bit
different than it was before not a huge difference but it's a little
bit different also some people on reddit are seeing some
interesting siri suggestions now some people were able to clear it i wasn't
able to find that but you can see this user on reddit here
said making a lot of phone calls this mom
person is very popular so siri is telling them that hey you're
making a lot of calls to this specific person
and it's telling you your most popular caller so that's pretty interesting i
thought it was an interesting find and some people are able to actually
clear siri suggestions i wasn't able to find this
a new ui to sort of clear this so maybe if we had siri suggestions for apple
i can't clear any of those so some people are seeing that i'm not
however there's an interesting trick in safari that isn't new to this particular
version but is a new ui compared to before so if
you hold the back button you'll see it gives you all of the
recent websites you've been to so that's nothing new but they changed
the ui this used to be full page now it's just a small snippet there so
it's just a small little change i didn't mention in previous videos so i thought
i'd mention it here now there's a couple things that a few
people have mentioned but i haven't been able to see myself
for example if we go into mail in mail some people are saying that when they go
to select a bunch of emails at once it has a different color for them this
has always been gray for me in fact let me go over to
beta 6 and you'll see on the left with beta 6 it looks the same for me but some
were saying the blue color has gone away i'm still seeing it so it's still there
for me now as far as this particular update
there is one other thing that keeps changing for
a lot of people and that is the weather widget it keeps
changing from this style to a style that's a little bit more vertical
now some people were saying that this changes based off of time of day and
everything else i haven't been able to correlate it to a time of day
so dark mode night morning light mode it didn't seem to matter sometimes it looks
like this other times it's more vertical if you've
figured out exactly why it's doing that i'd love to hear from you in the
comments below so there aren't a ton of other features
in here but there is some good news as far as bugs
now a few people were saying that they were able to see 4k
youtube videos that weren't able to see it before that's actually controlled by
youtube so i'm seeing them on my iphone 11 pro max
and my ipad pro so those 4k videos are there and they
should be playing just fine so some people are seeing them
let me check on the iphone 11 to see if i have it there even though this is not
a 2160 or 4k screen now you can see on my iphone 11
that i have up to 1080p so i don't have 2160p
or 4k and that's because the screen doesn't go up to that resolution
however some people with lower resolution screens are seeing that
option so whether or not this sticks once the
final version comes out is hard to say but i keep getting questions about that
so it's controlled completely by youtube if
you want to try it close out the app try it again and see if it shows up for you
now a good thing is airdrop seems to be working properly across all my devices
now so oftentimes i'd have to reboot my phone
to get it to work properly and then also tapping the apps in the
app list seemed to work properly now so if we go into maybe
home it opens quickly even if you tap to the left of it it seems to be working
again so i swiped off of it there so as long as
you get within the app it seems to respond much better than it
did on the previous version so that's a really good sign now overall
it's been pretty stable and those were the only bug fixes i
actually saw but quite a few other bugs still exist
i have seen youtube crash a few times on my phone
and mostly on the ipad so on the ipad the experience has been mostly stable
with the exception of youtube crashing or locking up
so i've seen that a couple times and then also i've got this weird bug that
if i'm using split view with multiple applications
and then i use the magic keyboard sometimes the keyboard itself won't work
i can use the keyboard on screen and the trackpad on the magic keyboard
but not the trackpad and keyboard so it's a weird bug i've encountered
i've seen it a few times i'm not sure what's causing it but it seems to happen
more in split view than anything else otherwise the experience on the ipad has
been rock solid for me in fact most of the time you wouldn't know that
it's a beta at all however on the iphone like i said
there's still a couple issues so for example twitter is frozen on me a
couple times also youtube like i said and also some
people are seeing in wallpaper where it's blurring the
wallpaper in the background i'm not seeing this it's not blurring it
weird but some people are seeing it when they go into wallpaper
one will be very blurry the other one won't it'll be super blurred on one side
and not the other and we haven't seen a new wallpaper
picker like some people were saying we were going to see so
maybe it has something to do with that but i haven't seen it malfunction
personally but i know a lot of people are now also some people are reporting
that when you go to the lock screen and you press and hold on the camera
and it opens up some people are saying it's super laggy and not responding
properly or working properly i personally have not seen that but
quite a few people have messaged me about that
also speaking of the camera on some of the older devices
mirroring the front camera is not there so mirroring the front display
so let's go here we'll go to our camera app here
and you'll see mirror front camera some people are saying it's disappeared on
the older versions of iphones or the older iphones
it seems to be present in my devices although let's go down to front camera
here wherever that is there we go and you'll see mirror front
camera is there so it just depends on the device you have
if you're on an older phone like an iphone 6s plus hopefully they'll bring
it back there's no reason for it to go away
maybe they just had some bugs with it in this particular update
but we'll check for it once it comes back and hopefully it'll be there now
also pokemon go does not work on this still so quite a few people are saying
that it won't work i actually installed it it just won't even open so
it probably has something to do with the camera and augmented reality something
to do with the new code once pokemon go updates that app it
should work but if you're playing call of duty mobile
well that seems to work just fine i've been playing it not on this but i've
actually been playing it on the ipad quite a bit
and then also people on the ipad are saying they're seeing a weird bug
i've not experienced this but some people are seeing some of the native
apps sort of shrink their icons to a point
where they look small compared to the other ones maybe half size
and then the screen is flashing i'm not experiencing this on this latest ipad
and i haven't seen it on the ipad air 2 so hopefully it's not showing up for
most of you but a couple people have complained about that now while i was
making this video someone pointed out on the telegram channel i have a zolotek
telegram channel and discord linked in the description
but someone pointed out a quick way to clear notifications that i hadn't seen
before i thought it was pretty interesting his name is boss so if you
scroll down press and hold on the x to clear the
notifications tap clear it actually clears them all so
you could have a hundred in there it will clear them all it seems to work
every time i tried it on the iphone 11 and it cleared them all right out so i
thought that was pretty interesting it's a nice little tip now i haven't
been having any issues with performance i haven't had any issues with widgets
personally however people do keep asking me when
are we going to see a new widget from say a third party
and that actually depends on when someone creates the app
they actually have to update that particular part of the app with a new
widget now unfortunately we won't see those
until the final release but you can see i have a wikipedia widget
so when the third-party apps update or you're using beta updates
those widgets will show up and then you can use them on your phone so
you'll see those widgets in the future it's kind of interesting they just have
photos of the day but if you install them using test
flight if you want to be a beta tester you can try out multiple apps that
people are offering and then you'll see those third-party widgets
of course it's a beta so those apps could be unstable and
i thought that was interesting so i can't wait until ios 14 is released so
we see all of those widgets and speaking of when ios 14 is released
it seems like there's going to be an event or some sort of notification or
mention of some new products on this tuesday so
we may see that that seems to be from a fairly reliable source
not just john prosser but others are saying this at this point
and so we'll probably see that and john prosser has never been wrong about a
date so we'll probably see it there but we should see ios 14 released
probably in a few weeks in fact i would think we'll see ios 14 beta 8 this week
i think we're on a weekly cycle like i said before
and i would expect it sometime in the middle of this coming week that could be
tuesday could be wednesday or thursday again
and then maybe a gm the following week and a final release the week of the 21st
and the reason or the week of the 20th and the reason i say that is because
in the past that's sort of the week they released ios 14.
now they could push that back based on what they're going to do and based on
the delay we had with ios 14 beta 1 but expect at least i think another beta
then the gm then a final so a few weeks away and of
course i'll keep you updated as soon as i know more as far as that goes but i
would expect a beta this coming week of course apple could change it up it
could be a couple weeks again but hopefully we see some updates now
let's take a look at my overall battery life on my iphone 11 pro max
and my battery health is still at 96 percent
and this can vary depending on your phone how you charge it and use it and
like i said before the updates don't affect battery health
they're just simply rechecking the battery
so all batteries degrade unfortunately until someone develops a better battery
android phones cars everything using batteries will degrade over time
now my battery life on the first day i installed it was actually okay
five hours and eight minutes of screen on time four hours and seven minutes of
screen off time using about sixty five percent of my
battery now i'm still getting about nine or ten
hours of screen on time on this phone however that's not the 10 or 12 hours i
was getting before i'm getting a lot of screen off time playing music and things
like that but you'll see yesterday wasn't that
great at all 2 hours and 42 minutes of screen on time
5 hours and 38 minutes of screen off time and i used about 50 percent of my
battery so it really varies from day to day
depending on what day it is what device i'm using it's going to vary
but most people are saying it's better there are some that are experiencing
worse battery life but if it's bad after the first day or two maybe
try rebooting it otherwise it should be fine just give it a couple days to sort
of stabilize and make sure you're not running any
apps in the background that are causing sort of that sort of drain
there may be something running and of course you can just check that down here
now based off the youtube community poll here are all the issues that people were
mentioning so 85 people mentioned battery now this could be good or bad
most people are actually saying it's much better than earlier betas
a few people are having their phone heat up and it getting a little bit hot
and then a few people are having issues with mail but connectivity in general
only one person mentioned wi-fi a separate
person mentioned lte and another mentioned problems with bluetooth
that's out of hundreds of people so that's a pretty good sign that this is
fairly stable now should you update or install ios 14
beta 7 i would say you should absolutely install ios 14 beta 7
if you're a beta tester since this particular version is getting later and
later it's getting more and more stable and of
course apple uses that feedback if you're having a major problem to
actually resolve issues so you want to make sure
you report that in your feedback app to apple and then
they'll prioritize it based on issues that you're having so
hopefully they'll get the major issues fixed and then they'll work on the
smaller bugs and i think they're getting really close to a final release now
other than that here are all the different devices you've been using
so that's based off the community poll of people that said that and let's take
a look at the poll itself also ram management has been pretty good
when i opened this up it'd been open for quite some time and it was still on this
page it didn't reload youtube so most people are not having issues with
ram management in fact zero people mentioned it at the time of
collecting the data for this video now you can see here there are
7 500 votes or 7.5 k votes based on what you've done so far today and then
there are 213 comments now 41 percent of you have said that
it's great only three percent are saying it's terrible
ten percent are having bugs and then 46 percent of you are
on 13.7 or older that's usually pretty typical that almost 50 percent
are on public versions and a few people are taking a risk with
the beta i would say it's not very risky at this point but you still could have
issues now as far as the comments let's take a
look at some of them let me sort them and we'll take a closer look
now the first one from justin says i use my iphone XR
on ios 14 beta 7 but when i go into the nascar app it kicks me out almost all
the time and that's very similar to what you get
with pokemon go seems to be doing the same thing
mark said iphone X and it's pretty rough at times imessage closes on its
own keyboard disappears in the middle of typing and battery life isn't very
good veteran beck says running great on iphone 8 plus
some apps hang a bit but nothing major larry bogg says seems to be good so far
just a couple of issues using on my iphone 7 plus i and my ipad
pro 2020 will install it on my daily driver
iphone 11 this weekend ashley hudson said 11 pro max and it's
running smoothly for me battery is good ronald sherk said i have
a bug in the control center on iphone 11 pro max for home favorites
five blank toggles does anyone have this in beta seven and
yes i have a blank space again it comes and goes it's kind of
interesting sometimes it's there sometimes it's not so it's kind of
strange how that keeps coming back the tree overlord says
on iphone XS and going great backtap has gotten worse and barely ever
works anymore i saw a couple people say that i forgot to mention it that
the backtap feature only works occasionally so hopefully
that's working israel jesus says thank god they fixed my XS max smart battery
case issue what an annoying issue that or annoying
week that was so with beta 6 the smart battery case wasn't working
and it seems to be working again stephen mccoyle said still no default apps just
got on the beta and was looking forward to it
so the feature is technically there but the app developer has to meet a couple
criteria in order for that to work so i wouldn't expect to see that feature
actually work properly until ios 14 is released to the public so a
mail developer or mail app developer for example has to
flag and add a couple apis into their code
in order for that to work properly so again don't expect that until the final
release kaza ralph says i apologize if i said
that wrong having overheating issues since beta 4 and still persisting in
beta 7 on my iphone XS very disappointed and sad with the beta
overall daniel sparks says using it on my iphone XS max and the battery life
is garbage worst battery in all ios 14 betas
jeremy debose says pro max and ipad pro really great performance so far battery
life seems better scribble on ipad is still weird i'm not
even in the text field on some apps and and then it goes automatically into
scribble mode pikaboo says i'm using the iphone XS
and there seems to be a significant improvement in
in battery life and the airpods text error message bug has now been fixed
the update has been really smooth for me the best beta so far
dave cormack says getting more solid on the iphone 8 plus
jeffrey vener said iphone 11 great battery smooth scrolling good
performance widgets working well like new wallpaper options and then
joseph mignon said hopefully i said that right
i love it and it works great on my iphone 11 pro max and love your videos
and thank you very much now ios 14 beta 7 doesn't really have
much more in it we're getting closer to that final gm or golden master version
so expect ios 14 beta 8 this coming week like i said a gm
later on and then the final release within a few
weeks now ios 12 actually had 12 betas so it could vary
depending on what apple decides to do but hopefully we'll see it sooner rather
than later and of course if there's new updates and news and everything i cover
that on mondays and then if we have anything new on
tuesday of course i'll keep you informed there as well
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as always thanks for watching this is Aaron
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