Hi, everyone Aaron here for Zollotech And today Apple released iOS 14.5 beta 4.
This is available to developers and soon to public beta testers.
If you're not seeing it by now,
be sure to look back for it usually a little bit later in the day or the
following day, it will be released.
Now this particular update came in at 383.3 megabytes on my iPhone 12
Promax. It was about the same size on the other devices here.
The 12.9 inch iPad pro from 2020 iPhone six S plus,
and the iPhone 11. Now let's go ahead and take a look at the build number.
But before we do that,
Apple also released alongside this iPad OSTP 14.5 beta four
watchOS 7.4 beta for T V O S 14.5,
beta four and Macalester big Sur 11.3 beta four.
So all of those betas are available to developers right now.
If you're testing any of those, you can get them. Now.
They launched at the same time around the world for everyone.
Now let's go ahead and take a look at the build number. We'll go to settings,
then we'll go to general. And then about, as you can see,
the build number is 18 E five one seven eight eight.
And this particular build being that it's got the letter a at the end,
it means we're getting very close to a final version or a release candidate or
GM version.
That's going to release to the developers first and then to the public.
So we're getting very close to that.
And I'll talk more about that a little bit later.
Now the first thing that's new is a modem update.
So if you have an iPhone 12 pro max, for example, you'll have a modem update,
whether or not you were having connectivity issues or not,
that should resolve some additional issues or just fix some things that people
might have been experiencing so far. It's been pretty good for me,
but if it wasn't, hopefully it fixes it for you and we'll know in a few days,
for sure. Now the first thing you can,
you can actually see is if you go under settings and then go under software
updates under automatic updates, it says, download only if I tap on this,
you can see it says download new updates and install security updates.
So you can turn off automatic updates and just install security updates.
It looks like for some reason,
but if we go to beta three and go to the same thing,
we'll go to software update. You can see that it's a little bit different.
It says, download iOS updates, install iOS updates.
So this has changed a little bit.
It's a notable change since maybe we'll be able to install just security
updates, but not new updates. It's hard to say,
but you can see that they've changed some of the wording there.
And if I turn it on, it doesn't do anything different. It just flips a switch.
So it's kind of interesting that they've done that. And if you turn it off,
they both disappear. Now,
the next thing is there's code within the automatic updates that may pertain to
this as well. Thanks to my friend, Steve Moser,
the code is hinting that it will notify you or allow you to delete a previously
unapplied update before downloading the newest version.
So maybe you're on iOS 14.2. You never updated. And 14.5 comes out,
but you already downloaded it well to spare some room on your phone,
it would delete the old one,
give you the option and then allow you to install the new one.
There's no physical mention of this anywhere that I can find,
but it looks to be in the code. So that's kind of interesting.
Now within the code,
there's something there that we can't yet see that Apple may add to everyone
soon, or maybe 14.5, but in the code,
if we go into music and then we go to browse, scroll all the way to the bottom,
for example, tap on charts under charts in the future,
it looks like there's going to be an option to explore music and over 100 cities
from around the world.
So there could be charts for that around the world where you might have top
albums, maybe say in the United States,
first Canada maybe in France or England,
and it may show a hundred different countries where there's top albums.
So that'll be interesting in the future. It's not here yet,
but it looks like it's coming very soon. Now,
something we can physically see within the music app is if we go into our
library and we select an album, for example,
scroll down below the songs and you'll see the actual date of the album release
the number of songs and minutes. And then also the record album artist,
or the company they're associated with. So you can see that here,
if I go to the same place on beta three, it's a little bit different.
So the record label may be there or whatever company they have,
but on beta three,
it's just the number of songs and minutes here on the right with beta four,
we have the date of release as well as the record label or company associated
with it. So it's just a little bit of a change,
but it's nice that they keep adding additional metadata. Now,
something they've brought back that was there before is if you scroll down,
when you're within your library on an album, it will say show complete album.
If you tap on this,
it will bring you to the album and all of the songs in beta three,
which I have on the left. It's not there. So if I go back one,
you'll see show complete album is there. It's not on beta three.
Now also when you're within an album and maybe you want to play the song next,
we can swipe to the right and we have these new buttons and they've changed the
color of those buttons in this beta. So on the left is beta three.
You can see the play. Next icon is blue.
It's now more of a purplish color or a lilac color.
So they've just made that slight little change within music. Now,
as far as physical changes in this update, that looks to be about it so far.
However,
there's quite a few resolved issues and they didn't mention anything in their
notes, but there are some that we can see.
So if I turn off the phone here and I put MagSafe back on the back,
you'll see the animation has returned. So some people were concerned,
this was gone, but it was a bug.
Many people reported it and now it works properly.
So the animation for charging your phone with MagSafe is back.
A lot of people reported that in feedback and they've now fixed it.
So that's a good thing. Also. I've not seen any lag when closing apps,
for example. So when you swipe up, I haven't seen that.
I didn't see that with beta three. I haven't seen it at all in beta four.
So hopefully that's gone. Most people have reported that green tint is fixed.
Now it may show up in a couple of different places throughout the phone,
but so far it looks like it's fixed. Also when you're booting up,
the Apple logo used to flash and then go away and then it would come back on
that looks to be fixed as well, according to some people.
And then also one thing that broken was handoff to home pod.
That's working again, as you can see here. Now,
Apple explicitly says this is broken in the notes,
but as you can see if I bring it away and bring it back and it comes back on the
iPhone. So if you had that feature, it wasn't working,
it's now working properly. So that's something they've brought back.
And also it's actually vibrating the phone quite a bit and seems to be very
sensitive still. So maybe they'll tweak that a little bit more,
but right now it's quite sensitive and shows up very easily like it used to.
So that's been resolved.
And then another thing is when you're listening to music and maybe you're using
Shizam for example, let's see if we can bring that further away.
We're using Shizam for example, and you want to listen for a song,
we'll go ahead and show you. They've fixed this a little bit.
So now we're listening for a song. I'll play a song. So when it hears a song,
you tap on the song. Now it opens back in the Shizam app.
If you have that installed before it wouldn't do that.
So that's actually fixed now. And then if you bring this down,
it says that it used the microphone recently for Shizam.
So that's been resolved now, thankfully with beta, for the Apple ID,
prompt has been resolved every time you rebooted your phone with beta three,
it would ask you to update your Apple ID settings.
You would have to put in your password. Again.
I haven't seen that with beta four. So they fixed that.
That was pretty annoying.
Every time you want to reboot your phone or maybe the battery didn't last and
you had to recharge it,
it would ask for that Apple ID to let you sign back in and get all of your
account information sinked again. So I'm glad that they've fixed that bug.
When it comes to the iPad. For example,
I haven't been able to find anything different new in it,
but it should be pretty solid.
It's been great with all of the betas for me and performance has been great as
well.
So the overall performance on the iPad and the iPhone has actually been great
for me on beta beta three, but the iPad had bad battery life,
but battery life on beta three on the iPhone was actually okay.
So performance is great, no issues here. Haven't had any lags,
so far closing apps and it feels nice and fast.
And we'll take a look at the benchmarks and a little bit,
but as far as the battery life goes, if we go down to battery,
you'll see battery health currently is at 100% for me.
And then if we go back and look at the last 10 days,
it's actually been okay depending on the day.
So this was on my phone for a couple of weeks, and you'll see, well,
as recent as yesterday, one hour and 45 minutes of screen on time,
three hours and 36 minutes of screen off time,
I only used about a quarter of the battery.
So given about a quarter of the battery,
getting about eight to 10 hours of screen on time on this phone,
some people are seeing better. Some are seeing worse,
but in general it seems to be okay.
And I expect it to get better as we get closer to the final release.
And speaking of the final release,
this particular release is probably going to be the last one I think before the
release candidate.
And the reason for that is a lot of people are suspecting an Apple event being
announced tomorrow for the 23rd. And if we do have an Apple event on the 23rd,
we'll have an, we have this version usually released after that event.
So we could see a release candidate. Maybe later this week,
they've done that before and then have it finally released next week.
Although it's possible. If there is no event, it could go a little bit longer.
So Apple has been kind of erratic with that right now.
And we don't really know exactly when they're pushing things out.
So that's possible. We could see it later this week. We could see it next week.
We thought we were on a one-week schedule with beta three to beta four,
and it seemingly looked like we were on a two week schedule. Now, now,
if we do have an event on the 23rd,
I would expect them to release iOS 14.5 on that day, usually after the event,
if they continue to do what they've done for years now,
as far as the overall benchmarks of this, let's go ahead and take a look at it.
So I ran each bench five on this and we'll go to the benchmarks.
And on my iPhone, 12 pro max, you can see, I scored 1,603 for single core,
4,123 for multi-core.
This is actually pretty good based on the history. It's not incredible,
but you'll see here is March 5th versus March 2nd.
And the single core score is better. The multi-core score is worse,
so it just depends on what your device is doing. Usually after a day or two,
it will improve in general. So it should be pretty good. Now on the left,
I have the iPad pro 12.9 from 2020 than the iPhone success plus,
and then the iPhone 12 pro max,
I'll be running the iPhone 11 a little bit later since this currently has beta
three, just so I could find any differences on it,
but this should give you a general idea from the oldest or oldest supported
phone, rather to the newest, what your scores should be about.
These could improve over the next couple of days though,
as it continues to finish doing processes in the background.
So that's it with iOS 14.5 beta four. If I find anything more,
I'll let you know, in a follow-up video later this week,
if we don't have another release,
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