Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and ios 14.5 beta 4 has been out for a few days
i've been using it primarily on my iphone 12 pro max as my main phone that i use every day
i also have it on the iphone 11 as well as the 12.9 inch ipad pro from 2020 which i use all the
time when i'm not using my computer to edit videos for example and so i want to talk about my overall
experience some bugs that this has that i've been having some things are good some are not and also
talk about your experience based off the youtube community poll where there's tens of thousands of
votes as well as hundreds of comments so i want to talk about all of that but first the homepod
and the imac pro are no longer listed on the apple store so if you go to the apple store whether that
be in the app on your phone apple.com imac pro is gone it's no longer there and neither is homepod
now the imac pro will probably be replaced with an m1x or an apple silicon based imac very soon
as well as maybe a new homepod but there's been no information about that so i really like the
homepod but it's three times the cost of a homepod mini so it makes sense that it didn't sell very
well i would love to see a new version though that's less expensive since it has a lot more bass
now the other thing is there's a new feature that if you didn't see my video from a couple days ago
about more new features that i thought was pretty nice is if you have low power mode on for example
and you lock your phone and you have a magsafe compatible phone attach magsafe to charge it you
have a new animation that's yellow it just matches low power mode i did see someone say this was in
beta 2 but the magsafe animation has been broken for a little while so it's possible that it was
but for most people it wasn't working now as far as the overall experience well the performance for
me has been good and i've had no app crashes when going into an app maybe like music for example
going into music closing it it hasn't sort of stuttered or been slow at all for me everything
is nice and fast all the animations are smooth and i've really had no issues whatsoever when it comes
to scrolling through things or doing any of that sort of movement based or motion based things the
touch responsiveness is good when it's working but i have had quite a few issues and the first thing
is touch responsiveness like i said it's good when it's working but sometimes in certain apps whether
that be usually third-party apps but when i'm in apps sometimes i just can't do anything whether
it be twitter or even telegram or something like that i'll touch and it doesn't do anything
sometimes i can scroll and it will work but the actual touch doesn't work it's really odd how
it goes back and forth where sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't and you'll see it's working
just fine right now if i go to arcade for example i can tap on one of these scroll through it and
it's working fine but sometimes touch just doesn't work i've had some issues with music with the app
just crashing so i'll find some new music tap on the music to play it and it just crashes and
you'll see it sort of reloaded the album art there for a second so it's had some really odd bugs in
it and homepod mini while the proximity using sort of handoff or air dropping it to your your homepod
mini for example handoff does not seem to work sometimes you saw at the beginning of the video it
came down sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't and in my home app my home pods have disappeared
so they used to be right here this is one of the one of two home pods that i have in a stereo pair
for my office and it's not working so they just disappeared maybe they'll come back with a future
update or maybe i'll have to re-add them but what i was trying to do is update the homepod and then
the button form just went away i can still play music hand it off sometimes sometimes it works
sometimes it doesn't so it's very hit or miss and there's definitely still some issues with it and
it's noted in apple's notes that you can't hand off sometimes so i know that's broken they know
about it but and not being able to see it in the home app is a little bit of a pain since i can't
see it or updated anymore so i may have to reset the home pods to get them to work now another
thing that i've found that's been a big pain for me is air pods so i use my air pods pro regularly
if i'm going to bed sometimes maybe i'll pop them in my ears to listen to music for a bit
and while they connect and you'll see here they usually connect it may take a moment sometimes
they connect but then they just don't work you'll see it didn't pop up on my phone but it popped
up on these other phones and for some reason it doesn't seem to recognize i'll actually have to
repair the whole thing i'll have to delete it from bluetooth repair there it goes it popped up but
often times i'll have to actually repair them to this device so if i go to bluetooth quickly here
tap on airpods pro it says they're connected we'll try and connect again it says they're connected
but they don't show in the volume slider if i play music from them they don't work i'll have to
pair these again this is true of not only airpods pro but also airpods max i've been having issues
with ios 14.5 beta 4 with that sort of getting them to pair so it's been a huge pain with that
and many of you have said you've had a lot of bluetooth issues as well but i'll talk
about that in just a moment the other thing i see that i haven't mentioned yet is spaces that are
blank showing up so whether that be in settings that just be at the top we've seen that before
or maybe in music for example scrolling there'll just be a blank space that shows up
then in different applications whether it be control center it'll be a blank space
it will close the gap there's some odd bugs going on as far as that goes and so like i said before
based off the youtube community poll the comments that everyone mentioned there many people are
having similar issues with bluetooth and wi-fi connectivity some said that it's fixed some said
that it's not but it seems to be a continued issue where people are just having odd issues
with bluetooth so that could be with your air pods it could be with whatever you are normally
using for your bluetooth headphones they're not working properly for everyone and it's a huge pain
also a lot of people are mentioning issues with watch os if you're on the latest beta watch os
7.4 beta 4 some people are saying ecg isn't working some people aren't seeing their
health data transfer over to their phone and most people are just having connectivity issues between
their phone and their their watch so there's something to do with bluetooth still going on
icloud messages and or icloud and imessage are syncing properly sometimes for some people
and also green tint seems to still be an issue although more people are seeing it fixed and less
people are actually mentioning it as a problem so when you boot up and see that flashing logo that's
gone but people are not seeing green tint there they might see it throughout maybe when it's dark
on a different display so you'll see there as well ram management is pretty good most of the time but
right there it just seems to keep reloading things from time to time and having more and more crashes
i've had to reboot this twice and it still didn't fix the connectivity with airpods either
other people are saying that they'll see lag and flickering and freezing as well so you'll
see random freezing i've seen freezing throughout and it's just odd that this particular beta being
that it's beta 4 seems to have more issues for me anyway than previous betas i've heard from some of
you that say it's much better so it really depends on who you are maybe what apps you're using for
example so like i said performance overall has been great and that includes older phones as well
the iphone 11 is not that old but if you have a 6s plus for example don't expect any huge changes
between ios 14.4 14.4.1 or this one for example so expect it to be nice and fast occasionally
because it's a beta you may have some issues but again make sure you report those in feedback like
i've said many times before so as long as you're reporting it in feedback apple will work on it and
eventually fix those issues now let's go ahead and take a look at battery we'll go to settings
go to battery battery health you can see my battery health is at 100 percent and as
i've mentioned many times the battery health is measured when it reinstalls an app update
or periodically throughout whenever it decides to do it installing an update will not decrease
battery health it's just checking the physical capability of the battery within your phone
now this one has been charged every single night using magsafe on a fast charger and it's still at
100 since new i've used it every single day except for when i was testing the 12 pro for example or
the mini now we'll go to the last 10 days and you can see well let's take a look at yesterday i had
four hours and seven minutes of screen on time four hours and four minutes of screen off time
and i used a little bit over fifty percent of my battery so again eight hours of screen on time
with this phone that's not incredible eight to ten is is okay 10 to 12 is better it just depends
on your phone what apps you're using and you can see here mail i have it on push so i could reduce
that a little bit if i wanted to and i was on twitter a lot if i go to the day before i got
better battery life four hours and 41 minutes of screen on time four hours and 41 minutes of
screen off time and used under 50 so it really depends on how you're using it but i would say
for me this is much better than the previous beta now as far as battery on the ipad let's go ahead
and take a look we'll wait for it to load and you can see it was last charged to a hundred percent
at 8 48 a.m a couple days ago let's take a look at it and 3 hours and 54 minutes of screen on time
and we're down to 28 so i guess after five hours of screen on time five and a half
we're doing a little bit better than before i was getting five hours of screen on time prior to this
update i'm getting about six to eight with this update so it's definitely an improvement but like
i've said before if it doesn't improve i'll just wipe this and start over and see if that fixes it
as soon as 14.5 is out so on the ipad pro this is responding fine i've had zero issues other than
what i've mentioned on the iphone none of those bugs there are on here on the ipad the ipad is
very stable no issues here i've just had issues on the phone other than battery life on the ipad
now with ios 14.4.1 in general it's okay it hasn't gotten any worse over time so far and about 55
still say that battery is the same or better than 14.4 so that means 45 are saying it's not great
people are still having issues but all the issues that are in 14.4.1 are generally fixed with 14.5
green 10 is getting fixed but some people still have issues with it in 14.5 for example but this
particular update is the only one signed right now apple stopped signing ios 14.4 which means you can
only downgrade to 14.4.1 and that usually means within a couple weeks or so we'll see an update
usually they have two released to the public but it did take a month or so for them to do that
last time so whether or not we see 14.5 before we see an intermediate version of ios 14.4.2 or
something like that is hard to say but based on 14.5 and its readiness i think we're going to see
a 14.5 before any other updates come out but the overall experience of this version
seems to be okay and it's so it's what you expect from 14.4 so it's not amazing but it's fixed a lot
of issues there is still lag when closing apps for example on some people's devices so depending on
which one you have it's going to create different situations so it just depends what you're using
and what the overall experience is for you and what apps you're using now should you install
ios 14.5 beta 4 well if you're already on the betas i would say yes go ahead if you haven't
done that already you'll have the latest bug fixes and magsafe will work for you again as far as the
animation and handoff will generally work for you although you it may be buggy like it is for me
however if you're on ios 14.4.1 for example i would hold off if you're looking for
stability betas were never designed to be more stable they were designed to find issues so
normally you would install a beta and then report issues in the feedback app generally betas are
not considered very stable until the very end and speaking of the very end i think we'll see maybe
another beta or a release candidate within the next couple days or so we don't have a definite
date from apple many people expected an event on the 23rd and so far we haven't seen any invites
for that so they could release some products then maybe ios 14.5 release candidate but right now
apple has been very unpredictable and we're just going to have to wait and see what they're going
to do i would expect something this coming week as far as an update based on what they've done
in the past never have i remembered in the past that they've gone to beta 4 and not had weekly
updates after that so i would definitely expect something this week but again that could change
we just don't know but we're looking forward to wwdc so in june we can expect an event usually
in the second or third week of june where they'll show off ios 15 for example and the next versions
of watch os watch os 8 home pod os 15 and all of the others to go along with it tv os 15
mac os 12 maybe we're not sure what they're going to call that so we should see all of those things
revealed with a final release date usually in september but as far as wwdc last year they had
already released the announcement for it when it was going to take place in june we're still
waiting for that and potential products in the end of march or april so look for those fairly soon
now as far as the youtube community poll let's go to youtube and at the time of this video
i usually get these ready so i can have some days off on the weekend so you'll see it was
released some time ago it has 14 000 votes so thanks so much for everyone that voted
and you'll see here 19 said it's great four percent said it's terrible six percent
said okay but some bugs 59 said i'm using ios 14.4.1 or older and 12 are using android and so
quite a few people most people are on the public versions but it's okay based on what we had a
couple weeks ago if you go down to beta 3 for example the same rate for most things so you
can expect those i could extrapolate these out a bit to see what they're like just based off the
information on the top three but basically they're the same as people are saying with beta 3. however
the comments say something different so let's go ahead and take a look at some of those but before
we do that here are the things that you had to say are statistics based off battery life that how
many people mentioned it and then also crashing and lag and freezing quite a few people had issues
with lag freezing and it being slow there was not one mention of the phone overheating for example
now also here are all the devices you're using as well so these are all the devices as you can see
the 12 pro max is the most popular oftentimes the iphone 11 as well now as far as the comments at
the time of this video there's 131 comments let's go ahead and sort them and take a look at some you
can see vasco lemos said similar to the previous beta on my iphone 11. enrique gonzalez says call
me on iphone 12 pro max is doing okay but on apple watch six my airpods pro keep disconnecting from
the watch it takes about five to eight seconds before they connect back other than that it runs
smooth i think you meant to say the beta is on that my iphone se 2020 has just stopped dropping
calls i can't afford to take the risk of that if you're on beta 3 you'll definitely need to update
anyway but if you're on a public version then i would stay on the public version like i said
just dave says i haven't seen any issues apps open and closed without lag or dropping frame rate
battery is noticeably better than previous betas seems ready for release running on my 10s max
jeremy dubose says great on the 12 pro max and ipad pro no lag great battery close to 12 hours
of screen on time and it strangely seems faster than ever music skips occasionally on bluetooth
since beta 1 though usually when switching apps everything else is is serviceable or
i think running well samantha angie hopefully i'm saying that properly face id for me with iphone 11
pro and the latest beta for ios 14.5 is working at almost all angles and i don't have to lean all the
way which is a great improvement performance is good and the only app i see issues with is youtube
i'm on the 12 pro max and using ios 14.4.1 which is found to be quite stable update although having
some freezing issues while closing apps and still with flashing apple logo on restart and thank you
so that issue is fixed with the betas so when ios 14.5 comes out it should fix the flashing apple
logo integra diy says no need to update every single time if you're on the betas you definitely
should and i would say for security reasons you definitely should on public versions as well vasil
vadafu says we are approaching an ideal version of ios so far it's been really great it's stable
battery life as you are expected great in fact the os is working perfectly with hardware i'm testing
using the iphone 11 12 pro max thulani nala says it's been really good on my 11 pro particularly
on the battery where i'm getting an average of 6 to 7 hours or so screen on time marked improvement
from the five hours i was getting where i was having bluetooth where i am having issues is on
bluetooth my airpods just randomly disconnect during my running slash cycling and it's very
frustrating because i keep having to pause my workouts to connect them anthony lombardo said
running ios 14.5 beta 4 on my iphone 12 everything is great and it's smooth and stable i just feel
like the battery is draining little quickly can't wait for the rc version or the final release soon
i always watch your videos aaron keep up the good work on updating us on these betas thank you
julian calderon said not bad i find the handoff with homepod mini is too sensitive and still
sometimes unstable probably due to my wifi based on plcs to spread the signal battery is not bad
maybe a little bit worse than on beta 1 and 2 but not sure no big issues no lags and no crashes
arctic fox says iphone 12 pro max running ios 14.5 beta 4 and i still have the green tin i noticed
some flickering when watching videos on minimum brightness the flickering was around the notch
and it flickered between solid black and a faint green along with green tint on greys on minimum
brightness it's very noticeable in the settings app jury said iphone 12 pro ios 14.5 beta 4 pretty
good so far runs very smooth and battery life is also better mario goucher says this beta has been
very good on my 12 pro i'm so confident it's good that i've installed it on my wife's iphone 10r
also installed the watch os beta so she can use the unlock with watch feature quad rider honda
said running ios 14.5 beta 4 on my 12 pro max and it's been great love your videos aaron thank you
vitaly a says it's good so far but the battery draining faster than on the official version
and then sonito says weak battery the same situation on the watch and so as you can see
the overall experience is very different depending on who's using it and what apps they're using and
so that's it for ios 14.5 beta 4. i'm looking forward to the final version i think we'll see
an rc hopefully this week maybe not we could see many more betas but hopefully we'll see an rc
and apple could just skip that all together and go right to a public release although that's very
rare if they do that but either way we don't know what apple's going to do they're a little bit up
in the air right now with that and i'm sure they have a plan but it's anything from what
we normally have so hopefully we'll have something very soon or we'll know some more information soon
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