hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and today Apple released iOS 12.1.2
depending on your device I could come in around this at three hundred and
eighty two point three megabytes on my se it came in at only fifty nine point
one megabytes and it addresses a few things and also is a little bit
problematic in other areas if you're already on the beta we'll talk more
about that after we talk about the new feature so but let's take a look at the
build number you can see the build number is 16c101
and this particular build was kind of rushed out there was only one beta and
then they made this available and I think there's a couple reasons for that
one of them is this fixes bugs with Isom activation on an iPhone XR, XS and
XS Max so if you have one of those three devices you can not only put your
sim card in here but there's also an e sim or an electronic SIM card that goes
in settings then you can go back to your cellular plan and add a cellular plan
and this is very helpful overseas not so much in the United States but if you
want to switch between multiple carriers in areas you don't have those carriers
you can do that seamlessly through here and there were some activation issues
that it fixes with that now also this addresses an issue that it could affect
cellular connectivity in Turkey for the iPhone XS, XS Max and XR and that's
great that Apple's actually acknowledging their cellular
connectivity issues people mention this to me all the time that their phone is
not connecting has bad cellular connectivity in the latest iPhones and
usually it's not in the United States usually it's outside of the United
States and hopefully it's not just Turkey and its many other places around
the world but we won't know that for a little while until people try it out now
also we're thought that we're thinking that this addresses an issue with a
Qualcomm patent dispute that stopped the sale of iPhones or iOS devices in China
and so maybe Apple rushed this out pushed it out so that it fixes those patent
disputes and then they can sell their device in China again we're not really
sure we hopefully will know more about that in the coming days another thing to
know is that t-mobile added eSIM support today so that might be part of the
update but it could be related to that patent
as well and another thing to know is that this is only available for iPhones
not iPads if we go to the iPad you'll see it's on twelve point one point one
we check for an update it's not available now I've tried to install this
multiple ways and I wanted to help you get this installed then we'll talk about
speed battery life and benchmarks so if you have one of these devices and you
want to get it installed well I was able to install it over-the-air on the iPhone
se because it was on a previous version just like my iPhone 7 you'll see it's
available here if I go to software update it's not yet updated but it's
available for this device because it was on iOS 12.1 now if you're on twelve
point one twelve point one point one it will be available however if you have
the beta of twelve point one point two and even if you uninstall the beta
profile it will not be available so you'll be able to install it you'll have
to use iTunes and that's how I installed it on the iPhone X are now one thing to
know is I tried to install it that same way on my iPhone XS Max and it
bricked even with removing the profile I connected it to my phone or connecting
my phone to my laptop tried to install it and we're stuck here so I'll restore
this later it'll be fine and worst case scenario I'll bring it to Apple and have
them replace it but it didn't seem to work so there's some risk in doing that
it seems so I wouldn't recommend that I would stay on the beta until they push
the update either a new beta 12.1.3 or 12.2 with
some new features or I would just hang out on that beta for a while now the
next thing to talk about is the speed the speed is pretty good overall it
seems to be nice and smooth here now I know people were saying they had
stutters on the XS and some people XS Max with so much on the XS and the XS
with the actual app switcher I've had zero issues with that if I go to the SE
here's the app switcher no issues there I can close apps it doesn't seem
to be performing badly at all and everything seems to be working well on
all of these devices now the other thing also is battery life now battery is what
I was using or I was using my XS Max most of the time and I was getting about
five to six hours on the beta so it's pretty good as far as that goes it's
hard to say what the final will be like but it's probably going to be very close
to that the problem is I can't show you my actual battery usage because that was
my main device if I go here we go to battery I'll go here
battery health um this one's a hundred percent but you'll see I haven't used
this one much because I just updated it and unfortunately I have to deal with
the XS Max like I said but if you're on the previous versions and you can go to
settings all day long you just won't get that update so it's kind of a pain right
now I've never seen Apple do this before and I think it's because of that patent
dispute I don't really know but so far that beta was stable for me some people
had app crashes I haven't had any and it's been fluid now if we take a look at
something like Minecraft I kind of use that as a benchmark for speed of loading
things and on the SE we'll see how it does yeah play create new great world
it's nice and fast so far and if this loads fast it's probably okay in some of
the previous versions this was really slow and you'll see it's nice and fast
and it should be good and it's nice and fast and it looks pretty good so we
shouldn't have any issues with that let's take a look at the Geekbench
scores I know some of you don't like these but they give us a general idea of
how fast it is and I actually ran it about three different times on this and
I have not gotten great scores on my ten are you'll see 4810 for the single core score and 10275 for
multi-core if we look at the history we have had much higher scores than that
before that doesn't necessarily mean this is going to be super slow but we
have been much higher scores and it's kind of disappointing to see it go down
by that much but I'm curious what you have in the
comments but let me know how your Geekbench scores are if that's something
you take a look at but let me know how it's going for you and if you installed
it over iTunes and hadn't had any issues if you haven't subscribed already though
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see you next time