hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and today Apple released iOS 12.1.3
developer beta 4 to developers and 2 public beta testers this came in at
about a hundred and 5.7 megabytes for me on my iphone XS Max let's go ahead and
take a look at the build number you can see the build number is 16B5039a
and this particular build actually doesn't have anything that Apple says is
new now previously there were a couple bug fixes and there are a couple
interesting things to note but the previous bug fixes that had to do with
the health app and also the audio issues on some of the new iPads that's still in
the notes there's nothing new so they haven't really said that there's
anything in this so we're going to assume that there's some bug fixes and
security fixes and we'll also talk about battery in just a moment now some people
have noticed that on different Apple devices that prior to installing this
and then after installing this they have a different modem build number so you
can go into that in settings then about and then at the very bottom you can see
modem firmware and on my tennis Mac's it's one point zero three point zero
eight now many people have said that this particular modem firmware is more
specific to anyone that hadn't just notice that it's changed is more
specific to AT&T as opposed to other carriers this one's on t-mobile but that
may mean that Apple is actually working on a fix for the LTE and Wi-Fi issues
and things like that since they're addressing the modem firmware and the
modem controls your cellular and Wi-Fi connections and hopefully they're fixing
that no no notes or anything like that talked about it whatsoever but hopefully
they're fixing it now let's talk about storage prior to installing the update
and after and let's see if we gained any so if we go into storage you'll see
forty five point eight gigabytes of 256 used this was before I installed the
update and it's not a big deal since I have so much free but sometimes they
free things up like the system down here you'll see 13.73GB
was used prior to installing this so if we go into settings and then
we go to iphone storage we'll wait a moment for it to load so we've actually
saved a little bit 45.6GB, .2GB then if we
scroll all the way down we're only using 10.7GB
of system storage now this can change over time so keep that
in mind well let's take a look at the battery now it takes a few days to know
what the battery life is like it takes probably a good two days to know just
for sure since you have to use it a couple days to see how the battery is
after its installed and done all these things in the background so my battery
health is still at 100% on my XS Max and you'll see I've been using this
pretty heavily over the past few days as I was in CES I just made it back and if
we go to last 10 days you'll see this is today 6 hours and 22 minutes and then if
we go here that one is a lot less 3 hours in the 32 minutes and beta 3 was
pretty phenomenal for me most of the time now most of these times 3 hours of
screen on time I had over 50% of battery left when I plugged it in so it's really
doing pretty well I would say 6 to 8 hours of screen on time when maybe a
little bit of battery left is about right and hopefully this particular one
beta 4 is just as good but we won't know that for a few days so be sure to check
back for the follow-up on that now aside from all of those things let's take a
look at some of the speed on here's my 5s so I have it installed on all of
these now unfortunately there's no changes for the iPad there's nothing new
although it does feel nice and fast and on the 6s plus that we have here same
thing 3d touch is good if we go to Settings 3d touch is working fine
landscape should well not work on this one I guess but we should work on the 8 Plus
with no problem here you'll see this one and I have a rotation lock on this one I
thought so yeah let's go home here and you'll see works fine here was working
fine before and everything's just nice and smooth this is an 8 plus so
everything's nice and smooth no issues there with scrolling or anything like
that and then let's take a look at the oldest device and see how it actually
loads minecraft as we've been using that as a benchmark and it wasn't open this
was just installed on this device as well and if we can create a new world
and minecraft pretty quickly it should be doing ok it is taking a little bit
longer here and then after this will talk about Geekbench as well and
a moment and this is taking quite a while to load this time around so we'll
hit continue I'll hit play we'll hit create new create new world
and let's see what it does here Oh we'll hit create and then we'll see what it
does and it feels a little bit slower right
now and that might be because this was the last one then something to finish
its installation before I made this video and maybe it's still doing some
things in the background but most of the time it's pretty fast on all of the
devices and you'll see there we go still kind of doing its thing and this is kind
of interesting it when we move on to the Geekbench and i'll show you why in just
a moment but it's still loading and this is taking a really long time now it
finally finished this took a really long time compared to what it did prior to
this so while it feels pretty smooth here it still took a long time compared
to what it was prior to this particular beta and the reason I find that
interesting is if we take a look at the Geekbench let me open that you'll see
Geekbench scores are four thousand eight hundred and seventeen for the single
core and ten thousand nine hundred and fifty one for the multi-core score now
if we take a look at the history if we go here you'll see the previous one
which was well we'll have to scroll down and find it right here on December fifth
4752 and ten thousand eight hundred and thirty-four and it's actually a little
bit better but it seems to be performing a little bit worse so it's kind of hit
or miss it's hard to say on these devices these are generally very fast
and everything's nice and smooth animations have not been improved or
slowed down maybe this was just a modem fix for the LTE and cellular issues and
maybe they're going to see how it holds up over the weekend and then if it's
great maybe it'll be released this coming week to the public it's hard to
say based on that build number but it's looking closer and closer to a final
release and hopefully we'll see a twelve point two but I'm not expecting any
major features before they release iOS 13 or at least show us iOS 13 in June a
few months away now based on previous years of Apple we should see maybe an
event in March usually we we'll see some new products and
hopefully something really interesting but there's no guarantees of that or
anything like that right now and we're just waiting for them to kind of push
this along until we get to the completely revamped version of iOS 13
well that's really it on any of these devices it's about the same and really
there's nothing particularly new but hopefully that gives you an idea of how
this one is be sure to check back for the community poll I did one the other
day on beta 3 and a lot of you answered so we'll talk about that in the the
update for this one as well when I send out a poll on that you'd like to get
your hands on the wallpaper I'll put the link in the description as I always do
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watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time