hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and today Apple released iOS 12.1.2
to developers this should probably be out soon to public beta
testers either later today or tomorrow usually within the first couple of days
came in at 2.77GB if you were not currently on a
beta if you're on the public release it's usually a pretty large install like
this so let's take a look at the build number now this build number is
16d5024a and usually when it ends in an a it means we're close to the
final so I'm not sure that we actually are but it's something to note now I
did take a look at the actual storage before I installed this just to see what
it would be like 43.5GB was used and then if we move
over to system 18.34GB so that's what it used prior
to installing the update let's take a look at how much it's actually using so
we'll go to iphone storage here now we're right about the same as far as
overall usage and if we scroll down to system let's take a look here system is
using right about the same amount of storage space so that's good we didn't
really gain or lose anything sometimes that goes way up and it can vary from
time to time now Apple says that this update brings bug fixes and improvements
nothing specific so there isn't anything going on that we know specifically
however we do suspect there might be some code in there for the rumored
battery case and if that comes out for the XR or XS and XS Max I'll see if
I can get my hands on one and that will extend your battery life and that's
rumored to be coming out pretty soon also air power should be coming out
hopefully within I would say a couple months we don't know for sure but there
seems to be more hints and patents going on as far as thats related to and coming
out and everything like that so hopefully we see that soon now as far as
speed in this particular beta everything still seems to be smooth and fast I
haven't really had any hiccups and so far I haven't had settings freeze it did
in the previous version and it's not 100 percent smooth all the time but
I haven't had it freeze up and that's the key thing here sometimes when it
would when I'd use it it would actually freeze up while I was using it and it
would just kind of hiccup and then I'd have to close the app and
resumed properly and now it's working okay now as far as battery life is
concerned battery has been pretty good in the previous version iOS 12.1.1
and currently it's hard to say because with a new beta and a new
version it's going to take a few days to know exactly what that battery is like
so if we take a look here this was the previous one I was getting four to six
hours of screen on time and here you'll see I had two and there are almost three
hours of screen off time as well so I was traveling and kind of going all over
the place and that was pretty good battery life throughout the day now like
I said I'll do a follow-up to talk about what it's like in a few days now a
couple things to note I did want to let you know about something that I'm not
sure you're familiar with is if you have an iPad and you use handwriting you go
into notes within the Notes app if you hit this little plus here and maybe you
want to sketch or whatever we can do that and then if we hit done and then we
want to share here now we have the option for handwriting feedback and that
was there before but keep in mind if you're having problems with this and
you're an artist be sure to do handwriting feedback as it helps them
improve handwriting recognition and things like that so that's kind of nice
that that's included it's the first time I've actually noticed that but it has
been in previous betas now as far as speed of all these different devices I
did run a geek bench in all of them I'll show you that in a moment and let's see
if this opens minecraft kind of quickly that's something I've been using as a
benchmark in games because it was super slow with iOS 12 point one point one
early betas so this is the 5s and you'll see it's still loading and since this is
the slowest device if it's okay on here should be okay on all of these devices
and we'll take a look at Geekbench on every single one of these devices just
so you can get sort of a benchmark for what yours is like so we'll go ahead and
hit play create new create new world create we'll wait for it to load here
now this is taking a while to load with the creating new world and nothing else
is running in the background but it seems to be ok hopefully it's playable
and fast as far as that part goes but normally with this game it seems to be
most of the time okay as far as load speeds go but it was super slow with
some of the earlier betas last time around so you'll see there we go
we're in things are smooth right now and it should be fine so if it plays this
things like fortnight and other games should be ok as far as loading those
whether or not they crash is hard to say over time until we've actually tried
them for a few days now let's take a look at Geekbench on all of these so
we'll start with Geekbench on the iphone 10's max and you'll see I have four
thousand eight hundred eleven for single core and 11130 for multi core that's
pretty good based on previous tests and the history
is kind of screwy right now with this particular update you'll see there's
nothing here for December even though I ran them for December so it's pretty
good it's faster than most of these benchmarks that I've run on past betas
and past versions but if we take a look at all of these devices I think they're
doing pretty well overall so what we have here is the 10.5 inch iPad pro
iPhone 5s 6s plus iPhone X iPhone 8 plus iPhone XR and XS Max so
hopefully that gives you an idea what your benchmarks will be like compared to
mine this is just a general idea of whether or not it's fast or slow if it
was really low then I would expect it to be slow but these numbers seem to be
pretty good so let's go ahead and close all of those out and that is pretty much
it for this version of iOS not a whole lot going on and that's it but I'll
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