hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and today Apple released iOS13.4 Beta 2
this is available to developers and soon to
public beta testers if it's not out already by the time of this video but
usually they release it later in the same day or the following day with beta
one they actually waited a week so it depends on what Apple decides to do but
by the time you're seeing this chances are it's already out or it will be soon
now this came in at four hundred and sixty point three megabytes on my iPhone
11 pro max and very similarly sized on the iPhone 8 plus that I have here the
iPhone 6s plus my iPad pro twelve point nine from 2018 I also installed it on
the iPhone XR and so we're going to take a look at some of those other
things later on but first I'll talk about the build number so let's take a
look at that we'll take a look at some of the notes features fixes and more the
build number is 17 e5 233 G and this particular build is about 10 builds
newer than the previous beta that was released a couple weeks ago so apples
tweaking things changing things and I think they'll finally release this
particular beta probably toward the end of March whenever they have that event
so it seems like they're fixing things and along with this beta apple also
released a Mac OS beta update as well as TV OS and then yesterday they released a
watch OS update with bug fixes and I have a separate video on that because it
was a public release now the first thing is Apple actually updated their notes
this time so there were five known issues that they reported those are
basically the same as last time but they also had one resolved issue and that
applies to the 12.9 iPad pro so if you're using the beta with the iPad pro
there's several languages that had issues with Hardware layouts matching
them and so Apple has actually updated it so that the languages now match the
hardware keyboard layouts accurately so if you were having issues with that
that's now resolved now quicktype is something that I use often where you can
just swipe to type in what you want so if we do that with the word iCloud here
it fills that in and so you'll see it filled in iCloud and they've updated
some of the predictive text and things like that so the first thing is the
quicktype keyboard now supports predictive input for air
it also supports live conversion for Japanese and Chinese and then also
supports Swiss German for the 12.9 iPad pro so that's really all they have as
far as updates in the notes but there's a few other things as well now for those
of you that were having issues with the notification stacking on one another
that issue seems to be resolved now so they're no longer stacking on one
another as they fill up and it seems to be working properly now so no issues
there and then also mail when you receive a notification that you have a
new mail it actually shows up properly now so before it wasn't showing right
away it seems that that's been fixed now finally with the 6s plus I was having a
few issues with bugs with it rotating to landscape or coming out of rotating the
landscape so currently you'll see I don't have the rotation lock turned on
but it won't rotate to landscape on the home screen but when I went into
minecraft it ran that without any problem but then the whole screen was in
landscape and it wouldn't come out of that until I closed it or shut it off
open it back up and then it would work now it's not working again so I don't
know what's going on with that seems to be an issue in this particular build so
I'll report it in the feedback app now as far as features and changes well we
saw most of those with the first beta but there are quite a few tweaks and
changes with this particular update and thanks to my friend Steve over at
MacRumors for helping me out with a few of these I really appreciate it and the
first thing is there are new settings for TV options so if we go into the
Settings app and then we go down to TV there's new cellular options so download
options for cellular there's Audio language options and so if we compare
this to the previous version with beta 1 it's actually quite a bit different so
this has more options within this settings page and it's just something
that they've updated the next update has to do with mail and if we go into mail
and within mail they continually are tweaking the bar at the bottom with our
different icons so before we actually had a flag and it's been replaced by
compose and if we want to get to the flag we have to hit reply now so that's
been updated they changed it from beta 1 as you can see here and it's just
tweaked a little bit and I suspect expect them to actually change it before
it's actually released to the public maybe they'll tweak this again it's hard
to say now there's something new if you have an iPhone with a home button that's
haptics such as the iPhone 8 plus or seven or seven plus what we have here is
some new text for the home button so if we go to settings we'll go to Home
button here and you'll see here at the top it says you can choose how the home
button feels when you press it select an option below and press the home button
to try it out this is new text compared to what we had before and I suspect this
is because Apple is getting ready for the iPhone 9 or iPhone se 2 and maybe
they just tweaked the text a little bit to seem a little bit more updated but
you can see here before this is what it said and now it's been updated to what I
just read now there's also support for additional mice you can't actually see
this but there's support for additional mice within the code itself and it
supports the Corsair harpoon and also the MX anywhere 2 so those are actually
within the code you just can't see it so if you have one of those mice or Mouse
you can actually check it out and see if it works for you also there's some hints
in the code with music stories so in music you can't find stories anywhere
here or anything like that but maybe under the for you tab in the future
they're going to have something called music stories maybe about the artists or
something along those lines it's just mentioned in the code there's
nothing really that you can see visually though when it comes to that now there's
a new message when you go into assistive touch so if we go into our accessibility
settings here and then we go to touch and we turn on assistive touch we'll get
a message that pops up and says assistive touch menu customization would
you like to customize your top-level assistive touch menu to include dwell
and scroll you hit customize and it pops up if we go to a device that's on a
prior beta or even iOS thirteen point three or thirteen point three point
three point one you'll see touch we go to assistive touch turn it on we just
get the little icon that pops up we don't get that message
so that will pop up every single time you turn on assistive touch now again in
the code there's some mentions of single app mode being renamed to assessment
mode now I've seen assessment mode in other code elsewhere other places but
normally what you do is if you have single app mode you would use your iPad
for example in a kiosk where you would just want an app that relates to your
business showing up regularly or you could do that with your phone they've
renamed that to assessment mode so I don't know if that's something that's
going to change in the future or not but that's what it seems to be right now and
then finally the car key that was mentioned last time car key that would
mean you can use your phone as your car key for cars that use NFC technology
maybe using the tap to open or unlock similar to maybe what a Tesla does
although I think that's RF but it could be NFC as well depending on which one
you have and this would allow you to do that but something else has been found
in the code that allows you to maybe share that car key through iMessage so
if you have that car key set up we can't see that yet but when Apple adds that
you date you'd be able to share that key with a friend through messages and allow
them to have access to your vehicle for a set amount of time so that's things
some things or features that we should see in the future probably closer to the
final release as far as iPad OS there's nothing new and iPad OS other than what
I already mentioned so all of the same tweaks and changes are available in iPad
OS but nothing particularly new or exciting it's the exact same thing with
the same sort of performance now as far as RAM management is concerned I did
check this out on a couple different devices just to see how it went and what
I did to check RAM management or how quickly an app reloads when you reopen
him I opened 25 applications on my iPhone 11
Pro max I went back and forth went to things like YouTube waited for it to
load and then I went out of it reloaded another app and I did that 25 times then
I waited 5 to 15 minutes went back in and didn't have it reload so I'm
actually seeing pretty good Ram management performance I did the exact
same test on the iPhone 6s plus and came up with the same result so if we go into
the App Store you'll see it reloaded there that's the first time I let it
sit but if you don't let it sit it actually would let me do 20 apps without
a problem so maybe RAM management is fixed it's
hard to say but at this time it looks great on my iPhone 11 pro max now as far
as battery is concerned I saw pretty good results when it came to battery
with iOS 13 point for beta 1 if we go into settings we'll take a look at my
battery here and with the follow ups that I did quite a few of you said it
was good as well you said it was the same as iOS 13 point 3.1 or better most
of you not everyone but you'll see my battery health is at 100% this will not
go down because of an update it's just rechecking your battery health every
time and so if it does go down it's just because it rechecked it and it
physically degrade it now if we go to the last ten days we'll just take a look
at yesterday I had three hours and 10 minutes of screen on time 1 hour and 59
minutes of screen off time and I use this for a little over 25 percent of the
battery so it actually did pretty good screen off time is basically when you're
playing music in the background and things like that so in general it's
doing pretty well on battery if I was to use this until the battery reach to zero
I'd get about 12 hours of screen on time with it so it's doing really well on the
11pro max now as far as performance I did play around with it quite a bit for
about an hour so on the 11pro max I had no issues with performance I noticed no
slowdowns and no app crashes with the exception of maps on the iPhone 6s plus
I found maps actually crash the first time I opened it but performance in
general seemed good I actually played minecraft for a moment just to see how
it would go well wait for it to load again but I had this loaded in memory
and you'll see it just popped back up so it's actually performing well I didn't
see any framerate slowdowns or anything like that and in general it was reacting
how I expected so I sort of used minecraft as a benchmark and you'll see
this is what I was talking about before and now it's stuck in landscape mode I
can't go to home or can't go to portrait if I turn the phone off turn it back on
it's back to normal but I can't rotate it again I'm not sure why it's doing
that but that seems to be a bug so like I said I'll report it in the feedback
app now let's take a look at the Geekbench scores I ran it on quite a few
devices this time so we'll go into Geekbench 5 some people
had different results I find that it's pretty good in general but let's go to
history here and we'll take a look at what I ran just a moment ago you'll see
I scored 1328 for single-core 3323 from multi-core if we take a look at the
history here we'll go down to February 5th
I scored very similarly a little bit less but that much of a difference
really isn't something you're going to notice with regular use you may see this
go up over time as well it's really hard to say but in general it seemed to be
about the same now let's take a look at the Geekbench scores on all of these
devices now on the Left I have the iPad pro 12 point 9 then I have the iPhone 6s
plus than the iPhone 8 plus then the iPhone XR and then the iPhone 11 pro
max and as you can see all the different scores here should give you some
representation of what your phone should be like as far as its scores are
concerned if you're keeping track so if you're around these numbers it should be
performing about the same that's it for iOS 13.4 beta 2 and I'm really looking
forward to the final release of this which i think is going to be around
March 31st if all the information is correct about when Apple will have their
next event so if they have their event around then expect the final release by
then and I think this update will bring a lot of stability to people looking for
a better experience with less issues because beta 1 was pretty good so I
expect beta 2 to be even better now as far as beta 3 the actual release of that
I would expect that to be out probably in one to two weeks I'm not sure if
we're in a one or two week cycle early on so far we're in a two week cycle but
closer to the final release we get to a one-week cycle so it's hard to say and
then we'll see major feature updates with iOS 14 in June and that's really
all there is with this beta but if I find anything else I'll do a followup
with all of the other features that are found later on if I do find anything and
if you found anything let me know in the comments below if you'd like to get your
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