hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and today Apple released iOS 12.1.1
to the public if you're on iOS 12 or newer you'll be able to update to
this version it's available now around the whole world now this came in at
2.77GB on my iPhone XS Max and it will be large like that if you're
currently on a beta now if you are not on a beta it will be a little bit
smaller so it'll come in somewhere around this 418.1MB on my
iPhone 8 plus and if you are on the beta you'll need to uninstall the beta
profile you do that by going to Settings General scroll down you'll have the beta
profile tap on it delete it reboot your phone then check for the software update
and you'll be able to update it's pretty simple and straightforward but you'll
need to do that first now let's take a look at the build number so we'll go
into settings go back to general and then about you'll see the build is
16c50 and this particular build brings quite a few features and improvements
but let's first talk about storage now I checked my storage before doing the
update I was using 38.8GB of storage on my XS Max
and system was taking up 20.3GB after
installing this let's take a look we'll go to iphone storage and it's using a
little bit more storage 42.8GB
let's check system system is using less at 18.12GB so
you gain a little bit but you lose a little bit elsewhere so the first
feature has to do with the iPhone ten are specifically and that has to do with
notifications if we pull down we can now use the peak and pop where it opens up
and we can swipe them off and everything else like before but that features now
available it's not available on the home screen as far as haptic feedback or have
to touch but that's probably coming later on now the next thing has to do
with dual SIM support so if you have a phone that supports dual sins like the
iPhone XR and you go into settings and then you go to cellular you'll have the
ability to add a cellular plan and this supports more carriers now so you can
add a cellular plan scan a QR code enter details manually and you'll be good to
go if you need to use an extra SIM card or an eSIM now the next thing is on the
iPad the iPad in the news app specifically and now supports hiding the
sidebar so I don't really use this app too much
but in this particular version you can hide the sidebar you couldn't hide it
before it was always present so in landscape specifically now the
next thing has to do with FaceTime they've redesigned it and it's so much
better let's take a look at that I'll make a FaceTime call and show you what I mean
so on the Left I have an iPhone XS on
the right is a XS Max on the latest 12.1.1 version so this is
the older one this is the newer one and you'll see we have the ability to flip
the camera right away I can flip this around and it's much easier to get to we
can mute go to effects and if we slide up then we can turn the camera off or go
to the speaker here we had to hit the three dots and then we have similar
features but it just wasn't as convenient and then also you can take a
photo now this has to be turned on on both and both people must agree to it
and it needs to be on the latest version to do that so both people need to be on
12.1.1 then you can snap a photo of whatever you're seeing
on your display so that's a nice update and finally they've brought that back
now when it comes to iPads and iPod Touch with Wi-Fi calling it's now has
real-time text and then also if you're sharing a photo so if we go back into
that storage and maybe I want to share this photo the actual icons down here
for the Apple watch have been updated as well so that Apple watch face is updated
to the series 4 so it just looks a little bit more current and then also
there's something new under the health app so let's take a look at that so
within the health app you'll see if we go to heart and then scroll down we'll
go to ECG which is now here and you have ECG data so if you have an Apple watch
series for once they update this you'll be able to use this for echocardiogram
and the features not there yet so I thought it was going to come out today
but it looks like it didn't Apple did push a bunch of updates to other devices
though now the next fix has to do with stability improvements for dictation and
voiceover so before it wasn't that great let's try it and dictation and voiceover
should be working a lot more accurately now when you're speaking to it so before
it really messed up and so far it seems to be keeping up pretty well so that
seems to be working a little bit better and then there's a bunch of bug fixes
now we will talk about battery and every in just a moment but first of all the
first bug fix has to do with face ID becoming unavailable so if you have a
device with face ID a X, XS, XR, XS Max face ID should work off the time now
and shouldn't have an issue with that also if you were missing your voicemails
under the phone a visual voicemail should now be fixed sometimes it wasn't
appearing or your voicemails wouldn't appear and that should be resolved also
if you're using the keyboard and you're using specifically Japanese or Chinese
keyboards and you're using text messages it wasn't predicting text properly now
it should be doing that properly also if you're using voice memos they were not
uploading properly to iCloud or updating and that should be resolved now as well
now there's also been stability improvements all over the place and also
issues with time zones updating should now be fixed properly so all of those
things have been fixed they also pushed an update to HomePod that now has the
LEDs illuminate when you're in a group FaceTime call so if you do want to
update your HomePod you can go to home tap on the little home in the upper left
go to home settings and then go to home and then software update it took a
little bit to find that but it's now up to date and if you make a FaceTime call
it will make those little lights go off now battery life on the previous beta
was okay it was not the greatest I've had I've been using this quite a bit on
beta 3 and it will take a few days to know how it is on this current version
of iOS but if we look over the past 10 days this day was pretty good 4 hours
and 52 minutes I'd say at beginning I've been getting between 4 & 5 hours of
screen on time usually with this particular version that's not very good
but hopefully they've updated that and fixed that a little bit in this and I'll
be doing a follow-up where I go into that a little bit more in detail now
speed overall seems to be really good I did check it across to all of these
devices everything from scrolling to moving through different apps if we pick
up one of the older phones the SE or maybe the 6s plus all of these seem to
be super smooth I don't know if they've changed something with scrolling but
I've only had a hiccup so far on the XS Max strangely so it seems to be okay
we'll open an app here there we go the app seems to be okay everything seems to
be working fine if we open say minecraft
we'll see it was slow before so minecraft is kind of a benchmark I've
been using because it was incredibly slow before so if we just create new
create new create move this up here wait for it to load and it should be pretty
quick this took a really long time in the previous beta builds and it seems to
be fixed and it's working okay and should be pretty playable now so it
looks like it's okay and we should be good to go so there's not a whole lot
going on there and then with older devices it's going to take a few days to
know how it is on all of these devices so I have an iPhone X here and I did
run a geek bench on some of these here's the ten geek bench that I ran we go to
the geek bench on the XS Max you'll see these are the scores I've been getting
and if we look at the previous score when I ran the last benchmark on
November 7th this was an older one we're doing quite a bit better so we are
getting some higher scores now with CPU 4752 for single core 10834 for
multi-core on the X we're doing pretty good as well and I didn't have time to
run them on all of them and they all seemed super smooth that I didn't find
that it needed to be addressed really it seems to be they fixed all the
smoothness issues now as far as any other little changes it's hard to say
what they're doing and I'm looking forward to that
ECG update for the Apple watch so those are all the major fixes if I find
anything else I'll be sure to do a follow up and I'll do a follow up seeing
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