Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and ios 14.4.1 has been out for a few days as well as
ios 14.5 beta 3 which has been out for a couple of weeks and so i want to talk about the overall
experience battery life the remaining issues and whether or not you should install ios 14.4.1 if
you haven't already now the first thing is ios 14.5 beta 3 has a new feature that's been found
i think it's the last thing that i've been able to find with it and some people are seeing this not
everyone but if you have a phone call and you've had a recent phone call or a missed phone call
you may get this notice at the top where it says silence unwanted calls now we've had
that feature for quite some time but it tells you a little notification about it and also
it looks like this the first time you open it it will pop up on on screen full screen and tell you
to turn on skull silencing if you want to reduce interruptions for example so that's something new
that some people are seeing i didn't see it on my phones but some people are seeing this
now as far as ios 14.4.1 will cover that first and i'm running that on my iphone 11 pro max
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sort of iphone updates and reviews i do as well now the first thing with ios 14.4.1 is
that it's actually been pretty good depending on who you ask now if you're looking for
specific features everything seems to be very similar to what you had with ios 14.4
some people are still seeing lags or lagging when you close the apps for example and so lag
seems to be an issue for some but in general the performance has been great for most people
the overall experience has been really what you would expect no real issues other than what you
might have had with 14.4 but there are quite a few things that people mentioned that still
sort of exist in this update that we're waiting for them to fix with ios 14.5 for example a lot
of people are saying they don't notice anything but there's quite a few people saying that they
have issues with bluetooth still so if you're using air pods and you're switching between iphone
and ipad a lot of people are still having issues not only connecting to their iphone but just with
bluetooth in general with third-party headphones and everything else so there's definitely an issue
here with bluetooth that's true on beta 3 as well with ios 14.5 so there's some issues there some
people are un unable to download text messages as well so there's some bugs there i experienced that
on 14.5 beta 3 today as well so there's something going on with that that could be on apple's server
side if we're using imessage for example but there's something going on there also green tin
is not fixed with ios 14.4.1 but is being fixed with 14.5 many people have noticed a significant
reduction in green tint especially on dark screens when booting up for example with 14.5 so i think
they'll continue to finish this or fix this before it's finished and release to the public now as far
as other issues well like i said some people are still seeing lagging when you're closing apps
and some people are also saying that the phone is getting unreasonably hot so it's getting
overly warm and that can reduce battery power of course if it's doing a lot of processing in the
background which would use the processor more and reduce the overall experience and cause it to lag
so some people are seeing excessive heat that's not a lot of people but there's definitely people
mentioning it with this update and then finally people are saying safari has been slow for them
on and off so sometimes safari works great sometimes it doesn't if i go into it now you'll
see i'm on the apple website let's see how fast it is here it seems to be okay of course some of this
can be due to your overall connection whether that be through wi-fi or 5g or 4g depending on what
device you're using but some people are seeing that sort of poor experience with safari on 14.4.1
so overall battery life on ios 14.4.1 is actually okay depending on who you ask now we'll take a
look at the comments a little bit later but 55 of you are saying that it's better based on the
comments on the community poll so 55 are saying it's the same you didn't notice anything or it's
better or significantly improved 45 of you are saying that it's not as good and it's very poor
generally the people that are saying that it's not good are having issues with it getting warm
or have just installed it usually it will take a couple days to sort of stabilize and others
have been saying battery health has gone down now generally when it goes down from say 99
this is my 11 pro max that i used full time for a year and it went down to 93 it's normal to go down
not from updates but just the overall degradation of the physical battery so
every time you install an update it rechecks what it is and this will go down over time
unfortunately until batteries have a new formulation and someone comes out with a
better battery this is going to happen this happens on android and in fact in many cases
when people use fast charging a lot on android with some of the very fast chargers i've seen
this degrade much quick much more quickly on say an android phone as opposed to say an iphone but
it just depends on which phone you're using how you're charging it but generally eighty percent
after two years is normal if you fast charge all the time it may degrade a little bit more quickly
i tend to charge this overnight all of the time now overall battery on 14.4.1 i wanted to show
you some real world usage so i took a screenshot from my wife's phone she's got an iphone 12 pro
it's been charged every night wirelessly every single night when it needs to charge and if she's
in the car she charges it as well on a wireless charger her battery health is 100 that's pretty
normal if you do that sort of charging i find that that leaving it on the the charger overnight is
not a problem especially because we have optimized battery charging which brings it up to 80 percent
holds it there and then finishes to 100 before you get up usually in the morning
take it off the charger and you're ready to go but either way before they had that i always charged
it overnight and didn't have too much of an issue with that her battery life overall you can see
this day this was yesterday she got two hours and 43 minutes of screen on time two hours and
35 minutes of screen off time and used about 50 percent of her battery maybe a little bit less so
she's getting about five hours of screen on time with this phone that's if she was to use a hundred
percent of her battery i took a look at the next day you'll see four hours and 20 minutes of screen
on time two hours and one minutes of screen off time at almost 75 percent of her battery
so day to day it varies quite a bit but five to six hours is pretty normal with an iphone 12 pro
and so i'd say that's pretty decent battery life she hasn't been complaining about it
and hasn't had any issues there now with ios 14.5 beta 3 well i've been running that full
time on my iphone 12 pro max the iphone 11 also has it and my ipad pro 12.9 from 2020
and so the overall experience here i went over in detail a week or so ago but one thing
i consistently see over and over which i left on the iphone 11 is if you reboot the phone and you
go into your settings you'll see that you'll have to update apple id settings i see this over and
over with a reboot a lot of people are complaining about it and it's something i've seen regularly if
you reboot it on the beta it's really annoying because you have to sign back in every time
and it's not a huge issue other than that it's more of an annoyance than anything else
other people are saying that handoff isn't working and i'm experiencing the same thing
if you're using handoff from your iphone to a homepod mini for example it just doesn't work
so here is my homepod mini and when i try and bring the phone near it handoff just doesn't work
anymore i suspect they'll fix this with the next one but also i have the homepod mini betas running
on here and stereo pairing doesn't work right sometimes you can request something from siri
and for whatever reason it only plays in one of them if they're stereo paired sometimes it
doesn't play at all if i airplay from my phone to them it doesn't work right so there's definitely
some issues with it and i hope they fix that fairly soon i've had issues with touch from
time to time and others are having issues with the phone crashing apps not really lagging so
much when you're closing out an app it seems to be okay most of the time you saw a little bit of
frame rate stutter there so it's not perfect but it is beta 3 and hopefully they'll fix this with
future releases but another issue is with magsafe i hear this a lot but my phones experience this as
well if we turn the screen off and you're using an iphone 12 series phone put on magsafe it charges
but you don't get the animation that was really nice before i imagine they'll bring this back
in a future update as they know it's broken and i've seen some feedback from those of you that
have reported it and let me know and many people are saying their feedback is being acknowledged
for these issues that i'm mentioning to you so hopefully we'll see these resolved very soon
apples acknowledged them and said they'll be fixed in future updates so i would expect those to be
fixed with well by the final release for sure also notifications still are an issue for some
i'm actually not having an issue notifications work on instagram for me for example but some
are still seeing that issue and if you are i would recommend reinstalling that application
since they seem to be coming in without a problem other than that there's a couple little weird
glitches here and there with touch stopping and not working sometimes you can touch in an app and
scroll but you can't touch on a link for example and then again bluetooth like i said so lots of
things that are going on with this beta and as far as the overall usage of it it seems to be okay
and performance is fine but it's got some weird bugs in it which you want to report and feedback
now like i said battery life on 14.4.1 is good for most people but a lot of people are saying
that battery life on beta 3 is decent as well it's not always great for everyone
but that usually comes down to what apps you're using so if i go into my settings for example
we'll go over to settings go to battery battery health on my 12 pro max is still 100
and like i said i charge my phones overnight every night and we'll go to the last 10 days and we'll
take a look at yesterday so yesterday i used 50 of the battery or so and had 4 hours and 13 minutes
of screen on time 4 hours and 16 minutes of screen off time playing music and things like that
the day before i used two hours now i'm getting about 8 to 10 hours of screen on time with the 12
pro max i recently turned off some notifications that were popping up on my screen and making my
screen light up so i should see some improvements over the next few days but in general i would say
it's decent battery life as you can see here i had three hours and 16 minutes a few days ago and only
used a quarter of the battery life so if we times that by four we'd have about 12 hours of screen
on time which is quite good so it just depends on how you're using your phone so i think it's pretty
good there now ipad os 14.5 beta 3 continues to have subpar battery life for me so if i go to the
settings for example and go to battery we'll wait for it to load you can see it was last charged
yesterday or a couple days ago at 4 51 p.m to 100 since then it's only been used a couple hours and
it really drains very fast so five hours of screen on time on a beta is okay somebody somebody said
that's unacceptable and it is if this was a public release but this is a beta having this issue and
so if this continues with the public release i'll completely wipe this device and start over and see
if that fixes it you can see my home ins and lock screen continue to be something that that pops
up a lot so i need to fix that make sure those notifications stop as they're making the screen
sort of light up however the overall experience on the ipad is quite good i've had zero issues
with this whatsoever whether that be with the magic keyboard or any of these updates it seems
to be working really well other than battery life it's been really great it's not warm everything's
working great it's just that battery life in general now should you install ios 14.4.1 well
i would say for the security issues alone i would install it since you're going from 14.4 to 14.4.1
which patches a major security flaw so i would update just for that just for the security of it
but you really won't see much of a difference after a couple of days if you give it a few days
let it sort of do its thing in the background make sure all the apps are sort of not really
indexing it's not trying to find anything and also be sure to check your battery to make sure
that there's something not using it excessively so make sure you update that and it should be
pretty good but that security update is major so i'd make sure you you update for that reason now
as far as ios 14.5 beta 4 or release candidate i was quite surprised we didn't see one this week
so based off that i would expect one probably as soon as next week so i thought for sure we'd have
one this week apple has been very unpredictable in 2021 so it seems like they're still unpredictable
in fact i expected an announcement for wwdc 2021 today since last year they announced it on the
13th which was friday last year so this is close enough that i thought we'd see an announcement for
wwdc 2021 in june where we'll see ios 15 for the first time and get ios 15 beta 1. that'll
be released to developers and public beta testers a little bit after that with a final release in
september of ios 15 generally but this year like i said they've been unpredictable so this coming
week i would expect an update either on monday or tuesday with a release candidate at this point
since it's rumored that there's going to be an event on the 23rd and if apple does have
an event on the 23rd usually we'll get the release candidate the week before so we could have a beta
4 they could even release it at this point since they've really changed things up but i think
we'll see a beta 4 or release candidate early next week given that they didn't release anything this
week so far so that's what i'm really thinking they're going to do but like i said they've been
unpredictable for quite some time now as far as the youtube community poll before we take a
look at that here are the statistics about what people mentioned when it comes to battery life
lagging freezing heat and crashing so this is how many people mentioned it and where i get the
battery numbers from ios 14.4.1 for example are i take all of these 101 comments or so go through
them individually and then see how many people say it's good or bad or the same so that's how i get
all this information it's straight from you with different people having different experiences with
different apps here's all the devices people are using at the time of the pull and so as you can
see the iphone 11 is one of the most used as well as the 12 pro banks now let's go ahead and take a
look at the youtube community poll now as you can see at the time of this video there's 14 000 votes
and as you can see 56 percent of you said that it's great five percent say that it's terrible
twelve percent say okay but some bugs 13 are using the betas and someone said earlier today that they
were surprised that they thought more people on this would be using the beta than they are but
not that many people use betas usually and then 14 are using android so that number actually went
up this week you can also see the same statistics for ios 14.5 beta 3 for example with 34 000 votes
so if you want to take a look at those i leave all of these polls here if you want to look at
them yourself on the community page now there's 356 comments at the time of this video let's go
ahead and sort those and take a look at some of them now as you can see here maurice kennedy said
still no notification for sms messages happy and snappy said it's been great on my iphone 7 plus if
we go down a little bit you'll see ps said i would advise not to install 14.4.1 it has major bugs but
this seems to be the minority from what i'm seeing but again it depends on what apps you're using and
more mr sims says iphone 11 pro max on ios 14.4.1 no issues working great kofi lord said not as good
as 14.4 and sometimes camera froze when you want to snap abash pr says having app closing
lag issues more frequently now there seems to be an issue with phone call and whatsapp calls where
i can't seem to use the latter if i immediately finish a phone call and try to place a whatsapp
call bluetooth connectivity when receiving a call still remains where i have to manually select my
bluetooth headset as an audio option instead of automatically selecting bluetooth not great for
me gixxer rider says ios 14.4.1 has been great on my iphone 12 pro max luke sullivan said it's been
amazing on iphone 11 battery life is amazing as well as performance and as you can see
already there's a stark contrast in people having issues with battery versus people having a great
experience with battery xo says i'm on iphone 7 with ios 14.4.1 with ios 14.4 was a bit of lag
but now i haven't experienced any lag i think it's all right but still i have a problem with
the battery pronoy if i'm saying that correctly says the battery performance has been great so far
and i'm zero stutters i'm using iphone 11. jacquara's one-way solution says for iphone
11 it's great the phone battery has improved much more and no lag anymore hope ios 14.5 will work
the same as this minor update fourteen point four point one vishwat vasa says weird app icon getting
stuck every time i'm changing home screens after swiping up from an app also the oled panel is
not turning off on dark backgrounds and it still exists that also should be fixed in ios 14.5 aldo
says my se2 loses internet signal juan espinoza says ios 14.4.1 has been very good on my iphone 11
and battery life is very good as well the only problem i'm getting my mail notifications two
hours later than the time they were sent so definitely an issue and i saw some of that with
the beta as well srivam chris and agrawal hopefully i said that right i'm noticing to raise
the raise to wake feature sometimes isn't working as good as it was on 14.4 noticing that there is
some delay nikki says i'm using ios 14.4.1 on my iphone 10 and it's really good so far
battery life seems to have improved a bit over 14.4 because i barely have standby battery loss
overnight anymore and performance also feels a bit smoother than an ios 14.4 can't wait for ios
14.5 though great video as always erin thank you and like i said before there's a stark contrast
between some people having great battery life and a great experience and no drain overnight to
people having really bad drain dennis w says okay so far on my sc 2020 and ipad 6th gen ios 14.4.1
lagging so much on my iphone se 2016 and files apps crashing when i select a large number of text
and let's take a look at one more my iphone is flickering while watching video content
like movies or shows the blacks flicker gray and when using the volume bar the top of my
screen turns grey i hope it's a software issue because i've had this phone for less than a week
first iphone since iphone 5s and that particular issue is being addressed with ios 14.5
many have said that it's fixed already in most situations so hopefully you'll see that in
a week or two at this point and that's it for ios 14.5 beta 3 and ios 14.4.1
i'm really looking forward to the public release of 14.5 and even more so to ios 15. if you'd
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