what's up guys my name is Brandon and we're still a ways away from seeing the
first beta of iOS 14 but I wanted to make a video addressing a question that
I've been receiving a lot on the channel lately, and that is what devices are
going to be supported with iOS 14? and more specifically a lot of iPhone
SE and iPhone 6s users wondering if their device is going to be supported, so
in this video we're going to answer that question we're going to talk about the
potential release date some potential new features and more I also want to
thank Skillshare for sponsoring this video so first off in terms of supported
devices my theory is that most devices that were supported with iOS 13 will
also be supported with iOS 14 and two of the devices that I think will be getting
support are the iPhone 6s and the iPhone se now I know a lot of people think the
opposite and think that the iPhone 6s and the iPhone se are not going to be
supported with iOS 14 and honestly I thought the same before I did a little
bit of digging and looking into apples history and also getting a little bit
more technical with my way of thinking so here are the reasons why I think the
SE and the 6s will be supported with iOS 14 this year so first off the iPhone SE
and the iPhone 6s both have apples a nine chip and two gigabytes of RAM so if
you guys remember the big reason for iOS 13 dropping support for the iPhone 6
it's because I had just one gigabyte of RAM now of course it did have the far
inferior a8 chip as well but it was suffering from major Ram issues back on
iOS 11 and you know even though those issues were mostly fixed with iOS 12 iOS
13 brought so much more to the table that there was just no way that the
iPhone 6 was going to be able to run iOS 13 smoothly and again the one gigabyte
of RAM was just the big bottleneck with that device now even though two
gigabytes of RAM isn't a ton of memory it's still enough to power you know
future software updates like in iOS 14 and maybe even an iOS 15 and let's not
forget the a9 chip inside was also used to power the 2017 iPad fifth generation
so it's a very very powerful chip much more powerful than the previous a8 chip
now I also believe that we'll see iOS 14 support for both of these devices
because of the minimum ram requirement again
the main reason that the iPhone six was not supported with iOS 13 is because of
the one gigabyte of RAM Apple made 2 gigabytes the bare minimum to run iOS 13
now think about it if Apple bumped that up again this year to 3 gigabytes of RAM
as the bare minimum requirement that would mean that they would have to kill
off the iPhone 7 they'd have to kill off the iPhone 8 they'd have to kill off the
iPad 6 generation and a lot of other devices with just 2 gigabytes of RAM and
I just don't see any way they'd do that because again Apple is even still
selling the iPhone 8 on their website so I say there being no way that they drop
support for devices with 2 gigabytes of RAM now another common misconception
that people have is that the iPhone 6s and 6s plus are the oldest devices
running iOS 13 right now but that's just not true so we have the 2015 iPad Mini 4
and the 2014 iPad air 2 both of which are running iPad OS 13 and both of which
are still using that old a8 chip that was in the iPhone 6 so yeah I definitely
think that the iPad Mini 4 and the air 2 are going to be killed off this year due
to a 8 chip but every other device that got iOS 13 will likely be supported with
the next major update iOS 14 now worst case scenario Apple does kill off
support for all a 9 devices including the success the 6s plus and the SE but
at least those devices still perform well on iOS 13 and that's really the
only reason I could see Apple dropping support for them is because iOS 13 just
runs so well that they're afraid of messing it up with iOS 14 or you know
the testing proves that the iPhone SE and the iPhone success and those 89
devices just run better on iOS 13 of course that's still a possibility and
that's the reason for this discussion and this speculation is because nothing
is official just yet I just want to share my theories and predictions and my
reasonings before anything got leaked or officially posted by Apple so that we
can all look back on this and see if I was right or completely wrong and you
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to the expected release day and again nothing is official these are just my
predictions and my thoughts based on history and based on the fact that I've
been covering Apple and iOS for a decade now so going back to 2019 and going back
to June iOS 13 and the start of WWDC was on June 3rd that is when we saw Ben in
one of iOS 13 get released after the first day of the World Wide Developers
Conference and that was a pretty easy date to predict I predicted that last
year so did a lot of other people that's because it did fall on the first Monday
of June which is typical for Apple however and 2020 things get a little bit
interesting because if we go to June of 2020 you'll notice that the first Monday
is actually the first of June and the last time that happened was back in 20
fifteen and in 2015 the Worldwide Developers Conference began on June 8th
which was the following Monday the second Monday so while it is possible
that we can see the Worldwide Developers Conference begin on the first this year
I'd expect this year to actually follow the trend of 2015 the path of 2015 and
began on the second Monday which would be June 8th so June 8th that's when I
would expect WWDC 2020 to begin and of course that would be the day that we get
IOS 14 beta 1 now of course we won't know the confirmed dates until the
invites go out later on this year actually just in a couple of months now
but the week of the 8th is probably a good bet for when we could see WWDC and
of course the first beta of iOS 14 beta 1 on the day first day of WWDC after the
event so either the first or the 8th my money right now is on the 8th though
just because it did happen in 2015 and I think the Apple may repeat what happened
back in 2015 but either one of those days is a possibility now as for the
official release this is a little bit harder to predict so iOS 13 was released
to the public on a Thursday September 19th and then 2018 Apple released iOS 12
on a Monday which was September 17th and a 2017 iOS 11 released on a Tuesday
which was September 19th so as you can see the dates are really all over the
board but one thing that these dates all have in common is that they all fall on
the third week of September so with that info in mind we can safely assume that
iOS 14 will be released to the public on the week of September 21st 2020 now
given the random days of release in the past it's hard to predict the exact date
but since you guys always want me to guess you guys are always asking me to
guess the exact day I'm gonna go out and guess the 22nd so I think that Tuesday
the 22nd is when we will see the final and I only say that because Apple has
been releasing a lot of final versions of software on Tuesdays throughout iOS
13 so I think they'll stick to that trend of course it could happen on a
Thursday as well the 24th we really don't know really any week of the 21st
is a good bet now as for the expected features and changes in this big update
actually made a video a couple of months back on how iOS 14 will change
everything and I highly suggest that you watch that video to understand exactly
what is changing internally for Apple you know to hopefully result in a much
better and more stable iOS 14 release but the gist of that video and the
original report which came from Bloomberg is that Apple is going to be
including a toggle and what are called daily builds that will allow testers to
basically disable you know the buggy and the unfinished features and that's gonna
allow for the teams that are working on it to narrow down what's actually
causing specific bugs and in turn that should lead to far less bugs and future
software updates and a far more stable you know release cycle compared to iOS
13 now of course iOS 14 will focus primarily on performance and stability
so for that reason alone I do not see a major design overhaul happening with iOS
14 I do think that we're gonna be waiting until at least iOS 15 before we
see something like that something for the home screen but with iOS our team
being the buggiest update in history in terms of you know number of software
updates overall it's the buggiest by far and makes sense for Apple to focus
solely on and making sure that that doesn't happen again
with iOS 14 now that's not to say that I don't think any new visual features or
changes are coming because I definitely do I think that we're finally gonna be
getting a new incoming call you I think that the call UI for incoming calls will
now finally not take up the entire screen I mean we've got the volume HUD
you know that taken care of we got the you know a lot of other things the dart
mode a lot of these things we've been asking for for years so I feel like
Apple will finally do you know the kind of the last step to things we've been
needing for years actually needing and that's the incoming call UI I think that
will get a lot of new settings you know a lot of things focused on privacy and
iOS 14 and just kind of changes and bug fixes that make the OS run smoother I
can also see Apple improving the dart mode feature here with something like
dark icons so you know we already have the ability to turn the wallpaper dark
automatically why not every icon on the springboard as well I think that would
be really cool you know we have the background of the settings black why not
have a dark version of every single icon on the springboard as well so that's
something I think we could possibly see with iOS 14 and I think a lot of people
would be really excited about that it's not exactly the complete overhaul of
icons but it could be you know a step in the right direction so I'm going to be
making another video within the next couple of months with my wish list and
my expected so definitely stay tuned for that I'm
sure by then there will also be some leaks as well with some you know quote
confirmed features coming so of course I will make videos on all that stuff as
well as those reporting as those leaks do come out but yeah guys that's pretty
much it for my early thoughts and predictions on iOS 14 of course I will
be making more videos on iOS 14 once the features or a release date gets
confirmed so definitely stay tuned for those videos of course I will be doing
my wishlist video and things like that as well like I just mentioned so also I
want you guys to let me know what your theories are what kind of features you
want to see added in iOS 14 this year let me know all your thoughts down in
the comment section below of course this is a very you know controversial not
really controversial but a very a good discussion I guess you could say in the
comments section I would really like to see some good discussion down there in
the comments section because I think that there is a lot of ways that you can
go with your predictions with iOS 14 in terms of release they devices supportive
new features I'm really curious to see what you guys have to say down those
comments of course I will be replying to you down there as well but yeah guys
that's pretty much it for this video thanks again for watching and I'll see
you soon