Hi, everyone.
Aaron here for Zollotech and today apple released iOS 14.7 beta 2.
This is available to developers. And usually by the time I make this video live,
it's available to public beta testers as well.
But I'll let you know in the comments. Now, this was not a very large install.
If you're coming from beta one, it was 322.4 megabytes. That's on my iPhone,
12 pro max and on the iPhone XR and 6s Plus it was 270
to 350 megabytes.
So still a pretty small installed along with this apple also released iPadOS
14.7 beta 2 that I have on the iPad air 2 and the new M1
iPad pro and also they released watchOS 7.6
beta 2, macOS big Sur 11.5 beta 2,
as well as tvOS 14.7 beta 2. All of those are available to developers.
Now.
Now let's go ahead and take a look at the build number and talk about what's
new. So we'll go to settings. We'll go to general, then about,
and as you can see, the build number is 18 G five zero three three E.
And the prior build was actually ending in a C,
but the number has actually gone forward and the letter has gone backward.
So it's still a newer build.
And the first new thing in this build is a modem update.
There is a modem update going from beta one to beta two with beta one we
actually had an older modem than we did with iOS 14.6.
So now we have a newer version than any of those. So we've gone from a 1.71.01
in iOS 14.6 to 1.80.00 On iOS
14.7 beta two that's on the 12 Pro Max.
The numbers can actually vary from device to device,
but if you were having issues with say, conductivity,
maybe issues switching between 4g and 5g,
hopefully those will be resolved with this update. Now,
as far as the first new features, well,
the first thing has to do with Siri and there's some slight wording changes
here.
If we go into settings and then we go down to Siri and search under Siri and
search. If we go to Siri and dictation history, some of the wording has changed,
and I'll show you with beta one or 14.6 on the left.
You can see the text is dramatically different on the right.
We have 14.7 beta two, and it says,
delete Syrian dictation interactions currently associated with this iPhone from
apple servers.
The wording is a little bit different on the previous one with a lot more
information, as far as what it's talking about or a better description.
So they've changed that up just a little bit in this update.
It's a minor change, but it's something that's there. Also,
some users are seeing a popup message. Now,
when they're trying to actually install a software update,
that it will allow them to install it over cellular more and more people are
seeing this around the world. I'm not sure if it's carrier dependent,
but many people in India for example,
are seeing this and they can now install with cellular instead of wifi.
That's been that way for quite some time, depending on the version,
but more people are seeing it around the world. Now with this update as well.
Now, with iOS 14.7 beta one,
they added the ability to add a timer in the home app on a home pod.
Now you do have to have the home set up with the betas as well,
but if you go into home for example, and press and hold on it and scroll down,
you'll see the option to set a timer here.
And so you have the option to set a timer, but with beta one,
some of the text was incorrect. Now that's been corrected.
And then they've also added a new message. If you try to set a timer on it,
home product can't communicate with. So if we go back, for example,
I've unplugged this HomePod mini press and hold.
And if we scroll down a little bit,
you'll see it says alarms on it available and timers unavailable.
It says timers can be viewed and managed only when this home pod is on the same
network as this iPhone.
So this message is new with the update to be able to set timers on them,
the home pod. So just a couple small texts changes there.
There's some small changes as well in exposure notifications.
So you'll see there's a gap here too. I keep seeing that.
So it's a little bug already in beta 2,
but if we scroll down to expose your notifications,
and maybe you have this turned on in your country or, or state,
depending on where you live,
then you install an app for the state or country you live in,
depending on if it's okay available or not. So we'll just pick one here.
And if it can find one and you install that app,
and then you go and try and share a diagnosis with someone and let them know,
maybe you've been exposed. You'll now get a pop up,
letting you know that exposure notifications is not turned on.
It generally will give you a pop-up saying this isn't turned on.
You may need to turn this on in order to, for this to work properly.
So it's something that they've updated.
It's just some text in there that they've changed. Now. As far as the notes,
apple has said, there's nothing new in this build. So there are small changes.
I've shown you. You already, obviously this is a new build.
Hopefully it's more stable, but they said there's nothing available.
As far as that goes now to go along with home pod,
the home pod that apple discontinued, some are saying is no longer available.
However, if you go to Apple's website, you can still order the white one space.
Gray seems to no longer be available.
And it says sold out apple store pickup is currently unavailable. However,
if you select the white one, it seems like it's still available in some areas.
So it just depends.
You may be able to have it delivered if you're still looking for one,
but we may see an update to this at WWDC very soon. Now,
as far as resolved issues in the notes,
apple has not said anything as far as resolved issues. However,
those that were having issues with green tint have reported no issues so far
with iOS 14.7. To me,
they've said that they haven't seen it return despite different levels of
brightness or maybe on a black background or a dark background.
I haven't had anybody report that they're having an issue at least that I have
seen recently in the community polls. So that's a good sign.
As far as that goes, the same is true of raised levels when playing HDR videos,
where the darks would be very light and almost backlit.
That's no longer an issue according to most people as well. Now,
as far as Bluetooth, that continues to be an issue for many.
This is the first time I'm going to try it,
see if we can pair these or open it and see what happens here.
It's taking a moment and it works and it's popping up on all the devices.
So sometimes that takes a moment to pop up on of them,
but it seems like it's connecting. Okay.
I didn't really have any issues with it connecting,
but sometimes it wouldn't connect properly with my car, for example.
So hopefully that's resolved. We'll have to wait a few days to know for sure,
but we don't know about the Bluetooth issues just yet as that takes a little
while to know for sure. Now, as far as overall battery life,
while I've been using iOS 14.7 beta one for quite a few days now on my iPhone,
12 pro max, if we take a look at battery health,
I'm still at 100% and this is charged every night on a Belkin fast charger,
a mag safe charger. And let's take a look at the last 10 days.
So if we go to the last 10 days and let's see if we can find what the best one
was, this was yesterday or today,
yesterday we have two hours and 44 minutes of screen on time,
two hours and 29 minutes of screen off time.
So you can see that I had about 50% of my battery used at that point. However,
depending on the day, it varies greatly. For example,
if we go back to well today, for example,
two hours and 40 minutes of screen on time,
two hours and 14 minutes of screen off time.
And I didn't even use a quarter of my battery. So it varies greatly.
I still go to bed with over 50% of my battery life left,
usually through using it through the day and just normally using it for things
like Twitter and Google and mail, for example. So in general,
it's been pretty good for me.
Most people report that iOS 14.7 beta one is better than 14.6,
where quite a few people about half are having issues with 14.6.
So there could be an app or something running in the background.
Some people have even suggested it could be air tags causing that problem.
So we'll have to wait and see if it's fixed, definitely with 14.7,
but that will take some time. Now, as far as iPadOS 14.7 beta two, again,
that will take some time to know for sure.
I've been using 14.6 on my new M one iPad pro and it's
been okay for the most part.
I've had a weird rotation issue and I just installed the beta on this one.
So it will take a few days to know if battery is resolved on my previous iPad.
Battery was not good on this one. It's fine.
I have no issues with battery on the new iPad pro.
So it will take a few days to know.
I wanted to share that with you as it's been pretty good.
It's been getting eight to 10 hours of screen on time on the new iPad pro with
iOS,
since I completely wiped it and started over or set this up and start it over,
I did not restore from a backup.
So hopefully that resolves the issue when it comes to any new features.
There is no new features with iPadOS with 14.7 beta two other than what I've
already mentioned in performance seems to be okay on this iPad air two,
being one of the oldest devices,
it seems fairly smooth as I go into different menus. Let's try settings here.
You'll see. It's pretty fast.
And hopefully they're refining this as we're further on in 14.7,
and this may lose support with iOS 15, for example.
So we'll have to wait and see what that as far as performance on older devices
as well, the iPhone 6S plus, this is the first time I'm opening music.
So let's see what it's like here and scrolling is smooth there.
And if there was a little bit of a hiccup there, as you could probably see,
but not bad at all,
this actually feels nice and fast compared to what we've had in previous
versions. If we go over to say our app library,
there's a little bit of stutter when scrolling from time to time,
that seems to be normal for some reason, and it's working. Okay.
So I would say there's no decrease in performance. As far as that goes. Now,
as far as benchmarks, I did run it, run them on all of these devices.
So let's go ahead and take a look at that, go over to geek bench here,
and it can vary greatly. I ran it a couple of times, depending on the device,
but on the iPhone 12 pro max, I scored 1,599 for a single core,
4,094 for multi-core. If we go to the history, you can see,
I ran it twice on June 2nd.
I scored a little bit higher on single core on the first run and higher on
multi-core in the second run. But if you look below that,
that was the previous bill. So I'm getting faster single core scores,
but lower multi-core scores. And it just depends how many times you run it.
And when you run it after installing the update,
I expect this to get a little bit better since it did take a while to install
this update for some reason.
So maybe there's a lot of background tasks going on. Now,
let me show you all of the different devices from left to right.
I have the iPad air two followed by the iPhone 6S plus then the iPhone XR and
then the iPhone 12 pro max.
This will again give you a general idea of what to expect.
I did run it on the new M one iPad pro, and you can see the scores here.
They're very high 17 or 1,704 for single core,
7,321 for multi-core. So I've,
I haven't compared that to a previous version yet, but it's doing quite well.
So overall,
this should be generally what you get going from the oldest supported devices to
the newest. And that leads me to, should you install iOS 14.7 beta two? Well,
if you're already on beta one,
then absolutely install it and be sure to report feedback.
If you're having an issue,
if you're having really poor battery drain and you want to try something
different and you're familiar with betas,
you may see a better increase or a larger increase in battery life with iOS
14.7, beta's over 14.6. However, in a few days,
we're going to see iOS 15 beta one. So you may want to hold off for that.
Although I never recommend installing early betas as they tend to be very buggy.
So if you care much about battery life, for example,
you may want to try 14.7 beta two, as long as you're familiar with beta testing,
and you have the ability to roll back to say 14.6 and have backups
in case you lose any of your data.
So just be careful if you're doing that and be aware of the risks.
Otherwise I would recommend trying it out as far as iOS 14.7 beta
three. Well, we could see it as soon as next week. However,
we should see iOS 15 beta one on June 7th after the
WWDC or worldwide developer conference keynote.
So we should see beta one with a public release.
Usually a couple of weeks after that, as far as a beta goes,
public beta goes and then a public release of iOS 15 in September.
So that's generally how that works.
Also iOS 14.6.1 could be coming soon as well.
Apple stopped signing iOS 14.5.1.
So now we only have 14.6. We could see some sort of interim update there,
but maybe not. We'll have to wait and see, but it's possible.
We could see something as soon as Friday and then iOS 15 betas to follow with
iOS 14,
going all the way to August as well or September until iOS 15 is finally
released.
So quite a lot to look forward to let me know what you're looking most forward
to in the comments below. And of course,
if I find any other different features and things that are significant,
I'll mention those in a follow-up later in the week or early next week.
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