hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and this past week was really exciting of course it was
filled with all of the iphone 12 news the 12 mini the iphone 12 12 pro and 12 pro max and also the
homepod mini but also apple decided to release two updates now one it looks like it may have been a
mistake or maybe it wasn't but apple released ios 14.1 gm that's golden master or what that means is
the final version that will come out to the public later on they normally wait to release these and
then they'll let us know when the final one comes out but right now they've released it i don't know
if it was a mistake or not they pulled it and then put it back out so it's kind of interesting they
also released ios 14.2 beta 3. and so i've been running ios 14.2 beta 3 on my iphone 11 pro max
i have 14.1 gm on my iphone 11 or my iphone 11 pro rather and also my 2020 12.9 inch ipad pro
and so i want to talk about my overall experience talk about your experience based off the youtube
community poll so the first thing is though 4k youtube seems to be back and it seems to be back
on all versions that includes ios 14.0.1 and the betas and the gm as well and so if you go to one
of my videos here i always upload in 4k you'll see 2160p as an option you may even have 2160p
hdr or 60 frames per second so you can play all of those even on the iphone Xr and it will just
scale the image to the display to fit based on the size of your display so it's great that it's there
youtube seems to have switched it back on so it's great to see that now let's first talk about
ios 14.1 so 14.1 gm can be installed if you're a developer and you have a computer a mac or windows
computer and you install it manually by using your lightning cable that's the only way to install
that particular version and so when they actually going to push it out we'll talk about a little
bit later but this version seems to be pretty good and based off the youtube community poll
only two people said that they had battery drain issues and they're still having issues with 14.0.1
before that some say it's worse but apple already issued a fix saying that if you're having major
battery problems you need to wipe the phone and start over again and then install your backup
so it's not a great fix i was hoping 14.1 would fix that so it's possible there could be another
build but based off this build number it's kind of strange so if we go into the about section
of our settings you can see the build number is 18a 8395 and normally i don't bring this up in
follow-up videos but there's an extra digit on the end normally there would be a letter at the end
to let us know that it's still a beta but this one doesn't have that letter so it makes me think that
maybe it's a new naming scheme or there could be an another version on top of this another gm
they have done that in the past when they found bugs it's unlikely but it's possible
now i've been running that same version 14.1 on my ipad with ipad os 14.1 and it's actually running
just fine my 12.9 inch ipad pro it's super fast i haven't had any lockups i've had no weird bugs
with widgets other than the apple news being offline but that's actually apple news being
offline i don't use it and then also other than that youtube plays fine my keyboard connections
work fine when i'm using a keyboard the mouse and everything seems to be working okay for me
that issue was there before in the beta so it seems to be fixed everything seems to be
working really solid and steady on the ipad so i really don't have any issues with the ipad itself
now as far as ios 14.2 beta 3 well there's a few things to talk about with that
i've been running it on my 11 pro max like i said and this particular version seems to be mostly
stable in fact i've had almost zero issues with it and i say almost because i have had a couple
bluetooth issues with my car for example my car uses bluetooth to let the phone know it's nearby
it acts as the key and will unlock sometimes it just loses connection and a few of you commented
in the community poll saying that you had similar issues with third-party bluetooth accessories
so headphones just randomly dropping but airpods and those sort of apple accessories seem to work
okay so something's up with bluetooth hopefully it's fixed in later betas it could just be part
of a bug with this particular beta but quite a few people have mentioned that as well
also some people are saying that the camera will just go to a blank screen or a black screen when
you open the camera app i haven't seen this myself but someone reported it and then also people are
saying widgets are acting strange again so my widget you can see here my weather widget's okay
and there's nothing really odd about it but some people are saying it's flashing for them so it's
causing a problem a few people are saying that there's still lag but for me performance has
been pretty solid but depending on the phone you have there could be lag and in general most people
say that battery life is solid on beta 3. not everybody but most people seem to say it's pretty
good and so for me performance seems to be pretty good like he's like i showed just a second ago
it's very fast and fluid i've had no issues going into settings everything's just nice and smooth
and since it's later out let's flip on dark mode normally it changes by itself i have it set up
automatically to switch but in general it's pretty fast and fluid the one area i've been
having i think a few issues with with this beta is battery life so if i go into battery life
we'll take a look at it and my battery health is down a little bit more to 93 after a year 90
is about normal for most people some will have a little better some will have much worse just
depending on how you use it but 93 after a year 80 after two years is normal according to apple
so you'll see here's my battery usage this was yesterday 3 hours and 17 minutes of screen on time
2 hours and 54 minutes of screen off time with over 50 usage if i go to the day before only a
couple hours use the day before that almost four hours of use but only 75 of my battery
or i should say 75 of my battery was used so i'm not getting the 10 to 12 hours i used to get now
some people are telling me they're getting that battery life no problem so it could be some of
the apps i'm using it's really hard to say exactly what it is but it may be my home and lock screen
and i've been in notes a lot as you can see so maybe there's some things with that but
there's definitely something using my battery in this particular beta not everyone is having
this experience in fact most people say it has really good battery now on my ipad with ios 14.1
gm battery life has been okay for me on this version in fact i don't find that i'm charging the
ipad very often at all so if i go into my battery here we'll wait for it to load and over the
last 10 days i don't plug this in every day but you'll see an hour and 20 minutes a day the next
day three hours so i did charge it on thursday so yesterday i charged it to a hundred percent
and then i've used it about four and a half to five hours since and we're at 62 battery life so
it's actually doing pretty well i get the 10 hours out of it no problem that you would expect unless
you're doing heavy video editing or something like that but watching youtube i'll get nine
hours no problem with that so it seems to be doing pretty well now with ios 14.1 i think the release
to the public is probably going to be this coming week and the reason i say that is well if you
haven't been following apple at all apple released the iphone so because of that i would expect
it to release before friday when the iphone's release along with the new ipad air so we've got
two iphone 12s coming out the 12 and 12 pro the 12 mini and the 12 pro max will be a little bit later
but i would think we'll see 14.1 with the release of this particular version that's usually what
apple does every year they'll release it around the time of the iphone and then when they release
another product they'll release an update a major update so i would expect it around tuesday or
wednesday it's possible they could wait to friday but i really don't think they're going to do that
so hopefully we'll have it earlier in the week and of course i'll let you know as soon as i know now
as far as ios 14.2 betas well beta 4 could be on a weekly cycle at this point and again we would see
that this week if it's not and they push that to beta 5 on a bi-weekly cycle then of course
it would be the following week so it's possible we'll see two releases this week it just depends
on whether or not apple decides to push a beta out as well of course i'll keep you updated as soon as
i know but i think we're going to be on a weekly cycle usually around the fourth or fifth beta is
when they do that on major releases so hopefully we'll see that and then a final release of ios
14.2 now i would expect a final release probably in november early november somewhere around that
because we're going to see the apple silicon mac event so we should see another event with
the new apple silicon-based macbooks or imacs or whatever they decide to release of course we'll
have more information as soon as we get closer to that time but it looks like we're going to
have another event so a lot of updates are being rolled out and that goes along with mac os big sur
a lot of people have asked me when are we going to see that and i think again around that same
time frame when those new macs release so sometime in november i think for that one now let's take a
look at the youtube community poll now at the time of this recording you can see there's eight and a
half thousand votes or 8.5 k votes so thank you very much to everyone that voted and commented
you can see 18 said that it was great and they're talking both about ios 14.2 beta 3
and ios 14.1 gm so it does combine both of these a little bit only three percent are saying terrible
most people are on the beta though six percent are saying okay but some bugs and issues 66 percent
are still on the public version which is always a good idea just hang on that version until the
next public comes out and then six percent are on ios 13 still or potentially earlier versions
let's take a look at some of the comments thomas baker said on ipad pro 12.9 2018 and the cursor
does not work like it used to when you hover over an item otherwise it's okay 14.2 beta 3.
when i had cursor issues when i had my ipad on the beta i did a reboot and that seems to fix it so i
would suggest doing that it usually fixes that issue and arrestor mendes mendes says ios 14.2
beta 3 have been really solid on my iphone 11. i feel that battery life is better than ios 14.0.1
macklin says folders don't want to open bad connectivity ios 14.2 beta 3 on 11 pro max
dr penguin says definitely seeing an improvement with battery life beta 3 iphone 11. xiaolong
xiaolongzheng says ipad os beta 3 broke my mouse pointer now i just got an oversized circle that
can't change shape and sometimes don't even auto hide itself again there's issues with the cursor
with beta 3 for some and if you are having those issues just do a reboot of the ipad it usually
fixes it commander neon says holding off on ios 14.1 on my se 2nd gen and waiting for reviews on
the official launch rebecca says ios 14.2 beta 3 iphone 11 pro max i've had a few issues with
my screen freezing or responding slow i apologize if i don't pronounce this correctly but i think
this is ian aldrich managed to get ios 14.1 on my 11 pro max and it fixed a lot of bugs
i had with ios 14.0.1 improved battery life smoothness and widget support seems to be
improved i'm on ios 14.2 beta 3 on iphone 11 pro and it's working great srinvas says ios 14.1 has
great battery life Xs max came from terrible battery life on ios 14.0.1 ed o'sullivan
says iphone 11 pro 14.1 gm running nicely so far nothing to complain about andre says ios 14.2 beta
3 is so fast snappy and smooth and then finally winter mute 782 says 14.1 gm 11 pro max no issues
and so that's it with ios 14.1 gm expect it this coming week like i said if apple changes that
i would be very surprised and then also 14.2 beta 4 possibly we could see this week or next
but let me know what you think about that in the comments below and if you found any new
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as always thanks for watching this is Aaron i'll see you next time
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