hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and today Apple released iOS 13.4.5
which is kind of strange they have done this before back I believe in iOS
10 or 11 days and this one came in at 4.11 gigabytes now anytime you go from a
public release to a beta or from a beta back to a public release it has to
install the full OS that's why it's over 4 gigabytes and it was over 3 gigabytes
on all of these other devices the iPad air 2 the iPhone XR and the iPhone 6s
plus now Apple also released iPad OS 13.4.5
TV OS 13.4.5 and also Mac OS Catalina 10.15.5
betas those three are all in beta and so let's take a look at
the build number and then we'll talk about what's new the build number is 17
f50 3 for C and this particular build does have a couple new features in it or
new changes anyway but there is not anything new in the notes however there
is a new modem update now I wasn't having any issues with LTE or Wi-Fi
however a few people were with 13.4 specifically Wi-Fi they were having a
few issues with whether or not this fixes that it's hard to say and will
take a few days to know for sure but either way it has been updated now the
first thing I would think that this fixes is the VPN issue that some people
were having and what I mean by that is there's a bug in 13.4 that Apple
acknowledged that when you turn on a VPN connection if you're using a third-party
VPN or not what can happen is that that information may or may not be encrypted
it's supposed to be encrypted at all times when you're using a VPN a virtual
private network that's kind of the point and so sometimes it wasn't encrypted so
hopefully this fixes it although they haven't mentioned anything in the notes
whatsoever now aside from that VPN bug that hopefully is fixed
they've also fixed the 3d press or haptic press to open Bluetooth so if you
don't have settings open in the background and you 3d press or have to
press on settings and tap on Bluetooth it no longer crashes so that's fixed in
this update also some people were having issues with battery or the phone heating
up in mail and none of those things the
aware of our fixed at least that they've mentioned but that doesn't mean they
haven't fixed them but there is definitely still a bug with male and it
checking for male on its own so that's still going on why they haven't fixed
that yet I'm not sure but that's what seems to be the focus of this is bug
fixes now one of the new things that's in this is if we go into music and then
pick a song here and then we go to share the song so we'll go in and share the
song we now have the option for sharing it to Instagram and it will create a
story and then we can open it in Instagram and post a story so it will
actually create it on its own we can post it to Facebook as well and so
that's a nice little feature if you share those things to Instagram or
Facebook often it just saves you a step or two now one thing that you can't see
is that if you use the activity app you have a bunch of different awards within
this beta Apple has actually added all of the new
20/21 exercise award images for each month of 2021 so you can't see those
right now I haven't found any place in here but it's actually in the code that
these awards are currently there for 2021 so they're getting things ready
ahead of time and it looks like the activity app is updated with that now
also there's some slight changes with Apple watch text so this is not a huge
change by any means but let's go into the watch app and under the watch app
under Express transit card there's some new texts there it's nothing big but
they've just made some changes with the Express Express transit card and some
notifications can let you know if the card balances are low and things and
that's throughout this OS there's little tiny tweaks to different wording and
verbage throughout and I found that thanks to Steve Moser my friend from Mac
rumors and so if you haven't followed him on Twitter yet be sure to do that he
has a lot of good information now also in the code is mention of a new
phone with touch ID so that sort of lines up with what we might see as far
as an iPhone 9 or 9 plus coming a little bit later in April now as far as any
features or bug fixes or anything we're aware of currently right now that's it
there may be some future fetcheth fixes in there that I noticed within the next
couple of days and if there is I'll let you know if there's anything different
but there is some other things that Apple did today and the first one is
they bought the dark sky weather app so they've
bought this you can see it now says Apple under the developer name or owner
so they've bought this app whether or not they're going to incorporate
incorporate it into whether maybe an iOS 14 or something along those lines it's
hard to say but maybe they'll switch over to something like that or there's
something in there they need it as far as a patent it's hard to say but they
did buy it and it still does cost $4 in the United States they also updated
Pages Keynote and numbers on the Mac so if you use Pages Keynote or numbers
they've added it some features with iCloud folder sharing and things like
that so there should be feature updates all around for that in particular now as
far as battery life well battery life is hard to judge on
the first day it's only been an hour or two since it's been out but my battery
health is at 100% so that gives us a baseline as far as what the battery
health is and the overall battery usage and I'm 13.4 it's been
pretty decent at three hours and six minutes of screen on time
two hours and twelve minutes of screen off time and under 50% usage and
generally I tell people 10 to 12 hours of screen on time and most people have
been saying they've been getting good battery life with 13.4 there are a few
people that are saying that they are not and whether or not that's a pro lated
specific to one of our apps they're using it's hard to say but hopefully
this just fixes any of those little bugs that might decrease battery at all now
as far as overall performance well on my iPhone 11 pro max it's been pretty good
however it did lock up on me already in music
I haven't had Settings lock up like it did on 13.4 but it did lock up in music
briefly maybe for one to two seconds when I was trying to go through there
and you might have just seen some framerate drop so I do record these
videos at 60 frames per second so you can see that if there is a framerate
drop now it is an early beta so there definitely could be some tweaks by the
end and by the time it's released but on older devices such as this iPhone 6s
plus you should expect basically the same performance this is not a major
change this is more of a bug fix security patches and things like that
so again on this on the iPhone XR all of these devices are going to get
the same features and they're going to get the same performance as they had
before until Apple actually updates that you'll see on the XR
seems the smoothest of any of them or at least so far it does and just swiping
seems pretty good and going into new apps and things for the first time
seemed okay but that doesn't mean again that this is finished software so it
could change over time as far as iPad OS 13.4.5 as well
there's nothing really new in that other than what I've already mentioned and
again on the oldest iPad here the iPad air to expect performance to be
basically the same I would not expect anything different we'll go into music
for the first time on here you'll see it's a little bit slow at first but then
it kind of speeds up so that's kind of what I expect on the iPad now let's take
a look at the benchmarks now these could change over time and as things happen in
the background as far as background processes but I did run Geekbench v on
all of them and on the iPhone 11 pro max I scored 1332 for single core three
thousand three hundred and ninety-two for multi-core if we take a look at the
history take a look at CPU you'll see the scores are a little bit higher on
this beta than they were on iOS 13.4 when I installed it both
single core and multi-core core are a little bit higher not a ton but a little
bit now let's take a look at all of these devices so you can compare what
you have with what I have here on the Left we have the iPad air 2 followed by
the iPhone 6s plus the iPhone XR and then the iPhone 11 pro max so here are
the general scores that your devices should get somewhere around these
numbers probably not exactly the same but very close and as long as they're
close you should have the same performance as I do that's it for iOS
13.4.5 beta 1 and expect the public beta either later today or maybe
tomorrow depends on when they're going to release it it's really hard to say it
could be out by the time you're watching this video now as far as 13.4.1
or anything else like that
Apple could release those but usually they don't do that
so expect them to skip a few updates I guess and then release this one to the
public but at this point it's really hard to say what Apple's going to do for
sure there was information earlier today that 13.4.1 would
be coming out to the public and so maybe it still will to fix the VPN issue maybe
it won't it's hard to say but if it does I'll keep you updated with that as well
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