Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and ios 14.5 beta 1 has been out for almost a couple weeks at
this point and have been using it full time now apple released ios 14.5 beta 1 to developers
then a few days after that released ios 14.5 beta 1 re-released to not only developers
but also to public beta testers and so i've been using that version full time
and i think we can expect ios 14.5 beta 2 very soon i'll talk about that a little bit later as
well as a possible public release as well but before we talk about any of those i wanted to
cover a few more features that are pretty major in this update that i didn't cover before that people
have uncovered and i've found as well and so the first one is you can set a default music app now
now you can't see this physically to toggle it yet but if you go into settings for example and
you were to scroll down to music generally there would be a toggle to select whatever
music app you would want currently in beta 1 it's not there but the first time you use siri
using the assistant to activate playing music for example it will ask you what app you want
to play it in now i've already done that on both of these devices so it won't pop up that way but
let me show you what it looks like so the first time you toggle it it will pop up and this is a
shot from mac rumors and then also if you ask it to play music now you can select whatever
music app you want so let me hold the power sleep wake button you could also activate siri using the
word hey in front of the assistant so let's go ahead and try it play awaken alive by skillet
and we'll wait for it and you'll see it's already playing in spotify now like i said
you can select whatever you want as your default just by asking so now let's try an apple music
play awaken alive by skillet in apple music
and you'll see now it's playing in apple music and it shows it in the upper left and this goes
for anything you might have whether that be title or pandora for example you could do the same so
you'll have to select it give it access to data so that it can do that and then you'll be able
to play in whatever you want so hopefully we'll have that toggle in the music app or in the music
settings rather in the future so hopefully we'll see that soon now apple maps has been updated as
well to allow for crowd source data similar to waze for example so if we go into maps
now if you set up directions in apple maps maybe you want to go to charleston like i have here
in the bottom right if you're driving along your way you now have the option to report
you can report an accident a hazard or a speed check and you can use siri to do this as well so
you now have the option to report you can report whatever you'd like and then you could clear
it a little bit later and that will give users anonymous data nearby if there's something going
on it doesn't report your data directly so you can give users a heads up if there's an accident
hazard or speed chat now with safari apple's doing more to give our privacy priority so if
we go into settings we go down to safari and then go down to privacy and security you'll see we have
fraudulent website warning so we have some new options there as well as them blocking additional
cross-site tracking so we have those features which we know about with ios 14 for example
but also they're now directing safe browsing traffic in safari through apple servers instead
of google to protect personal user data so apple's going above and beyond here to protect our data
and all of this will be active very soon when ios 14.5 is available to the public so i can't wait
to have that active and there's just more and more that apple keeps doing however with ios 14.5 it's
been okay for me so far with the overall use of it so i wanted to talk about my experience with it
since i've been using it on the iphone 12 pro max the iphone 11 that i have here
as well as the ipad pro 12.9 from 2020 that's my main device when i'm not editing video and so the
overall experience has been pretty good for me it still has that stutter when you open music or any
other app and swipe out and it's hard to reproduce on video for some reason but it does show up where
you swipe out and it sort of stutters away so that definitely has returned and i can't get it to go
away without rebooting then it will show up about a day later or so so that's something that i still
see but the performance for me has been fine i've had no slowdowns the phone has not been getting
unusually warm for me although some people did report it in the community poll which we'll take a
look at in a little bit but the overall use of it has been pretty good i had additional issues with
bluetooth with the first version of the beta then they re-released it and it's since been better so
unlocking my car for example it's been great with that i haven't had any issues since the re-release
what apple did in that re-release i'm not sure but they seem to have fixed any bluetooth issues i was
having however there's a bunch of issues that are being reported by you in the community poll still
so the green tin issue i covered this in a video the other day where it's still an issue apple did
fix it in august of last year for ios 14 or ios 13.6.1 for iphone 11 series phones 11 pro and 11
pro max and they did fix it so i expect them to fix it in this update whether it be this one or
a future update i do expect them to be able to fix it with an update also people are reporting blurry
images when sending through imessage if you're in low quality mode so it's more blurry than normal
even if you're not in low quality mode sometimes those images are not coming through in the high
quality that we expect also i'm finding that things like airdrop can be slow from time to time
so when you're sending a file a photo or something to another device sometimes it's unusually slow
and well and it's stuck there there we go there was an error there you saw a little freeze up
and there are some freeze-ups and lag throughout the os not only swiping away say an app but going
into settings sometimes it will just sort of lock up and i've talked about that before as well and
some people are having apps crash the playstation app is working now because playstation updated it
but some people are having app crashes as well and other issues so there's definitely a ways
to go this is the first beta and so i would expect another beta eventually and also if you're having
issues make sure you report that in feedback because that's very valuable now before we talk
about when to expect the next versions and battery life let's take a look at the ipad because like i
said i've been using this full time so my ipad pro is one of my favorite devices and i have to say
that the experience on this other than one thing has been really good i haven't had any of the lag
the slowdowns the stuttering or anything like that no issues with the keyboard thankfully
and it's been really solid with the exception of battery life and i've continued to talk about this
and battery life does not seem to improve much on these versions for me and so as you can see
it was last charged to 100 percent yesterday at 9 18 a.m and in that amount of time if we look at
yesterday i used it two hours and 46 minutes and had two hours and 14 minutes of screen off time
and with those times so three to four hours of usage i'm down to 34 percent
battery now this screen has been on for the video and that will affect it a little bit
but getting less than half of the expected battery life is no good and i would expect them to improve
this of course with future updates but so far on the ipad battery hasn't been great however
on the iphone it's actually been okay for me so i know it's not great for everyone and it is a beta
so there is that but if we go into settings and go down to battery my battery health is still at
100 on this phone my iphone 12 pro max and if we look at the last 10 days say yesterday for example
i had four hours and one minutes of screen on time 43 minutes of screen off time
and used just under 50 percent of my battery so let's say 45 48 so that would give me eight to
ten hours of screen on time and screen off time combined and then if we look at the day before
again three and a half hours or three hours and 28 minutes of screen on time three hours and one
minutes of screen off time playing music usually and i used about 35 to 40 percent of the battery
so in general eight to ten hours is what i'm seeing on an early beta that's actually
a good sign as you can see the day before that i only used four or four hours of battery life
and or screen on time rather and got eighty percent of my battery used up at that
so it's doing much better than it did the previous days it sort of improved the last few days for me
and it seems to be okay what it is specifically that improved i'm not sure but i just keep my apps
updated and that's all i've changed now as far as ios 14.5 beta 2 like i said i think we're on a
two week cycle and based on that i would expect it well as soon as monday which is an unusual day so
usually tuesday to thursday but apple has not specified a day but we're on a two-week cycle and
if they release it well two weeks from the other one expected on thursday but generally it's at the
beginning of the week apple has not stated when it will be though but one thing i'm waiting for
is a public release ios 14.4.1 or whatever they call it ios 14.4.5 and the reason i say that is
apple stopped signing ios 14.3 a week or so ago generally after they stopped signing a previous
version of 14.3 leaving only one public version available we'll have a public release within two
weeks based on what they've done in the past so this coming week i would expect a public release
and a beta unless they decide to do the crazy thing they did a couple weeks back and release ios
14.5 to the public which i would not expect since it has quite a few bugs so hopefully we'll see a
public release and a beta release this week and if we do of course i'll keep you updated on youtube
and other places as well now as far as the youtube community poll well since the previous
poll there has been a ton of votes and more than i would have ever expected 40 000 plus
votes and over 340 comments with 17 percent of you saying that ios 14.5 beta 1 is great three
percent saying it's terrible seven percent still having bugs with it which i think many people are
62 percent of you not updating yet and 11 using android this number was 10 it increased a little
bit and like i said in the previous video if you have any ideas of what we think we
could kind of refine these into that would be more helpful let me know in the comments below
so i think this update is good for a first beta but not great but let's go ahead and take a look
at a few of the comments now i sorted these by newest first since i read some of the older ones
before so let's go ahead and take a look at these jasmine matthews says i can no longer use my two
bluetooth keyboards this is a very huge issue for me i use them 98 of the time i'm using iphone 8.
if you're talking about the beta then you may want to downgrade to ios 14.4 but if you're on
ios 14.4 unfortunately you'll have to wait for a public release in order for that to be fixed
so hopefully it's debate and you can just simply downgrade josie romero your tech curator says i'm
using the iphone 12 pro max and i've had so many weird glitches occurring since i updated to 14.5
beta 1 including my phone completely freezing and i could not hard reset or anything finally had to
plug it into itunes and once it finally restarted it logged me out of every single app on my phone
tyler charlton said 14.5 has been by far the best beta for me on my iphone 10r great battery little
to no bugs notifications working well and few new features to boot and a few new features to boot
great for me so far iphone 12 pro only issue is no magsafe animation and that still hasn't
returned so that's definitely a bug alfredo nanita says iphone 10s here it's been great on version
one the watch unlocked my iphone twice without me wearing a mask or even looking at the phone
i reported the issue and apple replied sending me a link to download a certificate to the watch
in case the issue comes back using the new beta version version 2 has been better in this regard
so so far the watch has only unlocked the iphone when i'm wearing a mask and i'm looking at the
phone austin says ios 14.5 is awesome on my iphone 12 pro max the only issue i have with stutter when
i swipe out of an app but restarting fixes the issue for a while other than that the the update
is great edward veliz says for the first time ever since i own an iphone i'm having a lot of
bluetooth and data connection problems weirdest thing ever iphone 12 pro see brandon's lawn and
landscape said the battery is incredible on my 11 pro max and 12.9 inch ipad i would love to see
when they put more widgets in it i think is what he's saying and then finally using
14.5 on my se 2020 and it's been doing great and so this particular update like i said is
a little old at this point and i can't wait to see what we have with beta 2 for example
as well as maybe a public release to fix some major issues but let me know what you like best
about ios 14.5 what you would like to see fixed first i'd love to hear from you in the comments
below and again make sure you're reporting feedback if you're a beta tester or developer
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