Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and strangely today
apple released ios 14.2 beta 1. they skipped 14.1 and maybe they're
going to push that out with iphone 12 next month and then 14.2 later
or it's hard to say maybe we'll get 14.1
this coming week or even tomorrow with the right apples going
so i'm not really sure exactly what apple's doing with this but this did
come in at a very large 4.42 gigabytes on my 11 pro max
now anytime there's a beta that's going from a regular
public release to a beta it's going to be a very large file it's going to fully
install that update and so it's on my 11 pro max i also
installed it on my 12.9 inch 2020 ipad pro so let's go ahead and take
a look at the build number and then take a look at what's new and you can see the
build number is 18b5052h and that h means well we're a ways
away from the final version which usually ends in an a before it's
released to the public so we sort of count backwards down to a
so we're a ways away and maybe we'll see it in october around the launch of the
iphone 12 or something like that now there's a lot of changes that have
to do with music so the first one has to do with the lock screen so i have my
iphone XR here with ios 14 on it if i go to the lock screen so i'll turn
the phone off turn it back on and you'll see the lock screen let me
go into music here and try that again there we go and you
can see on the lock screen music looks a little bit different if
you have it playing so you can see the album art is a little
bit bigger we've got the song name scrolling and that it'll
scroll on the other one as well if it's longer than what will fit but also the
airplay icon is a little bit different and smaller
so they've changed this around just a little bit now if we go home
and go to the music app they've changed that as well so if we go to the music
app you'll see here's a song that was
playing if we tap on the airplay icon they've changed the way airplay looks so
again we'll check on ios 14 and you can see what it looks like side
by side so ios 14 on the left 14.2 on the right so that's a little bit
different now they've changed it in the control
center as well so if we pull down in the control center
and haptic press or 3d press on the song or the music icon you can see that the
album art is much larger on 14.2 it has the song underneath and
the controls below that so they've changed it the airplay icon
is below that as well and instead on ios 14 it was on the
right i think it looks a lot better on ios 14.2
now also if we tap on the airplay icon here
you'll see it looks a little bit different as well so again
airplay looks different now there's also an additional button
if you have airplay devices connected to your network
so i took a screenshot of this so i could show you and actually this is from
a viewer kiernan that sent this video to me
and it's a little better representation of what it looks like if you have
connected devices it says control other speakers and tv
and so that's in the control center and then also if you're in the control
center and maybe you don't have music playing
let's close it here
and then we 3d press or haptic press on the music icon
we get suggested songs to play as well on the control center so this is all new
with ios 14.2 on the left we just have our music we can hit the play button
there's nothing new there within the control center there's a new option for
music recognition so if i scroll down you can see i have an icon and it's the
shazam icon so i can turn that on and it immediately turns on the
microphone you know that by the orange dot
and you can add that by going into your settings and then control center and
you'll see it down at the bottom if you don't have it you just add it you
can remove it of course if you don't want it
now this listens for music until it hears a sound
so it's kind of interesting it doesn't seem to turn off by itself and if you
pull down in the control center again it says music recognition so let me play a
sound or a song and see if it will recognize
it now right after i played the song it popped in with a notification and told
me what the song was and then it turned off the microphone so
you actually have to go back in and turn it on
every time so i guess it's handy if you want to use that
and then just cleared off your screen when you're done now thanks to matthew
heber for sending along the next one there's a new headphone safety option
under sound and haptic so if we go into settings
then we go down to sound and haptics you'll see it says headphone safety
now it's sort of a renaming of a different one from the previous version
where it said reduced loud sounds but there's a lot
more options in it now so reduce loud sounds had one option to
reduce the sound but now we have headphone notifications
and last six months and it will let you know
and keep track of that and then also reduce loud sounds and turn up or down
the decibels so it's telling you that 80 decibels is
about as loud as a noisy restaurant if i slide it up it says as loud as city
traffic it's loud as a motorcycle car horn and
so on so we can turn that on or off if we want
and then it will notify us via headphone notifications so let me
show you that twitter account again so i can show you what it looks like
and thanks again to kiernan this is what a notification looks like when there's
loud sound so it says based on your headphone usage over the last seven days
the volume has been turned down to protect your hearing
so it will actually do that if you turn it on of course you could turn this off
as well now also to do with the headphone notifications if we go into
the health app tap on browse in the bottom right then
we go to hearing under hearing we scroll down where it
says no data available for me there's headphone notifications
and there's some more options i don't have that on ios 14
so there's no data available it's just more options for
for hearing and health data based on your headphones so it's really nice that
they've added that and it's just a little addition now
there's also a couple other small changes so for example the
apple watch icon has been updated so if you go to the watch app itself
you'll see the watch now has that new solo loop on it
where before if we go to watch you'll see with ios 14 it looks a little bit
different it had basically the regular silicon
buckle that it came with or the sport loop
so they've just updated it to be more with the newer bands that you can get
for the watch now the first time i went into the watch app
when i went in here and then i went down to hand washing i actually got a new
notification pop-up asking if i wanted to share data with apple
regarding hand washing so it says improve hand washing you can help
improve hand washing by sharing some of your data with apple
you can stop sharing at any time in settings and then you can share it or
don't share and so now you can have them collect this data if you want
to or not at all of course so it's up to you
it's an option but it's something new that they've added and that's everything
that i could find new along with the help of kiernan and
matthew thanks very much for that now there are no additional updates with the
ipad so ipad os 14.2 basically gets the same thing but no
additional updates so nothing really has changed there
but there are four known issues with this particular beta and they may be
significant to you so the first one is if you're getting a
new 8th gen ipad tomorrow or today by the time you're watching
this that's not supported so you won't be able to get support for
that so you can't install the beta maybe later with beta 2.
and then also apple cache family isn't available in this beta so if you're
using that don't install the beta and then finally
in ios 14.2 beta 1 you cannot send audio messages
using siri so if you're using siri to send audio
messages it won't work now there's no mentioned resolved issues
but one thing i did notice is my shortcuts in my control center for
all of my home devices have reappeared where they sort of disappear based off
location on ios 14 you'll see here on the left
so it seems like they've fixed that with this beta and then also
appu boracua if i'm saying that properly if not i apologize he said copy and
paste is working properly now so it looks like
it's being fixed quite a bit with a bunch of different bugs
now apple did not specify any bugs that were fixed so hopefully there's a lot of
them in this now battery life overall is hard to say
because ios 14 has only been out a couple days but i can tell you what it's
like for ios 14 gm and hopefully it improves
with this particular update and it takes a few days to measure that
but if we go into settings go to battery my battery health is at ninety five
percent after almost a year eighty percent after two years is normal so the
updates don't reduce your battery health they just check the physical capability
of your battery and if we take a look at my battery life
let's take a look at it yesterday it was not great it's or two days ago
when i installed ios 14 you'll see six hours and 41 minutes of
screen on time seven hours and one minute of screen off time i think i have
an app using it in the background but i was pretty active on twitter
and i need to turn off some of those notifications but that's almost with a
hundred percent battery use so that's pretty terrible for me 10 to
12 hours is normal and i haven't had time to let it
normalize so hopefully this update will be normalized over the next next
couple days and we'll know how it is but in general i'm not sure what to
expect as far as battery life and should you install ios 14.2
beta 1 if you're just looking for stability at this point i would say skip
it wait for a few betas if you really want to try out the new
features in music then of course go ahead
now as far as performance i noticed immediately that it seemed to be very
smooth there's just a different animation feel
overall to it just feels snappy smooth going through
different apps seems nice and there's just something to it even
with the ipad it felt smoother to me in general i don't know if they've changed
something specifically but it's hard to say others have said
they've changed the font i did not see a font change
so i don't really see anything there maybe you do in different applications
but i don't see it personally but that doesn't mean apple's not
working on something with that now as far as geekbench scores i did run
a geekbench so let's see if i can find that here
i scored 1336 for single core 3176 for multi-core now i ran this right after i
installed it so i would expect it to get a little bit
better that multi-core score is not great but the single core is quite good
so it would probably go up if i ran it again i did run it on the ipad as well
so let's take a look and you can see on the ipad it scored
1127 for single core and 4640 for multi-core
so quite good again let's go to the history
and see what we got with ios 14 and we got a little bit higher for
multi-core but less for single core so in general it's pretty good i would
expect similar performance at this point and now we're just looking forward to
iphone 12 and additional devices now if you've found anything else let me
know in the comments below i'd love to hear from you
and of course i'll have a follow-up on sunday with ios 14
and maybe this beta as well let me know if you want to do a follow-up on sunday
with this beta in the comments below so that's it for
ios 14.2 beta 1. now i would expect another beta
in a couple weeks maybe a final release of ios 14.1 within
a week or so it's hard to say exactly what apple's
doing because they haven't told anyone so it's a little bit up in the air at
this point ios 14 just came out to everyone so
maybe we'll see a public release sooner than we think but other than that that's
really all there is with 14.2 so i'll keep you updated if you follow me here
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