Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and ios 14.4 beta 2 has been out for a few days i've
been using it on my iphone 12 pro max i also have it on the iphone 11 here as well as my 12.9 inch
ipad pro from 2020 and so i want to talk about a few new features then we'll talk about the overall
experience and talk about maybe some of the issues it still has look at the community poll and then
also talk about whether or not you should install it if you haven't already so the first thing is
new features now there are a few small changes in this one so for example if we go over to the app
library some people have said that depending on how they have this organized some of them may be
reorganized and as you go to the bottom they may switch places i've seen this on a couple people's
but other than that there's not any major changes within this so as far as the app library goes
however one thing they've fixed is if you're using the people detection in the magnifier you
have to have a device with the lidar sensor in it so what you want to do is triple click your
power button if you have it set to accessibility shortcuts triple click and you'll get the option
for people detection or whatever else you set but people detection the font has been fixed to where
it's proper now so it's it was all capitalized before i believe and so now it just says people
detection as you would expect just how all the others do magnifier and reduce white point so
people detection like i said will detect a person and give you the distance to that person that's
been there for a while but the capitalization was changed on the accessibility shortcut also one of
the things they've changed is if you're using find my and you have a device in lost mode it gives you
a little bit more information when you go out of lost mode so let me go into that under pending if
i hit turn off lost mode it pops up and says the phone number and message will be removed and all
location history will be deleted this phone will still be locked the thing that's new is where it
says this phone will still be locked before then it wouldn't let you know that it was locked so
it's just a slight or minor change also they've updated exposure notifications so if you have an
exposure notification app installed for example they've made a new option available so if you go
into your settings go to exposure notifications if you're using it it's not available everywhere
and this is actually an estate nearby as well so you'll see it says activeregion i'll tap on this
tap on it again and in here it's got a new option that says automatically notify others it says your
public health authority can ask you for one-time access to your random ids if you're diagnosed
this allows them to notify others who have been exposed these notifications don't identify you so
you can turn that on if you've been exposed if you haven't the options not available
and again this is only if your state supports it and you have an app installed that allows it
otherwise you won't have that option now if you're using an ipad and you're using it with a mouse
the cursor size has changed a little bit so some people are saying it's a little bit smaller so if
i connect it to the magic keyboard for example you'll see the cursor down here at the bottom
apparently it's a little bit smaller and you can change it as well just like you could before
but some people are saying they notice a size difference with that so those are the features
that i didn't mention in the initial ios 14.4 beta 2 video as far as what's new but thanks
to my friend steve moser he pointed out some of those i knew about some of the code in there but
i wasn't able to find where it was located so thanks again to him for helping point that out
and so as far as the overall use of this it's actually been fairly stable but i do have a few
issues with it so for example performance overall feels nice and fast it's smooth just like i showed
before the geekbench scores were great but i have had a couple lockups in it for example
when i go into settings i have had settings completely freeze on me to the point where i
couldn't even use it so i had to wait for it or swipe it away then i could use it go back in it
would reload so i have had that issue i've also had that that stutter issue when you go into an
app and then close the app i've had it stutter again now some people have not seen this and
generally a restart will now fix that so there's some improvement there over the previous beta
but it's still an issue and it's still worth noting that i'm having it's not often it seems
to be less often than before but again when you go into an app swipe away sometimes it will stutter
and it's fairly minor but it is something worth mentioning and that freezing was the main thing
when you have the phone completely freeze that's obviously a problem now those are the issues i've
had on the iphone and the ipad the ipad i really haven't had any issues either and the overall
experience has been solid so using it just as my main device when i'm not editing videos this
actually has not frozen at all and we'll talk more about battery in a little bit but it seems
to have been a little bit better but again i wanted to cover that more in depth in a moment
now as far as issues you're experiencing based off the youtube community poll well the first thing is
i wanted to address is people keep saying why hasn't apple fixed the green tint issue maybe
it's a hardware issue well they've acknowledged it in an internal document and they're not supposedly
replacing phones if they have the green tint so that lets me know that i think they're going to
fix it like they did with the iphone 11 series phones last year so that was an issue with the
11 pro and the 11 pro max they fixed that issue whether that's a display manufacturing difference
something different there but they were able to fix it with an update so i think we will see that
as far as the flicker that's the same thing i think you can fix that with an update
if you're having that sort of flicker issue at high brightnesses and then the yellow tint as far
as the different white colors being a little bit different between devices well i think that's more
of the display being more accurate i don't think it's really an issue so for example on the 11
versus the 12 pro or the 12 pro max you can see there's a very big difference the colors are a
little bit different and i don't think i have true tone on or anything on either of these devices so
both of them should be basically white and you can see there is definitely a difference some
of that is just lcd versus oled basically but in general i don't think it's an issue i think it's
just that the display is more accurate and it takes a little bit to get used to as i've used
calibrated displays to make videos like this i noticed that when they're calibrated they tend
to lean more towards a yellow or warmer color it's hard to get used to sometimes and it's just the
way it is when it comes to more accurate displays let me know what you think about that though
now one issue that some people are still seeing is when they're in safari for example they're having
data issues with the pages loading slowly i've seen pages load slowly when you go into safari
so in apple for example if i go to learn more here you'll see it's loading okay now but sometimes you
have to turn off wi-fi turn it back on i've seen others say they have to reboot they're having that
issue they haven't said specifically what device it's on but apparently it seems to be across all
devices so it hopefully is just a software bug and not specific to say the iphone 12 series
also wireless charging issues are apparently still there for some people with the iphone 12 series so
when they plug it in it's not charging properly they were supposedly supposed to fix this with
previous updates and some people are still saying they're seeing it however this is a beta so maybe
that has something to do with it also people keep mentioning bluetooth issues whether that
be disconnecting from different things like airpods or their car people are saying there's
bluetooth issues thankfully i haven't had too many issues with it right now i've noticed some weird
things with the air pods jumping to the phone a little bit differently than to a mac for example
but other than that i really haven't had any issues with bluetooth but i know some people are
having lag with them where they're stuttering and also disconnecting so they'll need to fix that as
well now some people have reported that the phone resprings that which means it basically reboots or
sort of just locks up freezes reboots the display that you're seeing here so that's something people
have been having and then also some people are still having keyboard lag i haven't seen
that anywhere thankfully so when you're typing the keyboard could lag let me show you so if i go into
notes i can type hi how are you today and people are seeing this in messages too but i haven't seen
any keyboard lag in this update at all and then the final thing people have mentioned is when
they're replying to a notification when you hold or long press or 3d touch and reply sometimes it
doesn't work right or there's odd behavior where it's not working properly i haven't experienced
that but i don't get too many notifications popping in that way where i can test that so it
seems to be an issue for some people and not for others so those are all the issues that you might
experience most people are not seeing these issues most people are having a pretty good experience
and report that it's actually having great performance so whether that be you're just opening
an app scrolling going into music playing music and then sort of multitasking going into youtube
they're really saying it's performing very well i'm hearing that across the board for everyone so
if you are having issues make sure you report it in the feedback app so apple can prioritize those
and work on those now when it comes to battery life i haven't heard a whole lot of people mention
anything about it other than that it seems to be pretty good so that's a good sign when you don't
hear a lot of complaints but let's take a look at it we'll go into settings go down to battery and
then battery health many people are still scared to update because of battery health updates do not
diminish or deplete battery health but rather just recheck the physical condition of the battery so
it's just rechecking it and letting you know what it is it doesn't change the health of it overall
so let's take a look at the last 10 days if we take a look at yesterday i used my phone about
50 percent of the battery that i used about half of it and got 3 hours and 15 minutes of screen on
time 29 minutes of screen off time the day before i got three hours and 51 minutes of screen on time
three hours and 58 minutes of screen off time if you double these times i'm getting about eight
hours of screen on time that's not phenomenal it's not bad it's better than what i was getting before
at about six some people are getting 10 to 12. it just depends on what you use what your apps are
you'll see that day i had twitter and music and youtube and those were using power it just
depends day to day home screen and lock screen that's usually notifications so it can vary of
course depending on how you're using your device however the good news is for me anyway it's fixed
the battery issue in standby and standby on my ipad my ipad was getting horrible battery life
and i'd have to charge it very often so if we take a look at it if we take a look at the last 10 days
you can see here that it was last charged at 1107 am today or earlier today up to 100 percent
in that amount of time i've used it for an hour and 14 minutes of screen on time and 3 hours and
25 minutes of screen off time this is actually much better than before just using it an hour i
could use 50 percent of the battery now we're at 81 percent and if i put it to sleep now it
will stay higher than it would before so it's doing much better on the ipad before it was
down to about six hours of screen on time which is really bad for an ipad and even in
standby it wasn't doing well so battery seems to be better for most people and in fact here's
all the statistics that i took from the youtube community poll and all the comments you had to say
so battery life lag freezing and how many people mentioned those particular things not a lot of
people mentioning a ton of issues and some of them are very small or specific to just their device
i'm not seeing repeated over and over which is a good thing now as far as when to expect ios 14.3
beta 3 well we could be on a weekly schedule but based on what we had last year we didn't see ios
14 or 13.4 which i would say is the equivalent of 14.4 this year we didn't see it until late march
so based off of that and five betas later i would think maybe we're on a bi-weekly schedule at this
point and then maybe we'll switch to a weekly schedule after that there's never any way to
know for sure what apple's going to do unless they come out and say it but right now we don't really
know now if we take a look at the calendar you'll see this past week i thought there would be some
sort of public release and the reason i say that is because currently there is no signed version
other than ios 14.3 available to the public apple stopped signing ios 14.2 and 14.2.1 and
usually when they do that within one to two weeks they release a public version so i would expect
a public version this coming week if we don't see one it'll be very abnormal for apple although they
have changed up what they're doing lately but i would expect a minor public version such as
14.3.1 to come out to the public to address maybe that green tin issue in a small bug fix sort of
issues or security updates otherwise i'd be very surprised if we don't see anything this coming
week i know some people have said there's no way but based on what apple's done in the past after
unsigning older versions it makes sense that they would push something out based on that information
now as far as all the devices you're using before we look at the youtube community poll you can see
all the devices here and again all those issues that you were having seem to be not as great as
i would have thought but let's go ahead and take a look at the youtube community poll
and we'll refresh and at the time of this video there's been 18 000 votes this is probably the
fastest there's been this many votes in this amount of time it's probably been about 12
hours at this point 13 hours since i made the poll available as it says here so that's pretty
good i really appreciate everyone that voted and as you can see here fifteen percent are saying
that it's great three percent are saying it's terrible six percent are saying okay but some bugs
sixty-five percent of you did not update to the beta and 11 of you are using android so
i just threw that in there since there aren't too many versions available right now and i
appreciate everyone that voted now there's 162 comments that's where i got all the information
in this video so let's go ahead and take a look at some of those and the first one you can see here
said 13 hours ago from sh don't see the reason to use 14.4 beta no actual appealing features well if
you're not into betas and you don't want to test and try and see what might be new or find bugs in
it then sure i would skip it otherwise then if you want to try something new that's why they're there
it's running great on my 10s happy to see that the frame drops doesn't exist so far for me
on the second beta keep doing great videos and thank you and that's from asif sagil i think is
how you say that braden davis said it's been great for me other than having a few bluetooth issues
on my iphone 12 glad to see that the stutter is gone from beta 1 battery also isn't the greatest
so like i said some people are going to have good experiences with battery some aren't debbie said
still some keyboard lag on my ipad pro 10.9 with the third-party apps like things christian said
iphone 10s max no more lagging perfect charles hartsell said great so far on my 11pro max jeffrey
vener says iphone 12 works great very fluid solid battery johnny daniels says iphone 11 battery life
is okay not the best otherwise everything is good ios 14.4 beta 2. mahir says using ios 14.4
beta 2 quite good on my iphone 7 only issues are extreme overheating and slight stuttering
expect for that everything except for that everything is okay we'll take a look at two
more the seal says higher and on my iphone 12 pro max beta 2 is much better than beta 1
no stutter battery improved no more battery drain on idle and good connectivity luis says 14.3
iphone 7 a lot of battery bugs 10 minutes ago i had 99 percent now i have 86 percent
with 80 battery capacity i still don't know if they're recommended to update to 14.4 beta 2.
and so if you're on beta 1 i would say absolutely i'm not sure if you're on 14.3 or not
but if your battery's dropping that quickly you may want to consider replacing it and that leads
me to whether or not you should install this beta well if you're already a beta tester and
you're on ios 14.4 beta 1 well then absolutely definitely update it'll fix a bunch of bugs
that stutter issue like many have mentioned and perhaps you'll have better battery life you may or
may not but it is a beta so keep that in mind if you're on 14.3 so ios 14.3 with basically issues
i wouldn't ever update to a beta to escape issues unless you want to test something specifically so
i would stick to that until there's a final release but that's really it for this particular
update there's a lot of good things in it as far as bug fixes it seems to be much better more
stable for most people and hopefully it'll improve much by the time it's released to the public so
of course once we know about that i'll let you know and i'll make a video on that if you'd
like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course i'll link it in the description like i normally do
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