hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech & iOS 14 has been out for a little bit
over a week now I've been using it on my iPhone 11 Pro max and also the iPhone 7
here has it installed as well this is a jet-black iPhone 7 that they released a
while ago and I really like this finish but it's not as nice as the matte finish
as far as keeping away those fingerprints but I wanted to talk about
whether or not you should install iOS 14 betas and also answer the question of
when is iOS 14 public beta 1 going to come out what is the beta schedule going
to look like and also when you can expect the final public release of iOS
14 I get asked that almost daily those questions and so I wanted to compare it
with iOS 13 and then help you decide whether or not you should install iOS 14
betas based on feedback I've had previous experience with every single
iOS and iPhone OS beta and then also show you how it compares to a public
release such as iOS 13 point 6 when it comes to performance on older devices so
the first thing is iOS 14 should be released to public beta testers not too
long from now in fact if we take a look at the calendar here I would expect iOS
14 public beta 1 on either the 6th or the 7th of July and that's based on what
they did last year releasing it two weeks later
so when iOS 13 was released two weeks later the public beta came out and then
every couple of weeks there was a new beta and so for example on June 4th
Apple released iOS 13 beta 1 then on June 17th they released public beta 1
with beta 2 of the developer beta then on July 2nd they released a beta 3 and
then they again released it on July 8th along with the second build of beta 3
and also iOS 13 public beta 2 it was really confusing then they went to July
17th and then continued on a week-by-week schedule so what you can
expect is currently expect a couple weeks where we'll have or a couple maybe
into the end of the end of July or so where we'll have a new beta every couple
of weeks and then we'll also have it speed up as we
closer to September where we'll have a new beta every week and so I'm not sure
the exact number of betas that we'll see but expect every couple of weeks to have
a new one with the public beta one starting not too far from now if Apple
continues to do what they've done in the past then we'll see a final release
towards the end of September or maybe in October this year's think since things
got pushed a little bit further back so last year September 29th 2019 Apple
released iOS 13 to the public and then maybe we'll see iOS 14 then but I would
say it's probably more likely to be in October based on things being pushed
back a few weeks this year now when it does come out I wanted to help you
decide if you should install it or not and so the good thing about betas though
is that you can roll back to previous versions but before you do any of that
make sure you have a backup on your phone either iCloud backup or iTunes or
the finder on your Mac make sure you have a physical backup somewhere in case
you want to restore to a previous version also in order to restore you'll
need a computer so just keep that in mind
so I wouldn't suggest putting the beta on or at least early betas on your main
device I would use an older device such as an iPhone 7 maybe you have laying
around maybe a device that you were going to get rid of or maybe you just
have a device that you have as a secondary device put it on the one
you're not using the most and you'll probably find that that's a better way
to do that based on the first few betas now later on it could be much more
stable in fact iOS 14 has been more stable in general than any iOS 13 or
even early 12 betas so that's a good sign but there are some bugs with it so
let me talk about some of those bugs and then we'll talk about speed and things
on older devices in a moment now one bug that I continually have that
really is driving me nuts but it's a beta so it's not too big of a deal is
when I go to airdrop a photo so maybe I want to airdrop this wallpaper to say
that iPhone 7 so they can match for this video if I go into photos then I go to
airdrop that photo I've already got it selected and maybe I want to airdrop it
over to that iPhone 6s plus a lot of the time it will fail and of course it's
going to work now but in order to get it to work
properly I actually have to hard reboot the phone so maybe I want to send it to
the mat for example it might send it may not in this time it's going to send so
it's really hit or miss for me and I've had to reboot the phone about three
times to get airdrop to work properly it works fine on previous builds for me
I've also had a few issues with some apps there's a couple that won't work
and one that I keep hearing a lot is Pokemon go so if you play pokemon go you
do not want to install this update in this version unless you are waiting for
them to update it or maybe beta 2 will work better but right now pokemons go
doesn't seem to work with iOS 14 so there's certain things that may not be
acceptable for you and if your apps don't work then you shouldn't be using
this because you need to rely on it so just keep in mind that there's going to
be issues also battery life could go to great or it could go really poor Apple
does not focus so much on battery life during betas they try and get those
sorts of things sorted before the public release so they're focusing on getting
their code right getting things operating properly and for example this
is my iPhone 11 pro max I have 97% battery capacity and if we go to the
last ten days we'll just take a look at today you'll see I have three hours and
16 minutes of screen on time and 2 hours and 46 minutes of screen off time now
you'll see that I've used about 39% of my battery here so you can see we're at
61% currently so I've used 39% of my battery and I only have a few hours so
this is not really good compared to what I got before previously I would get
about 12 hours of screen on time so that's not too much of an issue for
me I can just plug it in where I am it's not an issue but it may be an issue for
a lot of people now based on the feedback app Apple will continue to work
on the problems based on priority so if you report feedback they'll work on it
based on the importance of what's going on so for example maybe music isn't
working properly or maybe you open the camera and it crashes every time and you
report that that's going to be a higher priority on the list then say battery
life this early on because well it's important that major functions work such
as the camera batteries can can be worked on a little
bit later and you can always plug it in so just keep those things in mind when
you're testing a beta now on older devices such as the iPhone 7 performance
seems to be okay however expect it not to be as good as the iPhone 11 pro max
because with the 11 Pro max I've actually had some locking up from time
to time it will sort of freeze I've also had a keyboard entry or typing entries
be little a little bit slow from time to time so if I go into notes and maybe I
type a new note saying this is a new note and you'll see that's fine but
sometimes it will just sort of hang so keep that in mind but compared to say
iOS 13 point 6 on this iPhone 6s plus while scrolling your normal tasks and
everything seemed to be nice and fast so scrolling through different menus and
everything else seemed to be about the same I really don't see any performance
hit there but being that it is a beta it's going to have some issues and the
longer you use it without restarting it and things in early betas it tends to
have more issues so just keep that in mind
usually Apple will release the public betas when they feel they're ready
enough for the majority of people to use them without major issues so I would say
it's usually safe with a public beta to install it but just be cautious and know
that if you need to go back you'll need a computer to do that and you need to
have a backup to restore from or you'll have to start over so as far as iOS 14 I
look really forward to following betas of course I'll have videos on those as
soon as they come out but hopefully this helps you decide whether or not you
should install one and gives you an idea of what to expect as far as release
schedules going forward let me know if you've installed iOS 14 in the comments
below or if you plan to install the beta as
soon as it comes out for public beta testers I'd love to hear from you in the
comments below if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course I'll
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thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time