Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and today apple released ios 14 developer
beta 4. this is out to all developers on ios 14
supported devices and came in at 624.6 megabytes on my iphone 11 pro max
it was similarly sized on my iphone se my iphone 7 and my 2020 ipad pro 12.9
they ranged anywhere from 400 to 600 megabytes
now if you're looking for the public beta usually that will come out either
later today by the time you're watching this video
or the following day now alongside ios 14
beta 4 apple also released ipad os 14 beta 4 watch os 7 beta 4
tv os 14 beta 4 and still no public beta versions of watch os
or mac os big sur and there's still no beta 4 of that so
maybe by the time you're watching this video there will be but as of this time
there's not let's take a look at the build number
and then talk about what's new you can see the build number is 18a
5342e and we're getting closer and closer to finalizing
what will be in this beta and getting everything as far as all the bugs
fixed so in this particular update there is a small modem update for the 11 pro
max and other devices on the iphone 11 pro max it's updated to
1.50.23 and then also with this particular
update apple is fixing a lot of issues and resolving them and there
still remains known issues so there's 39 known issues that still
remain and there's 24 resolved issues and those things include quick action
menus over widgets for example so if you're pressing and holding
and you're using haptic touch or 3d touch the
quick actions will work properly also the weather widget should be updating to
real time now so it should match whatever the temperature is although
it didn't there but apple has said they've fixed that picture and picture
face time should work properly now and also trying to install updates
should work properly now some people are having issues installing
from ios 14 beta 3 updating to beta 4 so you may need a
computer if you're having that issue now one of the issues they've resolved
is 3d touch so if you're using 3d touch on your device and we're
kind of upset that they removed it last time well it's back and works as
expected so you'll see that we have let's go over
to 3d touch here so you'll see 3d touch is on it works
properly you can use it all over the os and it works much better than haptic
touch now as far as other features that are updated well
there's not a ton of new things but there are a few so if we go into
settings for example and we go back to our main settings page
scroll down we now have exposure notifications now
this is off by default in fact there's no way to turn it on if you go into the
note notification settings so it says
exposure notifications are off if you turn them on your public health
authority can notify you of possible exposure
and you'll only be able to turn them on if you've installed an app that can use
it otherwise otherwise there's no way to turn it on
now this is a little bit different than what we had with beta 3.
in beta 3 it's actually under privacy so there is no separate setting but instead
you would go to your location services down to system and then now you have
exposure notifications apple's made its own separate menu so
hopefully that clarifies it for a few people it's
off by default not on by default like it was before and
it should work properly if you're using an app
otherwise it's off by default there's no way to turn it on
now there is a new widget in this particular update and so if we scroll
up right here you'll see we have a new apple tv widget so if i press and hold
we'll wait for it here add and then scroll down
you'll see we have a new tv widget in all three sizes
so if you want to use that you can and it's a new widget that's
here so it's nice that they keep adding all of these widgets now in addition to
the apple tv widget they've also made a change to the shortcuts widget so if we
press and hold we'll add a widget if we scroll down to
our shortcuts you'll see that we now have a single size
shortcut widget so we'll select this one let's move it over to this screen here
and you'll see that it's blank if we set it on this screen
if we press and hold on this widget we can edit the widget
and select a singular shortcut to have it run
so here i'll select battery manager and i've shared some of these shortcuts
before you'll see now it sticks if i tap on
this widget it will run the battery manager
activate deactivate fast charger ultra low power and so
you can set any widget you'd like here in the previous version you could not do
that so you'll see that if i scroll to this
page you only had the option for this size and you could not edit the widget
so you couldn't set what you wanted specifically for one singular widget so
they've updated that now as far as search they've actually
improved this from beta 3. so if we go ahead and pull down using spotlight
search and type apple compared to the results
we got with beta 3 they're much better so you'll see it
gives us apps at the top then some of our contacts and as we
scroll down you've got different files that contain that and all sorts of other
information so everything from apple news
on beta 3 we didn't have any of these we have
full search throughout apps our contacts and everything else so
it's pretty nice that they've put that in there and made search a lot better
now also on beta 3 when you deleted an app it was slightly different so
for example if i go into youtube here press and hold
to delete the app and then tap on remove app you'll see that they've changed it
from remove from home screen to move to app library it seems like
they keep changing this over and over but they've
been updating it and that's what we have now so
move to app library if you hit delete you can uninstall or remove the app
and so they've made that small change from beta 3.
now on the ipad there's a slight change as well with the widgets i noticed
there's more of a bug so all of the same updates apply to ipad
os but there's more of a bug on here if i
go to add a widget so let's press and hold on a widget
and you'll notice that i have the weather widget back as well so
that's back on the ipad but one thing i noticed is a problem if i add a widget
then maybe i want to say add the new apple tv widget
and maybe i want to add let's say this size will hit add widget
and it's working properly now now nine times out of ten when i would add a
widget it would actually add it in the size smaller than what it's showing
so i would go to add this size and it would give me a one size widget if i
added the larger one it would give me this size
so if you're experiencing that bug be sure to report it in feedback
but thankfully we have this weather widget back and i'm glad to see that on
the screen now so it's good to have that back on the ipad
if you're missing that and with that those are the only changes in ios 14
beta 4 or any of the major changes anyway i looked all throughout i
couldn't find anything else that was obvious
but those were the major changes and this particular update does
feel like it's performing well but before i talk about that
let's take a look at battery life because battery life on ios 14 beta 3
was pretty terrible for me so if i go to battery
you'll see my battery health is at 96 percent which is normal after this
amount of time and if we go to the last 10 days let's
take a look at yesterday i only had 3 hours and 53 minutes of
screen on time 4 hours and 53 minutes of screen ah
screen off time and you'll see that i used about 75
percent of my battery that's pretty terrible battery life normally i
was getting 10 to 12 hours with ios 13.6 so i would expect that sort of battery
life hopefully to get a little bit better with this beta
but apple doesn't focus on battery life this early on usually
you'll see the day before maybe i would have gotten eight to ten hours of screen
on time based off what i had but it's always hard to say with this particular
update i did notice the phone was quite warm
when i first started it back up but then it
now feels cool and it seems like it's performing
very nice the scrolling and everything is nice and fast
when i go into settings for example you'll see everything smooth here
going into different apps i always use music as an example but you'll see
everything's loading quickly and performance on older devices seems
to be pretty good as well so on the iphone se for example i did
play around with this just a little bit and we'll wait for music to load here
it's the first time i've opened music so i could show you in real time
and you'll see it's a little bit stuttery on the older hardware
but it should be pretty good for the most part i did go into minecraft you'll
see it will reload here we'll wait for it just a moment and
we'll resume and you'll see we're back in and this
gives us an idea of what frame rates can be expected
so i'm sort of stuck in a forest here so let's see if we can get out of here
there we go i'm out of the forest so now i'm out and
this gives you an idea of frame rate so it does seem to be pretty smooth overall
for an older device so i wouldn't expect this to
affect performance negatively in any way and also
there's the translate app and everything else so everything should be working as
you expect now let's take a look at the geekbench
scores i did run them on all of these devices using geekbench 5.
i actually ran it a couple times on the iphone 11 pro max because it was warm at
first like i said and then it cooled down
so i scored 1333 for single core 3394 for multi-core that's pretty good
compared to the history so we'll take a look
you'll see the two that i ran today as opposed to the last couple versions
so yes it's a little bit slower with multi or single core but a little bit
faster with multi-core so i wouldn't expect any performance
differences but hopefully we do see some better battery life
now i'll show you all these different devices so you have an idea what yours
should be performing at if you're checking out benchmarks as well from
left to right i have the 2020 ipad pro 12.9 then i have the iphone se the
original iphone se then the iphone 7 followed by the iphone
11 pro max so if your scores are anywhere
around these numbers expect performance to be the same now apple also released a
new imac today it's not a redesign but it has a
big spec bump and can go pretty expensive over eight thousand dollars if
you load it out but it has some pretty impressive specs
and it may replace the imac pro now also ios 13.6.1
i thought would be out by this point already but maybe we won't see it until
later this week or maybe even next week usually apple pushes one of those new
updates to the public to sort of fix bugs whether that be for
security issues or features but normally i would expect that out by now
so any day it's hard to say what apple's doing but
hopefully we'll see that pretty soon if you found any other features i'd love
to hear from you in the comments below and maybe i'll do a follow-up video if
there's a bunch of other ones and of course give you a shout out if
you showed me that feature now as far as this wallpaper of course
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