hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and today Apple released iOS 12.1 to the
public however for some people it was coming up as iOS 12 if you were on the
public beta but if you're not on the public beta or the developer beta you
got 12.1 and it came in at 516 point 3 megabytes now if you are getting iOS 12
you can just install it and it actually will install and then reboot and install
the current version of iOS 12.1 it's mislabeled when you go to the software
update page so if you go to your phone and you have the beta on there just go
to settings then go to general scroll down to the bottom go to profile tap on
the profile remove the profile put in your password once you put in your
password hit remove and then what you'll need to do is reboot I will wait for
this to reboot here and we'll try this in just a moment and I'll show you what
it looks like now the phone has rebooted you want to go to settings go to general
and then software update we'll wait for it to check the update and it will
probably come back with iOS 12 as far as what it's going to install it's just and
just like that it came back its iOS 12 but really when it installs it'll be iOS
12.1 now I've done that on all of these devices and I wanted to see what it
would look like and it's fine once you do that now let's take a look at the
build number because depending on the device you have it's slightly different
if you have an iPhone 10 R it's different than all of the others so
let's go to settings then we'll go to general and about and you'll see the
version numbers are slightly different 16 b9 2 and 16 b9 3 it's not a big deal
but it is something to know now as far as these devices are concerned there's
quite a few changes or updates and fixes in the background but let's cover what's
new first and we'll talk about what's fixed later on now the first thing is
group FaceTime we've been waiting for this since iOS 12 and this is available
on iPhone 6s and newer so if you have a 5s 6 or 6 plus you're out of luck but
any of the others you're good to go the same is true for the iPad air 2 and
newer and iPad Mini 4 all the older ones it won't work but you will have group
FaceTime audio so let me show you how that works so
what you want to do is go to FaceTime now I'm calling myself on Group face
time and you'll see that it says add a person so let me answer it over here now
I've answered it and you can see we're looking at the camera over here and here
now I can add a person by going here tapping this button here and tap on add
a person now I can put in whatever the person's name is so let's try another
one now I'm adding another one and it opened up on this phone now I'm trying
with the same iCloud ID so it's not working properly but you'll see if I
want to bring these to the forefront you tap on which one you want on the front
and it will bring it up here so it's pretty simple and straightforward
up to 32 people now the next thing they've done is add over 70 emoji this
is for Unicode 11 so let's take a look at those and there's over 70 different
ones so there's cold and hot in three heart face and woozi and all sorts of
different ones you've got a super hero a super villain red hair bald curly hair
gray hair or white hair different things such as a petri dish DNA that's probably
my favorite there fire-extinguisher sponge all of these new ones have been
added and some of these have options so these any of them that are people you
can change skin colors and tones and all of that sort of thing as well so those
have all been added now one of the things they've added is for the iPhone
10 R 10s and 10's Macs and 10 if you go to the camera you go to portrait what
you've got now is a depth control while you're using it so you tap on this
little F for f-stop and let me put my hand here and we'll blur out the
background so you can blur it out actually let me spin the camera around
so you can see it a little bit better and the background will blur out if I go
up and it will go clear if I go down and you can see it before you're using it so
that's a new feature that they've added as well and it is a little bit screwy
until it takes the photo now of course relating to the camera one of the things
they fixed is Beauty gate so if we go back in we'll take a picture I'll move
to the side here for a moment so it should no longer smooth my face and what
they've said is that it was picking the wrong frame of the HDR pictures that it
was taking the wrong base layer and it's since fixed that so it seems to be doing
much better as far as that go now they've also fixed the out
issue that plagued not only my 10s max but my 10 R and 10s and some others
those should all be fixed but they specifically call out the 10s 10s max
and 10 R so that should be fixed across to all of these devices it also fixed
issues with voicemails not appearing on some devices and also resolved an issue
where those eye messages could be merged into one thread from different users now
also if you were having issues with the phone app it should resolve this issue
where there were numbers appearing without their corresponding contact name
so some people had messaged me about that that should be resolved in the
phone app as well also an or adds to the performance management feature in the
iPhone 8 8 plus and iPhone 10 and what that means is if you go to settings and
then you go to battery you should now have the option for under battery health
for this peak performance capability as the battery ages it may not be at peak
performance this one's at 99 percent but if it's not and it reboots you can
choose performance or you can choose for battery longevity and it slows it down a
little bit that's now in the iPhone 10 8 and 8 plus now with the older devices
Apple has added the ability for them to tell you whether or not the battery is
genuine and that's in case you need to replace it and you don't replace it with
an apple battery it will let you know that apparently and tell you if it's
genuine or unable to tell you if it's genuine or not so that's something
that's a little bit different now also if you're using group sharing or you're
using the sharing where you can share different iCloud storage there was an
issue that could prevent adding or removing a family member from family
sharing and that's under your settings and under iCloud so you can add family
members there and there was a bug with that so now you can add family members
or remove them and you shouldn't have an issue voice over in camera Siri and
Safari that should be fixed as far as that goes it should improve it and it
also fixes an issue for those of you distributing applications and things to
devices with MDM device enrollment so it should help with that there is one more
issue I didn't mention and that has to do with screen time so if you're in
screen time and you manage children you go to screen time and you have some
people to manage you can now manage those
with face ID or touch ID and it also fixes an issue that prevented screen
time from reporting specific website activity in the screen time app so all
of those things should be resolved now as far as battery is concerned on all of
these it's hard to say because well it's only been out an hour or two and
hopefully it's quite good it was good on the beta's for me battery life was quite
good on the last beta in fact let me show you on the 10r
where I've been using it the most for the review but let's go to the battery
wait for it to load and battery you'll see five hours 13 minutes I'm at 95% I
have been using this all morning and it was plugged in while I was updating it
this one I updated through iTunes all of the rest they did over-the-air
I was trying different things as we had issues but if I go to the last five days
you'll see I'm getting four hours and 42 minutes and I have a ton of battery life
left so I'm probably gonna get six to eight hours of battery life on the
iPhone 10 hour and that was on beta 5 now as far as speed goes I did run a
geek bench test on this so let's take a look at that and it came in at four
thousand seven hundred and ninety-six and eleven thousand three hundred and
thirty six if we take a look at the history you'll see here that it's pretty
good it's right about the same we're not going to see much of a difference and
everything is seemingly smooth in the past couple hours I've been using it on
different devices so scrolling is smooth that looks good and different apps open
fine and games seem to be working okay as well there's quite a few updates as
well including one to shortcuts I'll have a video on that later on now with
the iPad there's not anything specifically new it works well all of
the apps seem to work okay for me I've been using the iPad on the beta's for a
while and I've had no issues whatsoever so if it was working well before it
should continue to work well plus half the bug fixes I'm mentioning so there's
not a whole lot more to talk about that was a lot of little updates it's
basically the fix you want to install if you've got I Oh s 12 you want to install
this to fix all of those issues because 12.1 is where most of the issues of
fixed we'll probably see it 12.2 beta starting next week or sometime around
and who knows what features will be in it but I'll keep you updated if you'd
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watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time