- [Narrator] How's it going, guys,
in this video we're gonna take a look
at what's new in iOS 14, beta four, check it out.
(gentle sounds)
So right off the bat, let me just say
that what you're gonna find in beta four
are subtle changes in features for the most part.
And that's demonstrated here within the Weather app.
So if you look closely,
you're gonna notice that the icons
that illustrate what the weather conditions will be like
on various days, those have been modified slightly.
So for instance, on beta four
the lightning bolt for the thunderstorm icon
is actually behind the cloud
instead of in front of the cloud, like on beta three.
And you get a similar change
on the partly sunny glyph as well.
So like I said, very subtle.
Now, another change is gonna be found
within the Settings app.
If you scroll down,
you're gonna notice Exposure Notifications
now has its own dedicated panel,
right at the root of the Settings app.
Here's beta three on the left side, and you don't see
any sort of Exposure Notifications panel there.
So that is brand new in beta four.
Now, you're not gonna see anything here on my screen
because I don't have any sort
of public health authority application
that actually takes advantage
of the Exposure Notification API.
So still waiting on that,
once that appears you'll be able to fool
with that settings panel a little bit.
Now, here is another change within the Music app.
You're gonna notice that the little icon at the top,
upper right hand corner to download all songs
in an album, that has been modified just slightly.
Now you see a little circle outline around it.
Again, like I said, very subtle changes here,
but when you tap that to download,
you're also gonna notice another change that occurs
once the download of the entire album is completed.
So you're gonna see a brand new icon there
that denotes, here in just a second, give it a sec.
There we go.
So you see a little check mark icon
that denotes that all the songs in that album
have been downloaded.
If you tap that you'll get options for removing songs
and deleting the album from your library.
Now on beta three, you're gonna notice
that that's a little bit different.
So instead of that low key check mark icon,
you get a full text that says downloaded
with the check mark next to that,
on previous betas and previous versions of iOS.
So I actually prefer how it looks here on iOS 14, beta four.
And if you scroll down,
you could still see those icons at the top.
Now here is a another feature.
This is actually really cool.
So when you go into edit a widget on your home screen,
you're gonna notice here on beta three,
the background just sort of blurs out, right?
But on beta four, when you edit a widget,
the background blurs out,
but it also is tinted to represent the color of the widget
that you're modifying, for instance, here,
the Reminders app, I get a little blue tint
on the background, it's subtle again,
but you can tell the difference here
when I go to edit the Reminders app on beta three.
I don't know if you could see that, but it's a blue tint.
Just take my word for it.
You'll be able to see it better
when I edit the Notes app here.
So I'm gonna long press, Edit Widget,
and you can see the yellow tint
that kind of sticks out like a sore thumb.
So that's a neat little addition here in beta four.
And then lastly, we get, yes, indeed,
the TV app widget,
something we've been waiting for since the initial beta,
because this was something that actually previewed at WWDC.
It hasn't actually appeared on our phones
until now in beta four.
And this basically gives you up next access
right there on your home screen,
similar to what you find on the Apple TV interface.
You can just tap that and resume
right where you left off when your favorite TV shows
that you were watching or movies
or whatever the case may be here.
So if I just tap that,
it'll load up the video service
associated with that particular channel.
So that was all the iOS features I wanted to show you,
but I'm gonna switch it up a little bit,
normally I don't encroach or bring other sort of platforms
into these iOS videos, but this was so cool.
I had to show you this right here
on the latest, Big Sur beta.
So you can see you have YouTube,
our YouTube channel loaded up, if you haven't subscribed,
go ahead and do so right now,
we'll have a way more videos coming up here
over the next few weeks and months.
But what I wanted to show you is right here.
So you get in Safari 4K support on YouTube
thanks to VP9 decoding baked into macOS Big Sur.
Now you may be wondering why do you care about 4K
on a MacBook Air?
Well, that's true, it's not a true 4K display,
but it's still a higher resolution than 10 ADP.
So you do notice benefits and you have a higher bit rate
with 4K video as well.
So ladies and gentlemen, that is a look
at iOS 14, beta four and a sneak peek
at Big Sur beta four as well.
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This is Jeff with 9to5Mac.