What's up guys my name's Brandon and today Apple released ios 14.7 almost two months after the
release of iOS 14.6. Now in addition to this ios release, we also got ipad os 14.7 watch os 7.6
mac os big sur 11.5 tvos 14.7 and homepod os 14.7, but of course in this video we're talking
all about ios and ipad os 14.7 and what all is new along with the performance the battery life
and more now taking a look at the size of this update you can see here it came in just under
one gigabyte on my iphone 12 here came in at 915 megabytes but of course that size will vary
depending on your device and the version you're coming from now also if you are on the rc build if
you're running the betas of ios 14 you might need to delete the beta profile to see ios 14.7 show up
on your device so anyways let's go ahead and move on to the build number and the modem so if we go
to our settings and to general and then to about and then tap on 14.7 you can see the build number
is going to be either 18g 68 or 18g69 so if we scroll down a little bit to the modem firmware
you can see that the modem has also received an update it's now 1.80.02 so if you're having any
connectivity issues or just issues related to the modem you could see those fixed thanks to this
update so now what's new here in ios 14.7 and the first thing is compatibility with the new magsafe
battery pack for the iphone 12. so this is the new product apple just released and ios 14.7 adds
compatibility for this new battery pack also new in ios 14.7 is apple card family support so if you
have kids or a significant other that you want to share your apple card with whether that's to build
credit together or just track expenses whatever the case may be you can now do that so when you
open up the wallet application you will see this card right once you open it up if you tap on get
started it says share your apple card with members of your family sharing group track spending pay
a single bill build credit together and receive daily cash if you tap on continue this is how you
add somebody in you have to invite the person so if you invite people to family sharing right here
of course they will already show up if you have them in family sharing but if not you can invite
like so you can send them a link via airdrop or messages or you can invite in person right here
so if the person's right beside you they can just enter in their apple id and password right there
and you will be on your way also new in ios 14.7 we now have the ability to add and manage timers
for the homepod so you can see right here i have my office homepod right here if i have to
press on that you can see down here we have a timers section that did not used to be there
and from here we can set multiple timers like if i want to set a timer for one hour i can do
that just press start right there i can also tap on new and start a timer for one minute
and start it right there and you can see the countdown of the timer's right there
on the homepod and then when the timer goes off this is the noise you'll hear
so that's what the timer sounds like and of course you can just go ahead and cancel these timers
right here just a tap of a button so you can now manage and add timers inside the home application
for your homepod instead of having to ask siri to do it also new in ios 14.7 if we go to the podcast
application and then to the library tab and then to shows you can see that we now have this section
off by followed and all so before this is ios 14.6 on the left we did not have a sorting option up
there just kind of just showed all of our shows no matter what but now in 14.7 it shows the
shows that you're following and also all shows right here so like for example oddball showing
up under all because i downloaded one episode but i'm not following that podcast so it does not show
up under followed it almost shows up under all so there are now sorting options here and the podcast
library tab under shows here in 14.7 now one of the main issues that has been fixed here in ios
14.7 is a fix for the apple music 15 second bug so this is very popular over the past couple of
months a lot of people had this issue where if they had adobe atmos enabled or lossless audio
enabled they could only play like 15 seconds of a song before it would just pause or it would just
give them like an error message but that has been fixed here in ios 14.7 and then also some people
had an issue where they could not share their playlist like if you went to playlist right here
and you tapped and held right here and you have the share playlist menu option right there so
some people did not have that in 14.6 but that has also been resolved here in 14.7 you can share your
playlist that link is back another resolved issue in ios 14.7 is that the battery service message on
iphone 11's the iphone 11 series so this is the 11 pro max and if you had any type of battery
you know service message up top or anything about the recalibration right there that would disappear
after a reboot and not show up again but that's been fixed and now it stays there even after a
reboot we also have some updates to weather for certain countries so the air quality index has now
been added to both weather and maps so the air quality right here under weather and then also
in maps in the bottom right hand corner of maps you now get air quality index for canada france
italy netherlands south korea and spain we also have a fix for braille displays showing invalid
information while composing mail messages so that has been resolved here in 14.7 and then the final
thing that's been resolved in 14.7 which is a pretty big one is the wi-fi bug so if we go back
to our wi-fi right here and then go to wi-fi if the ssid on previous versions like ios 14.6 and
previous had a percent sign in that ssid and you connected to it it could brick your wi-fi settings
completely and you would not be able to connect to wi-fi again unless you reset your settings so
that has been resolved here in 14.7 that bug no longer exists and as far as green tent goes ios
14.7 appears to fix green tent for some users so some people with the iphone 12 series have been
having the green tent issue ever since the iphone 12 came out and ios 14.7 appears to fix that even
more so it seems like it's getting better just progressively with every software update and it
seems like ios 14.7 is further fixing the green tent issue although some people are saying it's
still there but it's just not as bad as it was when they first got their phone now as far as
the performance goes the performance feels very smooth here it feels very good i mean we have
been in the beta stages for quite a while so you would expect it to be very stable and run very
well which it does now i don't know if it's that much faster than ios 14.6 it does seem a little
bit better and a little bit smoother just because of the bug fixes but just overall raw performance
it feels about the same as ios 14.6 now if i go ahead and run a geekbench test here for ios 14.7
i will show you guys what i score so you can see we got a 1594 on the single core and a 40 36
on the multi-core so not bad on the geekbench scores of course they don't always tell the full
story they usually don't tell the full story but it is kind of just interesting to see what every
version scores as far as that test goes now as far as battery life goes this is one area where 14.7
is going to shine because a lot of people had battery drain issues on 14.6 even on 14.5 but 14.7
should resolve a lot of the battery drain issues especially on newer devices so some people have
battery drain issues even on the iphone 12 and even the iphone 11 series so ios 14.7
should resolve those issues the battery life has been great here on 14.7 and i would expect that
since 14.7 is going to be one of the final ios 14 versions before ios 15 comes out it's not going
to be the final one i don't believe which we'll talk about here in a moment but it is going to be
one of the final ios 14 releases so battery life should be good and fortunately it is here on 14.7
so now let's go ahead and talk about what is next for apple because i do think that an ios 14.7.1 or
a 14.8 will be coming very very soon now if it's 14.8 it'll likely go through beta testing but if
it's 14.7.1 it's likely going to be just a public release without any beta testing necessary now we
still do have a couple of months to go before apple releases ios 15 sometime here probably in
mid september so we do have a couple of months to go before ios 15 gets released so i would expect
at least one probably two more ios 14 releases until september so just keep that in mind you
don't have to be on ios 15 betas at this point you could go back to ios 14 and you'll be just fine so
that's what you can expect for the future of ios 14 releases so anyways guys there you have it that
is ios 14.7 a nice update with a lot of pretty big fixes so we have the battery drain fix we have a
fix for the apple music 15 second bug the wi-fi fix and some nice changes as well here in 14.7
so definitely recommend updating i would recommend updating no matter what version you're on
and if you're on ios 15 and it's running you know pretty bad if you're having bugs i would recommend
downgrading to 14.7 because the performance and the battery life will be significantly better
and i did post a tutorial on how to downgrade if you want to do that i will leave that linked in
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