Hi, everyone.
Aaron here for Zollotech and today Apple released iOS 14.5 beta eight.
This is available to developers and soon to public beta testers.
And it's very rare to have a beta eight,
unless we're on a 14 or 13, for example,
this is the first time we've had beta eight.
From what I can see from when we have a point update. So this is pretty rare,
but we have eight betas. Now,
now this came in at 131.1 megabytes that's on my iPhone, 12 pro max.
It was under 100 megabytes on the iPhone success plus and around a hundred on
the iPhone 11 on the iPad pro it was about the same as well.
So they also released iPad S 14.5 beta eight,
and macOS Big Sur 11.3 beta eight.
They did not release a watch iOS beta eight or TVO S beta eight yet.
Now let's go ahead and take a look at the build number and then talk about
what's new. So we'll go to settings than general than about as you can see,
the build number is 18E5199a
and this is quite a few builds in to still have an a at the end,
but we're getting very close to a final release.
This is not the release candidate. This is probably the final beta.
And as far as any new features while there's no new modem update in this update.
So if you were having connectivity issues that they weren't able to fix in the
update so far, there's no modem update.
That doesn't mean they can't fix it in software.
It just means that there's no specific firmware update to the internal modem of
the device.
So hopefully all of the issues are fixed at this point with eight betas.
Now there was a major announcement today, and that is for a new Apple event.
If we go into apple.com, take a look at the events page,
you can see there's an Apple event. It says,
watch it on April 20th at 10:00 AM Pacific time.
And that's 1:00 PM Eastern time. If you tap on the icon here,
it's called spring loaded.
You'll see a little augmented reality spring that tried to load there.
We can go to the object and see it here, and it fills in the display.
And again, like I said, it's called spring loaded.
It looks like a spring with a bunch of colors, spiraling into an Apple.
And like I said,
you can see the Apple event time and you can add it to your calendar. Now,
this Apple event is expected to showcase a few different things.
One of those things is a new iPad with new internals,
maybe a mini led display, maybe an Apple TV,
and maybe even finally air tags.
So all of those things are expected at an Apple event.
I thought about doing a separate video about it,
but that's really what we're expecting from that event.
Maybe some new Macs as well,
but those have not really been confirmed in any way as far as being released.
So hopefully we'll have a few surprises at that Apple event and I'll link the
event page in the description as well. Now, as far as new features,
there are no other additional physical features that we can see don't expect any
major changes anymore after 14.5,
because we've got WWDC coming around the corner with iOS 15,
where we'll see those major changes,
where we might see some changes to the control center and more. And so,
as far as this update,
it looks like they're getting things fixed and nailed down. In fact,
in the notes,
they say there's nothing in the notes as far as resolved issues or bugs that
they've fixed. So we should get fairly close to a final release here,
and hopefully they've fixed issues such as cellular and wifi switching.
Now that was fixed for me on beta seven,
where it would switch back and forth and sometimes not load the webpage.
That seems to be fixed and beta seven.
I would imagine the same thing in beta eight.
A lot of people were mentioning issues with Bluetooth.
So we'll have to see if that's fixed so far, it's doing good,
but we may have to see that as well as a flashing logo that would flash
upon boot up. For example, that should be fixed in beta eight.
It was fixed in earlier betas as well. And then again, green tint,
we'll have to see if this has green tint,
I was never able to reproduce it on my display,
whether that be in dark environments or anything else.
So whether you're an in dark mode,
maybe you're in a dark room with brightness all the way down.
I was never able to replicate that on any of my iPhone twelves,
but a lot of you have been able to replicate that as well.
So that could be an issue. So all of those things could be fixed in this.
We'll have to wait a few days to see that for sure.
As far as the iPad is concerned,
iPad iOS 14.5 beta eight should have the same sort of minor
bug fixes, really refining everything.
And then of course reporting things and feedback.
If you continue to have those issues, make sure you do that. Now,
as far as my iPad battery is where I've had an issue.
I've had no issues with problems on this. So if we go into settings for example,
and take a look at battery,
battery has been the biggest problem for me on this iPad.
If we take a look at the last 10 days,
you'll see it was charged today at 6:24 PM or yesterday,
rather up to a hundred percent. And it was barely used.
So we've used it about an hour since that point.
And this one actually shows maybe four and a half hours.
I'm getting about five hours of screen on time. I'm down to 48% of battery.
So generally I'm getting half the battery life I would expect on the iPad.
Hopefully this is resolved and we'll have to wait a few days to know that for
sure. Now, battery life on iOS. Let's take a look and see where we're at.
If we go to settings and then we go back to battery,
then we go to battery health, battery health is at 100% for me.
It's still calculating on the iPhone 11. In fact,
I didn't install the update on here so I could compare,
but we'll go back to battery.
It should still be calibrating the battery where it has that new message here.
Your battery health reporting system is recalibrating and it popped open
the handoff again, when you bring it close to an iPhone,
that seems to be an issue that the handoff on the newer phones, for some reason,
the magnetic field or something, it thinks it's handing off, but as you can see,
it's recalibrating the battery. So I'm just waiting for that to complete.
So I didn't install the update on the 11, but as you can see,
I'm at 100% on the 12 pro max. If we take a look at the last 10 days,
I did talk about in the previous versions, as well as the few days later,
videos that I did,
where I just wasn't getting battery life that appeared to be accurate.
So this says I was using three hours in one minutes of screen on time yesterday
with 29 minutes of screen off time, uh,
used 50% of the battery that would put me in about six hours of screen on time
if I was to continue to use it.
And that's definitely not enough as far as what I was getting when this was new
of about 10 to 12. Now that doesn't mean I can't get that out of this,
but for some reason, and you'll see, I did use my hotspot a little bit,
so that will pull the battery down a little bit faster.
But if we look back over the other days,
I'm just not getting amazing battery life,
but I'm getting to the end of the day with 50% left.
Now this is a little bit lower because I've run performance benchmarks on this
as well as installed an update without plugging it in.
So it's a little bit lower as well as the Apple invites.
I was checking for things like that.
So that's to be expected when doing an update, but in general,
the battery seems to be okay, but we'll have to see if it's more accurate.
And if, and if it goes up significantly now, as far as performance is concerned,
so far performance is nice and smooth. In fact,
I was using this before I started making this video and notice that everything
seems to be smooth. There's no stutter.
I've had no lag when closing out of apps and on the iPhone success.
Plus I'm seeing about the same.
There was some stutter the other day on beta seven.
So we'll wait for it to load. That's just internet speed.
Let's go back and you'll see. It's actually smoother than it was the other day.
So that's a good sign. We'll go back here.
We can scroll back and forth and frame rates may not be amazing on this,
but it seems to be nice and smooth in general.
So even on the oldest of devices,
I think they've smoothed out some of the bugs and hopefully they'll remain that
way after a few days.
Now let's take a look at the benchmarks and see how these scores,
so we'll go over to geek bench here and on benchmarks.
I actually ran this twice on the 12 pro max,
since I let it cool down a little bit after it updated.
And usually it improves a little bit, but you'll see,
I scored 1,594 for single core, 4,201 for single,
for multi-core. We take a look at the history here.
You'll see here's the two times I ran it.
And the second time I had significantly higher multi-core scores and
the single core went up a little bit. So it's better than we had earlier today,
but still not as great as we had the other day.
Maybe one point better than the last beta.
So generally when you're this close they're right within range,
that they should be performing as expected.
Although I do think it is a little bit smoother.
Let's take a look at these devices here,
so you can get an idea of what you have.
If you have some of the older devices or anything in between on the left,
I have the 12.9 inch iPad pro from 2020 in the center or in the middle.
I have the iPhone six S plus, and then on the right,
I have the iPhone 12 pro max. And like I said,
these are just to give you a general idea of what you should be getting.
If you have one of these devices,
usually they will go up a little bit after things are done processing in the
background. Now that leads me to, should you install iOS 14.5 beta eight?
And I would say absolutely like I normally do this late in the betas since at
beta eight. Now, if you're on beta seven or any of the previous betas,
definitely install it to make sure that it's running properly.
And if it's not report feedback in the feedback app. Now, if you're wondering,
if you should go from 14.4 0.2 to 14.5 betas,
if you're looking to solve a problem, I normally recommend against it. However,
it seems to be stable enough where it shouldn't be an issue for most people.
If you want to try it out, however,
I never recommend you put it on your main device.
So if you're looking to do that,
maybe hold off until we expect the final release, which should be pretty soon.
Now that we know the release of the Apple event here on the 20th one week from
today at 1:00 PM Eastern time,
we know that most likely we'll have a release candidate on that day.
That was actually reported by Bloomberg today that we would have a release
candidate according to Mark Gurman. Now, if that's true,
we would have the release candidate here with probably a final release later in
that week, based off of that information,
it's possible we could ever release candidate later in this week with a final
release on the 20th,
but I think there's some products they don't want us to see in the final build
of iOS 14.5.
So it makes sense that we would have the release candidate on the 20th,
then a final announcement of when to expect it later in that week,
or maybe the following week when products come out.
So that seems to make the most sense based on what we've seen in the past.
So we're only about a week or two away at this point from a final release.
We know for sure that it's going to be the 20th.
They'll either have a release candidate or a final based on what they've done
time after time for years and years in the past.
And so I'm looking really forward to that event,
very much to a new iPad and whatever else they have to show us.
I hope they show us something we haven't seen before.
That's just been really kept under wraps. I'm looking very forward to that,
but let me know what you're looking most forward to in the comments below.
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