Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and today apple released ios 14
developer beta 8. this is out to all ios 14 supported devices
as well as probably by the time you're watching this video
ios 14 public beta 8 and i'll let you know if that's out in the comments below
now along with this apple also released watch os 7
beta 8 tvos 14 beta 8 as well as ipad os 14 beta 8.
mac os big sur beta 7 which is one behind at this point
maybe later this week or next week apple's a little bit behind with that
they usually release it after ios 14. now at the end of this
video i'll talk about when to expect ios 14 gm or the golden
master which releases to the public or is the final version that will
release to the public and also when to expect ios 14.
now this particular update came in at 101.1 megabytes on my iphone 11 pro max
so let's go ahead and take a look at the build number and everything that's new
now in case you hadn't heard already apple has an event planned for the 15th
and on the 15th apple is expected to introduce apple watches
and ipad air they are not expected to introduce
new iphones although that could change the event should be a couple hours long
so we'll have to wait and see but it'll be pretty interesting if they don't
release iphones and instead wait until an event in october to do that
now as far as this particular update let's take a look at the build number
and take a look at what's new you can see the build number is 18a
5373a so a means we're at the end they count
back down to the letter a prior to this it was b so we're very
close to a final public release or gm version so i would
expect that later on i'll talk about that in a
little bit but as far as this particular version
there is no new modem update so if you were having connectivity issues with
your iphone 11 pro max or any of your other devices i haven't
seen a modem update on those now as far as new features well
there are a couple new features nothing major this is pretty
locked down and finalized but let's take a look at them the first one is in the
watch app so if we go over to the watch app you'll
see some icons that are a little bit different
and this now says app view so before it said app list so it says app view
we also have some new icons for siri and others as well so if you look through
here apple is tweaking them with messages and
things like that so expect those maybe to be updated
throughout ios watch os mac os and everything else to
sort of unify everything now as far as those app dots at the
bottom well apple just keeps changing them around
so if we press and hold go into jiggle mode here
i get into jiggle mode much faster it seems too so that has been sped up it
seems like so again we'll go into jiggle mode on
this device they keep moving the spacing here and in fact on
the iphone 11 you can see it a little bit better
so again let's go into jiggle mode here and the spacing
around these dots from the the distance to the dock seems to have changed ever
so slightly not a huge change but apple continually
keeps updating it and changing it for some reason but that
seemingly is just a small design tweak that they
keep changing now in this update apple has seemingly updated some of the way
you touch or interact with things with gestures and things like that so
what i mean by that is if we go into jiggle mode
it's much quicker to get into jiggle mode and it has a little weird
interaction there but if i swipe up from the bottom it
doesn't seemingly cancel jiggle mode like it did on ios 14 beta 7.
so i'll go into jiggle mode here and you'll see we're on jiggle mode with
ios 14 beta 7 on the iphone XR i'll swipe up and it cancels immediately
i'll swipe up and it doesn't cancel now i actually have to hit done and then
it cancels it so that's kind of interesting also when i go over to the
widgets and i swipe up from the home page or from the bottom
it doesn't go back to my main page that interaction i find to be a little bit
annoying so on beta 7 i'm on the widget page
swipe up it goes back home again widget page
swipe up and go back home i can't do that on this beta i have to actually
intentionally swipe to the right so it's a little bit of an annoyance
it's a slight change not a huge deal but something i noticed that was different
also with the music widget it seems to be more touch responsive meaning you can
touch in more places and it brings you in more easily in fact
on the beta 7 version sometimes i'm not sure i can get it to
do it but sometimes it doesn't seemingly feel like you can touch
on things when you touch in the middle you'll see there i touched and sometimes
it doesn't react sometimes it does it reacts every time on beta 8. so
they've fixed that at least now one thing they've removed or at
least a couple people have told me they've removed already
is in wallpapers if we go to choose a wallpaper we go to stills
they've actually removed ios 12 wallpapers some people had told me that
they removed these before i'm seeing them removed now so no more
ios 12 wallpapers this is what you've got maybe we'll have
some new ones when ios 14 launches to the public now another slight change
is thanks to my friend steve moser is some changes to the wording and exposure
notification it's within the code but just some
ever so slight wording changes nothing big but there are some changes there now
also a viewer sent along something they found that was in beta 7
as well but it's so slight it's hard to feel so if you go into music
play a song and then tap on lyrics i guess you don't have to play the song
but press on lyrics there are there is a ever so slight haptic
feedback so it was in beta 7 but i had to verify
that but i didn't mention it before it's just something that's there so try
it out you can barely feel it but it's definitely there
and that is really it in this particular update but as far as
issues that they're still working on well there's 21 known issues that still
exist that they've mentioned in the notes
but there's no mention of resolved issues so i've checked around i haven't
really had any issues so far using this it seems to be pretty stable
but i did try out a few apps for you such as pokemon go so
pokemon go will not work it will need to be updated it seems like
but call of duty mobile does work so that is working i tried it on the ipad
and speaking of the ipad there's nothing new in ipad os
beta 8. nothing other than what i've mentioned already so no changes
everything seems to be stable in fact beta 7 was super stable for me on this
device as well so ipad os 14 beta 8 seems to be fine
no issues i haven't had any issues with widgets everything's super smooth
and reacts well so hopefully we don't have any additional issues
it's what i use every day and i haven't had any issues now ios 14
beta 8 battery life will take a few days to measure so i'll cover that in my
follow up but let's take a look at the battery life
you'll see my battery health on my 11 pro max after about well
almost a year at this point is 96 that's pretty good 80
after two years is normal according to apple so as long as you're within that
range you should be fine but your ios updates do not affect the
battery health it just simply remeasures the battery
and so all batteries degrade over time so hopefully someone invents a better
one in the future now as you can see
yesterday i got 4 hours and 10 minutes of screen on time and
6 hours and 27 minutes of screen off time with about
50 percent of battery usage maybe a little bit more so this is not
phenomenal usage but because i had so much screen off time
it seems to affect that and so in general
i would expect 10 to 12 hours of screen on time when the final version comes out
just like you had before when the device came out for the first time
and maybe they'll be able to improve it a little bit in the future
with the gm so hopefully they will and of course i'll talk about it in my
follow-up in a few days now as far as performance so far it
feels super smooth in fact i would say this is the
smoothest version i've seen so far so we'll wait for this to load it's the
first time i've opened music so it's taking a moment
but we'll scroll here and on an iphone 6s plus
it seems to be very responsive i'm having no issues
you'll see the response is fine however you'll notice i still have a gap in the
app docs or in the control center where the apps are
for home so that's kind of interesting that it's still there
but responsiveness speed everything else seems to be really nice
on the iphone 11 the same is true nice and fast but let's take a look
at the benchmarks and see what we got i ran it on all of these devices that you
see here so let's go into geekbench wherever that is there we go and in
geekbench you'll see that i scored 1329 for single
core 3400 3410 for multi-core now this can
vary from time to time but if we take a look at the history you
can see on well today's the ninth so on the third
it scored a little bit higher for single core
and a little bit lower for multicore of course this can vary and that number is
very slight so i would expect similar performance with
this particular update now let's take a look at all of these
devices from left to right i have the 2020 ipad pro 12.9
then i have the iphone 6s plus then the iphone 11
then the iphone 11 pro max so they're all seemingly doing well
and i'm getting decent scores even on the 6s plus i checked the history it
seems to be doing just fine and so it should be performing pretty
well at this point as far as the betas are concerned so should you install ios
14 beta 8 well if you're on beta 7 then i would say absolutely
so far it's super stable and fast it seems beta 7 was pretty good
but of course i'll have a follow-up a little bit later this week or on sunday
depending on when i normally do it but if i find anything else i'll let you
know later this week as well now on top of that ios 14 gm or golden
master that is the final version out to developers
prior to the public release i would expect that this coming tuesday at the
apple event now usually at the apple event afterward
they'll have the gm version out or the golden master
and then the following week usually we'll have a public release so usually
the week of the 20th is what i'm thinking that's normally when apple
actually releases those updates to the public so hopefully we'll
see it the week of the 20th and that's really it this beta does not have a ton
in it it's fairly stable and i wouldn't really expect anything to
change at this point maybe a few things by the public release now if you'd like
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