iOS 14.3, iOS 14.4 and more - Updates Apple

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We  move away from 2020 and that comes to a close  and move into 2021 ios 14.3 is our latest version  of ios and so I want to talk about ios 14.3 ios  14.4 and beyond and see what apple actually  needs to fix what issues you’re still having  and I thought I’d just talk about it a little  bit as were coming to the close of the year  and so the first thing is ios 14.3 is great  for some people and not for others and I think  this is a big problem across the ecosystem as it  really depends on what you’re using of course many  apps can impact the way your phone works overall  but the consistency from ios over the years has  sort of gone down as far as its overall stability  at least in many peoples view however ios 14 I would say is more stable than ios 13 was at this  exact same point in time so I have ios 14.3 on  this iphone 11 and many people are seemingly  having a good experience but there’s people  having bad experiences too everything from lag as  we go through screens sometimes.

You go open an app  close it will stutter as it closes and were  seeing that across ios 14.3 and 14.4 and so that  seems to be a big issue for people weird lagging  on processors that are more than fast enough to  handle the overall experience much faster than  we’ve had since 2007 with the first iphone so  were way beyond that and those stutters really  should not be an issue today and I’m surprised  that they are that seemingly something that apple  is incredibly good at is the user interface and I  hope they update and fix these lag issues as it’s  really not something you should be experiencing  with a public release on a newer device it’s  sort of acceptable when you’re running it on  a beta because it’s a beta and they’re testing  different things and trying different software  and that’s where you would report it in feedback  but really for the most part it shouldn’t be an  issue the other thing too I’m seeing a lot of  is very inconsistent battery across devices.

For example many people are reporting amazing  battery or better battery on ios 14.3 and about 50  or maybe 45 are reporting poor battery life that’s  pretty bad compared to what we’ve had in the past  iPhone’s in general do get very good battery life  and they seem to be very efficient but it really  depends on the app you’re using but the experience  is very different depending on the device and this  is something that I think apple really needs to  fix and the reason. 

I say this is I have my iphone  12 pro max here which has good battery life and  if we look at the battery life this is on the beta  but either way when it was on 14.3 I had basically  the same battery health is basically the same and  you’ll see it was at 100 on a new device which  makes sense but here’s over my 10 day past 10 days  yesterday I only had two hours of screen on time  and I used about I’d say 40 percent of the battery  but I had four hours and eight minutes of screen  off time if we look at the day before I only got  4 hours and 40 minutes however sometimes. 

I’ve  gotten much better battery life 8 to 10 hours  it just depends on the day and it seems to be  very inconsistent even using it the same way  and so that’s something I’m not seeing great  battery life with its seemingly gone down  with the beta as it was a little bit better  before and the experience is very different  from the device to device like I said so on  the ipad pro I’ve had horrible battery life  you’ll see am at 29 percent right now and if we  take a look at when I charge this we go to battery  you’ll see it was last charged on Monday at 2 18  am now I did this on purpose to show you because  what I did is I completely wiped this device or  actually upgraded the device using finder on a mac  so it didn’t fully wipe it but I basically  reinstalled the ios version right over.

  

The top of it to see what it would do and so since  Monday you’ll see here’s my activity so 52 minutes  or here’s Monday 1 hour and 27 minutes another  hour so 2 hours and 27 minutes or 28 minutes  and then 36 minutes I’m getting about three hours  of screen on time on my ipad pro this doesn’t make  any sense for something with a battery this big  you’ll see telegram notifications were part of  it YouTube was 58 of it one day and prior to  these updates. 

I was getting amazing battery life  some people are having great battery life  some are not and apple has said in order  to fix this completely wipe the phone and then  restore from a backup I haven’t done that yet  but it’s getting to the point where I think I  need to try that but the problem with that is  not everyone has a computer to actually wipe it  with so you’ll actually need windows or a mac  with finder or iTunes to actually do that and  it’s just becoming a problem over time and even  though I’m switching updates a lot I’m seeing this  enough from people that I think. 

It’s a big problem  so there’s that is a weird issue that I hope  apple addresses and the same thing is true on  different devices so it really doesn’t matter what  your battery health is even though your battery  may not be in top shape this ones at 100 on my  iphone 11. it’s still a big enough concern that  it seems to be a problem for a lot of people and I  would like to see apple finally fix this with ios  14.4 14.5 and beyond I’d love to see them focus on quality and get this taken care of and also if  you’re using exposure notifications for example I had someone message me about this if you’re using  exposure notifications and you have it available  in your area I don’t have it available where I am  but you can install apps to try it out this can  use a significant amount of battery because it’s  using your location so that’s just sort of the  price of using that so if that’s affecting battery.

  

That’s something different than if maybe it’s an  app affecting battery so just keep that in mind  but when it comes to other weird bugs people  are still having issues with notifications some  people get them some people don’t and this is a continued problem I get complaints a lot that instagram notifications aren’t coming through they work fine for me but other notifications sometimes  such as text messages aren’t coming in through for  other people which are very important so there’s  some very weird problems going on and it seems  to be intermittent and I think apple really this  year whether it be with ios 15 or hopefully 14.4  they focus on quality and get this taken care of  because notifications as well as battery  life are probably the number one priority  for people when it comes to text messaging and  then battery life of course so I see that a lot  and then also there’s a headphone volume  issue that I hear about almost every day  someone messages me about and this  is kind of an odd problem because  its location dependent as well. 

So what I mean  by that is if you go into your settings and then  sound in haptic and then go to headphone safety  some people have these options to turn that off  or they don’t so if you don’t have the option some  countries don’t support it but some people in the  united states are seeing this as well depending on  where they’re at and so the option to reduce the  sounds is great you can reduce them to  whatever decibel level or decimal level  you want and it tells you how loud it is as  loud as city traffic for example with 85 decibels  and so the reason I bring this up is because some  people don’t even have the option to turn this off  then they connect their phone via Bluetooth to  their car and they’re playing music and all of  a sudden the volume turns down and they can’t  hear anything and this is a big problem for  people with phones whether you be on a phone call  and it does that or you’re in music. 

And it does  that or a podcast these are things that are sort  of can be critical or might not be depending on  what you’re doing but it’s something that  apple really needs to fix and make more  consistent or make people aware that you can  change this or fix this so it’s something I’d like  to see updated and if it’s something you’re having  and you’re on a beta definitely submit feedback so  that they can fix this now as far as ios 14.4 well  were seeing minor features and things beyond that  and I hope that they continue to update features  but I wouldn’t expect anything major until ios 15 at this point however with the overall experience  I would love to see apple really nail down this  experience and get it right apple has been  known for years for reliability and consistency  and there’s weird things like huge gaps here  at the bottom and there’s sometimes times when  android does a better job of handling larger  screens than ios widgets were a big step forward.

But I would love to see reliability consistency  and battery life be something that’s at the top  of the list for this year in 2021 or 2021 going  forward I would love to see them change that and  I hope to see something like that I still think  it’s better than ios 13 at this point in time  but it still needs a little bit of work apple had  said in the past they’re going to focus on quality  and better quality control and I’m hoping to see  this now as far as the amount of versions of ios  14 that we get this year well with ios 13 we had 13.7 which basically fixed all the issues with ios  13 brought good battery life and then we started  over again and so I would like to see this here  maybe not start over again but improve on what we  have and have consistency and quality be the main  focus and I think everyone would appreciate that  then you can bring new features such as changes  to widgets or live widgets and all of the new  features people want I think would be much more  welcome than what we’re having. 

Now and so I’d love  to hear from you in the comments below what do you  think apple needs to focus on this year with ios  14 and beyond I think 14 is a great step forward  with customization it has a lot of great features  music might need a redo a little bit some people  I hear from that a lot and quite a few of you in  the comments have said a lot with ios 14.3 because  it needs some work and there’s 45 000 votes  on the community poll that I did some time ago  and over 1 000 comments and if you look at  some of these you’ll see a lot of people  say I can say battery life is slightly  worse than ios 14.2 and accept that  everything works fine but you’ll scroll down  through all of these comments and there’s  very inconsistent experiences across the board and  I wish apple would tell us more what we need to do  to fix that problem as far as battery life if it’s  something that’s being affected and how to better  handle that so lots of bugs and if they’re apps  the app developer needs to fix it but if its ios.

 

Give us better control of not only battery  but better battery health as well so a lot  of people get freaked out about battery health  I’ve said I want this to change from a percentage  to more of a stop light system green for good  yellow for its getting worse red it’s time  to change the battery so all of these things  I’d like to see changed in the future Id’ like  to see more consistency and I’d love to hear  what you think about it in the comments below  if you’d like to get your hands on this wallpaper.

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