iOS 14.3.1 and iOS 14.4 Beta 2

Hi everyone, 

ios 14.3  and ios 14.4 beta 1 have been out for a few weeks  I’ve been using them primarily on my iphone 12  pro max the iphone 11 that I have here and the  12.9 ipad pro from 2020 and so I want to talk  about when you can expect the next updates also  what to expect them to fix and talk about kind of  what’s going on with ios 14.3 as a lot of you have  voiced concerns about different bugs and asked if I’ve reported them to apple and things like that and so the first thing is ios 14.3 came out on  December 14th and then two days later ios 14.4  beta 1 came out to developers and public beta  testers on the 16th and so those particular  versions were the last ones between the holiday  break where apple usually takes a few weeks off  and then resumes pushing out betas and software  updates after that and so we haven’t had an update  for quite some time but this is completely normal  year over year and so the good thing is with 14.3 a lot of you are reporting that its really good  now there’s a lot saying it isn’t but about 50  percent are having no issues whatsoever I’ve seen  that in over 45 000 votes on the community poll  well take a look at in a little bit and then also.  

A lot of people are having good battery life now  that’s not everyone and there’s definitely some  concerns with both 14.3 and 14.4 betas right now  but the first thing like I said is it seems to  be stable for a lot of people and if you’re not  

someone that notices a lot of bugs or little  issues you probably won’t have an issue  however the main thing i notice with  it is lag and that goes across 14.3  to 14.4 it doesn’t seem to fix this issue and what  I mean by that is when you open up say an app like  music or maybe you’re just scrolling and then  you go out of that anytime you swipe up sometimes  there’s a little lag or stutter when you do that  so you swipe out of something and occasionally it  will go really slow almost it’s a jitter almost  like it drops frames or has a slow frame rate  and then it resumes normal speed after that  its really hit or miss it’s hard to replicate  but it’s definitely something that’s happening  another thing that I hear almost every day now  is how can I fix the headphone volume issue  or are you experiencing that thankfully. 

I’m  not but I know exactly what you’re talking about  and that’s under settings sound and haptic and  headphone safety if you’re using headphone safety  which is a nice feature if you’ve got headphones  you want to make sure they’re not too loud all  day long so to protect your hearing and things  like that its nice but a lot of people don’t have  these options to actually turn that feature off  and so what’s happening is when you’re using  anything from Bluetooth to apple car play you’re  in your car maybe it thinks something’s too loud  and it drops the volume and now you can’t hear it  you can actually turn this off but not everyone  has these options and I don’t know if its  region based or not it seems to be that in the  European union those countries seem to have  no option to turn that off and some others have  no option to turn it off so I’m not sure what  that is hopefully they add that option back or  at least fix the issue because it’s a big problem.

  

Especially in the car for a lot of people now  the other major issue especially on 14.3 is the  lack of notifications coming in so notifications  are not showing up properly for a lot of people  that includes text messages and more although  apple was supposed to fix this with ios 14.3 and  so I’m really hoping we see a small update soon to  address that and then the other thing too that I’m  seeing is odd connectivity issues so sometimes  I’ll go to safari for example maybe I’ll go to  apple.com scroll through maybe tap on something  like this ipad air and it won’t load then I’ll  go to my settings turn off Wi-Fi it jumps over to  cellular and it will load and I’ve only seen this  on my iphone and sometimes on the ipad on this  version my Wi-Fi at home will be working fine  on something else like my computer but it  won’t work here until I do that procedure so  people are seeing it that way and in reverse as  well so maybe you’re on let or 5g or one of those.

It doesn’t load flip to Wi-Fi go back and it  works other people have complained of heating  of the device so maybe their iphone 12 all the  way down to the 6s plus is getting too hot much  hotter than it normally would I haven’t really  experienced much of that but I’m not an intense  user as far as games and things so I haven’t  really experienced that unless I’m recording  4k video then it will heat up but it will get warm  that’s normal for most things but it won’t get  hot to where you can’t touch it will tell you  if it overheats but that’s not a normal thing  with normal use and then of course there’s that  green tint issue on the iphone 12 so I was not  able to replicate this I tried on every device I  thought maybe I saw it on the iphone 12 pro but  basically when you’re on a dark screen at about  40 to 80 percent brightness you can kind of see it  where it has a green tint on the outside edges  and a lot of people are seeing this apple has said.

  

That they’re going to fix it they’re still working  on it so I would expect a software update to be  pushed out to fix that they actually fixed it with  the iphone 11 pro and 11 pro max series last year  they had the exact same thing so they were able to  fix that with a software update I would expect the  same with this now with the ipad we’ve had some  issues as well I’ve been using the beta on this  ipad and if I go to settings and then I’ll go to  software update you’ll see its 14.4 its beta 1  and the main issue I’ve had is the same as the  iphones I’ve had the lag the stuttering and  also sometimes touch responsiveness it just won’t  work will be in YouTube trying to move something  it won’t work I’ll have to force close it and  I’ve had to hard reset it a couple times as well  and then sometimes it loses keyboard connectivity  so it just won’t work even though its plugged in  the track pad will work but then the keys won’t  work or I won’t be able to type it’s kind of  strange and then ill disconnect the keyboard  plug it back in and then it works sometimes. 

It  doesn’t but a reboot always fixes it now if you’re  having those issues of course you want to submit  them in feedback if you’re on the beta but I’ve seen these on the non-beta as well so this is  these problems carry across from ios 14.3 to  14.4 also battery on the ipad and I’ll  talk about the iphone in a moment battery has  not improved even though I’ve wiped this device  I tried wiping it I’ve used it for about a week  after I restored it and it hasn’t fixed it   still not getting any decent battery  life compared to what it used to and so you’ll  see it was last charged to 100 percent at 9  36 a.m. this morning and I’ve had about two  hours of screen on time almost an hour and 40 well an hour and 43 minutes of screen off time  and I’m at 65 I’m getting about six hours of  screen on time with my ipad which is terrible  considering I’m using it mostly for YouTube mail  and messages I’m not using it for a whole lot else.  

And it just seems to not get great battery life  now I’m someone that actually charges my phone  overnight every single night but if you don’t do  that some people are complaining that there’s a lot of drain just doing nothing so even though  they’re not seeing backups being completed or  anything like that its draining a lot anywhere  from 20 to 40 percent depending on who you ask  now I would bet its actually doing backups when  its draining like that but it’s really hard to  say and I usually just plug it in so it can do all  of those backups. 

I set it on a wireless charger  and magsafe at this point and just let it do its  thing and then have optimized battery charging on  but if you don’t have that convenience or you  don’t have that ability or you don’t want to  then you may see some of that drain again I would expect apple to patch this in the future  so there’s a lot that they need to fix and battery  life whether it be on ios 14.3 or 14.4 is great for some not great for others so on my phone I’ve  had 14.4 for some time as you can see here and  it still hasn’t been great so this is yesterday.  

And it hasn’t been charged since so you’ll see  three hours and 10 minutes of screen on time  almost four hours of screen off time so I’ve  used a little bit over fifty percent if we were to  double that we would get six hours and 20 minutes  and almost eight hours of screen off time and  while that may be okay for some it’s not really  what a 12 pro map should be getting it should be  getting 10 to 12 hours and I’m only getting that  using twitter sometimes telegram and not much else  messages and things like that I’m not using any  games or doing anything intensive the only thing  I would do that’s intensive is use the camera  and this is not great battery life so I would  expect apple to fix it in the future like I said  but there’s definitely something going on and I  think once we get to the final version of 14.4 it  should be more optimized now with that yellow  display issue on the iphone 12 I don’t think.

  

That’s really an issue I think it’s a matter  of the phone having a warmer display which is  technically more accurate compared to previous  generations I could be wrong about that but from  what I’ve seen with display tests and things even  though it is a little bit more yellow or warmer  you can see that when you go to settings  and turn off dark mode even though it is a  little bit more yellow and warmer its actually  I can show you next to the iphone 11 for example it’s actually technically more accurate when  people measure it with calibration tools and  things like that they actually find that its more  accurate and I guess that’s really what you want is accuracy but there is definitely a difference  between the two displays as you can see here  so that may bother some people of  course so well turn dark mode back on  and I did do a YouTube community poll three weeks  ago and it’s got 45 000 votes which is incredible.

  

So well take a look at that in a moment now  as far as upcoming updates well I would expect  something as soon as Monday or Tuesday now apple  stopped signing ios 14.2.1 and 14.2 the other day  which means you can no longer downgrade past ios  14.3 they usually give you one or two versions  that you can revert back to if you have issues  or things like that and when they shut those off  within the next week to two weeks there’s always  an update but based on the long lag that we’ve had  having updates I would expect something as soon  as this week including a beta update as well if  we looked at last year this this upcoming week is  the week that we got an update as well so Monday  Tuesday if they go to a weird schedule again it  could be later in the week but expect something  coming very soon hopefully early in the week and  of course I’ll keep you updated with that as well.

So other than that quite a few of you responded  to the community poll well go into that quickly  many of you have seen it but you can see here  there’s 45 000 votes which is just incredible  and then if we scroll down you’ll see a few  different things from a few days ago where someone  hesitated to download 14.3 when it was released  says I finally decided to download it and it’s  been great especially the battery life the battery  life is excellent performance is excellent too  I’m really impressed with the battery life and  how great it is apple got this update right  all overall I’m very happy with ios 14.3 I’m an  iphone 11 pro max user or they’re on that mac  11 pro max so that’s really good and like I  said you’ll find tons of comments here there’s a  thousand comments and as you scroll through these  and I’ve read many of these at least half of them  as you scroll through these you’ll see good  reports and then you’ll see bad reports so  this is specific to ios 14.3 where 60 are saying.  

It’s great so that’s a good sign but it’s not  quite where we were with 13.7 for example so we’ve  got a little ways to go ill look through a couple  more comments though it’s been great for me thus  far iphone 12 pro max nick b cover said and then  let’s go see a couple more here so iphone 10r here  been great so far after a few days the battery  life has improved from earlier ios 14 versions so  quite a few good things like I said see what else  great I think found no battery problem so far on  my iphone 11 battery life was slightly improved so  you’ll see quite a good sign from many people but  again you’re going to see about the same amount  based on these polls about 55 or so have said that  battery is good 45 not so much so it varies very  much between the different users look at one more  you’ll see Chris Owen said my ipad pro 11 stopped  recognizing my magic keyboard track pad for a good  several hours and a reboot didn’t fix it iphone  12 pro max seems stable right now so similar  issues to what I’ve experienced with my ipad pro.  

I’m not sure what that is a reboot did fix it  but I had to disconnect the keyboard so there’s  something weird there but so many good comments  here people with that green tint issue as you can  see here green tint keeps on the screen they went  to apple store and there’s no hardware problem so  just a quick thing on that update is apple has  informed its technicians according to an internal  email apparently that not to replace the phones  if you’re having that issue with the green tint  because they’re going to fix it with software so  I think we’re going to see that hopefully as soon  as this week along with some security updates  and more maybe some new features as well but  well only know once they release it and so that’s  it for ios 14.3 14.4 and hopefully we’ll see beta 2. we did have up to I think beta 5 last year  with 13.4 so it could be a while until we see  a final version of that but I would expect  an update with 14.3.1 probably very soon.  

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