Apple iOS And iPad OS 14.4 Beta 1Released With More Features.
Apple iOS And iPad OS 14.4 Beta 1
About the Apple iOS 14.4 Beta 1
Apple iOS 14.4 beta 1 has been out for one or two days. Depending on whether or not. You're using the developer version or the public beta version. And it's not currently available to the public. So that will be later on. Now in my initial blog of Apple iOS 14.4 there really wasn't anything New.
That we could find except for one feature. Because I wasn't able to show it to you. Now I am and I've figured that out. And wanted to share it with you in mo in a moment. But the first thing is the 5g dual sim option working yet. And what they mean by that is.
If you use an iphone with 5g which means an iPhone 12 pro max. An iPhone 12 pro iPhone 12 or iPhone 12 mini you can use 5g. If you have. It supported by your carrier carrier. And in your area however. If You're using. It you'll need to use your regular sim card along with your esim. And they're currently not working together.
So you can't use 5g at the same time. You can use 5g and 4g at the same time. But not dual 5g and apple apparently. has said. They're going to fix this with a software update. But so far. It's not in this beta. Now the next thing is there's a new feature in accessibility. So if we go to settings.
And then we scroll down to accessibility. And then we go to voiceover under voiceover. There's rotor actions under rotor actions. There's a new option for direct touch apps. If you tap on this if you have access to all sorts of apps. So you could just pick the app store or the apple store. And. If you're using voiceover and rotor actions.
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You'll be able to use this now. And So it says direct touch allows voiceover to control an app directly without requiring more interaction. And you'll see on Apple iOS 14.3. You'll go into settings. And then. You go to accessibility then voiceover. Then go down to rotor actions. You'll see the option for direct touch apps is not there. So it's been added in Apple iOS 14.4 beta 1.
Now there's a new feature. And this is the one. I knew about. But wasn't able to show. You and the reason was is this has to do with handoff from your iPhone to a homepod mini. Now homepod mini is a really nice speaker. But you will need this on the beta. As well. And that's why i wasn't able to reproduce. It because you need this on 14.4 beta 1.
So you need the homepod version of ios 14.4. That and before you could play a song. And just tap the homepod mini. And it would transfer the music. However There's a feature where. You can just get near. It and it will transfer. And that's something. That apple showed off in its initial sort of videos of this. Now you have a song selected.
And as you can see already. It says homepod mini right homepod. And it says starting. So if you get come closer to this it actually start to vibrate the phone more and more. Then the light comes up brighter on the homepod mini. And it jumps. So the music jumps from your home pop from your iPhone to your homepod mini. And it just sort of feels magical.
As it jumps there's sort of a haptic feedback. Where it jiggles the phone and then goes here. And then goes away and starts playing. So it's kind of interesting. They've done that. And you can see it's just starting. So again if you can just go closer. And it'll start playing. If i want it to do that. And So I'll stop it. And you're back to normal. So It's a kind of a neat feature that. They've added. And it works with any homepod mini.
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As you get close to it. It's just sort of interesting that. They've made it kind of simple. So if i bring it back. You'll see that. It's all the sudden shows up on my phone. So again. And then the light gets brighter. As if you get closer until it jumps. It's just really interesting how that works. And It's kind of a neat feeling on the phone.
They've done that. And it will be in Apple iOS 14.4. When it's available to the public. Now when you go into settings there's something else. That's new as well so under settings. If you scroll down. And you tap on passwords. And it looks for your face or your touch id to recognize who it is. So that you can get into your passwords.
You'll be presented with a little icon that says passwords are locked. And it'll pop up face id in front of it. Then it will unlock. And show you the password. So that little icon is new. I wasn't able to find it on Apple iOS 14.3. So that shows up now additionally. There's a new option in shortcuts. As well now with 14.3.
They added back the ability to create or set a wallpaper using a shortcut. However there's now the option. If you go to show more after. You have it set to actually go to perspective zoom. And what that means is it gives you sort of that parallax effect. As you tilt the phone. You can see behind the icons. So now you have perspective zoom as an option.
So you add your photo. Where it's grabbing the photo from with the wallpaper. And then you go to wallpaper. You can set the lock screen or the home screen. And then again. You can show a preview. Then have perspective zoom on or off. If you don't want it if you have show preview on the option disappears. So turn off show preview. And then there's perspective zoom.
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So it's a nice little option that's. There's now in addition to these features some people have asked has it fixed the overheating problems or the phone warming up. And it seems like quite a few people are saying that yes. It will perform really well. But not get as hot with this update. So a lot of people are saying. It's just not as warm. As it was before.
So that's a great thing. So i know a lot of people get concerned about that. The phone's getting too hot sometimes even too hot to hang on to. Now it seems to be fixed with Apple iOS 14.4 beta 1. Now as far as performance well. I still do have that stutter sometimes. When you go into an app.
And close. it will sort of jitter away or have a frame rate drop. And so this is something they need to fix which. I'm sure they'll fix with future updates. As well battery has been good for the past couple of days given. That I just installed an update. So i'll show you in this. But you wouldn't really count on this.
As it usually takes a few days to measure that for sure. But you can see yesterday. You only had a couple hours of screen on time and six hours. And 56 minutes of screen off time. And used about 30 percent of my battery with all of that usage. It's actually pretty good. But again. It's doing a lot in the background after you install an initial update.
So give it a few days to actually stabilize. Now of course. We're waiting for Apple iOS beta 2 which will probably not be until January based on what. We've seen with the previous release of 14 point or 13.4 last year. So based off what apple did last year with their releases technically. We should see a break between. Now and January and then they'll release beta 2.
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Now they could change that of course. And hopefully they get out more updates before the end of the year. But with the holiday being right around the corner. We probably won't see anything until after the beginning of next year. So this is the blog about the Apple iOS 14.4 beta 1. And I will be talking about it.