iOS 14, Beta 5 More New Features
Hi, every one after using iOS 14, Beta 5 for the past couple of days, quite a few people have messaged me and found additional features or changes that have been added to Beta 5, as opposed to what I mentioned, in my what's new video, where I went over all the major changes.
So I wanted to go over where all the new changes and give you a shout out. If you help me find that feature. NowI've found some you've found some, And so let's go over those in a moment. Now I'm running it on my iPhone 11pro max, and I've also got iOS 14, Beta 5 on the iPhone seven here. Now for the comparison. I also have iOS 14, that before running on the iPhone, 10 R so I can show you the differences.
Now, the first thing I get asked every day. So I just wanted to make this clear and answer it for you are quite a few people are you're asking me, does call of duty work and call of duty. Mobile does appear to work. It does occasionally crash, but it does seem to actually work. So if you wanted to try that out, it should be working.
If you were afraid to update, now, let's go over the new features. And the first thing is Safari Safariadded a little updated feature. So if you go to say apple.com, for example, and then you tap these two A's, we get a privacy report. Well, previously we had to go into the privacy report to see if there were any trackers contacted. So if we go to Beta 4 to compare, you'll see here, privacy report doesn't say anything underneath it.
If you were afraid to update, now, let's go over the new features. And the first thing is Safari Safariadded a little updated feature. So if you go to say apple.com, for example, and then you tap these two A's, we get a privacy report. Well, previously we had to go into the privacy report to see if there were any trackers contacted. So if we go to Beta 4 to compare, you'll see here, privacy report doesn't say anything underneath it.
You actually have to go into it to see the actual privacy report. Whereas before you didn't the little summary. So it's nice just to have a quick summary instead of actually having to open it, to see which sites are tracking you. So it's nice that they've added that. Now they've also fixed something. So if you're using say the shortcuts widget, if we go to edit and then we add a widget here, we'll go down to say shortcuts.
Maybe we'll add this one, we'll add this size. And then let's put this on our secondary screen here before this was sort of a blank widget. And so if you wanted to add something, you could, but it was blank until you added a new shortcut. So if you edit the widget, we can edit the shortcut. And then maybe we want to turn Bluetooth on with it. Now, when we go back to the home screen with the shortcut, it says Bluetooth on. So they've updated that and fixed it. And it's working as you would expect. Now, if you want to put an individual shortcut on a separate page of your apps now, Jawad Ali helped me find a different feature.
I didn't know was there and that'under settings. So if you go to, and then you go down to privacy, and then you go to location services, scroll all the way to the bottom, go to system services. Under system services, there's anew device management framework. This was not here before on the previous beta. So this is something that I'm not exactly sure what it's for per se, but it looks like they've added it. So we're going to location services, go down to the bottom, go to system services, and you'll see it's nowhere to be found. So the device management framework is new.
What specifically it allows you to do or allows developers to do? I'm not clear, but if you know, please let me know. And thanks to Jawad for sending that along. Now, the next thing has to do with spatial audio. Now, spacial audio was not added to this particular beta, but they did add a little menu or animation per se. That gives you an idea of what it will look like. Macrumors actually found this or at least mentioned it. And as you can see here, here's what it looks like in the code. So it's not yet John if you have AirPods pro, but they did add that slight little change.
So hopefully they'll turn it on sooner rather than later. Now, a couple of different people. You sent me the next one, but Matthew Dunn sent it over first. So that has to you do with the photo widget. So if we go to the photo widget here, you can and see it selected a featured photo. And if we don't like this photo, we can tell it not to show it again. And however, there is a bug. If it's actually featuring something that was a memory, it doesn't work properly. However, if it's showing a featured photo that we have here, which it often uses, you can press and hold on that featured photo and say, remove from featured photos.
And it won't show up the widget anymore. Now you can delete it from your library and this, this goes for anything that shows up under featured photo. So if you have a few different ones here, they'll show up and then you can just remove them under the, for your tab. And so that's a slight change. Also, a slight change has to do with the naming down here. So you'll see it says library for you in albums. And if we go to the photo album on the previous version, it's a little bit different.
So let me find my photos here. So under my photos, you'll see that instead of saying photos, it now says library. I don't know that it makes much of a difference, but on the far left there, the icon says library instead of photos. So not a huge change, but it is something to note. Now, something that's great for older cameras you can change the resolution now by tapping on the icon when you're ina video mode. So in the upper left, you haven't been able to do this on older phones, but on this iPhone seven, if you want to change between video mode, you can do that, but you first have to turn on a setting.
So if you go to settings and then you go down to your camera, there we go. We'll go to the camera. You'll see. Under here we go to record video and you have the different formats. And now you have video format control. Simply turn that on. We'll go back to our camera here. And under the camera, it says 4K 30. If we tap on it, now it says HD 30, go back to 4k 30. So now we can finally just tap and select. It should have been there all along, but now use it on older devices as well.
So it should be supported on hopefully all of them. I've tried it the seven, if you have an older phone and iPhone success, for example, or even an SE, let me know if it's working for you now also on older phones, some people were saying that when you were charging the phone, the percentage would disappear. I actually noticed this. So it showed the percentage here. And then as soon as I plugged it in, it disappeared. I had to re, enable that setting again for it actually to work.
So I had to go into settings and then under the battery, I could reenable it. So we'll go to battery here, turn on battery percentage and it fixed it. So for some reason that was broken before now, it's working properly. And I'll talk more about other issues in my followup video in a day or so now also speaking of battery if we go into our battery settings, go over to the battery, they've changed this a little bit and we'll wait for it to load. And down here, you can see that it now says last charged to 86%.
So this was in my car. It charged up to 86% and it's letting me know that's right. It was last charged too. So I won't get an accurate reading with that until you actually charged you a hundred percent and let it drain down. And that will give you a better idea. You've also got the icon again, telling you when you plugged it in and charged, and then when it was discharging. So it's updated a little bit. Hopefully, they change this even more in the future to be a little bit more comprehensive.
Now, someone on Twitternamed I, Bob actually found a feature. Now, I'm not sure if this feature sure is specific to Beta 5, but this is sort of obscure. So it's hard to know for sure what it does is when you remove your SIM card and switch to say a new SIMcard, it gives you a message now. And so let me slide over. I screen captured these and downloaded them, but you'll see it says your iMessage or FaceTime number will continue to be registered for IMS EJ FaceTime. You can disable this number in message settings.
And then if you go over to settings, you can remove it from facetime and iMessage. So it says this SIM is not currently on your phone. However, since this is a two-factor authentication number, you can keep using it for IMS and facetime for a limited period of time. And so it's a nice new feature. I'm not sure if it was there before, since it's sort of obscure. So if you've seen it before, let me know, but it's great that they've added that to remove your number from two-factor authentication.
So it doesn't use anything else. Now, another change has to do with using sleep or bedtime. And so you can see on your home screen, once it's enabled, we've got a little bed there on the right with Beta 5, where, before it just said sleep well. So it's changed for some people, although I didn't see this until I actually enabled bedtime using the control center. So I actually had to use the control center to enable it here, and then it worked properly forme. So I didn't see that change.
There may be a few bugs with it, but I had to enable it that way in order to see it properly. Now, if we take a look at the buttons at the bottom, now let's change it so that we go into jiggle mode here. And now you can see they've changed the icon with the pages at the bottom. They've made the icon a little bit larger now and the area or spacing around the dots has changed also. So its just a little bit different.
Maybe they've moved it up slightly as well. Along with the design changes, I've already mentioned, there quite a few other ones as well. So the folders are a little bit longer. So if we go to beta 4, maybe open up a folder, you'll see that the folders slightly longer and the design has changed a little bit. I'm not sure if that's better or worse, as long as it's symmetrical is more what I care about. So I think they'll probably fix this again in the future. Now, another thing they've changed is if we go to settings and then we go to the home screen, go to the home screen on both of them, they've changed the text at the top.
It says newly downloaded apps, as opposed to new app downloads, it's a slight change, but they do change wording all throughout. From time to time. Now, when dark mode is enabled and you take a look at the notes, widget, the notes widget on the new version, Beta 5 is darker. It's more of a pure black where it was a little bit grayer on Beta 4. This is the reverse of what we saw with the calendar in this beta as well. So they've updated that.
It's just a slight change. Now also, when you add a widget, so we'll just press and hold. It actually organized them a little bit differently. You'll see the way they look is slightly changed for the battery. So they've just updated some of the overall looks of it to better fit. I guess what they want as far as the style of it. I imagine this will change closer to the final release as well within the shortcuts app. They've updated the glyphs as well. So we'll go in and maybe go into this shortcut. And if we want to change the glyphs or the icon here, we'll go to glyphs.
They've added a bunch of new ones under objects, people, and symbols. So there are additional ones. If you want to better customize this, whether that be for a tool scissors battery, for example, we can change it to the battery. You have a bunch of different choices for icons. They keep adding more and more of these as the betas go on. So maybe we'll see even more by the final release. Now within music, they've made some changes as well. If we go into music and then we'll select the same mix we'll hit play.
There we go. And you'll see, the background is slightly different on Beta 5. If we go to the next song, let's get out of the same album here. There we go. You'll see the background updates a little bit differently. It may be a little bit quicker, but it's also different colors to better match the album. So we'll go through these And you'll see that it's a little bit different as it goes through the different albums. So it's a little bit brighter, maybe a little bit more vibrant, and it's a slight change.
Now within the radio, they've also changed from beats one to Apple music one. And so you can see this already. They've made this change on all versions, but for whatever reason, they got rid of the word beats. Some people have said that beats are going away permanently, but it's really hard to say. And so those were the major, additional changes throughout a lot of small visual changes, just like they did here in the control center with the home.
But there's also some little tweaks and changes throughout where they move icons ever so slightly. Now I don't generally cover those just like at the home. There are some slight changes and I don't always cover those under automation and things because those can change throughout, but I like to see them continually progress through these different visual changes throughout the OS and I think we'll see a few more by the time it's finally to the public.
Now, let me know if you found anything else, and thanks again to everyone who sent all of those different changes and updates in.
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Maybe we'll add this one, we'll add this size. And then let's put this on our secondary screen here before this was sort of a blank widget. And so if you wanted to add something, you could, but it was blank until you added a new shortcut. So if you edit the widget, we can edit the shortcut. And then maybe we want to turn Bluetooth on with it. Now, when we go back to the home screen with the shortcut, it says Bluetooth on. So they've updated that and fixed it. And it's working as you would expect. Now, if you want to put an individual shortcut on a separate page of your apps now, Jawad Ali helped me find a different feature.
I didn't know was there and that'under settings. So if you go to, and then you go down to privacy, and then you go to location services, scroll all the way to the bottom, go to system services. Under system services, there's anew device management framework. This was not here before on the previous beta. So this is something that I'm not exactly sure what it's for per se, but it looks like they've added it. So we're going to location services, go down to the bottom, go to system services, and you'll see it's nowhere to be found. So the device management framework is new.
What specifically it allows you to do or allows developers to do? I'm not clear, but if you know, please let me know. And thanks to Jawad for sending that along. Now, the next thing has to do with spatial audio. Now, spacial audio was not added to this particular beta, but they did add a little menu or animation per se. That gives you an idea of what it will look like. Macrumors actually found this or at least mentioned it. And as you can see here, here's what it looks like in the code. So it's not yet John if you have AirPods pro, but they did add that slight little change.
So hopefully they'll turn it on sooner rather than later. Now, a couple of different people. You sent me the next one, but Matthew Dunn sent it over first. So that has to you do with the photo widget. So if we go to the photo widget here, you can and see it selected a featured photo. And if we don't like this photo, we can tell it not to show it again. And however, there is a bug. If it's actually featuring something that was a memory, it doesn't work properly. However, if it's showing a featured photo that we have here, which it often uses, you can press and hold on that featured photo and say, remove from featured photos.
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And it won't show up the widget anymore. Now you can delete it from your library and this, this goes for anything that shows up under featured photo. So if you have a few different ones here, they'll show up and then you can just remove them under the, for your tab. And so that's a slight change. Also, a slight change has to do with the naming down here. So you'll see it says library for you in albums. And if we go to the photo album on the previous version, it's a little bit different.
So let me find my photos here. So under my photos, you'll see that instead of saying photos, it now says library. I don't know that it makes much of a difference, but on the far left there, the icon says library instead of photos. So not a huge change, but it is something to note. Now, something that's great for older cameras you can change the resolution now by tapping on the icon when you're ina video mode. So in the upper left, you haven't been able to do this on older phones, but on this iPhone seven, if you want to change between video mode, you can do that, but you first have to turn on a setting.
So if you go to settings and then you go down to your camera, there we go. We'll go to the camera. You'll see. Under here we go to record video and you have the different formats. And now you have video format control. Simply turn that on. We'll go back to our camera here. And under the camera, it says 4K 30. If we tap on it, now it says HD 30, go back to 4k 30. So now we can finally just tap and select. It should have been there all along, but now use it on older devices as well.
So it should be supported on hopefully all of them. I've tried it the seven, if you have an older phone and iPhone success, for example, or even an SE, let me know if it's working for you now also on older phones, some people were saying that when you were charging the phone, the percentage would disappear. I actually noticed this. So it showed the percentage here. And then as soon as I plugged it in, it disappeared. I had to re, enable that setting again for it actually to work.
So I had to go into settings and then under the battery, I could reenable it. So we'll go to battery here, turn on battery percentage and it fixed it. So for some reason that was broken before now, it's working properly. And I'll talk more about other issues in my followup video in a day or so now also speaking of battery if we go into our battery settings, go over to the battery, they've changed this a little bit and we'll wait for it to load. And down here, you can see that it now says last charged to 86%.
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So this was in my car. It charged up to 86% and it's letting me know that's right. It was last charged too. So I won't get an accurate reading with that until you actually charged you a hundred percent and let it drain down. And that will give you a better idea. You've also got the icon again, telling you when you plugged it in and charged, and then when it was discharging. So it's updated a little bit. Hopefully, they change this even more in the future to be a little bit more comprehensive.
Now, someone on Twitternamed I, Bob actually found a feature. Now, I'm not sure if this feature sure is specific to Beta 5, but this is sort of obscure. So it's hard to know for sure what it does is when you remove your SIM card and switch to say a new SIMcard, it gives you a message now. And so let me slide over. I screen captured these and downloaded them, but you'll see it says your iMessage or FaceTime number will continue to be registered for IMS EJ FaceTime. You can disable this number in message settings.
And then if you go over to settings, you can remove it from facetime and iMessage. So it says this SIM is not currently on your phone. However, since this is a two-factor authentication number, you can keep using it for IMS and facetime for a limited period of time. And so it's a nice new feature. I'm not sure if it was there before, since it's sort of obscure. So if you've seen it before, let me know, but it's great that they've added that to remove your number from two-factor authentication.
So it doesn't use anything else. Now, another change has to do with using sleep or bedtime. And so you can see on your home screen, once it's enabled, we've got a little bed there on the right with Beta 5, where, before it just said sleep well. So it's changed for some people, although I didn't see this until I actually enabled bedtime using the control center. So I actually had to use the control center to enable it here, and then it worked properly forme. So I didn't see that change.
There may be a few bugs with it, but I had to enable it that way in order to see it properly. Now, if we take a look at the buttons at the bottom, now let's change it so that we go into jiggle mode here. And now you can see they've changed the icon with the pages at the bottom. They've made the icon a little bit larger now and the area or spacing around the dots has changed also. So its just a little bit different.
Maybe they've moved it up slightly as well. Along with the design changes, I've already mentioned, there quite a few other ones as well. So the folders are a little bit longer. So if we go to beta 4, maybe open up a folder, you'll see that the folders slightly longer and the design has changed a little bit. I'm not sure if that's better or worse, as long as it's symmetrical is more what I care about. So I think they'll probably fix this again in the future. Now, another thing they've changed is if we go to settings and then we go to the home screen, go to the home screen on both of them, they've changed the text at the top.
It says newly downloaded apps, as opposed to new app downloads, it's a slight change, but they do change wording all throughout. From time to time. Now, when dark mode is enabled and you take a look at the notes, widget, the notes widget on the new version, Beta 5 is darker. It's more of a pure black where it was a little bit grayer on Beta 4. This is the reverse of what we saw with the calendar in this beta as well. So they've updated that.
It's just a slight change. Now also, when you add a widget, so we'll just press and hold. It actually organized them a little bit differently. You'll see the way they look is slightly changed for the battery. So they've just updated some of the overall looks of it to better fit. I guess what they want as far as the style of it. I imagine this will change closer to the final release as well within the shortcuts app. They've updated the glyphs as well. So we'll go in and maybe go into this shortcut. And if we want to change the glyphs or the icon here, we'll go to glyphs.
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They've added a bunch of new ones under objects, people, and symbols. So there are additional ones. If you want to better customize this, whether that be for a tool scissors battery, for example, we can change it to the battery. You have a bunch of different choices for icons. They keep adding more and more of these as the betas go on. So maybe we'll see even more by the final release. Now within music, they've made some changes as well. If we go into music and then we'll select the same mix we'll hit play.
There we go. And you'll see, the background is slightly different on Beta 5. If we go to the next song, let's get out of the same album here. There we go. You'll see the background updates a little bit differently. It may be a little bit quicker, but it's also different colors to better match the album. So we'll go through these And you'll see that it's a little bit different as it goes through the different albums. So it's a little bit brighter, maybe a little bit more vibrant, and it's a slight change.
Now within the radio, they've also changed from beats one to Apple music one. And so you can see this already. They've made this change on all versions, but for whatever reason, they got rid of the word beats. Some people have said that beats are going away permanently, but it's really hard to say. And so those were the major, additional changes throughout a lot of small visual changes, just like they did here in the control center with the home.
But there's also some little tweaks and changes throughout where they move icons ever so slightly. Now I don't generally cover those just like at the home. There are some slight changes and I don't always cover those under automation and things because those can change throughout, but I like to see them continually progress through these different visual changes throughout the OS and I think we'll see a few more by the time it's finally to the public.
Now, let me know if you found anything else, and thanks again to everyone who sent all of those different changes and updates in.
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