**iOS 14.7 Beta 4 Review**

As we dive into the latest beta release of iOS 14.7, it's clear that this update is shaping up to be a solid one. The feedback from users has been overwhelmingly positive, with many praising the improvements made in terms of performance and stability. However, as we all know, these updates are never without their quirks, and iOS 14.7 beta 4 is no exception.

One thing that's become apparent is that this update feels like a refinement of previous betas rather than a major overhaul. In other words, it's not drastically different from beta 3, which was already a significant improvement over the initial release. That being said, there are still some notable changes and improvements to be found in iOS 14.7 beta 4.

One area that's seen significant attention is performance. With the latest beta build, we're seeing improved handling of certain tasks and processes that were previously bogged down by the operating system. Of course, these kinds of improvements can vary depending on individual devices and use cases, but overall, it's clear that Apple has made some major strides in this area.

Geekbench scores have also been put to the test, with the latest beta build managing a respectable 1596 on single-core and 4068 on multi-core. While these numbers may not be record-breakers, they're certainly indicative of a well-tuned and efficient operating system.

Another aspect that's seen some attention is battery life. Unfortunately, it seems that iOS 14.7 beta 4 hasn't managed to eliminate the issues that plagued beta 2 and beta 3. However, with most users reporting no significant battery drain issues in their devices, we can assume that this update will continue to provide solid battery life.

As we near the final release of iOS 14.7, it's worth noting that Apple has a history of releasing updates on the week of July 12th. Of course, these predictions are subject to change at any moment, and it's not uncommon for Apple to skip the RC build and go straight to final.

The bigger picture is that we can expect iOS 15 to be released soon after, with developer beta 3 possibly dropping as early as July 6th. The public beta of iOS 15 could also emerge next week, depending on when Apple decides to release it.

For those who have been holding onto iOS 14, it's worth noting that the latest update brings a new set of features and improvements designed to keep you up-to-date with the latest technologies. Of course, some might argue that iOS 15 is the more exciting release, given its raft of new features and enhancements.

In any case, we'll be keeping a close eye on both iOS 14.7 and iOS 15 as they make their way through beta and into final releases. As always, we'll have plenty of updates and coverage to keep you in the loop.

**Release Date Predictions**

As we wait for the release of iOS 14.7, there's plenty to speculate about. Apple has a history of releasing updates on July 12th, but it's not uncommon for them to change their plans at the last minute. With that said, I'm predicting that iOS 14.7 will be released sometime in mid-July, possibly around July 13th.

Of course, these predictions are subject to change, and we can only wait and see what Apple has in store for us. One thing's for sure, though: the RC build of iOS 14.7 should drop after the public release of iOS 14.7, which could potentially happen as early as next week.

As always, I'll be keeping a close eye on these updates and will provide you with plenty of coverage as they emerge. So stay tuned for more news and insights from the world of iOS.

**The Future of iOS Updates**

Finally, it's worth noting that Apple has a history of releasing multiple betas before finalizing an update. While we can't predict exactly what this will look like, it's clear that iOS 14.7 beta 4 is shaping up to be a solid release.

One thing's for sure: the future of iOS updates will continue to be shaped by user feedback and community engagement. As always, we'll be keeping an eye on the latest developments and providing you with all the news and insights as they emerge.

So stay tuned for more coverage of iOS 14.7 and beyond. With Apple's history of innovation and commitment to quality, we can expect great things from these upcoming updates.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys my name is brandon and today apple released ios 14.7 beta 4 to register developers and soon to public beta testers and this comes about two weeks after the release of beta 3 and about one week after ios 15 beta 2. so in addition to ios we also got ipad os 14.7 beta 4 watch os 7.6 beta 4 mac os big sur 11.5 beta 4 and tv os 14.7 beta 4. but of course in this video we're talking all about ios and ipad os 14.7 beta 4 and what is new in this update so let's go and start off with the size of this update you can see here on my iphone 12 it came in right under 300 megabytes so about 268 megabytes on this device it came in a little bit bigger on other devices but it should be around this area if you're coming from beta 3. so if we go ahead and check out the build number if you go to our settings to general about and then 14.7 you can see the build here is 18g 505 2d so we do have a d at the end of the build number which means we probably will still have one more beta left it might be the rc but we'll talk more about that near the end of this video and if we go down a little bit further to the modem firmware you can see that is unchanged in this update so it remains at 1.88.01 so if you're having connectivity issues on the prior beta on beta 3 those most likely will not be fixed in this update because there is no modem update here with beta 4 but beta 3 probably fixed a lot of modem and connectivity related issues because of that sim card issue that we had with beta 2. so anyways what's new here in ios 14.7 beta 4. and once again just like every other beta 14.7 apple includes very little in the release note so you can see they really only mention one resolved issue here and that has to do with battery health so it says restored battery service messages that may have disappeared after reboot on some iphone 11 models so that and then one known issue with the sk ad network right there but really nothing major at all in these release notes once again just like we've seen previously with the three previous betas so this is going to be a pretty minor update overall which is expected for a 0.7 release especially after 14.6 was kind of a big release we had a lot of features in that so i really would not go into this expecting a lot of changes especially here on beta 4 but i did notice one thing with the home application of course one of the big new features here in ios 14.7 has to do with home pods and the homepod timer so you can now set a timer from the home application just go ahead let's go to here and if you go and haptic press on your home bot of course it does need to be on 14.7 as well you can see we have timers right here so instead of having to ask siri you could do it manually here inside of the home application and i noticed that this is a lot smoother of an experience here in beta 4. so i had issues with this of course on beta 1 and beta 2 but even in beta 3 which is not as fluid as it is here in beta 4. so this is continuously getting improved and i have noticed that the sound is slightly louder now as well when the timer actually goes off on the homepod so really just a minor change with the timers there and i did also notice a change inside of podcasts as well so if we go into the podcast application then go to library and then if we go to our shows right here you will see that the top little panel we had right here is gone so it used to say things like followed and all so if i pull up ios 15 over here the previous ios 14.7 beta had a very similar layout to what we see in ios 15 where you see it sectioned off by followed and all right there under shows but that is no longer here in beta 4. so i'm not sure if apple is just keeping that for ios 15 or what but that is one thing i noticed after updating here to beta4 now also if we go to edit the shows if we click on these three dots right here and then go to edit shows and then go to delete you can see that we get some slightly updated verbage here so it now says unfollow and remove instead of just remove i believe it just said remove and previous betas but it now says that a little bit more verbage there as well as to what you're doing when you actually delete a podcast or unfollow a podcast on here so just some very minor changes inside of the podcast application and of course we do have podcast subscriptions here and beta 4. nothing has changed with that there's actually a section now inside of browse that shows explore subscription so you can tap on that and see some of the podcast shows that offer the subscriptions if you go ahead and tap on this you can see right here you get this little section that says you could try it for free so i believe that every podcast subscription has a minimum of like a three day free trial so i've seen three days i've seen five days and now this one is seven days of a free trial so i guess it depends on when they release new content for premium subscribers but you can do that right there and of course you can try it free and it does show up where all your other subscriptions for like applications show up and also if you go into up here if we go to listen now then go to our icon right here you can see you have the manage subscription so you can manage all of your podcast subscriptions by simply tapping on that but of course it will take you to the app store where it shows all your app store subscriptions as well it's not its own dedicated section which i wish would change because it is kind of separate and i wish they would have a dedicated section for that but they do not so really just some minor changes here with podcasts and 14.7 beta 4. now i've also seen a lot of people report that their spatial audio and lossless audio just kind of disappears here on 14.7 so i've not had this issue but if you have you know if you go into an album you can see this one just shows lossless but some will show dolby atmos and losses as you can see right there for this album and if you go into your settings and if we go back if we go all the way down to music and then to dolby atmos you want to make sure this is turned on to automatic or always on i would personally recommend automatic because always on you know turns on dolby atmos for albums that are not ready for and it does not sound good but just make sure that is not turned on to off so some people been reporting that this just kind of disappears and they're not seeing it anymore in apple music but you may have accidentally turned that off or you might be in a country like india so spatial audio and lossless audio is coming to india very soon it is not there with this beta release i would imagine it's going to be an over-the-air update a server-side update so it's not going to require a you know ios update or a bait or anything like that it's just going to come to apple music whenever apple is ready to release that in india so i know i've had a lot of people from india asking about that i will let you guys know when it is pushed out for you guys over there in india but as far as overall quality or anything like that here on 14.7 beta 4 nothing has changed with spatial or lossless audio in this update it's still performing very well for me and then as far as the sim card bug of course we had the big sim card failure bug in beta 2 which caused some people to have a bricked device and a lot of people had no service they couldn't make phone calls they had to manually downgrade that was a big issue in beta 2 and that's the reason that public beta testers never got a beta 2 they jumped straight from beta 1 to beta 3 because apple just knew that that you know version was completely bugged out and it caused some major issues but since then i've not seen any reports of sim card failure issues or cell connectivity issues which is a good sign however we still do have a couple of bugs here in 14.7 and of course one of the big ones is the music cue bug so it's not showing up now but sometimes when i press shuffle on an album you will see that we have the music cue bug where the first song cannot be moved so i don't have it right here it doesn't happen every single time but every once in a while it will happen where the first song just simply cannot be moved and it's been a bug for a while it's even on ios 15 betas as well which is pretty annoying but that is still outstanding also the airplay the homepod feature is still not the best here in 14.7 beta 4. i've not noticed any change in that and i've also seen people report issues with sidecar here in 14.7 at beta 3 and i'm guessing beta 4 as well where they have issues connecting their ipad on the 14.7 betas to their mac so sometimes they get a can't connect error or it just uses half of the ipad screen so if you guys have had issues with the sidecar feature let me know in a comment down below and of course let me know if it's been fixed here with beta4 as well and as far as green tents goes i've not seen very many people talking about green tent at all at least not in my comments or really anywhere on social media so i would assume that green tent has been resolved for most people at least for the most part here on 14.7 and if it has not been fully fixed i would expect ios 15 to fix that for you because a lot of people were starting to worry that this is like a hardware issue but we've seen these green tents or just random temp colors on iphones before with the iphone 10r for example we saw that and it got fixed you know it took almost a year to fix it but it did get fixed with a software update and it looks like that's the case here with green tents as well for those of you with the iphone 12 with that issue so that is good news and of course if you guys have any nothing else to say about green tents let me know in a comment down below now as far as performance goes here in beta 4 it feels about the same as beta 3 for me i mean i haven't really been able to tell any difference now of course i don't use 14.7 on a daily basis anymore just because i am testing out the ios 15 betas but i still do use it every once in a while probably every other day i use 14.7 just to browse around just to keep myself you know in the know with the software and it feels very stable of course it is a lot more stable than ios 15 that's a given but it feels good but i wouldn't say it's any better than beta 3 it feels about the same for me and as far as the geekbench scores here let me just go ahead and run a quick one real quick to see how it compares to beta 3. so you can see we got a 1596 on the single core and a 4068 on the multi-core so it is slightly lower than it was in beta 3. you can see the comparison there this is beta 4 this is beta 3. so slightly lower but of course these do not tell the full story but they are still fun to run these tests and show you guys how they stack up against previous betas now as far as the battery life goes here in 14.7 beta 4 i would expect it to be about the same as beta 3 which has been fine for me a lot of people did complain about battery life and this is on like apple forms and everything with beta 2 but beta 3 seemed to resolve those battery drain issues for most people so i would expect beta 4 to continue you know being solid and steady for battery life i'm not really seeing too many people complain in my beta 3 video about the battery life so you guys let me know in a comment down below how battery life is treating you but i would expect it to be pretty solid here with beta 4 as we near a final release and speaking of the final release when can we expect to see ios 14.7 released to the public so today is june 29th i would expect to see ios 14.7 in mid-july so as early as early july but i would say that mid-july is more likely so we will probably see an rc build next week and then probably the final on the week of the 12th so i would expect to see ios 14.7 released to the general public on the week of the 12th most likely on july 13th now where things get tricky is we also have ios 15 going on right now and ios 15 i'm also expecting to see a beta next week as well so july 6 is also a good possibility to see ios 15 developer beta 3. now the public beta of ios 15 could also come out next week as well and that just depends on what build of ios 15 apple decides you know is fit for the public beta is it going to be developer beta 3 is it going to be developer beta 2 because if it's developer beta two that means that as early as this thursday in two days on july 1st or even july 2nd we could see ios 15 public beta 1 but if apple is waiting until developer beta 3 to push out the public release then we'll probably see it you know late next week maybe the 8th or the 9th so it's really hard to say right now and apple is of course very unpredictable but the main thing you guys need to know is that the final release of 14.7 is most likely coming on the week of the 12th of course it is very possible to be released next week you know the final release apple could always skip the rc build and just go straight to final it's really hard to say but those are just my predictions as of right now and of course follow me on twitter if you guys want to stay up to date with you know things if things change if we see something released earlier than expected that could change the schedule so just follow me on twitter so you guys don't miss the latest when it comes to these ios releases but anyways hope you guys enjoyed this video ios 14.7 of course most people are on ios 15 at this point you are smart if you're staying on ios 14 just because ios 15 does have a lot of issues but you know not a lot going on here and 14.7 beta 4. but of course like always i do like to bring you guys every single update no matter how big and important or how small and you know kind of irrelevant the update is but anyways if you guys enjoyed this video i would appreciate if you give it a thumbs up and of course make sure you subscribe for a lot more content coming on ios 14 and ios 15. and of course i did also want to mention that ios 14.8 betas should start after ios 14.7 gets released to the public so i know some people thought that 14.7 was the final ios 14 release but no i am expecting a 14.8 after 14.7 gets released to the public but anyways guys thanks again for watching and i'll see you soon youwhat's up guys my name is brandon and today apple released ios 14.7 beta 4 to register developers and soon to public beta testers and this comes about two weeks after the release of beta 3 and about one week after ios 15 beta 2. so in addition to ios we also got ipad os 14.7 beta 4 watch os 7.6 beta 4 mac os big sur 11.5 beta 4 and tv os 14.7 beta 4. but of course in this video we're talking all about ios and ipad os 14.7 beta 4 and what is new in this update so let's go and start off with the size of this update you can see here on my iphone 12 it came in right under 300 megabytes so about 268 megabytes on this device it came in a little bit bigger on other devices but it should be around this area if you're coming from beta 3. so if we go ahead and check out the build number if you go to our settings to general about and then 14.7 you can see the build here is 18g 505 2d so we do have a d at the end of the build number which means we probably will still have one more beta left it might be the rc but we'll talk more about that near the end of this video and if we go down a little bit further to the modem firmware you can see that is unchanged in this update so it remains at 1.88.01 so if you're having connectivity issues on the prior beta on beta 3 those most likely will not be fixed in this update because there is no modem update here with beta 4 but beta 3 probably fixed a lot of modem and connectivity related issues because of that sim card issue that we had with beta 2. so anyways what's new here in ios 14.7 beta 4. and once again just like every other beta 14.7 apple includes very little in the release note so you can see they really only mention one resolved issue here and that has to do with battery health so it says restored battery service messages that may have disappeared after reboot on some iphone 11 models so that and then one known issue with the sk ad network right there but really nothing major at all in these release notes once again just like we've seen previously with the three previous betas so this is going to be a pretty minor update overall which is expected for a 0.7 release especially after 14.6 was kind of a big release we had a lot of features in that so i really would not go into this expecting a lot of changes especially here on beta 4 but i did notice one thing with the home application of course one of the big new features here in ios 14.7 has to do with home pods and the homepod timer so you can now set a timer from the home application just go ahead let's go to here and if you go and haptic press on your home bot of course it does need to be on 14.7 as well you can see we have timers right here so instead of having to ask siri you could do it manually here inside of the home application and i noticed that this is a lot smoother of an experience here in beta 4. so i had issues with this of course on beta 1 and beta 2 but even in beta 3 which is not as fluid as it is here in beta 4. so this is continuously getting improved and i have noticed that the sound is slightly louder now as well when the timer actually goes off on the homepod so really just a minor change with the timers there and i did also notice a change inside of podcasts as well so if we go into the podcast application then go to library and then if we go to our shows right here you will see that the top little panel we had right here is gone so it used to say things like followed and all so if i pull up ios 15 over here the previous ios 14.7 beta had a very similar layout to what we see in ios 15 where you see it sectioned off by followed and all right there under shows but that is no longer here in beta 4. so i'm not sure if apple is just keeping that for ios 15 or what but that is one thing i noticed after updating here to beta4 now also if we go to edit the shows if we click on these three dots right here and then go to edit shows and then go to delete you can see that we get some slightly updated verbage here so it now says unfollow and remove instead of just remove i believe it just said remove and previous betas but it now says that a little bit more verbage there as well as to what you're doing when you actually delete a podcast or unfollow a podcast on here so just some very minor changes inside of the podcast application and of course we do have podcast subscriptions here and beta 4. nothing has changed with that there's actually a section now inside of browse that shows explore subscription so you can tap on that and see some of the podcast shows that offer the subscriptions if you go ahead and tap on this you can see right here you get this little section that says you could try it for free so i believe that every podcast subscription has a minimum of like a three day free trial so i've seen three days i've seen five days and now this one is seven days of a free trial so i guess it depends on when they release new content for premium subscribers but you can do that right there and of course you can try it free and it does show up where all your other subscriptions for like applications show up and also if you go into up here if we go to listen now then go to our icon right here you can see you have the manage subscription so you can manage all of your podcast subscriptions by simply tapping on that but of course it will take you to the app store where it shows all your app store subscriptions as well it's not its own dedicated section which i wish would change because it is kind of separate and i wish they would have a dedicated section for that but they do not so really just some minor changes here with podcasts and 14.7 beta 4. now i've also seen a lot of people report that their spatial audio and lossless audio just kind of disappears here on 14.7 so i've not had this issue but if you have you know if you go into an album you can see this one just shows lossless but some will show dolby atmos and losses as you can see right there for this album and if you go into your settings and if we go back if we go all the way down to music and then to dolby atmos you want to make sure this is turned on to automatic or always on i would personally recommend automatic because always on you know turns on dolby atmos for albums that are not ready for and it does not sound good but just make sure that is not turned on to off so some people been reporting that this just kind of disappears and they're not seeing it anymore in apple music but you may have accidentally turned that off or you might be in a country like india so spatial audio and lossless audio is coming to india very soon it is not there with this beta release i would imagine it's going to be an over-the-air update a server-side update so it's not going to require a you know ios update or a bait or anything like that it's just going to come to apple music whenever apple is ready to release that in india so i know i've had a lot of people from india asking about that i will let you guys know when it is pushed out for you guys over there in india but as far as overall quality or anything like that here on 14.7 beta 4 nothing has changed with spatial or lossless audio in this update it's still performing very well for me and then as far as the sim card bug of course we had the big sim card failure bug in beta 2 which caused some people to have a bricked device and a lot of people had no service they couldn't make phone calls they had to manually downgrade that was a big issue in beta 2 and that's the reason that public beta testers never got a beta 2 they jumped straight from beta 1 to beta 3 because apple just knew that that you know version was completely bugged out and it caused some major issues but since then i've not seen any reports of sim card failure issues or cell connectivity issues which is a good sign however we still do have a couple of bugs here in 14.7 and of course one of the big ones is the music cue bug so it's not showing up now but sometimes when i press shuffle on an album you will see that we have the music cue bug where the first song cannot be moved so i don't have it right here it doesn't happen every single time but every once in a while it will happen where the first song just simply cannot be moved and it's been a bug for a while it's even on ios 15 betas as well which is pretty annoying but that is still outstanding also the airplay the homepod feature is still not the best here in 14.7 beta 4. i've not noticed any change in that and i've also seen people report issues with sidecar here in 14.7 at beta 3 and i'm guessing beta 4 as well where they have issues connecting their ipad on the 14.7 betas to their mac so sometimes they get a can't connect error or it just uses half of the ipad screen so if you guys have had issues with the sidecar feature let me know in a comment down below and of course let me know if it's been fixed here with beta4 as well and as far as green tents goes i've not seen very many people talking about green tent at all at least not in my comments or really anywhere on social media so i would assume that green tent has been resolved for most people at least for the most part here on 14.7 and if it has not been fully fixed i would expect ios 15 to fix that for you because a lot of people were starting to worry that this is like a hardware issue but we've seen these green tents or just random temp colors on iphones before with the iphone 10r for example we saw that and it got fixed you know it took almost a year to fix it but it did get fixed with a software update and it looks like that's the case here with green tents as well for those of you with the iphone 12 with that issue so that is good news and of course if you guys have any nothing else to say about green tents let me know in a comment down below now as far as performance goes here in beta 4 it feels about the same as beta 3 for me i mean i haven't really been able to tell any difference now of course i don't use 14.7 on a daily basis anymore just because i am testing out the ios 15 betas but i still do use it every once in a while probably every other day i use 14.7 just to browse around just to keep myself you know in the know with the software and it feels very stable of course it is a lot more stable than ios 15 that's a given but it feels good but i wouldn't say it's any better than beta 3 it feels about the same for me and as far as the geekbench scores here let me just go ahead and run a quick one real quick to see how it compares to beta 3. so you can see we got a 1596 on the single core and a 4068 on the multi-core so it is slightly lower than it was in beta 3. you can see the comparison there this is beta 4 this is beta 3. so slightly lower but of course these do not tell the full story but they are still fun to run these tests and show you guys how they stack up against previous betas now as far as the battery life goes here in 14.7 beta 4 i would expect it to be about the same as beta 3 which has been fine for me a lot of people did complain about battery life and this is on like apple forms and everything with beta 2 but beta 3 seemed to resolve those battery drain issues for most people so i would expect beta 4 to continue you know being solid and steady for battery life i'm not really seeing too many people complain in my beta 3 video about the battery life so you guys let me know in a comment down below how battery life is treating you but i would expect it to be pretty solid here with beta 4 as we near a final release and speaking of the final release when can we expect to see ios 14.7 released to the public so today is june 29th i would expect to see ios 14.7 in mid-july so as early as early july but i would say that mid-july is more likely so we will probably see an rc build next week and then probably the final on the week of the 12th so i would expect to see ios 14.7 released to the general public on the week of the 12th most likely on july 13th now where things get tricky is we also have ios 15 going on right now and ios 15 i'm also expecting to see a beta next week as well so july 6 is also a good possibility to see ios 15 developer beta 3. now the public beta of ios 15 could also come out next week as well and that just depends on what build of ios 15 apple decides you know is fit for the public beta is it going to be developer beta 3 is it going to be developer beta 2 because if it's developer beta two that means that as early as this thursday in two days on july 1st or even july 2nd we could see ios 15 public beta 1 but if apple is waiting until developer beta 3 to push out the public release then we'll probably see it you know late next week maybe the 8th or the 9th so it's really hard to say right now and apple is of course very unpredictable but the main thing you guys need to know is that the final release of 14.7 is most likely coming on the week of the 12th of course it is very possible to be released next week you know the final release apple could always skip the rc build and just go straight to final it's really hard to say but those are just my predictions as of right now and of course follow me on twitter if you guys want to stay up to date with you know things if things change if we see something released earlier than expected that could change the schedule so just follow me on twitter so you guys don't miss the latest when it comes to these ios releases but anyways hope you guys enjoyed this video ios 14.7 of course most people are on ios 15 at this point you are smart if you're staying on ios 14 just because ios 15 does have a lot of issues but you know not a lot going on here and 14.7 beta 4. but of course like always i do like to bring you guys every single update no matter how big and important or how small and you know kind of irrelevant the update is but anyways if you guys enjoyed this video i would appreciate if you give it a thumbs up and of course make sure you subscribe for a lot more content coming on ios 14 and ios 15. and of course i did also want to mention that ios 14.8 betas should start after ios 14.7 gets released to the public so i know some people thought that 14.7 was the final ios 14 release but no i am expecting a 14.8 after 14.7 gets released to the public but anyways guys thanks again for watching and i'll see you soon you\n"