iOS 14.2.1, iOS 14.3 Release and Beta Follow Up

**Aaron’s Follow-Up on iOS 14.2.1 and 14.3 Beta 2: What You Need to Know**

Hello everyone! Aaron here from Zollotech. In this video, I’ll be discussing the latest updates in the iOS ecosystem, specifically focusing on **iOS 14.2.1**, **iOS 14.3 beta 2**, and what we can expect moving forward with updates like **iOS 14.2.2** and the release of **iOS 14.3**. Let’s dive in!

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### **Introduction to iOS 14.2.1**

First, I want to talk about **iOS 14.2.1**, which has been out for a little while now. If you’re using this update or haven’t seen it yet, there might be a reason why.

**Key Points:**

- **iOS 14.2.1 was specifically released for the iPhone 12 series**, including the iPhone 12 Pro Max that I’m currently testing.

- This update fixed three major issues and included some security updates.

- The primary issue it addressed was the **touch responsiveness lag on the home screen of the iPhone 12 mini**.

- It also fixed an issue where MMS messages weren’t being received properly and problems with hearing device compatibility for the iPhone 12 series.

If you’re not seeing this update on your older devices, don’t worry—Apple often targets specific hardware with particular updates. We might see a broader release to address these issues in the future.

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### **Performance of iOS 14.2.1**

Let’s talk about my experience with **iOS 14.2.1** on the iPhone 12 Pro Max. Overall, it has been pretty solid:

- **Battery life**: This device still delivers excellent battery performance, easily getting me through a full day.

- Yesterday, I had about one hour and 55 minutes of screen-on time and one hour and four minutes of screen-off time.

- Despite these numbers seeming inconsistent, I’ve noticed that the phone charges back to full by morning after a single night on the charger. It’s impressive!

- **Keyboard lag**: One common complaint with **iOS 14.2** was the keyboard lag when typing messages. It seems this issue has been resolved in **14.2.1**, at least for the iPhone 12 series.

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### **Introduction to iOS 14.3 Beta 2**

Now, let’s shift focus to **iOS 14.3 beta 2**, which is available for testing. This update appears to be a significant step forward in terms of stability:

- **Performance**: Users on the YouTube community poll mentioned that **14.3 beta 2** has been running smoothly without major issues.

- Apps like Weather, Music, and the App Store load quickly across devices like the iPhone 6s Plus and iPhone 12 Pro.

- The camera app also loads efficiently, with older models like the iPhone 6s Plus even outperforming newer ones in some cases.

- **Battery life on iPad**: I’ve been using this update primarily on my iPad, where performance has been excellent except for battery life.

- After being charged to 100% three days ago, I’m currently at 33% with moderate use.

- YouTube consumption seems to drain the battery faster than usual, so I might consider turning off some notifications to save power.

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### **User Feedback and Poll Results**

To get a better sense of how these updates are performing across devices, I looked into the results from my YouTube community poll. Here’s what users had to say:

- **Positive feedback**:

- Many users reported that **iOS 14.3 beta 2** is running smoothly without any major bugs.

- Battery life on newer devices like the iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 has been impressive, with some users achieving around six hours of screen-on time.

- **Areas for improvement**:

- A few users mentioned issues with auto-light switching in Dark Mode and minor notification bugs.

- Keyboard lag and imessage notification inconsistencies were also reported by a couple of testers.

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### **Speculation on Future Updates**

As we look ahead, here’s what I’m expecting:

- **iOS 14.3 beta 3**: This update is likely to drop in the coming week, especially since we’re entering the Thanksgiving weekend. Apple often releases betas during this time, but it can vary.

- **iOS 14.2.2**: Depending on how things progress, we might see a minor bug fix release for all devices soon. This update could come as early as this week or in the first week of December.

- **Final release of iOS 14.3**: I’m anticipating that Apple will roll out the final version of **iOS 14.3** sometime in December, alongside the much-awaited **Apple ProRAW support** for the iPhone 12 Pro series.

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### **Conclusion**

In summary, **iOS 14.2.1** and **iOS 14.3 beta 2** have been performing exceptionally well across devices. While there are still minor bugs to iron out, these updates are getting us closer to a stable and optimized iOS experience for everyone.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enHi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and ios 14.2.1 and 14.3 beta 2 have been out for a  little while i haven't done a follow-up on them so i thought i'd do a follow-up going over the  experience of them and also talk about when to expect iOS 14.2, 14.2.2 and the release of 14.3 so  i'll talk about all of that a little bit later but i first want to talk about the overall experience  now the first thing is if you're using ios 14.2.1 or maybe you're not seeing that update there's  going to be a reason for that and generally that's because 14.2.1 was specific to the  iphone 12 series so this is the iphone 12 pro max that i have it running on here and it fixed three  different major issues and had some security updates but the major issue it fixed was with  the iphone 12 mini with touch responsiveness lag on the home screen it fixed a couple other  things as well but that was the major issue that it fixed so that along with a an issue with mms  messages not being received as well as the iphone hearing device is not working properly with the 12  series so it fixed all of those things and that's working fine on iphone 12. now one issue that a  lot of people are complaining about with ios 14.2 is that they're having some lag with the keyboard  and generally people typing have lag with the keyboard with messages and it seems like it's  fixed in 14.2.1 so why apple only pushed it to the iphone 12 and not to older devices is hard to say  but i think we'll see an update to hopefully fix some of those issues here  soon in the future now as far as anything else in that update well 14.2.1 seems pretty solid  battery life is pretty solid so i'll talk about the battery life here and then talk about 14.3  but battery life on this device has been pretty good it easily gets me through a day no problem  and it's kind of hit or miss so you'll see i only got about two hours or one hour and 55 minutes  of screen on time one hour and four minutes of screen off time and used about a quarter  of the battery that was yesterday depending on the day it varies greatly but the odd thing is  is i'm not sure these numbers are correct and the reason i say that is i can easily  get through about a day and a half with the 12 pro max right now so i'm not really seeing this  screen on time maybe it's accurate and i just i'm not using it that much but it seems kind  of odd that i have phenomenal battery life i'll go to go to bed put it on the charger at about  60 and then i'll have it charged in the morning again so it's kind of odd i'm not sure if they  need to fix something in the background with that but right now battery life seems fine despite what  the numbers say here now also with 14.3 beta 2 well that's pretty good for most people i  think this is the update that will really make ios 14 very stable it's pretty stable already  it has a few little bugs like the keyboard issue as well as system crashes for some those were the  two major issues i saw on the youtube community poll based off what people were saying with 14.2  those that are running 14.3 beta 2 are not seeing any issues and are saying performance is great  so while it's an early beta it's not perfect it seems to be okay so if we go into things like  music you can see how fast it loaded if we go into weather for example they're opening equally  fast on the iphone 6s plus and the iphone 12 pro if we go into the app store for example  they're both loading for the first time in this update we'll give it a moment and you'll see it  was fairly fast on both again we'll go into the cameras takes a second to load and actually the 6s  plus was faster there so performance wise it seems to be really decent other than that i haven't  really seen a whole lot of people say there's bugs with 14.3 and that's a great sign so that means  once it's out to the public it will be very stable i think for most with the iphone 7 for example  many people are saying similar things if they're on 14.2 it might be getting warm it might lag  but once they're on 14.3 betas they seem to be okay speed seems fine opening different apps are  fine and i know some people will say this is an iphone 8 this is an iphone 7 in jet black so if  you look up that one you'll see it but a lot of people think it's an iphone 8 but it's actually  a 7. it's an aluminum back instead of glass so we'll go home here and go into settings  you'll see everything seems to be smooth and again on the beta it seems to be okay  now as far as the ipad this is where i've been using this primarily with 14.3 or ipad os 14.3  beta 2. so i haven't had any crashes in fact i've had great everything overall except battery life  so you'll see in the upper right i have 33 percent battery life if i go into my battery here  we'll wait for it to load and you'll see i last charged it to 100 percent on tuesday that was  three or four days ago now and you'll see i've used it i haven't used it a ton this week i've  been playing around with the m1 max but if i go to screen on time usually about an hour or so a day  and if we go back to tuesday it charged and then i used it three minutes so that is not great battery  life i would say that i'm getting about six hours if i was to use it continuously just watching  youtube and you'll see the lock screen is using a lot so i need to turn off some notifications there  that seems to be using the most power but youtube is what i use with it most in photos and things  like that but again crashes stability performance and everything is really great it's just battery  life but it's a beta so i don't really expect great battery life so when will the next update be  well i think we'll see ios 14.3 beta 3 this coming week currently at least at the time of recording  this this is sort of the week of and weekend of thanksgiving so i don't expect anything there but  i do expect an update the following week maybe on tuesday or so that's generally when apple releases  them however they've been releasing them sometimes late in the day who knows we could even see one  during the weekend at this point it's been kind of crazy right now but hopefully it'll be fairly  standardized a little bit later now as far as ios 14.2.2 well depending on what apple decides  we could see a public release with some minor bug fixes to every device hopefully soon again i  would expect that this coming week or the first week of december really is when we see updates  after the holidays in the united states so that's really what i'm looking for as far as  public releases although i do expect apple to release ios 14.3 sometime in december  with that apple pro raw update for the iphone 12 pro series so i'm thinking that release will be  then maybe we'll see a minor update this coming week as well if we don't see it i would expect  them just to wait to 14.3 at this point but again apple has been so random at this point it's really  hard to determine exactly what they're doing now other than that let's take a look at the youtube  community poll and see what you had to say so we'll go into youtube you can see ram management  was good this has been sitting in the background for an hour or so before filming this video  so at the time of this video you'll see there's 12 000 votes and this was a little bit difficult to  do the poll because you only get five options so you can see i said ios 14.3 beta 2 great or not so  great and then again 14.2.1 great and not so great so 14.2.1 is mostly great and 14.3 beta2 is decent  again and a lot of people are over 50 are using 14.2 itself so let me go ahead and sort these  and you'll see a lot of people are commenting with 14.2 so the first one from cynical teddy  says 14.2 on an iphone 11 pro max battery life is better than 14 imessage still has an annoying lag  before text input shows up and a new bug with 14.2 is that notifications for imessages come and go  and is very irritating surprised apple has taken this long to fix the notification bugs that  multiple people all over reddit have complained about and that's the last thing i meant to mention  is there's those three things messages some random crashes and keyboard lag gabriel says 12 mini on  14.2.1 bit of animation stuttering when opening apps but otherwise can't complain stanley says  he's still on ios 13.6.1 with an iphone 8 still worrying about battery life on 14 i don't know if  i'm being paranoid though once ios 14.3 comes out i would update in fact 13.7 was better than 13.6.1  and many people said 14.1 was better than 13.7 so i really wouldn't worry about that really really  good battery life on 14.3 iphone 7 plus battery at 99 i get 6 hours or 6 and a half hours of screen  on time nicholas says i'm on ios 14.3 beta 2 on iphone 11 pro and battery life has been amazing  russell says working smooth as butter on my iphone 10r no hiccups stable battery life just that the  auto light in dark mode wasn't switching properly a couple of times that's actually based on when  it's daylight and night out so based on sunset it actually switches so depending on when that  is throughout the day generally it will flip at that time chris roberto says ios 14.2 so far it's  running great on all of my devices iphone se 2 and iphone 7 but battery life still needs improvement  we'll read a couple more there's hundreds of comments so i appreciate it 14.2 sometimes  it runs smooth sometimes it feels very laggy on the iphone 8 plus pulkit says using ios 14.2 on  iphone 10r the battery life seems to be resuming to normal seven to eight hours of screen on time  no bugs or slowdowns everything is fine except imessage in siri i'm using iphone 7 ios 14.3  beta 2. auto says still having the keyboard lag and now the imessage notification bug is back  and so that's it for ios 14.3 beta 2 and ios 14.2.1 like i said earlier hopefully we see ios  14.3 beta 3 this coming week in a few days from now and also ios 14.2.2 would be great to see if  apple wants to skip that and jump right to a final version of ios 14.3 i think many would welcome it  as long as they've had time to actually make sure it's really solid  and i think we're going to see more and more of that very soon if you'd like to get your hands  on this wallpaper of course i'll link it in the description like i normally do and if you  haven't subscribed already please subscribe and if you enjoyed the video please give it a like  as always thanks for watching this is Aaron i'll see you next time\n"