iOS 14 GM Released - What's New?
Today Apple released iOS 14 gm golden master. This is the final version that will release to the public as soon as tomorrow.
Apple announced today that they're releasing iOS 14 iPad os 14 and TV os 14 and watch OS seven tomorrow on 916 or September 16 2020.
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And so this is the version that's finalized so if you're a developer or a public beta tester, and you have iOS 14 gm on your device.
It will just say iOS 14, you'll be able to have the final version, just one day early, and then we'll have it to all of the other people on iOS 13 tomorrow.
So that's pretty quick I haven't seen Apple do that before. And this came in at a very large 4.79 gigabytes on my iPhone 11 Pro max. So let's see if there's anything new compared to beta eight and talk about what to expect tomorrow.
Now once you've installed iOS 14 gm you're probably wondering how do I get off of the beta program and if you're not familiar with that.
All you do is on install the beta profile so you go to your settings go down to General, then scroll down to the bottom, you'll see profile. Tap on profile. Remove it. Put in your passcode hit remove again.
Restart your device. Once you're rebooted, you have the final version two just had it a day early so that's all you have to do, you'll stop receiving beta updates and you'll have the final version and when the next public update comes out you'll be able to install that.
Now this particular update let's take a look at the build number and talk about what's new. So if we go to general and about, you can see this build is 18, a 373, so compared to iOS 14 beta 8, which was 18 a 5373 a, this is essentially the exact same build, they just removed all of the debugging stuff that goes on in the background for developers, as well as feedback. And so if you were having issues with this particular update.
You're going to continue to have issues if you were on beta eight. Now the good thing is beta eight was pretty stable but that means you have no new modem update in this particular update. Now one of the first questions I get asked after installing an update is, is there new wallpaper.
So if we go to Settings Scroll down to wallpaper. Go to choose a new wallpaper. We go to dynamic. I don't really see anything new there stills.
There's nothing new there, and live. So you do have live wallpaper with night and day or night and dark but nothing particularly new or exciting so unfortunately there's not a ton of new wallpaper and I wouldn't expect them tomorrow as well.
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And then there's one resolved issue for developers, but apps such as Pokemon GO still will not work.
That will need an update, and you'll probably see that update tomorrow to fix that issue so you'll see a ton of different app updates starting tomorrow.
after you receive iOS 14, or if you're already on it, you'll just see a ton of different app updates, you'll see this number will go into the 40s 50s sometimes hundreds, if you have a lot of apps.
And so the overall performance of beta eight, and GM should be very similar as well although Geekbench test seemed to be a little bit better. And we'll talk about that in a moment.
So overall, this particular build is great, not only on iPhone, but on older iPhones so if you're going to come in from, say, an iPhone six s plus like this one. Expect performance to be decent.
You shouldn't have any issues, you'll see it says what's new and Apple Music, you're going to see a bunch of these things pop up. Wait for it here. And you'll see just switching.
In fact, you'll probably see better performance than you did with iOS 13, or the same, so don't expect a degradation in performance.
Expect games like Minecraft or Pokemon GO or Call of Duty mobile. Any of those to function as you would expect.
And the same is true, on the new modern hardware, of course, such as iPhone 11 expect the same sort of fast fluid experience iOS 13 was full of bugs, and they fixed most of those major bugs by now, and carry that over to iOS 14 where it's better and iPad os 14 so iPad os 14, again, fast and fluid.
And it's just been super fast in fact with beta eight, I really had no issues, a couple little lockups but that probably needs some app updates from Twitter for example.
So I did have a few issues from Twitter. Now if this is in fact the exact same as beta eight. That means that battery life should be about the same without the background debugging working and make it a little bit extra battery life.
And so don't expect it to go down, or it's just rechecking it.
Now if we take a look at yesterday or maybe the day before, you'll see my screen on time is not that great.
But, today I've had three hours and 35 minutes of screen on time, seven hours and 11 minutes of screen off time playing music and things like that. And so if we bring that out, that was about 50% usage double that.
Getting seven hours of screen on time, but 14 hours of screen off time now if I wasn't playing things in the background of course this would improve. And of course, as apps get updated this will improve as well.
I would expect iOS 14 gm to improve this additionally just based off of the overall experience with when you go from a beta to a final version.
That's why it was a huge version going from beta to the final from Final to beta. Any of those you're going to see a huge file size.
Now, this particular beta like I said is fast and fluid, but nothing really new with the GM so it looks like that's what the final version is going to have and then we'll probably see an iOS 14.1, maybe you want to iPhone 12 launches or maybe before it's really hard to say at this point. Now the good thing is benchmarks in general seem to be okay.
Now I did run it twice, and a couple things to note here is, it may be a little bit low because I ran it right after installing the update so I scored 1331 for single core only 3224 for multi core, we take a look at the history, you'll see I did have faster multi core last week I would expect this to improve greatly.
After it finishes doing whatever it's doing in the background indexing and finishing some tasks as well. Now let's take a look at these devices here that I have the six s plus 11, an iPad Pro. Now I have the iPad Pro 12.9 from 2020.
On the left, followed by the iPhone six s plus, followed by the iPhone 11, and then the iPhone, 11 Pro Max, and they seem to be performing pretty good at this point. give them a few more hours, they'll probably get much better in fact some other people are saying it's performing the same as iOS 13 point, 5.1, as far as Geekbench scores are concerned.
so tomorrow expect not only iOS 14 iPad OS but watch iOS seven and a lot of exciting updates coming out and then we'll see even more in the coming weeks so I really look forward to that.
So that's it for iOS 14 gm of course once it comes out and let me know what you think of iOS 14 gm in the short day that you'll get to use it if you're a developer public beta tester.
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