Everything New in iOS 14 Beta 4: Apple TV Widget, Search Improvements, Exposure Notification API and More

[ipedro]

Any major issues with this beta? The public beta usually follows the next day unless there are showstoppers and it doesn’t look like it’s coming today.

 

[BlueCreek]

thanks, although i've seen a couple of posters here describing restarts and so on..

Beta 1 wasn’t even stable to begin with, I couldn’t wait to get rid of it due to the huge ‘other’ storage issue taking up my whole phone.

 

[retta283]

Public beta hopefully soon? I’m on Beta 3 and it’s been stable enough, 4 looks like it’s added or re-added a few nice things so I’m looking forward to updating it. Hopefully it’s not more buggy.

 

[iPhonefreak79]

What I really hate about iOS14 is that rolling wheels for select boxes are gone! For example adding new alert or calendar event is much more unintuitive.

I love this!

 

[Alan Gordon]

Have you found any other changes in iOS 14 beta 4 not listed here? Let us know in the comments and we'll add them to the list.

Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos logos have changed in the TV app on iOS and tvOS.

 

[compwiz1202]

Yeah, The new alarm interface stinks, was much faster to roll than needing to type all 4 figures for the time

Other pain with Alarm that I tested fully this time is if you go into an existing one, it changes the time to the current time instead of leaving it. I only wanted to change the days from MWF to MWR, and it still changed the time to the current time.

 

[compwiz1202]

Agreed. You were also less likely to mistakenly set am to pm and vice versa. The input is good for dates, but time should stay on the roller.

I use 24h, so how does picking AM/PM even work with 12h?

 

[compwiz1202]

hows that storage space

Isn't 0 anymore like B3 was, but it was only like 1GB instead of half the available or more. Didn't check it again yet though to see if it is creeping up.

 

[oxfordrunner]

The reason is you are a beta tester and should be updating to the latest version to provide feedback to Apple. That's the whole point.

Just be careful. If you open the Feedback app, it says they can read your emails.

 

[oxfordrunner]

The reason is you are a beta tester and should be updating to the latest version to provide feedback to Apple. That's the whole point.

Read the first paragraph of the Usage Notice in the Feedback app on iOS Beta. They can read your emails. Why would I provide feedback with this method? Let me do it anonymously online instead of in an app that gives away everything Apple purports to protect.

 

[szw-mapple fan]

I use 24h, so how does picking AM/PM even work with 12h?

It just switches over automatically when you cross the am/pm line. For example, if you roll forward from 11:59 AM It would automatically become 12:00PM and vice versa.

 

[tagmut]

That worked! Thanks.

It worked for me too but if I close out the News app and reopen it, it is gone again. Anyone else having this happen? Bug reported

 

[igneousc]

wow this continues to be a horrible beta. Camera went back to not being able to focus until I restarted the phone. More freezes and slowness too. marco arment tweeted similar thoughts

https://twitter.com/x/status/1291785618721312769

 

[CJ Dorschel]

Sign out and back in on iCloud and that will remove the badge.

That worked. Oddest thing to have to do. Thanks!

Sidenote: I noticed an increase in bugs and complaints from others with DP4. I thought it was just me but I've been experiencing many of the same issues. I don't know what Apple did (will have to thoroughly examine the change logs) but there have been a number of smaller issues that have developed. I noticed my devices aren't randomly rebooting now which makes me wonder if fixing that issue resulted in others. Filed all necessary bug reports. Hopefully DP5 will polish them out.

Also agree with the changes to the alarm clock. It was much easier to set times with the roller UI than entering digits. First world problems, yet if it ain't broke...

Otherwise, overall usage has improved significantly.