iOS 14.2 Beta 4 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

ShawnyRHarvey · Oct 22, 2020

I just got the “New Beta available” glitch at 12:03AM EST, even though I’m on 14.2 Beta 4

TheSkywalker77 · Oct 22, 2020

ShawnyRHarvey said:
I just got the “New Beta available” glitch at 12:03AM EST, even though I’m on 14.2 Beta 4

Same. I checked just to be sure Apple didn’t pull a fast one.

Nothing new.

DimaVR · Oct 22, 2020

TheSkywalker77 said:
Same. I checked just to be sure Apple didn’t pull a fast one.

Nothing new.

Yes same thing for me, happen at exact same time also
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ShawnyRHarvey said:
I just got the “New Beta available” glitch at 12:03AM EST, even though I’m on 14.2 Beta 4

Me two at exact same time, wonder why it’s doing that

TheSkywalker77 · Oct 22, 2020

DimaVR said:
Yes same thing for me, happen at exact same time also
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Me two at exact same time, wonder why it’s doing that

I’m pretty sure there was a bug similar to that back in (I think iOS 12) so hopefully it’s not happening again.

Geek95 · Oct 22, 2020

I was just able to find the beta OTA catalog URL my iPhone 11 Pro is using and the iPhone 12 Pro does have the iOS 14.2 Beta 4 OTA listed in it.

EDIT: Looks like you can just add /com_apple_MobileAsset_SoftwareUpdate/com_apple_MobileAsset_SoftwareUpdate.xml to the end of the URL in your beta profile (open the .mobileconfig in TextEdit or Notepad)

s2mike · Oct 22, 2020

ShawnyRHarvey said:
I just got the “New Beta available” glitch at 12:03AM EST, even though I’m on 14.2 Beta 4

Same here.

mariusignorello · Oct 22, 2020

I’ll be curious to see if 14.2 is the promised update that fixes dual SIM operation over 5G. This is most likely the last major update of the year, but they could do a separate small point release to fix it. Won’t know until tomorrow...

MacGralich · Oct 23, 2020

jarman92 said:
Reminders widget now shows more than one reminder at a time ??

Forgive me if I stay off-topic, but I have the Fantastical widget too on my iPad (iPadOS 14.0.1 though) and I don’t have the orange and yellow-colored days. How do you get it? I don’t have a premium Fantastical account.

Thanks a lot

Jumpie · Oct 23, 2020

New update modal

I just saw this for the first time but when I check Updates, there are none. Ideas?

Ansath · Oct 23, 2020

Jumpie said:
New update modal

I just saw this for the first time but when I check Updates, there are none. Ideas?

That issue has been posted a couple times over the last couple days, in this thread. It’s a bug, no new one.

Jumpie · Oct 23, 2020

Ansath said:
That issue has been posted a couple times over the last couple days, in this thread. It’s a bug, no new one.

Yea I just saw that. Was gonna delete this but oh well.

gwhizkids · Oct 23, 2020

Jumpie said:
Yea I just saw that. Was gonna delete this but oh well.

It probably is related to the release of 14.2 beta 4 for the new iPhones (reminding people its there) and someone miscoded it for other devices. I’ve gotten it on both my 11Pro and my iPad Pro 11”, the first last night and the other just a few minutes ago.

Xoterin · Oct 23, 2020

gwhizkids said:
It probably is related to the release of 14.2 beta 4 for the new iPhones (reminding people its there) and someone miscoded it for other devices. I’ve gotten it on both my 11Pro and my iPad Pro 11”, the first last night and the other just a few minutes ago.

Showed up for me last night. Assumed it may be related to the beta release for the iPhone 12.

jarman92 · Oct 23, 2020

MacGralich said:
Forgive me if I stay off-topic, but I have the Fantastical widget too on my iPad (iPadOS 14.0.1 though) and I don’t have the orange and yellow-colored days. How do you get it? I don’t have a premium Fantastical account.

Thanks a lot

Long press the widget, tap Edit “Fantastical”, then turn on Show Heatmap.
I don’t subscribe to Premium but I was grandfathered in because I bought the app years ago...not sure if that makes a difference though.

iAdamator · Oct 23, 2020

Geek95 said:
I was just able to find the beta OTA catalog URL my iPhone 11 Pro is using and the iPhone 12 Pro does have the iOS 14.2 Beta 4 OTA listed in it.

EDIT: Looks like you can just add /com_apple_MobileAsset_SoftwareUpdate/com_apple_MobileAsset_SoftwareUpdate.xml to the end of the URL in your beta profile (open the .mobileconfig in TextEdit or Notepad)

Just so I am clear this needs to be done so you can download 14.2 Beta on an iPhone 12/Pro?
My current 11 Pro is on 14.2 so I’m gonna need my new phone on the same so my backup will work of course.

what happens if I try to put the 14.2 profile on my new phone and it’s not supported? Does it just stop me immediately?

Kalbo_kalbo · Oct 23, 2020

Clock widget freezes several times per day and only solution is to remove widget and add it again.

Geek95 · Oct 23, 2020

iAdamator said:
Just so I am clear this needs to be done so you can download 14.2 Beta on an iPhone 12/Pro?
My current 11 Pro is on 14.2 so I’m gonna need my new phone on the same so my backup will work of course.

what happens if I try to put the 14.2 profile on my new phone and it’s not supported? Does it just stop me immediately?

What I ended up doing was downloading the profile on my Mac, activating my new iPhone 12 Pro, then installing the profile using Apple Configurator. When restoring from an iCloud Backup during Setup Assistant it started updating to iOS 14.2 Public Beta 4.

iAdamator · Oct 23, 2020

Are we not able to add 14 beta to our 12’s with OTA Profiles? I don’t have a Mac.

pinkoos · Oct 23, 2020

BriceApp said:
Anyone else noticing visual voicemail not showing the last couple betas? I am on AT&T, but have not received any voicemail on beta 3 or 4, but can call in a listen to messages.

Yes, same for me - on ATT and no indication of a VM

I get a missed call indicator, but no way to know if a voicemail was left

Geek95 · Oct 23, 2020

iAdamator said:
Are we not able to add 14 beta to our 12’s with OTA Profiles? I don’t have a Mac.

You can, but if you are restoring from a backup made on 14.2 you will need to setup the phone as a new device to install the profile, then reset to restore the backup.

AeroZ · Oct 23, 2020

StumpyBloke said:
No worries. Can’t be bothered with it at the now...too much like hard work. Thanks for the suggies anyway

Edit: final word, I’ve just started to play “my” station and it’s now populating the aforementioned, but not suggestions, only stuff I’ve already played. Oh well.

Maybe you got listening history turned off?

iAdamator · Oct 23, 2020

Geek95 said:
You can, but if you are restoring from a backup made on 14.2 you will need to setup the phone as a new device to install the profile, then reset to restore the backup.

I figured as much and I don’t mind. I just want to Make sure that the iPhone 12 is now supported with the 14.2 beta. Is it?

C DM · Oct 23, 2020

iAdamator said:
I figured as much and I don’t mind. I just want to Make sure that the iPhone 12 is now supported with the 14.2 beta. Is it?