hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and this past week we had a bit of a surprise release with
iOS 16.1.2 we also had iOS 16.2 beta 4 with more features changes and updates that have been found
since the initial iOS 16.2 beta 4 is out video so we'll talk about that we'll also talk about the
overall experience based off the YouTube Community poll and more where there's 196 comments and over
9700 votes almost 10 000 votes at the time of this video so I've read all of these comments
to give us a general understanding and the overall experience of what it's like using either one of
those so we'll talk about battery life and more a little bit later now the first thing is IOS 16.1.2
was released this week with security updates the odd thing is Apple hasn't updated the security
website yet so if we refresh the website here and scroll down you'll see that it says that it
released iOS 16.1.2 but it says details available soon typically after a few hours of release Apple
will actually update this so far it's been a few days and we haven't seen this updated so
what exactly is in this update as far as security updates maybe they're kind of not wanting to tell
anyone until iOS 16.2 is out or hopefully they'll update this soon so we know exactly what they
fixed so that's a bit odd however we do know that iOS 16.1.2 had fixes for the overall connectivity
and carrier updates and it seems like according to most people that the overall connectivity is
improved this time around not a hundred percent for everyone but I've had a lot of positive
reports saying that it's much better so I thought I'd just mention that now with iOS 16.2 being
almost here probably a couple weeks away and we'll talk about that a little bit later there's some
new features in this update the major one which I wanted just to refresh before we talk about the
brand new features that have been found since is freeform the collaboration app this is something
that was promised with iOS 16 and is still not out so we'll see that with the release of IOS
16.2 as well as the always on display changes where you can change the wallpaper to turn off
so in the display settings if you have an iPhone 14 pro or Pro Max and you go to display and
brightness and then down to always on display you can turn off the wallpaper and just make it an all
black display so far I haven't seen an improvement really with battery life with that in my
experience but it's there if you just want it to be off altogether so that's something worth noting
and then of course 5G in India that will be coming with this update but there's even more to talk
about and with beta 4 we had notification updates quite a few of them actually so if we scroll down
you'll see notifications and one of the things is as you can see some of your older notifications
now without swiping up so that's been changed the overall animation has changed a little bit and I
mentioned that before however they made some major changes as this is a little bit buggy also we're
not exactly sure when but based off of maybe beta 2 Beta 3 you can't swipe multiple notifications
away at once using multiple fingers anymore for some reason it doesn't seem to work so that's
something they've changed hopefully they changed that part but at least they've given us more
notifications on this screen at once so that's a great sign and again on this one here you can
see there's even more notifications so if I try to swipe those off only one at a time is allowed
for some reason so I'm not really sure why that is now when you're using Shazam from the control
center this is something that's been updated if you have a phone that's not an iPhone 14 pro or
Pro Max they actually have a new icon here so if I press the Shazam button swipe home and give it
a second you'll see there's a microphone icon that appears in the upper left it shows in the dynamic
Island on the iPhone 14 pro and pro Max but that was actually there before with previous updates so
again if we go to the Shazam thing here or Shazam button here rather you'll see the microphone shows
up in the dynamic Island but that was there with previous updates also when you're using
the dynamic Island this time around I mentioned a little bit about this before if maybe we play
a song let me turn this down maybe we'll just go in and we'll play a song Here swipe up it's in
the dynamic Island you'll see that the outline on a black background is very faint compared
to what we had before with beta 3 or earlier so we'll do the same thing on the previous one
swipe home and you can see the outline is a little more prominent on the iPhone 14 pro
with beta 3 as opposed to the pro Max on beta 4. so that's something that's changed I don't know
that I like it I kind of like the more prominent Dynamic Island outline however I hope maybe they
give us the option for that in the future that's something I would definitely welcome and like to
see with this update but maybe we'll see that with the release candidate now if you have an M1 or M2
based iPad and you plug in an external display on iPad OS 16.2 beta 4. we'll wait for it to connect
give it just a moment there's an odd change that is sort of a new Behavior but seems like a bug so
if we press play maybe on this song here and then we tap on this option to maybe AirPlay this to
some home pods you'll now get a message that says AirPlay is unavailable while an external display
is connected now maybe this was causing an issue in the past so they added this I saw this in the
code that they added it and then now it's up to dated and it's actually a feature not an error
so it's something they've changed that maybe was causing enough problems where you can't AirPlay
but it's a bit disappointing is maybe if you're using home pods in Stereo as your speakers for
your monitor it doesn't look like that will work when an external display is connected so this is
reproducible on all of the external display connected iPads it's a very strange behavior
and it happens over and over now hopefully it's fixed with the RC or the final release now also
back with the always on display you can see here that it's actually been updated as far as the
overall wording where before it would say when and now it actually says w-h-e-n like it should
and my friend Steve Mosher posted this some time ago so as you can see here this is what it looked
like before so they fixed that typo they've had a couple typos this year in different updates as
well now also in the what's new video If we go to accessibility you can see there's new icons for
Apple watch mirroring and control nearby devices so that's something I mentioned before that I just
thought I'd point out again it's a small change but they have changed some icons throughout as
you can see here with beta 3 on the left beta 4 on the right so just some new icons there there's
also some updates to the Apple watch but I don't think they've enabled a few things here as far
as what we can see as there's a lot more in the code so for example group messaging options to
allow group messaging we're not sure if this is a feature or a settings change they're going to
have in the future I couldn't find it anywhere and there's a lot talking about being able to
undelete junk from messages as well so there could be some new message updates with the final
release or release candidate but we haven't seen those yet I looked all throughout settings but
hopefully this isn't something that's similar to the airdrop thing we saw that was in China
so where they would actually change this and stop you from actually keeping it on everyone all the
time so that's something that might roll out to everyone but under airdrop you'll see that we have
everyone in China it's everyone for 10 minutes in the code of this version with beta 4 it looks like
group messaging has some similar options we just haven't seen it enabled yet so if you're overseas
and you actually see a difference with messaging for group messaging I'd love to hear from you in
the comments below but there's definitely some changes there also regarding junk now there's
two things I wanted to mention before we talk about bugs that have been fixed and bugs that are
remaining and the first one has to do with Apple's upcoming AR VR headset now this is something that
is in the supply chain and people are hearing and we knew from the code was going to have a new OS
called reality OS however recent information says it's now been renamed to xros or 10 Ros which is
a bit odd since that's a phone the iPhone 10r so hopefully this is just sort of a placeholder
or maybe they'll change it in the future we don't really know but it's just something that I thought
was odd since we saw in the code is reality OS for so long also emergency SOS on the latest
iPhone 14s appeared to have helped someone in Alaska so whether or not they were stranded
they were in Alaska without signal on a snowmobile they were actually rescued with emergency SOS so
it's great to see that that's actually worked at least for the first time that we know of hopefully
it's helped some other people as well that maybe needed a little additional help and didn't have a
signal so it's great that that's working already for some people now as far as things that have
been fixed well people have said that they've fixed the Apple watch sync issue so if you had
notifications coming in really late or not showing up at all on an Apple Watch apparently it's fixed
that issue overall so that's great news also many people have said the rotation bug is fixed so if
we go into YouTube and within YouTube If I play one of my videos and rotate the screen it's not
super smooth for me but it seems to be better for a lot of people so for some people that's
fixed it's not fixed for me yet but let me know in the comments below if it's working better for you
now as far as bugs well the first thing you may have already noticed is if we go into the control
center at the top you'll see system services this is constantly there with beta 4. so you of course
could turn this off you could turn off system Services altogether and just disable it but under
privacy and system Services location is constantly being used with beta 4. it doesn't really seem to
be affecting battery performance too much but it's just constantly there so I assume that's a bug at
this point but we don't know for sure also the swipe home bug is still there so when you swipe
home let's see if we hit play again swipe home you'll see it's lags a little bit when it goes
to the dynamic Island why this is happening is hard to say it's laggy all over the place not just
that but going into different websites swiping to different apps sometimes is just super laggy going
between apps this sort of Animation is something that Apple's been great at for years but for some
reason continues to be a problem on this update and previous iOS 16 updates with the 14 pro and
pro Max for some reason now another odd bug some people are reporting with the original airpods Pro
if maybe we connect one and go into our battery some people are saying that the case is showing
zero here it's showing the correct charge for me but when music is playing sometimes they
say this shows incorrectly so let's go ahead and hit play see if it jumps over to my air pods here
and it looks like it's playing and you'll see the case is showing correctly but for
some people it's not so thought it's worth mentioning as it's a little odd for some
people also something else worth mentioning is in the notifications while they're updating this
quite a bit sometimes they're very laggy like I mentioned earlier you can see that behavior
there and as I scroll down the music player sort of disappears so this is some odd behavior we're
seeing you're swiping down sometimes people see it disappear altogether and it doesn't seem like
it should be behaving like that so all of these things need to be reported in the feedback app
and seem to be a problem still also many people have asked me about the camera and if the photos
are any different now so let's go ahead and take a screenshot of what this looks like here
and then we'll go ahead and take the photo itself and see how it processes it and as you can see
here let me go ahead and save that to photos as you can see with the photos it looks okay but
I'm not sure it looks the same as what we had typically the photos have been over processed
and darkened and let me know if it's better for you I mentioned this in some other videos as well
and we've been hoping that Apple's going to fix it it just seems to be the post processing of it
also some people are still mentioning they have a storage bug I really haven't seen too much of
an issue with this so we'll let this load give it just a moment here now storage finished loading
and as you can see I have 130 gigabytes used of 256. a good portion of that is system data but
that's okay is it's using that as cash and I don't need that storage for anything and you'll see iOS
is taking up 9.58 gigabytes that's pretty typical anytime you install an update it overwrites the
old one or deletes the old files and you can see system data is 35 gigabytes and that's not really
an issue unless I need the storage for apps or something so since there's a additional storage
available we have plenty of storage and it's just going to use that as cache data so no issues there
as far as overall all battery life well battery life seems to be pretty good for most people at
this point initially iOS 16.1.2 had quite a few complaints but after a few days of processing most
people have said it improved so depending on when you installed it it needed to finish processing
things in the background and once it did that most people say it's about the same as iOS 16.1.1
or maybe a little bit better and I asked someone in my telegram group to actually send over their
battery life so we could take a look and as you can see iPhone 11 82 battery health thanks for
sending that over and you'll see here 6 hours and 35 minutes of screen on time 2 hours and
32 minutes of screen off time that's pretty great considering 82 battery health and it's an iPhone
11. so that's pretty good battery life and in general I'm hearing good things I wouldn't expect
major changes though as it's a minor update as far as iOS 16.2 beta 4 well I'm running that full time
on this device and my battery health is still 100 since it's a newer phone and over the last 10 days
yesterday I had two hours and 40 minutes of screen on time 3 hours and 56 minutes of screen idle time
used about 45 percent of my battery it can improve it seems to be okay maybe a little bit better than
before with five hours the previous day and still not using 75 percent so I think it's improving
as we get closer to the final release I think we'll see a bigger Improvement as far as overall
performance performance seems good except for that swiping home bug that I showed you over and over
and the lag if those things were gone it would feel super smooth Pro motion is nice and fast it
hasn't slowed down over the past couple of days going into different apps is nice and fast Wi-Fi
seems to be good for me as well as cellular data in general some people said they noticed slower
data rates as far as the overall update but that could depend on your carrier how close
you are to the Tower and more so it would have to be the exact same scenario at the same time of day
and same time of use usage and how many phones are using it makes a difference as well so it's really
hard to measure that as far as the heat of the device well I've run geekbench on this not too
long ago just to check that out and we'll look at that in a moment it seems to be nice and cool
still so I really have never paid attention much to heat even charging or anything else if you use
magsafe it monitors that for you with temperature sensors and regulates the overall voltage so
it's really not something recurrent I really wouldn't worry about that it's not something
that I typically pay too much attention to if you have a case on it that completely seals the phone
consider removing that if you're fast charging now as far as the next release I would expect
it to be the release candidate as we're getting closer to the middle of December that's typically
when Apple releases this so that means next week I would expect the release candidate last year we
had iOS 15.2 beta 4 on December 2nd and then we had the release candidate on December 7th I would
expect the release candidate probably as soon as Tuesday it could change of course but based off
of what we've had I would think Tuesday makes a lot of sense we could have it Thursday with
a final release on Monday I would expect Monday the 12th to have the final release of iOS 16.2 to
the public so that seems to make the most sense they could push this out with a beta 5 and then
an RC but I think iOS 16.2 RC or release candidate will be early next week and again a final release
the following week with nothing in between until January typically we won't see the next version
of betas until probably mid-January of the second week of January at least Apple takes a break for
Christmas and New Year's and other holidays and that's when we'll see those updates later on as
people are taking a break so that makes a lot of sense we'll see 16.3 then with maybe some
new features after that now let's take a look at some of your comments so I have a few I've just
chosen randomly here depending on the version they were on you'll see Sean says seems to be smoother
way less animation stutter when swiping home battery life seems really good iOS 16.2.1 on a 14
Pro Max now typically if someone asks me to read their comment I don't always do that but there's
some good points that are mentioned here and as you can see iOS 16.1.2 on iPhone 13 battery life
is better than 16.1.1 but not as good as iOS 15. Apple degraded the camera quality I can now see
the switching of the camera lenses with blurry effect while recording video and most pictures
are Overexposed Etc the phone Heats a lot less compared to 16.1.1 but still it Heats and that's
typically normal if you're doing intensive tasks anyway some notifications don't go even after I
slide them away they stuck they're stuck with a huge clear all button Wi-Fi doesn't connect
automatically I have to manually connect most of the time I haven't seen that myself messages fail
to be sent so many times most annoying issue of all is that data is taking 57 gigabytes of
space and Safari is not working properly many times it won't load the website and get stuck
Midway I'm facing these issues from IOS 16.0.3 and it's getting worse with some
improvements Jeremy Dubose says Iowa 16.2 beta 4 on a 14 pro Max performance and battery life
Etc have all been solid so far taking 48 megapixel pictures also seems to not take quite as long to
process now too and six people gave it a thumbs up hopefully thinking the exact same thing or
having the same experience Kwame says iOS 16.1.2 on an iPhone 13 Pro Max a battery health at 97
percent battery performance is quite the same as iOS 16.1.1 but overall performance has been
improved normally charge my phone from 22 to 89 each day and I'm getting six to seven
hours between that period Shivam Christian Agarwal says this version solved Apple watch
not syncing messages and so that's everything with iOS 16.1.2 which was a bit unexpected and iOS 16.2
beta 4. maybe there's a few more changes here and there but that's everything I was able to
find but if you found something I'd love to hear from you in the comments below I think
iOS 16.2 will be a great update with over 20 different changes so I'm looking forward to
that let me know if you've found anything else in the comments below and of course if you'd
like to get your hands on this wallpaper I'll link it in the description like I normally do
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