hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and iOS 17.5 beta 1 is finally here and off
to a good start but there's even more features to talk about since
the iOS 17.5 beta 1 is out what's new video we'll also talk about iOS 17.4.55
one and iOS 17.5 beta 1 and not just my experience but your experience based off
the YouTube Community poll where at the time of this video there's over 22,000 votes and 301
comments I've read through every single comment to determine what the overall experience and battery
life and more is like for every single person at least the best we can with that Community
poll now let's first talk about some different Apple news and then we'll talk about features
and the overall experience now Apple actually cancelled its car project a couple of days ago
and is now let go or is soon letting go of over 700 employees who worked on that project as well
as the micro LED projects where it was expected to be in the iPhone iPads and even Apple watch
but it looks like it may be delayed indefinitely so unfortunately those employees were not moved
around the company and they're being let go if you have an Apple ID balance and live in Singapore you
have until July 1st to spend it as after that you can no longer use it due to a new regulation by
the monetary authority of Singapore Apple actually released a support document explaining what you
need to do from now before July 1st and it says how you spend your balance and what to do before
July 1st so I'll link this in the description below if you're in Singapore and need to move
this around or just spend that actual balance that you might have there Apple TV continues
to gain quite a few different shows and movies and apple is apparently working on new immersive
content for the Apple Vision Pro but if you have TV TV plus they've actually added a bunch of free
movies throughout where they keep updating this with things such as Ghostbusters we have John
Wick and many others so they keep adding them as a limited time and we'll be able to watch those
so maybe because the Vision Pro is sort of sh on different maybe movies things like that they're
now adding a bunch of different feature films at least temporarily so it's been nice to go through
some of the old ones and watch those along with some of the new shows also if you're a developer
who applied to go to Apple Park for WWDC Apple actually sent out notices of those invited and
those denied this year the other day you can see what it looks like here quite a few people were
posting on Twitter or X saying that they were actually invited and you can see the invite
here so they're excited to invite you to a special event at Apple Park on Monday June 10th so quite a
few people started posting this and it's great to see all of the people going to WWDC all of
the press invites typically come out closer to the event though so more people will be going
around that time Google is getting set to launch an android-based find my network for devices this
is similar to what we have currently with iPhone where we would have third-party devices similar
to our air tags where we can find different things different devices and more and this
goes along with our first new feature in iOS 17.5 beta 1 there's an anti- stocking option that's
actually been added to detect and disable unwanted accessories from tracking you including third
party accessories you'll be able to disable them just like you can in air tag if it's found nearby
and it doesn't belong to you so that's something that's coming in iOS 17.5 that's actually found
in the code also iOS 17.5 adds EU sideloading through websites and on Friday Apple actually
released a new updated guideline web page so in here they now added the option for game emulators
and links to websites within music apps just in the EU so I would love to have those options in
the United States and around the world maybe one day we will but currently it's only going
to be for the EU with 17.5 now if you're using a FaceTime call there's actually code in there
that would help people fight spam and allow you to block all the participants in a single call so you
would be able to disable multiple people instead of having to sort of disable one person at a time
you should be able to disable all of it if you really wanted to at least there's code for it at
this time also I talked about the other day when we had the new video If we go into our battery we
go to our battery health settings you'll see it has charging title and has some sort of odd text
here that's more codel likee this is something that hints at iPad also getting cycle count and
maybe some settings as well in the next iPads so the code is there we haven't seen it just yet even
on the iPad but it looks like in future iPads when Apple finally releases them in early May if that's
when they're coming it looks like they could have battery health settings and we don't know if it's
going to actually have just a cycle count or maybe what we have here with battery health and show us
the health in general we don't know that just yet but at least there's code for that also also to go
along with iPad there's also code hinting at a new Apple pencil with some gestures so apple pencil is
expected to be updated for the next iPad and with this up update not only will we have the pencil
but we'll also have some new gestures that might allow us to squeeze it so we could squeeze it to
sort of activate something different and that's found in the code but we don't know exactly what
that means just yet we could have the option to sort of go back or next and those things could be
updated at the next few versions the next one is not necessarily a feature but maybe more of a bug
fix and that has to do with the home app if you had an Apple TV or maybe an Apple device that acts
as a hub it wouldn't sometimes automatically be removed if you got rid of it and reset the device
now that will remove itself automatically and just go away and you don't have to fully reset
the entire home in order to do that so that's a great change as sometimes there were devices here
that didn't belong because you'd removed them alog together also a new feature with watch OS 10.5 or
really just a change has to do with the saturation of colors within the display it seems like they're
a little bit deeper in color and more saturated or have higher contrast so in general they look
a little bit better and one thing you may have already noticed is my app that's typically on my
watch isn't working Lumi that goes in the middle of this doesn't seem to work with watch OS 10.5
for some reason so I'll see if I can delete it and reinstall it but so far it's not working for
me so just be aware of that if you have watch OS 10.5 or we're planning to install it early
on also with watch OS 11 we don't know the exact supported devices yet but according to iPhone soft
they say to expect watch OS 11 to drop support for the Apple watch series series 4 so Apple could be
getting rid of the older watch that would make a lot of sense but we don't know that 100% until
June so we'll have to wait and see also when it comes to iOS 18 Siri could be getting a huge
update with AI a recent paper released by Apple researchers actually claim that their new update
called realm or reference resolution as language modeling can enhance Voice assistance and even
beat chat GPT 4 so that's something that could get a huge bump as far as overall performance
performance what it can do and maybe all on device so Siri could be getting a huge update
we know Apple's going to be focusing heavily with iOS 18 on AI so we're expecting that we're also
expecting it still to be a major update there were some leaks that showed maybe a redesigned
camera app with sort of a vision OS overlay but those were later proven to be false it seems so
those were not accurate at least according to what Mac rumors and 9 to5 Mac said later on but
early on we thought we'd get a vision OS restyle and it seems like we could still get that but at
least the leaks that came out the other week were not accurate or at least at this point we're still
expecting all the other things I've mentioned before with major updates throughout major AI
enhancements hearing mode updates accessibility features and much much more so I can't wait to
see what it includes now as far as other releases this week well airpods Max's got a firmware update
as well so if you have airpods Max with airpods Max they've been updated to version 6A 325 so
if you connect them to your iPhone and sometimes they're odd to connect on this device here but if
you connect them to your iPhone or Mac the only thing I could find is that there were bug fixes
and improvements but I did notice that when you're listening to music or maybe watching video on a
Mac sometimes I would remove them from my right ear put it back on and it would only play again
from the left ear this seems to be fixed so far so maybe they've fixed that bug among others let me
know if you've noticed anything specifically with that update as well as far as bug fixes well iOS
17.4.55 beta 1 but the alarm going off in the morning seems to be fixed for me so it doesn't
miss an alarm anymore it will work continually for me I haven't had an issue since I've been on even
the revised version of 17.4.55 also overall airpod connectivity seems to be improved and airdrop is
working much much faster so my airpods are great and again like I said airdrop seems to be super
fast fast so if we go into photos and we'll just airdrop this here we'll airdrop it to maybe let's
aird drop it to the iPad give it a second there and it's already there so it air drops very very
fast and consistently this time also there's a few things that are still bugs in 17.5 third-party
apps sometimes not going to the dynamic Island such as ways I've heard from different viewers
with that also deleting timers can sometimes cause issues for some so if you delete a timer I haven't
seen this myself but let's go ahead and delete it seems to work okay for me no issues here and
it's working fine but some people report that's causing all sorts of odd glitches also one thing
I'm hearing again that we've seen in previous beta updates is widgets disappearing such as the
clock sometimes disappearing for some or just widgets being blank whether they have multiple
widgets or anything else sometimes they're just not showing up so that's something that's come
back also keyboard lag is still there after I initially installed this I saw some keyboard
lag and that's something that I had if we go into notes within notes if we type this is a new note
it seems to be nice and fast but sometimes it just really slows down for me I'm not sure why
also we have the wallpaper dimming bug so that's still here if I swipe up it really dims you can
see it on this wallpaper quite a bit so it's nice and saturated swipe up and it dims or desaturates
so something they need to fix that's been there for quite a while at this point that they haven't
done it anything with so you can fix it sort of by over-saturating your wallpaper and then
it dims back to what it was normally something you can do to work around that as far as iOS
17.4.55 just going through different things sometimes is very stuttery and just sort of
jumps all over the place or just has micro stutters here and there hair so that's one
thing keyboard lag AirPod connectivity and some some actually still have the volume bug
so that's something that just sort of goes up and down or just is jittery from time to
time and is still there but 17.5 fixes most of those things as far as stutters and more
so that's great we also have a bunch of other bugs that are there that I've covered in other
videos as far as overall connectivity while with iOS 17.5 it actually seems improved for me I use
this regularly I use it the other day with apple carplay had good connectivity I didn't
have music cutting out despite having a lower signal and it just seems to be pretty good I
have the same signal strength but that's very dependent on weather cell tower strength how
far it is from you and much more so it's pretty consistent for me though with this update with
17.4.55 so 17.4.55
for me at least so far when it comes to release notes well Apple took their time releasing those
for the iPhone and if we go into feedback here you'll see that they finally release them and
there we go it just populated but they were available online as well there's some known
issues with accessibility there's new features with core motion for developers and then they
resolved an issue with storekit where it fixed an issue where the term of service button on
subscription store view could cause a crash when tapped so not a whole lot of notes here they've
gone back to not including a ton of information I really hope they do more going forward i' love
to see a ton of different notes Here with more information if you are having bugs or issues
make sure you report them in the feedback app though as that's helpful for Apple to sort of
categorize what the major issues are and fix them as far as the overall performance and
heat performance has been pretty good I haven't noticed any slowdowns with the iPhone with 17.5
seems nice and fast smooth scrolling smooth with promotion as you speed up and slow down
everything seems to work well there and on older devices the same thing those micro stutters from
17.4.55 scroll things seem to be nice and smooth and games load fast and everything
else it seems to be a pretty good update so far as far as the overall heat well I
did notice that it seems to stay much cooler and everyone in the comments so
far is saying the same thing for the most part with 17.5 while it can get hot when
you're performing different tasks it seems to stay nice and cool and some people have said
17.4.55 where you can't touch it or get an overheat message so so far it
seems to be pretty good let's take a look with the thermal camera as this
is a little bit warm since we've had it on but it's nothing that's super hot and
17.4.55
on
17.4.55 and again that's 30 3 to 34° C and then on 1741 we have 30.5 de C so again not
too hot not warm enough that you can't touch it or anything like that but it is a little
bit warm just from sort of using it but no more so than it would normally be at this point in
the video as far as the benchmarks go well I just ran geekbench 6 and you'll see I had
291 for single core 6,999 for multicore this is actually down a little bit from when I ran the
other day but if we take a look at the history you'll see it's right in line with what I had
earlier today but it was higher the previous day as long as within a few hundred it's fine
and of course it could be processing something in the background we don't really know but the
performance using it feels fine so maybe that will improve in a few more days as well and
the phone actually is cooling down very quickly compared to what it did previously with previous
17.4.55 we'll go down go to battery battery health I'm down to 99% with 153 cycles and you can see
what coconut battery says here on the left and as far as battery life I've noticed an improvement
over the past couple of days running this now I don't get phenomenal battery life so far but
you'll see I had 2 hours and 59 minutes of screen active time 2 hours and 1 minutes of screen idle
time and I'm currently down to 38% so that's not phenomenal battery life but it's actually better
than what I had before the day before 3 hours and 9 minutes and again at about 75% but if we
go back a few more days you'll see the best I got was 4 hours and 35 minutes and used Almost 100%
And then 3 hours and 1 minutes and used 75% I'm seeing a slight Improvement I'm getting through
the day without without having to be on low power mode or going down to 20% so it seems to
be a little bit better and I still have to figure out what's using all of my power typically as far
as if you should install iOS 17.5 beta 1 well at this point unless you really want to install it
and there's something you want to develop for I'd probably skip it as I never recommend installing
betas just to try and get better battery life or reduce bugs betas are meant to be tested and
they'll definitely have some bugs so I would hold out until at least beta 2 or beta 3 and
see how it does from there now as far as when iOS 17.5 beta 2 will come out it could be this next
week maybe on the 9th or 10th but typically it's every other week for the first couple of betas
but I expect the final release of this update to be out some time in early May probably along
with new iPads so maybe we'll have weekly betas at this point we don't know until we see what
happens next Tuesday or Wednesday in between the final release we could see an iOS 17.4.55
one not the re-release on iPhone 14 pro with 92% battery health no major complaints the
battery easily gets me through a day Wi-Fi cellular connectivity and heat are all okay
but I've noticed a fair amount of micro stuttering whilst navigating the OS at
times that I don't recall seeing in earlier versions of iOS tribal X Chief says iOS
17.4.55 iOS 17 has been stuttery since it was launched nothing is
smooth and Swift it's like apple fixes a thing and breaks something
else Roman Marty andov 2346 says iPhone 15 Pro I'm on iOS
17.4.55 beta 1 on iPhone 15 Pro Max and it is really amazing no bugs battery life has been
great and everything feels really smooth the 8 travel girl said I'm noticing battery drainage
connec IT issues which I'm not surprised because always the first betas are like this hopefully
by the second beta they fix the bugs thank you Aaron for keeping us informed Pierre maruse says
15.5 beta 1 on iPhone 15 Pro Max few wrong labels in the battery settings otherwise no
visible bugs for me very smooth and battery life is surprisingly good really nothing to
really be bothered about for me aside from still getting pretty warm when FaceTiming for longer
Aaron D May said 17.5 is amazing battery life is good and perform performance is also very
good I hope the rest of the betas stay like this and it has 18 thumbs up and they're on
an iPhone 15 Pro Max so that's everything with iOS 17.4.55 beta 1 hopefully we get a new beta
this week and learn more about what's coming with iOS 18 but if there's anything you've
found in iOS 17.5 beta 1 that I haven't mentioned in this video I'd love to hear
from you in the comments below of course I'll link this wallpaper in the description like
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