hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and iOS 16.2's release is just a few weeks away and it
has a long list of features with over 20 features updates and changes but even more features and
changes have been found since the initial iOS 16.2 beta 3 is out video so I thought we'd share that
and we'll also talk about not just new features but also features we expect that will be coming
with iOS 16.2 then we'll talk about the overall bugs which are a bit curious this time around and
seem to be getting worse over time then we'll talk about battery life performance and the
overall heat of the device then iOS 16.2 beta 4's release or expected release as well as iOS
16.2 RC and then iOS 16.2's public release date or at least what we expect for that then we'll
talk about holiday deals that you should know and then take a look at some of your comments
based off the YouTube Community poll that I run every weekend where you can see over 20
000 votes and 205 different comments and that helped me get the best understanding of the the
overall experience so far of iOS 16.2 so I've read all of those to understand that now first let's
talk about new features so the First new feature has to do with music so if we go into music we'll
give it a second to load we'll go into a song here and if we bring up the same song on 15.1.1 we hit
play and I have the volume down all the way if we go into the lyrics here some people are saying
that the overall animation is slightly different I'd say sometimes it's a little bit faster but I
don't see a big change there but if we go into the menu in the upper right you'll see in the
menu we now have an option to report a concern so maybe the lyrics are incorrect and you can
see what's your concern with this content lyrics are incorrect lyrics aren't in sync with the audio
or my my concern isn't listed here then you can go on to submit whatever you need to change or what
needs to be updated in these lyrics so that's something that's a little bit different not a
huge change but a nice little change also when you're playing this song and and you swipe up
to the dynamic Island one thing you'll notice is that the overall waveform is now more saturated it
actually matches a little bit better than it did before where it was a little more gray before as
you can see here so depending on the song you're in you can see on the right with 16.2 beta 3 it's
easily recognizable with the waveform on the left it isn't it's just sort of a gray waveform small
change but something worth noting now if we go into Spotlight search and maybe you recently
search for something if you press and hold on any of those you now have the option to clear recent
results this was actually there in iOS 16.1.1 but I hadn't seen anyone mention it so I thought I'd
mention it in this video so you'll see that option we can clear it out and now they're all gone now
this one is pretty subtle if you look here down where it says what the actual TV show is rated
for Central Park you'll see it says tvpg on iOS 16.1.1 it's a little more bold and larger on 16.2
beta 3 so it's definitely a little bit different not a huge change but you can see a change from
each device where they've actually updated the logo made it a little bit more bold now if you're
trying to play a game with a friend maybe you go into the App Store you see they're playing a
game and you try to join their game and maybe it's full currently on iOS 16.1.1 or previous betas it
would say that all player slots have been filled now it will say Lobby is full there's also some
other wording changes that make more sense and they've just updated that to make a little bit
more sense as you're trying to join someone over a game so that's something they've updated with beta
3. now it's not a huge change but just something I thought I'd mention but there's some big changes
coming with hopefully beta 4 or future versions beta 5 or the release candidate or the final
release and that has to do with accessibility we're expecting this to be available once iOS 16.2
launches hopefully although it could be pushed off to 16.3 and you can see here that we have
custom accessibility modes you'll have different layouts full screen different controls and maybe
even a full screen version of different icons to make it easier to press so that's something we're
expecting hopefully with beta 4 as the code shows all of this sort of information throughout the OS
it's there it's just not active yet also possibly we'll see some widgets for books so if you use the
Apple Books app there's some indications that it looks like we'll have some books widgets so
if we go into books here we've had the ability to change different themes and more and it looks like
we'll have the option for a different widget for that in the future and some other changes based
off the code so hopefully with beta 4 we see that now like I said we expect many different
changes such as 5G support for phones in India always on display wallpaper and notification
toggles that you can see here under display you'll see that we have the option to enable
or turn off wallpaper and notifications all of those are coming with 16.2 as well as many many
other features and changes some big some small so that's great that we'll see that it will be the
next major update and of course then we'll move on to iOS 16.2 now also there's a bunch of bugs
that I've seen become worse and worse over time one thing that I continually see is swiping home
become laggy so sometimes when a song is playing you swipe home it's incredibly laggy sometimes it
isn't oftentimes I'll need to reboot to get that to be smooth again I've seen this over and over
and maybe it's due to memory leaks or something else but there's definitely some issues another
issue I'm seeing over and over that people have reported is haptic pressing on an app so if we
have to press on podcasts sometimes it will just disappear and you'll have to press again so that's
something that's either slow or just disappearing for people without trying over and over
something I see that's quite common is if we maybe go into YouTube I'll play one of my videos
and with my video playing I'll just try and rotate and some people as you can see say that it's very
glitchy so as I go back to Portrait it's okay go back to landscape and it sort of glitches that's
something a lot of people are seeing and I've heard more and more people complain about so it's
definitely a bug that can fix but something we've seen over and over also last week I talked about a
camera bug where maybe you take a photo let's spin this around take a photo and that's a little bit
slow we'll rotate this take a photo here and what we see is not what we necessarily get sometimes
it darkens it and doesn't look natural I've seen this over and over and I'm starting to see this
in more forums over and over so if you'd like me to investigate that a little bit more let me know
in the comments below as I'm hearing more and more complaints and you may have just seen it stuttered
a little bit when I swiped home aside from that some people still say they have a storage bug now
I haven't seen this personally over and over but if we go into General then iPhone storage
some people are saying it's taking up excessive storage and you'll see I'm actually using 110
gigabytes but that could be because of filming video and more but we'll give it a second to load
now iPhone storage completed calculating so let's scroll to the bottom and again I've mentioned this
before where this is supposed to be sort of out of sight out of mind iOS is taking up 9.63 gigabytes
that's pretty typical you install a new update it installs everything finishes up completes removing
the old data and you're usually left with about nine gigabytes of storage left system data for
me is taking up up 17.47 gigabytes and that can go up and down based on what you're doing it's
not too excessive but some people are seeing huge amounts and it really depends on what you're doing
however I haven't heard of anyone bumping into storage limits because of system data recently
so let me know if you're still having that issue as I'd love to investigate that a little bit later
now something else that's repeatable that I've seen a few people mention has to do with face
ID so if we go into photos if we go down into a locked album and it doesn't have to be photos
or anything else it can be any app that uses face ID so maybe we'll go into recently deleted
we'll let face ID fail here for a moment we'll give it a second and now you can see it says
try face Heidi again if I bring this up it scans my face but this stays on the screen
for a few seconds then it finally goes away so you can see that one more time again let
it fail you can repeat this as well it just seems to be a little bit slow bring it up
try again scans my face and again that stays on the screen for a few seconds it's not a huge deal
but just something that's repeatable also quite a few people still see weather blank I find that
this is typically outside of the United States but many people are saying that in the widget just
weather isn't showing altogether also some people are saying notifications are still empty live
activities aren't updating properly after 15 to 20 minutes for some as you can see here on Reddit
someone posted that they're just not correct so that's something that needs to be addressed and
also carplay continues to be a problem so there's disconnects and just overall not working well
we're also seeing freezing and slowdowns so that's something we're seeing a lot of and most of these
bugs didn't show up until about a week later for me so a lot of these things seem to be getting
worse over time a reboot typically fixes most of the slowdowns though so maybe it's a Memory leak
or something else and again like I've said before if you're having issues report them in feedback
now as far as connectivity I'm not having any issues as far as selling regular at all which
is great Wi-Fi's been fine for me on this and if we open up air pods here I have seen some odd bugs
where sometimes it's not connecting fast sometimes it is sometimes it isn't and then when you play
music it can be a little bit crackly like there's some interference hopefully this gets fixed in
the future I'm not seeing that a whole lot but I have heard of that from a couple people and
I've experienced it myself so again let me know if you're seeing that in the comments below now
as far as the always-on display with the wallpaper I've been testing that over the past couple weeks
now and if we go into display and brightness go to always on display and show wallpaper with this on
or off I'm barely noticing a difference as far as battery life so with it off it will just have the
lock screen and the rest will be black I haven't really noticed a huge difference with this enabled
or disabled in theory it should actually use more power when it's enabled as it has to light up more
pixels however the the overall effect or or result of it seems to be very very minimal so I wouldn't
worry about that I would leave it on if you enjoy it if not you can turn it off but I just wanted to
comment about that as I've used it for a couple weeks it's very very minimal though now as far
as overall battery life well let's take a look at it because it seems to vary greatly and it's hard
to understand why it's acting the way it is so if we go into battery battery health and charging I'm
at 100 still if we go back to the last 10 days here you'll see yesterday I had one hour and 22
minutes of screen active time four hours of screen idle time and I didn't use my phone much but we
were using about thirty percent of the battery the day before three hours and five minutes and three
hours and nine minutes of screen idle time and used about sixty percent of my battery the day
I used the most I only got five hours and one minute out of it and used about probably eighty
percent of my battery and it had 10 hours and 59 minutes of screen idle time where I wasn't using
it and so it's not great still I'm not getting 10 hours out of it like I would before and hopefully
this improves in the future I've changed a lot of different settings to try to improve this but
throughout the different days I haven't noticed a difference with always on display with the
wallpaper enabled or disabled and you'll see here that it doesn't really seem to be much different
depending on what day it is sometimes it's a little better but again home screen and lock
screen or home and lock screen continue to use a lot of power for me now as far as the overall
performance I really haven't had any issues there other than over time it getting slow with swiping
home a reboot fixes that and opening different apps is nice and fast you saw me open music if
we go into something else whether that be Hive which I'm on hive now as well as other different
apps but if I go into maybe podcasts I haven't opened that for a little bit you'll see it's nice
and Fast Pro motion is smooth except for swiping home you saw the stutter there everything else
seems to be smooth for whatever reason there's some odd bugs here and there as far as the heat
of the device it's really not warm at all just from having it on this entire time usually it
will get much hotter than this just having the screen at about a little over half brightness
right now it's doing well let's take a look with the thermal camera so I'll flip this over
and let's take a look and as you can see with the thermal camera we're at about 88 degrees so 88.6
degrees or let's go into our units of measurement here let's change this and we'll show you Celsius
as well so let's go back and you can see it's 31.3 31.4 depending on where I place this so that gives
you an idea of the overall temperature so not terribly warm seems to be doing a great job as
far as staying cool I haven't had too many issues with that as far as when to expect iOS 16.2 beta
4 I would expect it as soon as this coming week based on what we had last year we had a release
on the 16th of beta 3 with a release of beta 4 on the 2nd of December so based off of that
information move everything back one day we had the 15th this year for beta 3 I would expect beta
4 on December 1st that's typically what Apple does they've been following that same sort of pattern
this year and then last year we had Iowa's 15.2's release candidate on December 7th and so probably
we'll have it similarly but on December 6th move everything back a day to bring it in line with
what we had last year then I would expect a public release the following week probably on Monday or
Tuesday so December 12th or 13th that's what I'm expecting as far as Iowa 16.2's public release
probably on the 12th of December so that's when we can expect that then we'll see iOS 16.3 in January
after the holiday with Christmas and more we're sort of in that holiday season and there's holiday
deals I wanted to talk about if you haven't seen them yet now since the deals can actually change
from day to day I wanted to share a few so airpods seem to be on sale airpods 3 airpods Pro 2 are
down to 199 sold from Apple on Amazon or you can go to apple.com and see a bunch of their deals
there we also have 20 off of anchor Chargers so if you want to get yourself a charger that's very
portable and small definitely check those out out and then also four hundred dollars off of MacBook
Pro so if you're looking for a MacBook Pro Apple didn't update it this year be sure to check out
those deals now I'll leave a bunch of different updated deals in the description as those can
change from day to day so be sure to check those out and then they're an affiliate link I'll get
a little bit of money if you purchase through that link if not just go there and search for
those deals but typically on Amazon and other places such as anker's website as well I'll link
those in the description with all of the latest deals but I wanted to make sure you were aware of
that as some of those are pretty great especially that MacBook Pro deal now as far as some of your
comments let's take a look at some of those I picked the comments randomly but they'll show
you that they actually have different experiences depending on what device you're on so you can see
here beta 3 battery life is significantly worse than beta 2 on a 14 pro Max Ken says running 16.2
beta 3 put the phone on charger before bed last night like I normally do woke up this morning
and the phone was powered off and did not want to restart finally doing the volume up volume down
button and then holding power sleep wake in got it to start up but was fully charged very strange
working fine now so again some very odd bugs that are curious this time around it looks like battery
life experience is a toss-up it can go differently even with the same device my personal experience
13 Pro Max with iOS 16.1 was the best battery life ever while 16.1.1 I'm experiencing a huge drain in
battery and that's definitely true most people say 16.1.1 is significantly better than previous
versions so again it's a very big difference depending on your device and what apps you
use running iOS 16.2 beta 3 on my iPhone 13 Pro Max and it's running great battery has improved
a lot and no Heating and so we definitely have different experiences depending on the device
you're using what version you're using and the apps you're using it's very different across
the board if you're having any of those issues I would recommend a reboot and then see if it clears
that up but again make sure you're reporting any issues in feedback now if you've found
any other features or changes I haven't mentioned in this video or the previous videos I'd love to
hear from you in the comments below and of course I'll link this wallpaper in the description like
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