hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and ios 16 beta 8 and ios 16 public beta 6 have been out for
a few days i've been using it full time and many of you have based off the youtube community poll
where at the time of this video there's 11 000 plus votes and over 140 commons i've used all of
those comments to determine what it's like overall to use this on not only my device but your devices
and ipads as well so we'll talk about all of that a little bit later but there's a few more
features i wanted to mention this time around now the first thing is not necessarily a new
feature with beta 8 but the battery percentage many people keep asking me if this is a bug
and as you can see this phone has 72 percent and the battery does not deplete as far as the overall
graphic as the battery goes down until it hits 20 percent or low power so i let the iphone 10 run
down and as you can see it's down to 20 percent if i change the wallpaper it's a little easier to
see this so if i go over to this wallpaper you'll see it's now got the little red icon and it's 20
so for whatever reason they decided not to change this until it's down to 20 percent i wish it was
animated but maybe they did that to maybe save some battery or some power or something else
so it's not really a bug i think that's the intended way it's supposed to be
but many people have been asking me about that so i thought i'd bring it up now the one change
with ios 16 beta 8 that i actually missed in the initial what's new video is if you go to software
update it now says ios 16.0 before this it just said 16.0 so it's a slight change something
they've made an update to not really anything huge but i wanted to mention it now also if we go into
photos you'll see here that i took a screenshot where it said device added to your account now
the message itself is not necessarily new but it showed up differently for me on this lock screen
so it says a mac has now added or now has access to imessage and facetime if you don't recognize
this device you can remove it in settings before it would just pop up on your screen like this this
is the first time i've seen it and i saw it over and over in notifications so let me know if you're
actually seeing that as well now if we go into the maps app and if we search for a store that has a
gas station it will say pricing this may have been here a couple betas ago but if you tap on pricing
it opens up in a different app and shows you the actual price of gas at that location or petrol
depending on what country you're in so three dollars and 21 cents per gallon and it was updated
yesterday on september 1st premium is 384 so that's something that's different that
they've added of course that's part of ios 16 as a whole but just wanted to make you aware of that
also iphone 14 is rumored to have an always on display and within wallpapers
there's a couple different multi-layer wallpapers that you can sort of see that with here with a bug
now they should be able to bring it to iphone 13 but whether or not they do that is hard to say so
if we switch over to those wallpapers we'll just change this to do not disturb we'll switch over to
the ios 16 stock wallpaper this also works with the six colors wallpaper and also the clownfish
wallpaper that's from the older device the way you get this to work or sort of as a bug what
you can do is turn off the lock screen or turn it off tap the lock screen and swipe up so let's see
if we can get this it's hard for me to get this to work most of the time let's try it again so we'll
tap swipe up let's try it again we lock tap swipe up and i can't get it to work a hundred percent of
the time but sometimes it's a bit of a bug and it will go dark and i'll show you exactly what
that looks like and thanks again to steve moser for pointing this out and you'll see here if we
go back he shows the three different wallpapers where they sort of have a multi-layered setup to
them it has different brightness levels so you can see that on all three wallpaper here to do
that technically what you do is lock it and then just tap and then slide quickly i can reproduce it
sometimes not all the time now one feature that comes with ios 16 that we really haven't been
able to try very much is pass key this now works on a certain website and so if we go to safari
and then you'll see here under account security you can go down to face and fingerprint sign in
so this is something we can try and it says set up on this device you won't need a password so we'll
go ahead and hit setup and then we'll hit continue and now it's going to use face id and then log me
in it says you're all set face recognition or fingerprint sign-in is set up on this device
so now if we hit continue and then if we go to sign back in we can sign in with web authorization
you'll see here with your fingerprint and then you'll see do you want to sign into best buy
with your saved pass key and then it gives my email address we'll hit continue it wants face id
it says done and then signs me in so this is something that's working this is going to be great
across the web where we'll no longer need to change our password regularly
it will just be stored in a pass key it makes it much much easier so that's something you can
try out on best buy now one thing i wanted to mention as people keep asking is ios 16 beta 8
may fix that issue with the security flaw that apple updated for the kernel and for webkit
of safari with ios 15.6.1 we don't know if it's in ios 16 yet apple has not confirmed it
they haven't said that it is they haven't said that it isn't so at this point since
this came out afterward i would expect it to be in here but if it's not it will definitely be
there with the final release of ios 16. they still haven't updated their notes yet in the
feedback app for some reason so if we go back to the feedback app wherever that went on my device
and we'll go here go to feedback if we go into feedback you'll see here if we go to the inbox
they still have the notes for beta 7. they haven't updated it yet for beta 8 for some reason so
for some reason it's just not there now the other day apple released ios 12.5.6
i did a separate video on this it's addressing that same security patch that they had with ios
15.6.1 so now we have 12.5.6 supporting all the way back to the iphone 6 or iphone 12 compatible
devices so 6 6 plus ipad air ipad mini 3 certain devices that can still get ios 12. so it's great
to see apple is still updating that however many are wondering if we're going to see an
ios 15.6.2 or ios 15.7 and if we do i would expect it maybe this coming week around the apple event
we'll talk more about that a little bit later but basically that's what i would really expect maybe
a small update for that last year we had ios 14.8 it's possible we won't have one this year
and 15.6.1 will be the end of ios 15 but i would expect at least another security patch
i wouldn't expect another big feature patch like ios 14.8 i don't know that it needs a 0.8 update
but maybe we'll see one we'll know as soon as next week i would think if not we'll wait for ios 16.
so how is ios 16 beta 8 versus ios 16 beta 7 while ios 16 beta 8 verse beta 7 or even verse
15.6.1 has a little ways to go iphone wouldn't really wake when tapping for me before i had
that bug earlier today i would tap it it wouldn't wake up sometimes that would happen sometimes it
wouldn't so there's still some odd issues here others are having contacts change or just have
them go missing so if you're using the contacts app and you'll see it's having problems unlocking
if you're using the contacts app and maybe you're searching for a contact sometimes they're just not
there and then they would return i've had a couple people message me that are having
this problem so names could change from capital to lowercase or just missing altogether that's
obviously a major problem so definitely report that one before the final release
safari is locking up for some people when playing music and driving sometimes i was having an issue
so i'm playing music and then all of a sudden it would say i have no connection even though i
might have one or two bars so that's an odd bug for me that's this is the first time i'm seeing
that and that's something that's definitely problematic if you're downloading an album
also on the lock screen so maybe you're playing music so we'll turn the volume down here
hit play maybe you've got the widget going and if you tap on the album this does not seem like like
the intended sort of interaction you would expect from apple i thought maybe it was on purpose and
then they would just get the timing correct where it pops out tap it and it would pop in but it's
not timed properly so it doesn't look right so hopefully they fix that before the final update
you'll see it looks kind of odd and why they're still having this issue with the music widget and
overall album cover and art is odd i also liked when it was expanded a little bit further where it
sort of was more edge to edge they shrunk it again with these betas so i wish they would fix that
also espn landscape has an issue but that's more of an app issue for espn that's because these apps
are not updated yet for ios 16. so we're waiting for overall compatibility for ios 16 with many
apps including banking apps some apps just don't work and that's because apple doesn't necessarily
allow them to update with ios 16 changes so things like live activities on the lock screen or
things such as different widgets they're not allowed yet for ios 15. once they allow that
usually after the release candidate or closer to the final release we'll get a ton of different
app store updates that will fix all of those issues and then compatibility will return
so if you're concerned about that that could be an issue for many people overall connectivity
and phone calls seem to be okay for me some people are having issues with wi-fi not just
connecting just disconnecting acting a little weird and i've heard many people say that
resetting those settings under general going down and then going to transfer or reset phone
going to reset and then resetting network settings seems to fix that although you may have to sign
back into every network so just be aware if you try that but typically that fixed an issue i had
with it last year it definitely will fix issues this year for many people as well and so that
leads me to should you install ios 16 betas and at this point if you're wanting to try them out
some people are having a better experience than ios 15.6.1 some are having a worse experience so
we're only a couple of weeks away from the final release so if you want to try it out you could
try it out now or maybe just wait until after the apple event on september 7th where they'll show
off the new iphone new apple watches so iphone 14 iphone 14 plus is what we think the name will be
14 pro and 14 pro max on the 7th with new apple watch series 8. we're waiting for all of those
and then after that event apple will typically release the release candidate so we should have
ios 16 release candidate and then the final release usually the following monday that's
typically what they do so i would wait for the release candidate if you haven't tried them yet
if you're on beta 7 definitely update if you're on public beta 5 definitely update otherwise
maybe just wait until the release candidate as the release candidate is typically the final release
now as far as overall battery life this varies greatly from person to person
some people have said they've had the same battery life as ios 15 some have had better
some have had worse so it really depends on the person and most likely the apps they're using
if we go into battery health you'll see i'm at 98 pretty typical a year later that's not an issue
80 percent after two years is normal according to apple so if it's lower than 98 that's fine i
wouldn't worry about it it will tell you when it needs to be replaced as far as the battery goes
over the last 10 days and you'll see it seems like i might have a touch issue there yesterday i had
two hours and 36 minutes of screen on time four hours and 30 minutes of screen off time and used
about 50 percent of my battery that's not very good overall today a little bit better at twenty
five percent usage with two hours and fourteen minutes so it's okay depending on day to day
you'll see today i used mostly the home and lock screen with the sort of notifications and more
mail definitely is having some issues and it says connected to charger it used 11
so there's sort of a new message there letting me know that when it was connected to the charger it
used 11 of the battery that's kind of a new message i hadn't seen before and so overall
battery is okay i would expect it to get a little bit better once the release candidate is out
as far as overall heat my phone has stayed nice and cool now i don't play a lot of games on this
but if you do it will warm up that's pretty typical but so far it's nice and cool let me
show you that so as you can see with the flear thermal camera at the hottest point it's about
86 degrees fahrenheit that's what i would expect that's pretty typical it's a little bit warmer
than overall room temperature and you'll see the phone next to it with the screen on is at 87 to 88
degrees fahrenheit that's pretty normal and what you can expect as far as ipad os 16.1 well this
has been out for over a week apple did not release a new beta for this and so it seems to be okay so
far it's an early beta of 16.1 but i haven't had any app crashes pro motion is nice and smooth
and if we go into settings go down to battery battery life overall seems to be pretty good
so yesterday two hours and 23 minutes and it was charged to a hundred percent so since then
i've used it two and a half hours and then another 48 minutes or so so three hours we're down to 55
i'm getting about five to six hours of screen on time with this device that's typical at this point
i really haven't seen it improved since i had it new the battery health is pretty good overall but
i haven't seen the 10 hours of battery life typical of what you get when you get this
new however usually 9 to 10 hours is normal i'm getting five to six now overall performance is
quite good like i mentioned on the ipad pro motion is nice and smooth on the newer devices no issues
there going into music going into different apps is nice and fast as you would expect even on older
devices and i did want to run a little test with the iphone 10 and despite having well nine 19 i
thought it was at 20 but 19 battery life if we go into real racing 3 you'll see it resumes which is
nice i opened this before i started filming this video so that's pretty good we'll hit resume
and it seems to be nice and smooth now when i first opened this game it was a little bit laggy
so it seems like it's resuming okay here but overall performance is quite good
even on older devices so i don't think apple's slowing anything down the only time you could
expect that is maybe if you had poor battery health and you needed to replace the battery
and this is at 88 and it's still working just fine now as far as the youtube community poll and some
of your comments let's take a look at that so if we go into youtube you'll see at the time of this
video we have over 11 000 votes and 141 comments let me refresh here and it's still the same
and you'll see here at the time of this video 32 percent of you are saying it's great
still again three percent think it's terrible 12 percent say it's okay but still have some bugs
47 haven't upgraded yet and six percent are on android that seems to be pretty typical from
week to week three percent saying it's terrible although less people saying it has some bugs but
we're still about half of the votes away from last week now let's take a look at some of your
comments stendi says i'm using ios 16 public beta 6 on my iphone 12. so far it's been very stable
i've not had any bugs or app crashes performance has been 100 and my battery life is good as it
was on ios 15.6.1 i'm getting a full day of normal use for me without any problems or drain
1010 would recommend if you're on the fence about installing it as trellis says public beta 6 has
been solid for me on an iphone sc2 no real bugs so far except my notifications overlapping an
album when i'm listening to a song on the music app it also jiggles the playing platter when i
exit this one is still here i'm not really sure if this is intentional or not but it's something
worth mentioning as i might report it to apple once more because it does feel kinda off it's
an odd behavior for sure battery life seems to be pretty good as it was on previous betas
at least i haven't noticed a drop on it yet looking forward to your next video have a great
day david rice says i'm on public beta 6 on my iphone 13 pro max and it's been great i've had one
issue where i completely lost signal in an area where i usually get good 5g uc but that could have
been my network maintenance that day and i haven't had that problem since i do also have occasional
hiccups with the keyboard not coming up while i'm in imessage it's usually after sending a picture
federico said compared to my experience in ios 15 beta 8 last year ios 16 beta 8 is nearly perfect
battery life is improving quite substantially i can now get more than 6 hours of screen on time
and performance is good can't wait to see what's next in terms of software iphone 10r now there
were some people that said they had poor battery life but most people are saying that it's a better
experience than last time so this is a good sign it looks like it's better in fact i've heard from
someone that's quite particular on battery that they went to ios 15.6.1 they downgraded and have
worse battery life than they did with beta 7 or beta 8. so looks like they're going to upgrade
again but overall some people will still have bugs and if you do make sure you report those
in the feedback app of course if you found anything else i'd love to hear from you in
the comments below and of course we're looking for that apple event in just a few days so
let me know if you'd like to hear more about that event a different video or something else
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