hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and this past week we had a lot of news about the upcoming
iPhone 15 Apple's AR VR headset we're expecting iOS 16.4 beta 2 and much more this is your news
update for the week of February 27 2023. now the Apple watch is getting closer to being placed
under an import ban in the United States due to a recent patent ruling the Biden Administration
has also apparently said they will not veto or stop the ruling from moving forward the patent
in question is from a medical company called a live core who says that they developed the ECG
technology on the back of the sensor for the Apple watch and apple actually is using that
without their permission Apple of course will appeal this decision and this may never end
up as a true import ban but it is something that is moving forward it seems if they don't get the
appeal so they may owe that company a bunch of money and they may have to go back to court to
figure this out but hopefully we don't see a final ban as it's something that a lot of people use
now in a recent report by the financial times it seems apple is gaining in popularity due to
iMessage and maybe just the phone overall now having a green bubble in many places in the
USA is looked down upon among people of gen Z and newer it's kind of a silly thing but in many high
schools if you have a green bubble when you're in iMessage which means you're from an Android phone
it's looked down upon and seen as something that's sort of a lack of status which is definitely Goofy
and something I definitely don't understand however I've heard from this directly from my
family members some of my kids in high school have mentioned this to me before in the USA though it's
not really seen as a status symbol anymore because the phone is in over 50 percent of Americans hands
many countries still see it as a status symbol so that's the growing popularity around the world but
I just want to know what you think of this is this just seems like a silly thing I've mentioned it
in the past quite some time ago but it seems to be coming more and more prevalent now the video
I released this past weekend was actually filmed outside in HDR I asked many of you if you prefer
this some do some don't but I wanted to give you a quick tip as those that don't like HDR
can actually disable it so you'll see the higher quality picture options here and they all say up
to 4K or 2160p in HDR you can actually disable this just by turning on low power mode so if you
want to see the regular version of the video Apple watch actually your YouTube actually converts this
and then turns it into a regular SDR video so if low power mode is on it goes to Regular SDR and
it looks pretty good either way it doesn't look as saturated but it will change that if you want to
see it and then allow you to watch it in non-hdr if it's just too bright or you don't like the look
let me know if you prefer HDR or just regular SDR in the comments below now those that use Netflix
have recently heard more and more information that Netflix is cracking down on people sharing
passwords many families have done this for quite some time and if you've shared a password they
don't want you doing that anymore and a lot of people have been upset it's been getting a lot
of negative press and different families within the household are sharing this and now in order to
sort of combat some of that negative press Netflix has reduced their prices in 30 different countries
with some getting up to a 50 percent discount so I'm not sure that will help everything but
in different countries it may help quite a bit as they'd be paying the same price as before my
guesses though they'll just try and find ways around it let me know what you think about this
in the comments below I don't share my Netflix password with anyone but I know a lot of different
families that have in the past so it seems to be a thing it used to be part of their business
model it seemed so it's not any longer but again let me know what you think about it now in the
background of this video and other videos I'm sure you've seen this case many have asked about it and
this is the case who magic stand Case Case who has sponsored this video and this case comes in a few
different colors it comes in a clear blue deep purple space black and there's new clear purple
and clear black cases just like this one here as well it's a protective case that adds grip and
looks great and it has a raised bezel around the camera and also the display it also has a
hidden stand built in the stand allows for a 40 to 120 degree angle and has a magnet in the ring
of the stand that supports magsafe accessories and charging I'll leave a link to them in the
description and be sure to use code zolotek for a little bit of a discount now if you're using Final
Cut Pro to edit videos like I am but you didn't buy it directly from Apple there's a group warning
that it could be infected with crypto mining malware according to jamf threat Labs who detected
it so if you didn't get it from Apple's App Store on your Mac just beware and make sure you scan for
malware as it could be infected it's about a 300 program but you don't have to pay for it monthly
or anything like you do with Adobe Premiere so that's something that again if you didn't get it
from the Mac App Store you may want to be careful about last week an iPhone 1 or original iPhone
went for an outrageous amount of sixty three thousand dollars at an auction now there's an
apple one computer up for auction RR auctions is actually featuring an apple one computer that's
signed by Steve Wozniak and is expected to fetch as much as a half a million dollars they typically
go around the four hundred thousand dollar range and so if you want to check this out I'll leave a
link in the description now as far as deals this week well there's some deals on Apple watches not
this Apple watch Ultra but the Apple Watch series 8 for as low as 329 being sold directly by Apple
on Amazon also there's an update on the price of airpods pro 2 there it's no longer 199 it's 229
but it's still a discount from what Apple sells it for and there's also a discount on the one
terabyte version of the iPad Pro 12.9 15.99 down from 18.99 so if you're looking for one they're
discounted I'll link them in the description below it is an affiliate link so I will get a
little bit of money for that but if you don't want to use that just go to Amazon and search for it
now this past week Apple stopped signing iOS 16.3 so you can no longer downgrade to it that
leaves iOS 16.3.1 and also they got rid of an iOS 15 version that people were using to
downgrade to iOS 15. it was a release candidate that's no longer signed as well so Apple sort
of cracked down on that now as far as a new update iOS 16.3.2 so far hasn't been spotted
so it doesn't look like that could be coming very soon but we do expect iOS 16.4 beta 2 fairly soon
so if you're a developer make sure that you have an Apple ID that's associated with the
developer beta you may be seeing this bug my Apple ID is associated with it so you may be
seeing that just keep that in mind but if you're actually having an issue with it make sure to
actually sign up for the developer beta or the public beta if you want to continue testing it
iOS 16.5 is also in testing it seems as it's been spotted on different website analytics so that's
something that Apple's working on so it doesn't look like 16.3.2 but we could see 16.4 as soon
as tomorrow or Thursday if they follow what they did a couple weeks ago now as far as iPhone 15
there is a lot of information about it this week this week we saw what was claimed to be an actual
picture of the iPhone 15 Pro Max or Ultra Model A leaker on Twitter by the name of unknowns21
showed images of the USBC Port of the upcoming iPhone of what looks to be a titanium housing they
also shared a picture of the front of the standard iPhone 15 model which they provided the Mac Rumors
so basically a replacement for the regular iPhone 14 with smaller bezels than the 14 but larger
bezels than the Pro Models this past week we also heard about the iPhone 15 pro and pro Max models
having larger camera bumps or thicker camera bumps however recent information from Ice Universe on
Twitter shows new CAD renders that show a slightly thicker iPhone overall But A reduced camera bump
so it seems the camera bump may not be getting any bigger or larger and instead the phone could get a
little bit thicker this could be good for a couple things Not only would it hide some of the large
camera bump but it would also allow for a larger battery so that's something I know a lot of people
would like to go along with the battery the new display in the iPhone 15 pro and pro Max models
are said to be more efficient that would help not only with the chipset being more efficient
but also the display helping that with maybe a larger battery this could possibly be the best
battery life in an iPhone ever with the iPhone 15 pro and pro Max now the bezels are said to be
reduced and you can see that in a rendering from Ian zelbo in nine to five Mac they also showed
what to expect with the iPhone 15 plus which will have a dynamic Island again and slimmed bezels so
they're moving over the dynamic Island from the Pro Models this year to all models on the 15.
also the lidar sensor on the iPhone 15 Pro Models is expected to get an upgrade or it could be the
face ID sensor there seems to be mixed reports there but either way Apple's changing suppliers
for that so it could be a better face ID or just maybe they're shrinking it or changing suppliers
now according to a source leaked to nine to five Mac it said that the upcoming iPhone 15 pro and
pro Max models will get a new deep red color so instead of being a color like we have on the
iPhone SE that's sort of a brighter red product red color it would be a darker red as you can
see here so that could look really nice we also expect different colors for the regular iPhone 15s
in maybe a deeper pink and a lighter blue so we have a light blue already with the iPhone 14 but
it's just a different shade Apple changes it every year that's not really unexpected but a dark red
iPhone could be welcome we haven't seen that in quite some time on the Pro Models Additionally the
internal changes are said to include more RAM for the Pro Models this would be increased to about
eight gigs of RAM up from 6 that we currently have on the iPhone so you'll see here we have just
under six gigs of RAM eight gigs would be welcome and could help with just keeping different apps
open and maybe having something to do with the camera or maybe it's augmented reality options
now the Apple watch has reached a new proof of concept stage with a blood glucose monitor Apple
has been working on this for quite some time and they've apparently reached sort of a proof
of concept Milestone according to Mark German this is something that would be revolutionary
for a lot of users where the sensors on the bottom would be a non-invasive glucose monitor this would
be life-changing for a lot of people and would be huge and could change the lives of many so Apple's
actually owned different patents that relate to this and have for many many years but they've
just never brought it to actual real life usage hopefully they get this right and maybe we'll see
it with the next Apple watch or a couple years from now but either way it will need to undergo
a lot of testing to make sure it's accurate and can really help people but I can't wait to see
if they actually do that for those that actually need it whether they're diabetics or just need to
measure their overall blood glucose Apple recently was granted a patent as well for the Apple watch
having to do with the band itself that there could be a color change fabric band so it would
be something that would change color and also be controllable with an app so you could change
it in the app have it change color not sure how that would work but it looks like it's something
they're at least working on or trying out the price of the iPad next year could increase by
a little bit due to a new display technology currently we have one of the best displays on
the market with the iPad Pro 12.9 and its mini LED display however one of the disadvantages is that
because it's mini LED it's a little bit thicker than what we could get with maybe an OLED display
and it also has blooming in the background on very dark environments it looks like according to
business Korea Apple has ordered a bunch of OLED displays from LG and Samsung for 2024 iPad models
the bad news is the new iPads are said to be more expensive due to a newer construction which makes
OLED brighter and last longer that's one of the disadvantages of OLED is they don't typically
get as bright as many LED but they also have a color change that happens over time but this is
something they've been working on but would lead to a more expensive of iPad let me know what you
think about that in the comments below Apple's upcoming AR VR headset known as reality pro at
least according to Mark German will likely be able to be used without having to pair it to your
iPhone like you do with an Apple Watch however you will have the option to transfer iCloud data from
an iPhone or just log in but there's no physical keyboard but it looks like there's going to be a
virtual keyboard that's in the air you can air type with it and also use your eyes to look at
different areas and then use gestures to select what you're looking at this is all according
to Mark German who says we still should expect this in June at WWDC at the worldwide developer
conference so that's something we could see with hand gestures using your eyes to look at
things but still it's planned to be around three thousand dollars also the second gen headset is
in the works but will be a couple years later in 2025 where Apple introduces not only the regular
headset but a less expensive version according to Ming ji quo but again we haven't seen any
of these yet but there's tons of information in the code about it so we can expect this probably
pretty soon as far as the next Apple event well many of us expect an event probably in March or
April that would coincide with iOS 16.5 and also an event to show off new Macs the new Macbook Air
15-inch is set to launch with that event or maybe it'll launch it separately in a press conference
we don't really know or maybe just a video press conference we don't really know for sure but it's
said to be very similar to what we currently have with an M2 processor which would give it longer
battery life since it has a larger frame overall and just have a larger display so we would expect
that also with updated Bluetooth and Wi-Fi as well Wi-Fi 6E so that's what we expect with
that event maybe a few surprises but I don't know that they need an event just for a MacBook Air so
maybe there's something else being planned maybe we'll see that augmented reality headset or maybe
we won't have an event in the spring typically we do though every single year additionally as far as
Max go we're still waiting for that Mac Pro and in recent updates of iOS 16.4 betas we actually saw
code that may relate to a Mac Pro compute module so that could be for the Mac Pro it could be for a
reality Pro headset we don't really know but the Mac Pro is going to have to offer something the
Max studio doesn't so maybe changeable PCI cards we don't really know and we don't know what Apple
could do with that so maybe they'll finally show that off it seems they're a little late with the
Mac Pro so that's everything with this past week's news I also have a separate video about different
apps that were updated such as WhatsApp Apple Store app and more so be sure to check out that
video if you're interested in that and of course I'll link this wallpaper in the description like
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