hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and today Apple released iOS 16.2 RC this is the release
candidate or the final version that will release to the public if there's no additional issues and
they first release iOS 16.2 release candidate to developers and public beta testers now this will
be supported on the iPhone 8 8 plus all the way up to the iPhone 14 pro and pro Max and
this came in at a very large 5.33 gigabytes on the 14 pro Max and was about five gigabytes on
all the devices here that's because anytime you go from a beta version to a public version it's
going to be a full install it will overwrite the other storage and then install the whole
operating system and along with this apple also released iPad OS 16.2 RC a Mac OS 13.1 RC watch
OS 9.2 RC TV OS 16.2 RC and homepod Os 16.2 RC along with older supported versions for 15.7.2 RC
of both iOS and iPad OS now if you're wondering if you're a beta tester and if you should remove the
beta profile at this time I would probably keep it just in case they release an rc2 or release
candidate 2 with iOS 16.2 rc2 they've done that in the past if they don't well then you can just
delete the beta profile when it comes out to the public and we'll talk about when to expect that
a little bit later now let's go ahead and take a look at the build number and talk about what's new
so we'll go to settings then we'll go to General then about and if we tap on the iOS version you
can see the final build as long as this is the final build and no additional bugs are found is
20c65 and this particular update has a lot of different changes and features in it and the
first thing is Apple announced today that they're abandoning csam detection that's according to a
statement made by Apple to wired where they would scan your photos and then send that information
off they've completely abandoned that process and they've brought some new features instead now the
first thing is they've brought Apple music sing apple music sing is a way to use your
phone for karaoke and I found this works with just about everything as long as you have a supported
device and those supported devices are iPhone 11 all the way up to the iPhone 14 pro Max and
it also includes the iPhone SE third generation it needs the neural processor apparently to do
some of these features and so what you do is you just go into your music app go into maybe a song
and you'll see this little microphone icon here we'll just turn it down here and if you tap on
the microphone you can turn the lyric volume up and down so it actually completely removes the
lyric part of the track and you can't hear it and then when you go ahead and sing along to it
you'll see as he's singing it actually goes along with this particular track depending on how he's
singing it will change and sort of follow along now I found that on specific tracks it doesn't
have all of the features so if we go to maybe something that's maybe a little more mainstream
so for example the song Even Flow by Pearl Jam maybe we go to this part of the lyrics here you'll
see that it actually follows along in the flow that he's actually singing the song so you can
see that here and then you can adjust the volume of the singer up and down for the lyrics so this
works really well you can turn it up and down and it works surprisingly well like I said it
doesn't follow along for every single song that I've found but it seems to work really well on
pretty mainstream songs and there will be more to this in the future with newly enhanced beat
by beat lyrics as you can see here as well as duet with the original artist a solo a sing
Solo or mix it up and that is available on this update so anyone that installs this update when
it's available to the public will have it on the supported devices the next thing that's new is the
freeform app this I've talked about in previous beta updates and this allows for collaboration
across multiple devices with multiple people on Mac iPad and iPhone so as you can see in the
freeform app they promised this with iOS 16 and we've now seen it with 16.2 if we go into the app
you'll see here there's a new splash screen and let's go to a board that's synced across iCloud
and you can see the new freeform app here and maybe I want to draw on it so we'll just draw a
little squiggly line you can see in real time it's actually updating and with the RC it's even faster
than before so that gives you an idea of how fast it is it draws the line almost at the same
time I'm moving my finger across the screen it's incredibly fast and a great way to collaborate so
you can use that they call it a flexible canvas that lets you add files images stickies and more
now if we go into settings and then we go to our name at the top and then tap on iCloud scroll to
the bottom and there's an all new Advanced Data a protection option and if we go into this you'll
see it says iCloud encrypts your data to keep it secure Advanced Data protection uses end-to-end
encryption to ensure that iCloud data types listed here can only be decrypted on your trusted devices
protecting your information even in the case of a data breach in the cloud It also says because
Apple will not have the keys required to recover your data you will be guided through verification
of your recovery methods in case you ever lose access to your account and you'll see what it can
encrypt here so your device backup messages iCloud Drive notes photos reminders Safari bookmarks Siri
shortcuts voice memos and wallet passes and then you can set up your account recovery so if you go
ahead and turn it on it will actually walk you through a guided process and says you will be
responsible for your data recovery so we can set that up and then you can add a recovery key add
a recovery contact and go through that process a recovery key is a 28 character code that you
keep in a safe place you can use it to recover your data if you you lose access to your account
so if you want to set this up you can and they also announced today that coming later in 2023
they're going to have advanced user security with powerful new data protections with imessage
contact key verification security keys for Apple ID and Advanced Data protection for iCloud and if
you scroll down on their press release you can see here it will even verify the contact you're
speaking to to let you know that it's the actual person you think it is so if you're talking to
someone that you are not sure who they are it will let you know and then you'll have security
Keys we've had this on Android for a bit where you can use your device as a security key and sign in
with that as well and you'll be able to actually use the port as a security key and verify its you
so a lot of great data encryption protections coming to iOS and it's something that I think
addresses a lot of the privacy concerns we've seen for quite some time with this update now
this update should also bring 5G support to India they didn't specifically mention it but we know
that it was an in the betas so it should be here as well where you'll have the option to switch
between 5G on auto and LTE so that's something we should see as well there's also some new settings
for your lock screen so first let's talk about new widgets and then we'll take a look at the
new settings so if we go into our lock screen and we go to customize then maybe we'll customize the
lock screen and let's take a look at some of our widgets and if we scroll down you'll see
that we have an all new sleep widget so there's a sleep widget here you can have a small one or
a larger one showing how long you were in bed and when you woke up throughout the night just
giving you a quick glanceable update on your information and then there's also an update for
medications as well so if we go to health you'll see that we have medications so if you have some
medications scheduled it will let you know through a widget on your lock screen as well or within the
notification center now if we go into our settings and then scroll down to display and brightness
scroll down again you'll see always on display we've been able to turn this off and on before
but now we can show the wallpaper or turn the wallpaper off the same is true with notifications
so if I lock the phone you'll see there's no wallpaper it's just completely dark you can
enable that if you'd like and then lock it again and you'll see the wallpapers in the background
so if that's something you want to turn off you can now turn it off it should probably save a
little bit of power but I've seen very minimal change as far as that goes when it comes to the
overall power consumption with the show wallpaper option on or off game center finally adds share
Play support we've had share play for a while but not for games so if there's a multiplayer
game you're playing you can now play with people you're on a FaceTime call with there's also a new
widget to help you out with that so if we go to our widgets go to edit add a new one under Game
Center if we scroll over you'll see a new activity widget that lets you know what your friends are
doing so there's a couple different versions here but if we pick this one we'll add this one and we
can see in real time what they've played or are playing and how they've done so this is a way
to maybe help collaborate and play multiplayer game together back in settings if we scroll down
we'll go down to the TV app TV finally gains live activities this is something that we've
wanted for a while where we can now have more frequent updates and also not only that we can
now follow different live sporting events so that we can have them on our display if we go into the
TV app give it a moment to load here you'll see that it comes up with a new splash screen and
says one Sports Experience more from TV plus we'll hit continue and then scroll down we'll
go down until we get to live sports and under live sports if there's a game that's currently live you
can then follow along so if I want to follow this one it's telling me when it is but if it was live
I could follow it and then see live activities to go along with that so during the World Cup there
were a ton of those and I know a lot of people really appreciated that so they could see their
live sports in real time and you can see it says follow your teams get notified about your team so
you never miss the action messages gets an update as well and this is pretty subtle and something
we didn't know with the betas and if we go into messages and if we go to search for something
there's improved search and messages that allows you to find photos based on their content such as
a dog car or person or text so if there's a photo in there we'll try car and you can see here it's
finding things with a car in it there's a rivian right there and different information that says
car so it's great that they've updated that now Apple has also updated the home app with improved
reliability and efficiency of communication between your smart home accessory trees and
Apple devices there's a new feature that updates privacy for Safari so if we go into settings tap
on our name and then go to iCloud again as long as you have private relay enabled you'll have a new
option in Safari if you go to Safari tap on the AAA for your settings we have the option to hide
or show your IP address if I tap on show you'll see it says apple.com will temporarily see your
IP address we'll hit continue and then it can see that so that's something they've updated and then
you can change it to hide IP address that's all new in this update and something that they've
brought that should help for many different websites if you're using private relay now if
you go into the weather app you're going to start seeing news articles in certain cities so as I
scroll down here I don't see anything here but in major cities some people are seeing news articles
so here's Charlotte and again if there's a weather advisory or something else you should see it
here again I'm not seeing it but many people are starting to see those around the country there's
something major that they've added with iOS 16.2 RC that I would like an additional option for if
we go to our settings and go to General then go to airdrop you'll see everyone now says for 10
minutes this is something they recently added in China that after 10 minutes it will jump back to
contacts only and while that's a nice security option my understanding is that sometimes people
want to send you something that's nearby so that you can see this and apparently that prevents it
after 10 minutes I would like an option maybe if we're in a conference room and someone wants to
send something they're not on your contacts list I would love to see it jump back to just everyone
and let me control that so give me an additional option and for everyone everyone for 10 minutes
and contacts only so that's something that's changed in this update originally it was just with
the previous updates with iOS 16.1.2 16.1.1 that's something I would love to see updated here with
iOS 16.2 when it finally releases to the public within notes if you're collaborating and sharing
a note with someone you'll now see the cursors here update in real time with live indicators
as to someone making a change to that note so if you're sharing the note across multiple people
you'll see when they're actually editing it with the iPad stage manager gets updated on supported
devices to allow for external displays now so there's external display support with resolutions
up to 6K so that's a pro display xdr but it's only on the iPad Pro 12.9 fifth generation and
later so basically the M1 iPad or M2 iPad and that works really seamlessly now as I've been
using it throughout the betas so if we plug it in you can see here what it looks like where you
actually have full external display support with the full monitor showing as though it was just a
Mac so that's something that's really great you can also drag and drop files and windows from
your compatible device to your connected display and vice versa and it supports up to four apps at
once on the iPad display and four on the external display and as far as bug fixes well they've
fixed a few things they've fixed an issue on the iPad where it could cause multi-touch gestures
to become unresponsive when using the zoom accessibility feature so that should be resolved
on iPad they didn't mention it for the iPhone though also they've fixed an issue that caused
some notes not to sync with iCloud after updates were made a lot of people were complaining about
notes not syncing properly that should be fixed in this update additionally on the iPhone 14 and 14
Pro Models they've optimized crash detection again they did this with iOS 16.1.2 and again with this
update and so maybe that has to do with people that were on ski slopes accidentally triggering it
prior to that we heard about people on roller coasters and theme parks triggering it so that's
something that you want to be able to use if you're in trouble and need to use it but also
if you're on a roller coaster you may need to turn off as it was causing errors with that so
hopefully they've optimized that and it can detect the difference now but we'll have to wait and see
now additionally they don't mention anything else that they fixed so whether or not they've actually
issued updates that fix the swipe home bug that's something that takes a couple days to actually see
usually so if you play swipe home it goes up into the dynamic Island that's something we typically
see with errors there's also small enhancements here and there to the dynamic Island visual
changes and more that I'll cover in the full iOS 16.2 update as far as additional bugs and issues
well the storage bugs some people are saying is taking up excessive storage I'm not really seeing
that anymore it's typically what you would think and it's going to use cache data as it can if you
have that storage available but in general storage should be quite good and it is taking a bit to
load but I'll give it just a moment and you'll see it's done calculating as I scroll down iOS
is taking up 9.59 gigabytes that's pretty typical and this can actually shrink a little bit as it
continues to optimize the OS after a new install and system data is 37.87 gigabytes this is cache
data that can kind of shrink on its own as needed so I really wouldn't worry about it too much it's
really at the bottom so you don't need to look at it and if it's actually taking up room where
you can't install apps then it's a problem but I really haven't heard of that too often anymore as
far as the overall performance it seems nice and Fast Pro motion is super smooth everything seems
to be smooth as well as the animation so far like I mentioned playing a song going into the dynamic
Island it seems nice and fast but it will take a few days to know if it changes at all and the
same is true with battery life battery life can vary greatly after you install a major update
it's going to take a while to index process other files in the background and optimize the whole OS
and once it's done doing that then battery should improve that can take a day or two depending on
what you're doing with the device so overall it should be pretty good but battery health on this
device is 100 percent and if we take a look at the last 10 days battery life hasn't been great but it
is a beta and as you can see here yesterday I used about 50 of my battery and only had had two hours
and 18 minutes of screen active time 3 hours and 58 minutes of screen idle time depending on the
day it varies greatly but I think this should be a good Improvement as so far today we're seeing two
hours and 40 minutes of screen active time and 54 minutes of screen idle time now as far as if you
should install iOS 16.2 RC well I would recommend it if you're on any of the iOS 16.2 betas and
this should be the final version so if you were wanting to try it you were a little bit nervous
you definitely could do that but if you have a computer that would be great that way you can
downgrade if you have a problem just make sure you have a backup before you try it Apple typically
doesn't recommend installing a beta on your main device however a release candidate is kind of
in between a beta and the final version this very likely could be the final version released to the
public if not like I said there will be another one now as far as when to expect the final version
released to the public well I would expect that probably Monday at this point that's what we saw
last year it typically is on a Monday it could be on Tuesday the 13th either one of those days
is when I would expect it and then we'll move on maybe later in the week to iOS 16.3 beta 1. we
won't see another update typically until sometime in January with that also I would expect iOS 50
18.7.2 to release to the public probably around the same sort of date of the 12th so both of those
I would expect around that time along with the iPad and Mac OS updates and more now I did run
benchmarks quickly as many of you have asked for that and even though the device was processing and
getting a little bit warm it is still a little bit warm after using it and let me share that with you
quickly with the FLIR thermal camera you can see here with the thermal camera it's at about 28.4
is the highest I've seen as far as Celsius let's go over to Fahrenheit and as you can see at the
warmest point it looks to be about 85.2 degrees or so so for the most part it's staying fairly cool
even though it is a little bit warm and Computing in the background that's not super hot and I think
it's doing really well and as far as the overall geekbench scores I ran this right after installing
it so it is a bit warm and I would expect these to go up a little bit but we had 1886 for single core
5379 for multi-core that's quite good compared to what we had before as the single core is a little
bit higher multi-core is a little bit lower but again it's processing a lot in the background so
I would expect this to improve and we'll talk more about that in the follow-up on the weekend to make
sure that it's good to go to install on your main device if you found anything else or would like
me to mention anything else in these videos I'd love to hear from you in the comments below and
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