hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and iOS 17 beta 1 has been out for a couple of weeks at this
point we're anxiously awaiting beta 2 with more new features but there's even more features that
have been found in beta 1 since the initial what's new video and even the follow-up so it's a pretty
feature-packed update we'll talk about that we'll also talk about some app updates and the overall
experience as I've been using this full time on my 14 pro Max and iPad Pro for a couple of weeks
we'll talk about your experience as well we're in the YouTube Community poll I ran a couple weeks
ago we have 20 000 votes and 441 comments I've gone through most of the comments to see what the
overall experience is like for everyone so we'll talk about some of the comments toward the end
and the experience as well but the first thing is there were updates to some apps this past week and
Pages numbers and keynote or the I work Suite of apps from Apple got some pretty big updates it's
free if you have these apps installed you can just install them and this works on iOS iPad OS and
Mac OS and you'll see here with numbers it says they've added scalable vector graphics and other
things as well under Kino it will now use prores video so you can insert prores and again svgs and
then again under Pages we have some new updates as well where you can start writing in notes
then open your note in pages to continue editing with powerful design and layout features lots of
really nice updates here with svgs and even more so this is something a lot of people have wanted
and I think will be very helpful now as far as new features well let's take a look at some of those
as when you set wallpapers if we go in here and maybe we go to set a wallpaper you'll see if we
select the wallpaper from today if I pull down sort of as I'm zooming in it fades the top out
into black so you can actually bring this down to re-center it you can make it larger but it sort of
Fades the top out into black and it's just a nice touch if you wanted to sort of extend a photo that
doesn't typically fit there properly so that's something that's really nice also I don't know
if this is necessarily a feature but something I appreciate when I change Focus modes from here
sometimes it doesn't change the wallpaper anymore oftentimes I would switch this it would jump to a
different wallpaper I want it to actually stay on the wallpaper I have and it seems like this
is either going to be a feature in the future with a switch or maybe it's just the way it works now
but this is much better than we had before so it seems to work even after reboot I can
switch different Focus modes and it doesn't jump between different wallpapers so that's really nice
widgets has an update also so if we slide over here and we take a look at a widget here on this
iPhone this actually has 16.5 on it and you'll see here with the actual stock widget that the new one
has some up or down arrows depending on how the stock is doing overall so it's a small update but
it is something they've changed now if we go ahead and connect our carplay device when you're using
Apple carplay we'll give it a second here to load and if we go to send a new message we can do this
via Siri or we can just tap on it and go into it directly you can see the overall UI has changed so
we have a big button for each one of these where we can cancel change or send so it's an all new
UI that looks a little bit better and is easier to press if you're driving under settings if we
go down to face ID and passcode if we change our passcode you'll see here it says after you go to
enter your new passcode you've put in the previous one it says for the next 72 hours you can use your
previous passcode to reset your new passcode if you forget so you'll actually have to go to your
passcode options tap forget then it'll let you put in the old one back in settings if we go down
to passwords and if we go into a password and you'll see on the left I have IOS 16.6 betas on
the right I have IOS 17. if we tap on edit we now have the option to modify the title at the top we
can't do that in previous versions so we can't modify the title at the top here in iOS 17 we
can we can change it to anything we want if we go into settings and then scroll down go to control
center scroll down again you'll see there's a new option for ping my watch once we have that added
if we go into the control center and we have an Apple Watch tap on it to locate your watch
so it makes a noise if I pick it up and look at it it will stop pinging and it will stop its noise
so it's a nice way to figure out where it is if maybe you left it somewhere and you can't find it
now if you go into a FaceTime call or another call maybe using Zoom or something else there's
some new options there or some new features and when you're in a FaceTime call if we go to the
control center in the upper left we have video effects if we go into this we have a new dialog
here that allows us to turn these on or off we have the studio effect we'll turn it on and now
we can adjust the intensity of it if we tap on the three dot menu so you have that option you'll see
the intensity change there and we also have the same for portrait mode so if I enable that we
can adjust the background blur and here it has a little f-stop icon so we can adjust that as
needed we also have the option for Reactions where we have those new reactions if we give a thumbs up
it's not working all the time I can never get this to work but reaction should work if you give
a thumbs up should give reactions fireworks and things like that in the background so hopefully
that works a little better in the future I know some people have said they've already got it
working now also if you're in a call with someone maybe with a zoom call it will now let you know if
you're muted so maybe you're talking to someone and you actually have the phone muted see if we
have it here we already have this muted but if you're trying to speak it actually will let you
know that hey you're muted you need to unmute that and that will work across zoom and every other app
that uses video so that's something that's really nice when you're on a call or on video and you're
trying to speak one thing I saw the other day and thought was really nice if we go into Safari and
maybe we search for the weather you'll see that it actually brings over the weather from the weather
app right in the top of your search bar tap on it it will open up the weather app right in here so
it's a quick way to get to the weather app even if you don't want to actually have it on your
home screen you can search for it and it will just show up and give other options of course as well
now also if we go into standby mode this is a new mode that you can place this on a stand or have
it charging there's a couple things to note as far as that goes now if you have an apple
mag safe charger or a third-party charger and maybe you place your iPhone on it with standby
mode so we'll just lock the screen here give it a second there we go it should take a second to
switch over to standby sometimes it takes just a moment we'll give it a second it'll switch
there we go and you can see we have the clock we have the weather the charge status now if
we take this off of this magsafe charger and then we actually place it on this magsafe charger over
here again we'll give it a second it actually remembers what the last display you had on here
was so you can switch through and it will actually remember it as you switch from room to room that's
a really great feature and I don't think I've heard anyone mention it elsewhere if we go into a
note or any place we're entering text if we press down the actual magnifier is much larger this time
around so that's a nice change if it was hard to see before and then if we go to actually insert
something we tap and then we slide over tap on insert we have the option to insert contacts and
passwords now so that's something that they've updated that just allows you to put that right
into your notes or wherever you're typing within photos they've updated search to help you search
videos as well so I put in videos and then I saw 171 that's actually how many miles are remaining
on my truck that I was charging but if we go into this this isn't just a photo it's a video and it
found it in the exact moment that I searched for it in so that's something you can search directly
in videos for text and anything else and if we go into a live photo tap the icon in the upper
left to see live Loop bounce or long exposure the icon has been updated there so you'll see
here where we have icons next to each one of them where we didn't before so on the left is IOS 16.6
beta so they've just added an icon for every one of these now if we bring in the iPad there's a
couple features I wanted to mention here as well so if we go into the iPad I'll just connect it to
the magic keyboard now you could connect this to any keyboard but one thing I wanted to show
you is if you're using stage manager we'll just turn it on here and if we hold down a certain key
combination so if we hold shift on the keyboard and then we click any app so maybe podcasts that
will automatically add it to Stage manager so maybe we'll do that again with logic pro
it will add it to Stage manager again Final Cut Pro it adds it automatically so that's something
that's really nice that you can add or just close it and get rid of it so it's great that they've
added that feature it's much easier just to bring something into that than clicking and dragging
also if we go into our settings within settings here let me get out of stage manager let's take
off the magic keyboard and within settings if we go to Siri under Syrian search and it activated
as I said that there we go let's go back in under Syrian search you'll see that we have a new option
for Siri in calls so that's something that's new that they've added to the iPad where we've had
that on the iPhone for a little while also we have multiple timers on iPhone and iPad now so if we
find the clock app here wherever I've put it I've probably already passed it but let's go to clock
there we are if we want to go into timers and start a new one we can do that we can also add
another one and we can start up to 500 timers so we can have 500 going simultaneously if you
want to actually have those running on watch OS 10 there's a couple things worth mentioning
as well so if we go to our apps I typically use this list view that's alphabetical but I
know many people like the grid view if we go to the grid view with watch OS 10 we can use
the digital Crown to scroll up and down through our apps of course you can still use your finger
to do that but you can scroll up and down that way now as far as iOS 17 beta 1 and its overall
stability it's still pretty good for most people but there's still some issues with it it's an
early beta but it's fairly surprising at how good it is for an early beta basically most things are
working even banking apps are working so that's a big positive usually in previous versions iOS
15 iOS 16 early betas even all the way up to the release they just wouldn't work because
Apple changed so much it had to have an update through the App Store so that's working personal
voice actually is finally working for me it took some time I'll just show it to you really quick
we'll just hit this three times the power sleep wake button and then we'll go to live speech and
you can see we can type to speak so I can say go into my phrases and this is what it sounds like
well let's turn it up we'll do that one more time
with accessibility in iOS 17. so it sort of sounds like me but it's not a hundred percent
like me so that's something that's a little bit different that's took a few days and I found
that I actually had to charge either via magsafe from Apple or use the lightning connector then
it would process if I actually use the wireless qi charger it just wouldn't work maybe it just wanted
too much power there's still some bugs in iOS 17 of course as it's an early beta and a few things
in particular have been a little bit of a pain when I'm in messages sometimes the keyboard will
just overlay everything and I can't get rid of it other times it just disappears entirely so there's
still some issues here and there notifications is still an issue for whatever reason here if we
go up you'll see it just sort of jumps in there we go and I'm not sure why it keeps doing that
but there's definitely some issues there stickers still don't work for me properly if I try and set
my own sticker so if I go in and then we'll go to the new icon here I definitely think they're going
to update some of these icons they just don't look right but we'll go into stickers here add
a new sticker if we try and add a sticker from a wallpaper here let's see if it actually works
usually it just sits on this screen and doesn't go anywhere so it still seems to be broken for
me now Crossfade is apparently working for quite a few people in apple music but it just doesn't
work when you go into settings so if you go into settings you go down to music it crashes every
time I would expect this to be fixed with beta 2 I hope but going into music and playing songs they
will oftentimes Crossfade into one another also live wallpaper doesn't work for me although it's
working for some of you sometimes messages aren't going through or being received properly also some
of the accessibility features that are new don't seem to work particularly well sometimes they work
sometimes don't in particular the new one where we can do detection mode and actually detect things
such as maybe what we're pointing at you'll see it won't even turn on right now so there's some
issues with it sometimes it works sometimes it freezes up as you can see the image is frozen
so it's problematic they'll fix it it's early on so that's just something I wanted to mention
also some people have said that notes are getting deleted I haven't found this to be an issue for me
but some people are seeing their notes go away so that leads me to should you install this yet and I
know a lot of people are as the developer beta is now free if you sign up I would still wait for the
public beta it's way too early to install this on your main device unless you know that you can go
back using a computer so there's definitely some issues with it I would really hold off on this
the same is true also with iOS 16.6 beta 3 I'd probably just wait until the public version is
out as that should be fairly soon as far as iOS 16.6 beta 4 or release candidate I would expect
that either next week or it could be the following week we don't know what kind of cycle Apple's on
yet with that but as far as iOS 17 beta 2 we can probably expect that as soon as next week now last
year they released it on the 22nd of June beta 2 they released it on June 24th with iOS 15 beta 2.
so we could see it at the end of next week or for the following week we don't really know yet we'll
have to wait and see but hopefully it's sometime next week and we'll have more features and changes
and visual changes and more typically with those now as far as overall performance of this it's
been okay performance I don't think is really much of an issue other than things with stickers
and stuff not working with magnifier in general it seems to work okay the heat of the device is
manageable it's staying fairly cool and you can see with the thermal camera we're at about 89
degrees Fahrenheit so it usually hangs around 85 to 90. that's not very warm you'll see it just
went up a little bit but in general it's pretty good you'll see if we go back we're at 32.9 to 33
degrees Celsius so in general it's pretty good it's doing all right it doesn't feel very warm
and I think it's doing a good job managing the device itself however when we talk about battery
life that's been pretty terrible for me if we go into settings and we go down to battery battery
health and charging I'm down to 93 percent this is dropping faster than I've ever seen before because
battery life has been terrible and I've had to charge it so often I'm at 210 charge cycles as
you can see here as far as coconut battery says and I've never had a phone go below a hundred
percent until about late August at this point or mid-august usually it doesn't happen for me
I've had every single iPhone I've charged them all the exact same way when we got mag safe I
use a magsafe charger that's certified it's not a problem it manages the Heat and I've never had an
issue just with this phone and the only difference really is IOS 16 betas and iOS 17 have had a lot
of battery or bugs that way as far as the last 10 days here as far as battery life you'll see
I used almost 100 of my battery yesterday and only used three hours and nine minutes of screen active
time 7 hours and seven minutes of screen idle time today I've used three hours and 17 minutes
and used 50 into my battery so it does vary but I'm usually getting about three to five hours
of screen on time which is terrible for a 14 pro Max I'm also experiencing pretty poor battery life
on the iPad and if we bring in the iPad Pro again this is a 12.9 M2 if we go to battery I find that
I have to charge this quite a bit now so if we go over the last 10 days three hours and 50 minutes
today one hour and 14 minutes so maybe four hours total but I had to charge it since yesterday to
today so I'm seemingly having to charge it almost every day and getting about four hours max of
screen on time maybe five if I'm lucky again it's just not very good so hopefully they fix that
performance seems to be great but battery life being an early beta it's not too much of an issue
and I'm not too concerned about the battery I can always have them swap it and I'll get a new phone
just to review for the videos like this later on of course but it is a bit disappointing and if
again you're wondering if you should install the beta if you're worried about your battery health
I probably wouldn't it's not the beta it's just that the beta is using so much power that you'll
have to charge more often causing more cycles and causing that to come down now let's go ahead and
take a look at a few more of your comments there's not a whole lot more to say as we wait for beta 2.
Matt kalin's speed up song said iOS 17 beta 1 got more stable than even 16.5 I didn't expect that
Isaac's tech reviews said overall iOS 17 has been pretty stable and usable I downgraded back to iOS
16.5 after about a week of usage of IOS 17. as the battery life I was getting on iOS 17 it just
wasn't long enough for my needs I still have watch OS 10 downloaded though and it's great that guy
7608 said there are some bugs not as buggy as pass betas I've only rebooted my phone once this past
week but so far so good can't wait for this to be to hit the public so the public beta probably
will be out in July as Apple has said it could be a week before and so that's everything so far with
iOS 17 beta 1. it seems to be feature packed like I said and there's much more in it than
we realized very small changes but a lot of nice refinements and hopefully Apple's finally focusing
on stability let me know your experience and if you're going to try out the public
beta in the comments below and of course I'll link this wallpaper in the description like I
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