hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and today Apple released iOS 16.3 beta 2. this is available
to developers and soon to public beta testers public beta testers usually get it the same
day maybe by the time you're watching this video or the following day you should have it now this
particular update came in at 696.9 megabytes that's on my iPhone 14 pro Max and was about
500 to 700 megabytes on all the devices you see here now along with iOS 16.3 beta 2 Apple also
released iPad OS 16.3 beta 2 Mac OS 13.2 beta 2 watch OS 9.3 beta 2 TV OS 16.3 beta 2 and homepod
Os 16.3 beta 2. all of those are available now 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 as
you can see the build number is 20D 5035i and this could be the last beta before we have an
RC version or release candidate or there could be be a beta 3. we'll talk a little bit more
about that a little bit later but let's go ahead and talk about what's new now the first thing is
there is a modem update in beta 2 we bumped up to version 1.41.00 at least on the 14 pro Max
the modem numbers will vary depending on device and typically help with connectivity or just maybe
some bugs here and there but overall connectivity on beta 1 was actually quite good for me now as
far as new features if we go into our settings and then we go down to emergency SOS under emergency
SOS there's some changes here so if we take a look at beta 1 compared to Beta 2 Under the same thing
with beta 1 on the left and beta 2 on the right you can see some of the wording changes here it
says call withhold and release and then call with five button presses we now have a new option for
call quietly and it says if you start an emergency call using the gesture above warning alarms and
flashes will be silenced and then of course we have crash detection on this device since it's a
14 pro Max so some small changes there but there have updated that now the next thing is if we go
into music and we have a black wallpaper or a very dark wallpaper and maybe we press play on a song
swipe home you'll see the dynamic Island on the new beta with beta 2 it's barely there as far as
the outline they've changed this a little bit and you can see this more in some apps than others but
in general the overall outline is not as prominent as it is in some other versions of this so if we
go to the timer start a timer swipe home you'll see again the overall outline I'm not sure you can
see that here on camera but it's very faint on the latest beta yesterday announced within Apple maps
that major cities and those with the upgraded map detail have a new feature for parking so if you
look for a location and you need to find parking in this case Carnegie Hall go to more you'll see a
parking option tap on parking wait for it to come up and it's partnered with spot hero and then you
can book parking at Carnegie Hall starting today or pick a date and then it gives you the current
prices so that's built right into Maps if you're using Apple Maps but I'm not seeing it everywhere
such as my local city so it really depends on what city it is so far I've only seen it in the
major cities in the U.S such as New York City let me know if you have it in Europe and other cities
as well now with beta 1 we had a couple major features and that's under settings and then
your account and within password and security you can see you have the option to add security Keys
a physical security key provides a strong form of two-factor authentication if we add a key
such as this Fido security key that has NFC this is actually a Google Titan key you can actually
use it to sign into your account and this is a Fido certified security key which allows for
third-party Hardware that you can use to verify your identity when you sign in if you add the key
many people didn't know that I showed this in the first video so I just wanted to show it briefly
we'll tap continue and then you can actually use this key with this phone to add it as a security
key so we'll go ahead and tap continue wait for it and we'll put in our passcode and you'll see
it says insert and activate your first security key if you have a compatible NFC key bring it to
the top of the iPhone so I'll bring it up here and you'll see it edit it takes just a moment
and it says name your security key you'll need two keys in order to do this so it works pretty
seamlessly just bring it near once you need to sign in you'll need to bring it here or plug
it into the bottom of the phone if you have a lightning compatible security key within your
account and then your iCloud settings if you go down to private relay under private relay if it's
enabled and you go to turn it off on iOS 16.2 that I have on the left you have an additional option
to cancel it now with iOS 16.3 beta 1 and beta 2 you only have the option to turn it off until
tomorrow or turn off private relay altogether so from 16.2 to 16.3 beta 1 or beta 2 we have
one less option as far as additional updates and features well there just isn't a whole lot so far
that we found under accessibility within the code there's a bunch of different changes and there's a
lot of wording change throughout but not anything really significant yet other than that two-factor
authentication Fido security key along with the other update to emergency SOS that I showed today
so not any huge changes just yet hopefully we get some in the future pretty soon now as far
as bugs and updates here well so far it seems to be very very smooth I had lag sometimes in
the previous version it seems to be gone also the swipe homestudder is gone as well however that did
take a few weeks to return on the previous beta so I had a lot of stuttering and lag I'd have to
restart the device and that seemed to be the case with the 14 pro and pro Max for quite some time so
far this actually feels even smoother than before also the YouTube rotation bug seems to be a little
bit worse but that's up to YouTube they've changed that so if I play one of my videos and then rotate
you'll see it just sort of jumps now the animation is kind of gone and it jumps and then slides in
from the left so that's something hopefully they'll fix with an update but that's up to
you too the other major concern is with the camera of the 14 pro and 14 pro Max over processing the
image after it takes the image so let's test that really quickly although it does seem to take place
more in a dimly lit area but if we move these phones over we'll just take a picture here and
what I'll do is I'll put this on the screen in 16 9 and then we'll take a screenshot of what it
looks before I take the photo and let's see what it looks like processed after so there's the photo
and as you can see them side by side let me know what you think does it look over processed is a
little bit different or do you think it looks the same maybe they fixed it maybe they haven't but
they haven't said anything about it yet I did have someone comment that iPhone storage is taking up a
lot of system data now it could be processing some things in the background you'll see it's
taking up 49.94 gigabytes on my 14 pro Max that's almost double what it was before that's fine it's
cache data but this should drop over time and it's using it for different applications so
maybe Apple's doing something in the background we're not aware of yet but either way this did
take a long time to load and I thought I'd bring it up the other thing I wanted to mention is that
airpods seem to connect very quickly and switch between devices so of course they're not going
to connect super fast here because I have multiple devices but it connects quickly if I jump from my
iPhone to my iPad and back the actual switching happens very very quickly for me I noticed that
while using this I also noticed how quick promotion was as well it's just super smooth
everything seems to interact very quickly this time around no matter what you're opening it just
feels very smooth so they've made some changes there and I've seen others comment about that
already as far as the overall notes or release notes Apple has not given us any information
this time around you'll see it says there are no new release notes for this beta software update
I'd hoped they'd start to detail this more and more they started to do that with recent air
tag updates for some reason with the air tags they told us exactly what was going on I would
love to see them do that in beta updates as well not only to help us but to help developers also
now as far as the overall battery life battery seems to be pretty poor for me on the previous
beta I use this at CES in Las Vegas and the overall battery would get me through about
three quarters of the day with busy or heavy use checking it regularly my battery health is
99 and I've been using it full time so as you can see this was from last Friday at CES or Saturday
was a full day I had one hour and 55 minutes of screen active time one hour and 31 minutes of
screen idle time use the hotspot a little bit I had very good signal there and used about
75 percent of the battery the next day I used it for just under two hours and used about 45 or 40
percent of the battery with the first beta it was pretty poor so hopefully it increases as far as
the overall battery with beta 2 but we'll have to wait and see as far as overall heat the phone is a
little bit warm right now warmer than normal when I'm recording these videos and let me show you
that on the thermal camera for the those that are interested now with the thermal camera you can see
here at the hottest point it's about 32.7 I did see it bump up to 33 degrees Celsius in some spots
if we switch to Fahrenheit you'll see in that same area we're at about 93.1 degrees Fahrenheit so
it's a little bit warmer than it was in previous updates but nothing to be too concerned about as
I do think it is processing quite a bit in the background now that leads me to should you install
iOS 16.3 beta 2 and if you're on beta 1 definitely install this whether it be the developer beta or
the public beta make sure you find any issues and then if you do report them in feedback
otherwise I would install it if not if you're not on the betas I would probably wait until the next
release and so the next release could be iOS 16.2.1 Apple has not confirmed this yet but it
seems highly likely as we're probably a couple versions away from IOS 16.3 they could wait but
what they did last year was release it pretty much the same week so depending on the year over year
and what version it is they released it the same sort of week as the beta so we could see that
maybe as soon as tomorrow or Thursday then we'll see beta 3 probably next week or we could see a
release candidate last year Apple went beta 1 beta 2 and then jumped right to a release candidate and
then released iOS 15.3 on January 26th of last year so we could have it in the last full week
of January here on our phones around the world so that seems to make the most sense we could see it
in late January or early February so that seems to make a lot of sense there and for those of you
that are interested in benchmarks let's go ahead and take a look at that I actually ran those and
it's quite good at 1883 for single core 5352 for multi-core and compared to the previous versions
you'll see here where we have January 10th versus December 30th it's actually better on both single
core and multi-core by a few points or so so 1883 verse 1869 and 5352 first 5350 so it's pretty good
just a little bit of a bump there but no speed reduction and that's pretty good considering that
we just installed it and it's processing and a little bit warm if you found anything else
in iOS 16.3 beta 2 I'd love to hear from you in the comments below and of course be sure to
check back later this weekend for the follow-up where we talk about how battery's been and more
if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course it will be linked in the description as
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