hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and ios 16 public beta 2 and ios 16 beta 4 have been out for
a few days and there are even more features that have been discovered since the initial ios 16 beta
4 is out what's new video so i wanted to cover that we'll also talk about the overall experience
a little bit later bugs battery life and more and also talk about the youtube community poll
where you had a bunch of different comments with your experience as well we'll talk about those
toward the end of the video now the first thing is someone was posting on twitter that the iphone 6s
wallpaper had made a return in ios 16 beta 4. this is untrue and it is not in beta 4 or public beta
2. so i just wanted to clarify that some people were saying it was there it definitely is not
now nine to five mac found that an always-on display definitely seems like it's going to be
with iphone 14 or 14 pro the actual wallpapers such as the clownfish wallpaper you can see here
from their animation they actually were able to activate this and you'll see it sort of dims like
an always on display would they found that this is actually not just a static image anymore but
a multi-layer vector image so that's something they found it looks like it will be there for
the iphone 14 pro and pro max so we'll have to wait and see they definitely could bring it to
the iphone 13 series but they probably won't now if we go to the lock screen a new feature here is
if we press and hold to try and change the wallpaper you'll see it says unlock to edit
if it's not unlocked and we press and hold it will now ask you to unlock to edit we'll give
it a moment here it unlocks and we'll go back in one more time press and hold and it says unlock
to edit so that's just a new message that's there on the lock screen also in the lock screen if we
go back you'll see it says do not disturb you can now tap on the focus mode directly from the
lock screen and then go in and change the focus directly so that's something that's new you can't
do that in beta 3. so they finally made that tappable now within those focus modes if we go
into one to edit it there's some changes there as well so we'll go into the mindfulness focus
we'll go to the same thing on the iphone 11 go into focus mode with beta 3 on it
under mindfulness you'll see it has customized screens and you can customize your watch from
here i didn't show that in previous versions but you'll see mindfulness has add schedule instead of
add automation now now in the initial what's new video i showed you how there's new icons for count
stack and list within notifications explaining how they should look now when you have this on
count mode it'll actually show a little bit different next to do not disturb it will actually
show underneath it with the number instead of next to it so it makes it a little bit easier to read
within wallpaper if you've deleted most of your different lock screens and we go to delete this
one you'll see we don't have a focus here but we have a focus on the one we're currently using
for do not disturb if i go to delete the one without a focus we get a message that says this
lock screen can't be deleted now this is actually in previous betas as well but i just noticed it
recently and you'll see it says you need a default lock screen that's not linked to a focus to delete
this one create a new lock screen and finally the last thing in wallpapers apple is focusing a lot
on wallpaper and the lock screen you'll see under weather in astronomy and beta 3 part of the moon
was missing in beta 4 it looks to be fixed and if we go in there's more detail and it changes
throughout the day the same is true with the earth here there's more detail as well so it looks like
it's a little bit better with the earth detail and just the different versions it looks a little
more high resolution the same is true with the moon also when you go into messages there's some
changes as well within messages if you're within a group text and we go into the keyboard and then
we type someone's name here there's actually their little picture next to it here in the suggestions
now so you can use that and just type their name and it just lets you better know who that is
so again if i type the word zac or zac's name you'll see his little icon shows up there as well
also if we go to leave a voice message and maybe we just type some text in here and then we want
to leave a little voice message it actually gives us a new message saying to record an audio message
clear type text and this is actually new it said something different before where they've updated
it if we go into settings tap on our name at the top and then go into our family settings and
within our family settings you can see on the left with beta 3 the colors are changed with beta 4.
family checklist went from orange to purple subscriptions went from a reddish pink to more of
a teal blue and purchase sharing went from more of a blue to more of a green or seafoam green color
location sharing has a different shade of blue as well within the os there's a new font in the
code thanks to steve moser for sending this along he also posted this later on twitter
but you can see here it says there's a new stix font added to ios 16 beta 4. so sticks general
where it appears throughout the os is hard to say but it's in the os code at least also to go
along with fonts they've updated more in books so if we go into books go to our settings here
under settings go to themes and settings then tap on options under options go to fonts under fonts
we have a bunch of new fonts there's not a ton of them but you can see them here side by side so if
we go to themes and settings on beta 3 you'll see here there is avenir next that's a new one
there's also canelo hopefully i'm saying these properly and as we go down you'll see more and
more so we have proxima nova is a new one public oh and maybe a couple more so there's
a few different fonts throughout books that may help if you want to use this one bad thing though
is books no longer has the page turned still they haven't brought that back you just scroll before
you could turn from left to right like a real book under settings again if we go down to display in
brightness scroll to the bottom under display zoom they've made a small change here so from beta 3 to
beta 4 it used to say standard now it says default so maybe that has to do with future versions on
different phones with different sizes or ipads or more but now it says default instead of standard
within the tv app there's a small change if we go to our account in the upper right within the
tv app and once you're in your account settings at the bottom it says sync my sports it says sports
leagues teams and athletes you follow will sync across apple news apple tv and other apple apps
so it's a new option if you want to turn that on also within tv if you're watching a live game such
as a live baseball game and if you watch it in a windowed mode there's now play-by-play so that's
actually showing live now where it's actually showing the play-by-play written out in text
as to what they've done now in beta 4 i had a user send in that when they activated low power mode it
would actually switch to a different version of 5g right now it says 5g it switches to 5ge so
you can see that there and it just is a small switch and also if you're using dual sims you
may see additional icons below the battery also so those two things seem to have changed in beta
4. if you're seeing this i'd love to hear from you in the comments below also when setting up
your iphone again thanks to matt for sending this one in you'll see it now says transfer from nearby
iphone and use a qr code it also used to have the option to convert to esim that seems to have been
removed this time around when you're setting it up so again small changes that apple is making here
and there now the first time i went into weather i got a new splash screen that says announcing
severe weather alerts be notified when a severe weather alert has been issued near you and so if
we go into weather and give it just a moment to load tap on the bottom right menu option and then
in the upper right we have some options here for notifications now we've had these before sometimes
they would turn on or wouldn't turn on but you'll see here i can't turn on these buttons severe
weather or next hour precipitation those should be working now but i have to have this always
allowed in my settings so if we go into settings we need to switch it to always allow for location
then we can turn on severe weather and next hour precipitation alerts so this is updated in beta 3.
some of this was in beta 4 but now we've got that splash screen to go along with it now within beta
4 some of the drop shadows on the home screen appear to be much shallower much better to look
at not quite as deep and in some cases with beta 3 and earlier versions they would be much much
deeper now they're still there in some cases but they don't seem to be as severe with beta 4 so
it's minor but something to note and also the first time you go into your spotlight search
you get a new dialog that pops up it says you can search the web your contacts nearby locations and
see personalized suggestions as you type you can adjust this in settings you can learn more
and hit continue once you tap on continue you can just go in and search and search overall
seems to be a little bit better some people are actually seeing a little arrow in the upper right
where it's showing that it's a link to something else i'm actually not seeing that but some people
are but the overall sort of results in general seem to be much better news photos from apps
and more so much much better results it seems to be getting better as the betas progress if we go
into notes and we press and hold on something that we've typed and we scroll to the right we can now
search web again before we didn't have the option to search web so that's actually something that's
been there for a while it was removed and now it's backed so you can actually see here with beta 3
it's just not there now we have search web again they've updated the health app so if we go into
health we go to medications they've changed this a little bit so under about medications some of the
graphics are a little bit different that's not anything huge but there's some nice changes for
medication so you'll see the graphics on beta 3 versus beta 4. if we add a medication maybe
we'll search for one here and you'll see here it says possible matches instead of top matches
there's less information but if we scroll all the way to the bottom we can also add that medication
if it wasn't already listed and if we tap on the medication you can choose the medication type
and then you also have a show more option now so maybe it's not listed you want to change it to
foam gel or inhaler you could do that but we'll just tap on tablet for now tap on next we can
also add a custom medication strength and so we'll go ahead and just select one here easily tap next
we also have the time of day so when will you take this we'll just add one tap next then we have our
different pill options or shapes they've updated some of those as well as far as the graphics tap
next tap next again and you'll see we also have a skip option now where we didn't before and then we
can change some of the different things here we'll just continue and you'll see it looks basically
the same once you're done but you don't have the export option next to it as well so there's slight
changes all throughout here and it's nice that they've actually added all of this information
they continue to refine it and again that graphic is changed here get more from your health
and more so you also can export down at the bottom instead of up at the top also to go along with
health if we go into settings go to general and then iphone storage under iphone storage there's
a new health section with additional data so if we go under health it's easier to just search for it
go under health wait for it to load just a moment now it took a moment to load a minute or two
and it was a little bit buggy i had to open the health app with the link at the bottom
in order for this to work but you can see the different data types and the storage they're using
from active energy walking and running distance steps resting energy heart rate stand minutes
exercise minutes flights climbed environmental sound levels and walking speed also data sources
and it tells you where it's coming from different watches although i'm only actively using one
if we go into the music app and we're playing some music maybe we selected a device whether that be
homepod or airpods you'll see i have my homepod mini selected on beta3 the icon is blue instead
of white so it's a small change i think i actually like that it's blue to signify where it's actually
sending the music to whether that be a homepod airpods airpods pro or anything else additionally
found within the code is additional customization for the xbox elite 2 controller so if you use that
and you hit use some of the different buttons you'll have more customization also there's code
changes and thanks to my friend steve mosher he sends these to me but then also post them
on twitter and as you can see here as we scroll through eyesight prescription text changes lots
of things like that where you can either enter the details or upload an image of your prescription
some of these things i mentioned earlier that i found myself as well and many many more wording
changes so to prevent collection of pins apple will block pin entry if a different app is using
the microphone during tap to pay on iphone some nice security updates there's also text changes
with a personalized spatial audio instruction hold the iphone 10 to 20 inches from your ear
hold the iphone 20 to 50 centimeters from your ear and slight changes to different
images to the different things and medications i mentioned before some things he found finds
as well and i've mentioned in different videos also but report spam home invitations to apple
this was also in 15.6 but it looks like it's in 16 beta 4 as well so it's really nice to follow
along here if you haven't already i highly recommend following him if you're interested
in all the little code changes everywhere throughout under battery settings there's a
small change also so if we go into battery give it just a moment i'm still at 100 battery health here
and you'll see over the day here it actually tells you when it pauses during the night so we've
had these little bars before but they'll give more detail depending on what day you're on so
sometimes it shows that sometimes it doesn't but depending on if it pauses at night at 80 percent
it will let you know and you'll see it says last charge to 80 at 3 pm today so it actually was on
the charger in my car a little bit and at home but you'll see for the most part it's okay but battery
life is improving a bit some people say it's quite good but i've had 3 hours and 49 minutes
of screen on time 2 hours and 53 minutes of screen off time and used about 50 percent of my battery
some people are having different experiences where it's much better but my battery health overall is
at 100 percent and i'll post my numbers here as far as the overall cycles off of coconut battery
it's a free app for the mac but it is not in the app store so many of you have asked me about that
now as far as the overall performance no issues there whatsoever other than the storage loading
and it seems to be pretty good whether that be loading an app going into music i haven't had
music crash some people have but it has been getting a little bit warm specifically when i
was actually checking the health app so where i was checking settings health and storage it
was getting quite hot earlier and let me show you the heat itself now as you can see with the clear
thermal camera it's about 96 degrees fahrenheit so it is getting a bit warm and then over here
on the iphone 11 you can see that on the screen as well if i flip the iphone 11 over you can see
it does get a bit warm just sitting here but that's typical ambient temperature it's about
75 degrees fahrenheit here and the phone is getting a bit warm much warmer when going into
storage than doing anything else though but i thought i'd show you with this thermal camera
as far as bugs and the overall experience it's been pretty good but there are some bugs in it
in fact changing the wallpaper a few times before this video it actually re-sprung or resprings
and crashed entirely i've had that happen there's also a bug you can duplicate by going into your
settings and if you go down to mail under mail you'll see here it says ask before deleting under
the messages section if i flip that switch it will crash every single time it will actually
change the status of it but it will crash every time you turn that on so if you go to ask before
deleting you'll see it's on again turn it off and it crashes settings every time so there's
definitely some odd bugs also there's some bugs i experienced when touching the screen to wake
it up it just wouldn't do anything it would turn on and then immediately go dark then i'd touch
it again and it would work so that's something that seems to be a problem sometimes and there's
odd touch bugs from time to time as well also a couple people mentioned that when they updated the
public beta 2 it failed and went into recovery mode they had to use a computer to update so
that's something we haven't seen with previous betas for quite a while three people so far i know
have had that issue probably more as far as ios 16 beta 5 and public beta 3 probably we're on a
weekly cycle which means we could have it tuesday or wednesday of next week that's typically what
apple does every time this time of the year where we'll go to a weekly cycle after beta 4 we'll go
to beta 5 6 7 maybe 8 then a release candidate and then we'll have a final release sometime
in mid-september typically that's what they do we could still be on a bi-weekly schedule so
it could be a couple weeks but typically it's weekly at this point also we're still waiting
for possibly ios 15.7 betas or even in ios 15.6.1 apple stopped signing ios 15.5 earlier this week
which means you can no longer downgrade to it when they do that usually within a few weeks we'll have
a public release again so we could see a 15.6.1 or 15.7 betas or maybe they'll just hold off and wait
until ios 16. but either way i think we'll see some sort of release to fix minor bugs sometime in
between but again everything will switch over in mid-september now let's take a look at the youtube
community poll and just a few of your comments manuel said i want to share that i've noticed that
my ipad pro consumes about 15 of my battery per day sitting idle even if it's switched off today
i found out why it's the apple pencil must have it always in a case and not attached to the ipad
i personally haven't found that to really cause a difference but i know some people have mentioned
it but i'd be curious to see if you tried it again after a hard reboot if that actually changes
anything j street says it's okay on my iphone 10 i'm using public beta 4 or beta 4. the volume lags
a little bit when turning up or down otherwise it's pretty smooth i did forget to mention that
some people do say the volume lags a little bit when you're changing it cno said i'm on developer
beta 4 for ios 16 has been fantastic beyond the two ui issues slash glitches with the lock screen
batteries so good that i managed to achieve five and a half hours on the iphone se 2020 so there's
definitely some issues still with beta 4 if you're having issues be sure to report those in feedback
as apple uses that to correct it but this had the most bug fixes of any beta so far and so tons of
things have been resolved there's still a ways to go though so i would expect hopefully that
beta next week of course if you found anything else i'd love to hear from you in the comments
below and if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper i'll link it in the description
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