What's up guys.
My name is Brandon and today apple released iOS 15 beta five to registered
developers.
About two weeks after the release of the fourth developer beta and for public
beta testers, you should be seeing beta five within the next 24 hours.
And I will keep you posted over on Twitter when that does get released. Now,
in addition to this iOS release, we also got iPad at Wes 15 beta five,
and TBOs 15 beta five. We did not yet get, watch west eight,
beta five or Mac west Monterey beta five,
but we should be seeing both of those very soon.
And they may very well be out by the time you're watching this video.
But anyways, of course, in this video,
we're talking all about iOS and iPad at west 15,
made a five and what's new and the software.
So let's go ahead and start off with the size of this update.
So you can see here on my iPhone at 12 pro max,
the update came in at 1.05 gigabytes, and this is coming from a beta four.
So it does depend on the version you're coming from.
And of course the device you are installing this on,
but it should be around one gigabyte. So let's go and check out the bill number.
If we go into our settings, let's go to general about 15. You can see there.
The new bill number is 19 a 5, 3 1 8 F.
So we do have an F at the end of the bill number,
which indicates we do still have quite a few bits to go as expected.
And if we go down to the modem firmware,
you can see that has also been updated to 2.0 9.205.
So if you were having issues related to the modem,
those could be solved in this update.
It's always nice to get those modem firmware updates. So anyways,
what's new here in this fifth beta and the first thing is actually an app
icon change. So I'm going to go ahead and bring over beta four.
This is going to be beta for throughout the video on my left beta five
throughout the video is going to be on my right.
So we're going to take a look at the weather icon. So take a look at that.
We have a slight change to the weather icon here in beta five.
So in beta four, you can see that's what it looked like. And now in beta five,
here's what it looks like. So it's a little bit darker,
a little bit different overall,
but it's kind of hard to tell unless you have them side by side,
but there is a slight change there to the weather icon.
We also have some changes inside of the control center.
So first off you could see that the camera icon has been changed to match the
rest of iOS 15. So before it had the shutter icon on the left hand side,
right there, you could see the shutter icon,
but now as removed and in beta four, they removed it from the lock screen.
They updated the icon and the lock screen. And now here in beta five,
they've updated it inside of the control center with the toggle right there.
And then also right here for sound recognition.
So you can see right next to the music recognition that the sound recognition
that was the old icon. This is the new icon here and beta five.
I liked that a lot better. Also down here,
you could see that for announced notifications. We have a new icon as well.
So this was the old announced notifications icon down here in the bottom rights.
And now in beta five, that is the new announced notifications icon.
So apple made quite a few changes to the control center,
glyph icons here in beta five. And I like each and every one of them.
We also have a change when we go to turn off our iPhone,
I'm going to go ahead and turn off both.
I-phones here on beta four and beta five,
and you will instantly see the difference.
So right there under slide to power off, you could see,
we have a new little text down there that says I phone find-able after power
off. So before this is something we saw as we turn the phone off,
like as it was already turning off and would just kind of show it at the bottom,
but now in beta five, it shows it before you even turn the phone off,
which I think makes a lot more sense that way somebody actually knows it's going
to be find-able after you powered off,
besides just showing them as the phone's already turning off and they can't do
anything about it. So I like that little change here and beta five.
We also have a minor change to the safari application on iOS.
And we also have a separate change on iPad at west,
which I'll show you here in a moment,
but the small change on iOS 15 beta five is actually in the address bar.
So as you guys know with the new address bar in iOS 15, it just,
when you scroll down,
it just collapses and get smaller and kind of blends into the bottom of the
screen. Well, now in beta five,
you will notice that the reload or the refresh icon is no longer down there
until you expand that address bar to the view like that.
So when you're scrolling,
you will see that the address or that the refresh icon is no longer down there,
which I like, because in beta four,
there would be times where I would accidentally tap on that when I'm just trying
to get into the address bar there to type in a new website or something.
So I like that small change here and beta five and on iPad at west 15,
we had a five, you could see a slight difference to safari.
Just the overall look of it looks a little bit different here in beta five when
we have the classic tab view. So you can see up top how it looks like that.
Here's what it looked like in beta four. So you could see beta four,
just take a look up top.
This is a screenshot I took right before installing beta five.
Here's beta five beta for beta five.
So just a slight difference to the whole top section of safari here in beta
five. And while we have the iPad right here, we do also have another change.
I wanted to show you guys.
So if you go to your settings and then go to home screen and doc, you can see,
we have a new toggle here for use large icons.
And when you tap on that and you go back to the home screen,
you can see of course that the icons are very large.
So if you have bad vision or, you know,
for whatever reason he wants to use large icons,
you now can do that on the home screen. Uh,
so now going back to iOS 15 at beta five,
if we go into our settings down here and then go to notifications and then go to
scheduled summary right here,
you will see that we have a slight change right here.
So first off you no longer have to take the extra step to tap on apps in summary
for it to show up. And now shows up right here on the main screen.
And then we also have show next summary. That's a new toggle right here.
And it says show the next summary and notification center before the scheduled
time. So you could turn that on or off right there as well, and made a five,
whereas that did not exist here. And a beta four. Also,
if we go into our focus settings right here,
and then we go into an actual focus, so I'll just go to a video,
you will see a difference right away. So up top,
we now have a kill switch for that focus mode. So recording a video,
we now have the on and off switch to turn on or off right there,
whereas before it would just show it, when you tap on this,
it just takes you to where you can edit the little glyph icon and the color.
Well, now there's a new section here in beta five that is name and appearance.
So it's more obvious that you can change that now and beta five without having
to click through here and then change it. So when you go here,
you get the same sub menu.
We also have some very interesting changes inside of the Syrian search settings.
So if we go down, it used to just show series suggestions right here,
but now it looks like that's been changed up a little bit,
and I'm still trying to figure out exactly what this is big.
See that now it shows contents from apple.
So it says show and look up and show in spotlights. And it says,
applicant show content when looking up texts or objects and photos,
or when searching. So that is new.
And then also suggestions from apple and set of, I guess, series suggestions.
So now it says,
allow notifications show an app library and spotlight show in sharing and show
in listening. And it says,
applicant makes suggestions and apps on home screen or unlock screen,
or when sharing, searching, or using lookup and keyboard.
So those are all new toggles here inside of these settings and
Syrian search. So pretty interesting changes there. And then lastly,
inside of our settings, if it go to iCloud and then to iCloud storage,
you can see that the app icons right here on the left-hand side have been
reverted back to their normal size. So in beta four,
they were a little bit smaller, but now in beta five,
it's back to being their normal size.
Now we also have multiple new splash screens here in beta five.
So you can see this is the new one for photos.
So it shows shared with you memories and richer info.
When of course these new splash screens,
basically just tell you what's new and the update for the specific application.
So that is the new splash screen for photos.
We also have one here for maps that shows interactive globe. So it says,
discover the natural beauty of the earth with a stunning new interactive globe,
which is of course, when you zoom all the way out,
we have all new city experience and immersive walking directions.
Then we have this one for home and it says home key.
So tap to unlock the front door with your iPhone or apple watch.
So that is a new feature.
And I'm not sure if that's been added with this update or if it's just in the
splash screen, but it does show home keys right there,
Siri enabled accessories and home kits, secure video.
And then we also have one for podcasts.
This basically just says they shared with you feature in iOS 15.
That's really all it shows here and at the splash screen.
And then we also have one at four translate right here. So it says conversation,
views auto translate and system-wide translation.
So just showing off the new translate features here in iOS 15.
So all of those are new splash screens here in iOS 15 beta five.
So those are all of the new features and changes.
I've found so far here in beta five after having this installed for about an
hour and a half. So if you guys want to see even more new features and changes,
which I'm sure I will discover over next few days,
make sure you stay tuned to my followup video,
which will be released on Saturday. Like I do every single Saturday,
but anyways, let's move on to the bug fixes.
So this is something that apple didn't really mention too much about in the
release notes.
Apple usually mentions the bug fixes in these release notes because see here
that did push out the beta five release notes, but it doesn't really show much.
Basically it just shows, you know, one bug that was resolved,
but it shows in beta four, it was resolved.
So I'm not too sure if there are really any bug fixes in this fifth beta,
because nothing has really shown it really just shows a lot of known issues.
So I'm sure there are bug fixes,
but the release notes don't really tell us too much.
So I'm hoping that the safari bug that some people are still having,
when you close out a multiple tabs at the same time,
it crashes safari that was fixed for me and beta four,
but some people said it was still there for them on beta four.
So hopefully in beta five that is fixed.
And then also issues with private relay have been fixed for me on beta four.
But again, some people also said they're still having that on beta four.
So I'm hoping that those two bugs are fixed and maybe some more,
as well as a spotlight search. You know,
that bug still never came back after that was fixed and beta four for me,
hopefully that does not return either.
But as far as overall bug fix is apple really doesn't mention too much.
So it appears that we may have to wait for beta six to see some real bug fixes
and stability updates. And as far as bugs go,
I have had a few bugs and beta four. And after reading those release notes,
I would not expect those to be fixed here. And beta five,
number one is going to be for the notification sounds.
So those are still off for me.
Like what's Snapchat sometimes I'll just get the default sound instead of the
unique Snapchat sound and people are having that as well. For things like ESPN,
I've also had issues with Twitter crashing a lot.
Now I know that's partly due to the developer and you know,
it's their application. They should update it. So it doesn't crash,
but it seems like even after all the updates, Twitter is still crashing.
So hopefully we see a fix for that pretty soon.
And then also banking applications are still not working properly.
I did test this out and my face ID is still not working properly here and made a
five for my specific banking application.
So I'm assuming that those were also going to have to wait and see,
and also have to wait until probably close to the final or maybe even the final
release of iOS 15 for banking apps to kind of perform as they should. Now,
as far as the performance goes, performance feels excellent here on beta five.
So the performance on beta four is pretty good overall,
and I was expecting better five to improve on that even more and so far,
it just feels a lot better. I mean, I don't know what it is,
but everything feels much better here on beta five.
It's definitely the best feeling beta so far as it should be,
but this was also backed up by the great geek bench scores I got.
So I ran a geek bench shortly after installing this and take a look at the
score, some really solid scores here on this fifth beta.
So we've got a 1606 on the single core and a 41 29 on the multi-core.
And just for comparison, this is what we got on beta four.
So we got a 1599 versus a 1606 and a 41 15
versus now a 41 29.
So some really good results here on beta five and the geek bench test.
And I know that doesn't really tell you too much, but overall, like I said,
it just feels a little bit faster and smoother. You're on the fifth beta.
So I'm hoping that continues to get better because it feels really good and
pretty much on par with iOS 14 right now.
But one thing that is not on par with the iOS 14 is the battery life.
So battery life on beta four was pretty bad for me on every device.
So I'm hoping that beta five gets better,
but it might realistically just not happen until the final few betas,
which could still be weeks away. However,
now that I'm taking a look at my battery life here,
I've been recording this video for about 30 minutes now,
and I still have 100% battery remaining.
So we could actually see better battery life here in beta five,
because I don't remember my battery life being that good, you know,
for 30 minutes using my phone non-stop for it not to go down a single percent.
I don't remember that happening on beta four.
So we could actually see better battery life here on beta five,
just from my overall first impressions.
It seems like battery life might be improved. So again,
stay tuned as usual for my followup video, which is coming on Saturday.
Like it does every single Saturday.
And I will let you guys know if that good battery life persists and stays good,
especially on my 12th pro where I make phone calls and do all that.
So that'll be interesting to see. All right, so now what is next for apple?
So we've been on a, two-week bid a cycle for iOS 15 ever since the first beta,
but now it's usually when apple switches over to a weekly release schedule.
So it could very well be seeing beta six next week,
like maybe on the 17th. And then if that does happen,
we should see a beta every week. So the 17th to 24th, you know,
the 31st, the seventh, all that, you know,
of course it could be a day or two off, but it could even skip a week sometimes,
but from here on out,
it could very well be switching over to a weekly release schedule.
So anywhere between seven to 10 days, we could see a new iOS,
15 beta leading up to the final release of iOS 15,
which is now almost a month away. It's crazy how fast this year is flying by,
but we should see iOS at teen sometime in mid September. If I had to guess,
I don't think it's going to be late September.
I think it's going to be mid September this year,
but we'll have to wait and see on that.
Of course it does depend on when apple is going to unveil the new iPhones as
well. But of course, when we do switch over to a weekly release schedule,
that's usually when we start to see a lot of enhancements to the performance and
the battery life. And we start to get a little bit less of, you know,
new features and changes because Apple's, you know,
saving those for like the 0.1 release.
So we started seeing a lot more battery life improvements and things like that.
So that's what we should be expecting from beta six through beta,
whatever we ended up going to 10, you know, who knows? So anyways,
that is what it's looking like so far for iOS 15.
Of course I will keep you guys updated on the iOS of team beta schedule over on
Twitter. So if you're not following me over there,
make sure you go ahead and follow me.
I'm just at Brandon Bush over there on Twitter. But anyways guys, there,
you have it. That is IUs 15 beta five.
Let me know what you guys think about the software down in the comments below.
Let me know how it's been running for you. Of course,
return to this video and a few days as well.
And let me know in a comment how it's been running for you,
if it's fix any bugs, how the performance, how the battery life is,
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