hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and iOS 16 beta 3 and iOS 15.6 beta 5 have been out for a
few days and we're going to talk about the overall experience but first let's talk about new features
found in iOS 16 as there's quite a few new ones and we'll go over that then later we'll talk
about the overall experience of both of the betas and then also we'll talk about when to expect iOS
16's public beta and iOS 15.6 is public release but first let's talk about what's new the first
thing has to do with even if you're on iOS 15.5 or any of these betas in maps you'll start to see
some updated maps in New Zealand Monaco and France so in major cities you'll start to see the updated
experience like we have in big cities such as New York City San Francisco and other places I wasn't
able to see this yet in New Zealand but you may be starting to see this and even iOS 15.5 where
you'll have additional building detail new updates with maybe look around and much more now as far as
new features in 16 beta 3 there's over 20 of them and the first one has to do with the home screen
if we press and hold or haptic press the animation is a little bit different it resembles what we had
with 3D touch so if I do the same thing on beta 2 we'll press and hold on the App Store here
it just sort of bounces out on beta 3 it's a little bit slower and looks more like a
3D touch it's very slight but definitely different as you press and hold on an icon so it's something
they've updated I would love to have a pressure sensitive screen back with 3D touch but I don't
think we're going to have that if we go into our wallpapers there's some new changes there so if
we go in maybe add a new one we'll wait for it to load here it takes a second sometimes and if
we go into the astronomy wallpaper and then just go to Earth they've actually centered Earth this
time around and as you can see with beta 2 on the left beta 3 on the right the Earth is now more
centrally located on the lock screen or the home screen so it now covers up the area where there's
bottom widgets where it didn't before small updates but it's something a little bit new also
I talked about in the initial what's new video a new clownfish wallpaper and it finally showed up
the day after installing this it actually took a day I tried to restart it didn't show but if we go
into our wallpaper scroll all the way down scroll to the right we have the new clownfish wallpaper
this is a remake of an original wallpaper on the first iPhone so you can see here it's sort of 3D
depth depth mapped and it looks really good this was not one that I actually ever used but it's
available now if you want to use it and if you're not seeing it try rebooting and I just put it on
the charger woke up in the morning and it was there so it may show up it may not when you're
adding a widget to the home screen you can see we have different options and if we go into some of
them they've rearranged the order of many of them so from symbols on beta 2 to watch list on beta 3
and you'll see it's just sort of the other way around on beta 3. this is true when we go into
different things such as weather and others also so some of the options are a little bit different
as far as their overall order for some reason so Apple may continue to update this so Fitness here
you'll see some of them are identical others are not so summary climate and you'll see again it's
in a different order if you're playing music in the music app so we'll just press play go into
Spotlight search it might take a moment we'll try it again and you'll see now it says now playing
sometimes this shows up and it's showing the actual artist that's playing right now in the
music app you can tap on this for more information about that artist so it's something a little bit
new and sometimes it shows up sometimes it doesn't like I showed you there but it's something new and
thanks to Dakota for pointing that out also when you're playing music if you go into the control
center tap on the music that's playing if you press on the album or the title it actually
has a pressed state but it doesn't really do anything but bring you back so it actually
shows that you're pressing something where it didn't do that before if we go into settings go
to our notifications scroll all the way to the bottom you'll see there's now test alerts this
is something new in beta 3 that we don't have in beta 2. it's just test alerts if you want to
hear those you can turn it on or leave it off when you're using Siri on your phone but you're using
it with the word hey in front of it to activate it now has a new sound it sounds very similar to what
we have with dictation so if I go into Safari activate dictation you can hear the sound here
the same is true when you're using carplay so if we go into carplay when you're in apple carplay
the Siri sound is different as well so I'll go ahead and press on the home button here
you can hear again
so it's a slightly updated sound if we go into settings go down to accessibility under
accessibility scroll down to live captions if you look at the live captions icon it's actually a new
icon it's been changed a little bit from beta 2 to Beta 3 and there's also additional options
for live captions so you'll see if we go under appearance under appearance we now have bold text
and text size along with idle opacity so this is a small change but something they've updated and
then also when you activate live captions so we'll turn it on here you can see it now says listening
instead of waiting we have the same controls and everything where we can sort of minimize this
off to the side but we now have it just saying listening instead of waiting additionally under
accessibility if we go under Touch under touch go to Assistive Touch then go to customize top level
menu under top level menu there's now a new option for continuous scroll so if you add an icon tap on
the icon scroll down down and keep going until you get to scroll gestures and you'll see continuous
scroll that's new it wasn't there before again in settings if we scroll down to Safari under Safari
scroll down you'll see we have tabs here this is a pretty minor change and it's easier to see if I
turn light mode back on so we'll turn that back on on the beta 3 device and you'll see where it says
tab bar and single bar the colors are a little bit different where tab bar is outlined and single tab
is just black and white or gray on beta 3. in the books app they've updated this again and
before they actually got rid of turning Pages where you could just turn the page it sort of
slides but it's not the same page turn hopefully they bring that back now we have a little X in the
upper right where we can actually close out of the book and then down at the bottom if we tap on the
options here on beta 3 we can now scroll so we can scroll through everything and it's just an easy
way to see all of the different contents without tapping on contents so it's a small change but
something thing that's a little bit different in beta 3. now I mentioned in the initial what's new
video that Apple added the shared photo library now I have it turned on and if we go into the
camera there's some new options so you'll see here there's a little icon with some people here so if
we want to take a photo it will automatically share to the shared photo library just turn on
the toggle and it says shared Library turn it off and you can leave it off and just share what you
want individually the same is true when you go into your photos so if we go into photos here's
the wallpaper from today and I actually took this picture and you'll see here in the upper right if
we tap on the three dots we now have the option to move to Shared Library so that's something a
little bit new where you have that option if you want to move them individually you can choose
to share all of them or just some of them also if we have a bunch of duplicate photos there's
something new there as well so you'll see we have some duplicates they're a little bit different as
far as the photos but we'll tap on merge and then we'll merge these two duplicates we'll merge both
and there's a little animation change let me show you that one more time
we'll merge these and you'll see there's a little animation at the bottom on beta
3. it's a small update but something they've changed within Fitness plus if you're using
that on the fitness app there's some new awards that have been added with iOS 16 so
they Continue to update these so they may look a little bit different than iOS 15.
so that's a small change that may have been there in previous betas but it's updated now
also within the watch app I noticed family watches showing up I didn't see this before before I had
to go into all watches and they were there if you've seen this I'd love to hear from you in
the comments below if you're watching a video on your iPhone with the photos app you can see the
media controls are now on the upper left this is a little bit different than before where beta 2
there in the top right so they've just changed them around and then sort of split them where
they've kept edit on the right and then some of the controls on the left with beta 3. now if you
have a cellular data plan and you're using a physical Sim there's now an option to convert
to esim you could set it up as an esim before but now you'll see convert to esim I thought
I saw this on a previous beta but it looks like it's new in beta 3 and showing up all the time
and thanks to Matt for sending this in if you're using stage manager on an iPad that supports it
and maybe you go into Safari if you have an app on here that's meant for an iPhone such as Instagram
that will now run in its own windows so you'll see I can drag that on top of another window such as
Safari and I have access to Instagram I can scroll through it just like it was an iPhone app but on
the iPad in its own window you can't really resize it much you could bring It full screen but you're
not allowed to really change much of it but this works for any app that's only meant for iPhone so
it's great to see this update so again if we want to bring this back we can just drag it over to the
side and then use stage manager like normal also if we want to close a window command W now works
we can just close windows like we can on the Mac so they've added that shortcut which is nice also
when you're connected to an external monitor the monitor now has squared off edges where sometimes
before it was more of a rounded Corner this is something they've updated with beta 3 and looks
to be performing like you would expect on a normal monitor so before it would be just a rounded
Corner although it's a little buggy where it will sort of Flash from a rounded corner to a squared
off corner I expect this will be fixed later on on Apple watch with watch OS 9 beta 3 there's a small
animation change when you're clearing water from the speaker so if we tap on the little water drop
here press and hold the digital Crown you can see the animation is different so it says keep holding
and you'll see there's little Bubbles and more and thanks to Brom from techrender for pointing
this out so not a ton of changes with watch OS but that's probably the major thing there
now as far as the overall experience of iOS 16 beta 3 I've heard everything from it being very
good to it still being incredibly buggy for me iMessage continues to have an issue with group
conversations where they sometimes completely lose their text box and I can't enter it then sometimes
it comes back so if I go into messages you can see at the bottom there's no way to actually
input text so my brother was actually building a PC reinstalling Windows and it's just not working
properly so as you can see I can't enter text other than that sometimes setting wallpapers is
still a little bit buggy where if you go into the lock screen and try and set a wallpaper sometimes
it just doesn't work properly or it completely blinks out so if we cancel this sometimes go
back to a different one go to customize sometimes the home screen wallpaper will just be completely
black and it doesn't work properly so that's something I've seen over and over that continues
to come back I'm sure they'll fix this by the time it's released also additionally people are saying
that some apps are still crashing banking apps aren't working and the iPhone is getting pretty
warm sometimes when processing if you're using accessibility features such as voice dictation
and things like that or just having the overall live captions beta the processor will get quite
warm and it will heat up that's pretty normal for when you're using accessibility features
that use a lot of processing power but in general it definitely is a little bit warmer than you can
normally expect when you're using it that again will be resolved by the time it's released to
the public as far as iOS 15.6 beta 5 that actually seems to be very very solid and stable most people
say it's the best version of iOS 15 and it should be there's very few issue issues and it definitely
has pretty good battery life according to many people where it's easily getting people through
the day without a a problem so I would expect that to be very solid as far as iOS 16 well it's a beta
and an early beta and the battery life for me has not been great just today I'm down to 67
percent and it's actually been on the charger for only or off of the charger for only about
five and a half hours so if we go into settings go to battery battery health is still at 100 you can
see my overall capacity here using coconut battery that's a free app you can download on the Mac but
it's outside of the app store then if we go into my battery life you can see here over the last
10 days I use 75 percent of my battery yesterday and had 4 hours and 53 minutes of screen on time
4 hours and 40 minutes of screen off time so not really that great on a 13 Pro Max and again the
same is true for the iPad on iPad OS 16 beta 3 it seems to be fairly stable other than maybe a few
issues here and there with apps not running but in general it's pretty stable we'll wait for this
to run and you'll see over the last 10 days I had two to five hours of screen on time total between
charging so again not getting me through a day but this has been a problem for me with iOS 15 betas
as well and again you can see my battery capacity and everything here it's not a hundred percent on
my iPad but I've had this for quite some time and charged it quite a few amount of cycles and
use it regularly every day now as far as if you should install iOS 16 beta 3 at this point I would
wait for the public beta unless you're a developer Apple said it will be out in July that means maybe
this week since we had beta 3 although it could be a couple weeks away but based on what we've
had before it seems likely maybe sometime next week however they haven't announced it officially
however we're also expecting iOS 15.6 RC this week as well I would expect the release candidate early
in the week with maybe a final release later in the week or the following week that makes
a lot of sense then we'll move on to iOS 15.7 betas where they'll continue to refine iOS 15
all the way up until September where we'll have a final release of iOS 16. so usually we'll have
the last update of iOS 15 or previous versions at the end of August with a final version of iOS 16
released to the public usually in mid-september around the launch of the iPhone 14. so 1414 Pro
14 Max and 14 pro Max that's what I would expect with that as far as the YouTube Community poll
and comments let's go into that now at the time of this video you can see there's almost 8 000 votes
so thanks to everyone that voted and there's also 82 comments prior to making this video I went in
looked at all the different comments to see what the overall experience is like on iOS 16 and iOS
15.6 and you'll see 26 percent are currently on iOS 16 beta 3 8 percenter on iOS 15.6 beta
5 and you'll see that's up quite a bit from the prior week so we're going up about five percent
with iOS 16 betas we've actually gone down with iOS 15 betas but not everyone has voted yet also
those using the public version is at 58 percent and one percent are using iOS 14.8 or older and
seven percent are using Android now let's read a few comments Gary sarig Joseph says I'm running
iOS 16 beta 3 on my iPhone 12 Pro Max with very few issues it almost feels like a full release and
I'm enjoying it very much even my banking apps work just fine and notifications stack nicely
on the lock screen and you'll see there's very different experiences depending on who it is TJ
Tomasetti said 16 beta 3 on my 13 mini and a few bugs and glitches but slowly getting better same
goes with battery although it's still pretty bad compared to 15 stable that's my only major
complaint but it's a beta probably provolica says system crash with an incoming call while gaming 16
beta 3. so the experience is going to vary very much so depending on what you're using what apps
you're using what you're doing and so make sure you report that in the feedback app Sherman West
says using iOS 15.6 beta 5 on an iPhone 13 Pro Max has been great so far so good just going to
hang in there until the the iOS 16 public released is to come out in September Jeff Broome says iOS
16 beta 3 on my 11 Pro Max battery life seems a little better was horrible on beta 1 and 2.
music continues to occasionally pause itself or crash those have been my major issues but other
than that the new features are fantastic and it's Snappy fast looking forward to Future betas Noah
Messer says iOS 16 beta 3 on my 13 Pro Max has been pretty good just a few minor UI bugs but
nothing too bad performance is really good battery life is slowly but surely getting better can't
wait for future versions of iOS 16 updates and so that's everything with iOS 16 beta 3 and 15.6
beta 5 of course there's probably more features and if I find more I'll be sure to share them in
a different video if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper I'll link it in the description
this is actually within the neighborhood I live in so it's just a photo I took some time ago with an
iPhone but hopefully you enjoy it and let me know if you want to see more of these landscape Style
wallpapers maybe in future videos but of course I'll link it in the description encryption like
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