hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech & iOS 13 developer beta 7 was released
today and if you're looking for the public beta or public beta 6 expect that
to be released later today or more likely tomorrow this came in at 321
megabytes on my iPhone XS Max and a similar size on all of these devices the
iPad air 2 the iPhone 6s plus the SE and the XR as well now if you're not seeing
this update you'll have to probably reboot your device I've had quite a few
people tell me they can't see the update reboot it will probably show up let's
take a look at the build number the build number is 17 a 5 5 6 5 B and that
B means we're getting very close to a final release although I do expect a few
more betas from week to week before the final release just like they have in the
past now as far as this particular update there's a lot of little minor
tweaks and changes and quite a few things to update you on so the first
thing is there are 31 known issues noted in Apple's notes and there are 9
resolved issues so we're getting lower and lower on that known issue and
resolved issue although we do have more resolved issues than we did last time so
that's good so far it feels nice and fast we're going to talk about all of
the new changes we'll talk about things they haven't fixed yet and then we'll
talk about performance and battery life at the end so stick around for that and
check the time codes below if you want to see exactly where they're at so the
first thing has to do with photos so let's go into photos and in photos
you'll see down at the bottom here it says all photos they've brought this
back this previously disappeared we used to only have years month and days and
now we have all photos so that's nice they've brought all of that back the
next change is under messages so if we go into messages now if you're in a
group text you already have the little eye at the top but if you don't press on
the name here at the top and then hit the little eye for info now you'll see
all the details and all the different photos you might have sent before these
are thumbnails that I was looking at for this particular video and now we can
delete those again if we have tick or 3d press on them so 3d press and we have
the delete option if we hit delete it says do you want to delete the
attachment you hit delete attachment and it go
away so that's nice that they've brought that back we can delete that again now
there's a new feature under find my which is kind of interesting so if you
open up find my now at the bottom make sure you're on the tab that says me and
then the little line here works we can expand that the menu go ahead and expand
that up and then at the bottom it says help a friend and now it says open
icloud.com so that others can log in and find their devices from this phone so
now if someone lost their phone maybe they don't have access to a computer
they can log into iCloud from here to find their own devices so that's a
really nice little feature they've added now mal gets a couple new options and
mail is actually working a lot better I've put it back on my devices if you've
noticed here I was using spark before this seems to be working a lot better
there's a couple new options for blocked senders so if we go into settings and
then we scroll down to mail if you're using the mail app and then scroll down
to where it says blocked sender options under block sender options there's a
couple new options so there's none mark is blocked , leavin Inbox
and then move to trash so we have a few new options now if we're using the mail
app it's just a nice little addition and should help if you're using that now
there's a couple different changes throughout the phone as far as 3d touch
or haptic touch it doesn't really work any differently but they've changed
around some things so if we go into the control center here and we 3d press or
have to touch on brightness here down at the bottom where it says dark mode
it now just says dark mode off until sunset it used to have a little bit more
lengthy explanation under there they've just changed it a little bit and then
again in the control center if we 3d press or haptic press on notes they've
changed the little icon for a new photo they just keep refining things and
tweaking things and this is normally things that I don't cover too much but I
just thought I'd show you since there's not a ton of new changes in this update
and then also a few 3d press or haptic press on any of the icons they've kind
of flipped everything over especially if it's an apple app or settings or things
like that they've moved rearrange apps to the top and then they've kind of
flipped everything over from Bluetooth Wi-Fi cellular data and
they've just reorganized them I don't know why they felt the need to do that
but they did so you can do that the same on Instagram it's all at the top now
rearrange apps so everything's just kind of flipped for some reason now in beta 7
under the activity app you'll see I don't have any movement or anything
because I forgot to put my Apple watch on today but if we take a look at the
trends tab you'll see it says your trends need some attention focus on
closing your rings each day to get things back on track you've got this
errand and what it's doing is giving advice for each one of these trends
based on it trending down it's telling me how to bring it back so for stand or
move or exercise you'll see it says this arrow needs some love Aaron try to burn
at least 444 calories a day to turn things around so it's giving advice
based on it trending down now of course if I had my watch on I probably wouldn't
have each one of these filled out now something else they've changed here as
well is they've removed the stairs climbed for actual trends so stairs
climb in trends is missing for some reason hopefully they bring it back with
a future beta but it's not there this time and thanks to ice speed test OS on
Twitter for actually sharing a couple of these changes and he also shared with me
since I don't have this test flight so test flight is actually a beta app I've
used it in the past to test out beta apps that aren't released in the App
Store yet but one thing they've changed or added is you'll see you have the
ability to share feedback directly with developers and there's this new little
screenshot ability and the actual image that it's showing here so it says take a
screenshot and send it to a developer directly from this beta start testing or
learn more so they've updated this as well and that's really nice now also in
settings there's something new under phone so if we go to settings and then
we go down to phone and then we go down to silence unknown callers there's a
little blurb under here that says incoming calls will continue to ring
from people in your contacts recent outgoing calls and Siri suggestions so
it's just a new little blurb better explaining what silence unknown callers
does and this is a great feature if you don't know who it's from it silences it
and doesn't take up your phone it's a nice little change there and that is it
for the major changes throughout this particular
version now I expect this to be much more refined but let's go over a few
more bug fixes that they've actually fixed in this version and the first has
to do with wallpapers so if we go into settings then wallpaper then choose a
new wallpaper you'll see here it says all photos now since we have that in
photos but also dynamic photos or dynamic wallpapers and now work properly
so they show up they actually work they'll turn on and do their thing when
they're selected and they're working properly and this feels much faster than
it did before so everything that you move around in here just feels much
faster settings in general folders if you haven't noticed are back to normal
so they are transparent or translucent but they're less translucent or less
transparent so you'll see when they're expanded they look the same but if we
shrink them back down they stand out more because they've tweaked the
transparency of it again so it's sort of back to how it was in the previous beta
with beta 5 at this point now I message sync is not working well across
different devices still that's probably something they still have to fix and
then also that three finger gesture that was driving everyone nuts especially on
iPads or people playing games you used to be able to activate that by tapping
three fingers anywhere in the OS they've fixed this and changed it so that maybe
you're in a note here now if you're in notes and you're on a screen where the
keyboard is present and you three finger tap you get the menu at the top so
they've fixed this it's only present now when you're in a dialog that has the
keyboard present so if you're at the home screen again it won't show up so
while you're in a game it won't drive you nuts the only time it will show up
is when you're in some place where you enter text and that's true of messages
and everywhere else there's no other specific changes to the iPad though and
also there's a couple things they haven't fixed yet such as shortcuts the
automation tab is still not there so they haven't brought that back yet they
will bring it back but it's still not there
they've also fixed the dark mode where it darkens the wallpaper in the
background so you'll see it changes if I turn it on the backgrounds darker now
turn it back off it lightens up so that feature is back which is really nice now
one thing they've fixed is with do not disturb
do not disturb here actually sinks again with your watch so this will sink from
the iPhone back to the watch so they've made that work properly again now
someone actually found a file within this particular code of iowa's 13 beta 7
that points at a date of September 10th for an Apple event so that's something
they found it looks like we may have an Apple event on Tuesday September 10th we
don't know that for sure yet until the invites go out but I just thought I'd
bring that up now let's talk about RAM management battery life performance and
then the Geekbench scores so as far as RAM management goes as far as apps
reloading themselves the only problem I've had so far is with Twitter so if I
open up safe three to five apps at this point it seems like things like Twitter
will reload everything else seems to be working just fine so I don't know if
it's much better but on all the standard apps it just seems to stay open so it
looks like they may have fixed a lot of them now battery life on my main device
that I use all the time seems to be okay as far as the previous beta I'm hoping
it gets a little bit better since there's a lot more refinements in this
one but over the past 10 days you'll see the last three days have been pretty
consistent about four to four and a half hours of battery life or screen on time
while I'm using the device with about 30 percent battery life left at the end of
the day so I normally say about six and a half hours and one to two hours of
screen off times seem to be pretty average for me and the battery health on
this device is 100% so that just gives you the best-case scenario on the XS
Max it seems to be pretty good battery will improve when it gets closer to the
final release and all of the code is really finalized so it seems to be
getting better and better now as far as performance on my iPhone XS Max you've
been seeing it it's quite good nice and smooth and let's take a look at some of
the older devices now the XR is not older but it has the same performance
the same haptic or 3d touch options are here as well so everything is the same
there but on the older devices such as the iPhone 6s plus again performance is
quite good I had a review of iOS 13 the other day an early review and it seems
to be really good super fast super smooth and
like I said in that video there's not really a reason to update your phone if
you're happy with it because things are quite smooth if you're unhappy with the
camera then maybe you'll want to but speaking of the camera first time I've
opened it on this particular version let's open the TV app again it's the
first time I've opened it on this particular update and it's pretty good
there and music again scrolling is nice and fast no issues there on the iPhone
se we should have similar results again scrolling is nice and fast if we scroll
down and you'll see it's nice and quick again first time I've opened the camera
on this since installing the update the same is true of music and all of these
were closed so I could run a benchmark with Geekbench so nice and fast in
everything we do including games and many people want to know if fortnight is
working well I haven't played a long game of it so you'll have to check with
maybe some people in the comments hopefully have that information now
let's take a look at the Geekbench scores Geekbench scores on my iPhone XS
Max are pretty good 4835 for single core 11300 and 81 for multi-core if we
take a look at the history I ran this particular benchmark twice first when I
restarted the device and then a little bit later and it sped up so you'll see
compared to the previous beta which is right here on August 7th we are a little
bit faster in both benchmarks both single core and multi-core now let me
lay out the rest of these so you can get an idea of all of the other devices and
we'll take a look at those now from the left to right we have the iPad air 2 we
have the iPhone se the iPhone 6s plus the iPhone XR and then the iPhone XS
Max so hopefully that gives you a general idea of what your benchmarks
should be that's it for everything in iOS 13 beta 7 a lot of little tweaks and
changes and I'm really glad to see them making a press forward this time where
things are much better it seems at least in the initial couple of hours that I've
used it since it's been out but let me know what you think in the comments
below if I find anything else I'll do another video and of course I'll do a
follow-up like I do every week be sure to check back for that usually on Sunday
or Monday depending on when the public beta is released if you want to get your
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