hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and this past week was really busy with different releases
from IOS to iPad and more and so we'll talk about that some changes that Apple's made and much more
this is your news update for the week of October 31st 2022. now after the release of iOS 16.1 last
week one of the features was supposed to be in the Apple wallet where you could use a savings account
feature Apple actually delayed this after they released it where it says Apple card will soon
let users grow daily cash rewards while saving for the future with a high yield savings account from
Goldman Sachs this has actually been delayed so they delayed this right after actually introducing
iOS 16.1 so it's something we'll see later on maybe with iOS 16.2 16.3 or maybe even later on
than that now iMessage last week experienced an outage many people were messaging me and actually
quite a few people had an outage between about the hours of 9 am and 12 p.m eastern time in the
United States as a whole quite a few people had the issue where they couldn't send messages or
even make FaceTime calls so it wasn't just you if you had that issue that's been resolved and
you can always check their overall status on the system status page I'll link it in the description
but if you're having one of those issues you can just go here and see what the current status is
of all of the different Apple services so you'll see here you have I work mail drop Maps display
map search and just about everything they have iMessage here where it says available so if you're
ever having a problem be sure to check that out now this past week of course we know Twitter was
acquired by Elon Musk and recently there's some news that he may be charging 20 in the future per
month for the verified check mark and so this is something that I thankfully got a couple months
ago it it's something that took me a long time to get and I would really like not to see people
have to pay to get this I'm okay with paying to maintain some sort of subscription with other
features but not for people to be able to purchase this I'm curious what you think about it in the
comments below also he mentioned about bringing back Vine which is similar to really Tick-Tock
but started earlier than that so it was quick videos really quick videos and something that
Twitter Acquired and then got rid of he actually asked if they should bring it back I think that
would be a great move especially with all the short videos today but again let me know what
you think about that in the comments below also going along with subscriptions Apple has increased
the price of their subscriptions to Apple music Apple TV and apple one for example Apple music
for the individual goes up a dollar for a family plan it goes up two dollars and ten dollars for
an overall yearly plan so a dollar per month it's gone up the same is true with Apple TV plus where
it's gone up two dollars per month or if you're paying for the annual plan twenty dollars per year
also so with apple one that's the one I actually got an email on the individual plan goes up two
dollars a month the family plan three dollars a month and the Premium plan three dollars a
month so about from twenty nine dollars to thirty three dollars or 29.95 to 32.95 that's something
that just went up and they announced that around the time of their earnings call so Apple has had
their earnings call where they earned 90.1 billion dollars in Revenue with 20.7 billion in profit
after expenses Tim Cook said they're still working hard to meet demand for the iPhone 14 pro and pro
Max and that overall iPad sales have gone down while Max sales have gone up this past quarter
and going along with Services they continue to increase with over 900 million paid subscriptions
now each person could have multiple subscriptions so they're kind of counting those individually so
if someone has Apple music and then they have TV plus that would be two subscriptions but
still that service is growing very very fast with all of their different service Revenue so that's
something that has increased however they're saying to expect Max sales overall to go down
this year and we'll talk more about that a little bit later now as far as deals and discounts let's
go over that before we continue as there's quite a few good ones this week the Apple pencils 2 if you
wanted one of those for your iPad Pro or iPad Air this is down to 89 on Amazon sold directly from
Apple the Apple TV 4K from 2021 is just 99 the iPad Air 5th generation is down to 519 and the
airpods Pro 2 seem to be perpetually ten dollars off so I'll link all of those in the description
if you want to check them out the apple pencil 2 and the Apple TV seem to be the best discounts but
if you want to check those out I'll link those in the description and they are affiliate links I'll
get a little bit of money for those and if you don't want to do that just go to Amazon and search
those particular products and you'll see those but make sure you're buying them directly from Apple
go to the Apple Store on there we've been talking about USBC coming to iPhone for quite some time
time we've had it on the iPad and now the base iPad as well as Max for quite some time and based
on a new law Apple will have to comply in a recent interview with Craig federighi and Greg joswiak
they confirmed Apple will have to comply with the new law in the EU to use USBC there's a full
interview on YouTube and on Twitter if you want to check it out I'll link it in the description
and they talk about that as well as the amount of waste not using lightning would create although I
think a lot of people have USBC and also iMessage and Android and why they're not doing that and
also the lack of calculator on iPad and more so it's a pretty great interview I'll link it in the
description like I said but it looks like we will get USBC on the upcoming iPhone they'll have to do
that based off of recent laws some people have also said it would only be on iPhones that are
not in the European Union but I can't see apple actually doing that in one area and not everywhere
else is the amount of tooling and parts would be tremendous for that so I would expect them to do
that everywhere prores video on the iPad Pro is a actually there it's something that I talked about
in the unboxing video of this device this is the new M2 iPad Pro and it should have prores video
but you can't access it through the camera app and it's nowhere to be found in Settings I showed that
in the video however it looks like it's available in third-party apps so if we go over to you'll see
I have film it pro if we go into filmic Pro we go to our settings then we go to our resolution
you'll see we have prores we can use 4K prores in 2020 or we can use prores 709 or 8-bit so these
are all options that are available if you're using a third-party app for some reason they didn't
bring it to the camera app but they probably figure if you're going to use your iPad with
prores you'll probably use filmic Pro or another app anyway so it's a little odd they did that but
it's something that they've done also this iPad contains Wi-Fi 6E and you can actually disable
that according to Apple in a recent support document if you're using Wi-Fi 6E networks with an
Apple device there's actually an option to disable it you'll see how to turn off Wi-Fi 6E mode on
your device however it doesn't show up unless you're connected to 6E so I currently don't have
6E in my office so I may have to get a router that supports that but you'll see you have the option
to turn it off now if you wanted to do that I'm not sure why you would want to but you can turn
it off if you'd like to also speaking of iPads and USBC the new iPad has USBC as I mentioned
before and in my unboxing video however one of the odd limitations that's been discovered is that it
has USB 2.0 speeds it doesn't have the full speed that you would expect from USBC whether that's a
limitation of the chipset or intentionally slowed down that's a bit of a disappointment although you
can't record prores video those higher transfer speeds would definitely be nice so unfortunately
this device being as expensive as it is I already mentioned I think this should be priced a little
bit lower it's very nice but at the price you have for this iPad and this keyboard case I would
probably just go with a used iPad Pro or an iPad Air at this point it doesn't makes sense to get
this device yet I think if they lowered it to 329 though it would make much more sense but let me
know what you think about it within the App Store you may have already seen more and more ads here's
one of them as we scroll through you may see more and more of them as they're allowed to advertise
directly in the App Store now however there were some problems with it early on where they had
casinos and some other sort of ads and apple is apparently limited that and fixed that issue so
you'll definitely see more ads but why they were allowing those or maybe not monitoring that it's
hard to say whatever got approved there should definitely be monitored a little bit more closely
hopefully we don't have a bunch of spam ads and we just have good games and things that we can try
out on our own with apps and more but again let me know what you think about ads and things in the
App Store and throughout the OS is we may see more and more of that Apple recently updated iCloud
with a new beta version of beta.icloud.com with a full redesign you'll see it has a translucent menu
at the top once you sign in it has your photos Drive reminders you have mail photos Drive notes
reminders and find my with mail here as well and you can fully customize the home page so you'll
see the apps jiggle you can remove what you don't want there you can add more and maybe we'll add
different apps as we have options for that so this is something they've fully redesigned and
it has sort of a translucent background as well similar to iOS and then also you have additional
customization here with features and more so it's great to see a full redesign of this maybe some
of the design with the different cards hints at iOS 17 but either way it looks like it's a
nice redesign and I'm glad they're updating their design here and there let me know what you think
of this in the comments below also they updated or added a new website for security Apple security
research so this is something they've updated where if you want to apply and get involved you
can apply for a security research device and help Apple find different security holes throughout
the os's so this is something if you want to check out againsecurity.apple.com you can read the late
latest about their security Bounty and more so it's great to see them pushing more to make this
more and more secure iOS 16.2 has been out for a little while as far as the first beta and it
brings live activities for sports it brings the new freeform app the Sleep widgets for the lock
screen and more however Mark German has actually said when to expect the final release this is the
first time in recent memory I remember him saying any sort of final release date for a beta update
that's not a major version and he's saying to expect it in mid-December that makes a lot of
sense as we would have all of November for the betas as well as maybe the first week of December
or second week of December for the release candidate and then a final release maybe the
week of the 11th I say that based on last year where iOS 15.2 launched on December 13 2021 so
we could see that and then also he's saying when to expect iOS 16.3 he's saying February or March
now based off of last year that doesn't make sense as we had that in early January however for Apple
has changed this year over year so last year we had iOS 15.3 on January 26th this time around
he's saying to expect it in February or March so we could have more betas or longer betas maybe
beta 5 beta 6 as needed and that makes a lot of sense but I wouldn't expect beta 2 this week I
would expect it the next week however if they're trying to push this out quickly we could see one
as soon as tomorrow we'll just have to wait and see but either way I don't remember Mark German
actually saying anything about this recently with regular beta updates as opposed to maybe iOS 16's
major release date we're starting to hear more and more about iPhone 15 as Apple has to plan to
get everything ready for millions of phones a year away or less than a year at this point typically
they work three years out get the designs ready and then start to ramp up how they're going
to build it with production lines and more get supplies in place and now that we're hearing more
and more about it we're hearing that the volume and power buttons may switch to a solid state
design meaning that they wouldn't physically press but would feel like they press meaning less moving
parts and more reliability more water resistant and similar to what we have with the iPhone 7 and
8 it had a home button that was solid state it felt like you were pressing it but there's not
actually a button there it's just a capacitive button when you press your finger on it you feel
a little haptic feedback and it lets you go home that's similar to what we're expecting for the
volume and power sleep wake button on the iPhone 15 Pro Models so they won't actually be buttons
they'll just sort of feel like you're pressing them so that makes a lot of sense as we've also
heard that they could have three taptic engines in it one for the vibration of the phone maybe one
for the power button one for the volume buttons also Trend force is now saying that the iPhone
15 Pro Models will be upgraded to eight gigabytes of RAM for 2023 with the a17 CPU so all of those
are expected along with a periscope zoom lens many people have said we'll have that for a while and
it could give us 10x Zoom instead of just a 3X optical zoom so all of those things are expected
we're also still expecting an iPhone SE fourth generation however with the slowing of production
of iPhones lately we may not see that for a while but it's expected to look like the iPhone 10r or
11 Series where it has the similar design it makes sense they would use this over again with a 6.1
inch display all of that makes sense to use an older model for iPhone SE so we could see that
upgraded in the future I think a larger display with LCD would be a great option especially for
those that are still bothered by pwm Apple is apparently working on a larger iPad than this
12.9 inch iPad Pro we've heard this for a while that they could be working on a 14 inch iPad
now we're hearing a 16 inch iPad according to the information the information is a website where an
analyst said that we could see this in the future Apple definitely is testing different sizes and if
they plan to maybe have a Mac alternative or a touch screen style Mac that would make a lot of
sense although Apple has said that they're keeping the Mac around for a long time but a 16 inch iPad
would be great for regular use especially if we now have DaVinci Resolve hopefully Final Cut Pro
in the future with logic pro and more we have have the powerful chipsets with the M2 16 gigs
of RAM and so if we had all of that in a portable device that was touch screen and we could use it
every day for everything we do I think that makes a lot of sense it would work great maybe with the
external display support as well so let me know if you'd buy a 16 inch iPad in the comments below
this year we had the all new redesigned M2 MacBook Air we also had that processor brought over to the
iPad as well as the older MacBook Pro style however many of us expected at the end of the
year in November to have a new event or some sort of introduction like they did with the iPads where
they would upgrade the Mac Mini and iMac and other devices with M2 Pro M2 Max and M2 Ultra processors
unfortunately it looks like this is going to be pushed to 2023 according to Mark German and
others so instead it would be in the first quarter of 2023 with an M2 Pro M2 Max M2 Ultra possibly
and maybe even M2 extreme CPU for an all-new Mac Pro we still are waiting for a 27-inch iMac and
also all of the other updates that go along with that so it looks like this year we're not going to
see more Macs and that makes sense based off the revenue call that apple had the other day where
they said in their earnings call to expect Mac Revenue to decline substantially year over year
in the December quarter if they're not introducing new Macs it makes sense that Revenue would go down
or maybe people just buy discounted Macs this year or wait until January to get the new ones but it
looks like we're not going to have anything in November and all of the new products have
been introduced this year and so that's a bit disappointing but also great for those wanting
to get one of those 14 inch or 16 inch MacBook Pros it's a great time to get them discounted
as there's many discounts on Amazon on different websites and more and so that's everything for the
news this past week quite a bit of news as far as iOS updates iPad releases and much much more
if there's anything else you'd like me to cover in these videos let me know in the comments below and
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