What's up guys.
My name is Brandon and today apple released iOS 15 beta 3 to registered
developers three weeks after the release of the second developer
beta. And for public beta testers, you should be seeing beta 3 soon,
and I will keep you posted on Twitter when that does get released. Now,
in addition to iOS, we also got iPad at west 15, beta three,
watchOS eight,
beta three tvOS 15 beta three macOS Monterey beta three and
homepod OS 15 beta three. But of course, in this video,
we're talking all about iOS and iPad at Wes 15 beta three.
So let's start off with the size of this update and you could see here,
it came in about 1.3 gigabytes on my iPhone, 12 pro max,
that size will of course vary depending on the device you're on in the version
you're coming from, but that is coming from beta two.
Now let's go and check out the build number if we go to our settings and let's
go to general about 15.0,
and it can see the build here is 19 a 5, 2 9 7 E.
So we do have an E at the end of the bill number, which indicates of course,
that we do have several betas to go. Now, if we go down to the modem firmware,
you can see that has also been updated in this release to 2.0
7.01. So if you were having cell connectivity issues, like I was,
those could be resolved thanks to this modem update.
So now what's new here in iOS 15 beta three. And of course, as expected,
we do have quite a few changes.
I've discovered at least 20 new features and changes found in this update.
And the first one I want to talk about is, as you can see right here,
the music widget,
this is the first thing I noticed when I started playing music.
I noticed that the music widget has changed for the first time ever since it was
introduced in iOS 14.0,
so you could see now when you play a song or have a song pause,
it actually changes the entire look of the widget. So now it color coordinates.
It's dynamic based on the cover art for the album or song. And it can see here,
when I go ahead and play this song,
it's going to play this and I could see it says now playing.
So it says now playing in paused, you tap on it. You can pause it.
Now you can't play in pause from the widget itself. They can see there,
it updates instantly as well.
So that's new before it would take a while to update.
And also you can tell that the album artwork is a little bit smaller now on this
widget. And if I go out and play another albums,
I can see like a different color. Let's just go to this orange right here.
So if we play this right here,
you can see the color of that widget changes dynamically.
So that is really cool.
And then also I noticed that when you close out of the music application,
you can see that it goes back to normal.
So this only changes when you are actually playing a song or when you just
pause, they saw, but still really, really cool change here. And beta three.
Now we also have quite a few changes inside of the safari application.
I'm going to bring over beta two here on the left.
So we're going to have beta two on the left,
beta three on the right throughout this video. And if we go into safari,
we have quite a few changes. Now,
one of the first things you'll notice is that when you type in the address bar,
we need to go and tap on the address bar right there.
You can see that it now stays at the bottom instead of going up top.
So this design makes a lot more sense and you can see what you're typing easier
right here. It's like we wanted to go to a different website. You could see,
and we also have some different little functions up top.
So we have this little sparkly thing right there,
which I guess is just using a suggestion that was not there before.
But if we go ahead to apple.com, you could see,
and now shows it down here at the bottom and set up up top,
which I like a lots better.
And you could also see that the bookmarks bar is no longer there.
That used to be there on beta two,
but now it doesn't show anything up there in the top, right?
So just an all new look when you're typing in to the address bar.
And speaking of that address bar, if you tap and hold to haptic,
press onto the address bar, you can see that we now get a new reload button.
So if you want it to refresh,
I'm not sure if this is really any quicker than just swiping up on the page,
but you do now have a reload button there from haptic pressing on at the address
bar. And then apple also got rid of the move to tab group via haptic press right
here. Now we also have a couple of changes and iPad at west 15,
beta three related to safari.
So first off you can see that we have this dedicated share button now up in the
top right-hand corner.
And then also we have a reload button or the refresh button there inside
of the address bar to the right of it. So that shows up and landscape.
And if we go into portrait, you can see that it also shows up in portrait mode,
right there, same with the share button also available in portrait mode.
And then also if we tap on the sidebar right here,
you can see that we have a new section for shared with the you and beta three.
Now we also have some changes to the all new focus mode.
So if we go to our settings and then go to focus right here,
you will notice a few changes.
So first off we no longer have focused status or phone calls on the main screen
right here. Those are actually inside nested inside of these settings now.
And then if we go into one of our focus modes. So for example,
if I go into recording a video, you will notice a few changes.
So first off we have this section right here that says options, and you can see,
we have little glyph icons next to them.
Whereas we did not have glyph icons before. They've also turned blue. Now,
instead of just having Dole colors, also down here, turn on automatically.
You could see as now switched.
So smart activation is up top instead of down below.
And then also this has that little blue accent right there as well,
then add schedule or automation is new right there.
And it showed up a little bit differently on beta two and for share focus status
before there was simply just an option for that to turn it on or off.
But now in beta three, we have our own section four focus status, right?
There is. If you tap on that,
it shows you a little image of what you can expect or what the setting actually
does. Instead of just saying it,
we now have a visual and you could turn that on or off.
And it shows exactly how it's worked.
And that's of course is if you want other people to be able to see when you are
in a focus mode. So it says that you have notification silenced.
So that's cool that we have our own section now for the focus status. Also,
when we go into things like the home screen and lock screen,
you can see that we have the option to hide a notification badges. Also,
I noticed that this little bug that was there in bed is one and beta two,
where this would just remain gray after you click on it is no longer there and
beta three. So it seems a lot less buggy and just looks a lot more lively,
especially with these glyph icons and the little blue color throughout.
It looks a lot better than it did and a bit is one and two.
And then if we go into the allowed notification section right here,
where it says people and apps for go-to people, for example,
you could see that it shows, allowed people on top now,
and we have that same green color and it just looks a lot more clean than it
did. And beta two, we also have the allow calls from,
and it can choose that right there. Whereas in beta two,
that was back here on the main page, under phone calls,
and it would show it right there.
You can see that section is also completely reworked here in beta three.
So just a ton of changes to the focus mode options here and
beta three. I like it a lot better.
And then two final things about the focus modes before we move on to the next
change you can see here when we have to press on that focus mode on the lock
screen, you can see a slight change there.
And then also when we tap on new focus,
we actually get a new pre-made focus mode right here.
So if we go ahead and need to unlock for that,
for whatever reason we have mindfulness now.
So before I just show driving fitness and reading,
but now mindfulness is a new pre-made little focus mode there also new and beta
three. If we go to our settings and go to general,
and then down where it used to be reset,
it is now transfer or reset iPhone down there at the bottom.
And if we tap on that, you can see that we have a whole new section here,
a whole new look to this menu. So before it would just show the settings,
of course, that were used to erase all content and settings reset, all settings,
things like that.
The only new one was prepared for new iPhone and beta one and two.
But now in beta three, we have this whole new look on at the section right here.
And when you tap on reset, you get these options right here to do all of this.
It just takes up less room. And it also gives you a visual right here.
I like this a lot better. And speaking of settings,
we also have some new settings inside of maps.
So if we go into our map settings right here and then go down,
you can see it used to say navigation and guidance,
but now it just says spoken directions. And when you tap on that, you could see,
we have a new option here for directions on radio.
And then we have pause podcasts and directions, wake iPhone.
So all of those are new here.
You can see they just had different verbiage and just a whole new section here
in beta three, it's a little bit more condensed.
And also the share ETS is not there.
It's probably just because I haven't set it up for this phone.
They could see the different options right there.
Or actually I just noticed that they share ETA has now moved outside of a spoken
directions now in the main section of maps instead of being tucked away inside
of navigation and guidance. So that is also a change here in beta three.
Now we also have a couple of changes inside of it, the weather application.
So when we tap on these three lines down here,
before you could see that it would just kind of go to it and have no animation.
And when we'd go into it,
it'd be kind of buggy and just very slow with no real animation.
That was beta too. But now I'm beta three.
You can see it's much smoother and we have an animation when we go in and out,
but this list view for the weather.
And then also if we go into the temperature map right here,
and we change this to precipitation,
so let's go and change this over to precipitation.
You will notice that it now says instead of hourly forecast that shows us a
multi-day forecast and we press play on that.
You will notice that this little bar down here, this little section goes away,
or it gets smaller. Whereas a beta two, it would just stay there like this.
So if we tap on the map like, so you could see that it goes away.
Whereas in beta two, it never went away. And when we tap again, it pulls it up.
So that is new here in beta three.
We also have brand new shortcut actions for background sound.
So background sounds as of course, a new feature in iOS 15,
and it can see now inside of the shortcuts application,
and we can set background sounds set, background soundtrack, set,
background sounds volume, things like that.
Whereas before we did not have anything that we could do with background sounds.
We also got a couple of new splash screens here and a bit a three.
So first off you could see inside of the app store,
when you first opened up app store,
you get this new splash screen that says in-app events, app store widget,
and safari extensions on iOS.
So the splash screen is just telling us about what's new here in the app store
in iOS 15.
We also got a new one when opening up reminders that talks about organizing with
tags, optimizing with smart lists and lots more.
And then also we got this right here.
When you open up health for the first time, it asks you once again,
if you want to share your data with apple, I did it before,
but for whatever reason, it popped up again,
some people are also seeing a new splash screen for health,
but I did not get one here and beta three, I just got this right here.
We're asked to share my data with apple now,
as for bug fixes at the time of recording,
this apple has not released the release notes for beta three yet.
So we don't know the specifics of everything that has been fixed.
I will cover that in my follow-up video coming on Saturday.
So if you want to see all of the things that have been fixed,
stay tuned for that video,
but there are a couple of things that I've noticed just after playing with it
for a little while that had been resolved.
And the first thing is inside of our iClouds,
we go here and then go to iCloud and then to private relay,
you will notice that that was completely smooth and betas one and two.
It would just simply hang when you went to iCloud in general,
but especially with private relay and hide,
my email would be extremely slow and just hang there for sometimes up to like 20
seconds before it went in.
So hide my email is still a little bit slow just because it does have to load up
all your emails,
but private relay and just the iCloud settings overall are a lot faster here in
beta three than they were before.
And I've also noticed that private relay in general is better here and beta
three because it has not randomly disconnected yet.
Whereas before every time I turned it on,
it would just randomly disconnect almost right away.
And it has not done that here in beta three.
So I would expect private relay got even more, you know,
fixes and updates here in beta three.
I would also expect this update to fix the wifi bug.
So iOS 14.7 RC did fix the wifi bug,
where if you put a percent sign in your, you know,
SSI D for that wifi and connect to it, it would break your wifi.
I would assume that has been fixed here in beta three,
since apple did fix that with iOS 14.7 and then safari overall just
feels a lot smoother here. And beta three. I mean,
we do have the change with the address bar being down here,
which is really nice, but just overall, everything feels smoother.
And then also every time I close out a multiple tabs at once,
I did not get a crash. So for once, you know,
my safari was not crashing when I would close out of like five tabs rapidly.
So that is also good news.
So I would expect a ton of fixes to safari to be listed in the release notes
when apple does push those out.
And then also one other bug fix that I mentioned and beta two that has been
fixed here in beta three.
When you pull up this right here and go to background image,
you can see this is no longer cut off,
whereas before it would only show like two of these images and the rest would be
cut off. That has been fixed here in beta three,
and now background images and safari on the start page show up properly. Now,
as far as other bugs go,
that I've been experiencing over the past few weeks and these may be fixed and I
will let you guys know.
And my follow-up video on Saturday if they have been fixed.
But the number one issue I've been having is I've, I really had two big issues,
but one of them is going to be with notification sounds.
So sometimes when I get a notification from Snapchat or ESPN or any app that has
its own unique sound, when you get a notification,
it will just come across in the default sound.
So you will get default notification sounds when it should be the unique,
you know, sound dedicated to that specific application.
I don't know if that's been fixed yet. I will let you guys know.
I've also had issues with apple music and Bluetooth.
So sometimes my Bluetooth would just randomly disconnect when I'm listening to
music, mainly when I'm using the music application,
I've not had it when I'm using like YouTube and playing that over Bluetooth.
It seems to be an issue with a Bluetooth and apple music.
So hopefully that gets resolved as well.
And I will let the guys know by Saturday now, as far as performance goes,
I'm really hoping and praying that beta three is better than beta two,
because as you guys know,
I made a very clear on Twitter that my experience with beta two has just simply
not been great.
And I also mentioned this in my last two follow up videos over the past two
weekends,
that beta two has just really not been up to par for what I expected
from a second beta. Now, of course, this is a beta I'm not complaining.
Of course I am expecting bugs. I'm expecting crashes. I'm expecting all of that.
I'm not complaining at all.
I'm just simply saying that the performance started out strong in the first
week. It was actually good. I actually said good things about it.
But over the past two weeks, it's just been brutal.
I've actually had to reboot my device multiple times because it would just be
lagging. You know, it'd be going in and out of applications with lag.
When I would try to type the keyboard would lag things like that.
And the reboot does fix it, but it just gets very frustrating.
So I am hoping that beta three does fix that and I will let you guys know.
And my followup video,
I will run a quick deep bench test just to show you guys the scores here and see
how they compare to a beta two. So as you can see,
we've got a 1593 on the single core and a 41 27 on the multi core,
compared it to a beta two, you can see the scores are very, very close,
really not a big difference at all. And the geek bench scores.
And those don't really tell the full story,
but I know some people do like seeing what I score and that test now,
as far as battery life goes here and a beta three,
I would expect this to be better as well because beta two was just simply not
good on it. My daily driver,
my iPhone 12 pro really did not get great battery life at all throughout the
beta two stages.
And I almost feel like the rerelease was just worse in terms of the performance
and the battery life. So I'm not sure what's going on there,
but I would expect battery life to be better here on beta three.
So now what is next for apple? And let's first talk about public beta tester.
So if you are on the public beta, you should be seeing public beta three,
which is the same build as developer beta three, as early as tomorrow,
July 15th, or as late as sometime early next week.
I would think that you would get it sooner than later, but who knows with apple.
And then as for iOS 15 beta four, I would expect to see that within two weeks.
So apple does usually stick to a two week cycle until some of the later beta.
So I would expect apple to be on a two week cycle.
And if we were going to go exactly two weeks, which apple has shown,
they don't always do. It's really just when they're ready.
But if that were the case, that would be July 28th.
But I would say that it could come really any day on the week of the 26th.
That's just my preliminary guests. Of course,
a lot of factors go into it and I will let you guys know if anything changes
over on Twitter or am I follow up videos,
which I release every single weekend on Saturday, but yeah, guys, there,
you have it. That is iOS 15, beta three, quite a few changes.
And I'm sure there are even more features and changes that I did not discover
yet. And I will talk about in my followup video,
but if you guys enjoyed this video,
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make sure to subscribe for a lot more iOS, 15 coverage. But anyways, guys,
thanks again for watching and I'll see you soon.
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