hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and this past week we had a bunch of news about the upcoming
apple watch series 8 iphone 14 and we'll also talk about when to expect ios 16 public betas and more
this is your news update for the week of july 4th 2022 this past week steve jobs will be
posthumously awarded the presidential medal of freedom according to the white house you can
see on the white house's website that they're announcing the recipients of the presidential
medal of freedom and if we scroll down you can see there's different recipients such as simone
biles but if you keep going you'll see steve jobs and it says steve jobs was the co-founder
chief executive and chair of apple ceo of pixar and held a leading role at the walt disney company
his vision imagination and creativity led to inventions that have and continue to change the
way the world communicates as well as transforming the computer music film and wireless industry so
it's great that he's receiving this unfortunately it didn't happen while he was alive but either way
he's been given this honor this past week was the 15th anniversary of the original iphone
it's incredible to think that it actually came out that long ago in 2007 and you can see here's
an original iphone one still works and this is one i've shown in different videos it's actually not
my original one but it is one since i didn't have one and as you can see it's in pretty decent shape
but it's been out for about 15 years at this point so it's incredible to think how far we've come
along from this first iphone and ios or iphone os one so you can see it here it still works it's a
little bit slow compared to what we expect today but if we rotate we can go into cover flow and
things like this that i missed that i wish they'd bring back either way it's 15 years old if you had
an original iphone i'd love to hear from you in the comments below or when did you get your
first iphone let me know in the comments below now unfortunately if you live in japan they increase
the price of the iphone by up to 25 percent due to the fall of the value of the yen apple makes these
adjustments sometimes in different countries based on the local currency value but right now that's
a huge jump up in price so if you were planning to buy a phone and when the iphone 14 launches
you may have to pay a hefty price above what you were planning on this past week apple updated its
support app with support for arabic so if you needed that language or that would be helpful
for someone you know that might need a little bit of extra help with their phone if they're having
issues whether that be physical or performance and more this is a great app to send them to to help
them sort of troubleshoot their device if they need to you can also add a contact number that's
preferred as well you couldn't do that before now you have the option to do that apple also updated
their configurator app this is an app that's great for businesses and different places that need to
manage a bunch of devices and they've finally added ios onboarding which should greatly ease
some of the workload for non-profits and schools using ios devices so something they finally added
where you can use configurator on the iphone apple this past week launched a new invite-only
apple community plus program that's meant to give perks and recognized top contributors in the apple
support community so on these forums for example apple says it's their way of showing appreciation
for contributors help attitude and expertise so if you're someone that's on these forums regularly
i'd love to hear from you if you're actually in that community plus program just like last week
i mentioned in the usa where they're wanting to force apple to switch to usbc on all their devices
it looks like brazil is the latest country to try and force apple to make those changes
so the eu was first then the usa and now it looks like brazil so they'll probably change it anyway
just because they're going to have to either way but we should see that i'm not sure we'll see
it with iphone 14 but we could see it as soon as iphone 15. we'll have to wait and see now if you
follow apple's earnings on their stocks there's actually a new earnings call scheduled for july
28th so if you follow apple at all on their earnings you'll have a new earnings call then
if we go to apple you can see that information here typically where you go into the headlines
and more about apple but you can see that and more information here as well as jump on the
call if you want to listen to it live on july 28th from july 1st to july 4th there's actually a new
offer if you buy an apple tv where they're giving you a 50 gift card when you purchase one so you
can see that on their website at the top this is valid up until july 14th where you can get that 50
gift card and it's possible they're getting ready to get rid of these sort of apple tvs
we currently have and prepare for a new one as a new siri remote was found in the code of ios
16. so they could be planning to update this soon we'll talk more about that a little bit later now
last week i talked about apple's back to school offers where they offer this every year and now
apple is providing new subscribers of apple music students a free pair of beats flex earphones
it's available to new accounts subscribing to apple music in the cheaper student plan starting
from june 22nd the offer provides users in the united states and the united kingdom free beats
flex earphones so us and uk only unfortunately but you'll be able to get your hands on those
i don't see canada mentioned anywhere but it does look like you'll be able to get beats flex
if you wanted some of those also available for purchases right now if you're using apple wallet
there's additional cash back offers up to four percent at select retailers until the
end of july stores such as petco stubhub hotel tonight fandango yeti and more so
those are all available now if you use your apple card you'll be able to get a little bit more money
back now in case you haven't heard this past week the fcc commissioner wrote a letter to apple and
google advising them to remove tiktok from the app store due to national security concerns so
tick-tock apparently is something that they're concerned about we've heard about this in the past
and currently any member of the military is apparently not allowed to have it on their phones
so if apple and google do not remove it it's possible we could see them force the removal
if they believe it necessary i'd love to hear what you think about that in the comments below
also in the app store if you're in south korea you no longer have to use apple's in-app purchase
options for payments they can now use outside payment methods if you're a developer and you
don't want to go through apple they now have the option to do that to comply with local law so
maybe someone's offering an in-app purchase such as maybe youtube premium they can now charge
within their own store and not have to pay those fees through apple so that's a big win for those
that have been wanting that again something that doesn't really affect the user too much unless
you don't have access to apple's payment methods otherwise that's available now but only in south
korea we could see that expand a little bit later around the world now according to mac rumors apple
plans to launch the new m2 macbook air as soon as next week that means that we would have pre-orders
as soon as this coming friday so if that's true it means that it would be available
on the 15th and we would have pre-orders starting this coming friday usually at 8 a.m where you can
pick whichever one you want and then get it the following week however if you want to get one
and it does go live on friday of course we should know more about this later this week if this is
true make sure you get in early because i'm sure they'll sell out pretty quickly as it's a redesign
so you've got four different colors now and more and of course i'll try and get my hands on one
if i can as well also with ipad os 16 there's been concern that the ipad will no longer act as a home
hub when you're using home devices however apple has clarified stating that the ipads can still be
used as a home hub but not for the new features coming later this year with ipad os 16. so you'll
still need an apple tv for that to act as a home hub or sometimes a home pod and they will not
work with matter based accessories basically so that's something that you want to make sure that
you have maybe an apple tv if you're wanting to use specific accessories however they could
clarify that later in the year as we get closer to the launch of ipad os 16. now ios 16 public beta
is expected very soon it could be as soon as this week since we had ios 16 beta 2 a couple weeks ago
typically they'll release a public beta around the time of beta 3. you can see this on beta.apple.com
where it says coming soon but they haven't verified the date yet we should know that
probably as soon as tomorrow so we could see it as soon as tomorrow and then we'll have the public
beta and probably ios 16 beta 3 as well either the same day or maybe a couple days later like they
did last year we can also expect ios 15.6 release candidate this week or possibly beta 5. based on
what we've seen in the past typically that's what we'll see so we should see probably ios 16 public
beta and ios 15.6 rc or maybe beta 5 but if we do see an rc expect the final release next week
typically that's what apple does every year when they release an rc then the following week or even
later in the week they'll release the full version to the public so look for those and of course i'll
keep you updated as soon as i know more with iphone 14 we're expecting an update in september
and that's typically what we see every year we expect an iphone 14 14 max 14 pro and 14 promax
and you can see these are the models i showed in a separate video however apple's been working on
their own 5g modems for iphone for some time but apparently there's some technical issues either
with heat or it's just not expected to be in this year's iphones or maybe even next year's iphones
this could be a technical issue or a legal one as there's been many patent issues with 5g between
apple and qualcomm in the past so it's hard to say what the actual issue is hopefully apple can
get that done and make them more efficient maybe better than what qualcomm can offer but it's hard
to say if we'll ever see those we just know that they're working on them foxconn who assembles the
iphone has begun its annual hiring for iphone production last week i talked about how apple
had gotten everything ready and it was ready to go now it looks like they're starting production and
we'll have more than enough for september however a few weeks ago digi time said they expect orders
of iphone to be the same but ming chi quo is now saying that they expect the orders to be 10
less than last year due to overall demand being a little bit lower with everything going on around
the world now with the upcoming apple watch series 8 as apple increments all the apple watches every
single year it's not expected to get a major redesign according to mark german but could
sense temperature and let you know if you have a fever this is something that's been rumored for
quite some time and if apple can get it right with the sensors in the bottom for temperature sensing
we could see that in this upcoming version we also expect an extreme sports version where it
would be even more durable and also mark german hinted at an updated display and then recently
ross young and jeff poo have said that they expect that as well or it would be five percent larger up
to 1.99 inches it could be due to the rumored flat edge display we've heard about where the
display itself would be flat instead of rounded around the outside edges similar to the iphone
but we're not expected to get a flat edge design of the iphone according to many different leakers
or people that know what it looks like so maybe we'll get a surprise this year i'm not really
holding my breath with the apple watch rumors as they were so wrong last year either way we
can expect some new features and changes apple tv is expected to get an update as i mentioned before
and it looks like so far we expect an updated processor four gigs of ram and a new siri remote a
little else is known at this point but if they're trying to get rid of a bunch of them with that 50
gift card like i mentioned earlier we could see an updated version of this as soon as later this year
or maybe even this summer we don't really know but apple could update this maybe we'll get a
new redesign at this point but so far there's no information about that airpods pro 2 are
still expected later this year but last week there were some rumors expecting temperature and heart
rate monitoring built into the upcoming air pods however mark german this week is saying that these
features are unlikely but have been explored within apple but aren't really likely to make
production however mark german does expect the updated airpods pro to still be later this year
since we haven't really had a replacement since 2019 and there definitely do
also apple recently patented something new to do with air pods where it would use ultrasonic
technology to help us change maybe volume controls and more if the surface was sort of
wet or maybe damp from working out or more or if it was raining and you would be still able
to change different settings using the touch on the outside of the device that would be super
helpful for a lot of people definitely if they were able to implement it into the iphone as well
but it's just a recent patent so this could be years down the road or it could be very soon
when it comes to ipad apple is apparently already done sourcing its first generation oled panels for
upcoming ipads maybe in the next year with them already sourcing second gen panels now this seems
a bit odd to me as they pushed very heavily with mini led and maybe apple's just planning to launch
those or maybe they're just making sure they have a backup if micro led isn't ready in time
either way mini led is great there's downsides to either mini led and oled or it could just be
they're moving all of the regular ipads to oled so they can change the design
make it more power efficient with dark modes and more so it's possible we could see that
and it would be probably next year or even later than that at this point apple is working on an
imac with a larger display according to mark german still and we expected this already but
we got a mac studio display either way there's been no replacement for the imac 27-inch so
hopefully we see something sooner rather than later but mark german thinks it might launch as
late as maybe with the m3 chipset so that could be over a year away and so that's everything for
this past week some exciting things coming up this week with ios 16's public beta and beta 3
as well as ios 15.6 and some new changes and more let me know what you're most excited for in the
comments below and of course if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper i'll link it in the
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