Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and ios 15 beta 8 has been out for a little while now
and i've been using it full time on my iphone 12 pro max and i also brought along the iphone 8 plus
since many people want to know how it performs on this device so we'll talk about that in a little
while as well as my ipad pro which again we'll talk about in a bit but i've been using it full
time on my main device and i want to talk about the overall stability battery life and more now
the first thing i want to talk about is apple's photo scanning i mentioned in a separate video
the other day and they have delayed this so if you haven't heard that news they've delayed that
feature to get more input from different places such as customers and more so that's delayed for
now it will not be in the initial release of ios 15 or maybe not for this year or maybe ever so i
thought i'd share that hopefully they get a bunch of feedback and maybe change the way they're going
to roll that out or give us the option to turn it on or off regularly we're not really sure but i
i'm glad they're making that decision now as far as new features that i didn't mention with beta
beta 8 or beta 7 or any of the other betas there's a feature that apple has been talking about for
a while some people have seen and if you search for a place in apple maps you can now add photos
you could do this in google maps for some time where you could contribute to different photos of
different places you're visiting and now you can do that with apple map so you have the option to
add a photo and you'll see it says introducing ratings and photos you can improve the map
have siri suggestions and community safety so you have that option to add photos of wherever
you're at so i think that's great that they're adding that also there's a new splash screen that
popped up for many the first time they opened the app store asking to personalize ads you'll see it
just popped up there and it did that a couple times because i haven't selected an option but
before it was on now it gives you the option so you can turn on personalized ads or turn them off
it's up to you but now you have the option right in place there's something else i didn't mention
in previous betas which i'm not sure that it's new i know that it was in beta 7 but if you go into
your spotlight search you'll see that we have an arrow in the upper right where you can expand it
i actually never noticed this and it's pretty simple but you can expand your siri suggestions
now and you have that option so it's nice to see that as well and also people that are using ipad
sometimes when you open quick notes for the first time where you swipe in from a corner
that's showing a new pop-up i wasn't able to find this myself but some people are seeing the pop-up
and it's just a new splash screen for quick notes as well now as far as the usability
of ios 15 beta 8 it's still pretty stable there's not really many people reporting a lot of crashes
or having odd issues as far as that goes and it should be stable now that we're at beta 8. so
it seems to be very good that way it seems to be very smooth overall not a whole lot of performance
issues and the general speed of everything loading seems to be okay depending on of course
your cellular connection which i'll talk about in a moment but it seems to be working pretty well
the overall usability and stability is great there's not really any issues i would say it's
on par with ios 14.7.1 as far as that goes not really anything crashing or if apps are crashing
they need an update because a lot of apps are not updated for ios 15 yet and apple doesn't typically
allow that until the release of ios 15. before it comes out they allow app creators to submit their
apps or developers to submit their apps and then they approve them and then they'll be available
then that's why some banking apps are still having issues more are working this time around but if
you're having issues with banking apps or anything else more of them seem to be working now than did
before and that's why but twitter seems to be working properly now that was an issue for a lot
of people including myself you'd open twitter and it would just sort of reload and then you'd have
to open it again and it would work fine this isn't happening to me anymore and seems to be fixed
but the one issue that's happening to me that they hadn't fixed that they did with beta 7 and now
with beta 8 is back is connectivity with 4g and 5g so it has connection or connectivity but then
it won't load so you'll have to turn on airplane mode turn it back off and then things will sort of
resync and it will work properly again this seems to be an issue that that was gone with beta 7
now it's back with beta 8. so i'm having that issue i've noticed that on this iphone
and i couldn't get it to connect once i've had to restart the device because of that so while
stability is good that connectivity issue is back even though the modem is the same since beta 6.
so i'm not sure why it's doing that but it does seem to have an issue some people are still having
issues with air pods connecting so if you're using air pods or air pods pro the connectivity
seems to be an issue for some but it seems to be working okay for me right now not for everyone but
quite a few people are still having an issue with connections so it's much better than it was but
it seems like there are still some bugs with that now the overall heat of the device seems to be
okay it's not getting terribly warm for me some people do report that there are some issues with
that whether that be older devices or newer ones some people are having some heating issues with it
thankfully for me it hasn't really gotten too warm just when you're doing intensive tasks maybe
you're recording 4k 60 video or just 4k video regularly it could get really hot but for me it
doesn't seem to be an issue seems to be working just fine and thankfully it works okay i haven't
had it dim the screen very much with beta 8 when i'm outside in warm weather i was outside quite a
bit yesterday and the day before and it didn't seem to dim the screen as quickly as it would
before so i think heat is a little bit different than it was before where it's just not getting as
hot overall that doesn't mean that it isn't for some people but it seems to be better in beta 8.
as far as bugs or the bad things still happening some people are having issues with scrolling
now whether or not that's on older devices or newer devices is hard to say but on
the iphone 8 plus you'll see as i scroll through it might be a little bit slower than a 12 pro max
but in general it's pretty in general it's pretty smooth overall so it seems to be okay and it's
working as you would expect now it's not going to be incredibly fast compared to a 12 pro max
just because it's a slower phone but it's smooth nonetheless overall some other people are having
issues with playback on youtube and whether or not that's in safari people did not comment but if
you have the youtube app some people were having issues with the playback just not working properly
or even giving you a blank screen when you're in safari so there's definitely an issue there
i've had issues where facetime crashes so if you're using your phone for face time and you go
to picture and picture it doesn't work properly and we'll just hang up the call i actually had
that issue with facetime when i was using it so facetime is usually pretty reliable for me but
using facetime sometimes will just result in it crashing or just hanging up so i'm not sure why
that's happening but it seems to be very random i think the number one complaint that i hear
from people is that live text is not working for some so you'll see here's the personalized ads
image that i took a screenshot of and live text seems to be working okay for me
but i think it really depends on the device some devices don't support this if they don't have an
a12 bionic or newer but it should work for most devices and sometimes it will take a moment for
it to recognize that not just live text but also where it recognizes what's in the photo as well so
this seems to be a very hit or miss feature and isn't working properly all of the time so just
for some people i'm not sure why that's happening but it doesn't seem to be region based it seems
to be fairly consistent for some people also mail seems to not be showing the proper notification as
far as the notification badge sometimes you could have 10 emails and they just won't show in fact i
have some emails now and they don't seem to be showing for me and this seems to be something
that's very hit or miss some people have it some don't sometimes it's like that sometimes it isn't
so i definitely need to report that in feedback also yesterday i had some odd brightness issues
and while it wasn't overheating and dimming the screen i would have it go way down in brightness
and then i would have to put it back up or change it overall so there's definitely some odd things
going on from time to time also the other thing i heard a lot was notifications getting stuck
being in random spots you'll see there's a space here and it's sort of doing that to me it didn't
move up and i see this over and over from a lot of people this time around and the most things
i've heard for beta 8 really have to do with notifications or live text those are the two
major issues i'm hearing the most with this beta also the last thing people are having issues with
is car play i hear a lot about car play having an issue now it can be car dependent some people that
have honda have told me that their cars don't work properly others could have mercedes or bmw
it doesn't seem to matter necessarily some have issues some don't where maps doesn't work properly
within carplay so that continues to be an issue for some as far as wi-fi connectivity wi-fi seems
to be okay for most people earlier on it seemed to have an issue where it wouldn't connect and it
seems to be okay at least for me and most people that i've talked to now there are a few that are
still concerned and i'm not sure if it has to do with compatibility with your current router
whether or not that router needs an update apple often changes their wi-fi stack or connectivity
settings in the background so that things change and then sometimes the router doesn't like that
and it has to be reset so that seems to be an ongoing issue but it seems to be mostly resolved
in beta 8. and again if it's not resolved make sure you're reporting that in feedback so we
can get that fixed before the final release and i'll talk about when to expect that in a moment
as far as green tint i did hear from a couple people that they're still experiencing green tin
i'm not so convinced this is software anymore because apple has an offer to fix by this time
last year we already had a fix for the 11 pro and 11 pro max and we don't have one now they did that
with ios 13.7 they offered that up in late august and we don't have that yet so some people are
having green tint hopefully they acknowledge it and then either offer a recall of the device or
fix it in software but it's taken about a year at this point so i definitely think it's something
they should address since a lot of people bring it up now we'll take a look at battery life and
battery life overall seems to be okay i've been using it full time on my 12 pro max like i said
my battery health is 94 it's been this way for a few betas now and as i've said many times
before the betas don't affect the battery health they're just recalculating it so
it's gone down one percent since beta 5 basically and it hasn't changed at all for me and so over
the last 10 days we'll go two days back i got three hours and 27 minutes of screen on time
three hours and 59 minutes of screen off time and used a little over 50 percent of my battery life
so that's not terribly good the day before three hours and 56 minutes of screen on time 4 hours and
25 minutes of screen off time again it's okay i'm getting about eight hours of screen on time plus
quite a bit of screen off time as well playing music and things like that now on the ipad we'll
take a look at that as far as battery life go to settings battery life wait for it to load here
and over the last 10 days you'll see yesterday i had three hours of screen on time
the day before two hours and 23 minutes and i charged it the other day to 100
but i'm typically getting six to eight hours of screen on time with this device between charges so
it's doing okay it's not at the 10 hours i would expect yet and hopefully it will be by the final
release but i haven't had any other issues with ipad it seems to be smooth fluid no issues i've
used it to take meetings and facetime calls and things like that and i've had no issues whatsoever
this is much more stable and like i said with the quick note i'm not seeing a little pop up here
but quick notes seems to work okay but still no universal control so we're still waiting
for that with ios or ipad os and mac os now as i said performance seems to be pretty good on
older devices i know some people are pretty concerned about that but it seems to be nice
and smooth it doesn't really seem to be affecting performance and some people have said it's greatly
improved performance so that's a great sign we always want to see better improvement and not
a degradation or decline in performance so if you have a battery that's gone bad i would
suggest replacing it and that will bring up that battery health and bring back your performance
you'll see my eight plus is at 97 it's performing okay and as long as you have
a battery about 80 percent or more or it hasn't told you to replace it you should be good to go
there now as far as when to expect ios 15 beta 9 or release candidate this coming week i would
expect apple to send out invites for an upcoming iphone 13 event if it's when many people are
saying it is so on the 6th or 7th probably the 7th in the united states as the 6th is labor
day or holiday i would expect it on the 7th with maybe the date for the event on the 14th or 13th
so maybe an iphone 13 event on monday the 13th that would be unlikely but maybe we could see that
and then usually we'll have a release candidate around that time with a final release after
the event maybe a couple days after the event so that's typically what apple does so whether or not
we have a beta 9 this week is hard to say but we could have beta 9 and a release candidate or they
could give us the release candidate and a final release on the date of the event or after the
event so apple usually does something like that we haven't had a beta 9 so maybe we'll see that or
maybe we won't but it's hard to say for those of you asking about ios 14.8 well i wouldn't really
expect it at this point unless they're planning to release it in september as sort of a final ios 14
update it looks like we're just moving to ios 15 at this point so it's kind of an odd situation as
many people saw in xcode but we haven't seen even a beta of it or anything else so this
would be the first time they released something in september for the previous version if they do that
now as far as if you should install ios 15 beta 8 if you're already on the betas i would definitely
recommend it i know quite a few people were concerned about the csam photo scanning with that
and apple has not enabled that yet in ios 15 betas as far as they've said the notes mentioned nothing
about it and they generally would tell us if they did that and they were testing that so i
wouldn't worry about that if that was a concern of yours and i wouldn't hesitate installing it
it's pretty smooth and then if you're having issues go ahead and submit feedback if you're
not on a beta already and you want to try the beta out i've said for the past few versions
definitely go ahead and try it out as long as you have a backup and you have the ability to go back
using a mac or windows computer you should be good to go as far as that goes so no hesitation there
on my part i think it's pretty good some banking apps still aren't working but for the most part
it seems to be pretty stable but if you have apps that are critical then i would skip it otherwise
it seems to be fairly stable at this point and i would recommend it now let's take a look at
the youtube community poll and then take a look at some of the comments so we'll go to youtube and at
the time of this video you can see there's 28 000 votes which is incredible in just a couple days
with 272 comments and i use those comments to determine what issues people are having
so this is really helpful for all of us you can see 35 percent of you we're using ios 15 beta 8
so that seems to be increasing from beta 7 33 so it goes up a little bit and 53 are still on the
public version of ios 14.7.1 only three percent are using 14.6 or older and only one percent are
using ios 13.7 or older so a lot of people are updating at this point eight percent of you are
using android so thanks again for voting if you took place in that and then if you commented let's
take a look at some of those michael said really bad battery life after installing this version
the previous one was better one would think that an update would make things better but
clearly this did not paul also said battery for me seems shorter or is shorter for me so clearly
people are having issues with battery but if you just installed it give it a couple days if it's
been more than a few days well then battery may be worse for you on this version john said i'm
on ios 15 beta 8 on my iphone 12 mini the only bug i found was in message in the messages app
with the text box scrolling through the messages from a contact would fade into the background when
i try to respond the messages app freezes i have to close the app and reopen it in order to type
in the box or in the text box isaac says i'm on an iphone 12 pro max on beta 8 running beautifully no
issues at all much better battery too stutter box 36 says everything seems to be running fine except
for apple maps when using apple carplay for some reason it periodically crashes zac b says on my
iphone 10s running the beta battery life is close to what it was on ios 14. i have not seen any bugs
yet just a bit more optimism optimizing and it should be ready for the public in my opinion nate
w says ios 15 beta 8 on my iphone 12 pro max has been pretty good i still think they might need to
tweak the cellular and wi-fi issues but other than that my battery has been stable and performance is
like no other no slowdowns crashes freezes etc looking forward to the public release andrei's
hints peter seda says don't know how this makes sense but it's absolutely awful on iphone 10r
everything is a second delayed instability is so bad that it freezes and i have to restart my phone
i might try restoring from a backup and if you're having these issues since most people do find it
to be stable when i had issues i went to my settings then general then transfer or reset
phone reset and reset all settings this does not wipe the phone but rather resets all the settings
of the phone and really fixed some issues i was having it's a pain because you have to re-enter
a lot of things such as passwords for wi-fi and all of your settings are changed but it
may be worth it for you since it fixed a lot of issues for me television re says using on ios 15
beta 8 on iphone 10 there's no bug or issues there battery life is great and performance is so smooth
and hopefully you get the final release on ios 15. since ios 14.5 live text doesn't work for me i'm
running beta 8 now and it still doesn't work i'm using an 11 pro max and it should be working on
that device and that's where i was saying earlier that some people are still having an issue with
that and really shouldn't but for some reason it's an issue and then finally my local banking
app finally doesn't crash but overall everything feels the same and so with ios 15 beta 8 we're
very close to the final version and i'm glad to see that they're really getting things refined and
while ios 15 beta 8 or 15 in general doesn't seem like a huge update to many there are so many small
fixes and things throughout and just changes and refinements it is quite a nice update and i think
hopefully it will bring much more stability to ios that we've lacked for a little while let me know
what you think about it and let me know if you're looking forward to the upcoming iphone 13 event
or if you're just going to hold off this year i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
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