hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and ios 16 public beta 2 and ios 16 beta 4 have been
out for a couple of weeks at this point and as we get closer to the initial launch of ios 16
and the weekly release of betas there's been even more new features that have been found since the
initial ios 16 beta 4 is out what's new video so i want to share with you that as well as the
overall experience of this update since i've been using it full time on my 13 pro max and ipad pro
i also have it on the iphone 11 and i've been running watchos 9 on my apple watch series 7.
so let's talk about what's new but before we do that there's a couple things i wanted to mention
that have been updated for everyone if you use apple maps they've updated more city detail in
additional places such as israel palestine and saudi arabia so those updated apple maps
that have been showing up around the world are now available in those three new places also
iphone 14 always on display seems to be something that's going to be coming with ios 16. this seems
to be more and more revealed in the code and again my friend steve mosher posted more about
this we saw some of this from 9 to 5 mac but you can see there's sort of a darkened mode where it
would be an always on display mode similar to what we have with apple watch where it's currently on
and then it will sort of go into a sleep mode if i turn my wrist and have a dimmer version of what
we already have that looks to be coming to iphone 14 however it seems like your iphone 13 and maybe
even iphone 12 could do it but it looks like it'll probably be an exclusive to iphone 14. also more
and more of you are getting youtube picture in picture they started rolling this out many of you
have told me that it's available let me turn this down here many have told me that it's available
and working for you hopefully it is and if it is i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
again it's free in the us and unfortunately you have to be a premium subscriber around the world
hopefully that will stop and it'll just be free like it is on android everywhere and as far as
our first new feature let's go into settings go into general and then go down to keyboard
and under keyboard there it is under keyboard if we go to english we now have the dvorak keyboard
option this was actually here in previous betas but i haven't seen it pointed out anywhere else
and this is actually now available so that's typically available on just about any computer
and now it's available on ios now if we go into the contacts app i've talked about that quite a
bit but if we go into contacts and within contacts if you press and hold on any contact we'll just go
into favorites for this video here press and hold on apple computer and if you want to delete this
easily you can just tap on delete contact also removed from list i mentioned that before but
i haven't seen anyone mention delete contact it's not there in ios 15 it's been added to ios 16. it
was in beta 3 as well also if you want to use this to maybe share this contact if you press and hold
and drag you can drag this into a different app you can tap on multiple contacts and add them and
drag them into other apps however it looks like it is a little card now where before it wasn't
the card it sometimes was just a bar it looks to be fixed now so that's a little change in this
particular beta in beta 3 that was very buggy one of the new features of ios 16 is lockdown
mode now i've talked about that before if we go under privacy and security in our settings scroll
all the way to the bottom go to lockdown mode and then turn on lockdown mode we'll have to scroll
to the bottom turn on lockdown mode and then turn on and restart when i do this on beta 4 it's going
to require my password on beta 3 it isn't so if i turn it on and restart you'll see immediately it
asks for my password on beta 4. now we'll go ahead and turn off lockdown mode turn off and restart
and again it's going to ask for our password to enable or disable it this time around now there's
something that's a little bit of a bug on the main screen but it could be something that will
be enabled in the future the little search icon on the bottom you'll see the magnifier and the word
search are sort of a transparent version of those words if we go into settings go to our home screen
turn off and back on show on home screen you'll see that the little magnifier actually now appears
blue so this might be a little bug or something new that we'll see in the future but that's the
only way i can get that to appear to be blue let me know if you have that same experience as well
now in imessage you can mark a message as unread now i've talked about this in previous betas
that's nothing new and there's an easy way to do that if we go into messages
you can see my message at the top and if i swipe it to the right we have a button to mark as unread
so we can mark that as unread and then we have the little blue dot prior to this you could just press
and hold and mark as unread now you can actually just mark is unread by sliding it's just a quicker
way to do it something i noticed that i didn't see anyone else point out in the future with
ios 16 we're going to have passcodes which make it much more secure and easier to sign into websites
however for now apple keeps updating keychain so if we go into safari and
create an account maybe on yahoo scroll down tap on create password tap on other options
under other options we now have easy to type this is a new option that's here with beta4
so before we had no special characters edit strong password choose my own password now you have an
easy to type option which is really nice now when it comes to apple wallet and apple pay according
to steve mosher again on the latest ios 16 beta apple pay works in edge chrome and i assume any
third-party browser so the code is there so it will work right in all of those browsers where
it wouldn't work before only in safari there's also some changes in the wallet app as well so if
we go into the wallet app and within the wallet app if we go to the options in the upper right
tap on those three dots you'll see we have add money transfer to bank show card number view card
details and manage notifications this is for apple cash so if we take a look at beta 3 with the same
thing we're missing a few options here where we don't have transfer to bank show card number or
manage notifications that's a little bit new and also it's similar in apple wallet with
the apple card so again with apple card you can see here we have view daily cash on beta 4 view
card details and manage notifications so now we have notifications again that we can manage here
if we go into settings then scroll down to focus under focus maybe we'll create a new focus
you'll see we'll select gaming and under gaming we'll tap on customize focus if we go to customize
focus we have the option to connect a wireless controller but also if we tap on a wallpaper
it suggests some wallpaper to actually choose for this particular focus mode so you'll see if we tap
on the middle one it has some game controllers and rockets and that's just a suggested wallpaper that
shows up when you select that focus so now it's giving wallpaper suggestions along with
focus suggestions now apple continues to give us more information when it comes to the battery in
ios 16. and this time around when your phone is actually charging and needs to pause due to the
overall temperature maybe it's fast charging and the sensors say it gets too hot so it either slows
it down or pauses it they've changed some of the wording again so you'll see it says charging was
on hold due to iphone temperature prior to this you'd see different pauses you can see some of
them here what it looks like when it's charging and also there's a new pause symbol on some of
these so depending on how you're charging it will show a little bit differently but some
of the words have changed as well when you're using siri and you use the word hey in front
of it to bring it up automatically there's a new sound that many people have been hearing
it's very similar to when you're in maybe notes and you're using dictation so we'll do that
there's sort of a similar sound to it i cannot get it to show up on any of my devices
so if i activate siri by saying hey in front of it it doesn't actually make a sound for me sometimes
when i swipe off it does but other times it doesn't at all so it seems to only be there
in apple carplay for me not in the phone itself so maybe that'll come back a little bit later
and maybe just a bug now on the lock screen you'll see i have the weather set at the top and if i go
into settings and then we go back to privacy and security and turn off location services i'll just
turn it off altogether to make it easier you'll see at the top now we get a little slash or a line
through the location arrow so that's something that's a little bit different it's only on the
lock screen on beta 4 it doesn't show up in beta 3. so that's there and then if i turn
location services back on of course that's going to go away it'll take just a moment and then it
shows the location the location arrow actually goes away and then it gives the temperature
now when you go into notes and maybe you want to lock a note so you tap the three dots in the
upper right then you tap on lock the first time i opened it and again it says switch to device
passcode for your locked notes so you have the option to use the iphone passcode or use face id
and just unlock it that way so this pops up every time it looks like now i thought it was just the
first time but looks to be new in beta 4. also if we go to our books app there's a change there
as well so we'll go over to books within books if you're on a page that's passed maybe the beginning
of a chapter in the top left it will now show you that you can go back to the beginning with a
little return arrow and then the page number that it was on so you'll see i'm currently on page 115
if i want to jump back to the beginning of the chapter at page 95 i tap the little icon and it
does that it was also in beta 3 but it's also something i didn't mention before so i want to
mention this video so you'll see on beta 3 in the on the left here again we can jump back so that's
something that is a nice little thing that's there and also you can jump forward to where you were
before if you tap the arrow at the top now so now we jump forward jump back to the beginning back
where we were now we heard this past week that ipad os 16 would be delayed a little bit probably
pushed back to late september or october according to bloomberg this has happened before with ios 13.
so apple launched ios 13 on september 19 2019 and then later released ipad os 13 on september 24
2019 it looks like we're going to have sort of a similar release where apple will release ipad
os closer to that of mac os ventura so this is nothing unusual it just means they need a little
more time to refine it and i definitely welcome that and it could coincide more closely with maybe
a second apple event where they show off some new ipads as well with some additional features so
that's something we could see we've seen before and it's nothing really to be alarmed about
completely normal and if they need more time to make it more refined i definitely welcome that
as far as ios 16 beta 5 well at this point we definitely expect it on tuesday or wednesday
that's typically what happens every year apple will release a beta 4 then wait two
weeks release beta 5 and then we switch over to a weekly schedule i mixed some of that up before
where every year since ios 13 and maybe before they've actually waited until after beta 5 to
switch to weekly releases so we could see that release as soon as the 9th or 10th of august
and then have weekly releases until the end of august and then we'll actually have a
final release probably in mid to late september now apple will also be working on probably ios
15.7 at this point last year apple released ios 14.8 in september and they did not have
any betas for it they released it on september 13th 2021 without any betas so we could see in
ios 15.7 without any betas as well so it's hard to say we had 14.7 and 14.7.1 last year
and then they sort of took a break for a while and then released 14.8 later on in september so
i would expect maybe something similar although they could skip it all together and 15.6 could be
the end of ios 15 as far as features and changes but let me know what you think they'll do as far
as that goes now ios 16 definitely still has some bugs in it it seems like the longer we use beta 4
the less reliable and stable it becomes the phone for me sometimes doesn't wake up properly if i
tap the screen it doesn't work sometimes if i lift the phone it will sort of blink
i'll have to tap it again then it will work that seems to be a common thing and the only
way to fix it is to do a hard reset i've had to do that a couple times in the past week
also the volume slider seems to be a little bit buggy when you slide your finger up and down on
it sometimes it's a little slow sometimes it's not it just depends if maybe we're on the lock screen
again we'll use volume here and if i use volume up and down and move my finger it's fast now but
before it was really sluggish and slow and choppy so there's definitely some issues from time to
time for me and then also the wallpaper sometimes just goes to a black screen when i'm trying to set
it so if i'm in here actually customizing and setting it it'll go to maybe a black background
and also some of the widgets will completely blank out so there's definitely some issues there others
have still been seeing music stopping on its own so if they're playing music it just stops already
by itself and then you'll have to hit play again i personally haven't seen that but it definitely
is a problem for a lot of people battery life is definitely better than beta 3 but is still not
that great it gets me through a day but overall it's not great in general but if we go to battery
life battery health i'm at 100 so it's still holding out there and you can see my cycle count
here with coconut battery and if we go back to the last 10 days and take a look at what we've had
take a look at yesterday i had four hours and two minutes of screen on time one hour and 46 minutes
of screen off time and used about 50 percent of my battery the way i measure this is apple doesn't
measure this based off the last time you charged rather they measure it based on when it was last
used 24 hours ago so unfortunately they should switch this to last charge to 100 and measure from
there but if you charge in between and you did 10 hours of screen on time that counts even though
you were on power so it really doesn't count as you can see it paused and then started again
and then it started to discharge as i was using it so it's really hard to calculate some people
have said this does not appear to be accurate as well anymore so let me know your overall battery
health and life in the comments below as far as ipad os 16 beta 4 it's been a pretty decent
experience for me despite some other people saying there's a lot of bugs so in general
it's actually been okay for me where it hasn't crashed a whole lot most apps are working okay
and battery life is okay it's probably better than it was on ios 15 for me at this point
and we'll let battery life load here you'll see it was last charged wednesday at 9 52 a.m to 100 and
that is two days ago so we're down to 32 percent battery right now and i've used it probably
now about four hours or five hours so i'm getting five to six hours of screen on time usually i was
getting four to five on ios 15 so it seems a little bit better but still not great i think
they'll take their time on this work everything out and hopefully it will get even better
but really i haven't had any crashes or issues but if you are having issues i did want to mention
there's a spreadsheet someone created out there that i can link in the description
as to whether banking apps are working and things like that i don't know every single app since i
don't use every banking app and there's a nice list out there to keep track of that so i'll
link that in the description if you're curious as to whether your banking apps will work and
that leads me to should you install ios 16 beta 4 or public beta 2 at this point if you don't
have it installed already i'd probably wait until public beta 3 or beta 5 comes out as that should
be even more stable but if you want to try it out you can just make sure you have a backup as a lot
of people are actually reverting back to ios 15 at this point due to bugginess so just keep that
in mind it's not perfect it's a beta it's going to have some issues but just wanted to make you aware
overall performance seems to be okay for me i really haven't had any issues other than
that stuttering with the volume button and heat seems to be fine as well and i wanted to share
that with you again so i've been using this this entire video this has taken quite a few minutes
to record probably 50 minutes even though the video is not that long let's take a look at how
warm these devices are now as you can see with the flear camera i showed this before we're at
about 88 to 89 degrees fahrenheit that's typical of this phone i've been holding it it's been a
little bit warm with my hand on it but it has not gotten above 90 degrees fahrenheit where it was
before right now it's nice and cool with even the screen on for almost an hour at this point
the other devices on beta 3 is the same thing so it really depends on what you're doing this one's
nice and cool just sitting here we're at about 89 degrees fahrenheit so no real issues there
it seems to be staying nice and cool right where it should be now let's go ahead and take a look
at the youtube community poll and a few of your comments now if we go to the poll i ran this last
week we'll refresh we have 22 000 votes so thanks to everyone that voted 37 percent of you are
on beta 2 public beta 2 or ios 16 beta 4. 50 are still on ios 15.6 5 are on ios 15.5 or earlier and
one percent are on ios 14.8 7 are using android so thanks again to everyone that voted now let's read
some of your comments now everyone's experience will be a little bit different and according to
paulo beta 4 has been a major setback for me every time i change my volume my phone crashes
countless bugs across the entire ui that were not present before definitely a major setback
everyone's experience is different as you'll see here with kevin he says i'm using ios 16 beta 4
on an iphone 12 pro max this is the first beta of ios 16 where nothing has crashed or an app force
quitted so again much more stable for him julian morehouse says ios 16 beta 4 after a few days i've
found that messages apps stop working it opens i can scroll but i cannot open a text i cannot send
a text no new texts come in but still do on my watch other apps still work normal reboot doesn't
work i have to use the volume up down power tricks to turn it off and on a day later the same problem
until i've rebooted hopefully beta 5 fixes this and i still have issues with group messages as
well so there's definitely some bugs there make sure to report them in the feedback app mind art
creativity says just installed ios 16 public beta 2 on my 11 pro max so far so good a bit laggy when
setting up lock screen widgets one respring so far but i like it so far looks clean and modern and so
that's everything with ios 16 beta 4 we've been waiting a couple weeks and so i'm looking forward
to beta 5. so hopefully we'll see a bunch more bugs that are fixed we head over 100 with beta 4
hopefully we'll see 100 this time around or just a ton of things working even better as we get closer
to the final release if you found any additional features i haven't mentioned in this video i'd
love to hear from you in the comments below and of course i'll link this wallpaper in the description
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