Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and today apple released ios 15.3 beta 1.
this is available to developers and hopefully soon to public beta testers apple released this on a
friday which is rare and late in the day so after 4 pm eastern time so based off of that you may not
have a public beta until next week at some point or maybe even later hopefully it's released by the
time of this video now as you can see this came in at 5.5 gigabytes that's on my iphone 13 pro max
and it was over five gigabytes on all the devices you have here from the iphone XR, the iphone 11
and iphone 6s plus and anytime you go from a beta to a public version or from a public
version to a beta you generally have to install the whole update and it just overwrites the os
and that's why they're so large now along with this apple also released ipad os 15.3
beta 1 that i have on the 12.9 inch ipad pro from 2021 as well as watch os 8.4 beta 1
tv os 15.3 beta 1 and yesterday mac os monterey 12.2 beta1 so all of those are available now
now as far as new changes and updates well let's first take a look at the build number
and then we'll talk about what's new so we'll go to settings then we'll go to general then about
now as you can see the build number is 19d 5026g and this particular build does include a few small
changes and updates and the first update is to the modem build or the modem firmware itself
now the odd thing about this is the modem firmware is newer but it's actually an older version than
we had with ios 15.2 so with ios 15.2 we had 1.32.09 on the 13 pro max now we have 1.31.01
it's a modem update i haven't really noticed any difference with connectivity between 5g and 5g uc
but there is a modem update so if you're concerned about that you may want to stay off of this update
and we'll talk more about that in a moment now as far as new features well there's a slight change
within the podcast app so if we go into podcasts first we'll go into podcasts on 15.2 and then
we'll go on 15.3 and you can see once you're in your library and you go to your latest episodes if
you have the option toggle to hide played episodes you'll get this when all of them have been played
and you'll see prior to this it said no latest episodes the latest episodes from the shows you
follow will appear here now it says all caught up all your latest episodes are played and hidden by
a filter so that's been updated in 15.3 beta 1. also there's some updates for the child safety
feature as far as some wording goes now quite a few people were concerned about this but this
is not the same thing as csam in fact apple has removed all of the references to csam off their
website where they talked about it before it seems they've done that it's delayed indefinitely and so
we may or may not ever see that again however child safety is here and that's done on device
and warns a child that's under 13 if there's an issue with maybe a photo that was sent to them
in messages or they're searching and see an image that may not be appropriate for their age now the
nice thing is there's actually a toggle for this that was found in 15.2 but i wanted to share it
with you since i didn't mention that if you go to your settings and you go under settings and
then you go down to screen time and then select a child the child has to be the appropriate age
if you scroll down after selecting the child under 13 you'll see it says communication safety
tap on this and you can now turn it on or off whatever you prefer and you'll see it says
messages can detect photos before they're sent or viewed on your child's device and provide guidance
so some of the wording has changed when they actually see a photo that's blurred out
and prior to this it would say this content could be sensitive to view are you sure now it says
this content could be sensitive to view are you sure you want to view it so it's just trying to
clarify that for a child so they'll continue to update that i think in the future also there's
some additional references to airpods 3 if you're pairing them for the first time just some small
wording changes throughout there's not a whole lot in here also apple's digital id is not present yet
in this as well so those things could be coming in the future typically with a beta one there's not a
huge change throughout however as far as resolved issues and known issues apple again has not said a
single thing in their notes it says there's no new notes now they've definitely changed some things
probably fixed some bugs and the first thing i noticed is the overall smoothness of the display
this makes a lot of sense since in mac os 12.2 betas that they released
it seems very smooth with pro motion when you go into safari where it was previously not as fast
now it seems very smooth throughout ios as well i noticed that immediately after installing it
just scrolling through different things within ios seem to be very very fast so i'm not having any
issues whatsoever and it seems to be like it's much better than it was before now third-party
apps will still need to enable that though in order for promotion to work if you have it enabled
also another thing i noticed is airdrop seems to be much faster it was almost broken for some
people in 15.2 or just took a while now it's very quick going from one device to another
as i transferred the wallpaper here from one to the other typically when i'm doing these videos
and it was very fast as far as that goes also storage seems to load quickly for most people
so if we go into settings go to general then iphone storage you'll see it loaded very quickly
for me i really haven't had any issues with this when i went and tested it if i do the
same thing on my 13 pro max we'll go into iphone storage there give it just a moment it will take
a moment initially but it seems to load much more quickly this time around so it's calculating size
and sometimes it can take 30 seconds or so and there we go it loaded so it seems to be faster
and it's accurate now in loading everything it even just loaded system data and ios
so much better than before as far as anything on ipad os 15.5 beta 1 again it seems very smooth
apple definitely has been working on promotion and i think they're improving it but i haven't really
found anything specific to ipad os that seems to be new in this update so they keep working on that
and it seems to be very fast no problems there also with older devices performance
seems to be good and again typically i go into minecraft to measure this i'll go into minecraft
see how quickly it loads and compare it to what we had before and you'll see on the oldest device the
6s plus here it loaded very quick in fast in fact i would say that's faster than ios 15.2 this time
around things are much faster as far as that goes and i think they're optimizing performance overall
so it seems to be pretty good now we'll take a look at benchmarks in a moment but first i want
to talk about battery life battery life seemed to be pretty good on 15.2 but let's take a look at
battery life here you'll see my battery health is at 100 on this device and if we look at the
last 10 days it's pretty good depending on the day you'll see yesterday i had a lot of screen
off time 4 hours and 26 minutes of screen on time 8 hours and 29 minutes of screen off time
however this might be a bug from either today with siri or something else as it's saying it's using
eleven percent of my battery i haven't really used siri today so something's going on there but i had
eight hours and 29 minutes of screen off time and used about seventy percent of my battery the day
before 3 hours and 25 minutes of screen on time 5 hours and 50 minutes of screen off time so i
would expect battery to probably get a little bit better as apple continues to optimize things when
it comes to performance and more but it will take a few days to know this and measure it for sure
now let's take a look at the benchmark so i did run geekbench on all of these
and you saw just flash on the display there single core is 1726 where multi-core is 4753
this is actually quite good compared to the release candidate and final version as you can
see here it's actually a little bit faster for both single and multi-core and i ran this right
after installing the update so generally this is quite good and i expect it to improve a little bit
now let's take a look at all of these devices now keep in mind i ran this right after installing the
update on all of the devices here but from left to right we have the 12.9 inch ipad pro from 2021
followed by the iphone 6s plus then the iphone 11 than the iphone 13 pro max and again this is just
a reference to see if your devices are basically around the same speed but i would expect them to
increase a little bit over the next few days now another thing i wanted to note is the phone was
not getting warm at all even after running geekbench which is a little bit unusual so
it seems that apple has optimized performance a little bit better and i think that's noticeable
in the interface as well like i mentioned already now that leads me to should you install ios 15.3
beta 1 and i would typically say absolutely not unless you want to beta test something if you're
trying to fix an issue then no but if you want to try the betas out and you have a secondary device
or you have a backup and you can restore using itunes or finder on a mac then definitely you
could try it out but just make sure you have a backup before now as far as the next release apple
released last year ios 14.4 beta 1 on december 16th they released beta 2 in january on the 13th
so at this point beta 2 could be well into january at that point so we might not see
it until maybe the second or third week of january where apple typically has a break for the holidays
and christmas and new year's throughout the end of the month and the beginning of january so at
this point we may not see beta 2 until later on it's possible we could see it earlier or apple
could change it up but based on what they've done last year that seems more likely so at this point
if you're trying out betas you may not want to try this one just because you won't see a beta 2
for quite some time based off of that but maybe we'll see one earlier if apple changes it up a
little bit now if i find anything else in this update i'll mention it in a different video a
little bit later on and if you've found anything i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course i'll link it in the description like
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