hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and today apple released ios 15.6 rc2 or release candidate
2. the other day we had release candidate 1 and unless there's no issues found typically a release
candidate will be released to the public but when they find an issue they'll come out with an rc2
like we have today and so this is currently available to developers and soon to public
beta testers usually by the time i make this video live and then along with this apple also released
ipad os 15.6 rc2 but no watch os mac os tv os or homepod os rc2 so just for ios and ipad os
now this particular update is a very large install at 5.37 gigabytes on the iphone 12
pro and that's because it's a final build just like rc1 rc2 is a final build and has to fully
reinstall the operating system so it's going to be a large install it just overwrites the other one
now let's take a look at the build number and talk about what's new so we'll go to settings
then general then about and as you can see the build number is 19g 71 and that's just a
couple numbers up from the previous build and it's typically to resolve issues that are with rc1 now
within this update there is no modem update so any connectivity issues i wouldn't expect to get much
better or change as there's no modem update at least on the iphone 12 pro or other devices here
so no changes there and i did want to mention a couple things before we talk about what's new
the first thing is apple released the new macbook air m2 today and i'll have a video a little bit
later on that and also they announced apple music sessions these are available now on apple music
so you'll see it says exclusive live releases from carrie underwood and more are available on apple
music so if we go to apple music and you scroll down under the browse section you can see them
here so it says apple music sessions so go into it then you can listen to these new sessions and
just some changes there with some videos and more so that's all new today if you have apple music
and then also one thing i wanted to mention that i talked about in a short the other day
is youtube picture and picture now we've had this for some time in the united states
if you're a premium subscriber but now it's free in the united states to everyone and rolling out
around the world now around the world outside of the united states you'll have to pay for premium
in order to get picture in picture for some reason but if you want to use that you can check if you
have it make sure you have an updated youtube app go into the youtube app go to the top right tap on
your account tap on settings under settings tap on general and under general you'll have picture
in picture make sure that's turned on if you have it and then it should work also one thing
they updated is appearance now you can use the device's theme instead of just dark dark theme or
light theme i like this as i have it automatically switched throughout the day now if you want to use
picture-in-picture go back to your channel or your video to use picture-in-picture just tap
on a video and then swipe up and you'll have it in picture-in-picture you can shrink it by pinching
and zooming you can swipe it off the screen pause it and more so this is updated and it's available
now now hopefully you have that and if you do i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
now as far as new changes features and updates in rc2 well it's pretty small as far as what i could
find with my help from steve mosher the code itself shows some small changes to apple pay
cash as far as the wording so if we go into wallet when you send and receive to a friend with apple
pay cash using imessage there's some small wording changes explaining how you can change where that's
sent and received from in your settings and messages just like you would with icloud so
when you're sending messages or an icloud message through messages you can change your
icloud address or your phone number you can do that for this as well no big changes there other
than that as far as in the code now with this particular update there are still some things
that i'm sure are in the background that they've fixed but they haven't mentioned them specifically
there's a couple standout changes within 15.6 i mentioned in a different video
and i'll just go over a couple quickly and one of them has to do with safari in your
settings if you're clearing your history so if you clear history and website data in your settings
clear it you'll now have the option to close tabs or keep them open that's something new and then
also if you haven't seen the other video and if you go into screen time and then select maybe a
family member you have that's a child you can see communication safety tap on that and you now have
the option to improve communication safety they've also added a feature in the tv app which is great
if you use sports so major league baseball if you're watching a game it's already started you
have the option to completely start it over again rewind pause or fast forward similar to a dvr
they've also fixed the storage issue which is great so quite a few people are having issues
with storage i haven't seen that in this so if we go to general iphone storage i'll just load it in
real time it should load nice and quick you'll see there that's the first time i've loaded it we'll
let it load system data and like i've mentioned before system data is just sort of a cache
sometimes this will go up and down typically it will stay small but as long as you're not using
data or needing that data it will kind of take up space and go up and down now this update fixes
a bug with rc1 where it fixes an issue where it would say the device is full that has been
resolved in this update and you'll see it already loaded the system data and it's at 7.02 gigabytes
there's other fixes in safari and more so not anything huge with rc2 the same fixes are here and
the same known issues are here as well strangely so the one known issue has to do with the home app
and again it says the ios device that initiates pairing needs to be logged into the same icloud
account as the home hub only the owner of a home not an invited user can pair matter accessories
apple's making a big push with matter accessories across a different consortium of people where they
have google and others involved and that's more about ios 16 when they redesign the home app
that will probably be resolved with that now as far as the phone getting too hot i've heard from
quite a few of you that it's staying nice and cool this phone's been nice and cool the entire
time whether i'm showing it on video or whether i'm showing it elsewhere or maybe even running
benchmarks it stayed nice and cool no issues there and battery life has been pretty good i've
shared that in a different video but battery life overall is getting people easily through a day so
let's take a look on the iphone 10 i'll show you the battery health since it's actually below 100
so if we go to battery health you'll see it's at 88 percent that's pretty typical given its
age and it was used full-time for about a year and it's still at peak performance capability
so it's not time to replace the battery yet but probably pretty soon i'm not worried about it it's
just what batteries do over time but as far as battery life on this beta or the overall release
candidate it's been quite good so on release candidate one thanks to cameron for sending
this in from his 13 pro max you'll see today he's had four hours and 48 minutes of screen on time
4 hours and 39 minutes of screen off time and used about 30 percent of his battery yesterday
he had 5 hours and 11 minutes of screen on time at 3 hours and 27 minutes of screen off time and
used a little over 50 percent that's pretty phenomenal battery life so no problems there
it's probably going to be the best and most stable version of ios 15. as far as overall performance
it seems to be pretty good i did run benchmarks we'll take a look at that in a moment and i
opened up minecraft on the iphone 10 this time so we'll give it a second to load and resume here
it is taking a moment but it's a little bit older phone not too old but older than the 12 and you'll
see frame rates are nice and fast no issues here scrolling through reloading levels going through
the different level isn't really an issue and i've asked this before but i wanted to use a different
game that you think will be more intensive for future videos so let me know which would be best
in the comments below and based off what you have to say i'll use the most popular one there
now as far as the overall benchmarks they're quite good on the iphone 12 pro compared to
the previous version so if we go to geekbench 5 go to our benchmarks it scored 1589 for single core
4049 for multi-core compared to the previous version we're actually a little bit higher on
both single and multi-core this is one of the best scores we've gotten so far with these ios
15.6 betas and now the release candidate we also expect some security updates as well we'll know
more about those when this releases and as far as when to expect this to release well i would
expect ios 15.6 public version to come out monday or tuesday based on having the rc2 today that's
typically what apple does it could be later in the week but i think monday or tuesday seems likely
also then we'll move on to ios 15.7 betas we could see those later next week as well
or maybe they'll wait to the following week that will probably be the last version of ios 15.
now of course we're still waiting for ios 16 beta 4 and ios 16 public beta 2 which will be
the same thing and we could see those again next week as well so we could see a public
release of 15.6 on monday followed by maybe a ios 16 beta 4 or public beta 2 on tuesday we'll
have to wait and see what apple does but it could be next week or the week after for beta 4. as far
as if you should install ios 15.6 rc2 well if you have rc1 then definitely install it if not
you could definitely try it out but it won't be long until we have a final public release to
solve a bunch of issues also with this update if you're wondering how to go to the public version
if you're on ios 16 betas you can't easily do that without a computer but if you're on ios 15.5 or
ios 15.6 betas just uninstall the beta profile and then once the final comes out
you'll either already have it if you have rc2 or you'll have an update if you're on rc2
you'll just have it early now if you've found anything else or you'd like me to talk about
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