hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and iOS 16.3 released today to all iOS 16 supported devices iOS
16.3 is out and available for iPhone 8 8 plus and newer all the way up to the 14 pro Max now this is
a decent size install and will be a few hundred megabytes to 5 gigabytes depending on which
version you're actually on along with this apple also released a bunch of other updates iPad OS
16.3 Mac OS 13.2 watch OS 9.3 TV Os 16.3 homepod Os 16.3 and iOS 15.7.3 and iPad OS 15.7.3 now the
build number of iOS 16.3 if we go into settings go to General then about you can see is 20d47 which
means if you're a developer or beta tester you already have the final version and once you remove
the beta profile you'll just stop receiving future updates that are on the beta if you would like to
continue to receive beta updates leave the profile in place now as far as new features well there's
quite a few in this update and the first thing has to do with Fido security Keys iOS 16.3 if we
go into our settings and then tap on our name at the top then go into security and passwords and
under passwords and security we now have a new button that says add security Keys Apple says
physical security Keys provide a strong form of two-factor authentication then you can learn more
if you tap on ADD security keys and once you tap on ADD security key you'll get this prompt where
it says security Keys a Fido certified security key is third-party Hardware that you can use for
two-factor authentication when you sign in and this is a Google Titan Fido security key but you
can use any Fido security key compatible key tap on ADD security Keys then it says you'll need two
keys that's in case you actually lose one of them so if you do enable this make sure that you have
two of them tap continue sometimes you have to tap continue twice for whatever reason then you'll
have to put in your passcode so we'll give it just a moment here we'll put in our iPhone passcode
now it says add security Keys insert and activate your first security key if you have a compatible
NFC key bring it to the top of the phone so if you have a lightning key this is USBC but if you have
lightning place it in the phone if not bring it to the top and this is an NFC enabled key as well
we'll name this key and then you can add another then the next time you go to sign into your Apple
ID you'll either insert the key or tap it to the top of the phone and it will verify that it's you
that's physically there with iOS 16.2 Apple added Advanced Data protection for encryption with a
lot of different services on your device that's now available globally with iOS 16.3 to access
that go to your settings tap on your ID at the top then tap iCloud under iCloud if you scroll
down you'll see Advanced Data protection I have it enabled and if we go into that
you'll see here it says iCloud encrypts your data to keep it secure so it's encrypting things such
as device backup and messages backup iCloud Drive notes photos and everything you'll see here and
then it talks about account recovery and it helps you set all of that up so if you want the highest
security enable two-factor authentication enable Advanced Data protection and then it will really
secure your device with end-to-end encryption on all of the services mentioned here and again it's
now available worldwide with iOS 16.3 if we go into our wallpaper or our lock screen go to add
a wallpaper you'll see a new Unity wallpaper it says designed by black creatives and allies at
Apple to honor black history and culture if we tap on this we have different color options so
we can scroll through black red orange green blue purple pink cream and gray and then also
if we tap on the clock we have a new font option so it's a bolded rounded font option as well and
then we can just set it however we want and once this wallpaper is set so we'll hit add
we'll just set it like this if we go to this wallpaper and then we lock the screen and we
have wallpaper on this is actually sort of an outline of what you see here so I'll enable the
wallpaper on the lock screen and you'll see here if I lock it now it's an outline of that wallpaper
and again this was based on an announcement Apple had in celebration of black history month so you
can read all about it under the Apple Newsroom but if you want that new wallpaper it's here in
this update Apple adds support for the new homepod second generation this was announced last week it
comes out in February but if you have a homepod mini they've added a bunch of features as well
with homepot OS 16.3 and there's new features in the home app for this the first thing is it
adds find my support so you can find your homepod within the find my app you can also create home
automations with your voice and it has some remastered ambient sounds I'll show you in a
moment but if you have a homepod mini homepod OS 16.3 enables temperature and humidity sensors in
the homepod the sensor was there all along and if we go into the home app you'll see climate at
the top and we now have sensors for temperature and humidity based off the home pod so that's
something that we didn't have before that we have now and additionally if we go into a home pod and
scroll down maybe we want to create a new alarm under new alarm tap on play media then choose
media then we have ambient sounds and you'll see some different selections here of fireplace Forest
night ocean rain stream and white noise so these have been remastered and they're available for
your homepod to play as an alarm or you could have them on your phone as well with the alarm but you
can see that's available now additionally we can set up some new automations within the home app
based off the sensors in the homepod if we go into Automation and then let's add an automation here
then we can have it trigger based on a sensor detects something under that we
now have temperature sensor or humidity sensor so we could select temperature or humidity and then
have something activate or deactivate based on the ambient temperature whether that's a thermostat or
maybe if it drops below a certain temperature it can alert you and that's something you can set
up now within the home map emergency SOS gets an update as well if we go into our settings go to
emergency SOS you'll see it says call withhold and release so that's been reworded nothing big
there we also have a new option for call quietly if you start an emergency call using the gesture
above warning alarms and flashes will be silenced so that's a new feature or option if you want to
use emergency SOS and additionally Apple has made it so you have to trigger emergency SOS
using two buttons now you can use either of the volume up or the volume down buttons and then
press and hold the power sleep wake button so if you press volume up and power sleep wake it
will bring you to this display making it harder to trigger accidentally and this is probably in
response to people actually having this trigger while they're on roller coasters or going down
ski slopes so hopefully this eliminates some of those issues people were having with emergency SOS
additionally within the code there's mentions of Apple music classical however that's something we
haven't seen yet so Apple purchased Prime phonic which was a classical music service they've added
it to the code as a separate app but we haven't seen it yet so maybe they'll just turn that on
with a push update or we could see it later on now Apple's actually fixed a bunch of things
so there's some bug fixes and the first one has to do with free form so if you're using Apple's
new freeform app and maybe you're drawing so you have the little pencil here and you're drawing
something on the screen sometimes it wouldn't actually appear unshared boards that's true of
the iPad as well so there's not any specific iPad updates with this update but if you're
using freeform on the iPad the same thing is true if you're using shared boards sometimes it just
wouldn't show up now it should show up properly so that's something they've fixed with this update
another issue they've fixed has to do with the wallpaper sometimes appearing black on the lock
screen sometimes you would lock your phone set it down and the wallpaper would disappear even if you
had the wallpaper enabled and this carries across to all phones not just the ones with the always on
display so if you turned on your phone sometimes it just wouldn't show the wallpaper and it would
be black that should be fixed in this update also they've fixed the lock screen issue with the
iPhone 4 13 Pro Max where sometimes you would turn on the display and you would have horizontal lines
on the display Apple has mentioned in the past that this is actually a software issue and they've
fixed it with iOS 16.3 so that should no longer be an issue they've also fixed an issue where the
widgets on the lock screen if you're using the home widgets so if we go to customize and maybe
customize this one we'll remove it and if we were using one for home sometimes it wouldn't display
the correct information that's been resolved in this update so you'll see here it's displaying the
correct information for humidity and the lights and it's still there properly when you turn it
back on that's been fixed where sometimes it was incorrect they've also fixed some issues with Siri
this has been a long time issue and it's fixed issues where Siri would not respond properly to
music requests maybe you ask it to play a song and it would give you the wrong results not understand
you that should be resolved in this update also the same is true with Siri requests in carplay
play where they may not be understood correctly that's been fixed in 16.3 also many people have
told me that the airpods bug has been resolved where it would show no battery status whatsoever
for the case on the lock screen or in your widgets it looks like that's repaired now you can see it
here and in some cases it was only for the airpods Pro 2 but it looks like it's working most people
report that the issue has been resolved before it would just show zero percent in that there
was no charge for the airpods case it looks like it's fixed but if you're still having that issue
let me know in the comments below now within this update our security updates as well unfortunately
Apple takes a while to update this website so if you go to Apple's security update website once
they fill this in you'll see all of the latest updates with iOS 16.3 and iPad OS 16.3 watch and
mac and all of the latest updates here and what they fixed I'll link that in the description but
you'll see everything that they've resolved and usually there's quite a few of them so that leads
me to should you install iOS 16.3 for security updates alone absolutely if you have an iPhone 14
pro Max and you're having those lines show up on your screen when you unlock the phone definitely
install it as far as remaining bugs well there definitely seems to be a couple after a few days
more specifically on the iPhone 14 pro and 14 pro Max sometimes it starts to lag a little bit more
so when you're actually using the dynamic Island so maybe we're playing a song We swipe to go home
you'll see there was a little bit of stutter there that usually shows up after a few days some people
experience this some don't but for whatever reason it shows up a restart fixes that issue
additionally some people are experiencing stutter when sort of swiping on phones most of this has
gone away but once in a while it shows up also there's still the camera bug that many have
mentioned so where you take a photo and it doesn't look like what it looks like on your display
instead it sort of darkens it in my test so far it doesn't seem to be fixed Apple hasn't mentioned
that they've resolved it so hopefully they do resolve it in a future update but it may take
some more time to figure out exactly what's going on and then have the processing corrected but it's
definitely an issue that's been there for a while as far as overall battery life let's go to my
battery and you'll see battery health is at 99 so that's pretty good after a few months no problems
there and if we go to the last 10 days batteries actually improved for me generally compared to
iOS 16.2 many of you say the same thing but we don't really know until we've been using it for
at least a few weeks that it's actually much better but so far it's been better for me so
you'll see here on Friday a few day days back I had three hours and 51 minutes of screen active
time 3 hours and 33 minutes of screen idle time it seemed to be about the same day after day using
about 50 to 60 percent of my battery I'm getting about four hours that's much better than it was
before with 16.2 where I would use my entire battery with almost five hours of screen active
time so I'm using about half the battery for the same amount of time it's definitely improved for
me everyone's experience will vary a little bit as far as overall performance other than that
lag I mentioned whether it's an older phone or a newer phone it seems to be nice and smooth whether
you're going into a game or just swiping between different screens or just using different apps
and switching between things such as music seems to be just fine what you would expect before I
would expect now with pretty good performance I wouldn't say there's any slowdowns there
as far as the heat of the device many people have asked me about that it seems to stay nice and cool
for me on 16.3 I've been quite impressed with that I don't pay too much attention to that as
Apple manages the temperature but let me share with you the thermal camera and you'll see the
phone is quite cool in the thermal camera about 76.7 degrees Fahrenheit and if we move that over
to Celsius you'll see about 27 degrees Celsius is the hottest I hit there so it's staying nice
and cool in general now as far as future updates we could see iOS 16.4 beta 1 as soon as tomorrow
that's what Apple did last year after the release of iOS 15.3 the next day they actually released
15.4 beta 1. so we could see that with maybe some new features maybe Apple music classical or
something we're not expecting altogether there should be quite a few different updates until
probably iOS 17 that we expect in June So based off of the overall releases just a few months
away we'll see iOS 17 for the first time and then of course move into the betas with that and still
have updates with iOS 16 as well so we also have a bunch of product releases this week with MacBooks
and then Mac Mini and then later in February we have the homepod version 2 or second generation
coming out as well so lots of things this month we expect a lot of different Macs in the future
as well as Apple's headset that they're supposedly working on and much more let me know what you're
looking most forward to with future updates what features you'd like to see the most and
of course if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper I'll link it in the description like I
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