hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and iOS 16 beta 2 has been out for a couple weeks and
has even more new features in it that I didn't mention in the last two videos also we'll talk
about what it's like to use after a couple of weeks when to expect public betas to release
for iOS 16 and then talk about iOS 15.6 beta 4 and more toward the end of the video first
let's start with some new features if we go into settings scroll down to accessibility scroll down
to where we have audio slash visual scroll to the bottom we have LED flash for alerts you can see
now it's a separate option menu on the previous beta beta 1 we just had a switch to turn that
feature on for LED flash for alerts now with beta 2 we have some new options where we can
Flash while unlocked and Flash in silent mode so a slight update there with additional options now
also within settings if we go down to General then go to language and region you'll see I've
changed the region to Sweden even though I have the preferred language of English however there's
some new option here once you change this in beta 1 you can see on the left if I change it to Sweden
we only have region calendar and temperature now with beta 2 we have measurement system first day
of the week date format number format and then of course live text at the bottom for that option if
it exists for that language so you can see we have those options here a little bit different and some
more changes where if you prefer a different date format you can change that now within notes under
notes if you have a note with a phone number or something that the iPhone can recognize you can
now make a call directly from here tap on the phone number Select it and then scroll to the
side you'll see that we can now call that number now this is just a random number I put in you can
also send a message FaceTime FaceTime audio and it also sees other apps that you could communicate
with such as telegram or Whatsapp in the previous beta you didn't have those options so if I select
the number in beta 1 we didn't have the option we can share it and translate it but we can't
make a call directly from it when you're setting up a phone for the first time and maybe setting
up cellular dealer for the first time it looks a little bit different than it did before thanks to
Matt for sending this one in you can see here on beta 1 it looks a little different where we have
some different icons or glyphs with beta 2 that look a little nicer for use QR code and transfer
from another phone when you connect airpods to your phone you know we have a new section I've
showed you that before and under that section we can Now quickly get to accessibility settings if
we scroll down so we can now just jump right into accessibility settings for the airpods so that's
something a little bit new in beta 2. if we go into the books app in books tap on a book and wait
for it to load now instead of turning the pages you now scroll top to bottom I'm not sure I really
like this change as it was more like reading a book before hopefully it's only a bug but as you
can see here with beta 1 if we want to turn the page I can just grab and turn the page you're not
able to do that in beta 2 for some reason so it's a change they've made again hopefully it's a bug
now if you're using continuity camera with Mac OS Ventura that allows you to use the camera on the
back of your phone as a camera for your computer's webcam we'll go ahead and connect it and there's a
new option there so if I open FaceTime on my Mac give it a second you'll see it says connected and
now we have the option to pause the video so we can tap on pause or resume and that allows us
to pause the camera for a moment if maybe we need to check something in the room or talk to someone
else within the photos app if we go to a live photo tap on the live photo tap live in the upper
left that's not a new menu but you now have the option to turn it off completely so if you want
to turn off a live photo on a specific photo you can do that within messages if you long press or
haptic press as Apple calls it on either a message thread or someone you have pinned you'll have a
new Option so a long press and you can see at the bottom we now can mark that as unread this wasn't
there for me in beta 1 at least and so that's how you can access that if you want to Mark a
whole conversation is unread if you use Siri to change your brightness or check your brightness
on your phone the actual interface is a little bit different what's my screen brightness at
you can see on the right with beta 2 the actual brightness setting is a little bit larger making
it a little bit easier to access within mail you can now slide to the right and save it for later
so tap on later and now you can have it remind you in an hour tonight tomorrow or later so it's nice
to have that option in mail finally within mail if you go to send a PDF or a file that's locked
there will now be a little lock in it letting you know you'll need a password in order to access it
so it's just a small visual update to help you out a little bit more if we go into the contacts
app within contacts under lists if you press and hold under one of your contact lists so
for example here I have favorites you can now export those contacts easily by long pressing
or haptic pressing on them so any of these here where we have 673 I can email all of them export
rename or delete them it's just a small change to make it much easier to get your contacts off your
phone to a different device within the wallet app under your cash card in the upper right there's
three dots for a menu that wasn't there with beta 1 we can now search or view card details we also
have a send and request button I talked about in the initial what's new video but as you can
see there's no option in the upper right and no sender request button so they've made it a little
bit different even if you set this up it still won't appear so something a little bit new when
you take a screenshot and tap on the screenshot if you tap on done you'll now have an option at
the bottom to save to quick note now I showed this before where you can actually tap the save
in the upper right the share icon and then save it that way but it also makes it easier to do just at
the bottom here with save to photos saved a quick note saved to files or delete screenshot or cancel
within settings under wallpaper there's a change if we go to a wallpaper add a new wallpaper then
we'll add a photo you'll see here's the wallpaper I'm currently using we'll tap on done and if we
customize that same wallpaper here for the home screen we'll customize the current wallpaper it
will now blur it by default in the background so you'll see legibility blur is on we can turn that
off of course or just leave it blurred but now it does it by default and gives you the option Apple
has updated maps with outlines of national parks so you can see it's fairly faint I wish they would
darken this a bit but it gives the border for example of the Grand Canyon National Park where
there's a border outlining the entire park this is a pretty large Park so you'll see if to zoom out
a bit but it shows in a border around the park where everything is this works for any national
park in the United States so you can see with beta 1 on the left there is no border there also if we
scroll up and go into the guide about the Park Tap on more on beta 2 we can add photos right
here it's not available in the same menu drop down on beta 1 also we can access the same thing
a little bit lower where it says add your photos or add photos they've changed the way it looks to
be sort of a quick menu instead of a menu at the bottom so slight changes within Maps within music
if you go to the artist page they've gotten rid of the see all button when you're seeing all of their
lists for top songs or albums or anything else so there's no longer a see all button for some
reason they've gotten rid of it and you can just scroll through I kind of liked the see all options
so hopefully they bring it back but currently it's gone with beta 2. it could be updated maybe
with beta 3 or the public release also to go along with music if you go down to your Control Center
and go into Shazam haptic press or long press you'll see that we have our history here with
beta 2 we now have this information synced with what we looked up with Siri so if you're using
Siri music to maybe search for a different sound that's playing or song that's playing now that
information will be here in your history synced with Shazam why this wasn't done before is hard
to say but Apple did acquire Shazam so maybe it's just taken time to integrate that code but
finally it's synced up within Spotlight search if we tap on search or just pull down from the
middle we can can now create a timer from within Spotlight search so you'll see I search for timer
we can tap on create timer and it will say for how long do you want to create it based off a
shortcut and more so we can finally use the timer within our Spotlight search now in watch OS 8.7
beta 4 there's a new feature or maybe a warning and thanks to Braum for sending this in from
techrender one of my friends over there and if we go into photos you can see here that when he was
using his Apple watch he was going for a run in high temperatures about 100 degrees the cellular
data option was not selectable on his watch after that it said cellular will not be available until
Apple watch cools down I haven't seen this before and he hadn't either now if you have I'd love to
hear from you in the comments below but it's just something that's different that we haven't seen
before as far as remaining bugs and issues with iOS 16 beta 2 it's an early beta so keep in mind
there's going to be quite a few one is a pretty major bug for me and that has to do with the
messages in group conversations sometimes the text box complete disappears so if I go into messages
you'll see here I'm unable to type in this if I go on my computer I can type in this message box or
sometimes on the iPad and then all of a sudden it will magically reappear sometimes rebooting works
sometimes it doesn't work but right now it's not working properly so this has been a bit of a pain
and of course I reported that in the feedback app is that something that Apple will need to
address also setting a wallpaper can be quite buggy if we go into wallpaper and maybe I go to
add a new wallpaper we'll go to photos I'll just add the current wallpaper tap on done sometimes
it doesn't save the actual home page wallpaper sometimes it blurs it sometimes it doesn't and
it just seems to be having errors here and there so this is something they haven't fixed completely
and sometimes customizing one or the other it won't change this continues to be an issue I'm
hearing about from quite a few people also the other day I actually set an alarm on my clock
here and it didn't go off in the morning because it actually failed to boot up it crashed went to
a black screen the phone didn't turn on and I had to hard reset it in order for the phone to
come back to life it was on a magsafe charger however thankfully my Apple watch was working
properly and the alarm went off on this but my phone didn't work properly so that's definitely
a reason not to use the beta on your main phone as I've talked about before also sometimes music will
just stop and then not play at all and then I'll have to start it again or close the app altogether
and start over and then also the phone does seem to get warm from time to time in fact right now
it's quite a bit warm not terribly hot compared to beta 1 but it still does get quite quite warm and
drains the battery a lot as far as iOS 15.6 beta 4 that has been very stable for most people it seems
to be the most stable version of iOS 15 and it should be at this point many people in the YouTube
Community poll which we'll check in a moment said it's quite stable has very few issues and has much
better battery they're getting through the day without problem so let me share the battery on
this and then we'll talk about battery on iOS 16. we go into photos thanks to Abhishek for
sending these in but today he used one hour and 53 minutes of screen on time and 38 minutes of
screen off time this is on an iPhone 11 Pro Max and used under 25 of his battery if we take a
look at the day before 4 hours and three minutes of screen on time one hour and 32 minutes of
screen off time and 40 percent of his his battery was used for background activity on Instagram and
WhatsApp and he used about about 70 or 60 percent of his battery so it varies depending of course on
what you're doing but sometimes it easily gets you through a day with more than 50 to 60 percent left
just depends on your device but most people report the best battery life of iOS 15. not everybody
but 99 which we didn't have earlier on as far as battery life in iOS 16 beta 2 well you can expect
that to be pretty terrible it's an early beta and that's not the focus but if we take a look at my
battery life my battery health is at one hundred percent and my battery life over the last eight
days it actually wiped out my battery life for some reason maybe with a hard reboot or when it
hard rebooted but now it's working and you'll see yesterday only one hour and 32 minutes of screen
on time six hours and three minutes of screen off time and it used 50 of my battery that's pretty
terrible battery life and you'll see I'm only getting about well usually I'm going to bed with
about 30 to 40 percent of my battery not great some people report it's better it's been about
the same as beta 1 maybe a little bit better for me so on the iPad if we go into settings it's been
fairly stable here but if we go to battery we'll give it just a moment you'll see the last 10 days
I charged it well the other day at 8 AM to 100 and we're down to 56 percent after about two to three
hours of usage so three to six hours usually five or six hours is what I say depending on how you're
using it seems to be holding that however it's been fairly bug free with the exception of stage
manager sometimes that causes an issue but in general it's been pretty bug free compared to the
iPhone there are occasional crashes for me on it though and it's still definitely not ready for the
public and that leads me to should you install iOS 16 beta 2 at this point just wait for the public
beta as it's coming out in July we're already in July so I would expect the public beta to come out
probably this coming week apple is not specified a date but Monday is a holiday in the United States
July 4th or Independence Day so maybe Tuesday or Wednesday and then also iOS 15.6 release
candidate I would expect this week typically we don't wait between betas when we're after beta 3
or 4. usually it will be weekly so I would expect a release candidate with a final release probably
in the following week then we'll have maybe beta 3 this week or maybe Apple will push that to the
following week as well sometimes the public beta will be beta 2 of the developer beta sometimes it
will be beta 3. it could be somewhere in between but either way I'll let you know as soon as those
are available I think the final version of iOS 15 will be in late August like they normally do
probably at this point with 15.7 and then a final release of iOS 16 in mid-september along with the
iPhone 14 14 plus or 14 Max 14 pro and 14 pro Max all of those things are coming in September and we
should have a very busy fall with apple releases now as far as the YouTube Community poll you can
see here at the time of this video there's 8.7 K votes or 8 700 votes and 98 comments that's where
I got all of the information for this video so thanks to everyone that voted and commented and
if you want to check this out you can see it on the Community page for some reason it's not
accessible on an iPad the YouTube app but you can see it on Safari or any other web browser so nine
percent are on iOS 15.6 beta 4 21 are on 16 beta 2 60 are on 15.5 or public versions and older two
percent around 14.8 or older and 8 Center using Android so thanks again to everyone that commented
and voted now as far as the YouTube Community poll I went through every comment and pulled out a few
comments that I thought would be most relevant to what we were talking about earlier so we'll
go into notes here and you'll see I've pasted them here and Mitten says I must say iOS 16 beta 2 is
solid and works amazingly well with minor bugs using it on my main device and enjoying the iOS
16 so far now that's not the experience that I think most are having it's okay but definitely
still buggy for some but sometimes it can be great as well the next one is from China pen Nicholas
and they said I'm running iOS 15.6 beta 4 on an iPhone SE 2020 and it has been good so far stable
and battery life is okay from the SE standard the next one is from be real that says I'm running
iOS 16 beta 2 on my iPhone 8 plus and it's running smooth I just have problems every once in a while
with apple music sometimes when it Force quits so that's a problem for some people seems to be an
issue on the betas quite a bit for me as well and so iOS 16 continues to change a lot at a ton of
features and little conveniences and of course I expect even more with beta 3 and the public
release so look for that this week hopefully Apple hasn't confirmed that but they did say July and we
can expect it pretty soon along with probably iOS 15.6 RC and maybe a final release within another
week or so if you found anything else I'd love to hear from you in the comments below and of
course if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper I'll link it in the description like
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