Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and today apple released ios 15.3 beta 2. this is available
to developers and hopefully by the time you're watching this video it will be out to public beta
testers as well although they haven't released it yet now this particular update came in at 648.7
megabytes that's on my iphone 13 pro max and it was anywhere between 400 and 700 megabytes
on the iphone 6s plus iphone 11 and iphone 10 as i've installed it here as many of you
requested and you'll see the first time installing it it's showing me the little hello symbols or the
little hello script and you'll see that i have to continue and set this up later so we'll continue
i don't know why it's making me do this this time but we'll just do this for now and you'll see this
is the first time installing this beta on the iphone 10 like many of you requested so we'll
let that continue we'll hit agree and now we're in on the iphone 10. so we'll talk more about that a
little bit later now apple also released ipad os 15.3 beta 2 that i have on the 12.9 inch ipad pro
from 2021 along with that they released watch os 8.4 beta 2 tv os 15.3 beta 2 and yesterday mac os
monterey 12.2 beta2 all of those are available now and earlier today they also released ios 15.2.1 to
the public which i already did a video on so a lot of things coming out at once now let's go ahead
and take a look at the build number and talk about what's new so we'll go to settings then general
then about you can see the build number is 19d 5040e and while we're not close to an a at the end
of that build there may not be a few more builds before the final release we'll have to talk about
that in a little bit but the first thing in this update is a modem update apple updated the modem
on this 13 pro max to 1.41.06 and already it's better i actually went out between filming videos
and when i was on 5g it switched without a problem between 5g and 5g uc where it always gave me a
problem before so maybe they've finally resolved it in this update and if so i'm very glad that
it's actually working properly that's been a huge pain where i would have to turn on airplane mode
turn it back off for it to work properly now it seems to just work so that's a great thing
now as far as new features or changes well this is more of a refinement update but there are some
small notable changes throughout the first thing has to do with private relay so if you've used
private relay this is something that's been in the news lately where carriers want to disable it in
the european union and some are seeing it disabled when they try to enable it in their settings
so within settings if you go into your settings tap on your name and then icloud now if you
have private relay and you've enabled it and it's working that's great however it's in beta
and some carriers apparently are disabling it however apple has clarified some of the wording
within this update before if you turned it on and it didn't work it could tell you a
message that says your cellular plan doesn't support icloud private relay now in beta 2
when you turn it on it will say private relay is either not supported by your cellular plan
or has been turned off in cellular settings so it could be in a couple places make sure
it's not turned off in cellular settings they've updated just the wording in this so not really
the feature altogether but they've just clarified it they've also clarified something with legacy
contacts so if you go into that legacy contact is within your icloud and then security information
and it's a way you can share your information with a loved one after you've passed on and
they've changed a ton of the wording throughout so you'll see now it says legacy contacts can access
and download the data stored in your account after your death when a friend or family member adds you
as a legacy contact their name will appear here so again they're clarifying things throughout the os
to make it a little bit more understandable so they've updated that as well now if you've had
your battery replaced on your iphone recently whether that be an apple battery or something
else apple added a new feature in ios 15.2 that continues in 15.3 and what that does is let you
know under the about section in your phone what's been replaced and when and with what so the if the
battery was replaced it will tell you they have a website that shows this and it will tell you if
it's a genuine apple part or not under about now when you go into this if you have a part replaced
the learn more will take you to this website they've actually changed the url where it goes
so we'll bring you here and it talks more about that with iphone parts and service history
so they've updated that within the code now something else they've updated has to do with ipad
and this one's a bit curious now with ipad there's references and thanks to my friend steve moser for
pointing this out there's references to maybe beta firmware for apple pencil i was not able to find
any of that information here but if you go into apple pencil settings so if you go into
your settings under apple pencil you can actually see all the different features and changes here
however under general and about there's actually firmware versions maybe in the future there will
be a beta profile for an apple pencil and you'll be able to install some new features ahead of time
it looks like apple's preparing for that although this could be related to a new tool that apple has
that lets their geniuses in the store more easily update firmware on airpods and apple
pencil and more but there is some references to that so i thought that was something
a little bit different that was unexpected now keep in mind with ios 15.2 apple introduced child
protection however they removed all references to csam from their website and it looks like
it's delayed indefinitely so they continue to have that code removed so far it hasn't returned
as far as promotion on this display some people are saying it was inconsistent so far with 15.3
it's been great and one thing i did notice is it seems to be extremely smooth in this update so
whether apple continues to refine it or not is hard to say but it does seem to be very smooth
the storage bug does seem to be present still though so if we go into general and then storage
or iphone storage you'll see it loaded pretty quickly there but when i tried this before the
video it took a while to load and it seems like it's loading okay but my system data still hasn't
shown up properly and it's just taking a while so i don't think they've resolved that issue
in this particular update also the apple music streaming bug they have mentioned nothing about
not in ios 15.2.1 and not in 15.3 beta 2. so that issue where you would stream music not downloaded
music but streamed music on apple music it could cause you to use additional cpu cycles which in
turn would cause you to use more battery so that has been an issue they haven't resolved yet and
in the notes of this particular update apple has not mentioned a single thing in fact they said
there's no new notes in this update so i'm not sure what's going on with that but this is the
first beta we've had since the new year so maybe they're still working on some additional features
typically with an updated beta they'll put in features with beta 2 and beta3 that we can see
so far we haven't had any major major changes with this particular update now that leads me
to overall battery life and battery life in this update hopefully will be a little bit
better or more consistent than beta 1. i talked about that in multiple updates and you'll see
my battery health on this device is one hundred percent and if we go back the last few days have
not been great for me yesterday i had three hours and five minutes of screen on time seven hours and
37 minutes of screen off time playing with the screen off playing music and things like that
however i used 50 of my battery life so i could get about six or seven hours of screen on time
it's been very inconsistent as this beta has gone on so hopefully this beta improves it fixes those
bugs and that music streaming bug really needs to be resolved maybe they've resolved it and didn't
mention it yet but hopefully they fix that very very soon for all of us now measuring battery
life will take a few days as you need to let the phone cycle a few times and typically right after
running the update it will sort of do things in the background and re-index and more so it
can take a few days to know for sure what battery life is like and i'll be sure to report back in a
follow-up later this weekend now as far as overall performance performance like i said before pro
motion seems to be pretty good and on the oldest device here the iphone 6s plus again it seems to
be pretty good opening music for the first time you'll see it loaded right away scrolling is
nice and smooth a little bit of a hiccup there but it's loading and in general it seems to be pretty
good like i said the performance in this update i was pretty impressed with right away at least on
the 13 pro max now i did run minecraft really quickly just to see how quickly it would load
and resume so we'll wait for this to resume here just a moment to show you in real time
and if we hit resume frame rates are solid much better than with previous updates it seems to
be pretty good and easily playable so whether it's minecraft or call of duty or something else
it definitely seems to be an improvement this time around from previous updates now the heat of the
devices seems to be pretty good after playing that game for just a moment loading it there
is a little bit of warmth but it wasn't even hot after updating to the latest version of the beta
so these are actually performing quite well maybe they've changed some of the settings for the cpu
and its thermals but overall it seems to be performing fine without getting too hot now
as far as the overall benchmark scores let's go ahead and take a look at those i ran geekbench 5
on all of these and let's go to today you can see on the 13 pro max it scored 1739 for single core
4502 for multicore now if we go back and look at the previous beta which was on december 18th here
when i last ran it you'll see i had a little bit higher single core today and a little bit lower
multi-core this is okay as i just installed the update and then ran the benchmarks so i expect
this to improve a little bit over the next few days but either way it seems to be performing well
now let's take a look at all of these devices from left to right i have the ipad pro 12.9 from 2021
followed by the iphone 6s plus then the iphone 10 then the iphone 11 and then the iphone 13 pro max
so again this should give you a general idea of what your devices can expect
right after installing the update but i do expect these to increase a little bit over the next day
or so now as far as when to expect ios 15.3 beta 3 or maybe a final release last year apple released
around the same sort of time frame with ios 14.4 beta 2. then they followed that up on january 21st
with 14.4 release candidate after that they released the final version on january
26th with ios 14.4 after only two betas so we could definitely see something similar this year
with ios 15.3 so maybe a release candidate next week with a final before the end of the month
or apple could change this entirely as they haven't said publicly what they're going to do
however one thing they are testing out is the apple digital id that should begin sometime
in february in a couple airports in the united states with supporting states so the plan is to
use your iphone or your apple watch to go through an airport checkport checkpoint to verify it's you
and once you can do that they're going to test it out and they're going to do that in february
we know that from things they've said so maybe we'll have that update before then with maybe 15.4
betas coming out in february we don't know 100 but that seems likely as to what they might do and so
that leads me to should you install ios 15.3 beta 2 if you're already on the public versions and
you're looking to improve battery life and things like that i would stick with 15.2.1 that came out
today as well otherwise if you want to check it out check out the new betas you don't have a
problem with bugs and don't mind having bugs and then reporting them in feedback then you could
definitely check it out just make sure you have a backup and if you want to roll back you'll need a
computer to do that so just keep those things in mind otherwise you could definitely try it out
but i typically recommend you stay on the public version if you're worried about bugs and battery
life otherwise this seems to be stable so far and so that's everything so far in this update if i
find anything else of course i'll keep you updated in that follow up later this week and if you'd
like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course i'll link it in the description like i normally do
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