hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech at ios 16 has been out for almost two weeks with the first beta
we're getting close to beta 2 and also 15.6 beta 3 has been out for a few days we'll talk about
that talk about what you had to say on the youtube community poll a little bit later in the video but
first i want to talk about even more new features that are in ios 16 that i didn't mention in the
initial what's new video and more new features video the first one has to do with music if
you go into a music playlist you'll see we have a bunch of different songs here if i press and hold
on those songs i can copy and drag them tap other songs and they stack up just like you're dragging
and dropping an app you can then go back to maybe a different playlist and drag them into that
so you can go back to your playlist drag those over here and it will show you where you can
actually drag them into so that's something that's a little bit new and different so if we go back in
you'll see that this changes we can let go and it goes back so again copy and paste scroll through
our different songs and then move them around so that's something that's all new in ios 16.
now if we go into spotlight search and then run maybe a shortcut we'll turn the flashlight on
you'll see it runs at the top and then gives us an animation and then it checks the actual box
that it's completed hit it again you'll see it run again and it actually checks the box after
prior to this with ios 15 that box just sort of showed up with a check mark immediately
now it's just a little box that circles in and then puts a check there when you're on
the lock screen and maybe you have an alarm set you'll see here at the top the little alarm
icon looks different than it did before saying when it will go off next then also on the lock
screen when you're using your iphone as a remote for your apple tv looks a little bit different
you'll see we now have volume buttons instead of a volume slider when you're on the lock screen or
in your notifications swiping them off the display is slightly different so if we bring them up here
maybe tap on one swipe them off the display they have a different animation to them so
it's a little bit different looks a little nicer and it's a little bit more fluid so if we swipe
them off the display you'll see what it looks like there when you're in a note and you go to paste or
paste anywhere within the system the paste button actually moves around quite a bit muscle memory
has me pushing right here to paste but it usually stays toward the left or whatever your more
prominent actions are will stay toward the left so that's slightly different just something i had
to relearn when you go to delete the find my app maybe you don't want to use it tap on remove app
delete app it will actually warn you and say delete find my deleting this app will not remove
any people devices or items associated with your apple id your location may be visible to anyone
you are sharing with you can modify location sharing in settings so it actually isn't removing
the overall sharing of the phone just the app in order to see it so that's just something to note
that looks new in ios 16. now of course in photos we have this option to copy and paste something
out of a photo which is incredible but we're waiting for that family shared library within
the family shared library thanks to my friend steve mosher for pointing this out within the
code he found that if you're sharing a library with someone and maybe there's an embarrassing
photo at a location you can exclude that or exclude embarrassing photos there should be an
option for that and maybe we'll see that with beta too now using ios 16 over the past couple
of weeks has been okay as far as an early beta is concerned it's much better than previous ones
such as maybe ios 15 or ios 13 but it's pretty stable overall it does have issues of course and
one thing it took me a little bit to get used to but i'm starting to really like is the lock screen
the lock screen font being a little bit different i really like it and it's more prominent and
easier to read especially at night if you're using it as an alarm clock so i really appreciate those
things they seem to be a little bit better and it's taken time to get used to i'm not crazy
about setting wallpaper and having it switch based on the actual focus modes and things like that but
it's something i'm getting used to and seems to be a really nice addition that you can customize
now as far as issues there are still a few issues where apps crash the overall weather app is very
often not accurate at all so if we look at ios 15.6 beta 3 you'll see currently it's very similar
but often i'll find that it takes a lot longer to refresh with ios 16. so something changed with the
weather as far as that goes and it continues to be inaccurate most of the time oftentimes for me also
the mail icon is incorrect as far as how many mail are still unread and there's just lots of freezes
and touch response issues throughout oftentimes i'll set a new wallpaper and it will be just sort
of a blank background until i change it in our settings and change it overall to a different
wallpaper then it will work but many times if i go to set a new wallpaper maybe we'll set a photo
we'll set this photo often times it actually is just a blank screen that time it's working
but oftentimes it doesn't show anything at all and it's just a black screen so lots of little bugs of
course that you want to report in the feedback app to help apple fix if they're not already
aware of it clearing notifications often doesn't work on the lock screen so if you go to clear all
many times it just doesn't work so there's that bug i continually have that and also i've had
to reboot this about four to five times so it's been okay like i said but it's an early beta and
some of those things are be are to be expected cellular is still just okay not great but it
seems like something they could improve of course and then also it keeps dropping my wi-fi password
for some reason so over and over it will ask me for my wi-fi password every couple of days
and that just keeps dropping that doesn't happen on other versions bluetooth is okay haven't really
had any issues with that and switching between devices with mac os venturo now one of the major
issues with ios 16 is battery life if we go to settings go to my battery health you'll see i'm
still at 100 which is pretty good and over the past few days using it for past couple weeks
battery life has just been pretty awful so you'll see last thursday i had three hours and 57 minutes
of screen on time at 2 hours and 42 minutes of screen off time and used about 75 percent of
my battery typically when i go to bed at night i'll have about 50 to 60 percent of my battery
life left and lately i've had about 20 to 25 so i'm definitely cycling the battery more as you
can see here with coconut battery there's more cycles however the battery health hasn't dropped
yet but i do expect that soon the phone also gets very warm all the time and many of you report the
exact same experience in the comments of the poll so lots of issues as far as that goes but again
it's an early beta i would expect it to get better with beta 2 and beta 3 and the public beta
as far as ios 15.6 though battery life on that seems to be quite good i did a test last night
with this iphone 12 pro i plugged it in until 100 then took it off the charger i just wirelessly
charged it and you'll see this one if we go into battery battery health go back to battery health
we're still at 100 on this device and what i did to test this is just leave it off the charger
and see what it would do as far as the overall battery when i picked it up this morning seven
to eight hours later it had 100 percent now it's at 96 since the screen's been on we're outside
so it's really doing well as far as standby time and i did have someone send me in their battery
life this one's thanks to cameron or connor and you'll see here they had six hours and 13 minutes
of screen on time two hours and 41 minutes of screen off time this is on an iphone 13 pro max so
pretty good there five hours and 36 minutes of screen on time three hours and two minutes of
screen off time and they used about 50 percent of their battery so easily getting over 10 to
12 hours of screen on time with this particular update so i expect ios 15 to be much much better
battery life on the ipad continues to be what you would expect at this point it's just not great
you'll see here as it loads yesterday i had one hour and 49 minutes of screen on time and
the day before that three hours and 26 minutes of screen on time and used about
65 percent of my battery right now i'm at 57 and i've recharged it yesterday at 11 49 am
so it's doing okay standby time wise but just in general it's not great
it's just what you would expect with the ipad lately but everything else with ipad os 16 has
been pretty good i haven't had any crashes or issues just that issue with the weather widget
not updating properly now as far as overall performance on older devices ios 16 seems to
be performing just fine if we go into the camera you'll see it's nice and fast no real issues there
other than the apps crashing with banking apps and things like that but performance wise it's
just fine whether that be scrolling going into music or maybe just loading your favorite game
all of those things seem to be okay and whether that be an older device or a new device and as
far as the benchmarks i did run them on the 13 pro max but they don't mean a whole lot this early on
so if we go to geekbench you'll see it scored 1722 for single core 4600 for multi-core if we take a
look at the history you'll see the previous time i ran this was on ios 15.6 beta 2. so we're actually
doing a little bit better than that but this can vary greatly and with the phone getting so warm
being outside it seems like it's ramped down the processor so last week i had a problem recording
this a little bit where the phone got too hot and dropped the display so it dropped the display
brightness down where it's very bright outside so i keep it full brightness when recording this so
right now there's some issues like i said but overall performance is pretty impressive going
into different apps and everything else it seems to load just like you would expect
now ios 15.6 is boring but it's important we need stability and bug fixes from ios 15.5 i've had
numerous people mention issues with it and it's time we have that update until we get ios 16.
there's not a lot of changes but stability should be the focus and most report no issues whatsoever
with it so it seems to be a great update and it should be at this point cellular bluetooth
wi-fi and overall stability appear to be much much better with ios 15.6 and so that leads me
to should you install ios 15.6 betas or ios 16 beta 1 i would say at this point ios 15 is fine
to install ios 16 definitely wait until the public beta this phone is much warmer than the other one
and it's just been sitting here with the screen on it's not doing anything it's a little bit
warm outside but it's not doing anything and it's really using a lot of power it's just very buggy
from time to time but again it's okay for an early beta so go ahead and install 15.6 betas but just
know that you need a backup and if you want to go back you need to use a computer or else you just
can't do that so keep that in mind as far as when to expect ios 16 beta 2 well based on last year i
would expect it maybe thursday at this point last year apple released it on thursday the 24th now
that's a friday but i would expect it probably around thursday meaning ios 15.6 beta 4 or rc
would be expected maybe tuesday or wednesday with ios 16 beta 2 coming out later in the week
as far as ios 15.5.1 i just don't think there's going to be one at this point i think apple's
just waiting to ios 15.6 then they'll push out those bug fixes security updates and more and then
they'll continue to work on 15.7 so all of those things should be expected with the public beta of
ios 16 coming out later in july according to apple so based on what we had last year we had ios 15
beta 1 on june 7th ios 15 beta 2 on june 24th which was a thursday then we had a public beta
the next week or so and then ios 15 beta 3 was on july 14th that's similar to what i would expect
this year and then we'll move on to similar betas for public and developer releases at the same time
that seems to make the most sense now let's go ahead and take a look at some of the comments
and what you had to say now at the time of this video you'll see i made a little typo here where
it says i'm using ios 15.6 beta 1 that should say beta 3. hopefully most of you recognize that
then eighteen percent of you are using ios 16 beta one sixty-six percent of you are still on public
versions two percent are on fourteen point eight or earlier and eight percent are using android
let's go ahead and see what you had to say now let's go ahead and take a look at what you had to
say i have my ipad below and lars said on ios 15.6 beta 3 both ipad pro 2021 and iphone 11 pro max
both devices very stable and fast battery seems okay overall the best ios 15 so far and like
i said most people you're going to see similar comments but with ios 16 it's a different story
samuel felik says hopefully i'm saying that properly ios 16 dev beta 1 running on an iphone 12
pro max battery is not so great and it gets warm otherwise smooth graham evans says ios 15.6 beta
3 has much better battery life on my iphone 13. as well my airpods connect much faster than beta
2 they used to take around 10 seconds but they're now instant with this release geekbench scores has
improved too so i think it's really finally much more stable and much better and i can't wait until
all of you get to try out 15.6 if you're still on the public versions apple tech says i'm on ios
15.6 beta 3 came from ios 15.5 on my 12 pro max and can say battery life and dictation is a lot
better this is probably the best update for ios 15. it's been very smooth no lagger issues and
performance has been very good i'm very happy with this update love all your videos aaron thank you
ed so riviera says ios 15.6 beta 3 is a lot better battery life on my iphone 13 pro max
philip watts says i'm running ios 16 beta on my 12 pro max the performance is good but the
battery life is so bad can't wait till the next beta to see if it will get better and like i said
ios 16 battery is pretty horrendous usually a few hours and then you'll need to recharge it
ali zone says i'm using ios 15.6 beta 3 with no issues and perfect battery timing
network is also better than ios 15.5 touch is also smoother than ios 15.5 aaron you're the best keep
it up and thank you dhopper598 says using beta 3 storage bug is still present using nearly 40
gigabytes of storage from my system data tried the syncing tip through finder on my mac did nothing
and so maybe you'll need to use a third-party app or you could do a fresh reinstall but if
it's not using all the data you need maybe you're good with storage maybe you have 512 gigabytes i
would ignore it for now see if it gets better with the public release otherwise you may want to do a
fresh install or possibly try clearing your safari system cache as well heshan ron mandala said 15.6
beta 3 is much stable on my iphone 10. no new bugs noticed and battery life is much better and
so that's everything with ios 15.6 we're getting very close to the final release of that i think
we'll see a release candidate this coming week maybe beta 4 but i'm thinking release candidate
and then also of course ios 16 beta 2 and there'll be plenty of other features i'll be
finding in that as well if you've found anything i haven't mentioned i'd love to hear from you in
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