hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and today apple released ios 16 beta 6. this is available
to developers usually it's been coming out the following day for public beta testers so ios 16
public beta 4 you can expect that as late as tomorrow hopefully it's today though
now as you can see it says 16.0 for some reason again with beta 5 they did this and beta 6
they're only doing it with ios 16. it's a little confusing so i wish they would add a beta 6 after
that but this is beta 6. and it came in at 426.5 megabytes that's on my 13 pro max and it was about
four to 500 megabytes on all the devices here so it's a fairly small update now along with this
apple also released ipad os 16 beta 6 watch os 9 beta 6 tv os 16 beta 6 and home pod os 16 beta 6.
so far there's no mac os 13 ventura beta 6. now let's take a look at the build number and talk
about what's new so we'll go to settings we'll go to general then about and as you can see the build
number is 208 5349b this particular update brings us closer and closer to a final release as that
letter counts down to the letter a a usually is the final before the release candidate so
that's a pretty good sign now also this is 2.09.01 for the modem firmware update that's the same as
beta 5 for me on the 13 pro max each device has a little bit different number though now as far
as new features well the first thing has to do with contacts so if we go into contacts you can
see at the top of contacts it found a duplicate there's a new little box that pops up if it finds
a duplicate saying merging duplicate cards for the contacts combines the cards keeping all unique
information in a single card for that contact it will also let us know if it's been updated as far
as different updates for phone numbers and names across your contacts there'll be a little pop-up
box for that now the battery percentage was brought back with the last update with beta 5
and as you can see it's here and there's a small animation change with that so if we go back
go to our battery go to battery percentage as i change it it's nice and smooth now where it
animates quickly unfortunately it's still not available on the other devices such as the iphone
10r 11 12 mini and 12 or 13 mini some people have told me they've seen it on the iphone 10r but they
weren't able to send me any proof that it was on the 10r so maybe it's there for some i'd love to
hear from you if you're seeing it within music they've made a slight change as well if we go
into music and then maybe we're playing a song and on the lock screen where we have our little widget
tap on the album art they've actually changed the size of this again it's smaller where it
was larger on the previous beta that's something i'm not as happy with as i like the larger sort
of overall album are on the lock screen i think it looked better with the larger album art but it's a
small change in this update now if you're within an app and you're in landscape mode and then you
pull down the notification center before they move the time to the right it doesn't look very good
the widget is sort of centered in beta 6 they've updated this so if we rotate safari do the same
thing we'll pull down the notification center and you'll see it looks much better time is on
the left with our little weather widget above it and then you have your music widget to the
right and then your focus status this looks much much nicer in beta 6. now if we go into settings
go over to notifications under notifications there we go under notifications they've changed some of
the wording toward the top as we get closer to a final release you're going to see more and
more refinement so we have let me swap these we have beta 5 on the left beta 6 on the right and
as you can see the text is simpler where it says choose the default for how notifications appear
where you can change from count to stack to list so they're just clarifying some of that text there
also text has been updated in the weather app so this was sort of in beta 5 but also beta 6 so if
we go into our settings here if it reacts there we go so we'll try this again go into our settings
here for notifications and some of the wording is changed at the top where it says if you enable
severe weather notifications apple can associate the country or region of these notifications
with your apple id so that's a small change not really anything big but something they've updated
they'll also be a new message if we go into settings and maybe you're using
private relay under icloud plus and if you are using private relay and your subscription
to icloud plus has expired there will be a new message saying that it's actually expired and
no longer available and it that it's turned off so that's something you'll see it wasn't there before
now last week with ios 16 beta 5 on the iphone when many people rebooted it they would get a
message that they need to unlock their sim people using beta 6 on the ipad are seeing the same sort
of thing so some might see the sim unlock message that's the same thing here where you can unlock
your sim and then use your ipad with cellular i have cellular on this i didn't see that message
but some people are seeing that pop up when they reboot so just wanted to make you aware of that
there's no other changes on the ipad that we're aware of yet other than what i've mentioned for
the iphone so far and as we get closer to the final release of ios 16 there's going to be
less and less changes there are more code and wording changes throughout the os specifically
promoting things such as apple pay tap to pay with someone else and much more so that's something
we'll see more although i didn't get a pop-up when i opened up apple wallet for that there are
no new splash screens that i've seen this time around going into all the different apple apps
i haven't seen any of those now additionally within wallpaper if we go into our wallpaper
and maybe we've added a ton of different wallpaper we'll get to a point where we'll actually get a
message now telling us that there's too many wallpapers and we actually need to delete one
in order to add a new one i wasn't able to reach this limit yet i tried with all of these different
wallpapers and i'm not sure what the limit is i'll have to figure that out in a future update
but maybe 20 maybe 50 maybe 100 i'm not really sure yet but apparently there is a message there
that you will see once you hit that limit and one thing i've noticed as far as fixed issues in this
update is the wallpaper menu bug is fixed and i can set wallpapers without an issue i was able
to set all of these different wallpapers quickly without any problems so that's a nice thing to see
they've sort of refined that finally also they've updated spotlight search
so it's actually working this time around you'll see i typed in apple and it searches
right away so again if i type apple it searches right away gives suggestions if we have that
turned on gives apps and more so it's working much better where it wasn't working in beta 5.
now there are some resolved and known issues still in this update and if we go into our feedback app
we can see the release notes so notes and known issues there's still 11 known issues and there's
some resolved issues as well so again that same issue we had before is still a known issue you'll
see it says beta 6 release notes the pointer won't behave correctly on the on an external display
if the assistivetouch accessibility feature is enabled the workaround is to disable it with an
external display so they still haven't fixed some of these issues they did resolve an issue where
devices running beta 4 or later aren't backward compatible with devices running earlier beta
versions so that's been updated the emoji known issue is still here the search field for emoji
lock screen editor is missing and of course these notes are available to everyone and i'll link
them in the description but again another known issue for home is the device that initiates the
pairing needs to use the same icloud account is the home hub only the owner of a home not
an invited user can pair matter accessories so again i'll link these in the description
quite a few fixes throughout the whole beta set but there's still more to be done now there are
additional code changes with small wording and more we'll visit more of that in the follow up now
let's talk about performance as performance seems to be quite good even on the previous betas many
people said they had no issues with this but if we open up music on the 8 plus one of the oldest
supported devices scroll through everything's nice and fast if we go to the library that sync is off
we'll go to listen now and everything's loading quickly as far as games and more again minecraft
i've tested many times it seems to load quickly this time around much quicker than previous betas
so we resumed there no issues there you'll see it's drawing the background so the draw distance
is typical everything is smooth except for that little jump there but it was smooth earlier when
i was trying this out and seems to be what you would expect on older devices as far as initial
benchmarks now we do talk more about this in the follow-up video but let's take a look at
geekbench scores at least on the 13 pro max on the 13 pro max it scored 1 738 for single core
4681 for multi-core this typically improves over the next few days or so but as you can see here it
was a little bit better previously for multi-core single core was better this time around so again
this usually improves over days we'll talk more about that in the weekly follow-up video at the
end of the week now also the iphone is staying nice and cool whether i'm running geekbench
tests or more so i think they're really managing the processor really nailing things down getting
things much more stable and all the features locked in this time around with ios 16 beta 6 or
public beta 4. now as far as the overall battery life previous betas have been pretty good for me
my battery health is now at 99 percent i talked about that last week so that's pretty good given
that it's been almost well a year at this point yesterday's battery life was okay not great i did
go to bed with about 50 but i don't use my phone as much on the weekend so if we go back to friday
where i use it a little bit more screen on time was 3 hours and 45 minutes screen off time was
2 hour and 50 53 minutes and i used about 60 of my battery so not particularly great it is a beta
usually i'm using about 8 to 10 hours of screen on time but by the time i go to bed i have about 50
of my battery life left i put it on the charger and then take it off in the morning now as far
as the next beta release date well we're moving right along here and so i would expect the next
beta early next week we had beta 5 last monday i would expect beta 7 on the 22nd although they
could push it out to tuesday or wednesday then we would have maybe the release candidate on the 29th
if we're going to have an apple event maybe we'll have a release candidate then or a little
bit after and then possibly an apple event on the 6th as many are predicting at this point we could
have it on the 6th or the 13th based off previous years we'll show off the next iphone iphone 14 and
the 14 pro models and then give us a final date of when to expect ios 16. so all of those things
are just a few weeks away if it is going to be on the 6th i would expect apple invites for the event
to go out either next week or the week after that depending on when they plan to release that event
so hopefully we'll see all of that very soon i can't believe it's already toward the end of ios
16 and close to iphone 14 but we're getting there very very quickly now if you found anything else
in ios 16 beta 6 i'd love to hear from you in the comments below and of course in the follow
up later this week we'll talk about whether or not you should install ios 16 beta 6 or wait for the
final release if you haven't already again let me know if you found anything in the comments
below and if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper i'll link it in the description like i
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