Hi, everyone.
Aaron here for zollotech and today apple released iOS 15.2 Beta 4.
This is available to developers and hopefully soon to public beta testers.
That usually by the time you're watching this video is how they released it.
Last time. Now this came in at 679.1 megabytes.
That's on my iPhone 13 pro max,
and it was between 400 and 700 megabytes on all the devices you have here from
the iPhone six S plus iPhone 11 and iPhone 10 R.
Along with this apple also released iPadOS 15.2 beta four that I have on my
12.9 inch iPad pro from 2021.
They also released a watchOS 8.3 Beta 4,
along with tvOS 15.2 beta 4 And yesterday macOS
Monterey 12.1 Beta 4 all of those are available now,
along with HomePod OS 15.2 beta 4 as well,
those were available for developers. And if you're a beta tester,
you can get some of those, but not typically the home pod iOS update.
Now let's go ahead and take a look at the build number and then talk about
what's new. So we'll go to settings then we'll go to general than about,
you can see the build number is 19C5050B.
And we're not at an a yet,
which typically would mean we'll have another beta or so, however,
I think the next version will be a release candidate,
but we'll have to wait and see, I'll talk more about that in just a moment. Now,
the first thing that they've updated or changed on the iPhone 13 series phones,
there's a modem update. There's modem updates on others as well,
but I've been having a lot of issues with this particular phone switching
between 5g and 5g, UC,
which has ultra capacity on T-Mobile in the United States.
When it switches to that, and then switches back,
even on the public version of iOS,
it causes a problem where it just doesn't connect. It does nothing.
You have to turn on airplane mode, turn it back off,
and then things work properly. Again,
this is a continued issue that I've heard from multiple people,
and hopefully this fixes it again. We'll have to wait and see.
It'll take a few days to know that for sure. Now,
as far as new features in this update, well, there's no new emoji yet.
We were thinking that would be in this update. Maybe the release candidate,
there's also no universal control yet on the iPad. However,
there's a couple small changes that I was able to find.
The first one is not really a change or anything terribly exciting,
but if you go into the fitness app, we'll go into it here,
scroll down to fitness under fitness. You'll see here. If we go into it,
there's a new splash screen that pops up and says help improve apple fitness
plus improve fitness plus features by sharing additional data,
you can share your data or don't share your data.
This popped up on all these devices here. The first time I opened it,
and I typically don't share my data, but you can do that. It's up to you.
Of course. The next thing is summaries do not look the same for me.
So the summary here where it says your next summary, if I tap on it,
it expands, but it doesn't have the nice little grid of summaries.
So that's something they've changed in this.
Now that doesn't mean they won't bring it back for the final version,
but I'm not getting that normal summary that you would get.
So if you go into different things here, it looks similar,
but the summary is different.
So you hit the little arrow that arrow was added with beta three.
It fades up and down, but nothing particularly new. However,
you are able to easily clear that summary now where you hit the button hit
clear, and it goes away where before it wouldn't clear the summary.
So maybe there's some additional fixing they need to do to that.
But it's showing that way. Now, as far as new features and changes,
I was not able to find anything new between this or iPadOS,
other than what I've mentioned already.
So there's not a whole lot of changes in this update,
mostly bug fixes and things they've resolved. And they've resolved two issues.
According to Apple's notes, where they've resolved,
one issue that has to do with swift UI,
they said document based apps no longer include a save as manual item above
duplicate. And they've included some updates to programming,
or basically if you're a developer,
otherwise there's no forward facing changes that they've made us aware of.
However, like I mentioned,
clearing notifications seems to work and also auto brightness seems to work.
Now. So many people are asking, does auto brightness work properly? Well,
let me show you that we'll go into settings and we'll go turn it on and
accessibility display in text. Make sure it's on. In fact, it's already on.
And you can see that by just turning off the lights and seeing if auto
brightness dips down. So we'll give it just a moment here.
And it seems to work for me. You'll see it slowly decreasing and it's working.
It does it slowly. So it doesn't bother your eyes. It seems to work this time.
You'll see it's finally going down and it will continue to go down.
If I turn the lights back on, I'll give it a moment and it goes back up.
So it seems to be working like you would expect now. So that's a good sign.
It did take a moment. And initially it didn't work. I had to lock the phone,
then unlock it. And it worked, but now it's been working ever since.
So it seems like auto brightness has been fixed along with true tone.
So for those of you using true tone, if you want to use that,
that does seem to work now.
So if we go in and get out of accessibility here and go to display,
then go to true tone and turn it on and maybe flip to a white background.
You'll see, true tone does work. You'll see the color shift.
So if you use true tone, it should be working for you.
So they've resolved those issues.
And I haven't seen much of a storage bug fix as well. So if we go into settings,
go to general than go to iPhone storage,
you'll see it's using a lot of storage for me on this iPhone 11,
but it does seem to be working okay. And system data is not showing.
So I still think this is going to be an issue for some people as it's kind of
hit or miss with this whole storage bug in general.
So it may show incorrect storage and show more storage than you're actually
using. But let me know if that's fixed for you now, as far as known issues,
there are three known issues that apple has mentioned in their notes.
And one of them is from previous betas as well.
That has to do with streaming in the music app,
where it could result in high CPU usage and in turn,
make the battery drain faster. So that's something that's still here.
They haven't resolved yet.
And also I had an issue where photos completely locked up.
The first time I went into it and tried to share a photo,
I wanted to airdrop it. The background here, the wallpaper,
I wanted to airdrop it to the different devices. It completely locked up.
I closed out of the app, it locked up and crashed. Then I went back in.
It's been working fine ever since.
So it may have been taking a while to do some background activity,
but there's still a few things they need to iron out,
including a bug with an app that I use called smart lock smart lock helps you
log into Google accounts and things like that when it triggers Bluetooth,
that seems to crash. So it doesn't work for me on this device at all.
It's something that's still a problem. Of course,
that's something that Google needs to update as it's their app as well.
But if you use that, just be aware that it's not working properly,
it will go to sign in and then completely crash on me every single time.
I've tried to uninstalling and reinstalling it.
And it's still an issue as far as additional problems or anything else I'm not
aware of them. However, as far as battery life goes, let's take a look.
Now I stopped using this with beta three because it was so bad.
I switched over to a 13 pro for a little while,
just so that I had something stable to use.
So I'll use beta for now switching back,
but we'll go to battery battery health on this device as a hundred percent.
And battery was never an issue for me when I was using it. You'll see,
this is when I stopped using it with beta three.
I had one to two hours of screen on time with 25%
usage. Typically I was getting 14 hours of screen on time, easily, 12 to 14,
and going to bed with over 50% of my battery life left,
taking it off the charger around 9:00 AM,
putting it back on the charger around 2:00 AM.
So it gave me pretty good battery life with the beta. I have no complaint there,
but we'll have to wait and see what this one's like is it takes a few days to
notice when you measure going from say a hundred percent and measure how quickly
it drains. That's not typically accurate.
You have to let it drain and use it for a few days to know actual battery life
and see how it's over time. Now, as far as overall performance,
while this does feel pretty smooth. However,
I did have an issue on the iPhone success.
Plus typically I'll use this when I first install it and go into different apps
like music. This is the first time I'm opening music.
And when I first booted it up, you'll see,
it was a little bit slow there I went into Minecraft is I typically check that
to see how it is. And it seems incredibly slow for some reason,
while benchmarks scores are similar. We'll take a look at that in a moment.
It did seem incredibly slow frame rate right now is okay.
But loading was really slow and very,
very choppy as far as frame rate goes.
So something was going on in the background or something else where it was
causing this to use a lot of CPU power. However,
the back of the phone was not getting too warm.
It seems like the heat of it overall is doing okay,
but in general it seems maybe a little bit slower. However,
it seems smoother on the 13 Pro Max,
but playing games on older devices seem to be a lot slower to load.
At least in my initial test, when it comes to the geek bench scores,
I did run that like I normally do. And you'll see,
I had 1,717 for single core,
4,589 for multi-core compared to the previous version.
You'll see here December 2nd, December or November 16, three other.
It's a little bit lower.
And I ran this initially right after installing the update, like I said,
with the iPhone success, plus it slowed down a bit and then sped back up.
So this can increase over time, but let's take a look at all of these devices.
And as you can see from left to right,
I have the iPad pro followed by the iPhone six S plus then the iPhone 11 and
then the iPhone 13 Pro Max. And again,
these scores are a little bit lower than last time,
but I would expect them to increase over the next day or so now that leads me
to, should you install iOS 15.2 Beta 4? Well, if you're already on beta three,
then absolutely. However,
if you're trying to solve an issue coming from iOS 15.1 or iOS 15.1.1,
I would highly recommend against it.
I get asked this question almost every single day.
People wanting to know if they can solve an issue by switching to a beta.
And I always say, if you're trying to fix an issue, wait for the final release,
as betas are meant to have bugs,
they're made to sort of figure out what's going on.
And then they release a final typically we'll report issues into the feedback
app, make sure Apple's aware of them.
And of course I'll be doing that with the bugs I've already mentioned to you,
or if I haven't already,
and then they'll sort of sort those out based on priority and fix those issues.
So I would never update to a beta just trying to solve something.
But if you want to try it out, you have a secondary phone,
you have apps you don't have to worry about then definitely you can try it out,
just make sure you have a backup so you can roll back if you want to. Now,
as far as when to expect iOS 15.2 Release,
I would expect a release candidate next,
despite having a B at the end of the build number, it's possible.
We could have another beta, but looking at last year,
I would expect a release candidate next last year on the same date,
December 2nd, apple also released iOS 14.3 beta three.
Then on the eighth, they released the release candidate.
So we can expect the release candidate on the eighth.
And they finally released iOS 14.3 last year on the 14th. So again,
I would expect the similar pattern where apple takes the end of the month off to
celebrate different holidays, including Christmas and they have off.
So typically the last couple of weeks of December, we won't see any updates,
but we'll have a final release usually within the first three weeks of the
month. So expect that sort of release pattern.
So I'm looking forward to see if I can find anything else in this.
I haven't found any particular exciting changes,
but there are a bunch of changes in this update.
And hopefully we get that apple digital ID soon as well.
But apple did push that to 2022, despite the code being in there in beta three.
But let me know if you've found anything else I'd love to hear from you in the
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This is Aaron. I'll see you next time.