hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and today Apple released the first public beta of iOS
17. and in this video I wanted to show you how to install it step by step on your iPhone or iPad now
if we go to settings in general and then software update if you're already signed up for the iOS 16
public betas or earlier you'll already see this here and be able to install it now this public
beta is free and available to everyone around the world at the same time and it's available on the
iPhone 10s 10s Max 10r and newer unfortunately Apple dropped support for the iPhone 8 8 plus and
iPhone 10 with iOS 17. so if you have one of those devices you won't be able to install it now this
is the same build as iOS 17 beta 3 for developers and the re-release that was out yesterday so it's
the same build it's just released a day later now the first thing we want to do is sign up
for the beta program go to your web browser go to Safari and then go to beta.apple.com
or apple.com beta scroll down and hit sign up once you've signed up then you can sign in and install
this now we'll sign in and you'll see there's a guide for beta software now Apple has changed how
they do this from last year there's no longer a profile available so if you scroll down it will
give you more information about it and different steps you'll also have the option to see more
about iPad OS Mac OS TV OS and watch OS as well as homepod software for Betas so you'll be able
to get those and now once you go to your software updates it will just show up under settings so
you'll have this extra option here where you can select beta updates if we go into this you'll see
that we have the option for iOS 16 public Beta And if you're a developer you'll have all of the
different options here now there are a few very important things you need to do before you install
this you need to have a backup because if you're on iOS 16 and then you update to iOS 17 you won't
be able to back up from IOS 17 backups you need to use iOS 16 backups so if you're using iCloud it's
pretty simple go to your settings tap on your name at the top scroll down to iCloud tap on iCloud and
then go to iCloud backup once you're in the iCloud backup screen go ahead and tap on backup now make
sure you have a backup before updating to iOS 17. now you may need more iCloud storage and if
you don't have that you can purchase it here or you can use a computer and backup there as well
whether that's Windows using iTunes or a Mac if I plug it into the Mac you can back up and then
tap on backup now under finder now make sure you select encrypted if you want to actually restore
all of your information using different passwords and more that will actually help you get all that
information back and limit the amount of things you actually need to update and put in your
username and password for once you've completed the backup go into your settings go to General
software update make sure you're selected on the public beta give it a moment and then go ahead and
update so download and install it will ask for your passcode enter that and it will begin to
download now once iOS 17 is installed you'll have all of the new features with interactive widgets
the updates to music and much more however if you're wondering if you should install iOS 17
public beta well there's a few things to be aware of first you won't be able to downgrade from IOS
17 to iOS 16 without using a Mac or Windows computer you need a computer to downgrade
and I have a separate video that I release today showing you how to do that step by step
also be aware that if you decide to install watch OS 10 beta 1 or public beta 1 you will not be able
to communicate with your phone if you decide to downgrade it from IOS 17 to 16. so you may want
to hold off for that you'll have to wait for the public version of watch OS 10 or actually bring it
to Apple in order for them to downgrade it there is no way to downgrade watch OS 10 to watch OS 9
after you've installed it without bringing it to Apple now with the betas there will be bugs when
using iOS 17. beta 1 was pretty good especially compared to previous years with iOS 16 beta 1
beta 2 and beta 3 seem to improve quite a few different things but that still doesn't mean
it's perfect there are a lot of bugs that's part of testing and for example the notification bug
is still there it just sort of jumps jumps around and isn't responding like you would expect it's
not super smooth there's also been some issues with the keyboard where sometimes the keyboard
disappears maybe you go to Spotlight search you can't type there's been some odd bugs here and
there all over the place additionally on top of that this has been affecting battery life
battery life has not been great with iOS 17 especially for me if I go down to my battery
you'll see my battery health is actually at 92 percent and while I typically say iOS betas do
not affect battery health they don't specifically affect it but what they do is actually use more
battery typically and when they use more battery it means you're charging more and then cycling
your battery more you'll see yesterday I had 3 hours and 38 minutes of screen active time 3
hours and two minutes of idle time and used almost 100 percent of my battery throughout the regular
betas developer betas and since the public betas are the same thing battery life just hasn't been
great overall so that's definitely something that you might want to consider if you want to install
the betas it just hasn't been great as far as that goes some apps seem to use a lot of power other
apps don't use as much but there's definitely a battery impact in some way when you're using the
betas whether that's poor battery life or not now if you are having bugs you should be submitting
them in the feedback app so if we scroll over go into feedback make sure you go into feedback and
submit the issues this is very important so that Apple knows what issues are going on there's also
release notes in here that will tell you exactly what's going on as far as things they're aware of
as far as problems and more so you can see known issues here so you want to check and see if you're
actually seeing the known issue here before you report it as Apple may already be aware of it if
they're not you can go ahead and submit feedback so if you go back tap on this little button here
and now you can submit feedback for the version you're running iOS in this case and then it will
gather information from what it's actually using and get information about what the issue is what
areas you're seeing the issue with and what type of feedback are you reporting if you're having
issues make sure you submit that and sometimes Apple even responds back and maybe works with
you to get this resolved so there's definitely some things there that I would recommend doing
if you're having bugs regularly and they're not already mentioned in the release notes now if
you're wanting to switch from IOS 17 developer beta to public beta that's pretty simple however
it won't switch until the next beta update is available so if you're already on iOS 17 beta
3 re-release this is the same version so it won't find a version to install so if we go to settings
then we go back over to General then software update you'll see here we'll give it just a moment
if you're on public beta or you're on developer beta it will not find it however if we go into
the Beta updates you'll see we're already on the public beta now but if we want to switch
to the developer beta and we're a developer it will come out the next time the beta comes out
so beta 4 for example just tap on it and switch it's that simple however again you would need a
computer to downgrade and remove the beta if you want to do that so that's how to install
iOS 17 public beta and the developer beta is very similar as well signing up for the developer beta
at developer.apple.com now I'll cover every single little feature change and update when
the next beta comes out and on the weekends with follow-ups talking about more features we found
how battery life is going different bugs that we're experiencing and more so be sure to check
back for that if you have any other questions though I'd love to hear from you in the comments
below and if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper it will be linked in the description as
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