hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and ios 15.5 beta 1 has been out for over a week at this point
about a week and a half i've been using it full time on my iphone 13 pro max and also my ipad pro
and wanted to share the overall experience with you not only my experience but your experience
based off the youtube community poll where with this week and last week we have over over thirty
thousand different votes almost forty thousand plus votes at this point and over one hundred
comments on the latest poll so i took all of that information to see if it's any different than we
had about a week ago when i reviewed it and there are some changes as far as that goes but i did
want to talk about that as well as your comments i'll mention those at the end of the video
where we'll talk about that answer any questions you have and more but first i wanted to talk about
some new features or changes that have been found in this particular update since the initial what's
new video and the first thing has to do with visual lookup visual lookup lets you go into
your photos app and if you have a little star on the eye here you can get more information about it
it will give you different information about what the flower is or the plant is
and you'll see it gives a couple different options here a mountain laurel or if we go maybe to the
previous photo this is actually the oculus at the world trade center so you can see more information
about this this is something we've had for a while but apparently it's showing up in the uk
thanks to a moderator or an admin on my discord server linked in the description below this is
apparently showing up in the uk so it looks like it's being rolled out to more places prior to this
it was in some places such as germany now it seems to be rolling out to additional places as well so
it's great to see features spread across different countries finally something else that's new is a
new pop-up notification the first time you open up the app store now this is not new to 15.5
but more and more people see this randomly and are messaging me telling me that it's new so it's
newer i just wanted to make sure you're aware of it and it says be the first to get new app
releases special offers and recommendations enable notifications or not now so that's something
that's newer within ios it's been there i believe since 15.4 but it randomly pops up the first time
you open the app store or just sometimes when you open it after you've had it for a while
now quite a few people enjoyed the video i did earlier in the week about new app updates
so there was a new app update for whatsapp this this week and new features coming to it with
emoji reactions file sharing and larger voice calls so those are all things going to whatsapp
now this is not widely used in the united states but i know that it is around the world and so i
just wanted to make sure that you were aware that they're going to have all of these features coming
soon if you don't have them already so emoji reactions file sharing and larger voice calls
also if you're on an m1 mac and you use after effects they've finally added native m1 support
so it says it now launches up to seven times faster and renders compositions twice as fast on
m1 max compared to an intel 10 core imac pro so that's great news if you use after effects on a
mac now the overall experience of ios 15.5 seems to be pretty solid overall and is probably the
best version of a beta 1 that we've seen in a long time so this has been pretty stable but there are
a few issues that seem to show themselves once in a while for example right before i made this video
i typically airdropped the wallpaper that i have here to different devices and airdrop didn't work
properly i actually had to airdrop it from the ipad which is also running ipad os 15.5 beta 1
but for some reason wasn't working on the iphone so sometimes this seems to be a problem in 15.5
and i've heard from you that it's the same situation so quite a few people are having that
issue i've also had some quick freezes and lockups mostly in music not too often but i've also had
some apps take very long to open sometimes when i open up a different app it seems like it just
takes forever to load and then will eventually work or just crash i'll open it again and it
works fine i've seen this on random apps from eero to other apps as well and sometimes they just take
a while to load and then they work fine after that so there's some odd issues here and there
typically they seem to be apps that access your network though that take a while also i had an
odd issue last night with my ipad connecting to a computer where i wasn't able to trust my computer
my mac it'll pop up and say do you want to trust this computer you hit trust put in your
passcode and then you can get through for some reason on the ipad connected to a macbook pro
it just didn't want to do that it would pop up trust you'd hit trust sometimes you'd get the
passcode input and it would just go off the screen over and over i tried rebooting the phone or tried
rebooting the ipad tried rebooting the mac and that didn't seem to fix it so there's definitely
some odd issues here and there those are issues i've had but others have said that they've had it
be a little bit slow and lock up it doesn't really matter the device usually rebooting it fixes this
also going into the app switcher sometimes could be problematic for some people where it would
just sort of blur out overall and a reboot would fix that so if you go into the app switcher or
multitasking and try and close apps they just wouldn't be there you wouldn't be able to see
anything it's just a big blur so that's something i've heard from other people and then also some
odd touch responsiveness bugs where it just seems slow to respond now this could be related to maybe
a screen protector if you're having issues so i would try maybe a different screen protector
but rebooting it they said seem to fix it so it may not be a screen protector it could be related
to the display i would be curious to know that those who are experiencing that if you've had
your display replaced or anything or if that's an issue for you also some people said that they
were having overheating issues to the point where they were actually getting the message saying that
the phone is overheating typically phones can get hot when they're using intensive processing
and also when they're fast charging that's pretty normal but the iphone regulates that but if it
gets too hot it will tell you it's overheated and it needs to cool down i've had some people
say that it was overheating actually saying it's overheating with this version so downgrading seems
to help that if you're having that issue that seems to be common this time around with beta 1.
also some people said syncing your photos across photostream was not working properly
now not just icloud photos but photo stream itself they weren't updating properly so it seems to
be some odd update issues with that even though that was supposed to be fixed with 15.4 or 15.4.1
so some odd issues still going on there i did hear from a couple people as well that airpods aren't
connecting as well as they used to so airpods pro specifically we'll give it just a moment here
and with all of these devices sometimes it can be confused but you'll see it still hasn't connected
to my iphone and that's what i wanted to connect to it quickly came up on the ipad still hasn't
come up on the iphone 11 and the iphone 13 pro max and there we go i had to close it and reopen it so
occasionally there's some odd issues connecting for the most part it's been pretty stable for me
but it does seem to be a little bit slow especially if you have multiple devices around
now as far as battery is concerned quite a few of you continue to ask me for more and more detail
about this so i want to take a look at it so we'll go into settings go to battery and battery health
i'm at 100 and i also used coconut battery to see how many cycles i've used on my iphone
many of you have been asking for additional details so if we go into photos you'll see this
is coconut battery and that's why i was trying to connect the ipad yesterday and it wouldn't
authorize to trust my device i was trying to see battery health but you'll see based off this app
here it's a free app on the mac i have 118 cycles with my battery a cycle is when you drain it from
100 to zero and then back up or any combination of that so maybe last night i drained it to 50
today it's down to 50 2 recharges of 50 equal 100 that's one cycle so 118 cycles i'm at 100 battery
capacity and i don't use a case on this which helps keep it cool but it will regulate itself
and seems to be holding up well i charge it every night on the charger at night and put it on the
charger in my car both wireless chargers i rarely use a lightning cable for charging now battery
life has been okay depending on the day yesterday i used music quite a bit it says 9 hours and 15
minutes of screen off time i definitely didn't use it for that long but 2 hours and 2 minutes
of screen on time using about 45 of my battery so that's not really great for a 13 pro max and
the day i use the most battery three hours and 54 minutes and seven hours and 24 minutes of screen
off time and about 80 percent of my battery life was used so not great for me but it really depends
on who you talk to of how it's lasting i usually go to bed with about fifty percent left as you saw
in coconut battery here i had fifty one point nine percent and that was at about two a.m last night
so it's lasting me through a day no problem but i use this with a combination of ipad and mac
now as far as what abhishek had to say he sent in his battery life and a few different people every
so often send in their battery life this is on an 11 pro max he had six hours and 30 minutes of
screen on time one hour and 16 minutes of screen off time and used about 70 percent of his battery
on the next day again six hours and 25 minutes with one hour and 23 minutes of screen off time
so pretty consistent if he was to continue to use this he'd probably get close to nine hours
of screen on time which is pretty good but not as good as 15.4.1 so with all of that it makes sense
that it's not as good with an early beta but hopefully it gets better as we see later betas
on ipad os this is where it just continues to be poor for me no matter if i reset the device or try
over again reinstall everything i'm only getting about five hours of screen on time you'll see
yesterday two hours and 37 minutes with 47 minutes of screen off time it really depends on the day
i'm not getting very good battery but everything else has been more stable than the iphone for me
so it just seems to be a battery issue with ipad performance has been pretty great for most people
in fact almost no one mentions poor performance with ios 15.5 at all it doesn't matter what
device you're on it could be an iphone 6s 7 8 it doesn't really matter it seems to be nice and fast
on the newer devices pro motion is nice and smooth seems to be operating at the speed you would
expect everything is nice and smooth with that and we're seeing more and more apps updated with
promotion so it's being a regular thing that we'll see on probably every single app in the future
but the developer does need to enable that now i did run benchmarks just to share those with you
and with the single core we actually have pretty consistent single cores 1730 on the iphone 13 pro
max and 4608 for multi-core now if we take a look at the history it's actually not as great as last
week depending on which score we're looking at so we're a little bit lower for single core and
a little bit lower for multi-core this can vary greatly depending on the day of course but i did
run them on all these devices so on the iphone 8 plus let's switch over here and then on the iphone
11 and i'll share those with you so for the iphone 11 and 8 plus i'll read these out just for those
of you that have asked me to that have visual impairments and also let's go into geekbench on
the ipad pro so we'll start with the ipad pro 1708 for single core 7 310 for multi-core on the iphone
8 plus 923 for single core 2486 for multi-core and then on the iphone 11 1325 for single core
3400 for multi-core so pretty good scores overall it's performing well for most people and seems
to be plenty fast now as far as future ios release versions apple stopped signing ios 15.4
that means you can no longer downgrade to it so that leaves us only with ios 15.4.1 and 15.5 betas
typically when they do that we'll see a public release within two to three weeks that's not
guaranteed every time but since we're only on beta 1 of ios 15.5 we could see a release of ios 15.4.2
either this coming week or the following week if apple decides they need to patch some bugs and
security so that's something we could see as well as ios 15.5 beta 2. usually with early betas we're
on a two-week or bi-weekly schedule and i would expect beta 2 on tuesday or wednesday usually
like they do every couple of betas so usually with beta 1 2 and 3 we'll have bi-weekly releases and
then we switch to weekly releases so expect beta 2 this coming week and then of course beta 3 maybe
two weeks out from that with a final release of ios 15.5 usually around wwdc on june 6. so we'll
see iowa 16 beta 1 on june 6th and we'll also have ios 15 betas all the way until september where we
have a public release of ios 16. that's typically what apple does every year also this weekend we
could hear some additional information about ipad os 16 from mark german he sort of hinted at this
on twitter so maybe we'll find out a little bit more he hasn't really given us a whole lot of
information of ios 16 but hopefully that's just because he doesn't know a ton about it and maybe
apple's hidden it very well but either way we might hear a little bit more on that now if you're
wondering if you should install ios 15.5 beta 1 or update to it i would typically say i wouldn't
recommend it however this is a more stable beta than we've seen in a very long time especially
for an early beta now you may want to wait until ios 15.5 beta 2 but if you have a backup of what's
on your phone and maybe a computer if you need to downgrade then i would say go ahead and try it out
however if you have critical apps or accessibility features that you want to make sure are working
i would probably hold off until the final release but it seems to be more stable and you could
try it out if you want but again if you have a secondary device go ahead and try it if it's on
your main device just be careful and make sure you have a backup now let's take a look at the
youtube community poll and you'll see at the time of this video there's over 15 000 votes and 118
comments now this time around i asked a different set of questions and you'll see 11 percent of you
said ios 15.5 beta 1 is great seven percent said ios 15.5 beta 1 is the same as earlier
ios 15 versions so that could be good or bad and only three percent of you said it was terrible so
most of you are having an okay experience eleven percent are saying that it's great seventy percent
of you are on public versions ios 15.4.1 or older and nine percent of you are on android now let's
take a look at some of the comments i have my ipad with some of your comments on it so let's go ahead
and take a look at what you had to say graham evan said beta 1 has been stable for me iphone 13
however touch screen response has been terrible to the point i fully restored my phone however
it's still the same a hard reset will fix it for a short time i've also had slow connectivity with
my air pods gen 2 and pro hope beta 2 fixes these problems for me and that's where i said earlier
in the video i'm wondering if maybe you have a screen protector that maybe the phone doesn't like
or possibly you had the screen replaced i'd love to hear from you in the comments
below and also those air pods issues as well so those airpods not connecting properly seem to be
a thing with this particular beta raga vj says and hopefully i'm pronouncing that properly ios 15.4.1
on my iphone 10s is the best ios 15 release in ages my battery is insane it may actually be one
of the best versions of software i've ever had on this phone and it's given me a crazy amount
of battery life with ios 15.4.1 it really is great battery also performance is great as well
jose morales says ios 15.5 beta 1 i had my iphone 13 pro max freeze and reboot on me twice already
now i haven't had mine freeze and reboot but i have had a couple small issues like i said earlier
where it sort of just locked up temporarily and was fine after that terry said 12 promax is
buttery smooth on 15.5 beta 1 battery life is much better on the beta than 15.4.1 strange but true so
far i've had no issues with this update and like i said most people are saying performance is great
and battery seems to be hit or miss depending who you are and what device you're using and what apps
and so on richard said when i started using ios 15.4 beta my battery started overheating to about
107 degrees fahrenheit the issue didn't stop after i downgraded and i got my phone replaced
under applecare now i brought this comment into the video because i haven't really heard of anyone
being able to replace their device because it gets hot now if they were able to diagnose there was an
actual issue they would replace it but i'm curious what they actually found i'd love to hear from you
in the comments below d paul gandhi said iphone 10 with 15.5 beta 1 major issues is with airpod pro
connectivity and battery is as good as earlier betas so again some more airpod issues gagi or
gaji says hopefully i'm saying that properly again a beta running like a charm on my iphone 7.
tamar kumash says 15.5 iphone 12 pro for the first time ever has given me
the overheating notification nothing has changed with how i handle my phone and so
like i said earlier some people are seeing it get overly hot to the point where you're getting that
notification now if you have a case on your phone try removing that to cool it down a little bit
especially now that we're getting closer to summer will newcomb says my iphone 12 pro max on 15.4.1
has had better battery life about eight hours with 80 87 health for about a year after every
software update the battery has gotten worse with time usually going down to 6.5 hours but not now
it does get quite hot at times which never happened before unknown said ironically ios
15.4.1 claimed to make battery life on my 13 pro max better but it in fact made it worse so
i decided to install 15.5 and surprise battery life got way better apple really is losing their
magic touch with software refinement then again can't expect a company to stay number one forever
they stopped being that long ago they do the bare minimum but the market but market it at the
absolute maximum now i would say they're actually getting better with ios software updates and i
really think ios 16 is going to focus on stability this year but again we'll have to wait and see
it's only a few weeks away about seven weeks or so at this point until we see 16. so hopefully we'll
see some major changes with that haley wilson said i'm on ios 15.5 and battery life has been
the best so far for me everything seems to be great looks like a performance focused beta
senway souza says beta 1 is definitely looking stable no bugs whatsoever on my iphone 10. so
that's it for ios 15.5 of course beta 2 is expected this coming week based off what
apple has done in the past and maybe even a public release with ios 15.4.1 but we're only
about seven weeks away from ios 16. so i know a lot of people are more excited for that so we
should see some major changes with that i hope most of the rumors are wrong but ios 16 rumors
or ios 15 rumors last year were very wrong so i hope they're wrong this time around and hopefully
we see some major changes let me know what you're most excited about in the comments below
and apple is also said to release a couple new macs up to maybe testing nine different variations
with mac pro and maybe even an imac pro but again let me know what you're most excited about in the
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