hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and today Apple released Iowa's 16 developer beta 8. this
is available to developers and hopefully very soon the public beta will be out usually the same day
a little bit later or the following day it just depends from week to week as Apple has changed
it up and this is the only thing Apple released today so far just iOS 16 beta 8. no watch OS no
iPad OS Mac OS homepod or TV OS have been released as far as new beta updates so maybe those are more
complete now this came in at a fairly small 222.2 megabytes that's on my 13 Pro Max and
it was anywhere between 150 to 250 megabytes on the devices you'll see here now let's take a look
at the build number and talk about what's new so we'll go to settings then General then about and
you can see this build number is also in a at the end of it it's two zeroa 5358a so again it's close
to a final build but not the absolute final build as that would be released with a release candidate
and this particular update does not have a modem update in fact Apple has carried over
the same modem update 2.09.01 on the 13 Pro Max from beta 5 all the way up to Beta 8 so there's
no major changes to the modem but that doesn't mean they couldn't resolve issues going on in
the background as far as new features while iOS 16 development is complete which means features are
done basically we shouldn't see any major changes or anything they're working on bugs in battery
life and trying to get everything fixed as far as that goes before the final release of IOS 16. as
I went through looking for different things such as changes with the settings and changes with the
lock screen it looks like everything is complete this is feature complete and we may have features
released a little bit later with iOS 16.1 as we already know iPad OS 16.1 and Mac OS 13 Ventura
have been delayed a little bit probably until October there's no new Splash screens that I was
able to find I went into every single Apple app so photos clock camera reminders notes every single
one of them and wasn't able to find a single new splash screen no new information there within
the code there were small changes for Apple watch possibly for the upcoming Apple Watch series 8 but
no new visual changes no new wording changes even this time around so there's no wording changes
throughout the OS like there typically is update to update and so this is really about bug fixes
and battery life and if we go into the feedback app at least the last time I checked there was no
new updates for even the notes so we still have beta 7 they haven't updated it as far as beta
8. so we don't even know what specifically new in this as far as any bug fixes however we can
tell a few different things just by using this so far as quite a few people have reported that
banking apps seem to be working well there may be exceptions to this and usually that's due to the
banking app needing an update in the App Store so different banking apps will need different updates
and hopefully they'll update those probably by the time it's finally released to the public
as far as messages freezing and locking up at least so far using this over the past hour or
so it's been pretty good I know some people were having that issue so hopefully that's resolved
Spotlight search definitely seems to be nice and fast going in searching for things such as apple
or maybe just going into music and searching here it seems to work as well prior to this update with
beta 7 some people reported that lyrics searching wasn't working so if we type something such as
we're halfway there let's see if it brings up anything related to that and it looks like it
does Bon Jovi's Living on a Prayer so pretty old song but it's searching for lyrics across
Apple music where it didn't work at all for me in beta 7. and so that seems to be fixed
setting wallpaper seems to be fixed and also the storage bug for most people seems to be
fixed where it wouldn't load at all as far as the overall storage itself that shouldn't be
much of an issue as it's going to use some of the things in the background to better
make the overall experience and performance better so we'll give this a moment to load it
will take a moment the first time it loads and as it's loading you can see as we scroll down
all the way to the bottom this is buried at the bottom so you don't have to pay attention to it
so things like system data this is more system cache and it's probably going to be very large
20 to 40 gigabytes lately for me it can vary but I really wouldn't pay too much attention
to that unless you're out of storage overall so I really wouldn't mind that too much you'll see
it's still calculating and I really wouldn't pay attention let's take take a look here
it's 42.26 gigabytes for me so that's going to free itself up as we need it for different apps
and more again like I said as far as known and resolved issues Apple hasn't specified anything
in the feedback app let's check one more time to see if they've updated it and so far nothing
new so we'll have to wait and see if they even update it this time around and this is probably
the last beta before the release candidate and so that leads me to should you install iOS 16 beta 8
at this point absolutely if you're on beta 7 if you're on public beta 5 once public beta 6 is
out if it is by the time of this video definitely install that get that going and make sure you're
reporting feedback if you're having issues as far as iOS 16 release candidate well now that we know
that Apple's event is on next well a week from now or so on the Wednesday of next week the seventh we
know that we'll have IOS 16 RC after that event at least that's what Apple's done every single year
since I can remember to typically will have the announcement of the iPhone 14 at the Apple far out
event then we'll also have the iPhone 14 14 Max 14 pro 14 pro Max and then probably Apple Watch
series 8 maybe even some surprises and some more maybe one more thing going on there maybe even the
Apple VR AR headset so those things we know about then typically after that they'll release the
iPhone pre-orders usually the following Friday so on the 9th then they'll release the iPhone 14 for
sale on the 16th usually the Monday before that is when they'll release iOS 16 to the public so
it could be Monday to Wednesday but I'm expecting September 12th to be the final release date of iOS
16. again it could be a couple days after that but that's typically what Apple does every single time
and so we're at the very end of what this should be like so right now they're perfecting battery
and getting rid of all of the remaining bugs so that we can have the best experience possible
and as far as overall battery life well that does take a few days to measure I've talked about that
many times but we can take a look at it for me over the past few days my battery health let's
go back in here battery health is currently at 98 it's finally dropped again another point I would
completely expect that at this point being that it's about a year old and if we take a look at
yesterday I had two hours and six minutes of screen on time three hours and 34 minutes of
screen off time and used about 25 to 27 30 of my battery life so that's pretty good overall
that would get me through a day no problem and usually by the time I put this on the charger I
have 50 to 60 percent of my battery life left I do expect this to improve though hopefully with
this update as far as the overall performance it's been pretty good first let's talk about the heat
though because it's nice and cool now initially installing an update it will get warm especially
if you're charging it but now it's nice and cool no issues there and also the performance overall
seems to be nice and smooth whether you're on an older phone or a newer phone so if we go over here
just scrolling back and forth and scrolling with Pro motion is nice and fast as well of
course now let's take a look at the benchmarks as I ran them on all of these devices here so we'll
go over to geekbench and on the iPhone 13 Promax I did run this twice as the initial scores were
pretty low for multi-core that sometimes happens right after running the update but I scored 1711
for single core 4719 for multi-core week over week that's pretty good again I ran that twice
you can see it here it's definitely faster for the multi-core score on both of the times I ran
it before and also it's about average for single core it's within spec usually one or two hundred
so that's pretty good now let's take a look at all of these devices now the devices here all
have beta 8 on them the iPhone 11 has beta 7 so I can look back and forth for new changes and
you'll see on the left we're starting with the iPhone 8 plus then the iPhone 10 then the iPhone
10r then the iPhone 13 Pro Max and again this is just to give you a general idea of what to expect
if you have any of these devices or any that are within sort of the overall release date of
these devices and so with that that's pretty much everything with iOS 16 beta 8 I would not expect
a whole lot more basically bug fixes battery life improvements and overall performance improvements
that's what we're looking for at this point and hopefully we'll see much more of that over the
next few days of course I'll have a follow-up on the weekend to see how it is for everyone and if
we find anything else and if you found anything else I'd love to hear from you in the comments
below of course if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper I'll link it in the description
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