hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and today apple released ios 15.6 beta 2. this is currently
available to developers and hopefully by the time you're watching this video it will be
out to public beta testers as well this came in at 523.5 megabytes that's on my 13 pro max and it was
between 4 and 600 megabytes on all the devices you see here now along with this apple also released
ipad os 15.6 beta 2 watch os 8.7 beta 2 tv os 15.6 beta 2 and mac os 12.5 beta 2 all of those
are available to developers now now let's go ahead and take a look at the build number and talk about
what's new so we'll go to settings then general then about as you can see the build number is 19g
503 with the d at the end that means we could be a couple builds away from the final release
usually we'll get closer to the letter a and then they'll release it to the public so it could be
a little ways off now now this particular update does not have any huge changes in it and there is
no modem update in this update so it has the same modem firmware build at least on the 13 pro max
that i did with beta 1 at 1.60.00 however with that particular modem update that was a roll
back from what we had with the previous update with 15.5 so it's almost like they rolled it
back with 15.5 to beta 1 and so far it's actually been pretty good between switching to 5g 5g uc 4g
the modem is behaving at least better for me than it was on 15.5 however they haven't updated it at
all for beta 2. now as far as the major changes and features in this update well most of them are
in the code now this past week apple did introduce new pride watch faces and those watch faces are
called pride threads and there's basically a light mode and a dark mode version of those
they release this alongside watch bands that you can get at the apple store now or order online
and within beta 2 we know that the code name of this watch face is actually called lillypad
so that's just something that was within the code and thanks again to my friend steve mosher for
helping me out with that now within the home app there's actually mentions of matter accessories
so that's a new standard that we're going to see across apple and google and others and
we should see support for that built in even more in the future so we do have some support for them
it's a little bit limited and could be a bit buggy with 15.5 there's additional mentions of that in
this code there's also mentions in the code when it comes to shortcuts so if we go into shortcuts
maybe you're getting contents of a web page when you set this and maybe you go to run it it's
going to ask you to allow the shortcut to access apple.com or whatever you're setting this up as
and there's a new message that you could see that says allow whatever you're looking at to access
while loading web content on so it's loading web on content on something else you could
have a new message here but nothing huge as far as changes within this update those are mostly
just code changes and i think apple's really keeping quiet on what's going to be with ios 16.
now also this past week apple introduced apple digital id in maryland so if we go into the wallet
if you tap on the plus button you'll see driver's license or state id i mentioned this in another
video but now we have arizona and maryland so if you live in the state of maryland you can now
add your driver's license if you want to use it here it's completely optional but your state has
to agree to this or country so where you live has to work with apple to get this implemented
so that's why we only see it for two different states right now so not all states may support
this some might some might not but they do have to support it and work with apple to get that
done wwdc 2022 is just under a week away when we'll see ios 16 and more and apple today updated
their website with more information you can see it says watch june 6th at 10 a.m pacific time view at
apple.com or on the apple tv app you can also watch it on youtube where they have a reminder
where you can see on their channel where they have a reminder for when it's actually going live here
it's 1pm they made this live today and you can set a reminder for it so this will adjust based on
where you live 1 pm for me but wherever you live it will adjust for that also if you're a developer
they've added the option for digital lounge sign up so you can register to go into a digital lounge
and you'll see it says join apple engineers and designers throughout the week as they host
text-based q and a's session watch parties with presenters community icebreakers and more and then
it gives eligibility requirements and registration information so those went live today so if you're
a developer be sure to check these out if you haven't already now in a moment we'll talk about
known issues and resolved issues but first i want to talk about ios 15.5.1 as many of you have been
asking where is that last week apple released tv os and homepod os 15.5.1 and those were to address
some issues that we had with audio stopping playing when you're actually using those devices
so maybe you have your homepod and all of a sudden the music would just stop playing that resolved
those issues we did not see an ios release and many of us thought we'd have it last week we could
see it this coming week so it's possible we'll see it very very soon maybe as soon as tomorrow
or maybe they'll just skip it all together and wait for 15.6 apple is not said publicly but
i'm surprised we haven't seen that already with bug fixes and security updates of course at this
point like i said we're not seeing a whole lot of changes with ios 15.6 and that's probably because
the big changes are coming with ios 16 beta 1 on june 6th we expect beta 1 to be released
on june 6th with the public betas to come out in july so probably around beta 2 and beta 3.
so typically that's what apple does we'll see ios 16 beta 1 with all of its features here
and that's probably why we're not seeing much with 15.6 typically apple will continue to have
15 betas and ios 16 betas until a final release in september that's typically what they do every
single year so they could change that up this year or continue to do that but last week or a week or
so ago apple stopped signing 15.4.1 meaning we can only downgrade to 15.5 and it's likely that we'll
see a 15.5.1 very soon now as far as security updates at this point i wouldn't really expect
us to know anything about that but typically apple will add security updates and let us know
about them when they release this to the public so they'll definitely be some security updates in it
there could be a few there could be many but we won't know until a public release now as far as
known and resolved issues apple has only mentioned one at least within the notes that doesn't mean
they didn't fix other things but if we go into the feedback app you can see here where the release
notes only mention one known issue this is the same issue we had with beta1 it says xcode 13.4
is unable to prepare ios 15.6 beta devices for development the workaround is to use xcode 13.3.1
so not a whole lot mentioned here and they haven't mentioned anything about that storage bug
now storage i want to clarify something and maybe help out a little bit if you go into
your settings and go to iphone storage scroll all the way to the bottom you'll see system data
once system data loads we'll give it just a moment this could be taking up a huge amount of storage
now it's not meant to be checked all of the time typically you would check this if maybe you're
running out of storage just to see what was using it but it's at the bottom for a reason as this can
vary greatly so i'll give it a moment to load and then i'll tell you how maybe you can clear
this out a little bit better it's finally loaded and as you can see on the iphone 11 on the left
we have 5.55 gigabytes of usage that's completely fine it varies like i said and then on the right
we have 9.11 gigabytes of usage now if this is using a huge amount to the point where maybe
you're running out of storage you can clear this and this is thanks to a suggestion by techbush pro
he messaged me and said by plugging this into itunes or to finder on a mac and then just syncing
your ipod or iphone it seems to clear this right up so you can clear the cache on your phone in
safari but also plugging that in if it's using a ton of data that can help alleviate some of
that problem i haven't tried it myself but it has seemed to work from what i can find online
now as far as overheating or anything else like that the phone does not seem to be getting
very warm with beta 2. i know some people with beta 1 said they had it but it was much better
with beta 1 as compared to 15.5 so the phone seems to be staying nice and cool it will warm
up a little bit when charging that's completely normal but the phone should manage that as it
has temperature sensors and a temperature sensor in the magsafe adapter to keep it within range so
it should take care of that itself but if it's getting extremely hot it's a beta be
sure to report that in feedback now as far as if you should install ios 15.6 beta 2 well at
this point it depends on whether or not you want to try out 15.6 or you want to try out ios 16 in
just a week from now ios 16 beta 1 is expected on june 6th like i said and if you're wanting to try
that and you're a developer and you know what you're getting into as those tend to be very
buggy to begin with then you can hold off however if you're developing an app or maybe you're just
on 15.6 beta 1 then i would definitely install it otherwise i would probably hold off at this point
as far as battery life battery life has been very hit or miss on beta 1 for me
and it really depends what you use and if we go to the last 10 days here take a look at yesterday
i had 2 hours and 16 minutes of screen on time 4 hours and 40 minutes of screen off time and used
about 40 percent of my battery my battery has not been great and the same is true on the ipad
the ipad battery on ipad os 15.6 hasn't been great or come back to what it was with early versions
of ios 15. my battery health is also still at one hundred percent i charge it every single night on
a wireless charger and in my car wirelessly when i'm driving but i don't use a case so that does
help with heat quite a bit as far as performance i did run benchmarks but it does seem to be nice
and fast and some of you have mentioned that you wanted me to show different games and things to
show performance so as far as going into music and just letting that load for the first time
on the iphone 8 plus it's nice and smooth if we go into maybe i have minecraft here
and i've also loaded some other games that we could take a look at later maybe apex legends
in future videos or if there's something else i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
but you'll see minecraft here i had it loaded we'll give it just a moment to see what it's like
and if we hit resume frame rates and everything seem to be nice and smooth so if you were having
issues with it being stuttery or being slow it looks like beta 2 is nice and fast and smooth on
any device that i've used it on so far so nice and fast nice 60 hertz refresh rate it doesn't seem to
be a problem whatsoever as far as the benchmarks are concerned i did run them on my 13 pro max just
to give you an idea and if we go into geekbench 5 you can see my single core is 1739 multicore
is 4708. if we take a look at the history we'll go back here last time i ran this it was 1728 and
4705 so it's actually a little bit better this time around just by a little bit but it seems
to be performing very much the same but so far i haven't had any lockups like i did on beta 1.
so i had some touch lockups and it's been good so far but it's only been a couple of hours now
as far as when ios 15.6 beta 3 will release well most of us are expecting ios 16 beta 1 on june
6th now it's possible we could have 15.6 beta 3 next week but i think it's more likely that
it will be again another week after that usually on a bi-weekly schedule from beta 1 to 2 to 3.
that's not always the case they could change that up but that seems to be the most likely and that's
where we'll probably see more features that also are available with ios 16 as well so that's really
what i'm expecting as far as that so maybe in a couple weeks it's possible next week with beta 3
but i think it's more likely a week after that and so that's everything with ios 15.6 beta 2.
now of course if i find anything else i'll let you know a little bit later in the week and if
you've found anything i'd love to hear from you in the comments below if you'd like to get your
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as always thanks for watching this is Aaron i'll see you next time