hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and ios 16 beta 2 has been out for a few days and has even
more features in it that we've found since the initial what's new video so i wanted to talk
about all of those features as well as the overall experience of beta 2 vs beta 1 which we'll talk
about toward the end of the video now the first new feature is under subscriptions so if we go
to settings tap on your name at the top and then subscriptions and you can see subscriptions looks
completely different this is available not only on ios 16 beta 2 which it was live a few days ago
but now it's also available on ios 15.5 where it looks completely different so if i go into
my applecare you'll see it looks a little bit different so it's just a new interface that's
been updated remotely for all of us if we go into the lock screen press and hold create a new one
tap on photos and if we select a portrait of someone so this is craig federighi now you'll see
that we have some new filters so we can zoom out here a little bit and as we swipe through we now
have a new studio filter this is something that's new and also has additional options so you have
perspective zoom depth effects low key and high key which will change the background a little bit
you also have another effect for color backdrop so you can go in change the color the background
color can completely be changed and match whatever's in the photo itself so that's
something that's a little bit different with the color backdrop of course we have
duotone and color wash as well those are new filters now additionally within wallpapers
if you're setting them from the wallpaper settings go to customize we'll customize
the current wallpaper we have different color options and if we go into those color options
tap configure we now have more color options than we did before we used to have about two rows
now we have three and sometimes more so you have additional color options to choose from where
you didn't before within beta 2 the dictation sound is a little bit different for many people
now i tried this back and forth with beta 1 sometimes it's the same sometimes it's not but
it's sort of a double beep sound so we'll go into messages tap on dictation and here take a listen
so that's what it sounds like on many different phones it's just a single
dinging sound i tried it again later and now it's making a single sound
dictation is making a singular sound sometimes and other times it's making a double click sound so
maybe they'll change this a little later if you're playing a song and you go to the music widget
on your lock screen if it shows properly where sometimes it doesn't you can now scrub through
the songs duration by pressing and holding on the widget you can also do that with volume but you
weren't able to do it with the scrubber here for the song itself now often times this isn't even
showing on the lock screen but if it is it should be interactive now when you take a screenshot
tap on the screenshot then go to share it you now have the option to add to quick note that wasn't
there before also when you go into your photos app tap on a photo share the photo if you tap on
options at the top you now have the option for automatic individual photo or icloud link these
weren't here before and you can finally send an icloud link on any photo so it's really great to
have those options if you happen to press on a photo that uses visual lookup you may have some
additional options now i was not able to get this to show but i did see others that had the option
where it would show that they could actually look up the subject within the photo so this is one
world trade center i've shown this before and the oculus sometimes it will recognize it just within
the album and then allow you to look up what it is directly from here i wasn't able to reproduce that
but others are seeing that now if you have airpods connected to your phone maybe their airpods max
or something else when they're connected if you go into your control center tap on the
airplay icon you'll now see that the airpods are below the phone before they were above it so this
is a little change that makes more sense also recently found with the latest airpods max beta
update and i did a video about the beta update to the headphones recently there's actually improved
bluetooth sound so what that means is there's new codecs that are higher quality where the sound
will be much higher quality in the future so this is great we've wanted this for a while maybe more
lossless audio going over bluetooth so hopefully we see that very soon under a keyboard there's
some new options so if we go to general and then our keyboard and then if we go to keyboards and
if we add the kazakh keyboard there's new options so you'll see there's a little arrow here and we
have options on the previous version there were no options so you can see the keyboard on beta1
there's no options now we have kazakh russian or russian qwerty keyboards so those are available
if you have beta 2. again within settings if we go to accessibility under accessibility you'll see
that we have the new option for live caption beta under live caption beta it now says at the bottom
that live captions uses additional battery this is a small update but it's actually telling you
that it will reduce your battery life overall when you're using that as it drains the power more or
uses more of the processor when you go into safari if you're on the main page it will now say start
page at the top a little change but this carries across all the betas this time if you go into the
home app there's some new options here also that i found now some of these have to do with beta 1
but they're not obvious so if you press and hold maybe you want to change this
and edit your home view tap and hold and edit your home view now tap on any of these icons and you'll
have the option to resize them so you'll see i can resize the home pod one and it's easy to resize
it's just not obvious that you can do that until you accidentally tap on it within the home app if
you're using homepod beta updates you'll also have a new software update dialog tap the three dots in
the upper right go to your home settings within home settings scroll down you'll have software
update tap on software update it will check for your updates and you also have updated recently
tap on that and you'll see your different home pods here so you'll see there's one
on the ios or homepod os 16 version and you can see your recent updates this is
just a new dialogue and some of them even have switches if you have a bunch of them
in order to update or not update them additionally within the home app if you're using a garage
door opener within the home app the garage door opener icon or glyph has actually been updated
so there's small changes throughout for that on your lock screen or notifications if you set the
weather above time it actually looks a little bit different now where if you have a warning
or maybe a chance of rain it will show that i was able to screen capture that the other
day and you'll see here it says chance of light rain and it sort of cuts off and it doesn't look
particularly great but hopefully it will scroll eventually in the future and give more information
but so far it will show this as well as different warnings as well within the weather app itself the
precipitation data looks a little bit different also so if we go into a day where there's
precipitation switch to precipitation there's more information and it looks a little bit different
it gives more information based on that and it's just a slight redesign the other day i noticed as
well with beta 2 when i was in the car i activated siri using hay in front of it and it gave me this
icon now i don't have any car mode set or anything but using siri showed a little car on the screen
knowing that i was moving and sort of blocked the screen and just gave me the little siri icon at
the bottom so this is a new update in beta 2. in ios 16 of course we can edit a message many of you
know this already but one thing they've done which is really nice is if you do edit this message
and maybe we just add an exclamation point here the person on the other end if they're not
using ios 16 betas or ios 16 it will actually send an additional message saying that it's edited so
it will show the original message and then a new one that's edited as a follow-up message
that's something they added with beta2 also within messages there's a new video showing new faces for
memoji so this is something steve mosher found and thanks again to him for all this help helping me
find some of these new changes but you can see the animation has changed or the little intro video
so there's new memoji within ios 16 and that's just a little video they show from time to time
explaining what you can do with it now i showed in a different video where
notifications have some new options if you go to notifications you can display them as a stack
as a count or a list if we changed account go to our notifications sometimes these update properly
it looks like it's not working a hundred percent but some are actually seeing it update his account
so you can see them stack i've had it stacked for a little while and it seems to work most of the
time other times it doesn't but someone on twitter found this and you can see what it looks like when
it stacks them and then gives you sort of a count below that so it's a little different as
well also in notifications if you're in sleep mode they're now faded so if we turn on sleep mode here
turn on sleep i'll turn on sleep on beta1 you'll see notifications on the lock screen are faded on
beta 2 so it kind of keeps them in the background so that they don't disturb you and aren't overly
bright within notes you'll see we have some text and when you select any text in ios 16 beta 2
you can scroll through that selection you no longer have to tap on the arrow to scroll through
also within beta2 tap on some text select it and now if we scroll through you'll see we have a new
option for find selection tap on find selection and it selects all of the different words that
match so you'll see above the keyboard it says text and there's one of four you can change this
maybe to the word note and it will find any of those as well so it's a much nicer way to find
text within a document or anywhere else within the tips app and this is one you probably don't go
into a whole lot if you go under the be prepared section on beta 2 there's now a new section for
in case of emergency tap on this and it gives you more information about it explaining your medical
id and more so something new that they've added and this has become a very useful app with a lot
of different great tips the apple watch tips will appear also if you have an apple watch connected
on ipad os 16 beta 2 there's some additional changes with stage manager so if i go into maybe
stage manager you'll see it's turned on and when you have a keyboard connected if you press and
hold on the command key so maybe we'll go into a different stage press and hold and sometimes
it will show you the keyboard shortcuts for stage manager however it's not showing for me now i've
tried to reboot this and it's just not showing also additionally when plugged into a different
monitor sometimes it will show another option at the top for a new window option that says it will
be added later there's also additional display support for ultrawide monitors so some people
have been using this with ultrawide and it seems to be working on up to 32 by 10 ultrawide monitors
within settings under settings and accessibility there's also a new option for hover text
hover text has been brought to ipad this is something people have wanted for a long time for
accessibility and now it's available with ipad os 16 beta 2. on apple watch there's actually
a change that i didn't mention in the what's new video and if we go to workouts go down to workouts
here and scroll down you'll now see the option for multi-sport workout so you can do a triathlon
and it has that included where apple talked about that in the kino it's now available
and you'll see it actually disables the pressing of the screen since you actually are doing
something within the water and then maybe biking or something else so you have to end it that way
and get out of it but that's available now for multi-sport if you want to use that on your watch
now as far as the overall experience of ios 16 beta 2 it's got better performance and better
battery life than beta 1. the overall performance seems to be much much better just using it day to
day from the day it came out till now it feels much better it's faster more responsive and
whether that be on older devices now this has beta 1 sometimes it's just really buggy on beta
1. they've fixed most of those issues with beta 2. so that's great to see and as far as battery
life it's not really that good but it seems to be a little bit better for me if we go down to our
battery battery health you'll see i'm still at 100 percent and here's my coconut battery stats that i
share usually every week showing my charge cycles and then here's the overall battery life so if we
go back into battery you'll see over the last 24 hours it's changed a little bit and it has
deleted everything else for some reason so this is something it reset and it's a little bit of a bug
so you'll see it says 3 hours and 29 minutes of screen on time 44 minutes of screen off time
typically battery will get me through a day but i'm still down to 30 to 40 percent before i'd be
to about 20 to 30 percent so it's getting better but it's still not great yet and then also some
banking apps are still not working so if you're having maybe some issues with that i've heard
from some of you that they don't work other apps do work my banks actually work fine on here some
don't i'm not sure what specific banks but there's so many around the world that you'd actually have
to try it out so if you're wondering if you should try it based off of that you probably shouldn't
also apple music still skips songs sometimes when people are playing the music and occasionally it
doesn't show up on the lock screen there's a lot of little odd issues here and there and
sometimes there's lag on older devices on newer devices but overall the performance is better
now as far as when to expect the public beta apple said it will be available in july so that means
pretty soon maybe within a week or so another week and a half or so we'll see the public beta and
then we'll see beta 3. usually we're on a two-week cycle and we should see that within a couple weeks
where we'll have beta 3 maybe around the week of july 4th so that is a holiday in the united states
independence day so we could see it that week or maybe even the following week but either way
the public beta is only a couple weeks away at this point based on what we've had in the past
along with beta 3 we should see that and then of course ios 15.6 many people are wondering where
that is beta 4 was released from mac os the mac os equivalent version of 12.5 beta 4 was released on
friday which is a bit odd and they didn't release the ios update so i would expect early next week
to have ios 15.6 beta 4 with a release candidate either possibly that week or the following week
and a final release in mid-july at this point i thought it would be early july but based on
what they're doing now i think it'll be mid-july now as far as the youtube community poll i did
run one of those and wanted to go over a few of your comments to see what you had to say
tom davis says much better performance here on beta 2 13 pro animations are really smooth and act
as they should i haven't had any crashes or needed to hard reset all of my daily apps work great
except for my continuous glucose monitoring app no biggie though it never worked well anyway i have
a separate reader for it can't believe this is a beta for me the big improvements are the health
app the sleep and medication features are a wonder i just recently updated to ios 16.2 or beta 2
and it's running smoothly on my iphone 11. victor sai said ios 16 beta 2 on iphone 12 pro apple
music keeps crashing when you click something the first few seconds after playing lossless music
timer don't show up on the lock screen anymore other than these it's okay brady hoffman said it
was buggy on my iphone 10s max i went back to 15.5 dr kushik said running ios 16 beta 2 on an iphone
13 it heats up much less and thus battery life has improved but not as ios 15.5 to 15.6 beta level
it may be just 10 to 15 lesser screen on time compared to those versions overall not as bad as
beta 2. and so with all of those comments that leads me to should you install ios 16 beta 2
and at this point i would wait for the public beta we're probably only a couple weeks away
and that is when it typically gets much more stable and so far it's been pretty good but i
think it's going to get much better so probably in just a couple of weeks we'll have the public beta
or maybe a week and a half or so we'll have the public beta and then we'll move on to beta 3 and
so on until a final release in september and so lots of big changes and features throughout all of
ios 16 apple continually makes a bunch of little other icon changes i haven't mentioned as well but
if there's anything else you've found that's major i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
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