hi everyone aaron here for zollotech and
today apple released ios 15.5 rc or
release candidate this is the final
version of ios 15.5 that was released to
developers and soon to public beta
testers and as long as there's no
additional issues this will be the same
version that's released to the public in
a little while now this particular
update is very large since we're
switching from a beta to a final version
it's 5.27 gigabytes that's on my iphone
13 pro max and it was about four to five
gigabytes on all the devices here so
it's a pretty big install that's typical
when you switch from a beta to a public
version or from a public version back to
a beta now along with this apple also
released ipad os 15.5 rc watch os 8.6 rc
tv os 15.5 rc mac os 12.4 rc as well as
homepod os 15.5 rc all of those are
available 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 we'll go to general then we'll go
to about as you can see the build number
is 19f77
this particular build has a few new
features and changes in it as well as
bug fixes and is not huge since we're
getting closer to ios 16 but the first
thing that is not changed if you were on
previous betas is the modem there is no
modem update in 15.5 rc it's the same
modem that we had with beta 4 and also
beta 3 at version 1.61.00
now as far as new features and changes
well the first thing has to do with
apple wallet it's pretty similar to what
we had before so if we go into wallet
now you can see it says apple cash so
instead of having an apple pay cash card
it now just says apple cash with the
apple symbol in the word cash after it
then we also have buttons at the bottom
that say request and send so now you can
request or send money from your apple
card and this will also come to
businesses later on where you'll be able
to tap to pay doing that as well but
that doesn't seem to be active in the
release candidate to go along with this
apple also updated messages now within
messages it says apple cache or has the
apple symbol with the word cache after
it above your keyboard so that's
something they've updated within
messages not a huge change but something
that matches what we have with apple
wallet the next thing has to do with
apple podcasts where they've included a
new setting that allows you to limit
episodes that are stored on your iphone
but there that are automatically
downloaded so that can take up a ton of
storage and you can find that in
settings so if you go into settings go
down to podcasts under podcasts you have
automatically download now you have the
option to go in here and change it to
latest episode per show
2 3 5 10 episodes per show or even the
last 24 hours 7 days 14 days 30 days or
all new episodes so it says remove older
automatic downloads by limiting how many
are kept on this iphone the default
setting will not affect shows with
customized settings so this is just a
new settings option that they've added
for this time around with 15.5
now the weather app has a new button as
well so if we go into weather and you're
on your local weather so this is where i
live go to your local weather you can
tell that by the little arrow at the
bottom and if we scroll down just keep
scrolling down you'll see it says report
an issue prior to this this was just
text now we have a box and if we tap on
see more we can now report an issue like
we could before with some nice dialogues
here where the overall condition is
either sunny cloudy rain sleet snow we
can report the temperature wind air
quality and other conditions as well so
that's something they've updated to make
that more prominent and more easy to
recognize when you scroll down
now they've also fixed an issue this
time around where with home automations
you could have some issues where they
were triggered by people arriving or
leaving and sometimes those would fail
so if you have a new home automation
where maybe it unlocks your door as you
arrive home sometimes that might not
work or it may lock your door when you
leave that's been resolved in this
update so that was a problem before that
they've fixed on the ipad they've made a
change as well on ipad os 15.5 rc one of
the things they've changed which we've
had for a little while is universal
control under your settings if you go to
airplay and handoff you'll see it says
cursor and keyboard prior to this update
it said beta it's no longer in beta so
cursor and keyboard has been finally
fixed meaning universal control and it
should work more seamlessly across your
devices so that's been updated and it no
longer says beta it's said beta since
it's released to the public now it
doesn't
now apple has also added pass key
technology on the iphone for safari so
passkey technology will allow you to
more easily log into websites this is
something that we won't see just yet but
developers can add to different websites
so when you go to a website so maybe we
log into apple it would make it easier
to log in so that's something that the
developer actually has to add within the
code and should help in the future so it
will take a while to see this but it's
now available as far as pass key
now there's also new features for
developers so if you're a developer and
you go into settings and you have
developers settings turned on there's
some new settings to help developers
with things such as throughput tests so
let me show you what that looks like so
you'll see i don't have developer
settings yet you need xcode in order to
enable that now once you have xcode on a
mac you can run xcode and then plug in
your iphone via lightning and a new
developer option will show up under
settings so you'll see you have
developer here tap on developer and then
if we scroll down we have a new option
for run throughput test if we tap on
this we can start a test for ping packet
loss idle ping latency download speed or
upload speed so that's something that
they've added with 15.5 that could be
very useful for developers
now they've also added something else as
far as support goes for dual sense
adaptive trigger features so that has to
do with the ps5 controller where it now
can be enabled by developers to use that
within games and use the dual sense
adaptive triggers also apple has added
the ability for developers to more
easily enable shareplay so that's
something that you could do before but
it's a little bit easier now and we'll
look more to what we have with apple's
app so if i go into tv and then maybe i
want to share an episode we have the
share play button right there just makes
it a little bit easier and nicer to be
able to share your content with someone
else now they've also added additional
support for developers as far as c plus
plus 20 and c plus plus 23 features that
have been added so all of those things
have been added according to apple's
notes however there's some known and
resolved issues as well there are still
known issues within this update so as
far as the storage bug they haven't
mentioned that whatsoever so if we go
into settings go to general go to
storage it's the first time i'm opening
it on the iphone 11 just to see what it
does it loaded pretty quickly although
when i tried this before on the 13 pro
max it was a little bit slower but
you'll see it loaded right away on the
iphone 11 and system data showing 4.83
gigabytes so it's within the realm of
what it should be usually within 10 to
20 gigabytes for system data that can
vary and should go down over time but if
you're having huge storage usage let me
know in the comments below
also there's no mention of whether or
not they've fixed any issues with the
music bug so whether or not music was
causing an issue and reducing your
battery life because it was using
additional cpu they didn't mention that
and they didn't mention any issues as
far as the phone getting warm however
the phone is a little bit warm to touch
as i've been filming this video but it's
not hot at all and wasn't even when it
was installing the update so for the
most part i believe those issues are
resolved but they did mention three
issues that they've resolved and one of
them has to do with matter accessories
being resolved so matter is a new
standard where you'll be able to use
this on your iphone matter supported
accessories should now work at least
somewhat and also store kit issues have
been resolved as well so there were
three issues two with matter and one
store kit issue also there's ten known
issues that you should be aware of also
with this update so
one of those things has to again do with
matter you can only pair up to five
matter accessories in a home right now
that's an issue also the health app can
have some issues from time to time where
the health app can crash when you
attempt to onboard the blood oxygen
feature from within the app so maybe
you're trying to onboard that from here
use blood oxygen with your apple watch
sometimes it can crash they tell you to
reboot the device or try again also
purchasing or downloading content from
the itunes itunes store and tv app might
fail again they say reboot the device to
resolve it and there's also additional
issues with messages when it comes to
conversation transcripts where they
won't scroll after you go into a quick
look photo also emergency sos calls with
five presses although it said it's
disabled for all users outside of india
to fix an issue that caused the setting
to unintentionally default for some
however it looks like it's working for
me in the us if i press this five times
one two three four five you'll see i can
slide emergency sos so it looks like
it's working now most of the major
issues seem to be resolved in this
update but there could still be some odd
bugs here and there now apple also
released security updates with ios 15.5
but they don't typically tell us what's
new until the final public release so
we'll have to wait a few days or a week
to know what that is so you can see the
last one shows ios 15.4.1 so we'll have
to wait until they update their security
website to know exactly what they've
updated so we'll know when the final
version comes out and i'll let you know
then and that leads me to should you
install ios 15.5 rc and i would say
there's no reason not to at this point
as it should be the final version
released to the public however we have
seen rc2 versions roll out again later
on if there was additional issues
reported by developers but we don't have
the feedback app or at least i don't
anymore where it's removed with the rc
since it's the final version so if apple
doesn't change anything this should be
the full final version and you
definitely can install it if you ever
wanted to roll back to ios 15.4.1 though
you would need a computer to do that so
just be aware make sure you have a
backup before you install the update
as far as the overall battery life well
it will take a few days to know for sure
but as far as battery life for me it's
been getting me through the day without
a problem i really haven't had to pay
attention to it much typically i go to
bed with about 50 left so you'll see i'm
currently at 81 percent today and over
the last 10 days i had 3 hours and 32
minutes of screen on time 8 hours and 59
minutes of screen off time and used
about 50 percent of my battery now i
should be able to get 10 to 14 hours of
screen on time but again i go to bed
with about 50 or more of my battery life
remaining so it really varies from
device to device i'm also still at 100
maximum battery capacity for battery
health so i charge this on the charger
every night all night long and take it
off on the morning and charge it in the
car so it seems to be doing okay that
way
as far as performance performance seems
to be okay the oldest device here is the
iphone 8 plus and it seems to be nice
and smooth whether that be going into
music waiting for it to load here over
wi-fi we'll give it just a moment but in
general it seems to be pretty smooth and
those that ran earlier betas of ios 15.5
reported that it was very fast as well
so no issues here to report
also as far as the benchmarks go i did
run it on the 13 chrome max and we'll
talk more about it in the follow-up
video later this weekend but let's take
a look at the benchmarks i ran it twice
the initial score was pretty low since i
had just installed the update but for
single core it scored
1728 for single core
4747 from multicore if we take a look at
the history you can see here again i ran
it twice it was a little bit higher from
multi-core the other day but it was very
close to similar for single core maybe a
few points lower four points or so so
generally within a hundred it's fine it
should perform just as you would expect
and i really see no difference with
everything from that to promotion or
anything else with performance it seems
to be quite good now as far as an ios
15.4.2 release i think we can completely
forget about this at that point i don't
expect any sort of release as far as
that goes as apple is pushing out 15.5
now that we have the release candidate
as far as when to expect that well
typically i would expect it probably
monday or tuesday of next week that's
usually what apple does so we could have
it as soon as the 16th or 17th and it
would be out to everyone and for all
devices so that's really what i would
expect with this
then i would expect another beta this
coming week as well next week with 15.6
beta 1
moving on until
june 6th with ios 16 beta 1. so we'll
have ios 15 and ios 16 betas all the way
until september where we have a final
release of ios 16 to the public
typically when we see iphone 14 and more
so not a whole lot more as far as
features with ios 15 but i would expect
ios 16 to have some surprise features
and more of course we'll have to wait
and see so that's everything so far in
ios 15.5 rc of course i'll have a full
video of it when it releases to the
public with any additional changes and
be sure to check back for that follow-up
later this weekend if you'd like to get
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this is aaron i'll see you next time
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