What's up guys my name is Wrandon and this past week was very eventful, but also very strange,
as we got multiple software updates scattered throughout the week. So on Monday, Apple released
ios and ipados 15.2 along with macos monterey 12.1, watchOS 8.3, and all of the other software
apple usually rolls out and then on thursday apple released macos monterey 12.2 beta 1
and that was it nothing else came on that thursday and then came friday late friday afternoon
when apple dropped ios and ipad os 15.3 beta 1 along with watch os 8.4 and tv os 15.3 beta 1.
but that wasn't the original plan and we'll explain what i mean by that in a moment but
in this video we're going to be discussing some additional new features and changes in ios 15.2
and 15.3 along with an update on the performance battery life bugs and more so before we get into
how the latest ios versions have been running for the past week we need to talk about something that
rarely ever happens with apple software and that is a leak so remember how i said that a new beta
of backus monterey was released on thursday but nothing else well that was not the original plan
so according to apple's own website and the leaked build of ios 15.3 beta 1 this software along with
watchos 8.4 and tv os 15.3 were also set to be released on thursday the 16th alongside mac os
monterey 12.2 beta 1. now we don't know exactly why apple delayed the release by a day but that's
besides the point i mean the fact that people were able to get into apple's developer portal
and download the ipsw file of an unreleased ios build is wild and i don't think it's ever happened
before at least not that i remember maybe one time ever if it has and what's even more strange
is the apple didn't even remove you know the code or the traces of code on their own website instead
they just commented out the rows in html like in the html code they commented it out so that people
on the front end of the website couldn't see it but a very simple right-click and show page source
would show you a very clear 15.3 watchus 8.4 and tv os 15.3 along with that release date
there so super strange stuff and i did actually end up installing ios 15.3 the leaked version on
my iphone 11 but i didn't install it on you know one of my main devices like the 13 pro max until
it officially released later on in the day so super strange but we'll talk about 15.3 a little
bit more in this video but let's first talk about the version that most of you are on right now and
that's 15.2 all right so the first thing i want to talk about is a new feature in 15.2 that i did not
cover here on the channel and that is that you can now erase a disabled device without needing
to restore from a computer so if you get your you know password wrong multiple times and you can't
sign in you can see right here that you now have erased phone on the lock screen and you don't have
to actually plug it into your computer to restore you can erase all the data straight from the lock
screen right here so you can see here on apple's website it outlines what would happen once you tap
on erase iphone so you'll have to enter in your apple id and password and then you'll tap erase
again and it will permanently delete all of your data and settings so that's all going to happen
on device now you don't need to plug it into a computer to do that and you can see right here
you do need to be on ios 15.2 or later to be able to do this and of course you will need to
be connected to cellular or wi-fi as well i also wanted to point out that the new parts
and service history feature which shows in your settings general about and it will show if you
have a genuine apple parts or not if you got you know a part replaced like your battery or camera
or your display it will show either genuine apple part or not a lot of people are reporting that's
working great in 15.2 but some people are seeing it get improved even more and show more data
and 15.3 which we'll talk about here in a moment but this feature was introduced with 15.2
and i don't have a device that i've replaced anything on so i cannot you know see this myself
but from everybody i've been seeing on social media things seem to be going good with this
feature and it's going to help a lot of people in the second hand market when they go to buy an
iphone great feature i really love this and this is definitely one of the most underrated features
in 15.2 i also wanted to point out that there are a ton of security patches in ios and ipad os 15.2
i mean just look at this list and i will leave this in the description down below as well but if
you needed more reason to update to 15.2 i mean just tons of bug fixes tons of vulnerabilities
have been patched in this update so if you want to make sure your device is as secure as possible
make sure you go ahead and update to 15.2 i mean this is just another reason on top of all the
new features and changes bug fixes and things like that that you should strongly consider
updating now we did also see the release of swift playgrounds 4 so if you have an ipad and you're on
ipad os 15.2 you will be able to download swift playgrounds 4.0 so this is going to allow you to
essentially create applications iphone and ipad applications straight from your ipad without
the need of a computer whatsoever it's basically like a mini xcode i played around with this for a
little bit and it's actually really awesome you're not going to be making you know top selling games
just straight from the ipad you're going to want to use the computer for that but if you just want
to you know do this in your spare time or just create a little fun game or just a fun little
app it's awesome that you can now do that for free using swift playgrounds for straight from ipad os
again that's awesome but as far as anything else goes you know i've covered pretty much everything
here in 15.2 i've been covering the software for over a month now so i've covered just about
every feature possible in this update but of course we don't have any new emoji
we don't have wallpapers we don't have the digital driver's license hopefully we'll get
all of those in early 2022 before ios 16 i would expect new emojis and potentially new wallpapers
maybe in like 15.4 so maybe around springtime is when we could see that i'm not too sure but it's
not looking like we're going to see that in 15.3 and of course we did not get anything new related
to those in 15.2 now as far as bugs go in ios 15.2 i did have a really weird bug the other day
on my daily device my iphone 13 pro here and you can see here the day i believe the day i installed
or maybe it's the day after on tuesday the day after i installed 15.2 i got this really weird
status bar bug so you can see here the time and everything is on the right side of my screen
now what's weird about this is that i always keep rotation lock on always 24 7 i never take it off
so the fact that my status bar went all the way over to the right like that
is really really strange i even took a video recording here a screen recording of it
because it just simply would not move so it would go up to the top when i went into an application
but when i went back to the home screen it would go off to the side which was just very strange
you can see here on twitter as well just a really weird bug that i had in ios 15.2 but aside from
that i'm really not having any other issues with 15.2 the spotlight bug has been fixed for me so
when i would go into spotlight search sometimes it would show no applications even though i had those
applications installed that has finally been fixed and then also the music streaming bug is
pretty much a non-issue at this point i have not noticed any battery drain whatsoever on any of my
devices on 15.2 and then as far as performance goes here on 15.2 i've had a lot less bugs
on this version since installing it which is you know kind of ironic since i just mentioned
that status bar bug but that's really the extent of the bugs i've had on 15.2 i mean performance
has been excellent so far if that's the worst bug i'm having that's a win in my book so everything's
looking good on 15.2 as far as performance goes and same with battery life i mean battery life is
pretty great it is a minor increase over 15.1.1 but you know nothing too crazy it's not a huge
jump it's just about the same just a little bit better i would say maybe like 20 minutes more of
on-screen time i've noticed and if we go into my settings here and go to the battery section
you guys can see my battery graphs right here of course i charge my phone throughout the day just
with my tesla charger when i sit it on the charger in my car so that's why you see little spurts of
charging throughout the day and night but you guys can see there pretty solid battery life overall
here's where my battery life is going in terms of which applications i'm using on a daily basis but
you can see there i've been using my phone quite a bit lately of course over the past 10 days you
can see here using it quite a bit of course trying to test out ios 15.2 and just how good
or bad the battery life is and so far it's been a lot more on the good side than it has been on
the bad side all right so now let's go ahead and move on to the community poll and there we
go on the home screen you can see the poll pops up right here but if you go to my channel and then go
to community is this new right here this must be new in the youtube application i like that there
but if you go to my channel and go to community you guys will see this is the poll that i just
recently posted and i said ios 15.2 has been out for a few days how is it running for you so for
me i'm having no issues with 15.2 and you can see there that is the most popular answer so 60
of 16 000 people that voted said that 15.2 is great with no issues 14 said good just minor
issues 7 said not good at and bad battery life and then 20 are still not on 15.2 whether that be 15.1
or ios 14. so let's go ahead and read through a couple of these comments someone here has an
issue when tapping on the camera app sometimes it crashes so i'm not sure if you're talking about
the camera app on the home screen or from the lock screen but that's interesting so i've not heard of
that where it just crashes right away however battery life and performance is awesome and one
of the best in a long time that's good to hear so hedge here says some minor issues on my 12 pro max
like keyboard randomly not showing up in search if you're talking about the spotlight search yes
that's happened to me before too but the biggest issue i've had with 15.2 is the accessibility
shortcut taking up to several seconds to activate i use it for reduce white point so interesting so
there are a lot of variables with accessibility so hopefully that is something that will be
solved pretty soon a lot of people are saying that 15.2 is better in terms of performance
battery life seems better than the betas and 15.1 as i have no major issues or bugs good to hear
15.2 has been very stable so far on my 12 pro max i've gotten better battery life on one day
i nearly reached 10 hours of screen on time on a single charge that's impressive that's awesome i'm
getting improved wifi connectivity maybe due to a modem update and schedule summary is more refined
it's less cumbersome compared to previous versions yeah the new you know scheduled summary looks
so much better in this update in my opinion let me see if i have it here so yeah i mean it just
looks so much better it looks so much more modern than really anything we've seen on the lock screen
maybe ever on ios i mean it just looks so full and so cool i just i really love it especially when
you tap on it too you get this really awesome view there that's definitely one of my favorite things
in 15.2 but anyway good to see it's running well for you only thing i've noticed is battery life
since ios 15.1 has gotten noticeably worse on my 12 pro max so yeah people are going to say that
battery life is worse people are going to say that it's better it just all depends really on
how you use your phone so unfortunately you know can't really do much if you're having much worse
battery life and you follow all of my battery saving tips unfortunately here we go here's an
iphone 10r user i've been waiting on somebody with a 10r to comment because a lot of people on 15.1
had issues that were on the 10r so nana here nana says the 15.2 has been great on my iphone 10r
my cellular bars have improved and my wifi speed is way better but for battery it's been getting
really good battery per day around five hours which i would say is good for me since i don't
use it that much so good to hear there 13 thumbs up a lot of comments here as well
so yeah a lot of people seem to agree with that on the iphone 10r so that is good news for those
of you because i know a lot of people again on the 10r have pretty bad things to say about 15.1
and 15.1.1 notification summary block has been resolved 10 out of 10. great to hear here's
a potential new feature in 15.2 that i did not cover here on the channel from chris he says that
with 15.2 you can now give access to apple family sharing for users with different regions than you
so that's good to hear that that's now a feature available with 15.2 i did not know about that
wi-fi calling is broken for the third time with this update they fixed it with 15.1 but now it's
broken again so if you guys have wi-fi calling let me know if that's broken for you as well down
in the comments below here on 15.2 but i don't use wi-fi calling so i can't test that i guess i could
test it but i don't use that personally hopefully 15.3 or maybe even a 15.2.1 will fix that though
but thanks to everybody who did leave a comment on this poll this community post i did go ahead
and read all of them so thank you to everybody who left a comment and of course everybody who voted
as well it really helps us out here on the channel to see how these software versions are running and
if you guys missed this video by the way make sure you watch that an awesome video i really enjoyed
making that now i did also want to mention mac os monterey 12.1 and 12.2 beta 1 in this video
as well because i'm currently using both so 12.1 has been terrific for me on my m1 max macbook pro
i made a video on all of the new features and changes and those were nice but the bug fixes
are the main reason i'm glad that i updated right away so a couple of the things i noticed is that
the memory leak bug has been fixed like none of my memory is leaking at all on this latest
version also final cut pro does not randomly crash anymore so i had a weird issue really strange
issue where final cut pro would just randomly crash or sometimes it just wouldn't close like i
would click on the x and it just would not close i would have to force quit it so both of those
have been resolved with macos monterey 12.1 also the trackpad bug has been fixed so i can actually
use my trackpad again now i could not use it at all on mac os monterey 12 or 12.0.1 so that has
been fixed and just overall it's a much needed update that i'm very very pleased with now as
far as mac os monterey 12.2 beta 1 this has improved scrolling in safari with promotion
on the macbook pro now of course my macbook pro my main m1 max macbook pro that has promotion
is my main device so i'm not putting the beta on that so i cannot test this but a lot of people are
seeing improved you know 120 hertz scrolling and safari on that promotion display with this new mac
os monterey 12.2 so that's good especially because a lot of people are complaining about stutter
on safari and at 12.1 and then also on 12.2 beta 1 apple is completely rebuilding apple
music and making it a full native application so now everything's going to be a lot faster like
searching for songs and things like that will be much faster and more fluid after updating to mac
os monterey 12.2 so can't wait to see what else comes with that update but that's about it so far
on that i only have it installed on my mac mini not on my macbook pro my m1 max macbook pro but
overall loving these mac os monterey updates and then going back to the iphone ios 15.3 beta 1 has
been great so far now one thing i did mention in the video the what's new video is that there
was some verbal changes in the podcast application but i didn't really get too specific so basically
it was in this section right here when you would go to library and you had you know hide
completed episodes or whatever the option is it would say this right here would say all caught up
all your latest episodes are played and hidden by a filter so just the verbiage right there is
changed with 15.3 very very minor but that was one of the things i mentioned that i needed to kind
of expand on and then i did also want to mention that there are no signs of csam and 15.3 beta 1.
so the code has been scoured and there are no signs of csam at all there are just fixes in
the communication safety feature of course that i talked about in that video and earlier in this
video as well but there is no mention of csam anywhere so don't expect that to be added with
15.3 and then also the parts and service history feature now shows properly for certain devices so
it shows more information now on 15.3 beta 1. so you can see here this reddit user has an iphone se
and now in 15.3 it shows his display and not just his battery if it's been replaced using a
genuine apple part or not so it looks like more information added for select devices
and then as far as battery life and performance overall both are solid so far and i haven't really
noticed a single bug yet on 15.3 beta 1. you know it's only been one day but still it's a good sign
for what's to come with this software all right so now what's next from apple so today is saturday
december 18th and unfortunately i don't think we're going to be seeing a new software update
for at least a couple of weeks so i think we're going to be seeing ios 15.3 beta 2.
i think that's the next ios release that we will see and i think that's coming either on
the week of january 3rd or more likely the week of january 10th so we'll have to wait and see
but i think the earliest it will come is on the week of january 3rd so again could come
any time within those first two weeks of january i don't see it coming any later than the week of
the 10th so that's the next release that we can expect along with all the other
software as expected now as far as a public release we could be seeing a 15.2.1 at some
point in january maybe mid to late january because we will see some bug fixes in that update and of
course we won't have 15.3 final until sometime in february that's my guess but anyways guys
there you have it that is the latest on ios 15.2 15.3 and a little bit of mac os monterey goodness
in this video as well so if you guys enjoyed this video if you did i would appreciate if you give it
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