Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and this past week apple released different
updates where many people were asking me why don't i see it yet or it's not really out or what's the
problem or why isn't the update available for me and so i wanted to talk a little bit about this
since this is a little bit of a change for apple now this past week apple released ios 15.2 beta 3.
i talked about some new features in that they also released ios 15.1.1 to address specific features
and watch os 8.1.1 now before we talk about what specifically they updated here and what
to expect in the future there's a discord server where many people have been talking about this
on the Zollotech community so if you want to check that out i've linked it in the description you can
check it out just by going there to Zollotech again there's actually a link in the description
so you can check it out people are talking about everything from android to ios and more so if
you want to discuss this further after the video be sure to check that out also on the weekend i
normally do an ios follow-up and there's currently a community poll on youtube if you go to the
community tab on my channel you can see there's 6 000 votes currently where i'm asking about
ios 15.1.1 and ios 15.2 beta3 so asking which version you're on how it's been for you and also
maybe comment with your experience and how it's going so i use that information to give you the
most comprehensive in-depth look at ios every weekend to see if it's something you should
update to or how it's going in general now as far as this past week like i said apple released
three different versions and the first one was a beta that was a pretty typical release
and so that came out with some features and some changes that's a future release and it came out
to all ios 15 devices if you're a developer or a public beta tester after that the next day or so
they released ios 15.1.1 this is a little bit of a departure a week or so ago apple released tvos
15.1.1 and homepod os 15.1.1 they separated out those devices and then a while later or a week or
more later they released ios 15.1 we haven't seen this in quite some time and the reason i say that
is because it was only available for some devices as you can see here it says ios 15.1.1 improves
call drop performance on iphone 12 and iphone 13 models that means it's specific to devices and
not available for all the devices so if you want to check for it on an iphone 7 or an iphone 10r
it wasn't there and it's still not there so now we have split versions between different devices
if you have a 10r or an iphone 7 you have ios 15.1 as the most recent the same is true with ipad and
all ipads only have ipad os 15.1 however if you have an iphone 13 13 mini 13 pro or 13 pro max
or iphone 12 12 mini 12 pro or 12 pro max you'll have this update to fix call drop performance now
the only thing specific on these newer devices the 12 series and 13 is qualcomm modem so there must
have been a major issue there however apple rarely releases the update to just a few devices or eight
in this case where they're only available to some devices and not all devices that support ios 15
or earlier versions last year we had something specific for ios 14 but they don't do this that
often now they could be following up with things they need to get done before the holiday this time
around and that may be why they did that but this is a little bit unprecedented because they didn't
just do that with ios but they also did that with watch os so apple released a watch os 8.1.1 and
this is even more specific they released it for the series 7 and you can see here it says it fixes
an issue where apple watch series 7 may not charge as expected for some users and then also there's
some security website or security content on their website and we'll check that out in a moment
but it fixes specific issues for a series seven but not just all series seven one model of series
7. now on the security website from apple if we scroll down you can see the updates and it says
watch os 8.1.1 it's available for the apple watch series 7 gps plus cellular not just the one with
wi-fi so if you have a cellular plus gps model then you'll have 8.1.1 if you don't you won't
have it again below that you can see ios 15.1.1 with iphone 12 and later this is something we
haven't really seen separating across devices like this and so only for specific models and this is
something i'm really not a fan of because now we have multiple versions across multiple devices
and even multiple versions across multiple series of devices so i really hope they go
back to the normal way of doing things as far as releasing them all at once but these seem to
be either specific enough that they needed to fix this maybe a security update and it does say this
update has no published cve entries for security but that doesn't mean they didn't update something
they felt it necessary to publish it here at least so there could be security updates they
just don't want us to know about so it's possible they're there maybe there's nothing but it's odd
to see them push all of these out so if you have an iphone that's not a series 12 or series 13
that's why you don't have that update the same is true with apple watch again hopefully they change
this in the future and they've even done something stranger with apple watch where they completely
skipped over watch os 8.2 for some reason and we have watch os 8.3 betas available right now
so they completely skipped over we have watch os 8.1.1 no watch os 8.2 and just straight to watch
os 8.3 and if you're not someone that follows this stuff every day or sort of lives and breathes
updates it can be very confusing and apple is all about simplicity so i really hope this is
just them catching up by the end of the year where they're getting things all set before the holiday
and then we'll get back to normal if not it's going to be even more difficult for the consumer
to know what's going on as far as public updates and why their update is different than someone
else why they have 8.1.1 but someone with a series 4 doesn't and that's just a bit confusing and then
people start to feel left out as well so it's not great for the consumer experience or the customer
experience and i hope they really fix this now with apple releasing 15.2 i really would expect
them to release that probably within a couple weeks before their holiday break in december
typically the last few weeks in december they take a break around christmas time and different
holidays so that people can have some time off and not worry about the updates they generally put a
halt on them usually around the week of christmas and it sort of slows down we get a little bit of
a break from updates but they typically release an update before that time so i would expect ios 15.2
sometime before christmas at this point or before the holiday break for apple also maybe a beta next
week and then maybe a week after with a release candidate soon and then the final like i said so
those things make a lot of sense to me however we just don't know at this point as apple is really
randomly releasing things for all we know we could see ios 15.1.1 released to other devices next week
so i doubt it at this point but it's very possible the other day apple did something we didn't really
expect and again this goes along with their updates things seem to be changing a little bit
and apple announced a self-service repair service for those who are comfortable changing the parts
on their iphone so it says starting with iphone 12 and 13 they'll make parts tools and manuals
available to individual customers and quite a few of you have asked me to comment on this and so i'm
really grateful they're going to do this but i'm not really sure how much they're going to allow
whether it's just batteries and displays or are they going to make available maybe speakers and
ports and everything else that's possibly needed to repair your phone properly so i think this will
look great if it's as easy to do as maybe walking into an apple store saying i need a new display
it's out of warranty i would like the display and the manual and all the parts and even the
software calibration tools needed for this to sort of self-calibrate and so those things sound great
to me it's just i'm a little bit concerned that it won't be everything so maybe you need more than a
battery maybe you need the buttons for the volume buttons or the silent switch or something else
that's broken if all of those things are available i think that's a great step in the right direction
it's definitely something that many of us never thought would happen so hopefully they
make this available not only for iphones for but for mac and everything more for those that
really need to repair their own devices whether that be an old ipad or something else
we can get official parts that should work as expected as long as we can repair them it can be a
bit tricky to repair certain things i've tried to repair screens in the past with the iphone 4 that
was harder than currently but repairing screens these days is not too difficult if you're fairly
understanding of how things work and things are assembled so if you typically work on your own
car you could probably work on this although parts are much much smaller so i'm glad to
see them do this if you have the ability to but replacing a battery on your own maybe getting it
for a reasonable cost and replacing it would be a great step in the right direction and
hopefully we can order those parts as well so we'll have to wait and see if apple allows that
but i really am glad to see them do something like this this is something a lot of people including
myself have wanted for a long long time and so the current update state i don't think is going to be
the future going forward in 2022 when we get to ios 16 and beyond but i do think that we're
going to see some different changes hopefully some much better stability and more and i plan to have
that follow up probably tomorrow or sunday with the follow-up about all of the current updates
with ios 15.1.1 15.2 beta 3 and how it's going based on my experience and your experience so
in the future like i said i really hope ios 16 becomes much more stable and maybe even brings an
update but as we get closer to seeing that next june then we'll know more about it but at this
point i'm just waiting for the updates to be very stable and to make the iphone the best it can be
but let me know your thoughts on the current way apple is updating phones in the comments below
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