Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and ios 15.2 beta 4 has been out for a few days
i've been using it full time on my iphone 13 pro max and i recently switched from
ios 15.1.1 since beta 3 was so buggy so i wanted to share a couple small changes in this update
that i didn't mention in the main video and also talk about the youtube community poll
and the overall experience where there's over 7000 votes at the time of this video and over
100 comments so we'll talk more about that in a moment but the first thing is that brightness
bug is resolved so i've been using it a few days the brightness issue where auto brightness wasn't
working in beta 3 is working in this update so that's nice to see and also of course i have it
on manuals seeing that i'm outside and also the notification summary is working properly in my
video i said it wasn't showing up properly it is now showing it took a half a day or so for
the notification summary to show up and now it's showing also keep in mind that i'm outside there's
actually some construction going on so if you hear some odd noises in the background that's
what's actually going on around me now there's a couple small feature changes that they've updated
and thanks to my friend steve for helping me find those if we go into the tv app you'll see at the
bottom here it says try apple tv channels the apple tv channels is actually slightly larger
than it was before this is an incredibly minor change but i wanted to point it out either way
also if you have beats studio buds now i don't have those on me right now but if you have beats
studio buds there's some wording changes as well in this beta so if you have them connected let me
just connect my airpods pro so i can show you what i mean we'll give it just a moment we'll
go to settings bluetooth if we tap on the eye and go into settings you'll see it says left and right
under noise control and if you have beats studio buds the dialog down here has changed
so you'll see it says press and hold the stem to cycle between the selected noise control modes
that that has actually changed a little bit in beat studio buds if you have those connected
otherwise no other huge changes now with ios 15.2 many of you are already aware that this particular
update includes things such as app privacy report emergency sos and universal control
hopefully on ipad maybe new emoji a macro toggle and more so it's sort of a feature rich update but
i'm hoping for more when the final release comes out we'll have to wait and see we don't know and
we'll talk about when to expect that in a little bit however on ios 15.1 and 15.1.1 people often
tell me there's poor battery life over time and so i'm hoping for 15.2 very soon now as
far as this particular beta it is much more stable than beta 3 for me but there's still some issues
so when i say it's much more stable i find that it's pretty fast and smooth overall
as far as performance we'll talk about that in just a moment but as far as the overall use it
feels pretty normal for any ios update there are notification delays for some people and one thing
i noticed with notifications in particular i went to clear some this morning tap on the x
clear and my entire phone respringed that means it rebooted it had a little wheel in the middle
and then it came back up so that happened just a few minutes ago and that's been a problem
for me on that app and it's acting a little odd in a few other apps my smart lock app i
talked about in the other video i've had issues with personally so well actually if i go back
there's the smart lock app right there the smart lock app actually just doesn't work and that
allows you to log into different google services from time to time securely with two-factor
authentication when it goes to use bluetooth to communicate to the device you're logging into
it just crashes and so far there's no update that app hasn't been updated in six months so
that could be part of the problem as well now as far as anything else there's been some odd touch
bugs in youtube for me now this seems to have gone away mostly on the iphone but on the ipad
it's still there for me so i'll touch some things and it just won't work i'll have to close the app
sometimes if i touch the screen it just doesn't work i'll close the app go back in and it fixes
it every time this was an issue we had before that was fixed and now it's back whether or not that's
a youtube issue or an iphone issue is hard to say but i think it's more of an iphone issue since it
started with beta 4 and wasn't there before also that music bug is there so maybe you're streaming
you're playing some different songs streaming that music bug seems to cause a problem for
quite a few people where it actually causes the cpu to use a lot of processing power and then
in turn causes poor battery life so that's something quite a few people are seeing of
course apple's aware of that one and they've mentioned that specifically in their notes
also some other people on non-iphone 13 pro max models or non-new models without the pro
motion display are seeing quite a few stutters when they're going through maybe different apps
so if you're opening up music we'll open that here give it just a moment to load we're on wi-fi here
but we'll give it a moment to load and some people are seeing quite a few stutters as they're going
through different apps i'm not really seeing that but some people are seeing quite a few
scrolling may not be 100 smooth all the time but in general it seems to be okay
as far as phone calls and connectivity i've actually had no issues with this particular update
i've made a few calls they've stayed connected i've had no issues there and switching between 5g
5g uc seems to be much much better in this update we did get a modem update with this one and so i
think that may have fixed what was going on i've actually had no problems with it and it stays
connected so that's a great sign and hopefully most of you are experiencing the same thing
the same is true with bluetooth it seems to be connecting just fine with airpods and things
like that and i'm hearing that from most people as well so most of the time i've had no issues with
bluetooth and also wi-fi seems to be pretty good i'm on wi-fi now i'm actually quite a ways away
from the router and it's working well i'm actually not on wi-fi on this device but i am on the 11
and it is working and for some reason it's not connected here let's see if we can get it to
connect maybe we're too far out but let's give it a second and see if we have any issues with it
my ipad and my iphone are connected so it should connect and i haven't had any issues with wi-fi
whatsoever and it looks like i am now so let's turn it off turn it back on and see if it will
connect and like i said i've had no issues with it and then of course during the video i'm having
some issues with it so this will be need to be reported in feedback as there is wi-fi all around
me and i'm not seeing any connections to anything so that's kind of odd that i'm not seeing anything
let me hard reboot and see if it will come back i'm not seeing anything so there's obviously
a problem with wi-fi let's go ahead and hard reboot this since it's crashed on me and more
like i said it's resprung or respring give it just a moment we'll let it reboot and
we'll see what happens let me let it reboot and then we'll try again now my phone is rebooted
you'll see it's trying to connect here there we go everything's sort of coming back to life
let's go into wi-fi see what we've got here so we could have an issue we'll give it just a moment
there we go now it connected so it took a hard reboot in order to connect to my wi-fi
network for some reason and while i don't have 100 signal strength since i'm outside in a ways away
it's still connected on other devices so there's some odd wi-fi bug again i'll have to report that
one in in the feedback app and make sure you do the same as well they'll prioritize that and
try and fix things as they need to now as far as performance like i said before it seems to be very
smooth other than the odd issue you just saw there seems to be pretty smooth just scrolling between
things opening different applications going into them of course it's reloading there we go and it
seems to be smooth without any heating issues so the back of the phone has not been getting
too warm in fact i haven't noticed to get warm at all even using this the past couple of days
it seems to have held up well that way the same is true on other devices also so it seems to be
doing just fine there and also ram management some people have asked me to mention you'll
see it's reloading youtube now but one thing i noticed is that this morning i woke up i was in
youtube on the poll last night going over different things reading a bunch of your comments
and when i went into it this morning it didn't reload ram management has been good other than
after rebooting the phone so going into other apps seems to be okay if we go back to music
or go back to settings or then go back maybe to apple tv because i rebooted things will reload
but prior to that it did not seem to be a problem now as far as car play is concerned carplay is
having some issues for some also one user said it's dropping out or stopping another commenter
is saying that it was fixed so it just depends on your overall situation but carplay has continued
to be an issue for some now in the main beta videos i've mentioned quite a few times that
benchmarks improve over a few days as background processes finish and things start to stabilize and
so i ran this benchmark last night you'll see i scored 1725 for single core and 4795 for multicore
if we compare that to before we go back to history you can see on december 2nd here first
december 4th we have an increase in single core and multi-core if we look at the previous one
on november 16th we're the same for single core but we're better for multi-core where we had 4704
verse now at 4795 for multi-core so it definitely improved it seems to be doing much better
and other than the issues i've mentioned it seems to be fairly stable but some odd bugs
here and there that i do think they'll fix before it's released now first let's take a look at the
battery life and then we'll talk about when to expect ios 15.2's next update so battery life
over the past couple of days has been pretty good so we'll go down to battery life here
my battery health is at 100 on this phone and if we go back over the last 10 days yesterday
i had two hours and 24 minutes of screen on time 10 hours and 10 minutes of screen off time you'll
see i have a lot of background activity i need to take care of that but in general it's doing
okay it's not incredible battery life as i've used about 30 percent of my battery life the day
before i had two hours and 32 minutes of screen on time at 2 hours and 12 minutes of screen off time
so it's okay it's probably going to get me about 10 hours however before going to bed having it
off the charger all day i had more than 50 battery life left so i really don't have an issue getting
through a day or even two days at this point now on ipad i've had issues with touch in youtube like
i mentioned but let's take a look at the battery life battery has been a problem on these betas for
me and yesterday i had 52 minutes of screen on time 3 hours and 37 minutes of screen off time
which doesn't make any sense at all since i don't use this with the screen off for music or anything
and i charged it well at 2 26 am last night up to 75 percent and then ended up going to bed
and you'll see i only had about 52 minutes of screen on time and i'm already down to
64 the battery life on this is getting me about five to six hours of screen on time which just
isn't very good so hopefully it improves with the final version when i first got this it got
eight to ten hours like you would expect and i would expect this to still get eight to ten hours
since it should but something's going on with ipad there now as far as when to expect ios
15.2 and its final release i would expect a release candidate while we had a b at the end
of this build number with beta 4 typically we'll have an a and then a release candidate so it may
be a little bit up in the air however based off of last year i would expect a release candidate
probably on the 7th or 8th of this this month maybe next week and then a final version on
monday or tuesday the 13th or 14th typically that's what apple does every year and so far
they've sort of been following that with this beta they released beta 4 on the second where last year
they released beta 3 on the second taking the same sort of break so based off of last year i would
expect a release candidate this coming week with a final release the following week that's what
i'm expecting they could change it up but apple does have a vacation period that they take off for
christmas and other holidays so they'll take off the last couple weeks of the month and then resume
in january so that's what i was would expect with this particular update now before we take a look
at the youtube community poll and comments quite a few people have asked me should i update to this
beta and just like the beta 4 video i would say if you're on beta 3 you definitely should update
if you haven't already however if you're looking to improve battery life and this goes for any beta
people ask me this about mac os as well as ipad os if you're looking to improve battery life improve
crashes and bugs i would hold off i'd wait for the final version if you're looking to just try it out
you want to check out some of those new features well then definitely you can try it out but make
sure you have a backup first and a computer if you want to restore back to the main version
that's how you'll have to do that if you want to restore now let's go ahead and take a look
at the youtube community poll and comments let me refresh it here and at the time of this video i
have ten thousand votes so when i started i think i had seven thousand so quite a few people are
commenting and posting and you can see sixteen percent of you are now on the beta
last time only fourteen percent were on beta three so 16 are on beta 4 50 57 are still on ios 15.1.1
21 are on 15.1 or older so that means if you're on 15.1.1 you're on an iphone 12 or 13 series device
then four percent are on ios 14.8.1 and two percent are still on 13.7 and i'd be curious
to know why in the comments you're still on that version is it just that worked well for
you or you hesitated because of some other reason i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
we'll take a look at some of the comments there's a hundred and fifty now i read every single one
prior to this video so i could gain all of this information and share it with you but let's sort
my newest first and go through about five or ten of them travis myers says i'm on ios 15.2 beta 4
and battery life has been a lot better than beta 3. however i haven't used the music app that often
since updating in beta 3 was awful when it came to apple music overall everything seems to be great
now contrary to what i said in the video some people are having good battery life on ios 15.1.1
where matt matt mills says ios 15.1.1 on 12 pro max battery seems decent no annoying bugs as of
yet michael taylor says i'm on iphone 13 running ios 15.2 beta 4 most things are working fine but
i'm having one major issue whenever i open the notes app i'm facing with a solid blue screen
restarting the app and rebooting the phone seems to do nothing the only way i can access my notes
is by creating a new note using the share sheet from another app this is extremely annoying
because i have to jump through hoops to access my notes i hope this is fixed soon and thankfully i
haven't seen that from too many people but that definitely seems like a frustrating bug the frame
dropping issue of ios 15.1.1 on my iphone 12 pro is serious i also have the same problem on ios
15.2 beta 4. i hope apple can resolve this problem and improve the smoothness of ios nick v says just
updated this morning to ios 15.2 beta 4 from beta 3 on my 7 plus and ipad pro 10.5 so far so good
the touch bug is gone where apps just freeze and become unresponsive and things appear smoother
battery seems to seems the same fair and i'm definitely seeing it draining faster when
streaming apple music or amazon music but the back of the phone is not getting hot like it used to
i'll give it a few days to see if any problems show up since it's only been installed less than
eight hours hopefully it's better than beta 3 this was one of the worst releases i've seen
in a long time and i'd have to agree beta 3 was pretty poor diana says battery life has
been bad on my ipad 2021. once charged to 100 something is still running in the background
overnight that brings it down to 83 stanley payne says iphone 12 pro max thankfully the car
stereo connectivity has been fixed battery life is great so far no bugs that are hindering my usage
on 15.2 beta mrine says i hope they release a very polished 15.2 the current beta 4 doesn't feel like
that especially the music bug your friend in tech says i have to say that my experience with 15 as
a whole has me wondering how far apple has fallen from there it just works experience
i don't know about y'all but this music bug drives me drives me absolutely crazy and plenty of others
just far from what apple used to be like that's the honest truth i'm not ditching
them i do have hope they need to polish up again and i talked about this in a separate
video where i do think they need to get things a little bit more stable and a little bit better
to bring them back to where they used to be daniel says on ios 15.2 beta 4 on iphone 13 it's doing
fine for me d henriquez says iphone 11 15.2 beta 4 still experiencing issues with jittery animations
when launching apps from the home screen and siri suggestion page frequently occurs when bringing
apps containing media elements into the foreground while several other heavy apps are loaded into
memory i've also been able to elicit this behavior on my iphone 12 series and the non 120hz
13. 120 hertz iphones either mask the issue or have better or have been better optimized or the
pro is the pro devices also have a faster gpu so that could be part of that as well
and so that's everything with ios 15.2 beta 4 hopefully we'll see that release candidate in
a week or so and maybe we'll see some additional features as well what would you like to see from
ios 15.2 or maybe ios 16 in the future i'd love to hear from you in the comments below if you'd
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