Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and today apple released ios 15.3 rc this is available
to developers and hopefully soon to public beta testers and is the final version that's released
to developers and beta testers before it's pushed out to the public so as long as there's no issues
this is the final version if there are issues the release another release candidate or rc2
now as you can see it was a very large install at 5.19 gigabytes that's on my iphone 13 pro max
and anytime you're going from a beta to a public version or the other way around
it's going to be a huge install and so if you're wondering if you should uninstall the public beta
profile or beta profile at this point i would hold off to make sure there's no additional releases
now it was huge on not only the iphone 13 pro max but it was also a large install on the iphone 10
iphone 11 and iphone 6s plus along with this apple also released ipad os 15.3 rc that i have on the
12.9 inch ipad pro from 2021 as well as watch os 8.4 that's available in the rc version tv os
15.3 rc and mac os monterey 12.2 rc all of those are available to developers now now let's 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 about and you can see the build number is 19d49 and like i said before as long as there's no
additional issues this will be the final version released to the public and this particular update
is a little bit odd the first thing is there is no modem update if you're coming from beta 2. however
if you're coming from ios 15.2.1 you would have a modem update and that's a good thing because this
actually seems to fix those connectivity issues so as i was having issues switching between 5g 5g uc
back to 4g or wi-fi it seems to have fixed any of those issues where the connectivity would go away
at least on t-mobile so it's definitely resolved at least for me in this update on the 13 pro max
however if you're on beta 1 you're not going to have these updates and you'll have poor
connectivity so make sure that you update to the latest beta if you haven't and you're having those
issues now as far as new features and updates well the actual release notes are a bit odd you
may have already noticed this but it says ios 15.3 includes bug fixes and security updates for your
iphone and is recommended for all users typically they'll say this when it's a small update when we
have a 0.3 update we typically have a bunch of new features and they're not listing anything here at
least in their nodes so as far as what's new in this update well there's a lot of wording changes
when you're setting up your iphone so maybe you've got a new iphone and you're setting it up for the
first time apple has made a bunch of wording changes throughout not any major major changes
as far as features and updates the previous beta they changed wording for private relay and legacy
contacts and also when it comes to the apple digital id the code is still there i confirmed
that with my friend steve motion and he said the code is there but at the time it doesn't appear
that the feature is enabled so apple could push this feature later as far as an update as far as
maybe a time-based update where they announce the feature as they're planning to test it in airports
and a couple airports in the united states with supported states that support digital id
and that could be enabled by them at any time so the code is there they just haven't turned it on
yet also there's no universal control so if you were looking for universal control on the ipad
or mac so far the notes don't mention anything so the notes themselves don't mention any bug
fixes or anything else however it does appear that there's a few things fixed in this update
now in the update with those notes apple did not mention that they're still having a bug with music
taking up additional cpu power and then in turn causing poor battery life they haven't mentioned
this at all and that's a good thing meaning that it's probably fixed however we won't know that
until maybe they release some more notes with the final update also the storage bug for me is
fixed but i did see someone on twitter that said it is not resolved so it loaded pretty
quickly maybe a little bit slower than normal but everything in it was accurate you can see
if i scroll all the way to the bottom you'll see that i have ios and then system data just appeared
that wasn't appearing for me before and it seems to be much faster it will be slower than you're
used to with previous updates but it does appear to be resolved at least for me now the other day
we heard about a major security bug and i believe they're going to fix that with this update
when the update comes out to the public we'll have security updates updated on their website you'll
see currently we have the previous versions of ios 15.2.1 but when 15.3 releases to the
public they'll update this and tell us exactly what's fixed in safari there's a major bug
where people can actually track you in real time and see what you're doing across the internet
if you're on a website using indexeddb or database so that's something that i believe will be patched
in 15.3 and why they're pushing it out so that means there probably won't be an ios 15.2.2
as far as apps that have been updated well good news if you use google smart lock google's smart
lock app has been fixed they updated it the other day and they released it and i've tested it out
to make sure it's working and so if you're using smart lock go all the way down to the s's here
you'll see smart lock if you're using the google smart lock as a two-factor authentication app
that is working again on iphone so they fixed that where there was an issue with bluetooth while i
was making this video the senate apparently approved anti-trust bill that would allow
side loading of apps outside of the app store so this is something that was just announced i wanted
to mention it in this video so maybe in the future we'll be able to side load apps but apple has said
this is a security problem for many people however they do allow it on mac os one thing i did want
to mention has to do with ios 14. many people didn't want to update to ios 15 and apple was
giving you the option to switch to ios 14.8.1 if maybe you were on an older version and then they
would provide security updates apple has confirmed they didn't plan that to be a long-term move and
they're no longer going to provide ios 14 updates so since all ios 14 devices support ios 15 you now
have to update the ios 15 if you want the latest security updates so that's something they've
confirmed now as far as the ios 15.3 release it looks like that could be as soon as next week
like i said previously in previous update videos as well on january 26th last year apple released
ios 14.4 after only two betas and then a release candidate so that means sometime next week i would
expect ios 15.3 to release to the public that seems to make sense as they're following a similar
pattern as we had last year so last year we had the update for the rc on the 20th and then again
the final release the following wednesday so it seems like that's what they're pushing out at the
same sort of pace and update schedule as they did last year although they do not have a set schedule
as far as battery life well on the previous betas it's been a little bit hit or miss so if we go
into settings i can show you my battery life we'll go to battery battery health on this device is 100
and i charge every single night since new just leave it on the charger and you can
see yesterday my battery life was 2 hours and 50 minutes of screen on time at 7 hours and
9 minutes of screen off time and i used about 50 percent of my battery now depending on who you ask
this varies greatly so you'll see the day before i had background activity from music
and i did play music for a while 3 hours and 59 minutes of screen on time and about 60 percent of
battery usage it really varies day to day today i've used 25 of my battery and almost 2 hours
of screen on time and 5 hours and 37 minutes of screen off time again it varies greatly depending
on device and what you're doing but i believe this should be more stable with 15.3 as many people
have told me it is based off their experiences and feedback i've heard from many of you
as far as performance goes performance is really smooth in fact the first time i started using this
with this update i noticed that this seemed to be much faster and promotion seems to be active
on more screens and ramps up more quickly so i know i've mentioned that before but it looks
like they've really fixed that issue in this whether it be on this device or other devices
as well it seems much smoother and i think the benchmarks will show that at least a little bit
and on the iphone 6s plus again i always test this since it's the oldest supported device just maybe
go to artists go back to listen now let's see how long it takes to load now i am over wi-fi
but it seems to be pretty smooth compared to what we had before going into games like minecraft
we'll let it resume here we'll give it a second and see what happens i did let it load earlier
and being that this is an older device it seems to be handling it just fine so we'll give it just
a moment and there we go resume and we're back in so if we go back over here you'll see it was
a little bit choppy there for a second though resuming so frame rates do seem to be fine once
it's loaded and i'm kind of stuck here but frame rates do seem to be fairly good once it's loaded
but occasionally you may have a hiccup now as far as the heat on the device this is getting a little
bit warm when playing the game that's completely expected and since i just installed the update
most phones will be a little bit warm the iphone 13 pro max does seem to be a little bit warm after
i updated it and is staying a little bit warm but this is good news because the benchmarks show
that performance is better for the most part but the phone is still warm meaning the numbers will
probably go up a little bit in the future so once it's once it's done indexing and things like that
so for single core it scored 1728 multi-core was 4756. if we take a look at the history you can
see that single core while it's a little bit lower it's much higher on the multi-core so it's almost
254 higher on multi-core so it's much better as far as that goes depending on what version you're
running with this release candidate it seems like it's improved and like i said i expect
that to go up as the phone was working a little bit in the background and was a little bit warm
now let's take a look at all of these devices now from left to right we have the ipad pro 12.9 from
2021 followed by the iphone 6s plus the iphone 11 and the iphone 13 pro max now i wanted to include
the iphone 10 but i didn't have time to update it as i was using this to sort of check back
and forth for new features so i can show this in a follow-up video that i typically have on the
weekends but this should give you a general idea of what to expect from all of these devices here
and keep in mind i ran this right after installing the update and so there was probably a lot of
background processing going on since it fully reinstalled so these should go up a little bit
over the next couple of days and again i'll share those in the follow up with you now if you're
wondering if you should install ios 15.3 rc well i would definitely recommend it since as a beta
tester we want to make sure our apps are working there's no additional bugs or anything like that
and then we can also report them in feedback now you may not have the feedback app already
since they seem to remove that with the rc versions but you can also report them on the apple
feedback website if you're on the public versions and wondering if you should try this version out
so maybe you're on ios 15.2.1 or older 15.3 rc should be the final version again if there's
not additional bugs and should be very stable in fact 15.3 beta 2 was one of the most stable betas
we've seen in a long time with the exception of occasional freezes and lockups for some people
typically a reboot would resolve that issue so as far as stability this seems to be a pretty
solid update and i can recommend installing it if you have a backup and maybe it's not on your main
phone or if it is on your main phone make sure you have a computer so you can roll back if you have
any additional issues but this seems to be very stable and if you want to try it out i would say
it's definitely safe to do so at this point other than that though there's not a whole lot of other
updates or changes in this update hopefully we'll get a different change log from apple explaining
what's going on with this better security updates and things like that but typically with a 0.3
update we should see bigger changes than what we're seeing here maybe new emoji and more but
otherwise we haven't seen very much in this but if i do find more i'll be sure to report that back in
a follow-up video and also if you found anything i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
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