hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and today Apple released Iowa's 12.2
developer beta 3 this is out for developers and soon to public beta
testers it may be out by the time you're watching this video but usually it comes
out later the same day or the following day now it came in at three hundred and
ninety nine point four megabytes for me on my XS Max and similarly it was
about the same size on all of these devices as well now the first thing they
fixed is the actual lockscreen and if we go back to the lockscreen we now have
the date back and so the date is showing instead of the charge level which is
nice and that's still here and then another thing face ID seems to be a
little bit quicker more people have been commenting about this and saying that
they notice a difference in places I've checked if we turn it back on you'll see
it's nice and fast so that's good I don't I didn't really notice it right
away so it may or may not be quicker it's hard to say now they did change the
about page and that's why we didn't take a look at the build number right away so
this has been updated if you go to general and then about it's in a new
order and information is displayed differently so you'll see there's the
name I chose here's the software version and in order to see the build number you
actually have to tap on it so it says 16e5201e is this build
it also gives the model name which is new as well so that's really nice we've
got more relevant information right at the top in specific to the actual model
of the device now this holds true to the iPad as well
all of that informations right at the top so that part's really nice and it
gives you the actual device type so we don't have to guess anymore
it will say iPhone 7 or 5s or whatever it is
now they've renamed group FaceTime for this beta and that's nice because it
wasn't enabled in beta 2 so you'll be able to use group FaceTime if you use
FaceTime a lot like I do you'll have that option again also they've made a
change to the Apple TV remote so if we go to the remote here it has to be the
remote in the control center we go here they've changed the way it looks again
so they've completely redesigned this and it also kind of hints at a dark
theme you'll see it's kind of a dark mode here and maybe that's part of what
dark mode will look like in the future but there is no dark mode just yet
now another thing they've changed is Apple news they've made a couple little
tweaks to it let's go into Apple News and you'll see here at the top it shows
an apple with news and then let me go into one of my stories here and another
thing they've changed is there's now a next button at the bottom so you can go
from next to next to next so they've updated that as well now
they've also made a change or an update to the wallet app so let me go into that
so within wallet we have some changes you'll see there's three dots in the
upper right now it's more consistent with the UI here so we'll tap on these
and you'll see we have our information and then we've got the back button here
so we can go back so they've just updated all of that so it looks a little
bit more consistent now there's something that you can't see but is
available to developers and that has to do with the App Store so in the App
Store if maybe you're using an application that you have a subscription
to the actual developer can offer introductory offers now with lower
prices with auto renewable subscription so you'll be able to provide that or
discounted prices or specific durations for those discounted prices so it's nice
that they'll have that option and maybe that has to do with the news app and
having subscriptions possibly in an updated update with iOS 12.2 when it
releases to the public and possibly when we see an event probably in March here
so it looks like that may hint at that now under your settings there's also a
new modem firmware and new carrier updates so if you find those under
settings you'll see the numbers have changed and hopefully that means they've
resolved the issues with LTE and Wi-Fi I've actually not had too many issues
with beta 2 on these devices but for some people that had a lot of issues and
I know that it's been a pain on my XR I actually have had that happen a couple
times where it would disconnect and then I'd have to turn on airplane mode turn
it back off and it would fix it so that part's been resolved hopefully and we'll
have to see in the next couple days whether or not it works better now
there's one known issue and four resolved issues the known issue is you
might be unable to authenticate with in the wallet app after
selecting a card there is a workaround for this it's basically tried again but
there is a workaround and then the resolved items the first one was that
lockscreen bug so that's been resolved and then also photos shared using the
sharing suggestions now loads correctly also Siri now works with the iOS
simulator and they also resolved an issue with prepaid data plan purchases
while using cellular data so all of those things have been resolved and
that's really nice to see now as far as battery life iOS 12 point to beta 2
battery was actually pretty good for me battery health is still at 100% for this
phone and you'll see over the last 10 days that was the best and that was with
about 30 or 40 percent battery life left I had 4 hours and 48 minutes of screen
on time 7 to 8 is about right for this device
some people get more some people get a little less depending on what you're
doing but in general that's pretty good and I think people would be happier with
that many people are saying 12.1.4 is not so great speed so
far on all the devices including the oldest one here seems to be good swiping
and everything is good opening apps not going to go into all the devices or
different applications my 6s is the same thing you've still got the rotation that
works fine everything's working well 3d touch well that doesn't have 3d touch
setup 3d touches nice and fast on all of the different apps and then also the
geek bench scores let's take a look at those now I ran Geekbench on my XS Max
you'll see the single core came in at four thousand eight hundred and eighteen
the multi-core came in at eleven thousand one hundred and fifty seven
this is an improvement over the previous one if we take a look here you'll see
it's improved quite a bit so they've fixed whatever issues were
there although this is not a true indication necessarily of whether or not
it's much faster but overall it feels nice and fast and smooth and it looks
like they only have that one little bug to fix before they have the final
version but I wouldn't expect the final version until probably March where we'll
probably have an event where they'll show some software supposedly it doesn't
look like we're going to have any new hardware but it's hard to say maybe it
supports air pods to and air power and all of
those things and hopefully we'll see those so those are all the major changes
hopefully we'll find some more here and there but let me know if you found any
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