hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and iOS 16.1 beta 3 has been out for a few days I've
been using it full time on my iPhone 14 pro Max I wanted to share the overall experience and go
over some more new features that have been found since the initial what's new video so I covered
a bunch of features there's been more that's been found since then so we'll cover that talk
about my experience and your experience based off the YouTube Community poll where there's over 15
000 votes and 164 comments so we'll talk about the overall experience how it's going with this beta
update and iOS 16.0.2 now the First new feature is airpods pro get an update so not just the
second generation but the airpods pro the first generation if we wait for them to connect give
them a moment there we go they're connected now they're in our menu under settings if we
scroll down we now have adaptive transparency so this is a new feature that's part of the
airpods pro second generation so when you're using transparency mode it actually listens
for loud noises Apple actually showed someone into construction site it will bring those noises down
but you can still hear what's around you so that's something that they've added to this update which
is really great for these airpods however we may need a firmware update for the airpods in order to
see that these these actual air pods are actually on firmware 5a304a which is a beta so maybe we'll
need that maybe we won't but either way 116.1 comes out it looks like we'll have that feature
now they've also updated the airdrop icon so if you have an iPhone 14 pro nearby if we go
into maybe photos and then we airdrop you'll see here that they've updated the icon to match the
iPhone 14 devices so you'll see it says 14 pro not all of them were matching before it didn't
show the correct sort of phone itself so you've got the the dynamic Island there and everything
else so it's a small update but just a small detail Apple has updated in this version now
if we go back into settings and then we go down to accessibility under accessibility and then touch
at the bottom we have back tap under back tap just choose one scroll down and we now have Apple watch
mirroring that can be controlled with back tap so before that wasn't an option now it is with
double tap so if we double tap the back let's see how it works there it goes it tries to connect to
the watch and hopefully it will mirror this may or may not work but it looks like it's connected and
there we go so that's something they've updated and it now works properly so that's great that
it it's an easy way to get into that if you need that for accessibility also some people are saying
that when you have the always on display turned on some are saying it's actually darker than before
maybe this is a battery saving tactic from Apple but either way some are saying that it's darker
I haven't noticed too much of a difference and it's also adaptive based on the ambient
light so if I turn the light off you'll see it dims down a little bit turn it back on and it
sort of brings the brightness back up so it is adaptive but either way some people are saying
that it appears to be a little bit darker on the Apple watch if you go under workouts and you're
on watch OS 9.1 beta 3 you may have a prompt to show you how to get to different types of workouts
so that's something some people are seeing I'm not seeing but Braum from techrender sent this over so
let's take a look you'll see here he had a little dialogue at the top that said how to see more
workout types and then tapped on it and it says tap the three dots to set goals or use workout
types like custom or Pacer so that's something some people are seeing like I said I'm not seeing
that on the latest beta now on iPad OS 16 beta 10 or you could call it iPad OS 16.1 beta 4. it's a
little bit confusing Apple has updated something here as well one of the things they've updated is
specific to the 11 inch iPad Pro where you go into display and brightness and then you can change the
overall display Zoom where you have an option for more space this wasn't there on the 11 inch before
now it's there so some people are not seeing more space altogether but apparently it's on the 11
inch iPad Pro this is the 12.9 so it's always been there also they've updated this so if you go into
split view within split view if you tap on the three dots at the top and then tap on split view
it now says left split and right split before it was just icons now you can just tap on the button
and if we tap on it again we can move it over to left split so that's something they've just
updated with little icons and wording underneath it this time now also before when we talked about
what's new in this update if we go back to our wallpapers this is something they updated I'm just
curious what you think of this do you think this is a big Improvement where we can customize each
part and add a new wallpaper personally I'd like to see them change that on the lock screen so if
you went into here had a button for customize hit that and it would bring you right to that it would
be a lot easier I think where I just think the interface needs more consistency that this time
around and sometimes I'm just not a fan of the way they've chosen to do this but I guess they
keep changing it to try and improve it let me know what you think about that in the comments below
now the other day Apple stopped signing iOS 16 the initial version of iOS 16 and also iOS 16.0.1 that
was specific to the iPhone 14 devices that means you can only downgrade to iOS 16.0.2 or really
upgrade to it or restore from it if you're already on it so unfortunately now there's
no downgrade path however in the future I would imagine they'll leave 16.0.2 however this makes
me think maybe we'll have a 16.0.3 before 16.1 it depends what the timeline is we'll talk more about
that in a little bit also one thing I wanted to mention is Apple removed external display support
on the iPad so that was a bit disappointing we can't use that on the M1 iPads anymore with an
external display in the future we will be able to according to them it'll be in a future update
but right now we won't be able to use that that's something I actually liked and used with different
displays on the iPad so if it's something you used I wouldn't upgrade to Beta 3 just yet however if
you're on the previous versions just stay on beta 2 if you use that a lot otherwise they'll
bring it in future updates maybe iOS 16.2 now with 16.1 beta 3 it seems to be okay on my device but
it definitely has some bugs but many people have asked me have they fixed the ESPN landscape video
where it wasn't working properly it would sort of just go up into a corner so we'll go into ESPN now
in ESPN if we turn it sideways you'll see that landscape video works properly now if we go back
it goes back properly in portrait mode so that that seems to be working Apple updated something
so it fixed some issues with video however I'm having some odd bugs with this particular update
mostly due to lag and things like that so if I go into maybe an app I go home oftentimes when
I go to go home it will sort of stutter and stop and then go home so I can't always reproduce it
but sometimes going into different apps whether that be ESPN going back out going over to maybe
the home app it seems to stutter from time to time many people seem to have issues with that
and I've seen quite a few people say that even the home app is unresponsive so there's still some lag
and stuttering going on what's causing it is hard to say also music and video apps sometimes keep
playing even after you've closed them so maybe you were watching a video whether that's in an
app or on Safari or listening to music you close it out and fully close it out sometimes it just
doesn't stop it keeps playing and you have to wait a second and then it stops so there's some
odd bugs in this particular update also there's continued carplay issues more so for the 14
devices for whatever reason they seem to have issues with audio and then also photos crash
is an awful lot on me if I go into photos you'll see here's today's wallpaper of course that will
be linked in the description if I go to share this photo maybe airdrop it or something else sometimes
it just doesn't work properly the button doesn't work at all and sometimes it just completely locks
up when I was airdropping this wallpaper to myself it locked up I couldn't use it I actually had
to close out of photos altogether close the app completely and then go back in and then it worked
so I've seen that over and over with this update so there's still some issues there now as far as
overall performance performance seems to be fine other than those stutters so as I mentioned before
in the earlier what's new video the performance seems to be really good and geekbench scores prove
that but just scrolling through different things opening different apps so music seems to load nice
and quick you'll see it's fast there and it's also recommending a new release here at the top and
then also just going into different apps seems to work just fine so maybe we'll just go into
fitness here give it just a moment you'll see it loads nice and fast no issues whatsoever with that
just those occasional stutters and sort of hiccups but there's definitely some issues so if you're
having issues again make sure you report this in the feedback app that's definitely important as
apple looks at those and sometimes will even respond to you asking for more information
as far as the overall heat of the phone this phone has been super cool as far as not being
hot or overheating I haven't noticed any really temperature differences using this update it's
staying nice and cool over for all so I know some people seem to have those issues but let me show
you with the thermal camera now as you can see with the thermal camera we're at about 84 degrees
Fahrenheit that's much cooler than we had with the 13 Pro Max where we were about 94 degrees at
times maybe even hotter so just filming this video it's staying nice and cool even with the display
on all the time now as far as overall battery life it's really going to vary depending on what apps
you're using and what device you're using now if we go into settings go down to battery here under
battery of course this is at 100 because it's a new phone after a full year using the 13 Pro Max
I believe it's at 98 still so if we go into it it still says 98 percent and that seems to be about
right at least for me about five percent or or maybe less in a year however I charge it every
night so I've talked about that in other videos but as you can see here if we take a look at the
last four days yesterday I really didn't have very good battery life at all one hour and 38 minutes
of screen on time five hours hours and 19 minutes of screen off time and used almost 50 percent of
my battery the day before 4 hours and 52 minutes of screen on time 6 hours and 23 minutes of screen
off time now I switched back to this device after reviewing the 14 pro so I used both of them on the
beta for a little bit I found that I actually had to charge the 14 pro throughout the day because of
this update so it really depends on what you're doing I continue to customize my home and lock
screen as far as notifications as that's what's causing it to light up the display more and use
more power however there's still some issues as far as battery life for me but that's not the
case for everyone and we'll take a look at that in the comments in a little bit but let's take
a look at some battery life that was sent in by Abhishek on his 11 Pro Max running on this device
and he had four hours of screen on time at 2 hours and 29 minutes of screen off time and used about
50 percent of his battery so that's pretty good for an 11 Pro Max on the iPad battery life has
been pretty terrible I think for me and that's usually okay sometime times on this device five
or six hours but you'll see it was last charged a couple days ago and I have about five hours
of screen on time so five to six again is what I'm getting all the time you'll see I think we started
at 16 we're down to thirteen percent and we just have the screen on of course but it's just not the
10 hours that I would expect and hopefully when the new iPads Pro come out we'll have some better
battery life but either way it seems to be around six hours on the iPad which I just don't think is
very good now as far as future releases iOS 16.0.1 was unsigned like I said in iOS 16. that leaves us
with iOS 16.0.2 and since we're only at beta 3 we might see an iOS 16.0.3 if we do I would expect
it fairly soon and then of course we'll see iOS 16.1 which adds all those bug fixes and adds new
features so 16.0.3 could be within the next couple of weeks but I do expect iOS 16.1 beta before this
Monday Tuesday or Wednesday depending what Apple decides and then maybe a beta 5 and then a release
candidate or maybe beta 4 could be the last then we'll have a release candidate and a final release
sometime in mid-october I would expect that along with iPad OS to finally release to the public with
iPad OS 16 and Mac OS Ventura Apple said those are coming in October we just don't know specifically
when as they haven't given a date yet so maybe in a couple weeks or it could be at the end of
October but we do expect new iPads as well as new Max updated processors we may or may not have an
October Apple event if we do we might see that Mac Pro and some extra things but at this point
it looks like it may just be an announcement now let's go and take a look at the comments and see
what you had to say as iOS 16.0.2 has been great for some and not others and also the beta has been
great for some and not others now if we take a look at the YouTube Community poll you'll see
here at the time of this video there's 15 000 votes with 17 saying that beta 3 is great 11
saying it has bugs and four percent saying it's terrible sixty percent of you are on iOS 16.0.2
or older and eight percent are on 15.7 or older now let's see some of the comments and what you
had to say I chose randomly from these comments so let's take a look at them Anthony Lombardo
said I'm running iOS 16.1 beta 3 so far the battery seems much better I get about seven
hours of usage time on my iPhone 13 Pro Lawrence says for once for me it's actually better than
the previous one I normally don't really have problems with beta so but the last one my bank
widget didn't work at all that great happy that it's been fixed everything else works though so
I really can't complain Ibrahim says worse on the iPhone 10s when opening or closing tabs in Safari
swiping to close on either side the animation is laggy also one of the widgets got broken but
probably from the app itself needing an update for the new iOS version battery life is worse
since updating to iOS 16 and the betas didn't help I know it's still a beta after all natews said I'm
using iOS 16.1 beta 3 on my iPhone 13 Pro Max all I can say is that it's been perfect so far battery
life is great along with smooth animations no app crashes and probably my favorite feature
the updated battery icon animation can't wait for can't wait for the public release along with the
future iOS 16 updates mashed potato set running great on my iPhone 13 Pro no bugs though I wish
Apple changed the battery percentage to show the battery percentage below the battery image when
the display is turned off and so thank you for all of the comments like I said I always read through
all of them so I get an understanding of what the overall update is like for everyone so depending
on what version you're using it really depends on how your overall battery performance and just what
apps you're using can really affect that as well Manish Bonsall says hi earn I'm using iOS 16.0.2
on iPhone 10 the battery drain is the same as iOS 16 sometimes devices heat up very much despite not
using the case sometimes the device lags while using for a few moments Apple should come out
with 16.0.3 to fix the problems and so with these updates it's really hit or miss I'm finding this
time around my family is running 16.0.2 I've heard no complaints from them but I've heard
complaints from others on older devices running it that have poor battery life such as an iPhone 11
Pro Max so it really depends again on the device and what's going on as far as your apps and more
but either way hopefully that helps you this week with what's going on with iOS 16.1 beta 3 and of
course if you found anything else in it I'd love to hear from you in the comments below if you'd
like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course like I mentioned earlier it will be linked in the
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video please give it a like as always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time