Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and today apple released ios 15 rc this is available to
developers and hopefully soon to public beta testers this is the final version of ios 15 and rc
means release candidate or basically the same as the gm or golden master that they used to call it
it's the exact same thing now that means that this version if they don't find any additional issues
in it will be released to the public when it comes out for everyone and that will be on september
20th apple announced after the iphone 13 event today that it will be out on the 20th which is a
monday so it will be out in just a little while and developers have it a little bit early now
if you're wondering if you should uninstall that beta profile if you're a developer or beta tester
i would wait until the public version is out as sometimes there is an rc2 or a different version
released to the public so just keep that in mind keep that beta profile installed but now let's go
ahead and take a look at the overall size which is 5.31 gigabytes that's on my iphone 12 pro max
and also on the iphone 6s plus iphone 11 as well as the ipad pro they were all over 5 gigabytes
anytime you go from a beta version to a public version it's going to be a huge install as it
reinstalls just about everything so that's pretty typical it just overwrites the old operating
system it should not take up additional storage after it cleans everything up when it's done
processing now let's go ahead and take a look at the build number and talk about what's new
now i have ios 15 rc on my iphone 12 pro max along with the iphone 11 and iphone 6s plus
along with this apple also released ipad os 15 rc that i have on my ipad pro 12.9 from 2021
also along with that they released tv os 15 rc as well as watch os 8 rc and they did not release mac
os but they did release home pod os 15 rc as well so all of those updates are out now and like i
said before we'll see the final fairly soon now as far as the build number we'll go to settings then
we'll go to general then about now you can see the build number is 19a 344 and this particular
build should be the final version released to the public should have the same build number unless
they find some last minute bugs and we see an rc2 or changed at the final release however that's
fairly rare with the major public releases now as far as anything that's new well there
is no new modem update in this version if you're having cellular connectivity issues with 4g to 5g
i did not have a modem update since beta 7 on my iphone 12 pro max maybe you'll see it on other
devices but i'm not seeing it anywhere as far as a modem update however it's been pretty good for me
overall with this particular update so hopefully it improves in some other code in the back end
as far as new features well the first thing i always get asked with the rc is is there new
wallpapers so if we go to wallpaper and we go to choose a new wallpaper if we go under live you'll
see that there is no new wallpaper whatsoever so we don't have anything new as far as wallpaper
and dynamic or anything like that there's just no new wallpaper in this update and the
only wallpaper apple showed today was with the announcement of the iphone 13. so they'll have
it on those devices so if we go to safari and go to the new iphone we'll go to iphone here
and you'll see the new iphone 13 13 mini 13 pro and iphone 13 pro max with the new sierra blue
color and some new changes and updates and i can talk about that in a different video let
me know if you want me to talk about that in a separate video going over all of the things they
announced today but they showed some updates with this with some new wallpaper but those wallpapers
are not in ios 15 rc and they'll typically only be on the iphone 13 that's what apple generally does
but someone will release them already if you haven't seen those already now as far as new
features and changes in this update well the first thing i noticed is when you open the app store
for the first time you get a new splash screen and while this isn't typically that exciting one thing
that is great is we now have safari extensions on ios i was concerned they may not include this
but safari is getting extensions not only on iphone but also ipad just like it's had on
the mac for some time so you can go to the app store and search for those extensions
and you'll see all about them you'll see standout safari extensions and if you go into that it
will give you some examples of extensions that you can bring into safari and use so
there's other essentials with all of the different extensions and more so you'll have those as well
that you can look through and these will be added to by the time it's released to the public but we
now have those safari extensions we did have the menu option in settings for it but we just didn't
have the option to actually do anything with them since they weren't available in our safari section
you'll see that we have extensions and you can manage them here so it's ready to go extensions
is good to go for this update now as far as other changes there is a slight change it's very
slight to the apple watch icon this is because apple updated the apple watch to an apple watch
series 7 today so they made it slightly larger it is not squared off like many of the rumors said
they made it slightly larger to match that with the icon so that's been updated again you can
see that on apple's website and you can see the new apple watch series 7. if we go back to
watch it doesn't look too much different but it has a larger display and it's not squared
off or anything so it is a larger display so they updated the icon to match that now as far
as other changes well there's some background code changes that my friend steve mosher helped me find
and that has to do with the new camera on the iphone 13 series they have a new cinematic mode
that will be available for the 13 series phones where it can actually do what's called rack focus
where you focus between different objects so maybe i have a person in the frame and they're in front
of what's behind them i can focus to the iphone behind it and then the other one goes out of focus
so kind of like i'm doing here but you can pick the different objects you want into focus such
as the ipad back here or something along those lines and you can also do it after the fact so
you've recorded it and then you can change the focus after those are on the pro model
phones so some of those extensions and things that handle the camera are actually available so within
the camera before we could of course record video but now we'll be able to choose focus after we've
recorded it which is something i'm very curious to see how it actually works as far as anything
else well they haven't changed a whole lot in the rc however there are a bunch of bug fixes however
they have not mentioned any specific bug fixes so if you are having issues with banking apps i would
expect those to get a bunch of updates in the app store very soon as well as other apps that aren't
properly working with ios 15 yet we're starting to see app developers push out those updates to get
those ready for ios 15 when it launches on monday now as far as bugs and known issues well there are
still quite a few remaining there's 32 known issues still remaining according to the notes
so there are some issues in this update and that's pretty typical no piece of software is ever
perfect so there will be additional issues with software and they will continue to fix it when you
create something new you add different features you'll always have other issues throughout
hopefully this is a much more stable release than we've seen in the past with ios 13 and ios 14.
now as far as ipad os 15 rc again don't expect too many changes here other than the safari extensions
so when you go into the app store again it will give you that same splash screen that we're seeing
before so just talking about the app store widget and those extensions not a whole lot of other
changes throughout the os and there may be some small changes here and there as they continue to
refine things but most of the most of the features and changes are locked down for ios 15 and then
we'll see additional features in the future with future updates now as far as overall performance
performance should be pretty decent overall on the iphone 6s plus i would not expect a degradation
in performance going from ios 14 to 15. in fact the only time i noticed it slowing down is when
it first rebooted and when they did first reboot some of these phones had a hello screen on them
some of them did not so that's something that is a new feature that we've seen with ios 15
but only the iphone 12 pro max and the ipad had those features on them with the hello
welcome screen the older phones did not but performance overall seems to be pretty good
the first boot up was a little bit choppy you saw it was a little choppy just there on the 6s
plus here and just scrolling through things like the app library in general are what you would have
with ios 14. there's really not any performance difference between the two and that goes for
the iphone 11 or any other device i know a lot of people are concerned about them being slowed down
but there's really no difference in fact you might even see it be a little bit faster with ios 15 in
general so it seems to be okay overall now as far as overall battery life let's take a look at that
battery life on ios 15 rc will take a few days to measure completely to get an accurate
picture of what it's like and i typically do a follow-up on the weekend talking about that
so if you're concerned about battery life be sure to check back but after i updated this
i've been at 94 battery health since about beta 6 or so the updates do not degrade the battery
health they're just rechecking it but it stayed pretty steady for me and on beta 8 which is a
little bit different than this now that we have debugging turned off and things we should have
some a better idea of what it's like but yesterday i had two hours and 58 minutes of screen on time
three hours and nine minutes of screen off time but i used over 50 percent of my battery
battery life has been very hit or miss in this update for me sometimes it's about eight to ten
hours other times it's not but it really depends on what i'm doing if i'm watching
a lot of youtube of course it's going to go down more quickly or if you're playing intensive games
or in bright light like this where you have the brightness turned up to half or even full if i'm
recording outside so it's really dependent on what i do where i recorded outside this past week it
used a lot of battery very quickly because you're pushing a lot of power to power that display
but most of the time it does pretty well and people send me their battery all the time and
they're getting 8 to 12 hours depending on their device so it's pretty solid overall now as far as
the overall benchmarks let's take a look at that so we'll go into geekbench here i ran it on all
of these devices and for single core i scored 1587 on the iphone 12 pro max and 4119 from multi-core
that's actually a little bit better depending on which number we're looking at it's a little bit
better for multi-core and a little bit less for single core but it's so close that it doesn't
really make a difference and i would expect very good performance in fact when i first started
using this i felt like it was much smoother than it was with beta 8. now let's take a look at all
of these devices now from left to right i have the ipad pro 12.9 from 2021 followed by the iphone 6s
plus then the iphone 11 and then the iphone 12 pro max and again this should give you a general idea
and i ran these as soon as i updated so they could improve a little bit after everything finishes in
the background now as far as if you should install this update well i would say absolutely if you're
already on the beta if you're waiting to try this out and you're on ios 14.8 or an earlier version
this is probably going to be the final version released to the public so it's pretty safe to
try out at this point i would just make sure you have a backup if you wanted to try that
but if you're already on one of the betas definitely install it it usually will fix
quite a few things that you may have been having issues with whether that be green tint or some
other issues although that seems to be more of a hardware issue in general now as far as upcoming
features with shareplay i would expect that with ios 15.1 or maybe ios 15.2 apple has said it's
coming later this fall so it looks like it's still a feature they're pushing quite heavily
but they do need to actually add it back in so it will take a little bit longer so expect that a
little bit later and then this coming monday again ios 15 will release to the public and then also we
have pre-orders going live for iphone 13 and all of the different counterparts those pre-orders
are going live on friday the 17th at 8 a.m eastern time with a release to the public on the 24th so
if you pre-order those you can expect them on the 24th or a little bit later depending on what when
you get your order in so those are going live for ios 13 or iphone 13 with ios 15 probably shipping
on them as well so that's it for everything with ios 15 rc release candidate and of course like i
said earlier we'll see that final version released to the public on monday september 20th so that's
not too far away if you're waiting for that final version so that'll be released to everyone that's
on supported ios 14 devices as well now as far as anything else well we're waiting for iphone 13
13 mini 13 pro 13 pro max ipad ipad air and then of course all of the other software that comes
along with that we'll probably see another event related to max a little bit later but it was a
bit of a surprise to see apple announce all of the things they did today so with watch being released
and all of those other things so a lot that came out today and of course with ios 15 rc as well
now if you've found anything else i failed to mention please let me know in the comments below
and if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course i'll link it in the
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