hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and apple released Iowa 16.2 developer beta 3 today an iOS
16.2 public beta 3 is going to be out either by the time you're watching this video or usually
the next day now this released alongside watch OS 9.2 beta 3 iPad OS 16.2 beta 3 Mac OS 13.1 beta 3
TV OS 16.2 beta 3 and audio OS 16.2 beta 3 or homepot Os 16.2 beta 3. they're basically the
same thing Apple actually calls it audio OS now this came in at 678.3 megabytes that's on the
iPhone 14 pro Max it was about 500 megabytes or so on the iPhone 11 and different devices here
when I checked for an update now let's go ahead and take a look at the build number and we'll
talk about what's new so we'll go to settings and under General and about you can see the
build number is 20c 5049e Apple is sticking with the e at the end of the build number typically
this will get closer and closer to the letter A as we get closer to a final release so it's a little
odd that they're doing that now in this update there is a modem update if you're on any of the
devices I've heard from many of you that there's actually modem updates with beta 3 if you're on a
14 pro or Pro Max you went from version 1.21.05 with beta 2 to 1.22.00 with Beta 3. And so that
should help with overall connectivity it was a big improvement from beta 1 to Beta 2. hopefully it's
even bigger from beta 2 to Beta 3. now as far as what's new well there's quite a few new things to
mention in this update the first thing has to do with the always on display the always on display
up until now you could customize it with a sleep mode to turn off the wallpaper now there's a new
option for that so if we go into our settings and within our settings we go down to display
and brightness scroll down you'll see always on display if you tap on this this was just a little
box or a little option before and now we can turn on and off the always on display we can show the
wallpaper or not show the wallpaper and the same is true for notifications so if I turn off show
wallpaper turn off the display now it's just a black display with the time your widgets and
the date and whether whatever you've got going on there also you can turn off notifications
the same way so again if we turn that off we have nothing but just the time and the date or
if you don't have any widgets at all you won't have anything there so it's great that we now
have this option if you want the wallpaper and notifications on you can leave them on
now within shortcuts there's a new shortcut or they've made a change to one and if we go into
shortcuts you have a new git battery status now if we take a look at what we had with beta 2 go
under shortcuts here you'll see that we had get battery level they've updated this where it says
it returns information about the battery and any charger connected to the device and then
the result a number with the current battery percentage or a yes no Boolean value and the
note says you can use this action to obtain the current battery percentage or to know whether your
device is plugged into a charger or is charging so that's been updated with shortcuts so it's great
to have that now I did a separate video today on Apple releasing the satellite connectivity feature
emergency SOS via satellite now this is available to everyone but you can see now it says get help
during an emergency that's under your settings if we go into that you can learn more about it
it will load and say how you can get help during an emergency tap continue and it will connect to
a satellite I did a demo of this in a separate video and you can see that there but if you want
to check it out yourself all you need to do you need to be on iOS 16.1 or newer and be in the
USA or Canada it's available in other countries later in December and then Apple hasn't said when
they're rolling it out around the world now if we go down to emergency SOS scroll to the bottom you
can now try this out it says iPhone can help start a satellite connection to come contact
emergency services when a call won't go through now you will need to have an iPhone 14 to see any
of this 14 14 plus 14 pro or 14 pro Max so that's available now now there is more in iOS 16.2 beta
3 and that has to do with Safari if we go into Safari and you have private relay enabled under
your iCloud settings so within your settings to see that you need to go to your account at the
top under iCloud if you have iCloud plus you'll have private relay if that's enabled you'll have
these new features so if we go into Safari tap on the little options for a website you'll see
it says show IP address before this it actually had a different message there so I can show you
that here where it actually said turn off hide IP address so that's what it said before and we have
a new little icon that they've added for that so again you can see the icon if we show IP address
it's going to ask us if we want to temporarily allow them to see my IP address if we tap on
continue go back into that option we now have the option to hide IP address again with a new icon
there so it's a small update but something that they've changed in this update there's also a new
option in accessibility So within accessibility if we go to accessibility scroll down until we get to
Siri under Siri we have a new option for prefer silent responses and you'll see here when that's
checked it says Siri will respond silently except when you appear to be driving or using headphones
with the screen off if we go to Beta 2 I didn't see it there so again if we go to accessibility
and then down to Siri we don't have the option instead we just had under spoken responses
automatic and prefer spoken responses now we have prefer silent responses so it's a small
update there now if we go back and we go down to TV under TV if you're using live activities they
haven't updated the options here but what they have updated is when you are following a sports
game that's live they've updated some things that it can tell you about that so for example when the
game is suspended you can get a notification about the suspension of the game also if stats aren't
available it will allow you to know that and if we go into the TV app scroll down until we see Sports
under Sports go to live sports and you can see different sports you can follow if we just tap the
first one here that's live it gives the current score and then of course you can add it to up
next share it or open it in something that you have a subscription to if you're following this
it will be on the lock screen live and give you more information so it's great to see more and
more added to this of course third-party apps can do this as well hopefully we see more from those
in the future now as someone who's made videos and tested iPhone OS and iOS for many many years Apple
has provided a way to provide feedback to them if there's issues I've always said give them feedback
they'll take the most important issues and then fix that however quite a few issues seem to slip
through despite us having millions of people testing it and in a memo that was found on Mac
rumors today Craig federighi admitted the Apple's beta program doesn't provide the interaction and
influence many users desire this was mentioned by someone that's a Mac Rumors reader in a response
to him saying that they need a better way to do this so we could see this updated with iOS
17 maybe a new feedback app or some different way for that to be given back to Apple and say these
are the most pressing issues it may be something they need to fix on their end or it could be just
an all-new app or a different way of doing the beta program in general but either way some odd
issues do seem to slip through for some reason so it's great to see them hopefully addressing
that in the future now as far as bugs in this update well there seems to be a fix for the lag
scrolling so with swiping home I haven't seen that again where if maybe we're playing music we'll hit
play swipe it into the dynamic Island it's nice and fast and you'll see there the animation seems
to be a little bit different as well so that's something it seems like it might stop a little
bit and then go up into the dynamic Island so it is something that they continue to improve
and the overall lag scrolling slowdown seems to be fixed in this one so that swipe home stutter
bug scrolling is fast in Pro motion and cellular hopefully is improved with this now let's take a
look at the release notes for this update so we'll go into feedback wait for it to load here within
our recent activity or inbox of course we have the new homepod OS updates as well 16.2 although
Apple actually calls it audio OS internally we'll go here wait for it to load and you'll see with
the latest beta 3 release notes they've got some known issues still that they've fixed for free
form where it says they can't delete boards while offline or if iCloud data is disabled for freeform
they fixed adding or removing collaborators where it would fail sometimes they've also resolved an
issue in health they've resolved issues with health kit and there's still some known issues
with Stage manager that still seems to be very buggy when you're using an external display so
they say while using stage manager with an external display dragging a second window to
the workspace incorrectly hides the recent apps list that was something they added with beta 2 an
updated feature where you could hide the recent apps or the dock or toolbar at the bottom that
wasn't even working properly there's still some issues with that hopefully they resolve those soon
now as far as overall battery life it will take a few days to measure that accurately I'll have a
follow-up on the weekend like I normally do going over that in more detail but we can take a quick
look at what we have now my battery health is at 100 percent and that's pretty typical of a newer
device two years later maybe eighty percent is normal according to Apple the last 10 days you'll
see yesterday I had two hours and seven minutes of screen active time and for some reason 12 hours
and 12 minutes of screen idle time you'll see I used about thirty percent of my battery today
three hours and six minutes of screen active time three hours and 24 minutes of screen idle time so
I continue to look into what the home screen and lock screen is doing I do use always on
display I'll probably turn off the wallpaper to help try and improve that and see if it improves
even more now as I mentioned before performance is nice and Fast Pro motion is nice and smooth
going into different apps seems to be very fast and many people so far at least on my telegram
Channel and Discord report that it's actually nice and smooth this time around so those are
linked in the description if you want to check it out but everything seems to be really smooth with
this update and as far as the phone getting hot well it's nice and cool overall I've really had
no issues with this and let me show you quickly with the thermal camera now as we use the thermal
camera and bring it over the hottest part of the iPhone at about 84 degrees that's about 28.7
degrees Celsius so it's staying pretty cool and it actually only heated up as I put it face down it
heat it up a little bit as you can can see I held the phone in my hand and it's obviously warmer
than the phone itself so it seems to be performing quite well as far as overall temperature no issues
there and as far as benchmarks I did want to share that and then we'll talk about when to expect the
final release so if we go into geekbench I ran it quickly right after installing the update
and I had 1878 for single core 5398 for multi-core again these are not really what you should expect
as far as performance being much better or much worse using this but as you can see it's a little
bit higher for single core by one point and a little bit higher for multi-core by about 91
or so points so it's definitely better but this isn't really going to show you that it's much
much better unless it's hundreds and hundreds more but it seems to be nice and smooth and fast like I
mentioned before now as far as the overall release of iOS 16.2 well iOS 16.2 probably will release
sometime in the middle of DEC December or maybe the second week last year Apple released iOS 15.2
on December 13th so the second week or third week of December seems to be most likely now as far as
the next beta I would expect the next beta as soon as next week maybe on the 22nd of November with
maybe a couple more than a release candidate and a final release in December like I said
and so then we'll see iOS 16.3 betas probably sometime in January like we did last year with iOS
15.3 that's typically what Apple does every year and that leads me to should you install iOS 16.2
beta 3 well if you have an extra device laying around and you don't need to use it full time
go ahead make sure you have a backup if you're already on iOS 16.2 beta 1 or beta 2 I would
definitely install it provide feedback as needed depending on your overall experience otherwise I
usually tell people to hold off as far as betas go until they're released to the public so that
we can figure out what the issue is I don't normally recommend you run it on your main device
as far as iPad OS well there doesn't seem to be much different of course if I find anything else
I'll be sure to mention it in a follow-up later this weekend or later this week like I normally
do and let me know if you want to see that Insider outside if possible depending on weather of course
if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course I'll link it in the description like
I normally do and if you haven't subscribed already please subscribe and if you enjoyed
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