Hi, everyone. Aaron here for Zollotech and today apple released iOS 15 beta 3.
This is available to developers right now and maybe out to public beta testers.
By the time you're watching this video, if it's not out today,
then generally it will be the following day.
Now this came in at a very large 1.28 gigabytes.
That's pretty large for a beta update and that's on my iPhone, 12 pro max.
I also have it on the iPhone 11 and iPhone 6S plus,
along with this apple also released iPadOS 15 beta 3 that I'm running on my M1
iPad pro 12.9 from 2021,
as well as watchOS 8 beta 3,
tvOS15 beta 3 and macOS Monterey beta 3.
So all of those are available now along with a homepodOS update.
If you're in that beta program,
there was an update because of devices being bricked they've since updated that
again today with a new beta three. So all of those are available now.
Now let's go ahead and 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 than about now,
if you tap on the software version number, you'll see it says 15.0.
You'll see the build number is 19A5297e And
so this particular update does have some changes,
feature updates in bug fixes as well.
And the first thing they've updated is the modem update or a modem firmware
updates. So if you're having issues with connectivity,
maybe switching between 4g and 5g, hopefully it's improved.
Only time will tell it was okay for me so far,
but they seemingly have improved it,
but they haven't said what they've improved with that.
Now the first change they've made has to do with focus modes.
These are super helpful to sort of go into do not disturb and have other focus
modes, but they've changed the menu itself.
So if we go into settings and then we go back to focus under focus, you'll see,
it looks pretty typical. Like we had before. However,
on beta two that I have in my left hand here,
this is on an iPhone 12 pro and has the case on to help differentiate it.
You'll see that there's focus status and phone calls.
They're no longer on the main menu on beta three.
They've been moved under each individual menu. So maybe we go into sleep.
For example, you'll see that it's changed.
And now we have home screen and the lock screen and focus status as well.
And then if we scroll down,
it's changed a little bit more where we can open sleep and health schedule and
options.
So they've just changed this around a little bit as far as its overall order and
what it looks like. Also, when you turn on focus modes,
it's now called color coordinated to what we have here.
So do not disturb as purple. For example,
sleep has this green color and if we turn it on here, maybe we switch to sleep.
You'll see it screen. And the icon is green.
So it has the sort of teal green to it. Teal blue green.
If we go to driving it's purple,
we go to home and evening it's blue go back to do not disturb it's purple.
So it's just color coordinated now and it matches on the icon itself.
So that's a nice little update they've done now with iOS 15 safari got a major
update and in beta three, they've fixed some of the complaints I had before.
So if you go into safari, it's nice that we have the address bar at the bottom,
but it would slide all the way to the top to try and enter your address.
Or if you wanted to tap in and edit. Now, it locks to the top of the keyboard.
It no longer slides all the way to the top.
So this is a nice little change that they've added. And you'll see here.
If we do that on beta two, it slides all the way to the top.
It's sort of out of reach of where you're typing.
So it makes sense to keep it down at the bottom, along with this,
they've also updated it. So maybe we go to that webpage.
We rotate to landscape and if we scroll down and we refresh, you'll see,
there's no icons here in the top. Let's refresh,
wait for it to refresh here.
We'll give it just a moment when it's done or reload.
It's still taking a while for whatever reason, once it's reloaded,
you'll see there's a refresh button at the top or reload button.
You've got the little circle with the arrow. And so that's an option.
Once you reload the page, if you don't reload the page,
it doesn't show up yet at the top. So that's a small little change as well.
Also, if we press and hold the menu at the bottom,
we have a little pop-up and we have the option to reload here as well.
So instead of pulling down to reload the screen,
you have another option here when you have to press so you can reload the screen
that way. And there was a little flash.
So there's still some bugs in this I've noticed throughout,
but they've updated safari to make it much more useful. As far as that goes.
Also, if you go in and maybe you want to paste something, we'll tap and paste,
you'll see there's a little icon that we can paste from text. Prior to this,
it actually says the words paste from text.
So if we look at the previous version, you'll see it says text from camera.
Instead, we now have this icon.
This could be a little bit confusing for a new user,
but it makes sense if you've ever seen that in the camera app, for example.
So you now have the option to text from camera.
It'll switch to the camera and then you can copy text from the camera itself.
So that's an update also when you're searching,
they've categorized it a little bit differently in safari.
So you'll see here as I search for apple,
you'll see it shows up a little bit different,
categorizes it under Google search, the main website at the top,
and then on this page.
So you can search on the page before it looked different as well.
So if you searched for apple, for example, in beta two, you'll see,
it looks a little bit different.
So they just changed the way it looks overall when you're searching for
something. Now within settings, there's a change as well.
If we go into settings, go to general, scroll all the way to the bottom,
you'll see it now says transfer or reset iPhone before it was just reset.
So if we tap on this, it says, prepare for new iPhone.
So we now have the option to transfer, transfer, or reset.
This is part of apple, allowing you to use some iCloud storage,
to sort of store some of your backups for awhile.
Even if you don't have enough storage,
they'll sort of loan you the storage for a couple of weeks,
so you can transfer it to a new phone.
So they've added transfer or reset iPhone. Now,
if we go home and we go into the shortcuts app, we'll go over here,
go into shortcuts. There's now an option background sounds.
So if we go into background sounds, you now have an option to set those.
And it says, select ocean background sounds,
you can select whichever one you have or whatever, when you'd like to pick,
and you can have it ask each time.
So there's different shortcuts pertaining to background sound specifically,
these weren't there before, also in the home app.
If you're setting up an automation for an accessory, for example,
there will now be options for adjusting when the light level changes that it can
actually do something.
Now I don't have any lights that are attached to it that would work this way,
but that's some of the options in the settings. And thanks to my friend,
Steve Mosher for helping point some of these out and also to Brayden for helping
me out with some of these as well. Now,
another thing is there's some new splash screens.
So the first time you go into different apps, there's different splash screens.
So if we go into the app store, for example,
there's a new splash screen that says what's new on the app store in app events,
app store widget, and safari extensions on iOS.
So that's new here as well. So that's just a small splash screen that we have.
There's also another one for some people when you go into reminders.
So if we go into reminders, you'll see it's,
what's new and reminders organized with tags,
optimize with smart lists and lots more.
It says also if you go into the health app,
there's a splash screen or one that pops up as well.
See if we can go into health here, there we go. We'll go into health.
And it says improve health and activity.
This popped up on every single device and it says, share my data with apple.
So you have the option to share data or opt out of that.
So that's something new as well. Now within the health app,
if you go under browse and then go down to about blood glucose,
it looks a little bit different than it does in beta two.
So if we go into the health app in beta two,
you'll see that the wording has changed between beta two on the left and beta
three on the right. There's a much better explanation of blood glucose overall,
what it is and how it affects people with diabetes or what they need to look for
and how to track it. So it gives more information about that in general.
So it's a small change there. Something else they've changed.
That's quite nice is the music widget. So if we go to music,
so I'll just switch through here and you'll see we have the music widget.
And so far,
it doesn't look too different and that's because I haven't played any music,
but if I go into the music app, let me turn the volume down here,
we'll play music. And if we go home,
you'll see that the background of the music widget actually changes to the color
of the overall album. So maybe if we go into something else,
maybe we'll just pick, oh let's go down a little bit further.
We'll pick this one here and tap on this song. If we go home,
you'll see the background changed on the widget.
So it can change based on whatever song you're actually playing.
So we'll go to this one and it will change to that color.
It just depends on whatever you're playing.
It will match whatever the background color is. Now,
if we go into our notifications and we swipe to the left,
you'll see there's two options. Now one says options and one says clear.
So now we have two different buttons for our different notifications on each
notification.
So you can just show that by swiping over to the left a little bit,
and we can clear options or just swipe all the way and it goes away.
So that's been updated. There's also a change in find mine.
So if we go into find my within,
find my you'll see there's my devices and there's a new plus button here.
If we tap on the plus button, we have the option to share my location.
So you'll see, there's share location at air tag and add another item.
But now we have share my location as well.
So that's been added to find mine now,
as far as known issues and resolved issues in this update,
there's over 50 resolved issues. Some of them have to do with live text.
Now working properly auto reply should work as expected.
And also you can now update your device using software update.
If you have less than 500 megabytes of storage.
So you can do all of those things and much, much more. However,
one thing they didn't mention is that the wifi bug that I mentioned in iOS 14.7
is now fixed. So they fixed an issue where if you have an odd network name.
So if you go into your wifi settings and you have an odd network name where you
have percent signs in the wifi network or the SS ID, we'll wait for it to load.
You can actually connect to it now. So I changed the password.
It should prompt me for a password here in just a moment. We'll wait for it.
It says incorrect password. Let's go ahead and put it in.
And it's just Zillow tech 1, 2, 3, just so we could try this out.
We'll wait for it to join. It'll take just a moment.
And once it joins, there we go.
We should be able to go to our network and then go to different web pages and go
into whatever we'd like. So it seems like it's working fine.
They fixed this bug in beta three on beta two.
It will actually lock up your network settings and you'll have to reset your
network settings in order to get it back.
So I had that issue before I had to reset my network settings just when I was
testing it out, it didn't work properly before. So that's been resolved.
However, there are still 40 known issues that remain.
Now that doesn't mean they haven't stopped working on them or don't have more to
fit, but they've listed over 40 issues that they're still working on.
So keep in mind,
there's still problems And apple generally updates those in the feedback app.
So if you go into feedback and go into your inbox, once they refresh this,
they'll show up here with beta three release notes,
and then you can see all of the known issues. So if you do have an issue,
you can check and see if it's there first. And they already know about it.
If not go ahead and report it and feedback,
and then they prioritize it and work on it from there. Now,
as far as green tint, they didn't mention anything to do with that.
So maybe that's fixed. Maybe it's not, I've personally never experienced it,
but I know quite a few of you that have.
And so let me know if you're still experiencing green tint.
I'd love to hear from you in the comments below with that,
as well as raised black levels,
when viewing HDR content that should have been fixed,
but it may still be a problem for some people. Now,
as far as iPadOS 15 beta three,
I have not found anything other than what I've already mentioned.
Universal control does not seem to be turned on yet.
That's where you can use macOS Monterrey to use the mouse to control both your
iPad and Mac from the same mouse or keyboard.
So that doesn't seem to be working just yet.
So I'm not sure if it's going to be turned on in beta four.
Hopefully it's turned on very soon as that's something I really want to try out.
But so far I was not able to get that to work. However,
it seems to be performing well.
The overall performance on the iPad is pretty steady.
Battery life suffers a little bit on the iPad.
I've been getting about five or six hours of screen time on the iPad
specifically. So if we go into the overall battery life, the last 10 days,
you'll see, I charged it to 51%, a couple hours ago.
And usually I charge it about every couple of days after about five or six hours
of screen on time.
Now battery overall will take a few days to know what it's like.
So let's take a look at iOS 15 beta two and see how it's been for me.
You'll see my battery health is at 97% and that's pretty typical given its age
at this point, let's go back over to the battery life and you'll see,
over the last few days yesterday,
I had three hours and 37 minutes of screen on time,
four hours and 19 minutes of screen off time and used about 80% of my battery.
So far battery life has been about six to seven hours for me on my phone.
I still go to bed with around 50% left. So I'm not sure if it's 100% accurate,
but it does not seem to get the 10 to 12 hours.
I was getting unstable public versions and that's just part of running a beta
overall. However,
so far today I have three hours and 14 minutes and it's using less power.
So we're down to about, oh,
about 40 or 35% of the battery used and then two hours and 59 minutes of
screen off time. So in general, it's okay. It's an early beta.
I do expect it to improve as we get closer to the final release though,
the overall performance on all of these devices. Well,
if we take a look at the iPhone six S plus,
it seems to be performing pretty well.
Basically it doesn't seem any worse than say iOS 14.7 on this device
or 14.6. The overall smoothness is what you would expect at this point.
And I don't see it slowing down the device so far at all.
So you'll see scrolling as nice and fast going into music. the same thing.
Sometimes there are stutters though.
So we'll wait for this to load here just a moment. And you'll see,
it's pretty smooth, but it's a little bit stuttery, so it's not perfect,
but it's doing okay so far. So basically what we had with beta two.
It's not incredible,
but it's doing okay now let's go ahead and take a look at the benchmarks. Now,
as far as the overall benchmark score,
you'll see it scored 1,589 for single core,
4,072 for multi-core. Now it varies.
I ran it a couple of different times and one time the single core was lower
and then it was higher on the multi-core. You can see 4,105.
So it's about the same as beta two, as far as the multi-core,
but it is a little bit lower for single core. However, it's pretty early on.
It's probably still processing in the background and I would expect it to
improve over the next day or so,
as it continues finishing what it needs to do in the background.
Now let's take a look at all of these devices.
So let's move over to the iPhone 11 and then the iPhone six S plus,
and then the pro. So as you can see from left to right,
we have the iPad pro 12.9 from 2021, the M1 version,
the iPhone 6S plus the iPhone 11 and the iPhone 12 pro max.
So again,
this will give you a general idea of what to expect performance wise on all of
your devices. Now, as far as when to expect iOS 15 beta form,
usually at this time in the beta cycle, we're on a two week cycle.
So I would expect the next beta or beta four to be on the 28th of July or
sometime around there. Normally once we get into August,
we'll start seeing week to week betas where we'll get to maybe beta 5, 6, 7,
and then a release candidate with a release to the public,
sometime in mid to late September,
usually around the iPhone 13 launch or whatever the next iPhone is.
So that's usually what apple does. And so that makes sense.
We shouldn't see it for a couple of weeks now, as far as iOS 14.7,
we could see that release as soon as later this week tomorrow, Friday,
or I would expect maybe Monday, that seems to make the most sense to me.
But again, apple can change this up as they've been doing quite a lot lately,
but if they release it, I'll be sure to let you know. And that leads me to,
should you install iOS 15 beta three? And I would say if you're on beta two,
then absolutely. However,
if you're trying to solve some issue or you have bugs and you want to see if a
beta sort of solves that or resolves it for you,
I would skip it and wait for a public release.
If you know what you're getting into, as far as maybe having issues,
occasionally having bugs and reporting them into feedback.
And then if you really need to rolling back to 14.6, using a computer,
if you're familiar with that, then absolutely try it out. However,
if you're not, I would hold off as you will need a computer computer,
if you want to go back to the previous version. So just keep that in mind. Now,
as far as 14.7, you could try that out.
It's probably going to be released fairly soon. However,
at this point I would just wait for the final release as that should be pretty
soon as well. And so that's it for iOS 15 beta three.
Hopefully I find some more features in it. And if I do,
I'll be sure to let you know,
in a follow-up video or if there's enough features in a separate video
altogether, if you found anything else significant,
I'd love to hear from you in the comments below. And of course,
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