hi everyone aaron here for zollotech and
today apple released ios 15.6 beta 1.
this is currently available to
developers and hopefully very soon to
public beta testers usually by the time
this video is posted you should see it
or it could be the following day now
this came in at a very large 5.42
gigabytes that's on my iphone 13 pro max
and it was about four to six gigabytes
on all the devices here so it's a pretty
large install and that's typical anytime
you go from a public version to a beta
or from a beta back to a public version
it has to reinstall the whole os
now this is also available for ipad os
15.6 beta 1 watch os 8.7 beta 1 tv os
15.6 beta 1 mac os 12.5 beta 1 and
homepod os 15.6 beta 1. 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 then about as you can see
the build number is 19g
and this particular build being the
first one usually that letter will get
closer to a as we get closer to a final
release so we'll talk about when we can
expect that closer to the end of the
video but first let's talk about what's
new now the first thing that's new has
to do with the modem update now it's new
but it's sort of not new in the sense
that on the 13 pro max with ios 15.5 we
had build number 1.61.00
however the modem update on 15.6 beta 1
has reverted back a little bit to
1.60.00 so it's gone in reverse a little
bit and sometimes we see this maybe it's
just a better version but we'll have to
wait and see over the next few days
as far as new features and changes well
the first thing has to do with it's
really in the code and looks like we're
going to see it in the future so thanks
again to my friend steve moser he found
that in the code
maybe we'll have some controls for the
keyboard in the future where we can
actually hide the emoji search bar so if
i go into
my messages then maybe emoji here
emoji search is an option that may be
able to be hidden later on it's found in
accessibility code but so far we're not
seeing a physical option for it there's
also additional code showing things such
as accessory pairing string changes and
more so there's additional changes that
they've made however there's a lot of
changes that apple said they're making
soon with future versions of ios that's
what i thought would be in this version
and you can actually see that on apple's
website so you'll see it says apple
previews innovative accessibility
features combining the power of hardware
software and machine learning these are
some great accessibility features
celebrating the global accessibility
awareness day so let me go over some of
those things as those will be expected
probably within beta 2 or beta 3 of ios
15.6 so typically with the first betas
you're not going to see a huge amount of
changes but this is what i think will be
in 15.6 if not ios 16 as well so the
first thing is sign time will be
launching on may 19th in canada also
accessibility assistant shortcuts are
coming to shortcuts apps on mac and
apple watch and there will be updates to
maps music books and more to highlight
accessibility options so that's
something we'll see but the new features
have to do with what accessibility can
do in the future so the first one is
door detection apple actually shows this
here in a little video where you can use
your phone using the cameras as an
accessibility feature to recognize a
door in front of you helping low vision
or blind users also they're bringing
live captions for audio content or
streaming media throughout the os so
that's actually something we've had on
android or they're bringing with android
13 and you'll be able to actually have
anything closed caption translated so
whether that be a conversation next to
you and you use the microphone something
you're watching on youtube or just other
audio content it should be able to
translate that for you in real time
that's something they're bringing with
this also they're adding new voice over
languages and voices so if you use
voiceover in accessibility they're
bringing that so voiceover will have new
languages things like ukrainian and more
there'll be a lot more of that in the
future one thing that i think will be
very helpful has to do with apple watch
you'll have apple watch mirroring so
you'll be able to mirror your apple
watch on your iphone and then use your
iphone's accessibility features to maybe
better control your apple watch it will
connect directly to your watch and work
that way you'll also have quick actions
on apple watch with double pinch so
you'll be able to double pinch to do
different gestures or do different
things on the watch there's also going
to be a buddy controller option so maybe
you have a game you're playing and you
need a little bit of help you can pair
two controllers at once so you can play
the same exact character or
maybe a race car in a video game you can
play together if you need a little extra
help so that's something and you'll see
here's that double pinch here so that's
something we'll see in the future and
then you'll see here we'll have siri
pause time so it will allow you to wait
a little bit longer before siri responds
you'll have voice controlled spelling
mode sound recognition where we had this
feature before with ios 15 where your
phone can actually recognize a sound and
accessibility so if you're not familiar
with that we can go down here sound
recognition we can have it recognize a
sound and let us know when that sound is
incoming we'll be able to customize this
in the future so it will recognize any
sound that we set and then also apple
books this is something that might hint
at ios 16. if we go into books here
books will have theming and
customization options this is something
we could see in ios 16 maybe more
integrated into the os itself so all of
those things are coming soon i would
think they're coming to ios 15.6 before
ios 16 which makes me think ios 16 is
going to be much bigger than we actually
anticipated now as far as additional
features and changes that's really
everything just a few things in the code
and what i mentioned as far as
accessibility coming soon as far as
known and resolved issues well that
storage bug some people were saying was
still there even on ios 15.5 so let's go
into my storage and my storage has
generally been pretty low on my phone
the main problem is when it loads down
at the bottom it's using up a lot of
storage i even had one person mention
that it was using as much as 80
gigabytes of storage so that's something
that it really shouldn't be doing you'll
see it loaded and it did take a while to
load that time
but we'll let it load here
down at the bottom it's using almost
3.84 gigabytes on my iphone 11 and the
iphone 13 pro max is still loading so
it's taking a bit of time here so we'll
give it just a moment but in general it
really shouldn't be much different i
wouldn't expect any major bug fixes with
the first version so it's still loading
on my 13 pro max so maybe that's an
additional bug that we didn't have
before as far as the phone getting too
hot or overheating it was surprisingly
cool when i rebooted it and was starting
to use the phone checking out ios 15.6
so it's staying nice and cool as far as
that goes also some people were having
issues with apple music apple has not
mentioned whether or not they've fixed
this but i've heard from a few people
saying that it actually would stop
playing in the middle of it you'd have
to close out of music go back in and
then it would work again so i haven't
had that problem personally but i know
some people have hopefully they'll
resolve this in the in the future also
apple did mention one thing that's a
known issue and that has to do with
xcode 13.4 being unable to prepare ios
15.6 beta devices for development so
there could be some issues with that and
they say the work around for that is use
xcode 13.3.1
and so that brings me to should you
install ios 15.6 beta 1 i would say at
this point there's not really a reason
to do that apple has not said really
what they've fixed in this and there
doesn't appear to be a whole lot in this
it looks like it's getting ready for
accessibility features so at this point
there's not a whole lot of changes i
probably wouldn't install it if you're
happy with 15.5 i also wouldn't install
it if maybe you were trying to get
better performance or better battery
life or anything else with 15.5
usually later betas or the final version
will will bring that as far as battery
life it will take a few days to measure
that so i'll cover that in a follow-up
video but typically battery life is okay
on 15.5 i'm hearing positive things from
a lot of people my battery health is at
100 and if we go back to battery life
go back to yesterday i only had three
hours and 38 minutes of screen on time
eight hours and 15 minutes of screen off
time with music and again i think that
music bug is still there so i used about
75 percent of my battery i'm actually
still getting through the day with about
50 left but i do use my ipad quite a bit
and also
other devices such as a mac as well when
i'm working performance wise it seems to
be pretty good overall and some people
mentioned in my ios 15.5 video that i
should test out pubg so i'll probably do
that in future betas i have tested out
minecraft and things but typically it
seems to be pretty good overall i
haven't noticed any difference in
performance whether that be promotion on
older devices or anything else
performance seems to be what you would
expect so far and i would expect that at
this point i also ran benchmarks on my
13 pro max just for consistency to see
what we get right away and for single
core i scored
1728 from multicore 4705.
if we compare that with ios 15.5 on may
14th you'll see it's about the same for
single core and it's a little bit lower
for multi-core this typically improves
after using it for a few days while it
finishes indexing in the background and
sort of doing different tasks once those
are complete usually performance goes up
since it's not doing tasks anymore while
you're running the benchmark now with
those additional issues people are
having with ios 15.5 many people suspect
we'll have a 15.5.1
before
ios 15.6 or ios 16. so if we do see that
maybe next week or the week after at
this point we could have that any day
now apple doesn't tell us when we're
having that so it's possible we could
have one to fix some bugs and add
additional security fixes but at this
point we just don't know also as far as
ios 15.6 betas i would expect the next
beta within a couple weeks typically
apple will release betas every couple of
weeks with the early betas and then
change to a weekly schedule later on
then we'll have ios 16 beta 1 on june
6th and we're expecting a lot of major
changes and big updates that's the
latest thing we're hearing from that and
so it seems like since they're putting
such little things or little changes
within ios 15.6 i would expect
everything's being held for iowa 16 on
june 6. so that seems to make the most
amount of sense to me hopefully we'll
see some major changes with that and so
that's everything in ios 15.6 beta 1.
hopefully we'll find some additional
things and if you've found anything i'd
love to hear from you in the comments
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