Hi, everyone.
Aaron here for Zollotech and today apple released iOS 15.2 beta 2.
This is available to developers and hopefully soon,
by the time you're watching this video, it's out to public beta testers.
Although last week it came out the following day,
but either way I would expect it soon. Now this came in at 850.3 megabytes.
That's on my iPhone 13 pro max,
and it was between 700 to 900 megabytes on all the devices you see here,
the iPhone 12 pro max iPhone 11 in iPhone 6S Plus along with this apple
also released iPadOS 15.2 beta 2 that I have on my 12.9 inch iPad pro
from 2021.
They also released watch OS 8.3 beta 2 as well as tvOS
15.2 beta 2 and a macOS Monterey 12.1 beta 2.
All of those are available to developers now and soon to public beta testers.
Now, as far as anything new, well,
let's go ahead and take a look at the build number first,
and then we'll talk about what's new.
So we'll go to settings then we'll go to general than about,
you can see the build number is 19C5036E and
so we're getting closer to a final build, but usually when we're really close,
that will end in an a with the build number.
So it will probably be a couple versions out as far as the final version.
And we'll talk about when to expect that a little bit later. Now,
as far as the first thing that's new, well,
there is a modem update in this particular update for the 13 pro max and some
other devices.
And that's a good thing because I had all sorts of switching issues between LTE,
wifi and 5g with this update. Oftentimes I found that I'd have an issue.
I'd have to turn on airdrop, turn it off. And now with beta two,
they've updated that modem update. So hopefully that fixes those issues,
but we'll have to wait and see as far as any new features while there are some
new features in this update.
And the first one is a feature they promised some time ago. In fact,
a couple of them are, and that is hide my email.
Now we already have hide my email. That's turned on.
If you go into your settings and then you go into your name and you can turn
that on, however we can. Now,
if we have iCloud plus activate hide my email from within a new email.
So if we go into email, maybe we create a new email and we press on our,
from address here. You can see the, at the bottom, it says, hide my email,
create a random address that forwards to your inbox. If we tap on that,
it just goes and says, hide my email.
And then it will automatically fill out everything else for you.
So it's pretty simple to do. You can hide your email if you want to,
and then it will just forward that information to you so that you don't get
things you don't really want. So that's something they've added.
They've just made it a little bit easier to activate that feature.
Also legacy contacts is something they've talked about before and they finally
added it in 15.2 beta two.
So if we go to settings and then we tap on her name at the top, once we do that,
tap on password and security. And then at the bottom,
it says legacy contact under legacy contact.
You can see it says your legacy contacts, add a legacy contact.
It says your legacy contact can access and download data from your account after
your death. So tap on the plus and it says, add someone you trust,
share your access key and pass down your digital legacy.
So you can pass down your photos, videos, notes, documents,
personal information, and more to people you love.
So this is giving them access to your device.
After something might happen to you,
where before it was much more difficult to get that information after you may
have passed away.
So I've personally run into that where someone was trying to unlock a phone and
get photos and things off those phones.
So it can be a bit of a pain and this makes it much, much better.
And it's something they had promised with the initial release of iOS 15,
and they're adding it with 15.2. So that's in this particular beta,
something else they've added that they've talked about for quite some time is
child communication safety.
And this is a feature that has been a little bit controversial,
and this is not a CSAM protection.
So that is not enabled in this update where they scan your photos. However,
the child communication feature is enabled in beta to the code was there in beta 1.
But what this means is compared to the version that was announced in August,
apple did make some changes in response.
So they initially said that parents of children under the age of 13,
could be notified if the child viewed an image that was explicit.
So if they viewed that it would notify a parent. However,
after taking some feedback back, apple has said that they've heard this,
and now it will tell the child,
if there's something that might be explicit here,
and then they can message someone they trust,
instead of maybe a parent that they feel threatened by or someone else they
might feel threatened by, they can now notify someone.
They trust that there could be an explicit image here,
and then they could forward that onto someone else.
So it's children age 13 and younger or children in general,
and you can see the different steps that we'll do here.
It says helping with communication safety,
and it will just warn them that the photo could be sensitive. And it says,
are you sure you want to view it's your choice, but make sure you feel safe.
And then it gives you that information. This is something that I think is great.
And while many people may be concerned about it,
this is done all on device where it recognizes things in the photos using the
neural engine. So it's still private.
It's just letting you know that maybe there's something that shouldn't really be
in a photo sent to a child.
So it's allowing them to let someone know that they have that sort of explicit
photo in their messages. So that's something that's enabled.
Let me know what you think about that though. But again,
see Sam is not enabled in this update. So there isn't anything,
as far as that goes just yet. Now, an iPhone 13 pro and iPhone 13,
Pro Max we have the ability to use the ultra wide camera for macro.
If we go into settings, there's a new update here. So we go into settings,
go down until we get to camera under camera. If we scroll all the way down,
we had auto macro before. However, if we turn this off,
then scroll up under preserved settings.
We now have auto macro auto macro is here and it sort of disappears if you turn
that other option on.
But what this allows us to do is now go into our camera app and we'll have the
option for macro. As we get close, a little flower appears,
and we can turn off macro or it back on so we can get really close.
It locks that macro option.
So you'll see that little flower here appear right by my thumb as I bring it
away, or maybe I'll bring the phone up. You can see that it shows up.
So it's a new feature that we can lock that macro camera,
making it a little bit more useful, which is always nice to see again,
if we go back into settings and this time, if we go into podcasts,
apple has updated podcasts quite a bit.
So compared with the previous version of beta one, if we go into podcasts here,
so we'll go back, go into podcasts under podcasts,
you'll see there's a difference.
So the options have changed already preferred language and then library.
And then downloads is now toward the top. And we have more options.
So download when saving cellular auto downloads remove play downloads.
So we had some of these options before.
We also have new options for continuous playback and where the skip buttons
are and more, and also reset identifier at the bottom has been changed.
So they keep changing around some of these different options,
and there's just new options in general, within podcasts.
But if you really want to customize it and change how it's downloading,
whether it's cellular or how large it is when downloading you can change the
surround also just like you could before,
but with additional settings now within find my, there's some new options.
So if we go into find my, if you tap on items,
you'll see at the bottom there's two new options.
One says help return lost items. Another says items that can track me.
If we tap on items that can track me. It says,
when you think a nearby item is used to track your location,
you can discover it, tap on search,
and it will look for nearby air tags that might be around you,
that don't belong to you. And then it will notify you and let you know,
or let you know that there's no known unknown items found.
So we'll give it just a moment to complete and see what it shows.
It took about a minute. And now it says no unknown items found.
And then we can search again. So you can do this over and over.
If you think maybe there's an air tag that someone's placed on you,
and they're trying to track you again at the same place.
If we tap on help return lost items, there's a new option also. And you'll see,
it says help return last items. When you find a lost item,
you can check if the owner left a message to help return it,
check if the item works with find my either because it's an air tag AirPods,
or because it has an icon on it, the little arrow icon.
So these have been added to Find my,
which is a nice little addition to sort of give you more transparency as to what
devices are around you or to try and help others. Now. Also,
there was a splash screen. The first time I opened up news,
I did not see this on all my devices,
but it did show up on the latest 13 pro max.
And it says customized notifications from apple news,
choose which channels send you notifications about important stories,
and then you can customize it. So that popped up on this device.
And then also there's a bunch of code that's referenced thanks to my friend,
Steve Mosher for pointing this out,
but a bunch of code referencing the ability to add our ID,
such as our state license to apple wallets as sort of an official ID
while I could not find it anywhere in the OS it does seem to have the code
there. So they should be bringing it soon. However,
this is only supported by certain states that are participating as well as
possibly other countries.
It's going to be on a country by country and state by state basis.
So it could take some time for your state to support it,
or they may never support it, but we'll have to wait.
So it identifies you and matches your ID using face ID and other things.
While you add that ID, it's within the code, but so far, it's just not active.
There's also lots of code referencing apple music, voice plans. However,
I don't have that plan. I have sort of the unlimited plan.
So it's not showing up for me, but you can subscribe to voice. However,
there's no new emoji yet those new emoji will probably be coming later on.
And there's also no universal control that I could find for the iPad.
On iPad there's one new feature that's on the iPad and that's under TV under TV.
You'll see here that it has a new side menu bar along with a dedicated store
area.
So that's been added and there's still no mention of universal control on the
iPad. At least in the notes. I wasn't able to find it in settings either now,
even with the release of macOS Monterey 12.1 beta two,
there's still no notes for that yet.
And I've not been able to install that yet to see if it's fully active.
But what universal control allows for is the use of a single track pad or mouse
to use between your iPad and maybe a Mac or two Macs seamlessly,
simply move your finger from one side to the other of the track pad.
And it will just jump at between devices and allow you to sort of move files and
more so it should be really nice to use once it's enabled.
But apple has said that it's coming a little bit later,
but as far as the iPad at games, the other features I already mentioned,
but nothing really else. Other than that,
when it comes to resolve issues and known issues,
while there's one mentioned resolved issue, that's in iOS 15.2 beta two,
and that has to do with safari and sinking. And for developers locating files,
that's been resolved. However, there's four known issues that apple mentions,
and two of those are fairly significant streaming in the music app.
So maybe you're streaming you're,
you've got a song that you've wanted to listen to.
You're listening to it and it's streaming, but you don't have it downloaded,
could result in higher CPU usage causing faster battery drain in some scenarios.
So they've mentioned that's an issue right now,
and also users who import a verifiable vaccination record.
Aren't able to add it into the wallet app. And the health app may freeze.
This is still a known bug. There was no resolution for it.
So it could be a problem in this beta for some people there's no mention of the
storage bugs. So whether or not you're having issues with storage,
I'm not seeing that on this update that I can see so far.
But if I go into my iPhone storage, you'll see I'm using 107.7 gigabytes.
And if I let this load, it will take just a moment here.
You'll see photos is using 40 gigabytes, but if I go all the way down,
you'll see it's using 9.2,
three gigabytes for the for iOS and system data will fill in momentarily,
but I'm not using any excessive storage based on what I've had week over week.
Also, my phone is not showing any different storage than what it actually has.
This is a 256 gigabytes storage iPhone. Some we're seeing more than that,
even though that's what they had now, as far as overall battery life. Well,
if we go into battery life,
I've been using beta one for a little while and it seemed to be okay.
My battery health is at 100% on this newer phone. That makes sense.
And if we go and look at maybe two days ago,
you'll see battery has varied greatly.
I had one hour and 49 minutes of screen on time,
five hours and nine minutes of screen off time. So it will vary from day to day.
Some days were better than others. And I used about 50% of the battery.
So this day I had two hours and 49 minutes of screen on time at seven hours and
35 minutes of screen off time using YouTube audio or music in the background.
And so it used a lot of power. However, I was not using YouTube audio.
So it's kind of odd that that shows up. So there's still some bugs in this,
for sure. I've heard from quite a few people that said would the first beta,
there were some odd battery drain issues where it was using things.
They didn't have even active in the background.
So hopefully that gets resolved in this beta,
but it will take a few days to know for sure,
as far as performance overall performance has been pretty good.
So if we look at the iPhone six S plus,
I generally tend to use this to gauge speed overall.
So scrolling is fairly normal on this phone.
It's not going to be super fast, like the newer phones.
And if we go into things like Minecraft, you'll see, I had that loaded.
We'll give it a moment just to load here again and see what it does.
So it will take just a moment here,
it's loading and there we go resume and we're in.
So it didn't take any excessive amount of time to load. You'll see,
it's drawing things in the background.
And the frame rate seems to be pretty solid. So games are playable,
although there was a couple of little hiccups there, but in general,
it's going to be about what you would expect when you normally play.
So it seems to be plenty fast and no issues there.
I ran benchmarks on these as well. And on the 13 pro max,
it scored 1,718 for single core,
4,705 for multi-core. If we take a look at the history, you'll see,
well, based on the day over day,
you can see that we're a little bit lower on both single and multi-core,
although I just ran this last time,
I did end up running it a couple times and it does seem to be performing okay.
So far it's been nice and fast.
And I did notice that when I was looking around for different things,
the different applications seem to load very fast this time around.
So despite what the numbers may say, it does seem to be fairly fast,
but let's quickly take a look at all of these devices. So from left to right,
I have the iPad pro 12.9 from 2021 followed by the iPhone six S plus
then the iPhone 11 and the iPhone 13 pro max.
And this was the first time running it on any of these devices.
So these could be a little bit low and might speed up a little bit afterward.
Now, as far as overall heat of the devices,
I did notice a difference between them. And in fact,
the entire time I've been recording this video at the back of my 13 pro max has
been a little bit warm right around the processor. That's unusual,
which means it's processing a lot of information in the background.
Usually when I record these videos, they cool down pretty quickly.
So there's definitely something going on and it may take a few days for the
battery to be much better. That leads me to,
should you install iOS 15.2 beta two on your device? Well,
if you've already got beta one installed,
well then definitely go ahead and update,
make sure you're submitting feedback if you're having issues.
And sometimes they'll get back to you and ask for additional feedback.
So it's great that they're actually working on this regularly and they
prioritize those based on what the major issues are and then what the minor
issues are, as far as if you're not on this update, well,
you probably want to stay on iOS 15.1 for now.
If you have anything critical as sometimes apps don't work properly,
I did have some lockups and freezing with previous updates with beta one.
So maybe hold off for a few days and see if it's a little bit better.
And then if it's sort of acting fine in a few days and I do my follow-up,
I'll let you know if it's much better and more stable,
or if you should hold off a little bit later, but either way,
I typically do a follow up on the weekend to let you know how it's going
overall. Now, as far as I was 15.1.1,
quite a few people have asked me about that. And last week,
apple released tvOS 15.1.1 and HomePod OS 15.1.1.
We really expected them to release iOS 15.1.1, but they didn't do that.
So it's possible. We could have that any time between now and the time.
This is finally released to the public with iOS 15.2,
I would expect 15.2 beta 3 within a week or two at this point,
generally within a week,
but you just never know with Apple schedule and they do take time off in the
middle of December.
So we'll either see a final release before that or after that in January.
So that's typically what they do year over year, but again,
we'll have to see what they're doing as they've been very random this year and
much different than previous years. So that's it with everything.
And I was 15.2 beta two so far, of course, if I find a bunch of other things,
I'll be sure to do a follow-up with the additional features.
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