hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and iOS 16.2 Developer beta 1 is now out to developers
and soon to public beta testers and this is a pretty large install since yesterday we just had
iOS 16.1 released to the public now we have 16.2 betas which is pretty normal and this is going to
be a very large install since you're going from a normal version back to a beta and you'll see
it was 5.32 gigabytes that's on my iPhone 14 pro Max and it was just under 5 gigabytes on
the other devices we have here along with this apple also released watch OS 9.2 beta 1 iPad OS
16.2 beta 1 Mac OS 13.1 beta 1 as well as TV OS 16.1 beta 1 and homepod Os 16.2 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 and if we tap on the
version number you can see the build number is 20c 5032e and this particular update does have
some new features and changes in it and the first thing is a modem update we do have a modem update
coming from 16.1 to the new 16.2 betas so again if you're having connectivity issues there's
some refinements to this hopefully it improves over the next few days also one thing to note
before we talk about new features is this does not bring 5G to phones in India yet Apple has
said that's coming in December it's not in these betas maybe in later betas it will be available
though now as far as what's new the first small change is in settings and software update the
actual text here continues to be adjusted Apple keeps changing this so you'll see the font is a
little bit more pronounced it's Bold and the font underneath it says iOS is up to date it's smaller
a very small change but something that's new also on all the face ID devices I had the hello
screen when I rebooted so that's something I saw but didn't see on the touch ID phone
the first major change or update though is the freeform app this is something Apple talked about
when they initially announced iOS 16 and freeform allows for collaboration across many different
people and devices so maybe you want to work on a project together you can share a freeform board
across many devices and then collaborate in real time across those devices now it does seem to be
a bit buggy as I've been trying this out a little bit if I go to share let's see if it works here
and I get an error so even though this is syncing to iCloud which is turned off by default I'll show
you that in a moment it does give me an error so it says document has not synced yet please wait
before attempting to share so there's still some issues with this but it allows for collaboration
with many different tools and let me show you that on the iPad as it's a little bit larger now
on the iPad it comes pre-installed with freeform the app is there you can delete it if you press
and hold remove you have the option to delete the app if you want to however it's pre-installed on
all of these devices and the first time you open it you get a splash screen like you do on many
new apps that says get creative build your board collaborate with others so that's something that
popped up the first time I opened it and as you can see here's freeform now I do have dark mode
on so if we pull down the control center you'll see dark modes on and if we go into a board it
just says the word hello it says resume to 100 and then of course we can share this and then
collaborate in real time so we could share this with someone else with via messages or directly
and then they can collaborate in real time of course we have our options for our pen tool just
like notes and of course we have a little Post-It note we could put here we also have some shapes
we can add so if you want to add an arrow we can add that in here resize it whatever you want to
do and then also we can add photos so it's just a collaboration board for ideas where people can
collaborate in real time across multiple devices at once so as I draw here it should show on others
I wasn't able to get this to sync though on the iPhone I thought maybe I could have it sync in
real time across the different devices see where it went here and it doesn't really seem to work so
right now I have it actually turned on so that I can use it across devices now it's actually
working so let's see if we can get this to work in real time it wasn't working earlier so just
be aware that it could be a bit buggy so as I draw here let's see if it updates in real time
down here and it did so it's actually updating in real time and if I draw maybe on the iPhone
we'll just draw a line here let's see if it shows up on the iPad but I did have some syncing issues
initially and I had to turn the syncing on in order for this to work so you'll see it's
not sort of syncing in real time back from the iPhone but it worked from the iPad to the iPhone
so as I scribble there to zoom out it does take a moment to update so for whatever
reason it seems to be a little slow that way and like I said there's an option for
this as far as collaboration and syncing it with iCloud so if we go into our settings
put the pencil down and then we go into our name at the top and then tap on iCloud you can see
here if we tap on show all scroll down and you'll see that there's the option for free form it was
turned off by default I had to turn this on and then things started to sync properly so if you
want to try this out just keep in mind you may need to enable that within your iCloud settings
now also on the iPad if we go into the TV app they've now moved the account to the bottom left
so on the iPad it's in the bottom left they haven't changed it on the iPhone though and
with iOS 16.1 they introduced live activities and they've brought back the live activities toggle
within the TV app like we had before they removed it with iOS 16.1 but now it's back with 16.2
if we go into it there's nothing there yet but eventually we'll have live activities for sports
and more and then be able to use those on our lock screen so as soon as they enable that for sports
within TV we should see that now also on the iPad they've added external display support again
so when you plug it in we now have our external display Support options so if we go into settings
you'll see we don't have anything there now under display and brightness there's nothing there let
me go ahead and plug in a display so if I plug in my Pro display xdr give it a moment to connect
we'll wait for it just a moment here there it goes and now we have Pro display xdr and under
arrangement we can either mirror the display or just use it as an external display this worked
in earlier betas of iOS 16 and they removed it with 16.1 now it's back with 16.2 so again we
have options for brightness maybe you can see it get lighter and darker back here and then also
display Zoom for more space default larger text and then also High dynamic range standard dynamic
range and allow display mode changes so all of those have been brought back with iPad OS 16.2
of course you'll need a supporting iPad basically an M1 or M2 iPad to use external displays though
with iOS 16.1 Apple added matter support within the home app matter is Now supported but there
will be a home app architecture update and you can see that here by tapping on your options going to
home settings under home settings you can see if as we scroll down under software update you'll
see home upgrade available it says home now has a new underlying architecture that will
improve the performance of your homes if you tap on this you'll need all of your home pods updated
to homepot OS 16.2 in order for that to work so once your software is up to date you can upgrade
this home so that's something they've updated with 16.2 that I'll have to try out once the home pods
have been updated also when you go into the news app there's a new splash screen it says welcome
to Apple news and then it says Siri suggest stories channels and topics based on Safari
and app usage and then you can tap continue and go into your news so that's a splash screen that just
shows up I didn't see any in other apps though now something that people are seeing more and
more not just on iOS 16.2 but 16.1 as well is Apple is now serving more ads in the App Store
if we scroll down you'll see one here and as we continue to scroll we may see more and more of
them so there should be more and more ads showing up unfortunately there's no way to really disable
that they're just adding that and have said that they're going to be adding that so you
may see that throughout the IOS app store app so maybe there and iPad as well now as far as
other features we're still waiting for satellite connectivity still we don't have anything as far
as that goes so nothing in our cellular settings or our emergency SOS settings that should be
coming later to iPhone 14 maybe with beta 2 we'll see that and also the Apple wallet savings account
that I mentioned with iOS 16.1 after I released that video Apple actually announced that they
delayed that feature so that's something coming a little bit later where you'll be able to use
your Apple wallet with a savings account and earn interest so that's something coming later
on also they updated iWork apps today so if you use pages and numbers or keynote those have had
a major update so if we go to my account you can see here they updated it today here's keynote but
there's a lot of different updates four pages keynote and numbers to version 12.2 so a lot of
different new features and updates specifically for those apps on iPhone iPad and Mac as well now
one thing we're waiting for are airpods updates with airpods many of us are waiting for airpods
Pro 2 and other airpods to be updated to help with connectivity many of us have been waiting
for that there's some additional bugs people have had with the airpods so we hopefully will see an
update for those very soon but so far we haven't seen anything hopefully we see them either today
tomorrow or maybe in a few days or weeks but hopefully sooner rather than later also many of
you have been asking me when will we get new Emoji well it doesn't look until probably next year at
this point last year iOS 15.4 is when we had a bunch of new emojis so probably a few versions out
something that they don't really update unless the Unicode Consortium actually updates their standard
there's someone that makes the standard of emoji and then iOS Android and others follow now as far
as the release notes let's go into those so we'll go over to our feedback app and within our iOS and
iPad OS 16.2 Beta release notes there's a couple issues with freeform one I actually experienced
where it can't delete boards while offline or if iCloud data is disabled for free form I had
to actually enable that and I showed you that earlier also adding or removing collaborators
can fail they give a workaround for that there's also known issues with external displays and Stage
manager and then also Swift UI they've resolved an issue as far as animated layout changes now
support up to 120 hertz Pro motion displays and again there's a TV app known issue as well for
play tracking so some known issues with this not a ton of them so it looks like they're moving along
nicely of course they should have more and more bug fixes the screen flickering issue that many
people had when the display brightness was low many people have told me has been fixed with iOS
16.1 I'm curious to know if you had this on your iPhone 14 if that's been resolved but I haven't
really heard of any other issues with this update as far as performance Pro motion does seem to be
nice and smooth overall performance is good and opening games and opening apps seem to be okay
with it so if we go into music for the first time on the 8 plus you'll see it's refreshing
as I would expect we'll give it just a moment here and there we go so no issues there seems
to be fairly smooth not as smooth as promotion of course however there are some Reports online of
stutter in games such as gentian so some people are having stutter let's go into Minecraft as
I have it loaded let's just see how quickly it reloads give it a moment here and now we're in
so that's pretty quick as we move around I'm not seeing any stuttering here there I did I just saw
it just as I was saying that so again there could be some stutter here and there but it is an early
Beta And if you're having issues make sure you report it in feedback good news though is I'm
not hearing much about the phone getting very hot it actually has been quite cool even when
installing the update and I don't worry too much about that as iOS manages that but many people are
saying it stays nice and cool so that's a good sign also YouTube got a major update you may or
may not be seeing that with redesigned buttons and also eventually the Subscribe button and more will
be changed so that's going to be changed in many different versions of YouTube that you'll see it's
no longer going to be red it's going to be a white subscribe button and they're changing the overall
scrubbing ability so you can really finely tune where you want to see in the app and much more
thumbnails will be rounded on the corners and much more so if you have that update I'd love
to hear from you in the comments below now if you're wondering if you should install iOS 16.2
beta 1 well if you had issues and you just want to be on a stable release definitely stay on iOS
16.1 for now if you want to try it out of course you can but there aren't any major features other
than freeform that you may want to try out just yet that will be coming very soon probably in
the next month or month and a half or so so at this point if you want to try out freeform you
can just make sure you have a backup and you know what you're getting into if you need to downgrade
using a computer but again just make sure you have that backup as far as battery life well this takes
a few days to measure for sure we don't really know what battery life is like right away but
so far hopefully it's the same or better than 16.1 battery health on this device is a hundred percent
as it's new and if we go over the last 10 days yesterday I had four and a half hours of screen
on time or 4 hours and 29 minutes 6 hours and 54 minutes of screen off time used about 60 percent
of my battery so 60 65 percent it's getting better for me me and the day before about the same if you
have that so I'm only getting about eight hours of screen on time I would expect it to improve I
continue to change my settings for the home and lock screen to help improve that typically with
this beta just like other betas I would expect iOS 16.2 beta 2 to be a couple weeks away usually the
first two or three betas will have a beta every other week so maybe the 8th of November and we
probably won't see any sort of release with this until maybe December it could be late November but
maybe December with that 5G update for phones in India as far as 5G is concerned and those
other updates I talked about earlier so look for that and then maybe in between we'll have an iOS
16.1.1 or something like that if they need to fix any issues as far as benchmarks I did run
those quickly just to take a look and you'll see here single core was 1876. multi-core was 5311
compared to before let's take a look here you'll see it's a very similar similar within two points
for single core and it's a little bit faster for multi-core so usually within a hundred or so or
a couple hundred it's fine you shouldn't really notice any difference now if you found anything
else in iOS 16.2 beta 1 I'd love to hear from you in the comments below and of course we should have
new iPad Pro and iPad releases tomorrow as well so I'll be sure to check those out as soon as I can
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