Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and ios 15.3 beta 1 has been out for about a week at this point
i've been using it full time on my iphone 13 pro max and i haven't done a follow up on it
as i wanted to use it full time for about a week before i talked about it so i could
share my experience and your experience based off the youtube community poll
and at the time of this video the poll has over 15 000 votes and 188 comments i've read
all of those comments to take into consideration what the overall stability battery life and bugs
are in this particular update so we can get the best idea of what it's going to be like
now as far as the features in 15.3 i would expect to see more features by the time the second beta
comes out we'll talk more about that a little bit later but typically the first beta has very few
features or changes just some underlying code there just as we saw with the first beta video
that i talked about with what's new so as far as stability in this update though it's quite
good in fact most people are saying that there's no crashes resprings or anything despite the the
actual update being on an iphone 11 or an iphone 6s 6s plus older devices seem to be stable as well
the people that do have issues tend to have issues with third-party apps such as twitter
or google smart lock i've talked about before that seems to be an issue with that particular update
so something changed with apple's update and the apps have not been updated to sort of
work through whatever changes apple has made so it's causing a problem for some particular apps
but most apps seem to be pretty good so i haven't had resprings crashes occasionally
i've seen twitter crash like i said but other than that it's been very good promotion is noticeably
improved if you have a 13 pro max or one of the newer devices with a pro motion display when
you're scrolling through different things whether that be the app library safari or something else
the smoothness is definitely improved over the previous versions with ios 15.2 so it seems to
be much much better that way also under settings if we go to storage under general most people are
saying that the storage bug has been resolved now i know a lot of people want ways to sort of update
this yourself maybe delete some of the storage but it does take a little bit longer to load
than it did in previous versions before 15.2 so it seems to still be there for some people but
the information loads fairly quickly especially system data for me and the overall storage is
reporting correctly for me in 15.3 i haven't really seen too many complaints about that in
this update as well now there is an odd bug when it comes to rotation so if i go into safari and
rotate to landscape and then go back to portrait sometimes it doesn't work properly on my ipad it
seems to work fine on the iphone but on certain devices sometimes it just doesn't work right
so that's a small bug i'm sure it can be easily fixed but should be reported in the feedback app
also there's some odd connectivity issues with cellular with this update apple actually updated
to a different firmware version for the modem and it's an older firmware version than 15.2 and
has caused issues for me on ios 15.2 i had much better connectivity than i do with 15.3 beta 1.
and that obviously can be fixed with an update in the future but switching between different
bands of 5g has caused issues for me again where i actually have to turn on airplane mode turn it
back off then it will reconnect and work properly again it seems to be a continued issue that comes
back over and over with this update and apparently there's some much more serious issues with 5g or
just iphone 13 pro max in different countries on different carriers so someone did tell me about
this i looked it up to see if it was actually true and the lgu plus carrier in south korea
apparently are having major call drop issues which is apparently quite controversial there
the carrier's working with with apple to try and fix this and they're even handing out iphone 12
pros as a temporary replacement until it's fixed according to different sources i was reading from
and so this seems to be a big issue apple's aware of it but it needs to be fixed so i would imagine
something similar to that is happening here with the newer phones with cellular connectivity
so that's definitely an issue for me though wi-fi has been fine some people sometimes have issues
with it but it seems like there's far less issues with 15.2 and 15.3 with wi-fi so that seems to be
well sorted at this point now we're just waiting for cellular to be sorted again so maybe with 15.3
beta 2. when it comes to bluetooth bluetooth seems to be pretty solid for me in this update
i haven't had any issues with my airpods however i did have someone say that their volume was a
bit low when using spatial audio as compared to maybe apps like spotify so maybe an app limitation
with volume level i tried to reproduce it and i couldn't with airpods max they went plenty loud
like they always do and so i really had no issues with that however there was one report of sony
xm3s disconnecting from this with bluetooth so there are some issues for some people and the same
is true with carplay if you're using apple carplay whether that be with music or something else
some people are seeing disconnects with it typically i hear a lot from honda users that are
having some issues with disconnecting odd issues with just music in general and overall problems so
those are all the bugs in 15.3 it seems to be far less than what we've had with previous versions
so they are getting this sorted out but there are some issues still to be worked out
specifically cellular issues for most people also one thing i did want to mention is some odd
brightness bugs we had that earlier on i've seen a few odd brightness bugs with this update it seems
like when i turn on do not disturb and then maybe go to my display settings if i go into settings
then go to display and brightness i always change it to auto lock never when i'm making these videos
when i put it back to normal settings and then turn on my my automatic brightness level under
accessibility i always turn that off for the video as well turn it back on afterward
many times it won't automatically adjust brightness it will be at low brightness
and then i have to turn it back up so that's something i've seen specifically with those
scenarios you have to do it in that order for it to work though so it's a very specific thing and
of course can be reported in the feedback app when it comes to performance performance seems to be
great like i said earlier if you have a pro motion device everything is just super smooth buttery
smooth as you're scrolling between different things whether that be songs or anywhere else
and the same is true on older devices many people with this latest update say the same thing on the
iphone 11 or 6s plus while it's not going to be as smooth as a pro motion device it is fairly smooth
with no issues whatsoever so not really an issue there performance is great and i'm sure we'll see
improvements in the future with future updates when it comes to battery life battery life has
been pretty good depending on the device i'll share my iphone and then my ipad but if we go
to settings and then we go over to battery under battery you'll see i have 100 battery health
and if we go over to the last 10 days you can see my usage here and it varies greatly from day
to day yesterday i used 50 of my battery and had 3 hours and 45 minutes of screen on time
6 hours and 14 minutes of screen off time the day before i had less battery life but if we go a few
days back you'll see i had really good battery life a couple days ago where i used about 40 of
my battery and used four and a half hours or four hours and 23 minutes of screen on time six hours
and 22 minutes of screen off time so depending on the day it's been really really good however
on the ipad it's very hit or miss so on ipad it's been pretty good as far as its smoothness
and promotion it definitely seems improved there but again battery life continues to be an issue i
charged this to 100 last night you'll see i'm at 25 now and if we look at the battery we'll wait
for it to load and we'll see yesterday here i used it for four hours and 32 minutes of screen on time
33 minutes of screen off time i watched a movie on here and then i used it for about an hour
today if you look at the top here it says last charged at 10 30 pm last night to 76 percent so
it's better than it was before but it's very hit or miss i'm still not getting the 10 hours
of screen on time i'm getting about five to six so it's definitely an issue for me on this device
smoothness and everything else is fine sometimes rotating it to landscape or portrait can be hit
or miss like i said everything else seems to be solid with it it's just that battery life i would
like to have back to what it was when it was new now as far as when to expect ios 15.3 beta 2 based
off what we've seen year over year i would expect maybe the week of the 9th so possibly the 10th or
11th or it could be the following week i think we have at least a few weeks out with a final release
at the end of january like they did last year meaning maybe they'll only have two betas and
then a release candidate similar to what they did last time and then a final release in january and
then we'll move on to 15.4 so that seems likely if they continue to do what they did last year if
not of course they could change this up maybe do a few different betas and extend it into february or
longer but at this point that's what i'm expecting now as far as if you should install ios 15.3
beta 1 i would say based off of when we expect beta 2 probably hold off at this point if you
haven't already if you're a developer you have an additional phone laying around or you want to try
on your main phone you can just make sure you have a backup and you can switch back with a computer
if you need to do that otherwise i would probably hold off and just stay on 15.2 for a little while
until we see at least beta 2 at this point and see what we'll actually get with it as far as
features whether that be emojis or more so let's go into the youtube community poll and take a look
at some of the comments let me refresh here and at the time of this video like i said there's 15
000 votes 13 of you are on 15.3 beta 1 75 percent of you are on 15.2 are older three percent are on
14.8.1 or older and two percent are still on 13.7 or older seven percent of you are using android
and again thanks to everyone that voted all of this data is very helpful so let's go ahead and
sort the comments and take a look at a few of them kelvin h says everything is running fine
no browsing issues airpods connectivity issues are non-existent and battery life is very good
by the way i'm running ios 15.2 on my 12 pro max graham evans says the biggest improvement for me
has been the battery life it's amazing now i still get that weird text when connecting my
ear pods though iphone 13. michael taylor says i'm using ios 15.3 beta 1 on an iphone 13.
everything seems to be working well i am having one major issue with shortcuts though i have an
automation set to disable wi-fi whenever i leave the house prior to the update the automation would
run in the background and i would not have to do anything now on 15.3 beta 1 the automation
no longer runs automatically now when i leave the house my phone prompts me to run the automation
i must click the run button to make something happen i check the settings for the automation
and the ask before running option is turned off i'm not quite sure what is going on this is an
annoying issue and i hope they fix it soon i think i saw something like that in the known issues of
15.2 with running automations with garage doors and things so i would definitely report that in
feedback as there could be some odd issues with that anton says ios 15.3 beta 1 has been awesome
for me avi elbez says iphone 12 pro max running 15.3 beta 1 no issues galbert moreno says i'm on
ios 15.3 beta 1. my device is a 6s plus it's very good it's a very good update for me no bug so far
and it's very smooth abhishek lamba says using ios 15.1 beta 3 i think you mean 15.3 beta 1
on my iphone 11 pro max sometimes some lags can be noticed but overall battery
is great getting around 10 hours ram management is also good love your videos thank you just dave
said a noticeable improvement in pro motion as already mentioned on my 13 pro max one bug that
has been repeated is a respring when clearing all notifications other than that it's been stable i
must not have seen the respring part earlier when i was reading through these i haven't seen anybody
else mention that but i haven't experienced that as well when clearing notifications but each phone
is a little bit different walter said i updated to 15.3 on my iphone 10r and battery was horrible
seemed a little buggy also downgraded back to 15.2 more stable and better battery life typically
i warn against upgrading if you're looking for better battery life but it can take two to three
days sometimes for battery life to stabilize so you do need to give it a little bit zaina
fernandez says 15.3 on my iphone 10 is running okay battery life seems a bit better than before
mark jones says i'm on 15.3 beta 1. i've noticed that sometimes when watching a video horizontally
that when going back to normal vertical way the home screen gets confused the way it is and you
have to close all your apps the streaming bug seems to have gone on my 13 pro max it doesn't
get hot anymore and sometimes when opening apple maps it's a little slower downloading where i am
and that's with a good 5g signal here in the uk we have what's known as average speed cameras
that measure your speed over a certain millage or mileage there are a few thousand of these in the
uk they are not on apple maps all are included in waze which i don't use terry said running 15.3 on
the 12 pro max and so far it's been excellent and battery life has improved phantasm says i'm using
15.3 beta 1 on my iphone se 2020 it is really stable and having no bugs at all battery life is
really good anonymous says 15.3 beta 1 running well on my 12 pro max no problems scythe says
i'm having a lot of audio issues mainly with my xm3s appearing to be really quiet on full blast
this doesn't happen with windows or mac os this has been happening for the last five to six betas
and so that's everything with ios 15.3 beta 1. hopefully we'll see beta 2 sooner than
we expect but again it'll probably be a few weeks out at this point
but i'm waiting to see what they actually include in it as usually beta 1 is very little as far as
features go let me know what you want to see most in the future updates with 15.3 and i
did a video the other day on ios 16. i'd love to hear what you want to see in that as well
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