hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and iOS 16.3 beta 2 has been out for a few days and iOS 16.2
has been out for a few weeks I want to talk about the overall experience and all of the features of
iOS 16.3 we'll also talk about the experience and your experience based off the YouTube Community
poll where at the time of this video there's about 8 300 votes and over 130 comments so
I've read all the comments to determine what the overall experience is like iOS 16.2 seems
to need an update iOS 16.3 seems to have quite a few improvements now as far as features iOS 16.3
is so far turning out to be a smaller update than anticipated it seems to have about three
key updates and the first one has to do with security keys so if we go into our settings tap
our name and then go to security you can add a security key as long as it's a Fido enabled
security key to log into iCloud just like you can on different services so this is a great update
to allow for much better security overall meaning that you physically have to be there in order to
log in under emergency SOS they have an update where they've just changed some wording with
call withhold and release we saw that with beta 2 and we also have a new option for call quietly if
you start an emergency call using the gesture warning alarms and flashes will be silent so
that's great if you want to keep that enabled you can so it doesn't set off any or startle
anybody around you if you need to use it in an emergency now something Apple keeps changing is
with private relay when it's turned on when you go to turn it off they've just removed the third
option they keep changing this so depending on what version you're on this is actually an older
version if we turn that off it used to say learn more if you have IOS 16.2 it would say cancel they
keep changing this and now there's just no other option just turn off until tomorrow or turn off
private relay cancel seem to make a lot of sense but either way you can turn it off and then just
turn it right back on if you need to when you have a home pod nearby and you go to play some music
you can easily just send send that music over and some people are seeing a new splash screen so
that's something that's updated pretty small there and then within Maps they continue to make small
changes to how you rate things and also there's parking options now that was added to everyone
this past week if you're in a significant location such as Carnegie Hall here if we go to more you'll
see it will load and then give us parking options so that's something that's available now but they
do change the ratings so that it looks a little different depending on where you are additionally
within settings there's a bunch of code changes within accessibility whether or not we see some
major changes like was rumored before maybe we could see this with the release candidate
or something else but so far we're not seeing it however we do know that digital ID is coming
to California very soon according to California's governor so when you add a card within the wallet
app go to driver's license or state ID soon you'll have an option for California now they
said they're going to do this differently than everywhere else but it should be added within
the driver license and state ID all the additional stay States or different countries have to work
directly with Apple so you may or may not ever see this option here but either way it's available it
doesn't take the place of your physical ID you can just use it instead of but keep your physical ID
on you or whatever you like but either way it should be here soon Apple still has not added
the update for Apple classical music and we're still waiting for a few features whether that
be for accessibility or other things they did recently add AI narration for books as well so
that's something they've recently updated where you have digital narration for books and they
sound really good so if I hit play here turn it up said materialized ahead of us movement in the
greenhouse drew his eye and a woman so there's good enunciation in everything else so we're
having very minor feature updates and this makes me think that that is probably because iOS 17 is
going to have far less changes as Apple gets ready for the reality Os or xros for their headset so
they're saving any major changes whether that be split view or something else it looks like iOS 16
has matured unless they have something big planned with maybe a full redesign to match reality Os or
xros for that headset we're expecting to see that headset as soon as this spring before WWDC so it
could be more of a stability update however we are still waiting for next-gen car play third-party
app stores since that'll be mandated by the European Union and hopefully split view what else
will be in iOS 17 we really don't know and it's not looking very promising for a ton of features
but that could be a good thing as far as stability or maybe a sign of redesigning it finally spend
many years going from iOS 6 then to iOS 7 and since iOS 7 we really haven't had a major redesign
so it would really help to have something that's a little more modern maybe some icon changes or some
small changes here or there now if you're really not enjoying iOS 16 and you're having issues with
iOS 16.2 we'll talk about the bugs in a little bit downgrading from IOS 16 to iOS 15 can still
be done using the RC file if you have access to that if you're a developer you downloaded that
before you can downgrade on supported devices I was able to do it on my iPhone 8 plus but just
keep in mind that most people will not be able to do that and in the future all of the features
will be with iOS 16. now we have some known issues with iPhone 14 pro and 14 pro Max we have two but
Apple has acknowledged one of them finally with an internal memo that has to do with when the
phone is locked you pick it up and turn it on many people are seeing lines go through the screen so
it looks like the display is bad but it's actually a software related issue as opposed to a hardware
issue Apple acknowledged this according to Mac Rumors in an internal memo and they said that it
would be fixed with a future software update that means it's coming soon and should address those
issues now that's why it surprised me so much that we didn't have an update this week also there's
that issue with iPhone 14 pro and 14 pro Max with the cameras where they seem to over process it now
I mentioned this a few weeks back maybe a month or so others have mentioned this Marcus Brownlee made
a video about it it seems to be something that more and more people are realizing when you take a
photo with the camera and then you actually see it afterwards it looks like it's been processed too
much sometimes darkened and just doesn't look like what you get in the camera itself so when you're
taking a photo in bright light it looks pretty good but when you're taking it in regular light
it seems to over darken it sometimes be way over sharpened and just be heavily processed so let
me know if you're still seeing that in your 14 pro and 14 pro Max and others say that it's been there
for a long time with previous phones now Apple did process them but they never really darken
them they seem to over make them over bright or make the highlights too bright now it seems to be
overly dark and again that's why I'm surprised we don't have iOS 16.2.1 I really thought we'd have
it this past week last year we had it on the 12th with iOS 15.3.1 it released on the 12th to the
public and fixed a bunch of bugs this time around I thought it would be this week so at this point
I'm going to say it's going to be next week Apple could of course change its mind or they could wait
until iOS 16.3 now iOS 16.3 could have another beta or next week we could see a release candidate
last year we had 15.3 release candidate after just two betas and then we had a final release
of iOS 15.3 in the last full week of January on the 26th typically Apple's been following this
year after year but again this year they could change things up so we could have multiple betas
and have a final release either at the end of January or into February or even March some people
are rumoring saying it's in March I think that's a stretch it'll probably be sometime in January
or early February with maybe iOS 15.4 or 16 point for rather in March so I really expect some new
updates very soon I'm surprised we haven't seen a small public update with security patches and
Bug fixes now as far as bugs there are a lot of bugs in 16.2 most of them seem to aim around
stuttering and lock-ups and just slowness overall from time to time some people are saying they have
that paste bug where it will prompt you every time you paste but that's not necessarily a bug
make sure that your app doesn't have that enabled so here's an app that actually has it on my phone
if we go down to Hive you'll see here there's an option do paste from other apps go into the app
that continually prompts you and make sure it's on allow otherwise it will ask or deny it every
single time so that's a feature that's there the app developer can add that and hopefully you have
it if you're having that issue I'm still seeing a lot of issues with apple carplay people are
telling me regularly that it's just disconnecting and not working other people are saying that Wi-Fi
keeps disconnecting that was supposedly fixed before but Wi-Fi seems to be be a problem for
a lot of people still not just on iOS but iPad OS and Mac OS as well an issue that seems to be
consistently a problem across many devices is the airpods Pro cases or airpods cases in general not
giving a battery status in the widget so if we go over here you can see it here when it pops up on
the screen but when you're actually using the airpods it doesn't give a status let's see if
we can replicate that on this phone here see what we've got so for me it's more of an issue that it
just doesn't show the case at all so some people show the case showing zero or some don't see it
at all so that seems to be an ongoing issue I'm seeing and many others are seeing as well
now additionally there's some issues with settings asking for passwords that seems to have gone away
for me with beta 2 so I'm not seeing that password prompt over and over I am seeing on on devices not
on beta 2 but it seems to be an issue for 16.2 and others and location this time is finally not using
my location 100 of the time with 16.3 beta 2. so a lot of bugs seemingly have been fixed with the
recent beta and hopefully a lot of other things as well the swipe home bug seems to be fixed also
so this is great news although that sometimes can come back after a week or so but what that
is is if we press play swipe home sometimes it will just be stuttery and it doesn't have to be
a dynamic Island phone sometimes just swiping home in General on a phone any of the phones
with iOS 16.2 can be slow and that was true with beta 1 beta 2 so far has fixed that issue
now as far as overall battery life it seems to be better than beta 1 but still not up
to where I would like it to be if we go back into our settings we'll go up to battery here
and under battery battery health and charging you'll see I'm at 99 battery health you can
see the cycle count off to the left here with coconut battery it's a free app on the Mac you
can download it it's outside the App Store so if you want to use it you can just see what your
battery health is like on your iPhone Mac or iPad and then let's take a look at the battery life
overall So Yesterday you'll see I had three hours and 15 minutes of screen active time at 3 hours
and 47 minutes of screen idle time I used about 60 percent of the battery today so far it's two hours
and 57 minutes and it's about fifty percent of the battery so before I used a little bit more however
it's much better than it was when I was at CES for example I only had two hours and 40 minutes and
use 75 percent of the battery so it's improving for me but it's still not where it should be for a
14 pro Max others are having different experiences though so thanks to Nate for sending in his
battery on the telegram Channel those are linked in the description along with Discord and he's on
iPhone 13 Pro Max with 97 or 98 battery life you'll see at 9 hours and 22 minutes of screen
on time 38 minutes of screen off time and used under 75 percent of his battery that's what the
battery life should be like and it's doing pretty well for him as far as overall performance so far
it's quite good it's quite smooth Pro motion is what you would expect swiping is what you
would expect and that's true on older devices as well now with the iPad I'm running iPad OS 16.2
overall it's been fairly stable compared to iOS My overall experience is smooth there's a few bugs
with YouTube but that seems to be the app and if we go into settings and under battery again here's
my battery health you can see here that today it was actually okay two hours and 58 minutes of
screen on time 23 minutes of screen off time and I charged it to 100 this morning so it's actually
doing quite well that way I'm getting about six hours of screen on time I wish it was more but so
far it's okay it's better than it was before but it's on 16.2 so hopefully it improves with future
updates as far as the heat of the phone it's staying nice and cool at least on 16.3 beta 2.
it's been cooler than normal just filming this video typically when I leave my screen on this
long it gets a little bit warm it's nice and cool to to the touch so it's really good that way and
let me show you with the thermal camera quickly so with the thermal camera in the hottest part we're
at about 83 degrees Fahrenheit so that's pretty good not bad at all it's staying nice and cool
as you would expect now a little while ago I did run benchmarks and they're actually not as good as
we had previously by just a little bit though so this time around they're quite good January 13th
you'll see here I had 1 867 for single core 5282 for multi-core if we go back and take a look at
what we had the day we installed it we're just a little bit higher at 1883 first 1867 so a little
bit higher on both the single and multi-core before but either way it's within 20. it's not
that big of a deal at all you really wouldn't notice a difference there and like I said it's
staying nice and cool it's working better than it has for quite some time now let's go ahead and
take a look at some of your comments iOS 16.2 take a picture with apple raw and view send from the
camera to iMessage it gets stuck preparing every time ridiculous Jeremy Dubose said iOS 16.3 beta
2 14 pro Max iMessage freezes once a day or so yesterday photos froze sometimes I have to restart
to get them to work battery and everything else have been really good and I saw your Tweet about
this and this was the first time I've seen anyone report this on their most recent beta so if you're
on the beta with beta 2 I'd love to hear if you're having the same issue most of the freezing seems
to be on 16.2 though I'm using 16.2 it's really good for performance but to be honest I've never
seen so many bugs at once my phone gets really hot now and I don't really know what to do wish
I could go back to iOS 15. so again everyone's experience is a little bit different but the
phone getting too warm isn't too much of a deal as it's going to be processing in the background
if you're playing games and more but either way it should be what it was like when you picked
it up for the first time Shivam Christian said I'm on iOS 16.2 and swipe to go home has severe
stutters very often iPhone 11 Mr Austin felt says I'm running iOS 16.2 on my iPhone 13 mini and I'm
having no issues except for the airpods pro case bug I really hope that Apple fixes the airpods pro
case bug it doesn't show the battery percentage charges or even drains the battery I've tried to
reset them and got nothing please help and like I mentioned before it's a known bug so hopefully
they fix it with a most recent update beta 2 is fixing it for some but let me know again if you
have beta 2 if it's fixed for you severe battery drain here getting three to four hours of screen
on time on a brand new 14 pro checked with Apple's Genius Bar appointment that Hardware
wise my device is fine this is so frustrating this seems to be common and I'm assuming you're on 16.2
I don't really know but either way it seems to be fairly common and something people are
quite frustrated with getting very poor battery life lately and so that's everything with iOS 16
1.2 and iOS 16.3 beta 2. hopefully we get an update very soon for the public and then of course
we should get another beta or release candidate next week with iOS 16.3 beta 3 or iOS 16.3 RC let
me know your experience in the comments below and if there's anything else you'd like me to
cover in these weekend follow-up videos that I've been doing for many years I'm always willing to
maybe improve them or change them up a little bit I'd love to hear from you in the comments
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