Hi, everyone.
Aaron here for Zollotech and today apple released iOS 15.1 to the public.
This is available to all iOS 15 supported devices.
So if you have an iPhone six S success plus iPhone S E all the way up to
the iPhone 13, Pro Max you'll have an update now.
And this particular update came in at 1.4,
four gigabytes that's on the iPhone 13 Pro Max and it will vary depending
on what device you're coming from, whether you're on the beta or not.
And if you are on the beta,
this is the exact same version as iOS 15.1 RC.
So you will not have an update. You have the update just a little bit early.
So the only thing you'll need to do is uninstall your beta profile,
reboot the phone, and you'll just be on the final version.
You just got to use it a little bit early.
Now this particular update was released to alongside watchOS 8.1,
as well as iPadOS 15.1, tvOS 15.1,
HomePod OS 15.1, and also macOS Monterey 12.
All of those are all finally available.
And so you can get them by going to settings than going to general than going to
software update. And if you're not seeing the update,
make sure you turn off automatic updates, go back, check for an update,
and you should see the update available there. Once you install it,
you'll have a bunch of new features.
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 back to our main page,
go to general than about you can see the build number is 19 B seven four.
And this particular build, like I said,
is the exact same build as the release candidate that apple pushed out a week or
so ago to developers and beta testers. Now,
if you're not on the release candidate,
you'll have a modem update in this update.
So there'll be a modem update for you to improve connectivity with your cellular
connection, and that should help with 5g or 4g,
LTE switching back and forth between that and wifi.
Now let's take a look at the new features.
The first feature is a feature that apple showed off when they announced iOS 15,
and that is share. Play, share.
Play allows you to FaceTime someone and then share music or maybe a movie or a
TV show and watch it together while it's synced. And to do that,
you go into a FaceTime call. So let me do that. And within a FaceTime call,
you'll see I'm just FaceTiming myself here to give you the example within a FaceTime call.
If you want to share content with someone, once you're in the call,
go back to your home screen, then maybe go into music. And at the top,
it will say, choose content to use, share, play.
You can do the same with TV shows.
So if I go over to TV and find the TV app,
we'll find it here. There we go. Once you go into the TV app, again,
it will say, choose content to use, share, play, choose that content.
And then it will sync between devices. And when you are share playing,
one of the things you can do is still talk back and forth and it will
automatically lower the volume. So you can hear who you're speaking with.
You also have the option to share your screen.
So maybe you want to show someone how to do something. You have this icon here,
tap on it,
and you can now share your screen with someone and allow them to see everything
you're doing on your screen.
I've used this with my brother a few times and it works really, really well.
So that's something they've added with 15.1. And then of course,
when you're in screen-sharing,
you could show them different photos or anything else. So you have that.
And it also gives people the ability to control, share,
play while you're together in that movie.
So maybe someone needs to pause it or fast forward or jump to a different place.
Everyone has the option to do that. So you have the option to pause,
play rewind or fast forward.
And that works across not only TV or music, but also fitness plus,
and other supported apps with the initial introduction of the iPhone 13 pro and
iPhone 13 pro max apple said that they were going to bring ProRes video to the
iPhone. And with iOS 15.1 it's. Now here,
you can enable that by going to settings under settings,
scroll down until you find a camera under camera,
go to formats and under formats. You'll now see Apple ProRes,
just like we had apple pro raw for photos. Last year,
we now have Apple Pro Res for video this year.
This is only for the iPhone 13 pro and 13 pro max.
It will not be available on the other phones as well. So that's on this phone.
And then also since the pro and pro max have macro capability,
there's a new setting for that. So again, in your camera settings,
just scroll down and you now have the option for auto macro,
which will automatically switch to the ultra wide camera to capture macro photos
and video. If you turn this off,
you can go in and go to your ultra wide camera and sort of zoom in like you
normally would with a macro photo. But if you have auto turned on,
it will switch for you.
So if you're in the camera and you want to get up close to something,
you can see that it will switch as I get closer.
So I back up and then I get close again,
you'll see the camera switch so we can get really close and capture macro
photography. Now, again, like I said, with this version,
we also get progress. If you have the option turned on and you go to video,
you'll see the option here,
just like we had RA or raw photography before.
So you can turn that on or off. It uses a huge amount of storage.
So I wouldn't recommend using it regularly, but the video out of it looks great.
I had a separate video where I recorded the entire thing with ProRes.
It just takes a long time to get that footage off the phone because we only have
lightening or airdrops.
So it took about 45 minutes to get about 15 minutes of footage off the phone.
It does take awhile to do that, but it looks phenomenal. Now,
the next thing is live text.
That's something we've had with the iPhone since the initial launch of iOS 15.
However, with iOS 15.1, if you have an iPad, they've brought it to the iPad.
So if we go to the iPad, maybe we'll go to apple.com on an iPhone.
Let's move these phones over so I can show you.
And then you go into your camera.
While we could go into photos before and capture live texts.
Now we can use it directly from the camera. It will recognize texts.
You can see it there.
And you have this little button here in the top and we tap on the button.
It captured the wording,
and then we can copy and paste or look it up or more.
So we now have that option built right in to iPad with the camera.
For some reason, this wasn't here with the initial launch of iOS 15.
Also you can insert the same thing using the keyboard. So if we go to safari,
we'll go over to safari. Now within safari, if we go to the address bar,
maybe press and hold, we'll try again. We have that button there. We tap on it.
Now we can capture text directly from whatever we're looking at,
trying to identify different things. You'll see. As I move the camera around,
it identifies the time.
And then also the wording and tries to insert it at the address bar.
So that's something you can do with iPad now that you couldn't do before.
If you have AirPods pro AirPods three or AirPods max,
or any headphone that has spatial audio with head tracking,
there's an easy setting now that they've added to control center.
So I'll go ahead and place one of the AirPods pro in my ear.
And we'll go ahead and go to music here and I'll play a song.
Just make sure it's connected here. So we'll connect our AirPods.
Give it just a moment here to connect. There we go.
It gets confused with all these devices sometimes,
and maybe you're listening to music.
So if I turn on this song and press or long press 3d,
press on your headphones here in the control center,
you now have an option for spatialized stereo, which we've had before.
But if you tap on this, we can go to fixed position or off.
So it can use head tracked, fixed, fixed position.
If you don't really like the head tracking or turn it off altogether.
So that's something they've added right in the control center,
instead of having to go really deep into the settings to disable that or enable
it. So they've added that with 15.1.
If you have an app that has your vaccination status within it,
and you've added that to the health app, you can now add that to apple wallet.
So you have quick access to that. And it looks like this,
my state doesn't currently support it, but you'll see,
it looks like this where you have add to wallet and health.
Then you'll have a QR code to sort of scan that status if you need to.
And it gives you the information about it and the medical information,
it gives you quick access to apple wallet with that information.
So if you have that support where you live,
you'll be able to use that within shortcuts.
They've added a pre-built action for overlay text.
So if we go into the shortcut, you can see, we now have the option to overlay,
text on an image.
So you can select a GIF or GIF or overlay text on any image you'd
like.
And then also they've said that there's a new collection of games that lets you
pass the time with Siri. So all built into shortcuts specifically.
So we have that available in 15.1. Now within the translate app,
they've added a language. So maybe you want to translate something.
You're talking back and forth to someone you'll see the languages here at the
top now include Chinese Mandarin, China mainland.
So that wasn't there before. With 15.1, we have Mandarin Chinese.
Now also, if you use the home app, they've added some automations for you.
So within home, if you go to automation,
you can a new automation and change things based on certain accessories.
So maybe you have an accessory that checks for humidity or air quality.
You can enable different actions based off those things.
So you'll see when a sensor detects something,
maybe a light sensor or a motion sensor, we'll put,
we'll pick a light sensor hit next.
And then when we change the level that it actually rises above or below,
you can select the Lux value here. So if it drops below, say 20 lucks,
we can tell it to turn on a light. So it'll hit next and say,
maybe select a different color. This is for a specific type of light.
But if you have any of the supported devices that can sense the light in the
room, you can adjust it with this or humidity and more so they've added some new
automations in this update. Now, as far as new features and changes,
that's everything that apple included in iOS 15.1. However,
there are bug fixes as well with things they've resolved.
And the first thing is photos could possibly report incorrect storage in
previous versions. So when you're importing photos and videos,
it would tell you that the storage is full. That's been resolved in this update.
However, the storage bug that many are familiar with where it will tell you,
you have more storage available than your phone is actually capable of.
Or if you go into your settings and then general, and then iPhone storage,
sometimes there is huge amounts of storage being used.
Apple is not said they fixed this,
but people that have been running the release candidate have said that most of
them see this issue resolved where system data and iOS data are not taking up
huge amounts of storage.
There are still a few people experiencing that issue though. Now,
as far as other bug fixes,
apple has resolved an issue with the weather app where it may not show the
current temperature for your location and instead will display the wrong colors
as well. So you'll see where I'm located here.
It's working properly giving me the correct temperature,
although it's not updated on the other widgets yet.
For some reason it will at least tell me the correct temperature where I live as
well as display the correct backgrounds depending on the weather. So again,
if I go over to a different country where it's night right now,
you'll see that it's displaying the correct background for where they're at.
Some people were having issues with this. And as long as you have an eight,
12 bionic or newer, you'll see animated backgrounds as well.
Now also audio when you're playing music,
and maybe you go ahead and lock your phone.
Many people experienced an issue where it would just stop playing.
Apple has resolved that issue in this update. Also,
if you're using voiceover and have multiple passes in your apple wallet,
apple has fixed that issue. So if you're using your apple wallet with voiceover,
it should no longer crash or lock up. So it should work like it was intended.
Originally wifi gets fixed as well.
Some people were having issues where you just couldn't find your wifi network.
Apple has resolved that in 15.1.
So that should be working similar to what apple did with the iPhone 11 series
phones with iPhone 12. This year,
apple has updated the battery algorithm to better calculate the capacity of the
overall battery. So if you have an iPhone,
12 mini 12 pro or a 12 pro max like this phone,
and you go into settings and go to battery than battery health,
you'll see maximum capacity. This is a physical capability of your battery.
All batteries degrade over time. And apple says 80% after two years is normal.
So you will see this number go down.
It's completely normal just from using your phone. However,
they're saying that the estimate of what this is saying is more accurate with
iOS 15.1. So they did this last year with the iPhone 11,
and they're doing it this year with iPhone 12 series phones,
just like the majority of iOS updates.
Apple has included security updates and iOS 15.1.
If you go to safari and go to their security website,
I'll link that in the description. You can see the security updates there.
If you scroll down,
you'll see currently it says details available soon for iOS 15.1 and
iPad iOS 15.1 and all of the other versions they released today.
However, this takes quite some time,
usually a few hours since they re they post the actual update,
then it will take a few hours to show up and then it will detail the security
updates. Sometimes they go into a lot of detail.
Other times they don't tell you much,
but there are security updates in this version. And like I said,
I'll link it in the description. If you want to check it out for yourself,
as far as any additional fixes or resolved issues,
apple has not mentioned anything else other than what I already mentioned.
So there's no mention about green tint. If you're on an iPhone 12 series phone,
I keep getting questions about that.
And at this point I would recommend just bringing that to apple,
to have them check it out.
Since it seems to be more of a hardware related issue as they haven't
acknowledged it. Also, if you're having issues with CarPlay,
they haven't mentioned anything about that.
And Bluetooth does seem to be much better in these versions for me.
So I've had no issues with Bluetooth whatsoever. It seems to connect quickly.
And you saw earlier when I connected the AirPods Pro,
it seemed to be fairly reasonable. However,
it does get a little bit confused when you have multiple devices sometimes,
but switching between iPhone and a Mac or an iPad seems to be pretty seamless as
well. It's much faster than it used to be.
As far as overall battery life battery life has been pretty decent for me as
I've been using the betas for weeks now. And we'll give this just a moment.
This is a 13 pro max with a hundred percent battery health.
And over the last few days, we'll take a look at yesterday. Yesterday,
I used about 30 to 40% of my battery had three hours and 23 minutes of screen on
time, five hours of screen off time, depending on the day, it varies greatly.
So if we go back a few days, we'll go to this day, which was really good,
three hours and eight minutes of screen on time,
four hours and 34 minutes of screen off time.
And I only used a quarter of the battery.
I'm easily getting 12 to 15 hours of screen on time on the 13 pro max,
which has phenomenal battery life. Anyway,
generally 15.1 seems to be very stable. That way,
as far as overall performance performance seems to be pretty good as well on
older devices.
I wouldn't hesitate to update since the performance seems to be okay.
Of course I wouldn't expect it to be incredibly fast as it's going to be an
older device, but it seems to be what you would expect with previous versions.
I see no slowdowns or anything like that, depending on what we're going through.
You'll see scrolling as nice and smooth.
And it's generally what you would expect with a success plus like this. Now,
as far as whether or not you should update to iOS 15.1, I would say,
if you were hesitating to update to iOS 15, this is the time to do that.
Generally by 0.1 updates, they fixed most of the bugs, the majority of bugs,
it becomes much more stable,
has better battery life and tends to be a better experience.
Overall also you'll get that added benefit of security updates.
So I definitely wouldn't hesitate to try and update to this version and see if
it works a little bit better for you.
iOS 15 early versions tend to have issues generally when they get to iOS
15.1, you're going to be good to go. Now, as far as any future versions,
iOS 15.2 betas,
I would expect pretty soon and we'll get some new features and changes later on.
Generally apple will continue to roll these out until iOS 16 in June.
So expect some small changes up until then,
and we should see some betas pretty soon with newer versions. Now,
if you've found anything else I'd love to hear from you in the comments below.
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