Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and today apple released ios 15.1
beta 1. this is the first major update or beta for ios 15 and it's available to developers now
now it's not yet available to public beta testers at the time of this video hopefully it's out a
little bit later today but most likely it will be tomorrow or in a couple days now this came in at
5.43 gigabytes that's on my iphone 12 pro max and generally anytime you go from a public version say
ios 15 to the new beta of ios 15.1 it fully has to reinstall everything and will be a huge install so
it was over five gigabytes on my iphone 11 as well and also apple released ipad os 15.1 beta 1 and it
was over 5 gigabytes on my 12.9 inch ipad pro now along with that they also released watch os 8.1
beta 1 tv os 15.1 beta 1 and also mac os monterey beta 7 and updates for homepod os 15.1 beta 1 as
well all of those are available to developers 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 down to general then about
and you can see the build number is 19b 5042h and this particular build has a bunch of features back
that apple actually removed from the initial release of ios 15. but the first thing they've
updated in ios 15.1 is a modem update so for those of you that were on ios 15 or previous betas
you'll have a modem update and hopefully that will help with any connectivity issues you were having
so far it's actually been pretty stable for me with ios 15 but hopefully this fixes any
additional issues i also had a carrier settings update with ios 15 when it launched yesterday so
that may have helped as well all of those things are available now now as far as the
first new feature well share play is back so when you're using facetime you can now share music
and tv shows and more and let me show you that and how that works and now i'm in a facetime call
with myself but if i tap on this you'll see that we now have screen sharing back so we can share
our screen just like we could before this has been brought back to facetime but also goes along with
share play so if i go home and maybe go into some music within music it says choose content to share
using share play so i'll go ahead and hit play on this song and it says share play music content
share play lets you experience content with other people on face time music may be able to determine
who uses shareplay together in the app so you can share it with someone else start only for me and
you can do the same for videos as well so this is available now and it works in ios 15.1 beta 1.
now to go along with that facetime update in settings they've updated an icon as well so if
you go into your settings and go down to facetime we'll go into that now on the left i have ios 15
and on the right i have ios 15.1 and you can see the fourth icon down the announce calls icon is
different they've updated this in ios 15.1 also back under settings if i go to phone there's a
new icon there as well again they've updated announce calls so the icon has been changed
they've used these little lines to represent an incoming call or noise now another change they've
made has to do with air pods so if you have air pods capable of head tracking and spatial audio
they've made some settings changes there as well so if you go into your settings and then you go
down to accessibility and then you go to your air pods and you can see i have them connected tap on
my air pods pro at the bottom it says spatial audio head tracking follow iphone it's either
an on or an off switch on ios 15 you can see that it's off video content or audio and video content
so they've updated this with 15.1 they've also made it easier to access in your settings in
control center so if you go into the control center and maybe you have your air pods connected
press and hold on your air pods you'll see it says spatialize stereo tap on it now we have
head tracked on or off you can select whatever you'd like so they've made it much easier to sort
of select however you'd like this so if you want it to track where your phone is based on where
your airpods are and where you're listening from you can do that or just turn it off altogether i
think it's a much easier way to do this and much faster to access just like you could before with
noise control so it's nice to see that update now there's a new settings change as well so if we go
into settings and we go down to camera and we go into camera you'll see it says show detected text
this is a replacement for show live text for some reason they've actually made this text
change so on ios 15 on the left it says live text now it says show detected text i find this a bit
confusing since they call it live text in the feature list of ios 15. so maybe they'll change
it back in the future but it is a little bit confusing and if you want to turn it off in 15.1
it's called detected text now and thanks to my friend steve moser for helping me find some of
these smaller changes now in photos they've made a small change as well for things you can search for
so if we go into photos and you'll see if i search for pet within photos it now gives me suggestions
for mammal or flower maybe it thinks i'm going to type petal or petunia flower or petticoat for
clothing if you type this in ios 15 it doesn't give these suggestions you can also find sports
balls in here as well so if you're looking for a soccer ball or a basketball it will show up so let
me show you that now you'll see it found things that have to do with sports and it also found a
soccer ball football and basketball so it found that as well as some nascar pictures and also
pictures of tesla and even some fruit here i believe this is apples so it does get a little
bit confused now another thing they've updated has to do with health so if you're using the
health app and you use this regularly this could be something that would be helpful for you so
this is going to be dependent on where you live and what services you have available and you can
see here's just some of my health summary but you can add your immunization record to the health app
which in turn generates an immunity card for the wallet app if you want to use that
states and health organizations that use the smart health cards can use this currently so
if you want to add your immunization record here with a little qr code you can do that
i currently don't have access to that in my state but it is available in states like california now
something apple talked about before is the support for matter and matter is sort of a
home devices protocol that they've added to ios now they removed this with ios 15 they've added
it back into ios 15.1 and we know this because of the notes where they say there's actually
some bugs with matter support right now with notifications so we know that they've added this
back in and i'll talk about resolved and known issues later but we know that they've added it
based on the notes at least now also if you have iphone 13 iphone 13 mini iphone 13 pro
and iphone 13 pro max ios 15.1 adds prores raw support within the code i don't have that phone
right here but it does add support for that device within the actual code itself so you'll be able to
use prores when recording video if you have one of those devices so you'll have those options
you do have to have one of the latest iphones to have support for that though now homepod gains
support again for lossless audio as well as dolby atmos now you'll see i'm updating those
home pods right now you'll see version 15.1 it adds that back into those home pods so once those
are updated i'll have support for those or for lossless and dolby atmos within my homepod minis
so that's something they've added back which is really nice to see now on ipad os 15.1 beta 1
there are not any real significant changes other than what i've already mentioned and unfortunately
universal control is nowhere to be found if you go into settings where you could go into universal
control before under airplay and handoff what you would normally do is turn off handoff turn it back
on and it would show another control here that's missing in ios 15.1 so hopefully they're still
working on this with mac os monterey but it may not come until later betas or maybe even ios and
ipad os 15.2 so we just don't know at this point now as far as resolved issues and known issues
in this update there is one resolved issue that they've mentioned at least and that's
where apps may become unresponsive after using the ipad pointer on the ipad so that's something
they've resolved also there's three known issues and they're mostly developer related issues but
the one i mentioned before has to do with matter accessory notifications not working they tell
you if they're not working reboot your device and they should work again now as far as the storage
bug they haven't mentioned anything about that but if we go into my storage let's take a look at that
since i know it is still affecting ios 15 since i've had a bunch of you message me about that
so if we go into storage we'll see if what it calculates here and what it finds
so now it's calculated storage it looks like there is still a bit of a bug here maybe it's still
calculating but it says there's zero kilobytes of 256 gigabytes used obviously we're using some
storage here and again it may still be calculating it but if i go all the way to the bottom
again it says system data and it says zero kilobytes so right now we'll just have to wait
and see if it updates but it is using storage but there still seems to be some sort of storage bug
there so i'll need to report that into feedback and you should have your feedback app back
if you're using one of the betas now also someone said that they've resolved the shortcuts selection
bug so where you're trying to select shortcuts it gives you errors in fact i've seen some odd
bugs throughout with just touch in general with ios 15 but the shortcuts selection bug should now
work properly anything you're doing just seems to be working okay as far as shortcuts go so that's
good to see that it's fixed as far as green tint at this point i'm convinced it's a hardware issue
and i did have someone message me recently that showed me they had green tint on their phone
and apple told them to bring it into the store and have them look at it so it looks like that's
going to be something that needs to be hardware service this time around unlike the iphone 11 pro
and 11 pro max now as far as when to expect beta 2 at this point ios 15.1 beta 2 is probably on a
two-week schedule based on what we've seen in the past so normally it starts off a little bit slow
and then they ramp up with more and more betas that could change of course they could just
have one beta and then release it just depends what apple decides to do but if they are on a
two-week schedule i would expect it maybe around the 5th of october sometime around that time frame
i would expect the next beta again that schedule could change however in just a few days we should
have iphone 13 iphone 13 mini iphone 13 pro iphone 13 pro max ipad the ninth generation ipad as well
as ipad mini the newest generation so all of those are releasing on friday so if you pre-ordered one
you should be able to get it that day either pick it up in store or have it delivered but
it looks like it should be arriving that day for most people so a lot of different products coming
out soon of course i'll have videos about that as soon as i can get my hands on them as well as far
as battery and overall performance that will take a few days to measure so far it does seem fairly
fast i'm still installing it on my iphone 6s plus to see how it is on older devices and it's taking
forever to install ios 15 seems to be okay but in general it's performing quite well now as far
as ios 15 battery life if i go into settings like i said this will take a few days to measure but i
just wanted to mention it my battery health is at 94 percent it's holding steady at this rate
typically it will come down to a certain point and just kind of stay there for a little while
and then the last 10 days you'll see yesterday i didn't have great battery life 4 hours and 11
minutes of screen on time 3 hours and 43 minutes of screen off time and used almost 100 percent of
my battery in fact with ios 15 since this was from the beta version to a final version or the release
candidate to a final it did a lot of processing but i did notice on the release candidate since
i'd been using that for about a week the battery life just wasn't phenomenal overall but it's been
a lot better for most people that are reporting it so again give it a few days on the betas it's
hard to say and since we've only had ios 15 for a day or so it's going to take a few more days
to know how that is overall and depending on how busy it is this weekend of course i'll be sure to
do a follow up and give you more information as long as i have it now i did want to share with
you the geekbench scores since i did run those so we'll go into geekbench 5 and we'll go to history
i did run those twice today and the first i scored 1 602 for single core 4093 for multi-core that's
actually not great i ran it twice and got lower scores the second time so maybe it's processing
heavily in the background although the overall heat of the device doesn't seem to be getting warm
at all so it's fairly cool to the touch right now and doesn't seem to be processing a whole lot so
it's okay but generally after you give it a few hours these will improve with time
the overall scores from left to right you can see the ipad pro 12.9 from 2021 in the middle
is the iphone 11 and on the right is the iphone 12 pro max so in general the scores seem to be okay
again give it a few days or so to improve or at least a few hours if you are checking on
those as far as anything else well hopefully we'll find some additional features in here
it seems to be mostly bringing all of those features back that we had originally seen with
ios 15 that they just left out but we'll have to wait and see if there's anything else in here or
they add more later on and again i'm waiting for universal control to be live as well if you'd
like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course i'll link it in the description like i normally do
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