hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and today apple released ios 15.5 beta 1. this is currently
available to developers and hopefully soon to public beta testers this came in at 5.53
gigabytes that's on my iphone 13 pro max and it was similarly sized on all the devices you'll
see here anytime you go from a public version to a beta it's going to reinstall the whole
os and the same thing happens when you go from a beta to a public version so there are about five
gigabytes on all the devices the iphone 8 plus ipad pro 12.9 from 2021 as well as the iphone 11.
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 you can see the build number is 19f5047e
and this is our first beta in quite some time and there are some changes in it so we'll go over that
in just a moment however apple also announced wwdc today that's where they show off the next
version of ios and mac os and ipad os and so on and so as you can see here it's wwdc22 it'll be a
remote event for most people if you're a developer or a student you can apply to watch it in person
however it will be a pre-recorded online event for most people and you'll see it's from june
6 to june 10th you can watch it online typically on apple.com or usually on youtube the odd thing
is they haven't given a specific time for it yet usually it's at 10 a.m pacific time or 1
pm eastern time so it usually will be at that time we don't have those specific times typically it
would say but it hasn't yet you can also see this in the apple developer app now as far as other
updates apple did release a ton of other updates along with this such as ipad os 15.5 beta 1 watch
west 8.6 beta 1 tv os 15.5 beta 1 homepod os 15.5 beta 1 and mac os 12.4 beta 1. all of those are
available to developers now now the first new thing is a modem update we have a modem update
with the 13 pro max we went from version 1.59.03 to 1.60.00 on the 13 pro max this typically will
help with connectivity and hopefully switching between lte and 5g and so on but we won't know
until we use it for a few days now the first new feature is when you go into messages so
we'll go into messages here within messages you'll see at the bottom it says apple cash
this is a rebranding from before so if we take a look at 15.4.1 on the left it says apple pay
here it says apple cash so they've rebranded apple pay to apple cash and they've also made a similar
change within the wallet app so if we go into the apple wallet app now within the wallet app
you can see here it says apple cash at the top and we now have a request and send money button so we
can request or send directly from the wallet app just making it a little bit easier to do that also
apple is apparently planning to rebrand something else within the wallet such as itunes pass
apparently that's going to be called apple pass in the future where you'll be able to use a qr
code with it and pay it in apple store so that's something we've seen code for we haven't actually
seen physically yet another thing we found code for and thanks to my friend steve moser is within
the music app or within the iphone itself there's references to apple's new classical music service
called apple classical so there's things where you could open up classical music i couldn't find the
actual reference to open it within a classical music app but there is reference to that so we
should see that fairly soon we've heard about this for a while since apple bought a classical music
streaming service we should see that very soon on the iphone now there's another change within
the watch app so if we go into watch there's something new that we haven't really heard of
before so along with watch os 8.6 if we go under accessibility within accessibility go
under voiceover and within voiceover we go down to where we have hand gestures under hand gestures if
we tap on one of the gestures you can see here we have a new option for magic tap we're not
really sure what this is specifically so there is a new gesture called magic tap that they've added
you can set it for any one of these gestures and use magic tap so i'll be testing that out
a little bit further in the future with watch os 8.6 once it's updated to that but it's something
new that's there also within the code is sports kits updates what that means is if you're going
to watch the new friday night baseball they'll be able to update the score in real time and have
that pop up on your screen and things like that so there's additions for that already within the
code ready to go as soon as baseball is live so we should see that very soon if we go into books if
you use the books app on your iphone within books within the bookstore if we go to browse sections
there will be a new section for a store for manga so this is something i wasn't able to find here
but there will be a manga store with a new icon as well that was found in the code as you can
see here and it looks like there's going to be a manga store now if you're seeing this
i'd love to hear from you in the comments below but i wasn't able to see it with 15.5
but it does look like we're going to have that manga store within the book section so
that's something they've updated as well now as far as any additional changes or updates
there isn't anything specific that i could find other than what i mentioned right there
typically with the first beta we'll have small changes and then with beta 2 we get more and more
such as that face id unlock with a mask feature we had before you usually don't see those within the
first beta we'll get the larger changes later on and then of course ios 16 with wwdc should
have all of the major changes as far as resolved issues and known issues apple's only mentioned one
thing as far as known issues there are no resolved issues mentioned in their notes so there's nothing
about the music bug taking up additional battery drain but it may have been fixed with 15.4.1
however the one thing they did mention is if you're using an ipad and you use universal control
universal control with 15.5 is not compatible with the current version of mac os you will need mac os
12.4 betas and ipad os 15.5 in order for that feature to work so if you're wondering if you
should install ios 15.5 beta 1 or ipad os 15.5 beta 1 don't install it if you don't plan to
upgrade everything now as far as bugs and everything else and you're wondering if you
should install it if you want to try out any of the new features and look for different
changes you definitely could do that but being in early beta if you're getting used to maybe
having great battery life with 15.4.1 i might hold off for a bit until apple updates it again
and we see what it's like after a few days with the follow-up video i typically do on the weekend
so as far as battery life with 15.4.1 it's been pretty good but it will take a few days to know
what it's like and you can see my capacity is at 100 percent and if we go over the last 10
days battery has actually been pretty good on the current version but it will take a few days for
everything to stabilize and then see what a full day will get us through so i would expect decent
battery life but again we just don't know until we've used it for a while performance wise it
does seem to perform quite well i've had no issues here and i did run benchmarks as well but on the
iphone 11 or the iphone 8 plus that i have here i did notice that it was quite smooth on the 8 plus
it was very fast when i was scrolling after initially installing it looking for new features
and changes and it seems to be performing as you would expect of course you can see my widgets are
incorrect right now so those will probably update in a little while but let's go ahead and take a
look at the benchmarks as far as the benchmarks go we'll take a look at geekbench 5 and you'll see it
scored 1733 for single core 4589 for multi-core on my 13 pro max if we take a look at the history it
is slightly lower than we had before so it didn't increase but typically it will take a few hours or
a few days for everything to sort of settle in the background and for this to kind of stabilize so
these can actually increase since i ran them right after installing the update now let's
take a look at all of the devices here and you can see from the left we have the ipad pro from 2021
followed by the iphone 8 plus then the iphone 11 and then the 13 pro max and again this is just to
give you an idea if your numbers are anywhere near this or similar they basically will be similar if
you're using this update and everything's settled down they could even be much better
but as long as they're within a hundred or so everything is usually fine now as far as ios
15.5 beta 2 typically since we're on beta 1 it's usually a two-week wait so at this point we can
expect it within a couple weeks of course apple has been odd lately with pushing out different
updates and betas so this is always subject to change but we could see it as soon as next week
but typically every couple of weeks with a final release usually around wwdc in june
so that's when we'll see ios 16 and all of the new versions for the first time and then we'll
have ios 15 betas all the way up until september where they typically release ios 16 or the next
version along with the next version of phones such as iphone 14 so that's normally what apple does
so we can expect a new beta within a couple weeks so again i'll let you know what this is like to
use it usually around saturday or sunday after i've used it for a few days and i'll have a poll
about this to see what it's been like for you as well now if you've already installed this update
and you found any additional features i'd love to hear from you in the comments below and of course
if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper i'll link it in the description like i normally do
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