hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and ios 16 public beta and beta 3 re-release as well as ios
15.6 release candidate 2 have been out for a few days almost a full business week at this point
and there's even more features that i want to talk about we'll also talk about the overall
reliability stability battery life and more a little bit later when it comes to these
particular betas and we'll also talk about when to expect their public release but first let's
talk about new features now i mentioned the other day that youtube picture and picture is rolling
out to everyone i won't go into everything about it but it's enabled in the us for free
it's rolling out slowly when you're playing a video you can just swipe up and now you've got
picture in picture where you can resize it and more unfortunately it's available to premium
users rolling out around the world and isn't available everywhere just yet hopefully they make
this free everywhere as it's already available free to android users and has been for a while
now on the lock screen there's a couple things i wanted to mention that i haven't
before so if we go to the lock screen and then we press and hold and then we customize
when you tap on an area it actually flashes when you go to highlight it what you're actually
selecting so maybe we want to change this widget area here you'll see the overall ring is sort of
flashing a little bit that was there in beta 2 as well it seems but it's something i didn't mention
also on the lock screen i mentioned with the beta 3 re-release in public beta we now have the music
widget and its content will show up on the home screen or the lock screen if you tap on the image
and you can see it even works within youtube so if you tap on the image tap away from it it goes away
and if you want to go to that app tap on the title and it will bring you back to the app
the same is true when we go into maybe music here we'll just hit play briefly and then we'll go home
go to our lock screen or notifications and you'll see it there and the nice thing is the background
changes with whatever's on the display so if we change albums you'll see that it's actually
changing the background to match it's a really nice touch especially when it's on the lock screen
maybe you're just listening to music you can see that here if you want it to go away just tap on
it and then scroll up for your notifications so it's really nice that that's been added and it's
finally here i showed it a little bit before but this is something apple's been promising since the
initial release of ios 16. so it's great to see it here also ios 16 is adding avif support that's a
newer codec for different photos and things and it supports transparency wide color gamut hdr
and animated images so it could actually replace gifs or gifs also it's already supported by things
like mozilla firefox and google chrome so it's great that they're adding it here to safari as
a standard so those images will now work as far as avif photo files now within the stocks app there's
a new feature and i haven't seen this before this was sent in by thomas so thanks for sending this
and if there's an earnings report coming up you'll actually have the option to add it to a calendar
so you can see here we put the little pointer to show us where it is but you can add the calendar
and it seems to work now so if there's an earnings report coming up it will show in the stocks app
it's a nice little thing they've added with accessibility we have some new features they
were also in beta 2 but i haven't mentioned these before and if we go into settings go
to accessibility scroll down you'll see here we have accessibility shortcuts that's been there
for a while but we have some new options such as apple watch mirroring control nearby devices and
live captions all new features so if we go to the home screen triple click our button on the side
our silent sleep wake button you'll see we get some options and we can pick for what from what
we want so we can use live captions here an apple watch mirroring but also control nearby devices
and it picks up that we have ios 16 devices nearby iphone 11 and ipad pro so we'll pick
iphone 11 it takes a moment and now we can control it so you'll see here it says connected
and if i bring this in we can see our options here with the menu so we have home we have app switcher
notification center control center and siri and then our media playback options as well as volume
up and down so if we go back here and maybe go here we'll go into the control center if we tap on
this button we'll go into multitasking if we tap on home we'll go home and then we also have siri
so these are some nice options that i haven't seen before and it's built in so we can easily go into
accessibility by triple clicking our silent sleep wake button that's something really great that
they've added and makes it much more convenient if you regularly use those features within the home
app if we go to our button in the upper right for menus and then we go to home settings if we
scroll down you'll see software update if we go to software update you have homepod beta updates
this wasn't showing up for me before and it's been there for a little while but you'll see the
homepod beta updates and you can just enable those with a switch so this was in previous betas but
it wasn't showing up for me now it is so we could just turn this on to any homepod we want to change
when you go into your settings and go to icloud and then go to sign up for icloud plus which i
already have some people are actually seeing a new splash screen and it looks like this where it says
more storage and powerful new features and then it gives you the storage plans such as 200 gigabytes
or 2 terabytes so i'm actually not seeing this but if you are let me know in the comments below
now i wanted to share some changes with the apple watch as well so if you've got your apple watch
on a charger or you're about to charge it and it's really low it actually has a new screen
that it shows so if we go back into photos i have a screenshot within photos and thanks to
clayton for sending this along the overall screen will be completely red instead of just the little
battery status indicator itself so i haven't seen this myself as i haven't run the battery down
but if you do and it goes really low it will actually show that it's completely red now so
that's something a little bit different and then also if you're in sleep mode so maybe we go into
sleep here let's go down and let's just change this and we'll go into sleep and when we're in
sleep mode if this is off our wrist and so we'll just set it down like this turn it on
and you'll see we're in sleep mode if you want to get out of this i'll put in my password i want to
get out of this i can hold the crown down and you'll get a new animation it says keep holding
and then it will pop out of sleep mode so that's something a little bit new now something else i
wanted to mention but wanted to reiterate that i think apple will bring back but isn't here with
beta 3 is the option for if we go into settings go down to siri and search we no longer have the siri
call hang up option so this is gone hopefully they bring it back with future updates sometimes they
do this with betas where they remove a feature because there's a problem they fix it and put it
back in so we'll look for that with beta 4. also one thing that's a little bit funny that i wanted
to share with you is in this update there's something as far as bugs go but this is a bug
unlike we normally see if we go into our settings and then go down to our name here or tap on our
name at the top under icloud and then password and keychain tap on that and you'll see here
it actually has a spelling mistake where it says secularly instead of securely store your passwords
so this is still a beta there's definitely some bugs but there's a spelling error there as well
and i just thought i'd share that as it's a little bit odd we don't see that too often now as far as
bugs in ios 16 public beta and beta 3 re-release well voice dictation is buggy sometimes especially
if you're using carplay it can cut in and out or if you're just maybe dictating email or something
else it can just shut off or get it really wrong it has improved quite a bit with beta 3 but it
still has some issues i'm still having issues with imessage group conversations where sometimes the
text entry box is completely gone again i continue to have that on beta 3. sometimes it comes back
sometimes it goes away and that's true not only on my iphone but also the ipad as well
it goes back and forth it's really odd and if i need to reply to someone i typically have to go to
my mac and then i can reply to a message thread i only see that on group conversations though
setting wallpapers is much better in this one but music is still randomly stopping for some
so if you're playing some songs sometimes they just stop randomly i'm hearing that from quite a
few people we had that in earlier ios 15 betas and public versions and now it's back with this beta
so they definitely need to fix that also apps are still crashing for some instagram as an example
also tick tock is crashing for some when they're sharing a video or just crashing in general and
some banking apps are still not working and so there's definitely some issues also some
accessibility apps are having some issues with things such as voiceover and live captions
now to be fair live captions is still in beta but i've seen it not work at all so if you're
using live captions just keep that in mind if you have accessibility needs here that are not
working properly that could be an issue so definitely don't use the beta just yet now
as far as the phone getting too warm or very hot i really haven't experienced that too much
it's much better than beta 2. some people are saying they are experiencing that still but most
report it's better than beta 2 and especially beta 1. so definitely an improvement there
now as far as ios 15.6 the good thing is that's coming very soon and seems to be incredibly stable
for ios 15. of course this late in the game we should have a very stable version so rc2 should be
the final public version we really haven't seen an rc3 on iphone i think we had one on the mac some
time ago but we haven't had it on iphone it seems to be quite stable very few issues if any and much
better battery life so it seems to be much much better i shared the battery life a little while
ago and people seem to easily get through the day on this so battery life overall is quite good for
most people that are using 15.6 no complaints there and most people say it's quite good
there are exceptions to that but the majority so far seems to think it's pretty good that way
we'll talk about when to expect that in a moment but as far as battery life on ios 16 beta 3
it's definitely better than previous versions with beta 2 or beta 1 but again it's a beta so
it's going to have some issues but overall seems to be okay if we go into battery life and battery
health you'll see i'm at 100 percent so this is probably the longest i've had a phone stay at 100
and this has been my main phone since it released so i've used this the most of any of my other
phones i know some people say well you test phones of course you have a hundred percent but really i
use those other phones for a few days to a week at most and so the majority of the weeks throughout
the year i'm using this phone and you can see the cycle count here using coconut battery on the mac
so it's quite good there if we take a look at the last five days yesterday i had two hours and seven
minutes of screen on time and again this is a bug it cleared out all of my battery usage for some
reason i'm not sure why it did that i did have to hard reboot this so maybe that's why but it only
kept the last few days but so far my battery is not great two hours and seven minutes of screen
on time one hour and 32 minutes of screen off time i'm at 46 on my phone also you'll see the
day before three hours and 52 minutes of screen on time at 2 hours and 26 minutes of screen off
time or screen off time with about 70 usage now someone else did send me their battery life so we
could take a look at that and if we take a look at battery life that abhishek sent in from his 11 pro
max you can see it's still not great it's a beta four hours and 26 minutes of screen on time one
hour and four minutes of screen off time and about 60 of his usage overall as far as the battery life
and again the day before he only was getting about four hours and 35 minutes of screen on time
with over 75 usage so still not great again keep in mind it's a beta now battery life on the ipad
has been what it's been before at this point there could be an issue with it but we'll go
to settings and battery and you'll see yesterday i had five hours and 43 minutes of screen on time
that's pretty typical and i had 75 to 80 percent usage usually i can get about five to six hours
of screen on time with this so it's not bad but again it's not great it should be getting closer
to 10 of course this is a little bit older now it's been through quite a few cycles as you can
see here but as far as overall performance it's been super smooth no real issues for me
on the ipad other than sometimes issues within youtube with resizing windows and inputting text
that seems to be an issue here other than that i haven't really had any major crashes now as far
as when to expect ios 15.6 well at this point i would expect it as soon as monday or tuesday that
makes a lot of sense we had rc2 typically it will be monday or tuesday it will release to the public
and then you'll just be able to install it of course if you already have ios 15.6 rc2 you just
had it a little bit early that's typically what apple does now as far as ios 16 public beta 2 and
ios 16 beta 4 which will be the same thing those updates could be a little ways away last year on
june 30th we saw the release of ios 15 public beta and beta 2 re-release then on july 14th we had the
next beta so the public beta 2 and beta 3 for ios 15. so we could be a couple weeks out still
we may not see it for maybe another week or so however we could see another release the
following week it just depends what apple wants to do but typically they wait a couple weeks so
it could be a little bit before we get that but definitely look for ios 15.6 this coming week
now as far as the youtube community poll let's take a look at that we'll go into youtube now at
the time of this video you can see there's 12 000 votes so thanks to everyone that voted and there's
224 comments those are the issues i refer back to when talking about the overall stability that
i mentioned earlier whether there's issues or not 39 percent of you are on the public beta or beta
3 re-release only four percent of you are using ios 15.6 which doesn't really surprise me there
almost 50 percent 49 of you are on ios 15.5 or older one percent are still using ios 14.8 or
older and six percent are using android whether that be android 12 the beta or a different version
now let's take a look at a few comments now i picked out a few different comments randomly
let's take a look at those and the first one's from jessef he said hi aaron new viewer here i've
been running ios 16 developer beta since the start at first with an iphone 10r which i then traded
for an iphone 13. battery life definitely seems to have improved since i picked it up on my 13.
however the beta hasn't been without its issues as a user of voice over screen reader i've noticed
that most english or most u.s english voices no longer read emojis at all i also experienced the
occasional apple music crash specifically while playing music in the background i'm curious if
it's been a background it's been background for anyone else or it's mostly been while the
app was running on the screen i think it's mostly anytime i don't think it really matters from what
i'm hearing the next one is from tim chasonis hopefully i'm saying that properly i'm using an
iphone 8 that has a battery capacity of 100 and i'm running ios 16 beta 3. the battery life on
it is excellent i'll go to bed with it unplugged at 100 wake up 7 hours later and it's still 100
can't wait until beta 4. chris ramirez says i've been running ios 16 public beta the whole week on
my iphone 13 pro max and is working fine just the battery life is a little bit bad not like ios 15.6
which was great on battery jason hunton said voice dictation on email seems to get stuck and i can't
get back to the keyboard like i mentioned there's some little odd bugs here and there with dictation
kareem saloon says iphone 13 pro max on 16 developer beta 3 been solid for a beta as
long as you understand what a beta is this is pretty good a battery is definitely much worse
but the rest is good enough to run on a daily and that's what i mentioned earlier if you're
thinking of installing it just keep in mind it will be a little bit buggy and battery isn't great
sarah anderson said my bluetooth headphones don't connect with phone calls unless manually and
battery is taking a hit with this one personally so far not into 15.6 public beta on my iphone 10r
and this was one of the exceptions i saw with 15.6 it should be pretty good for most so those are
things you're going to have to look at settings for that hopefully will resolve that issue
but there's definitely some bugs still here and there for some but it seems to be most stable for
the majority so that's everything with ios 16 public beta 1 and beta 3 re-release as well as
ios 15.6 rc2 of course i'll keep you informed as soon as i know when ios 15.6 is out and if
you've found anything else i haven't mentioned i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course i'll link it in the description
like i normally do and if you haven't subscribed already please subscribe and if you enjoyed the
video please give it a like as always thanks for watching this is Aaron i'll see you next time