Hi, everyone.
Aaron here for Zollotech and this past week iOS 15 beta two was re-released
and the public beta was released to public beta testers.
So I wanted to talk about the overall experience as well as iOS 14.7.
But before we talk about that this week,
apple announced new international watch bands. And I.
Have the USA version right here. So.
This is the USA version. There's a bunch of different versions and you can see,
let me unlock this,
that they have corresponding watch faces to go along with them.
So this is for the Olympics coming up. You can see it says USA and it's red,
white, and blue. There's 22 different ones.
And if you want to try out the watch face nine to five Mac actually posted all
of the different app clips that you need to get the different watch faces.
So I'll link that in the description below. Now,
as far as iOS 14.7 well,
14.7 I have on this 12, 12 pro max, which is the space gray version,
and it's running pretty good. Most people say it's very stable,
but only about 3% of you are actually running it after about 10,000 different
people voting. So it seems to be less popular than well iOS 15,
which makes a lot of sense for those of you that are beta testing.
But most people say it's stable has decent battery life.
It doesn't really have any crashes and is pretty solid overall.
And you would expect this since it's well, pretty much the end of iOS 14,
we'll have 14.7, maybe 14.8 a little bit later on. Now,
as far as iOS 15 beta to the weather app, many people keep asking me,
where are the new weather animations when it rains?
Why aren't they bouncing off the top?
And this could be specific to the device you have,
or there's about a thousand animations according to apple.
So it's going to be hard to say whether or not you're going to see them at all.
It depends on what the weather's like. They'll bounce off the top.
So that's actually something to consider. Also,
as far as notifications, I got a new notification today,
as far as when the weather was going to stop.
I haven't seen this before and I took a screenshot and you can see this was the
screenshot. I had the previous wallpaper from a different video on here,
but it says expected to stop at your location at 9:23 AM.
I hadn't seen this before.
I've gotten rain notifications as to when it will begin,
but now I'm getting rain stopping notifications.
So it's just something I hadn't seen before now.
Another thing quite a few people have mentioned to me is that in their country
for the first time they're seeing the fitness app.
So if we go down to fitness here,
the fitness app is now showing up for most people.
So fitness should be available. Now,
whether or not fitness plus will be available as hard to say,
but at least you'll have the fitness app for now. Now,
one other thing worth mentioning with iOS 15 beta two is under photos
and the new lookup feature, a lot of people are saying,
why isn't it recognizing cats and dogs?
And some other things that they talked about such as flowers. And right now,
it seems to be mostly working on things like different landmarks, for example,
not everywhere around the world. And sometimes it's just not working at all.
So keep in mind, this could be coming in the future with different versions,
or maybe it takes a while to scan your library depending on your phone.
So just keep in mind that may or may not be working at this point. Now,
as far as the overall experience, it's actually been pretty good for me.
I've had one crash and that was actually in Twitter when I was trying to resize
a photo or an image. But so far it's been pretty good.
That was a re spring that re-spring, the whole phone and the screen went black.
You have the little dial spinning and then it booted back up. And so in general,
it's doing pretty well.
It's been pretty stable and seems to be much better than even the previous beta
of beta two. So this is the rerelease it's been stable,
except for that specific thing. Now, before this,
with the previous beta one in beta two,
I actually had different widgets that would just go blank. So the blue,
the widget itself would be blank, not show up at all. Now it's working properly.
So that's a good sign. And a lot of people are saying the exact same thing. Now,
as far as your overall experience,
quite a few people are saying the same thing that it's very stable for an early
beta. However, some are experiencing crashes and an occasional freezes.
So you could be going into something scrolling,
and then it would stutter and freeze up a little bit.
But most people are saying that it's a solid for an early beta.
Now someone else had talked to me and told me that their photos were not
uploading properly to iCloud. Now this could just be a bug.
They did say they have a good internet connection. So we're not really sure why,
but it just seems to be halted at this point.
So maybe it will continue in the future,
but there's definitely an issue for them. Also,
quite a few people have told me that their VPN is not working properly,
whether that be Nord, VPN or surf shark ones I've used before.
They're just not working. Even with the private relay feature turned off,
it just won't work properly for some reason.
So some people are still having that issue.
Also notification sounds are increasingly loud, even if they're on silent,
sometimes even with their volume turned down,
the notifications are excessively loud for some people.
And then also shortcuts are not working for some people.
So if you're using shortcuts and I'm not sure where that app is,
I actually don't use shortcuts a whole lot, but for some people,
shortcuts is just not working as you would expect. So if we go into shortcuts,
for example, there we go. Shortcuts. Sometimes wouldn't work.
So let's see if we can get the flash slate to turn on. We've got flashlight off,
let me turn it on and see if we can get it to turn it off.
So I've got a shortcut for that. The flashlight is on as you can see here,
flashlight off turned off. So for some people shortcuts, aren't functioning.
Now what they do specifically that's causing that problem definitely can have an
effect on that overall.
And one other thing is people are saying that PDFs are now opening properly,
where they would open, and then if they can get them to open,
they would just not be formatted properly.
So that definitely can be an issue for some people. So just keep that in mind.
There's definitely an issue for some, not everyone,
but these are pretty minor issues if you're experiencing them for an early beta.
So if you are, make sure you report them in the feedback app. Now,
the other issues people were mentioning is the phone was getting very hot. Now,
if you've just installed this, you can expect that for a couple of days,
since the phone will get very warm, when it's first installed,
it will process things in the background,
especially if you're playing a game and then it's processing that at the same
time. So give it a couple of days and if it's still getting warm, well,
then that's just part of the beta. And again, report that and feedback.
But in general, the heat seems to be good for most,
except for maybe the first day or two.
Also Bluetooth continues to be an issue for some. So for some reason,
when you go into Bluetooth,
it just keeps disconnecting for some using AirPods AirPods pro for example,
AirPods max,
sometimes it will disconnect and even music will pause at 15 seconds for some.
So that seems to be an ongoing issue for quite a few people and also green tent.
Now I have not experienced this myself,
but I had a few people message me that are iOS 14.7,
beta four and also iOS 15 beta two green tint still exists on their iPhone
12 series phone. I've personally not seen this myself,
but quite a few people have.
So I just thought I'd mentioned that now performance overall on the iPhone six S
plus I noticed with public beta two or the public beta re-release it seems
much smoother. I mentioned this in the video the other day, overall,
it's pretty smooth and just nice to use overall on an older device,
I was pretty surprised at how fast it was overall.
So you'll see if I scroll through here, no problems.
It just seems to work pretty good. I'm not connected to the internet,
but if we go to library, things just are pretty smooth overall.
And that's on just about every device, iPhone 11, for example,
iPhone 12 pro max, it doesn't really matter.
They've done a good job of performance overall.
Now let's talk about battery life for a moment. Now,
if we go into battery on my 12 pro max, I've been using this as my main phone,
my battery health is at 98% and I still have people messaging me saying that I
updated in the battery health went down and it's just rechecking.
When it does the update,
it will check periodically what the actual timeframe is. Apple has not said,
but it will check every so often and you can expect it to go down with just
normal where it's not the update. That's just what happens with batteries.
And until someone invents a better one, we're kind of stuck with that.
If we take a look at yesterday,
I had two hours and 26 minutes of screen on time at four hours and four minutes
of screen off time today, I used about 50% of my battery or more.
And I had one hour and 38 minutes of screen on time,
two hours in one minutes of screen off time. So in general,
my battery life has not been amazing on this probably six or eight hours of
screen on time,
but I do use a lot of Twitter and it's using the background sometimes and it's
okay, but not amazing for me. Some people say it's quite good though.
So we'll take a look at those in the comments in just a moment,
but that leads me to, should you install iOS 15 at this point?
And if you're concerned about bugs or trying to fix an issue with iOS 14.6,
I would say no, but if you know what you're getting into,
maybe you have a secondary device or you have a computer and you have no problem
downgrading. If you have a problem and you have everything backed up,
then definitely it's the time to try it out.
It will get more stable as we go on from here. So I would try it out.
At this point, I was 14.7 seems to be pretty stable with beta four.
So definitely you could try that, that out at this point as well. Now,
as far as the release date, I would expect a new beta this coming week,
or maybe the following week because we had a re-release.
We don't really know just yet, but we do know that by the end of September,
we should see the final version released to the public. So late September,
usually around the release of the next iPhone, we'll see that.
As far as the iOS 14.7 beta, well,
I would expect maybe a beta this coming week or a release candidate with a final
release within a couple of weeks based on what we've seen before.
Now as far as iPadOS, well that's pretty solid overall.
So it really hasn't given me any issues whatsoever,
but battery life has not been great. So I'm only getting a few hours,
maybe five hours of screen on time.
That's what I got when I was on late betaas of iOS 14.6.
Now I'm back to that on the new M1 iPad pro. So that's not so great. However,
I would expect it to increase with future betas.
This is an early beta and that's sort of to be expected, but performance.
I haven't had any issues with and bugs or anything else.
I haven't had a single crash on the iPad.
Now let's take a look at the YouTube community poll.
Now at the time of this video, there's about 11,000 votes.
And hopefully the background noise Isn't too loud,
but there's cicadas or something else in the background,
but you can see 27% of you say that iOS 15,
beta two or public beta two is pretty great. 3% say it's terrible.
14% say it's okay. But as some bugs,
3% say you're on 14.7, like I said earlier. So not a whole lot.
And 53% of you are on iOS 14.6 or older.
So that seems about right, I think 60% or so were on it before now,
let's take a look at some of the comments. And at the time of this video,
there's 139 comments, not a ton, but that's a good amount.
Let's take a look at about five of them. So as it gets very noisy out here,
so let's take a look at them.
Dante says it's been very smooth over all on my iPad, air three,
surprising for an early beta. However,
I am mainly encountering issues with placing widgets and widgets,
not always refreshing, displaying correctly. Overall,
it's been a pleasant experience.
Elm zero says I'm using iPhone seven thirty two gigabyte with iOS 15 beta
two.
Sometimes there is a delay when closing an app or while opening an app browsing
and swiping apps in the app.
Switcher is sometimes choppy and screen recording
videos. Aren't that smooth and lagging a bit app crashed in the,
in my case messenger while trying to crop a screenshot, the app is still active.
The battery seems to be okay,
whatever says iPhone 12 pro loved the new functionality,
but it is a bit laggy in safari.
And the messenger apps in particular battery seems to be better than I was 14.7
betas though,
blazerPIO2 says iOS 15 beta has fixed the lack of 5g connection
problem with my iPhone provider.
Now enjoying the full experience of the iPhone 12 pro awesome tech guy.
One says I've been running the developer beta since the initial release on my
newer iPhones. It's been running well, but my iPhone six S in particular,
it hasn't been good.
Samantha Morris says only bug is that on many apps I can't buy in app currency.
It's acts as if I've already purchased it. Like once off items,
Derek Smith says it's running very smoothly on my iPhone, 11 pro max,
no glitches or bugs.
So far time chaser says it's been very swift and honestly pretty stable for the
most part, besides playing music from Spotify,
it'll speed up or slow down in distortion, which is really weird.
And that's on my AirPods.
Sometimes quad rider Honda says I'm on iOS 14.7 beta four,
and it seems better than 14.7 beta three for me on my 12th pro max,
I also had the beta installed on my 2020 iPad pro 12.9 and have watched less
7.6 beta four on my series six battery series six battery seems to be
improved for me from beta three to beta form and love your videos. Thank you.
Keegan says running it on my iPhone, 10 R it's been smooth apart from FaceTime,
which lags a lot and different mic modes.
Also don't seem to be functioning satisfactorily and play itself is highly
unstable besides that everything is smooth and a little bit of everything by
Tony Jr says shortcuts doesn't work for me since the revised beta two and my
wifi calling. Hasn't worked since iOS 15 from iPhone 11 pro.
And so iOS 15 beta two seems to be pretty good for an early beta.
I'm looking forward to beta three to see if they change any features,
maybe turn on some other features as well. So I'm looking forward to that.
Let me know what you're looking most forward to in iOS 15 or what your favorite
feature is as well. Now, 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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