hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and today Apple released iOS 12.2 to the
public this is out and available for all devices that support iOS 12 around the
world so the iPhone 5s and newer all the supporting iPads and iPod touches now
this came in at 2.64 gigabytes for me on the iPhone XR it can vary
depending on device and which version you actually already have installed now
if you're on the beta maybe you're a developer or you have the public beta
and you're not seeing that update what you need to do is first check for an
update go to general and then software update if you're not seeing an update
make sure you go down to settings and then general and then go to profiles and
delete the profile if you have one if you have that profile there delete it
reboot your phone check for a software update again and you should be able to
install it an update now let's talk about the build number and the first
thing they've actually changed there's quite a few changes throughout a lot of
tweaks and little things but let's talk about the new things let's go to general
then go to about now under the About section you'll see they've changed it
they've kind of made it into little modules here and the first one has to do
with the name and the software so if we tap on the build you'll see it's 16e 2
to 7 on the current version you'll see the icons a little bit different and it
also gives you your Apple care warranty expiration so you can go into here buy
more Apple care if you need to and you've got your expiration information
there as well now let's go back to the home screen and talk about the other new
things so the next new thing has to do with Apple News and this was announced
today at Apple's announcement they announced a bunch of services that
mostly are coming in the summer and fall everything from the Apple card which is
a new credit card to new apple arcade and also which is a subscription service
for the App Store along with a new news subscription service and TV service but
the new one that came out today is the news subscription so you'll see that
icon is quite different and if we go into the news you'll see there's news
Plus now they've changed this to have a little apple here News plus and this is
subscription you can get all these different magazines and it looks really
nice and then you go here you just go to your normal today view go here go to at
news Plus and you can subscribe to whatever you might like so they have a
bunch of different ones in here they don't have
everything but they have a bunch of these and it's private they don't share
information what you're looking at and all of that it's all cut private within
the app so that's all new now there's also a new thing for Siri that's a very
minor that has to do with Apple TV you can ask Siri on your phone iPod or iPad
to show or play any movie video or sports game on the Apple TV
so they give an example that says Siri play free solo on my TV and you have to
say the word hey in front of that and it will pop up and do that and the next
thing leads on to Apple TV and that is the Apple TV remote and the remote in
the control center is a little bit different you'll see it the icon is
different if I compare it with the previous version of twelve point one
point four there's the previous remote here there's the new one if I press on
it the actual app has been redesigned as well you'll see it's not connected yet
on this device but you'll see the app itself is completely different and
they've updated that they've also updated the little airplay icon in the
upper right so if we press on this it looks a little bit different so you've
got that as well and then let's go home you'll see there's not much else in here
that's two different just some refreshes - some icons like screen mirroring
things like that nothing that's a huge change but one thing they did change is
the wallet app so let's go into that and you'll see here I have my pay cash card
it gives me my transactions and in different information and the icons are
a little bit different so the app itself gives you more information that's
clearer and redesigned and this kind of goes along with their new Apple card
that's coming out that looks a little bit different like that as well so
nothing groundbreaking there but definitely different they've also
updated screen time so if you use screen time that's under settings we'll go back
to home here and then screen time if we go under screen time what you'll see is
we have downtime and app limits if we go into downtime put in our password and
now we have a way to customize the specific days that we want screen time
to be on and what times they're on as well so that's all new and pretty nice
now the other thing they've done is if you use a planet
here app limits you can add a limit and they've categorized them so you can shut
them off individually and it just makes it easier overall to shut everything
down that way now the next thing has to do with Safari and Safari has an update
as far as searching if we go into Safari let me cancel this you'll see that's
today's wallpaper and of course I'll link that in the description as I always
do let's go here we'll go to Apple and if we go to the website we'll go back
and maybe type Apple again and you'll see we've got some suggestions down here
and they have little arrows next to them maybe we want to search for this
specific thing we can tap the arrow and it pops up here and then gives us more
suggestions based on what we're searching for so it's a nice little way
to zip around the OS when you're doing that and searching for something and it
makes things a little bit improved that way they've also given warnings for
unencrypted websites now I don't have an unencrypted web site to go to that I'm
familiar with but if it's unencrypted it will warn you here and then if you go to
a website that asks for a password so let's go to this one you'll see here the
dialogues a little bit different and it will authenticate with your face and let
you sign right in now finally under Safari they've updated its privacy and
security so that it's even more secure and prevents cross-site tracking so
under here under the privacy settings in Safari we used to have do-not-track now
we have cross-site tracking prevention and that's an intelligent prevention
method that's in Safari itself that prevents different sites from tracking
you when you go from one to the next to the next now there is one final thing
they've actually updated within Safari as well as for our security we go to
settings again you'll see it says motion and orientation access and this prevents
different websites from using the motion of the device to maybe use an app that
uses the web browser so you can turn that on and off now as well now the next
things very tiny it has to do with maps so let's go into maps and within maps we
now have air quality index so this is only available in the United States the
UK and India so that's where that's available but it's there and it's nice
if you are looking for the air quality index where you live now finally before
we get into all of the more minor changes we have new an emoji so if we go
into messages you'll see we have new an emoji we have a draft we have
we have an owl and we have a boar so all of these are new I kind of like the
shark the most but they're not anything I really use at all
now the next things are very minor and they have to do with little tweaks to
the operating system so the first one has to do with this icon up here maybe
you are on LTE let's see what it does here you'll see it says LTE here for
t-mobile if you're on AT&T it will say 5ge now and that doesn't necessarily
mean you have 5g it just means you have well you have a new icon basically and
also there's improved audio recording quality when you're using that and
messages so maybe we're in the phone we'll go to messages here and we want to
record one of these voice messages we can record here and this is actually a
new codec so the quality will be a little bit improved so that part's nice
and then also there's airplay too and homekit support on third-party TVs
coming so they've made that ready within the operating system here so there will
be new TVs with that access as well now speaking of bug fixes as far as the
actual signal strength and LTE they have not said they've fixed any of this
however many people reported on the beta's that it was much better so if
you're having issues with LTE and Wi-Fi hopefully it's fixed but it will only
take a few days or so to know that for sure since it seems to be pretty
widespread the next bug fix has to do with stability of this remote app
apparently it was having issues so they fixed stability of that they've also
fixed missed calls not showing in the notification center so if you're using
the Notification Center and it's not showing calls hopefully that's fixed as
well they also fixed the notification badge showing on settings which I had
this quite often was showing on settings when there was nothing in there to
actually check so you might have a little badge here you go into settings
there was just nothing to check so they fixed that there also is a fix for the
accuracy of system storage so under general we have our actual iPhone
storage they've fixed the accuracy of this overall where it says system and it
was very inconsistent you might see system have a ton of storage being used
and then sometimes it doesn't it should fix all of those issues thankfully they
also fixed an issue that could cause voice Mantle's to automatically playback
recordings after connecting to a Bluetooth device in a car and also
resolved an issue that could cause voice memos to temporarily prevent renaming
and recording now finally under here in music the Browse tab may have more
editorial highlights and that is really it for all of the changes now some of
these are pretty major some are not I saw improved carplay performance and
as far as battery is concerned if we go into settings will go into battery now
I've been running the betas and battery seems to be pretty good for me overall
here's last 10 days on this device you'll see I'm probably averaging at the
end of the day about eight hours of screen on time maybe nine based on the
way I use the phone but I'm not playing any games I'm mostly in things like
Twitter YouTube things like that but it seems to be pretty stable and pretty
good overall and that's really it as far as that goes battery life on this
particular final release will take a few days to know that for sure
now as far as speed and everything on older devices many people are reporting
that the speed seems really fast now if I go into something like music I haven't
been in it for a little bit in here you'll see on the SE it comes up pretty
fast so that means on maybe a 6s it will be fine and newer so including the 7 the
8 all of those devices and even the 5s it seems to be pretty good
now unfortunately my iPhone 5s has a dead battery so I need to replace that
that will be in a future video but it seems fine on the SE and it should be
good as far as that goes now there are two more updates that Apple added to
this one of them has to do with air pods - or air pods second gen they've added
support for them this is the first gen I'll have the second one soon hopefully
and it adds support for that also supposedly it adds support for the
Logitech crayon I haven't been able to get this to work with the 10.5 iPad pro
yet but it may work on the newer ones I'll have to check on the newer ones
once they're fully updated as well but let's take a look at the geek bench
scores I have previous geek bench scores on both of these devices so I ran it
just a moment ago with all the apps closed and everything and you'll see on
the iPhone XS Max we have 4833 for single core 11,000 93 for multi-core on
the XR it could be doing something in the background I'm not sure but we have
4810 for single core and 425 for multi-core if we go to the CPU
history you'll see it is a little bit different depending on which day we're
talking about some of these this one has gotten over 11,000 for multi-core and in
the previous ones with this one you'll see we're close but it's not quite there
yet and that could be because it's a major update and we're still updating in
the background and things like that so I wouldn't take those too seriously but
those are just some benchmarks to give you a baseline for what should be a
minimum of for what you're getting I would give it a day or so also with that
battery life if you're having bad battery life give it a day or so for it
to update so let me know what you think though in the comments below of course
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as always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time