hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and today apple released ios 16 beta 2. this is
available to developers apple has said that the public beta will be available in july
now this was released alongside ipad os 16 beta 2 watch os 9 beta 2 tv os 16 beta 2 mac os 13
ventura beta 2 and homepod os 16 beta 2. all of those are available for developers right now and
this particular update came in at 1.83 gigabytes on my 13 pro max and it was under 2 gigabytes on
all the devices here so not a giant update but it does have some significant changes in it 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 you can see the update is 208 5303i and this particular update
includes improvements and bug fixes for your iphone according to apple now the first thing
is there is a modem update in this version it went from 2.04.00 to 2.06.01 on the 13 pro max so that
should help with connectivity and improve cellular reception but we'll have to wait a few days to see
if we go into settings the wallpaper picker has been updated in fact there's a couple changes
to wallpaper as well so you'll see now we have a customize button for both the lock screen and the
home screen and if we go to beta 1's wallpaper picker you'll see it's a little bit different
slight change there and then if we add a new wallpaper it's a little different as well
when adding a new wallpaper it says pinch to crop so you can pinch in and crop the image itself it's
just telling you about that and we also have some new filters we have duotone as we scroll through
the filters and also color wash so apple talked about this in the kino and we hadn't seen quite a
few of the filters until now so natural black and white duo tone or color wash if we're setting the
wallpaper from the lock screen itself it looks a little different as well if we hit the little
plus there maybe we set the astronomy wallpaper we'll tap on done you'll see it pops up a little
box at the bottom that says set as wallpaper pair or customize home screen so it's definitely easier
to clarify what you're setting on each home screen or lock screen so we'll go ahead and just set it
as a pair and in addition to this the astronomy wallpaper now has a green dot indicating your
location so if maybe we go into let's go into astronomy here and you will have to pick earth
detail you'll see that there's a dot indicating your location you'll have to give it access
they've also updated the astronomy wallpaper on older devices where it wasn't showing with beta1
you'll see it's on an iphone 8 plus here it's showing the location and everything else for
earth so some of this wasn't showing on an iphone 10s or 10r or the 8 plus and now it's showing now
also on the lock screen if you want to easily get rid of one of your wallpapers you can just
slide up now and then hit the little trash icon and tap delete it will get rid of that wallpaper
or the lock screen you've created so it's much easier to get rid of them than it was before now
within messages there's some updates as well now some of it is specific to if you're using an e-sim
and maybe have a regular sim and an e-sim you can now easily filter between devices and messages
you can see this was posted by nine to five mac and it shows what it looks like with different
sim filtering options so this is great a lot of people wanted it and now it's here also when
you're deleting a message thread if you tap on delete it will recognize whether or not it might
be junk or you don't have to report it so this is on specific carriers around the world t-mobile has
it some others have it but not all of them will have it just yet but eventually you'll be able to
report junk or not report it within the home app there's some new wallpaper tap on the three dots
in the upper right tap on home settings and then scroll down go to choose from existing and you'll
see a bunch of new wallpaper here so you have a new landscape that's sort of blurred and then
a bunch of new gradients so slight updates there on beta 1 under settings with iphone 11 and newer
if we went under settings go to sirian search we now have the option for siri call hang up however
some of the language has changed here suggesting it will work on older devices and thanks again to
my friend steve mosher for helping me find some of this you'll see it says that you can now use siri
when you say hey in front of it to end phone and facetime calls on iphone 11 or newer devices it's
also available on older devices when connected using airpods or siri enabled beats headphones
voice input is processed on phone and transcripts and call audio are not sent to apple so this is an
option a lot of people wanted it wasn't available on older phones but using airpods it appears that
it will be available i wasn't able to get that to show up yet on an iphone 8 or older devices
but if you're seeing it i'd love to hear from you in the comments below within mail where we could
swipe to make something unread we can no longer do that with our swipe options so you'll see it says
archive and later if we go over to our settings our swipe options no longer have an option for
unread email so we only have none mark as read flag move message or archive maybe they'll bring
that back but if we go into messages tap edit we can select a message and then market is unread
but for whatever reason that's not a swipe option now within mail and beta 2 apple has added support
for brand indicators for message identification this is a standard that allows us to see whether
or not the email was verified is coming from the owner of the logo that was shown on the email
itself this was found by charliefish on twitter and as you can see it's showing that
it's certified that it's from chase bank this is great when you get mail from different banks and
different email from other people that you want to make sure is sent by who it says it's sent by
so i'm glad to see this here hopefully we'll see more and more of this from different
senders within your icloud settings you can see backups here and we've had backups for a while
but now we can back up over cellular including lte before it was just 5g now we can back up using
lte or 4g and it may be a little bit slower but at least we have the option now within apple wallet
under your apple cash card there's a new updated sender request button before it was two separate
buttons now it's a singular button within apple card we now have at a glance our weekly activity
and daily cash so that's something that's updated very small but super helpful within the native
video player on iphone if you play a video it's playing now you can scroll through just
by haptic pressing and then scrolling anywhere on the display now you can also jump forward and back
10 seconds by jumping left and right from the edge of the screen so that's something they've updated
before you could just scroll at the bottom and swipe from the edge now you can press anywhere
and then scroll through all of your footage within the health app we have vision prescriptions and we
had that before but apple has actually updated it with a little button here at the top instead of
just text also new data types have been added to health according to apple with new running power
ground contact time vertical oscillation running speed and stride length as well as afib history
all of those things have been added apple talked about adding them before and now if you're a
runner you can see that under your activity if you're actually running you'll have all of those
different metrics available using watch os9 so that's something they've added on ipad os 16 beta
2 if we go into settings and then go down to home screen and dock if you have an m1 device that has
stage manager you can go to stage manager settings and you now have new options to hide the dock
or recent apps so you can actually change that you'll see a nice new animation there and it just
hides everything like that also if we go into an app when we're in stage manager you'll see
that it's easier to resize things and make it full screen so even when it's full screen you have the
little option here to shrink the screen it seems to work much better in beta 2 than it did with
beta 1. also if you used a shortcut on your iphone to create a poster board shortcut it would allow
you to edit the lock screen on an ipad with beta 1. it was sort of a work around that no longer
works on beta 2 on ipad so you won't be able to customize the lock screen font or anything anymore
it looks like it was just a bug in beta 1. now there's one beta 1 feature i wanted to show you
where you go into settings tap your name go to password and security and you'll see an option
for automatic verification at the bottom it allows you to bypass captchas in apps and on the web by
allowing icloud to automatically and privately verify your device and account this is going to
be super helpful as different websites allow it and will no longer have to use those captchas
this goes along with the new password option where it's bio authenticating instead of using
a physical password within the code apple has removed any mention of ipod touch so that's no
longer available since it's not supported there's additional changes within the code where in the
home app there's a new option for a resident key however i don't think anyone has this yet so
you can't actually add one in the weather app it also appears that they're going to be showing you
when you're getting closer to sun up in sundown although i haven't seen that yet but it looks
like it's in the code but if you've found that let me know in the comments below and there also
looks to be a new game mode maybe in the future so if you go into settings under accessibility
you have the option to use a game controller with your device however when you're using that game
controller there may be a new option in future updates where we'll actually have a specific
game mode so that's something we could see very soon as far as security updates typically there
will be some but apple won't tell us about any until it's finally released however there are
known and resolved issues and the first thing i noticed right away is spotlight search is much
faster in beta 2 and works quickly so maybe i search for the app files it seems to work very
quickly and then recognize the app at the top and then anything that might be related prior to this
it was really slow and sometimes didn't work at all as far as the storage issue that does appear
to be here for some people still and with it being an early beta i would pretty much just ignore it
at this point it's going to be slow the overall system usage could be very high but again it's
an early beta and apple does not pay particular attention to these things but make sure you report
them in your feedback app so if we go all the way to the bottom it took a moment to load here
you'll see the overall ios system it seems to be smaller than usual at 6.39 gigabytes but system
data will give it a moment to load and it loaded and it's under 10 gigabytes at 8.14 gigabytes so
system data is okay for me it may vary from person to person as far as the phone getting hot or
overheating it definitely is warm but it's not as warm as it was before so there's still some issues
with that it's been very hot throughout most of beta 1. now it's warm showing you this different
feature set in beta 2 but it's still not super hot compared to what it was with beta 1. however
there are still 51 categories of known issues in this update when it comes to the overall notes
so if you go into the feedback app you can see the notes within feedback you'll see if we scroll
down there are tons and tons of known and resolved issues so this is very typical of early betas and
even later betas as apple resolves more and more issues but there are eight resolved issues swift
ui developer and shortcut code issues that have been resolved and 51 categories of known issues so
still a lot to be worked on here but pretty good for an early beta and that leads me to should you
install ios 16 beta 2 and typically i say if you have to ask that question the answer should be
no at this point in order to go back you need a computer whether that be windows running itunes
or a mac running finder or using finder or itunes that's the only way you can go back so if you're a
little nervous of running that on your main device i really wouldn't recommend it at this point
however if you have a secondary device and you don't mind leaving it here until we get further
betas and a public release of the public betas or final public release well then go ahead as far as
when to expect the public beta apple said it will be in july so at this point it should be in july
in a couple weeks probably when we see beta 3 or maybe just before that's typically what apple does
and then we'll have beta 3 usually within two weeks from now so maybe on the 6th of july or
maybe the 13th sometimes they push that out a little bit further that's typically what apple
does every year now as far as the final release of course we would expect that to be in september or
late september at some point usually mid to late september we'll have a final release to the public
now as far as overall battery life that's not a concern with early betas and it's been pretty bad
with beta 1. you'll see today i'm already at 49 and if we go to system we'll go to battery life
under battery health i'm at 100 still and battery life over the past few days has not been great
usually about four hours and four minutes of screen on time usually around four to five
hours and i'm usually around 75 usage at that point going to bed with about 20 to 30 percent
battery life left where before i would be at 50 or 60. so definitely this is not great on battery and
again it's in early beta and i don't expect it to be as far as overall performance again it's going
to have some issues i noticed it was fairly slow on the iphone 8 plus when i was changing wallpaper
so if we go to change wallpaper it did seem to lag quite a bit from time to time if i go to add one
it seems to be okay right now but again from time to time it's very slow so
being in early beta it's processing a lot of information in the background you can expect
varied performance but it's actually been okay with beta 1 on my 13 pro max compared to
previous betas i've run every beta apple's ever had and this one's actually pretty solid so far
but again i would hold off installing it so of course if i find any additional features i'll
have a different video later in the week going over any additional features i've found and of
course if you've found any 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
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as always thanks for watching this is Aaron i'll see you next time so