Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and today apple released ios 15.3 to
the public this is available to all ios 15 supported devices from the iphone 6s,
6s plus all the way up to the iphone 13 pro max and it's available to at the same time everywhere
around the world and if you want to install the update and you're not seeing it yet go to settings
go to general then software update and you should see the update if you're still not seeing it turn
off automatic updates go back and check for an update and you should see it however if you're a
developer or public beta tester you won't see the update until you delete the public beta profile or
the beta profile in general which can be found under vpn and device management once you delete
that profile if you're a developer or beta tester reboot go back to your settings and check for an
update you should see the update there as it's a different build than what we had with ios 15.3 rc
and so as far as this particular update this was a very large install if you were a developer
coming in at 5.19 gigabytes on my iphone 13 pro max but it was anywhere between one to
five gigabytes depending on your device so on my 13 pro max it was 5.19 and it was between
1 and 5 gigabytes on all the devices you see here the iphone 11 iphone 10 iphone 6s plus along with
this apple also released ipad os 15.3 that i have on my 12.9 inch ipad pro from 2021 along with
watch os 8.4 tv os 15.3 homepod os 15.3 and mac os 12.2 all of those are available now at the same
time all around the world now let's 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 19d50
and this particular build includes bug fixes and security updates but there's some small updates
as well however the first thing is if you're on the public version of ios 15.2.1 and updating
to 15.3 you'll have a modem update however if you are on 15.3 release candidate and updating to this
you shouldn't see a modem update modem updates typically fix issues with connectivity switching
between 5g and 5g uc and lte and 4g and then when you go back and forth between wi-fi they'll
re-enable and it should work a little bit better this time around i've had no issues since this
update with connectivity as far as changes and updates in this update well apple did say there's
bug fixes and we'll talk about that in a moment but the first physical update you can see has
to do with podcasts if you're within podcasts and you go to your library and go to latest episodes
make sure your latest episodes are played and if you have them filtered it says mark mark displayed
you'll see it says all caught up before it said all caught up it actually said something a little
different where it said no latest episodes so they've changed some wording there and you'll see
a lot of this throughout ios 15.3 the next thing is apple digital id within the code of ios 15.3
is the code necessary to make digital id work however they have not yet activated that yet
later in february apple is said to be working with the tsa in the united states with a few selected
states and a few select airports to allow you to use your iphone as your digital id so we're
waiting for that to be enabled eventually it will be in wallet and they could push that just like
they pushed some update today to the apple watch if we go to safari you'll see on apple's website
we have future forward where they have a new watch band black unity braided solo loop and then they
push a new watch face they just push this we didn't know what was there so they could just
turn on apple digital id this way they also if you go to find out more release some new wallpaper for
your ipad mac and iphone so if you want to read about this this is to celebrate black history
month if you want to read about this you can see that get the new watch band the new watch face
as well and check it out for yourself so that's something they've updated today without telling
us they just pushed that and pushed a press release with all that information so they could
do the exact same thing with apple digital id now now in previous ios updates if you had child
communication safety enabled that's something you have to enable as a parent for your child if they
see maybe a picture that could have something explicit in it it will warn them that they may
not want to click on that or take a look at it previously it said this content could be sensitive
to view are you sure apple has changed the wording to say this content could be sensitive to view
are you sure you want to view it so a pretty small update but they're trying to clarify that for
those using it they've also clarified some wording within private relay so if we go into settings
and then we go to our name and then icloud within private relay if you try to turn the feature
on and your cellular carrier doesn't support it it will give you a message that now says
private relay is either not supported by your cellular plan or has been turned off in cellular
settings before it would just say it doesn't support it so now it's giving you a little more
information as to how to enable that also legacy contacts has some wording updates legacy contacts
which can also be found under icloud and then password and security this is a way to add someone
if maybe you pass away and you need to have them get access to your device more easily it now says
legacy contacts can access and download the data stored in your account after your death
when a friend or family member adds you as a legacy contact their name will appear here
so they've just updated that as well if you've recently had your battery replaced or maybe your
display replaced by apple there's a new service section that will show up in the about section
and they've made some changes there so if you go to settings and then general then about and you've
had your battery or display replaced you'll have a new section available that looks like this it will
say parts and service history they've updated the url in the bottom here to link to this page
to help you better understand what's going on with that so it's just something they've added
and again completely changed as far as wording and better helping you to understand that also
there's one small change they've made that was found in the code by my friend Steve Moser a
little while ago on the ipad it looks like there's some information regarding updating your apple
pencils firmware now we haven't seen this if you go into your ipad and go to apple pencil there's
not a whole lot you can do there right now but in the future it looks like maybe we can update the
firmware there or it might be a diagnostic tool for those apple geniuses in the apple store so
right now we can't do anything with it but there's code there related to that so maybe we'll see some
new features or changes in the future with that ios 15.3 has quite a few security updates in it
if we go to apple's security update website you'll see here they list all of the new updates and if
we go to ios 15.3 and ipad os 15.3 you'll see that they've updated 10 different things from
color sync crash reporter icloud io mobile frame buffer kernel model io webkit and you'll see
there's three webkit that relates to safari it's sort of what handles everything going on in safari
and that is a major bug where they could actually track what you're doing if the website was using
indexeddb and had this sort of tracker or bug installed so this patches all of that information
and you'll see here under impact that's how you read this it tells you the devices and
then impact processing a maliciously crafted mail message may lead to running arbitrary javascript
to fix this a validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitization again if we go down
processing maliciously crafted web content may prevent content security policy from being
enforced to fix it a logic issue was addressed with improved state management so again that
information is here as well as someone that kind of tipped them off to something they need to patch
so you can see that here and i'll link that in the description now performance overall
seems to be quite good like i've mentioned pro motion is nice and fast i've mentioned this quite
a few times before seems like it's nice and fast it ramps up quickly to those higher frame rates
on older devices whether that be an iphone 10 and iphone 11 iphone 6s if we go to maybe
minecraft here i loaded that we'll see how quickly it resumes in real time give it just
a moment frame rates seem to be decent so there we go we're already in and we can walk around and
frame rates seem to be decent overall when i use this before and again after resuming
the same thing is true on older devices so if you have an older 6s 6s plus se seems to be nice and
fast as you go into things like music you'll see it's a little bit choppy there it may take some
time to load but in general it seems to be okay with loading and everything else now one thing
i wanted to know is that it does get quite a bit warm as you're installing this update
i noticed that not only on this phone but on the other phones here so while it was installing the
entire back of my phone was warm don't be alarmed it's normal apple will manage that heat overall
but that happens when it's using the processor intensively and pulling a lot of current from
the battery so it will get a little bit warm it's nice and cool to the touch now but initially it
was quite warm now as far as battery life let's go ahead and take a look at that under settings we'll
go to battery and then battery health and i'm at 100 battery health if we take a look at the last
10 days i've been running 15.3 full time but if we go back to yesterday with the release candidate i
had 3 hours and 56 minutes of screen on time 13 hours and 18 minutes of screen off time that may
be related to the music bug so we could still have that music bug it's possible it's still here apple
has not mentioned whether or not they patch that or not and if you're not familiar with that bug
that bug is when you're using music and streaming music sometimes it can cause an issue where
it uses additional cpu power and then in turn drains the battery more so that's something that
they hopefully have patched but they haven't mentioned and they may have left for a future
update so we don't really know about that just yet as far as the storage bug if we go to settings we
go to general then iphone storage under iphone storage it seems to load a little bit slow but
it does load so those of you that were having issues having this load seems like it's okay
and it is reporting accurately for me and i know that it's not for everyone in all of their apps
or anything else but if we go all the way down it's already even loaded system data and ios
so it seems to be working okay for me you'll see it just filled in the icons there
but some people are still having this take a very long time to load but at least the numbers are
accurate i'm not sure if that's for everyone yet as the majority of people have not reported back
but it looks like it's better than it was i'm not sure that it's a hundred percent fixed
as far as the pink display issue that was present on the iphones i haven't seen that again but again
apple has not specifically stated that they've fixed it but they did acknowledge it's a thing
that they can fix through software so that happens when maybe the phone locks up and reboots and then
shows a pink or purple display that seems to have gone away so i think it's okay right now but i
haven't seen any issues with that in a while but again apple has not said that they've patched it
yet now as far as if you should install ios 15.3 i would say absolutely if you're on any version of
ios 15 or maybe even 14 i would say at this point patching these security vulnerabilities is a must
and i would highly recommend it typically you're going to experience good performance
i haven't seen any problems on older devices either or people mentioning that
and the vulnerabilities are serious enough that i would highly recommend it if you can otherwise it
seems like it's a pretty stable update and in the previous follow-up videos i did most people said
it's the most solid version of ios 15 although time will tell now as far as ios 15.4 and when
to expect that well based off what we had last year we could expect it as soon as next week
now sometimes they'll push it out the next day but based off year over year it looks like next
week might be more likely with maybe the first of february or the second sometime around tuesday or
wednesday but again apple changes things up from year to year so we don't know this 100
unless they tell somebody so at this point it could be thursday or friday but it's more likely
next week at some point where we'll see 15.4 maybe some new features additional bug fixes and we'll
get into beta 1 maybe through beta 4. we don't really know but i think they're keeping a lot of
new features for ios 16. so i'm looking forward to that but at this point we don't really know as far
as what they're going to do with 15 anymore and so that's everything in ios 15.3 just bug fixes
and security updates and some wording changes but if you've found anything else i'd love to
hear from you in the comments below of course i'll do a follow-up video and have all the information
of how it's going for you since they pushed out a new build as well look for that on the weekend if
you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper though i'll link it in the description like
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