hi everyone aaron here for zollotech and
today apple released ios 15.5 beta 2.
this is currently available to
developers and hopefully very soon to
public beta testers and this particular
update was not huge but came in at 604.2
megabytes on my iphone 13 pro max so it
was about five to seven hundred
megabytes on all the devices you see
here now along with this apple also
released ipad os 15.5 beta 2 a watch os
8.6 beta 2 tv os 15.5 beta 2 and mac os
12.4 beta 2. 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 up to general then about
as you can see the build number is
19f5056
and usually the e as we get closer to a
final release will change to an a then
we'll have a release candidate and then
a final release so we're a little ways
off to the final we'll talk more about
when to expect that a little later now
the first thing is there is no modem
update in this version so i wouldn't
expect any significant connectivity
changes or anything like that with my 13
pro max and i've had others confirm with
their 12 pro max they didn't see a modem
update so nothing there as far as that
goes however there is a change with the
apple account i talked about that with
beta 1 and it looks like this is what
the new apple account card will look
like or within the code it's known as an
account pass so this is something we'll
have in the future that will allow us to
tap to pay between phones so not just to
a terminal maybe at a teller or maybe a
local store but now from phone to phone
you'll be able to pay with your phone to
someone else or just use it in your
business as well according to what we're
seeing in the code so it will take a
while to see that but that looks like
it's going to be there in the future and
that's what it actually looked like now
within the weather app if you're on your
current location that's indicated by the
little arrow at the bottom letting you
know that's your location if you scroll
to the bottom they've updated an area as
well so you'll see here it says report
an issue this now gets its own box where
it was just text before so if we go into
the weather app on beta 1 you can see
it's just text on the left now it's
report an issue in its own box with see
more then you can report an issue give
your current overall conditions whether
it's sunny cloudy rain sleet snow
temperature and more so it helps you
improve the accuracy of the weather app
they've just updated it and made it more
prominent in stocks they've made an
update as well if you scroll down in
your news to where there's an area where
it says play now you have little
headphone icons tap on the three dots to
the right of that you now have the
option to play later in news tap on play
later in news and you can select play
last or play next so that's something
they've added with beta2
also they've added support for passkey
technology so maybe on a website that
supports it past key compatible websites
and apps on mac and ipad you can use an
iphone with a saved pass key to log in
now so it makes it easier to log in
that's available if it's enabled by
developers
also there's support for dual sense
adaptive trigger so that's something we
thought we had before within beta 1 code
it looks like it's enabled for
developers now so if you have a ps5 dual
sense controller they can now add
features using the adaptive triggers now
within inaccessibility i wasn't able to
find this so far but there's some
updates to braille in the code so for
different inputs they weren't showing
for me and maybe that's because i don't
have a braille accessory but in
voiceover under braille there's some
updates there as well there's also many
wording changes the first time you set
up an iphone or an ipad they've updated
a lot of that it also appears that apple
has re-enabled thread support for home
accessories as well as matter supported
devices as well within the home app
there's actually a message within the
code maybe if you're trying to pair a
thread accessory or a home compatible
thread accessory it will say to pair
this accessory your home network must
include a thread border router so that's
found in the code as well and again
there's matter support as well that's
something we thought we'd have before
they took that away and they've added
that back in there's also a bunch of new
features added for developers including
shareplay to their apps more easily by
turning on some of the code also c plus
features billing and payment features
for the new apple account pass and new
developer settings to run throughput
tests to view average results for ping
packet loss idle ping latency and
download and upload speeds so all of
that has been updated with beta 2.
there's not a ton of visual changes but
that's what's been updated within the
code now there's also quite a few known
and resolved issues as well the first
one that i noticed right away is that
airdrop was working properly so you can
see all of my devices here if i want to
airdrop quickly to my iphone 11 it says
waiting and it just airdropped it
immediately so even though it says
waiting there's still some odd bugs here
and there it seems to airdrop it very
very quickly so i haven't really had any
issues so far with this beta so that's a
good sign that was broken before also
shazam history seems to be working
properly again so if you're using shazam
to recognize what's going on the history
is actually working where it wasn't
properly before so on beta 1 it just
wasn't showing properly now the history
is showing up again so that's something
that's noticeable also
storage seems to be better if we go into
storage we'll go back over to our
general settings and then iphone storage
give it just a moment to load now it did
take a little bit to load now that it's
fully loaded go to the bottom go to
system data and you'll see here it's
taking up 2.72 gigabytes in some cases
this was taking up to 50 gigabytes for
some people so i'm curious if it's fixed
for you it seems to be much better for
me and usually this will reduce over
time or
apple actually uses this as needed so it
looks like it's better but again it will
take a few days to know that 100 when it
comes to resolved issues and known
issues typically apple updates their
notes in the feedback app so far they
haven't updated them here but they're on
the developer website now the first
resolved issue there's only one resolved
issue that they mention in the notes is
that they've fixed an issue so
developers using storekit 2 can now
initiate a subscription offer purchase
for a product that a customer currently
subscribes to so that's been resolved
with beta2 there's also 11 known issues
in this beta so quite a few known issues
the first one has to do with emergency
sos call with five presses that's
actually disabled for all users outside
of india to fix an issue that caused the
setting to unintentionally default for
some users so that's currently disabled
for a lot of people also signing into an
ipad is limited to apps in this beta
purchasing or downloading content using
the itunes itunes store and tv app may
fail on some devices so if you're maybe
trying to download something it could
fail they tell you to reboot your device
to try and fix that also there's
additional issues with health with the
health app if you're trying to add maybe
blood oxygen updated data sometimes it
can fail and also there's issues with
matter supported devices in the home app
so quite a few issues there but no
mentions of universal control this time
around not working with different
versions so that should work a little
bit better this time around if you're
using universal control on the ipad as
far as ipad os 15.5 beta 2 there's no
additional changes that i didn't mention
already so all of the same changes
features bugs and known issues apply to
this particular update as well so
nothing there of course i'll be using
these over the next few days and i'll
have a follow-up on the weekend with
additional information and more now as
far as if you should install ios 15.5
beta 2 if you were holding off because
beta 1 had a few bugs or issues many
people said it had pretty good battery
life i did run a poll on youtube to see
what it was like for many people and it
seems to be a pretty solid first beta
but it's still not without bugs so if
you're wanting to try out a bug free
version of ios i would probably hold off
until the public release but otherwise
maybe try it out and see what it's like
on a separate device or maybe an extra
device if you have an older device
around or if you want to try it on your
main device just make sure there's
nothing critical that would be not
working properly based off the notes so
typically i tell people to wait until
we're closer to the final release now as
far as battery life and performance well
battery life will take a few days to
measure so we'll take a look at that
probably in a few days at the follow-up
video but so far it hasn't been great
for me but it's been great for some
people so yesterday on beta 1 i had 3
hours and 23 minutes of screen on time 4
hours and 33 minutes of screen off time
and used about 50 of my battery some
people were getting phenomenal battery
life with it i'm just getting okay
battery life but hopefully beta 2
resolves that as far as performance it
doesn't really feel any different than
beta 1 for me so pro motion is smooth on
the newer devices and on the 8 plus that
i have here that's the oldest device
that i'm showing here today you'll see
here that it's nice and fast just
scrolling if we scroll through the app
library it doesn't have any issues it
seems and opening apps seems to be nice
and fast no issues here so if we wait
for this to load off of wi-fi you'll see
music is nice and fast so no real issues
as far as that goes as far as benchmarks
let's take a look at that i ran
benchmarks on these devices but i wanted
to share just with my 13 pro max we'll
take a closer look at all of them at the
follow up since that can change over a
few days i had
1740 for single core
4754 for multi-core this is pretty good
if we take a look at the history you can
see the overall scores are pretty good
about the same a little bit higher for
single core 10 higher and then higher
for sure with multi-core but it just
depends on the day so when i first
installed it i had better multi-core
scores with beta 1 but then it went down
a little bit so give it a few days we'll
try it again with the follow-up video
now as far as when to expect ios 15.5
beta 3 usually with early betas we're on
a two-week cycle meaning that we'll have
maybe two weeks between beta 1 and beta
2 once we get to beta 3 then we'll go
from beta 3 to 4 on a weekly schedule
typically that's what apple does so i
wouldn't expect beta 3 until maybe the
3rd of may typically that's what apple
does but they can change this to next
week if they want to but typically it
will be bi-weekly and then once we have
beta 3 we'll have weekly with a final
release usually in june around wwdc
that's when i expect ios 15.5 to release
to the public so typically that's what
we'll see and then as far as any other
updates in between i would expect maybe
an ios 15.4.2
some somewhere in between this just
because they stopped signing ios 15.4 so
usually they'll have some sort of update
in between that will have security
updates and bug fixes and more in it
then we'll see major changes on june 6
with ios 16 beta 1 and we'll have ios 15
and ios 16 betas all the way until the
release of ios 16 sometime in
mid-september that's typically what
apple does every single year and if they
don't change anything that's what you
can expect and so that's everything in
ios 15.5 beta 2. of course if i find
more features i'll be sure to let you
know in a follow-up video later on if
you've found anything else i'd love to
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