Hi, everyone.
Aaron here for Zollotech and today apple released iOS 15.1 beta 3.
This is available to developers and hopefully soon to public beta testers.
Usually by the time of this video, by the time you are watching it,
it's out or the next day at the latest,
it just depends on what apple does this week. Now, as you can see,
this came in at 1.01 gigabytes that's on the iPhone 13 pro that I've been using
as my main phone during its normal test for the review.
And I also have it on the iPhone 11 and success.
Plus along with this apple also released iPadOS 15.1 beta 3
that I have on my 12.9 inch iPad pro from 2021.
Along with watchOS 8.1 beta 3 tvOS
15.1 beta three, and macOS Monterey beta 9.
All of those are available to developers right now.
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,
and you can see the build number is 19 B 5 0 6 0 D.
So we're getting closer to that final version, but we're still a ways off.
So I really think we'll have another beta or so we'll talk more about that in a
little bit. Now, as far as anything new in this update. Well,
the first thing is there is a new modem update.
So if you have an iPhone 12 or an iPhone 13 or 13 pro you should see a modem
update, hopefully to fix any issues you were having with connectivity.
So if you were having issues with 5g or 4g or LTE or switching between
anything like that, I've had some odd bugs here and there,
and hopefully that's resolved with this modem update.
We'll have to wait and see, of course,
that will take a few days to know for sure. Now,
as far as the first thing that they've updated in this update has to do with the
camera.
We've been waiting for apple progress on the iPhone 13 pro and iPhone 13 pro
max and apple has finally added it. So if we go into the camera,
I already have it available. And if you go to video under video,
you can see that it now says is similar to the raw menu that we have with the
iPhone 12 that was added there with the pro.
You'll see that we now have progress. And if I turn it on,
it says that it has the maximum time of 19 minutes to record. Now,
if we take a look at my storage, that means it's using a huge amount of storage.
So if we go to settings and then we go to iPhone storage,
you'll see that I have only 94 gigabytes of 256 gigabytes used.
So depending on what you have, as far as the device,
whether you have a 512 gigabyte or one terabyte option,
you're going to have a huge amount of storage used from progress.
That's pretty typical.
It's what we would expect when I'm recording these videos in Pro Res,
it can take terabytes of storage.
So it just depends on how you're recording this.
I don't know that I'd wreck regularly recommend it,
but you have that option now as well.
And you can toggle that option in settings also.
So if we go over to settings and we go down to camera under camera,
you'll see that we have formats under formats. We now have Apple progress.
So similar to what we had with apple pro raw, we now have a toggle for progress.
You can just keep it on and then toggle it within the camera app itself. Also.
Now, if we go back to camera, you can see if we scroll down,
we now have a new option for auto macro.
This was not there before in the previous beta.
And this allows us to automatically switch to the ultra wide camera to capture
macro photos and videos.
So this option was not there on the 13 pro or pro max.
And if we go into camera settings on beta two,
you'll see if we go to the same menu here. We don't have the auto macro.
We just have lens correction.
So that's something they've updated in this version. And with beta three,
we have these new options. Now,
something else they've updated has to do with AirPods max.
So maybe you've got AirPods max on, and you've got music playing,
but you don't have them over your ears, but rather around your neck,
if you try to go to your noise control options, it will give you a new message.
So if you tap on noise control, tap noise control again, you'll see.
There's a message.
So it'll say to place them over your head to use noise cancellation,
I'll do that one more time. So you can see it says place AirPods max,
on your head to use noise cancellation.
So you'll see that every time you try to do that,
once you place them over your ears, you'll be able to use these options.
So it's just a new message that's in there as well.
Another thing I noticed is when you're using AirPods or AirPods, max,
they seem to switch more quickly or easily between devices.
So if we're on the iPhone 13 or iPhone 11 or iPhone six S
plus it seems to switch pretty seamlessly between devices.
When you have them over your ears, or you have AirPods pro in your ears,
I noticed that right away.
Another thing they've updated has to do with apple watch.
So if you're using the watch app, so maybe we go into the watch app,
you don't have a watch setup.
They've updated the graphics with the new series seven apple watch.
So you can see them here where they've updated this.
If you don't have them paired, it just has the newer watches there.
So they've made that change.
And that's something that I would expect would be maybe mean that this update
will be out before the app watch series seven is released.
It goes for presale this Friday with a release date to the public,
the following Friday, Friday.
So it could be pretty quick that we see this actual update or it could be
further out. And I'll talk more about that a little bit later. Now,
as far as anything else that we can see physically well,
that's everything that I've mentioned so far that I've been able to find that
doesn't mean there, aren't small changes here and there.
And if I do find a bunch more, of course,
I'll make a followup video with additional features in it as well.
And if you know of any others that I haven't mentioned,
let me know in the comments below, I'd love to hear from you now,
as far as resolved issues and known issues,
while apple has mentioned one resolved issue, it's more developer focused,
but there are five known issues that they've mentioned.
And a few of them are fairly significant.
So one of them is users might experience a loss of audio during calls,
followed by the call being dropped in some conditions.
The workaround that they give for this is to toggle on and off airplane mode to
fix that issue. So that's a known issue that still remains in beta three,
which could be pretty significant. If you were thinking of updating to this.
Also some users may not be able to activate the alarms in the clock app if
you're using accessibility and voice control.
So if you're trying to activate an alarm, you may not be able to do that.
That was a, a bug or known issue that was there previously,
and also matter accessories or for the notifications anyway for them may not
work properly matter is a way to control home devices. It's a newer standard.
And some of the notifications, if you're testing those out may not be working.
Now. As far as the storage bug is concerned,
apple has not mentioned whether or not they fixed it.
Now I know on iOS fifteen.zero.one,
quite a few people said that the problem was resolved.
But if we go into iPhone storage, let's see what it says here.
We'll wait for storage to load on the iPhone 11.
We'll give it just a moment and see what it says.
And it is taking some time and you can see that it finished.
And there's a lot of things using storage.
Now it is giving me the proper storage amount. If we go down to system data,
it's saying zero. So that still has to update.
And if we also go to about it should give us the total storage of the device,
or rather under about some people would see the capacity even greater than they
already had. It looks like it's working okay though in beta 3.
So for beta three, it looks like it's back to normal. As far as that goes. Now,
as far as iPadOS 15.1 beta 3,
I haven't found anything else significant in here. In fact,
apple has not mentioned anything about universal control yet,
even though they released iPad iOS 15.1, beta three,
and also macOS Monterey beta 9.
It's not mentioned anywhere in previous betas, you could go into settings,
go into your handoff settings and turn it off and on.
And you would get a new dialogue that would sort of give you a hint that
universal control was going to be added,
where it allows you to use your mouse or keyboard or track pad between your iPad
and your Mac back and forth seamlessly. So far. There's nothing here listed.
If you search for universal control, it's not there.
And it's not mentioned in Apple's notes anywhere whatsoever.
So as far as we know, it's not here yet.
Maybe there's a way to enable it and I'll have to try out macOS a little bit
further to try that out. Now, as far as overall battery life on the iPad,
I haven't been getting very good battery life over the previous betas. In fact,
it seems like I'm getting about half the battery life,
about five hours of screen on time,
depending on the day I charged it some today because it was quite low and I've
only used it a couple hours at this point.
And I'm not sure if this is off because it says screen off time is four hours
and 50 minutes. And I never use it with the screen off.
If it's half the screen is actually off, it's just sitting there.
So there's definitely something going on and you'll see there's background
activity for find my, so something's going on with that?
Hopefully it's resolved in this beta, but it will take a few days to know.
Now I've been using the iPhone 13 pro is my main phone so I can review it.
So let's take a look at battery life here,
but to know overall battery life on this current beta will take a few days,
but battery life yesterday, I had two hours and 26 minutes of screen on time,
four hours and 13 minutes of screen off time.
The day before similar two and a half hours of screen on time,
five hours of screen off time,
almost six hours in each time I'm using 40 to 50% of the battery.
So regularly, probably six to seven hours of screen-on time for me,
how I use this, I'm using it exactly like I use the 13 pro max, which gets much,
much better battery, but this is a smaller phone with a smaller battery.
So that's to be expected. But in general,
I would say probably five to seven hours of screen on time with 10 hours of
screen off time. I do use it in the background a lot. And today you'll see,
I used it as a personal hotspot a lot. Now, as far as overall performance,
I did notice that this does seem to be quite fast,
at least in my initial tests and even on the iPhone six S plus,
I tried a little test where I ran Minecraft and it loaded surprisingly fast.
I didn't expect it to load as fast as it did.
So maybe apple has done some performance enhancements here. I'm not sure,
but in general, if I resume the game,
you'll see them back in pretty quickly for a success.
Plus the frame rates seem to be solid. And in general,
it seems to respond much better than it did before I find it to be a lot
smoother than I had with previous betas or even iOS 15.0.1.
And after updating the back of the phone was not very warm at all initially,
maybe a little bit, but that's typical after a first update,
and maybe you charge it a little bit, but in general,
this update did not create the back of the phone to get very hot at all,
even when charging.
So maybe they've made some optimizations there with just not turning the
processor up as fast, but it does seem to be nice and fast and smooth. Overall.
Now I did run benchmarks.
So I went into geek bench five and ran a couple of benchmarks.
And as you can see on the iPhone 13 pro at scored 1,737 for
single core, 4,735 for multi-core. If we take a look at the history,
we'll see if it recorded it here, you'll see. On September 28th,
it was a little bit lower for single core and also a little bit lower for multi-core.
So it seems to be performing a little bit better than it was before. Now.
Let's take a look at all of these devices since I ran geek bench on those as
well now from left to right, I have the iPad pro 12.9 from 2021,
then the iPhone six S plus then the iPhone 11 and the iPhone 13 pro.
And again, this just gives you a general idea. I ran this right after updating,
so these numbers will typically increase a little bit over the next few hours.
If I was to run it again. Now that brings me to, should you install iOS 15.1,
beta three, if you're already on the betas,
then absolutely you'll get the latest bug fixes.
You'll get that addition to the camera with the Apple Pro Res.
And you can try that out. Of course,
you will need a 13 pro or 13 pro max for that to work.
But one thing to note about that also is when you turn Pro Res on the back of
the phone immediately heats up.
So it's definitely using a lot of processing power to do this,
and I'll have to try it out to see if it's worth it.
But just one thing I wanted to mention that I didn't mention earlier.
So if you're already on the betas, I would update. If you're on iOS 15.0 0.1,
I would probably hold out before updating,
maybe wait a few weeks until there's a final release now,
because we're on a weekly schedule with these updates,
it seems like we'll probably have a release candidate maybe next week or the
week after.
And then a final release either at the end of the month or early November,
we don't really know exactly how many betas apple is going to push out,
but because the build number is at the letter D typically there'll be another
beta before the release candidate and then the final version.
So that puts it at least two versions out or one version before the final.
So at least probably in the third to fourth week of October,
I would expect to release unless of course they want to push it out earlier.
We could definitely see that as well,
but that's everything for iOS 15.1 beta three. And again,
if you found anything else I'd love to hear from you in the comments below.
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