hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and today apple released ios 16rc or release candidate this
is the final version that's released to developers and public beta testers before it's released to
the public and apple has officially announced when it's releasing to the public and that's on
september 12th so everyone that's has a supported device so an iphone 8 8 plus and newer will be
able to install it on their device now this came in at a very large 5.12 gigabytes on my 13 pro max
and was about 4 to 5 gigabytes on all the devices here now if you're a public beta tester or a
developer i would probably wait to make sure that apple doesn't release maybe a release candidate
too if they find additional bugs just wait until the final day on the 12th to uninstall that public
beta profile or developer profile otherwise you're on the final version unless there's a last minute
tweak that they need to do which they have done in the past but they didn't do in the past few years
here and there it just depends on the version now let's go ahead and take a look at the build number
and talk about what's new now along with this apple also released watch os 9 rc along with tv os
16 rc and homepod os 16 rc surprisingly they also released ios 15.7 rc and ipad os 15.7 rc
along with mac os 12.6 rc still no ipad os 16.1 beta 2 or anything else
now let's take a look at the build number so we'll go to settings then general then about
and as you can see the build number is 208362 this is the final version that's released to the
public if there's no additional issues so that should be the final version there's also no new
modem update in this it's still the same version of 2.09.00 which is the same going all the way
back to beta 5 so don't expect any major changes there on initial install on the iphone 10 i did
get the hello screen for some reason so that's showing up for me on this device only it didn't
show on the other devices here now one thing you need to see before we talk about the new features
is what that new cutout looks like if you haven't seen that for the iphone 14 pro and pro max
they call this the dynamic island so as we scroll down you can see what it looks like
as it expands changes with music and more this is an all new feature that's just on the pro and pro
max versions of ios 14. so that's something that's coming out for those devices it makes sense with a
lot of those interactions we've been seeing and changes of things such as the music player that
it would look like that now as far as wallpaper i did look in settings to see if there was anything
new and within wallpaper you can see that we have our normal featured and suggested photos
and we don't have anything new typical emoji ones different collections i thought maybe we'd get
some of those back but so far there's nothing new that they've added they did show some new
ones today with the iphone 14 that you can see on apple's website but nothing that we can download
initially so i'm sure we'll be able to find these from different wallpaper makers that recreate them
but nothing that's completely new so it has an all new display and everything else
and i'm hoping we'll see some new wallpapers with that but unfortunately nothing other than what
we've already got of course we have a lot of great wallpaper makers out there anyway as far as the
battery icon on older devices unfortunately it's not on the iphone 11 so it looks like it's never
going to come to these devices the iphone 10r 11 also the iphone 12 mini and iphone 13 mini so if
we go to battery the option to turn on the battery percentage is just not there what the specific
reason is apple hasn't said but i would imagine it has to do with being able to fit it in there
otherwise they would have changed it already and allowed you to do it within settings if we go down
to privacy and security there's a new option if we go under analytics and improvements down at the
bottom for improved safety so you'll see it says help apple improve safety features by sharing your
safety data and you can toggle this on if you'd like it's off by default so this will probably
prompt you when you're setting up an iphone for the first time otherwise that's just a new setting
within your safety features as apple pushed that a lot in their new update today with the iphone
14 update now on apple's iphone 14 press release they actually say that the shared photo library
for icloud will be available in future software updates you can see that in the press release here
and it says it under number 10 here where it says icloud shared photo library will be available in
a future software update however it made it into the release candidate so if we go into settings
then we go back and we go over to our name and then icloud you can see within icloud photos
i have shared library turned on and you'll see here participants me and my wife and then also
shared library delete notifications and more so it's still there for me maybe not for some people
but it is still showing for me also personalized spatial audio apparently is delayed for the new
airpods pro 2 until october with the release of ios 16.1 however we still have it in settings so
if we go back if we bring in airpods pro we'll go into the settings for the airpods pro scroll down
and we have personalized spatial audio so it's still available for this device i would suspect
that you need ios 16.1 to support airpods pro 2. it must be a device specific thing but it
does seem to be available in this update if you've got the previous generation so that shouldn't be
an issue there as far as different apps and things not working such as banking apps i would suspect a
ton of different updates should be releasing very soon in the app store to resolve all those issues
whether or not live activities will be there for those developers that may be in a future update
but if we go into the clock it's still there if we set a timer so set a stopwatch or a timer and it's
there so it looks like it's possible but apple may not allow it just yet as far as resolved issues in
apple's notes there aren't any but there are some known issues now to compare with what we had with
ios 15 last year with the release candidate last year we had 32 known issues this year we only have
nine so that's a good sign if we go into their notes and while there's no feedback app these are
publicly available i'll leave a link to them in the description you can see different known issues
with device discovery emoji the search field for emoji lock screen editor is missing of course we
have new features for game controllers of course i've talked about that before with joy con support
and more for the nintendo switch we also have new features of course it's going to go over
some things here with home and more but typically most of the known issues have to do with small
things so it says home known issue the device that initiates the pairing needs to use the same
icloud account as the home hub this is something we had before and it's continued in this update so
i would expect them to continue to fix this there will always be bugs also that issue is still here
with american express cards where they might need to be removed and re-added to wallet after
updating to ios 16 beta 6 or later so still some issues in here but not very many compared to b4
as far as overall performance performance seems to be good don't expect a degradation
in performance on any of these devices whether they're older or newer if we go into music here
on the iphone 8 plus seems to be loading okay of course that can be related to wi-fi
but typically it's going to perform as good as ios 15. most people that have used ios 16 have
no issues whatsoever when it comes to that as far as the phone getting too warm or hot
it seems like it's nice and cool compared to what it was before in fact right after installing the
update it was surprisingly cool so hopefully they changed something to do with thermal management i
know they updated the iphone 14s thermals overall and of course we'll have to wait for tear downs
to actually see what that looks like now as far as battery life on this device if we go into settings
my battery life has not been great if we take a look at my battery health i'm at 98
and over the last 10 days you'll see i had one hour and 46 minutes of screen on time at
3 hours and 35 minutes of screen off time and used about 40 percent of my battery yesterday just 2
hours and 53 minutes of screen on time now most people are saying this is as good as ios 15.6.1
i'm not seeing that so i may try and reset all my settings and try again but it seems like it could
use a little improvement for me but maybe i can fix that with resetting some of those settings
as far as benchmarks i did run those very briefly just once and you'll see it's 1733 for single core
4642 for multi-core that's on the 13 pro max and if we take a look at the history
you'll see that when i ran it last time it was definitely a little bit better for
multi-core but not as good for single core so i think this will improve over the next few days
there's a lot going on in the background as far as any additional bugs well it will
take a few days to know for sure whether or not we have a music bug where it stops playing or
whether or not we're still having issues with storage so if we go into our iphone storage
i really didn't have an issue with this other than that it was using an excessive amount of storage
that's sort of just system cache overall so i wouldn't worry about it and this is the first
time i'm opening it so it is taking a little bit of time here so we'll give it a moment now iphone
storage took a little bit to load you'll see that system data is using quite a bit of storage now
that is cash storage so i really wouldn't worry too much about that apple sort of changes this as
needed so as long as you're not getting any low storage issues or messages you should be fine
there ios updates you'll see it's 9.33 gigabytes that's pretty typical it might shrink over the
next day or two as it's sort of doing different things in the background as far as if you should
install ios 16 rc well if you've been wanting to try it out you have access to the public beta
or you have access to a developer account definitely you could try it out now just make sure
you have a backup if you ever wanted to roll back to ios 15.6.1 or pretty soon ios 15.7 as apple
surprisingly released the rc of ios 15.7 i'll take a look at that and have a separate video about it
otherwise though there's not a whole lot new in this compared to what we've had with the hundreds
of changes over the past betas from beta 1 to beta 8 i have coverage of every single one of those
so lots going on as far as that goes of course as soon as ios 16.1 and ipad os 16.1 betas come out
i'll be sure to be covering those as well with whatever features they've updated here and so
that's everything with ios 16 rc of course i'll have a video covering every new feature change
and update in ios 16 when it releases on the 12th of course if you're picking up a new iphone i'd
love to hear from you in the comments below or maybe one of those new apple watch ultras
i'm not really sure what i think about that but again let me know what you think about it in the
comments below of course if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper i'll link it in
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