hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and iOS 16.1 beta 1 released to developers today and hopefully
very soon to public beta testers this was a very large install on my 13 Pro Max because anytime
you're going from a public version to a beta version it fully reinstalls the OS so you can
see it was 5.13 gigabytes on my 13 Pro Max now this was released alongside watch OS 9.1 beta 1
along with TV OS 16.1 beta 1. also iPad OS 16 beta 8 which is also iPad OS 16.1 beta 2 which is a bit
confusing 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 and the first change is you can see it says
iOS version 16.1 with iOS 16 there was actually the build number next to it now we have to tap
on it and we can see the build number is 20b 5045d and this particular update does have some features
and changes in it the first thing we can't see is a modem update that's significant since we
haven't had one since iOS 16 beta 5. so if you're having issues with connectivity hopefully this
will improve some of that but we do have a modem update in this particular update there's also new
features and the first one is pretty significant for users of iPhone 10r 11 12 mini and 13 mini
we now have the battery percentage so they finally brought this apparently it wasn't a user interface
issue they've heard everyone's complaint and if we go into settings you can see under battery we'll
go down under battery it says battery percentage we can finally turn that on on the other devices
for whatever reason it took them a little longer on that device now if we go into the battery
settings on a different phone here you'll see it says battery health and charging and under battery
health and charging it now has a clean energy charging option this may not be on all phones but
what it says is in your region iPhone will try to reduce your carbon footprint by selectively
charging when lower carbon emission electricity is available iPhone learns from your daily charging
routine so it can reach full charge before you need to use it so that's something they've added
within the battery settings itself again it may not be available in all regions though
now one thing that will make a lot of people happy also is they've changed the way you
customize your wallpaper so if we press and hold on the lock screen maybe we want to customize tap
on customize and you'll see it now splits the wallpaper so we can quickly go back to the lock
screen or we can customize the home screen so if we hit done we'll go back to customize go back to
home screen and then you have all those options here so they've finally updated this I thought
it was a little bit messy and confusing before so that's been changed also if we customize our
lock screen maybe go to change a widget you'll see there's four rows of widgets here and if we
compare it with the previous version of iOS 16 we'll go in not all phones will have four rows
but they did make an update to the calendar widgets so the calendar widget actually shows
the Calendar app icon now where before it just showed a calendar one of the big features with
iOS 16 that's coming later is live activities and it looks like they've enabled it in iOS 16.1 so
when watching live sports if we go over to our TV app here within TV if we go to live sports tap on
the live sport we now have the option to follow so we can follow and it says follow to get live
updates and play by place during this game so we'll tap on follow and if we go back into our
settings there's a new setting for this there's actually two of them the first one is in face
ID and passcode so we'll go into that and if we scroll all the way down you'll see that we have
a live activities option for the lock screen to show when it's locked so if you don't want it to
show when it's locked make sure you turn that off also we have the same setting in our TV app so if
we go down to TV then again scroll down you'll see live activities if we turn this on and if we go
to our lock screen we'll see live sports scores however this does not seem to be working 100 of
the time so we'll see more of this in the future but a lot of live activities will be coming with
updates to different apps so once apps are updated they should support that also in settings we'll go
back here and if we go under General under General is a new option for matter accessories iOS 16.1
adds support for matter accessories and this is something Apple talked about before and it does
have some bugs we'll talk about in a moment but that's something that they've actually added here
also if we take a screenshot so we'll just snap a screenshot here and then if we tap on done we no
longer have a menu at the bottom they've moved the menu to the upper left so it looked a little bit
different before when you took a screenshot now they've made it a little easier so on the previous
version with iOS 16 you can see that here it looks a little bit different something else we've been
waiting for with iOS 16 is iCloud shared photo library this is technically not enabled in iOS 16
but seems to be working in iOS 16.1 so if we go to our settings then go to photos you'll see we have
shared Library so that's something they've updated and it looks to be working now another thing
they've added is a little change in accessibility if we go to accessibility then go to touch and
then Assistive Touch scroll down until we see use game controller now with iOS 16 we gained buddy
controller and this talks more about that before we could turn this on but now we have a learn more
button and it talks more about Assistive touch with a game controller such as use the left
thumb stick to move the system pointer or use the right thumbstick to move the system pointer at a
slower speed so it gives you all of the different things that it can do now and there are additional
wording changes throughout so a few different things and again thanks to Steve for helping
me out with that now there are some bugs in 16.1 still one of them has to do with settings so if
we tap done here and then we go back to General and then software update we'll typically get an
error every time we check for a software update it just says unable to check for update I tried
to reboot and it didn't seem to work so there is a bug there with that additionally they did fix
what seems to be a problem that was causing Real Racing 3 to not work properly that's working on TV
OS 16.1 and iOS I didn't have an issue on iOS but some people told me that it's working now properly
for them and then also that weird music issue is still there so maybe you're playing an album if
you're playing the music from the lock screen and you tap on the album it opens properly but
then if you tap it when it drops back into the media player it sort of has that bounce again
that doesn't seem to be right the bounce seems to be timed more for the dynamic Island on iPhone 14
pro and 14 pro Max so there's still an odd bug there with the UI and they haven't resolved that
yet now if we go into their notes in the feedback app within feedback go to recent activity and then
iOS 16.1 Beta release notes there are some issues with matter accessories like I mentioned so to
pair matter accessories a profile must first be installed on your device and so this is something
that should improve over the next couple of betas but they have resolved an issue with
room plan where it says existing surfaces are now updated in the did add delegate function and again
there's more known issues as well mostly developer focused but there are some known issues in here
as far as if you should install iOS 16.1 beta 1 right away I'd probably hold off for a little bit
to see if there's additional bugs that are going on I will mention that performance is Pretty good
overall but the phone was very hot after updating much hotter than it was with iOS 16. now granted
it did install a full OS update and had to process a lot of things in the background but generally
was very very warm so you may want to hold off a little bit for that the same is true for battery
we don't know how battery life is going to be over the next few days so it will take a little
bit to know that but we'll wait for it over the next few days and then talk about it maybe on the
weekend or a later follow-up video when we see what battery life is like overall running that
but battery health hasn't changed for me still seems to be pretty good and no issues still at
98 now as far as iOS 16 beta 2 release I would think at this point probably a couple weeks away
it's possible we could see it as soon as next week but I would think probably a couple weeks
away maybe we'll have an iOS 16 point 0.1 in the meantime if they need to fix anything else however
Apple has said that iPad OS 16 is releasing in October along with Mac OS Ventura so we can
see probably a few more betas and then a final release sometime in October maybe around that
iPad event that's actually expected by Apple of course on Friday is the iPhone 14 release
with the 1414 pro and pro Max with some apple watches and more so we're looking out for those
as well now as far as benchmarks go I did run a benchmark on this let's see where it went we'll
go in here and you'll see actually it's not quite good right away so you'll see the single core was
1738 multi-core was 4477. that's not quite good it did improve a little bit the phone was quite hot
when I ran it the first time so I ran it again and this is what I got so it will improve over
time I think but again it may take a few days for everything to process in the background
we'll check out the storage bug and more more in the follow-up to see if it's actually improved
maybe give it a few days to see what's happened there but overall you can see it's a little bit
lower than it was before but it doesn't feel any slower so it seems to be performing all
right now if you've found anything else I'd love to hear from you in the comments below and also
if you picked up an iPhone 14 I'd love to hear which version you got and which color as well if
you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course I'll link it in the description like
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