hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and ios 15.5 beta 3 has been out for a few days
i've been using it full time on my iphone 13 pro max and ipad pro and wanted to share my overall
experience with you and your experience based off the youtube community poll where at the time
of this video there's over 8 400 votes and 70 comments i've taken all of those comments put
them together to see what the overall experience of beta 3 has been like compared to beta 2 beta 1
and ios 15.4.1 so i want to talk about that but before we talk about that i wanted to mention
one feature that i didn't mention in the initial what's new video so there's actually an update to
photos and it has to do with memories so if i switch over to the iphone 8 plus here you
can see if i go into photos and go to memories i have a memory of a nearby location of charlotte
the city of charlotte and it just creates memories throughout the year with different photos that are
significant and music and more however within the code of ios 15.5 beta 3 they've actually blocked
locations that are sensitive such as the schindler factory or the anne frank house or different camps
around germany and around europe and those sorts of things have been actually blocked from memories
so that it doesn't create memories based off of those locations we may see this change in the
future with different locations as well and they haven't said anything about this publicly but
those locations are actually blocked in memories just specifically memories you'll be able to of
course see your photos and everything else it just won't create happy memories of those places
now as far as anything else that's new apple this week actually updated air tags and we didn't know
what was new in it but then they recently released a support document that explains what's actually
new in air tag 1.0.301 so if you have an air tag what they've done is actually tune the overall
sound of it to make it a little bit louder so it's easier to listen to or find if you lose it so you
can activate that and unfortunately there's no easy way to update it in fact none of mine have
updated yet you can actually check that by going into your find my app so go into find my then
go to items and within items tap on your air tag and at the top i just have it scrolled up so you
can't see it tap on the overall location and it will reveal the actual firmware version none of
mine have updated yet it'll also show the serial number as well so that hopefully will update very
soon for everyone within the next couple of weeks they just update on their own also apple announced
their revenue this past week and it was pretty impressive it was another record-setting march
and except for ipads everything was much much better that was due to some supply constraints the
apple expects to go well into 2022. so they said they made 50 billion dollars on iphone 7.6 billion
on ipad 10.4 billion on mac and 19.8 billion on services so a tremendous amount of money like
normal and that's what they made this time around however they do expect those supply constraints
to go well into 2022. now as far as the overall experience of ios 15.5 beta 3 most people say
that it's better than ios 15.5 beta 2 or 1 or even ios 15.4 so that's a good sign also another thing
that seems to be working really well for me is airdrop so airdrop before was a problem if we go
into photos if i airdrop that to say the iphone 8 plus tap on it it's usually pretty fast you'll see
it worked right away and then it's on the eight plus over here right away so airdrop works quick
it says that it says sent before it wasn't saying send now it seems to be working a hundred percent
of the time for me i'm also hearing good things about storage this time around where if we go
into general then iphone storage most people said that there were storage issues before so
we'll wait for that to load and being that we're outside let's turn off dark mode just because it's
hard to see the display you'll see that storage does take a little bit of time to load but most
people are saying that it's faster and that storage down at the bottom here system data
is actually taking up less space for most people so that's actually a really good sign before it
was taking up a lot of space for many people and it seems like it's resolved for most now
you can see it's taking a while here let me run it on the 8 plus and see if it does the same thing
so we'll go over to settings then general then we'll go down to iphone storage and let's see how
long this takes as well so we'll give it a moment and see what it does so that loaded much faster
the initial load and again it's checking system data so we'll give that a moment and that loaded
right away 3.33 gigabytes on the iphone 8 plus it should be something at least a few gigabytes but
many people were saying that it could be as big as 50 gigabytes so that's pretty unexpected it seems
like it's fixed with beta 3. i haven't heard a negative report from anyone at all at this
point now cellular connectivity has actually been really good with this update we did have a modem
update in this version and you'll see i'm on 5g uc so i really haven't had any issues i have two
bars and i'm kind of in the middle of nowhere so let's go ahead and hit go and see what we get here
so we'll let it run just a moment here give it just a second and it's pretty good almost
300 megabits per second and it's doing just fine so 300 megabits per second down
with just two bars we'll wait for it to go to upload and should do that any second here
there we go and we're at about well only three to five megabits per second for upload so far
so nothing really great there 5.73 megabytes or megabits but it's pretty good overall considering
i'm sort of in the middle of nowhere but i haven't had any issues with it switching like i did before
between uc or 5g and lte now there are a few issues apple still needs to fix in this update
one of them seems to be auto brightness one issue i've had is when i go inside all of a sudden auto
brightness will bring the screen all the way down and then you won't be able to see it so
that's a bit difficult of course if you're in a bright environment you can't see your display
if you're in a dark environment you can see it but it's just very very dim
so that's an issue for some people i've seen that myself and then also i had one person mentioned
that they actually had it respring so the phone just sort of restarted on its own and crashed
i only heard that from one person though however there's a very odd issue with ipad
so with the ipad using the apple pencil the apple pencil doesn't seem to work at all if you have the
magic keyboard attached so you'll see it's not working at all but if i take it off of the magic
keyboard we'll give it just a second here and then we'll reconnect it give it just a moment
it recognizes it and now i can use it however if i put it back on the magic keyboard there we go take
the apple pencil off it doesn't work again so even resetting it doesn't seem to work this is an odd
bug i'm only seeing on the apple pencil 2 and the ipad pro it's very strange with the magic keyboard
definitely a bug that we need to report if we haven't already in the feedback app so
wherever i have it here feedback we need to report that now there's also a duplicate app issue that
showed up in beta 2 that's also showing in beta 3. so if we go into our settings we'll get out
of storage here and if we tap on our name at the top and then go to icloud you'll see here it shows
us our icloud storage and then you can see things like messages you'll see messages here if i scroll
down below you'll see messages repeated so you'll see that with certain apps for some reason they're
repeated quite a few people are seeing this and it looks like they're duplicated for certain apps
not every app but for some reason some of them are duplicated such as messages so hopefully they'll
resolve that again if you're seeing that make sure you report it in feedback so that apple can take
care of it and is aware of it also as far as other issues well the only other major issue i'm hearing
is that some people are still having overheating issues with their iphone i had this get a little
bit warm but i really haven't had any issues with it as far as it getting super hot in fact i would
say it was less warm or not even close to what it was with beta 2. so beta 3 fixed that for me but
i am hearing that it's an issue for some people now as far as overall battery life let's go down
to battery and battery health i'm at 100 still and i actually went into coconut battery to check this
as well i'll share that in just a moment but i actually checked my battery health and it's still
at a hundred percent there as well now my overall usage over the past few days we'll take a look at
yesterday i had three hours and four minutes of screen on time nine hours and 10 minutes of screen
off time now i didn't leave music running so i'm not sure why it's still having that music bug
that seems to be an ongoing issue where it's using additional background activity
the day before 2 hours and 54 minutes of screen on time and 5 hours and 31 minutes of screen off time
both of them used about 50 of my battery however when i went to bed at night i was still around 50
so it wasn't much of an issue for me with normal usage but for some reason it's a problem for some
now i wanted to share the overall battery life sent in by abhishek some people send these in
from time to time and this is on an iphone 11 pro max running beta 3. you can see he had 6 hours and
43 minutes of screen on time 38 minutes of screen off time and used about 75 percent of his battery
so it's pretty good battery life probably not as good as a public version but we'll have to wait
for apple to release the public version so we can see that later now as far as coconut battery is
concerned like i said earlier this is my battery health i measured there it's at 100 with 127
cycles you can see it shows the temperature was at 30.3 celsius and that's what this phone is at
now my ipad is a different story i measured it and it's actually gone down it's at 91.8
capacity this is again using coconut battery on a mac it's a free app but it's not in the app store
and it's had 156 cycles and it's about a year old so that makes a lot of sense now my battery life
overall on the ipad again is not really great as far as battery life on the ipad you can see
here if we go to the last 10 days yesterday i had one hour and 45 minutes of screen on time
2 hours and 14 minutes of screen off time so it's not great three hours and 32 minutes of screen
on time the day before and typically i'll get five to six hours of screen on time so it's not
really that great and again now that the battery's degraded a little bit as expected
it's probably never going to get that 10 hours again but it should at least get about nine hours
and it's just not getting that so hopefully apple can increase this with an ios update
or maybe it just needs a bigger battery at this point performance wise beta 3 has actually been
pretty good so if we're going on the 8 plus and you can hear the birds in the background
they're a little bit noisy but the iphone 8 plus seems to be nice and fast and smooth
the iphone 12 pro seems to be fine it's working well as also if we go into the camera it's nice
and fast usually if it responds to touch this does have a screen protector on it so that could have
been the touch issue there but you'll see it's nice and fast there and no issues going back in
go into the camera and again it's nice and fast so no problems with speed or performance i did run
benchmarks so i could share those with you also now on my 13 promax you can see the single core
is 1732 multi-core is 4677 i actually ran this twice because i found that to be a little bit low
compared to before so you can see the different scores here where we had well earlier today it was
a little bit lower and then on the 26th when it released it was actually a little bit higher for
the single core score but lower for multi-core it's staying in the general vicinity 100 or so
plus or minus is quite good but let me share the other phones as well and again i'll read these
for any of you that are visually impaired and have asked me to do that so on the iphone 8 plus it's
899 for single core 2329 for multi-core on the 12 pro it's 1589 for single core 3983 for multicore
now when it comes to future versions of ios i was a bit surprised this week that we didn't have ios
15.4.2 usually when apple stops signing an ios version such as ios 15.4 meaning you can no longer
downgrade to that version typically we'll have an ios update within two to three weeks this was
the third week and we haven't had an update so if we go into the calendar maybe we'll have one next
week but i'm just not going to count on it anymore as it seems like apple may be waiting for ios 15.5
however we could always see an update to address security concerns like we had earlier in this week
there were some issues that were found as well as maybe some bug fixes and more before we get
to ios 16. i also would expect ios 15.5 beta 4 this week since we're on a weekly schedule
between beta 2 and beta 3 was only a week so i expect beta 4 as soon as tuesday this week maybe
tuesday or wednesday of course apple could change this but typically once we get to a weekly cycle
we stay on the weekly cycle until the release candidate and then final version
based off it already going to the weekly cycle i would say the final version will be out before the
end of may and then ios 16 beta 1 will be on june 6th typically we'll have ios 15 and ios 16 betas
all the way until september or mid-september will have the release of ios 16 and then no more ios 15
betas that's typically what apple does but again they can change this up maybe we'll only have ios
16 betas but either way that's what they've done year over year it makes sense that they would
continue to do that so that leads me to should you install ios 15.5 beta 3 on your device if you
have the beta already then definitely you probably already upgraded but if you're trying to resolve
issues i would hold off maybe until beta 4 or a final release where they resolve issues especially
on the ipad so really at this point i typically don't recommend betas unless you really are into
beta testing and you have backups then i would just skip it for now let's take a look at some of
the comments and so i have them on my ipad that's right here and we'll take a look at what bob jones
said using the 15.5 beta haven't used beta 1 or 2 it's very smooth and stable and battery life
seems to be just as good as the public version 15.4.1 seems it's a little bit better also all
around i'll go as far as to say that the next build will be the final release i would say
probably a couple builds out as the end of the build number isn't yet a usually once it hits
the letter a on the build number then we'll have a final release candidate and then a final version
kevin said 12 pro max on 15.5 beta 3 switches from lte 5g 5g uc and wi-fi without interruption
now fixed in beta 3. battery life is better than beta 2. also i'm hearing that really no issues
with bluetooth this time around or wi-fi so that's great news kim says iphone 11 pro max ios 15.5
beta 3 running smooth or smooth running no bugs batteries good iphone storage downloaded instantly
all good it's been three days cold and sour says is it worth it to participate in their public
beta program i'm rocking my first ios device iphone 13 mini and i always participated with
my android devices i would say definitely if you have a backup if you have maybe a computer you can
go back to a previous version if you have a problem then definitely try it out
otherwise you might want to hold off at this point anton said ios 15.5 beta 3 is going great for me
no bugs battery problems or other issues and also he said he's on the iphone sc second generation
hell wg51 says i'm using it on an iphone sc2 it is running fine and i have not seen any issues
when i first downloaded it battery life seemed to take a hit but now it seems to be back where
it was originally and that's what i'm seeing from most people typically the battery life is
quite good on this update as good as 15.4.1 for most not everyone it really depends on the apps
you're using head pack says on ios 15.4.1 with the 12 pro max hoping for battery improvements
endurance is not great despite mine still being at 100 health seems with ios 15.4 it took a nosedive
and this really depends on what you're using what phone you're using and how you're using it some
people have great battery life my daughters that use 15.4.1 in my wife really have no issues with
it other people do so it really just depends on what you're using it for and how you're using it
png jeremiah said on my 6s battery life is better than beta2 it was the best on 15.4.1 though
so again it really depends on which device you're on matt mills said 13 pro max so far
so good battery seems to be about the same as ios 15.4.1 for me and so i'm hearing a lot of
the same thing from many people it seems to be decent battery most of the time and fairly
stable with the exception of that odd bug with the apple pencil on ipad os and a few odd bugs
here and there it definitely seems much better and it really should be better this time around
now i would expect beta 4 this coming week with maybe a final release in just a couple weeks from
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