What's up guys, my name's Brandon and today Apple released iOS 15.1,
after going through four beta stages over the past month.
And in addition to this iOS release, we also received iPadOS 15.1,
watchOS 8.1, tvOS 15.1, HomePodOS 15.1,
and MacOS Monterey. But in this video,
we're going to be covering everything new and iOS and iPadOS 15.1,
including the new changes, the bug fixes performance battery life,
and whether or not you should update.
And if we take a look at the size of this update, you can see here,
it came in at 1.44GB on my iPhone 13 pro.
But of course that size will vary depending on your device and the version are
coming from, but this was coming from 15.0.2.
And as far as the build number goes, if a good to our settings general,
about 15.1,
we can see the new build number here is 19 B seven four.
And if we scroll down to the modem firmware,
you could see that as also been updated to one point 15.02.
So if you have any issues relating to the modem,
those could be resolved here with 15.1. All right,
so now what's new here in iOS 15.1.
And the first thing is that share play for FaceTime has returned.
So this got pulled in the early beta stages of iOS 15, and this was easily.
One of the most anticipated features in the software.
So now it is back and available to everybody who updates to iOS
15.1. So to take advantage of this, and if you guys don't know, share,
play basically allows you to share your screen. You're able to watch TV shows,
movies, listen to music together with another person in real time.
It's very, very cool. It works very well.
And I made a whole separate video on this as well.
So if you want to go even further in depth, you can check that video out.
It's linked up in the cards and down in the description below,
but basically when you're in a FaceTime call,
you will see this little button underneath the end button right there.
If you tap on that, that allows you to share your screen.
You can see you get a little countdown and then you will see a little purple up
in your status bar up here in the left when you are sharing your screen.
And also if you go into music, if you go to your music application,
or if you go into like Netflix or apple TV, you will see this. So you see,
we have a little button up there that says content will share play
automatically. So when I start playing a song right here,
it's actually going to play on both devices at the same time,
and we're going to be able to, you know, use the cue together.
So like if the person that you're on a FaceTime call with decided to change the
cue up, they could do that. And it would change in real time.
So I'll show you how that works right here.
So I'm going to move a song on the key right here,
and you will see it move in real time, right there.
And it shows that that person updated the queue. So it works for music.
It also works like I said,
and the TV application and any application that uses in our, that plays media.
So this will work. It's really awesome.
And also there is a feature called a smart volume.
So it lower the volume of media when somebody on the FaceTime call talks,
which is really cool. And of course, when you're watching a movie or TV show,
it will pause at the same time, fast forward, all of that at the same time.
And then also inside of your FaceTime settings,
you have a new section here for share play.
And in here you have the kill switch to turn share, play on or off,
and then you also have the option to start share,
play automatically on certain applications.
So I like having it turned on automatically. They could turn that off in there.
If you want to. And speaking of FaceTime,
we do also have a minor change inside of the FaceTime settings. You can see,
we have a new glyph icon for announced calls.
Also new and iOS 15.1 is pro progress video.
So ProRes video has officially been added for the iPhone 13 pro and 13 pro
max. So this is only available for the 13 pro at 13 pro max,
no other phone gets the capability to shoot and pro Rez video.
So you can see when you go to the video section,
you will notice this new pro Rez button up top.
We could turn it on or turn it off and you could see you get a max time.
So obviously just from looking at that, this is a 256 gigabyte device,
and I can only shoot 4k video in 18 minutes.
And that's because progress video takes up a ton of storage space.
Now keep in mind if you have a 128 gigabyte iPhone 13 pro or pro max,
you can only shoot in up to 10 80 P you need a 256 gigabyte device
or larger to shoot pro Rez and 4k.
And if we go into our settings and down to camera and two formats,
you will see under video capture, it shows apple pro Rez.
So it says that a minute,
one minute of 10 bit HDR pro Rez video is approximately
1.7 gigabytes for HD and six gigabytes for 4k.
So if you're going to shoot a minute of 4k per Rez video,
it's going to take up about six gigabytes of storage, which is crazy.
And the difference is there. I mean, you can see a difference in pro Rez,
but you're really only going to want to use that if you actually shoot,
you know, semi-professionally,
if you actually are like a cinematographer or you really care about color
grading and editing your video, you know, in post, then that will be worth it.
But for most people, you're probably not going to use progress too much,
but it is pretty cool to still have the, you know,
the feature that capability to shoot pro Rez natively on the iPhone. Now,
also inside of the camera settings, we have another new toggle here in 15.1,
and that is auto macro. So you can see at the bottom,
it says automatically switch to the ultra wide camera to capture macro photos
and videos.
So basically what this does is you have the ability now to toggle on or off the
little stutter animation when it switches to go into the
macro mode. So that little animation, it can turn that off. Basically. It just,
it doesn't disable the animation, it just disables macro mode altogether.
But now when you get close to something, you know,
it's not going to really ruin your videos.
So I personally like to have this off just until I actually wants to shoot macro
shots, because especially for video, I found that when I'm shooting video,
that macro could really mess up my video. When I want to get close to something,
it does that little, you know,
transition and just gets into that macro when I did not want it.
So I like the fact that we now have the toggle for that.
I like to keep mine off, unless I know I'm going to shoot and macro mode.
So hopefully we get a toggle inside of the camera application.
I know it is pretty clogged up right now,
but hopefully we do eventually get some type of toggle on there to turn on or
off the macro mode.
Now we also have a change in the control center related to the air pods.
So if we go into the control center here and you have to press where the volume
slider is when your AirPods are connected, you will see down here.
We always had the head tracking, the spatial audio toggle down there,
but now at 15.1, if you tap on that, you have the option to change it,
to fixed or to turn it off.
So before it either just turned off or turned on, and that was it.
But now we have the option to do fixed as well. And also with 15.1,
you get lossless audio and spatial audio support for the home pod and home pod
mini,
just make sure your home pods are also updated to the latest software version.
We also now get the ability to add COVID vaccination cards to the wallet
application. So once you add that COVID vaccination into the health application,
you will then get the prompt to add it to your wallet.
So this is only for specific states. So if your state does allow this,
you will see this feature as of iOS 15.1.
We also get some new features inside of shortcuts. So number one,
we have a fix for these set wallpaper bugs.
If you guys follow my dynamic wallpapers, you know,
it's a tutorial where I show you guys how to change your wallpaper every morning
at sunrise. You know, one of the big things that we have,
one of the big bugs that we had with this was that the wallpaper would not
set properly. So if that happened to you on previous versions,
that has been fixed here in iOS 15.1,
along with the error messages you might receive,
even though the actual automation ran to be had the automation right here,
and it was set up properly, you know,
you would run it and it would give you an error,
even though the automation would run properly and work,
you would still get an error message saying that it did not work.
So that has also been resolved here in 15.1,
you should not be seeing that error message anymore.
And then also inside of shortcuts,
we have a new overlay text action to go ahead into here and you search for an
action. You can search for overlay text.
So let me go ahead and type this in overlay text right there.
So that is a new action inside of shortcuts. And it can see here, uh,
use that to create a little meme maker. So this is a way to, you know,
utilize this new action. Of course you can do it to watermark images.
You can make a meme maker. So I'll show you guys how this works properly.
So I just go ahead and type in this right here.
I'm just typing in something that's just random. Here we go.
And it could see it creates the little meme at right there.
So you can have it set up to do that. Or of course you can images.
And the cool thing about overlay text is you could also change the font,
the font size, the font color, the rotation, the outline, the stroke,
all of that. You could also change the sizing to be absolute or proportional.
So really cool. I do wish there was an opacity slider right there,
but maybe we will get that in a future updates, but pretty cool and great.
If you do use the shortcuts application also inside of the translate
application, we have a new language added.
So now you'll be able to translate Chinese. So you can see right there,
we have Chinese Mandarin and China mainland.
So that is a new language added to the translate application.
And then also we have live texts available on iPad iOS at 15.1.
So for whatever reason live was not in the initial build of iOS 15 for the iPad,
but now live text is available for you iPad users.
And then as far as bug fixes go,
we also have a lot of bug fixes here with iOS 15.1. Of course,
this is the first major release after iOS 15.
So you can expect to see a ton of blogs fixed.
So the first one is that the blink widgets would appear after a
reboot. So a lot of people have to reboot what, just see blank, widgets.
They would just be black or whites, whatever the case may be.
And then they wouldn't reappear until you locked your phone and came back.
So that has been resolved with iOS 15.1.
Also the storage bugs have been fixed.
So the one that apple mentions is that the photos app might falsely report
storage is full when importing photos and videos. So that has been fixed.
But also for me, at least,
if you go into your settings general and then iPhone storage for a lot of
people, this would show an inaccurate amounts. But for me,
that has been resolved here as of the final build of 15.1.
We also have some fixes inside of the weather app.
So the weather app would sometimes show the wrong temperature right here.
And it would also be mismatched between the actual weather app and the widget.
It was show two different temperatures that has been resolved here with 15.1.
And then also apple mentioned that it might display colors of animated
backgrounds incorrectly. So if your animated backgrounds were incorrect,
those should be resolved here as well.
And then apple does also mention that that audio playing from an app might pause
when locking the screen.
So if you're playing music or you're playing a YouTube video,
if you're playing a, you know,
anything that would play in the background normally,
and you locked your screen and it would stop playing,
even though it should keep playing, that has been resolved in 15.1 as well.
That happened to me a couple of times. So I'm glad to see that fixed.
There's also a fix for the wallet application.
So if this unexpectedly quit when using voiceover with multiple passes,
that has been resolved here in this update also available,
wifi networks may not be detected.
So this is something that a lot of my viewers, you know,
sent in and talked about on Twitter. And if you go into your wifi right here,
for some people, their wifi network would just simply not show up at all.
It would not be detected by their iPhone on iOS 15.0 0.2.
But now with 15.1,
it has been resolved and it should see all of your wifi networks correctly.
And then also some good news for iPhone 12 users.
So apple mentions that the battery algorithms have been updated on the iPhone 12
models to better estimate battery capacity over time.
So just like apple did with the iPhone 11 last year,
apple has updated the battery algorithms to better detect the actual
battery capacity of the iPhone 12 models, which is huge.
Especially if you're trying to sell your iPhone,
that battery capacity could make or break, you know,
how much you make from that phone. So it's good to see that.
So basically if you had,
maybe you had like an 89% battery capacity before on iOS 15,
but now if you update to 15.1,
you could see that go up to 95% or you could see go down to like
85%. So whatever the case may be,
it's going to be more accurate after you update to 15.1.
And then of course we do also have some security patches and this update as
well,
which is always something you should pay close attention to and something that
most people should always strongly consider updating for.
And as far as any additional bugs,
really the only bug I'm still facing has to do with handoff to home pod and
airplay to home pod. It's still very buggy, very laggy.
It freezes my music application sometimes, and I have to, you know,
lock my screen and unlock it to fix it and get it on frozen.
So that's really the only issue I'm still facing.
Some people are still having an issue where their notifications overlap.
So I'm not facing that, but some people are still seeing that.
Also some people are still seeing an issue where the Siri voice switches back
and forth from the voice that they selected and back to the default voice,
it's just kind of back and forth on that.
So I am also having that issue from time to time,
and it is still not fixed here and 15.1.
So hopefully we will see a fix for that sometime soon,
but as far as the overall performance goes, performance is great. On 15.1,
it's actually a nice improvement over iOS, 15 through 15.0 0.2.
So there are plenty of bug fixes,
the stutter that some people were seeing after unlocking their phone has gone.
You know,
a lot of those bugs I mentioned earlier have been resolved here in 15.1.
So really a nice big point update that fixes a lot of
issues. And then as far as the geek bend scores go, you can see here,
we score a very respectable 1743 on the single core and a
48 69 on the multi-core.
So even the geek bench scores are very strong here with this updates.
And then as far as battery life goes,
a battery life has been excellent on the RC build.
So have been running the final build here for a little while now,
and the battery life has been excellent.
It feels about the same to me is 15.0 0.2.
So there's not going to be a major difference and battery life. However,
if you did have battery drain, that could be fixed here with this update,
but I would not update expecting to see major improvements in battery because
I've not been able to tell a very big difference coming from 15.0 0.2.
All right. So now should do updates to iOS 15.1. And I say, absolutely.
I mean, share play alone is one of the biggest features in Iowa city scene.
And I think it's worth updating for that alone because your friends are probably
going to want to do that with you. You know, if you're into that type of thing,
that's definitely something you want to update for.
Not to mention you also have some massive features unlocked with pro Reza video
and that macro toggle for the iPhone 13 pro and 13 pro max. So if you have,
you know, either those phones, it's also a must update in my opinion,
but even if you don't have one of those phones or even if you don't use
FaceTime,
I would still update because you get a ton of bug fixes and some additional
features that you may use in the future. Now, as far as what's next for apple,
I did also want to touch on this because I would expect to see an iOS 15.2 beta
one very soon.
Now we could also see an iOS 15.1 0.1,
if there's a major bug or a security vulnerability found,
but that would not come until sometime in early to mid
November,
but I would not expect iOS 15.2 to release until the end of November,
possibly the beginning of December.
But I would expect to see that first beta rollout pretty soon. But anyways,
guys, there, you have it.
That is iOS 15.1 and all of the new features and changes included with this
update. So hope you guys enjoyed this, if you did, I would appreciate it.
If you give it a thumbs up, also let me know in a comment down below,
what's your favorite feature of iOS 15.1 is. And also of course,
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I update you guys on every single iOS, 15 updates,
but anyways, guys, thanks again for watching and I'll see you soon.
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