hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and ios 16 beta 6 and ios 16 public beta 4 have been
out for a few days i've been using it full time but there's even more features that we've found
since the initial ios 16 beta 6 what's new video so i wanted to share that and also apple released
ios 15.6.1 earlier this week we'll talk more about that the overall experience that i'm
having and the experience you're having based off the youtube community poll or at the time of this
video there's over 9 000 votes and 133 comments which i've gone through just to see what it's like
overall now first i wanted to talk about the apple security issue that's making its rounds throughout
the news and as you can see if you just search for apple security you'll see a ton of different
stories about this and the thing that they're not telling you until you click into those and then
read way down into it is that apple has already fixed this with ios 15.6.1 apple actually fixed it
in the security update and you can actually see the security update on their website they talk
about the exploits to the kernel and webkit where someone could take over control of your device
so they highly recommend installing it since this actually fixes that issue so i just wanted to
address that as many people have been asking me to so it's fixed as long as you have ios 15.6.1
however ios 16 beta 6 we don't know if it fixes that however if it doesn't apple typically will
patch it with beta 7 and we'll talk more about when to expect that a little bit later
now the first thing is ios 16 beta 6 is actually causing american express cards
to oddly be removed from apple wallet so if you have an american express card in your apple wallet
and it's removed you're not alone apparently a lot of people are actually seeing this
now last week i shared with you that live activities is a nice feature we've seen
we can actually see that by setting a stopwatch or an alarm here we'll just set
an alarm or a timer rather we'll start that and if we go to our lock screen we'll have
the timer with live activities i showed you a different app that shows the same sort of thing
and it's i event timer however apple has removed the ability for it to use live activities now
this is across all devices and apparently live activities will not be in the initial release
of ios 16 for the public and will be coming later with different tv shows things and more
as apps are updated so unfortunately we're not going to see that for a while hopefully they'll
reinstate it before it's actually released to the public but as of right now it's not working
and they've removed that experience now as far as new features and changes well the battery
percentage in beta 6 i showed this before where we have the percentage in the upper right some
people love this some people don't but if we go into our settings and then we go down to battery
let's switch over to dark mode here go to battery and you'll see the battery percentage is on if we
turn on low power mode before it would actually force the battery percentage to be turned on
now you can turn that off this button was grayed out before now we have the option to do that
additionally there's a nice animation when you plug in the phone put it on power it actually
expands the actual battery and then shrinks back down just like before but they've updated it since
we have the percentage in it and one more time as i put it on magsafe there we go it should
expand and show you that it's charging so it's a nice little new animation within settings and
then under wallpaper if we go under wallpaper and tap on customize we no longer get a little pop-up
that says customize current wallpaper or add new wallpaper it just goes right in and allows you to
customize it so it saves you a little step there and it's a nice update now i have beta 5 on the
left beta 6 on the right and if we press and hold the lock screen going into our wallpaper selector
tap on customize and then tap on the little photo icon it brings us to a different place
now it's bringing me to featured where before it was just jumping into photos so that's a little
bit of a different interface change for me i know it may be different for everyone but this is what
i'm actually seeing some people were also seeing it jump right to all now if you're using the
weather wallpaper we'll go over here the clouds in the background actually update in real time based
on your current weather location this is something i didn't mention before you'll see it just changed
where we are it's a little cloudy and they're moving they're animated and then they update
throughout the day it looks like they didn't update as quickly as before maybe they fixed this
but more people are seeing this update much faster in beta 6. also when you go to set a
wallpaper it seems to be much more customized based on what it's seeing in the background
so if we pinch and zoom move it around this is just a photo from unsplash or maybe we switch
to a different one it will look a little different as far as its overall customization so you'll see
here this is what it defaults to and if we pinch and zoom move this up you'll see the text changes
initially so you can see it a little bit better and it's really nice that it's very fast and
customizable now and sort of matches the different font selections that you would want for the
the picture itself so it's a really nice update with beta 6 it's just getting better and better
and more refined when we go into spotlight search and pull down the animation seems to be smoother
and a little nicer so you'll see it pops up from the search down here with beta 5 on the left beta
6 on the right it definitely seems a little bit better of course we have more suggestions here too
with siri suggestions so you'll see again we'll do that again the animations change slightly or is
just smoother some people are seeing a completely different animation as well now something that's
actually been there a little while but maybe people weren't familiar with so i wanted to share
it has to do with typing in search and then typing the word code there's actually an app called
code scanner that allows you to scan qr codes now of course this is built in to your camera
and it's in previous versions of ios but just wanted to mention it as if we go into it
now you can find code to scan and we can turn on the flashlight to make it a little bit brighter
so i just wanted to mention that it is in ios 15 as well and maybe even previous versions but
was found by mistake and i actually hadn't seen that or heard about that in quite some time so i
wanted to share it if you have a photo with a lot of text in it and you tap on the live text button
there's now an option to copy all so if it sees just text you can easily copy all of that text
just by tapping live text now you may not have the live text option depending on your device but if
you do you should have this again this isn't new to beta 6 but it is something i haven't mentioned
before within your icloud settings if you have icloud plus and you go in to hide my email at the
top of hide my email there's a search box so you can search through all of your different accounts
maybe that's on apple.com or something else and you can easily find that now it was in previous
betas but it's something again that i hadn't mentioned and has been found since also to do with
email if we go into the mail app and maybe we have an email ready to send but maybe we want to send
it a little bit later press and hold on the send button tap on send later and then of course we can
schedule it that's not new in ios 16 however if you tap on send it sends it later you'll now have
a new folder that appears under your mailboxes with your send later mail so go into that and
you'll see anything that you can send later and it will also tell you when it's scheduled for
so these are just example emails but it's really nice that we have an easy way to see those
if you delete these it actually disappears from your mailboxes so if we get rid of these we'll
just trash this mail and this one go back and it disappears so it only shows up when you have mail
ready to send later within ios 16 there's a lot of collaboration options where you can share files
and more with people and within the code they've changed some things and thanks to my friend
steve moser i'll show you some other code changes later but one that's a little bit more obvious is
maybe you want to send something within files and collaborate with someone on something within files
that file must be smaller than two gigabytes according to the code or it will be too large
for collaboration also the number of participants cannot exceed 99 people so that's actually built
into the code if you want to share something also to go along with sharing is icloud shared photo
library within the code it specifies that you can only share with people within your region for some
reason so only in the same country in regions so if you have family abroad that you'd want to share
with apparently you can't do that maybe they'll change it in future betas but it's something
that is mentioned within the code specifically also mentioned within the code you can see here
on steve mosher's twitter account he posts some more things apple financing may use your apple
pay later account status such as whether you have applied for or are currently using apple pay later
to determine whether a message is relevant to you including a marketing message this could go along
with the rumors that apple's going to ramp up marketing throughout ios hopefully we'll have
some options to disable that again there's more legal speak that's actually in the code
and then also there's things that do with sort of wallpaper limit reached i talked about this in
the initial what's new video however i haven't reached that limit yet i've created about 25
wallpaper or more and i still haven't reached that limit also cellular plans are now called
esim so basically if you're deleting all of your cellular plans it says delete all e sim so it
looks like apple may be making a big push toward esim maybe we'll find that out with iphone 14.
and again i showed this duplicate card that was in the initial what's new video and there's just
some changes in the wording there and then here's the information about collaborations and shared
photo library again some additional legalese with the apple weather app notifications so
that's just some wording changes the overall experience has been pretty good with beta 6. it
definitely seems to be a little bit more stable for me i haven't had the typical issues i've
been having with messages with group messages not working and having the text box available
and i haven't had messages freeze up like it did in beta 5 for me also the set wallpaper
shortcuts seem to be working better some people saw them working properly in beta 5
now they're working for more people in beta 6 but occasionally there's still some bugs
so if you have something to set a wallpaper maybe change it throughout the day and you have this set
it could be a little bit buggy but definitely seems better now also dictation once again seems
to be a little bit worse for me this time around it's a little different i use it all the time
and now dictation is activated and typically what i'm seeing is sometimes it's really bad
when i'm speaking and then if i stop it it actually corrects itself afterward
that's what i'm seeing if i'm in a more echoey environment it's really bad and doesn't work
well at all so it just depends where i'm using it however in some cases it seems to be fixing
it properly after you're done speaking so they definitely change some things here weather is also
working a little bit better and faster as far as the widget is concerned at least on ios 16 beta 6
you'll see it updates quickly when i go into the weather app and it wasn't updating quickly on beta
5 for me so i saw a difference there initially when i set this up for the video and the weather
app is also working properly again on watch os 9. so watch os nine beta six the little weather icon
is working properly if i go into it well sometimes it doesn't load properly but then it loads before
it wouldn't load it all now it's actually showing on the home screen regularly and also this watch
face is modular it used to be called infograph modular and then it has the apple me in the middle
for those who are curious now that leads me to should you install ios 16 beta 6 or public beta 4
if you're on a previous beta absolutely install it as apple continues to update things fix bugs and
more and also be sure to report those in feedback if you're having issues as they actually resolve
issues one of the issues i reported was the issue with messages not having an actual way
to input text when i wanted to do that and a group message they fix that and actually check
up sometimes if you're having an issue to see if it's fixed so they definitely are looking at those
also if you're wondering and maybe you're wanting to hold off you want to know if things
work as far as apps for banks and more there is actually a list of compatibility i'll link in the
description if you want to check it out someone made a nice spreadsheet that actually lists
all of the different apps and how they interact with different betas so that's super helpful and
i'll link that in the description but different apps will work differently for different people
the banks i use work fine some banks don't it just depends where they are now as far as ios 15.6.1
like i said it's mostly a security update and very very important to install so i would definitely
install that if you were wondering if you should do that if you're on ios 15.5 it's just a security
patch it doesn't slow down the phone most people say it's basically the exact same thing
however when you first install an update you could have some issues as far as your battery
life as it does have to process a lot in the background give it a few days and it should
improve overall it's really no different it's just patching very important security issues
so make sure you install that if you haven't already as far as ios 16 beta 7 and public beta 5
at this point we're on a weekly schedule i would expect that as soon as maybe monday or tuesday
so far it's been every monday for the past couple betas so monday the 22nd seems very very likely
with a following update maybe on the 29th with the release candidate we may only have beta
7 or beta 8 and then a final release candidate and then a final release to the public sometime
in mid-september now september is when we expect that new iphone event apple's iphone 14 event
should be either on the 6th or the 13th however lately mark german from bloomberg is saying
to expect it on the 7th this is a little bit unusual but definitely could be right
as labor day is the fifth people will come back to work on the sixth and then actually have a day or
so in between that event and get it set up on the seventh so that's really what i think will happen
the seventh seems very likely and if that's the case we could see updates within the next
week or two so typically they send out those updates for apple invites about a week before
they don't give a whole lot of time to prep for that now as far as overall battery life on beta 6
it's okay last night i went to bed and had 30 percent maybe a little bit more than that
before i plugged it in at night or put it on the wireless charger at night my battery health
is currently at 99 and here's coconut battery so you can see what my actual cycle count is
i shared that and then if we go to the last 10 days you'll see yesterday i used three hours and
25 minutes of screen on time three hours and 57 minutes of screen off time and used about 75 70
that's not great battery life so with beta 6 my battery life hasn't been great it really is hit
or miss for people but the overall stability seems better apple focuses on battery life and getting
everything working properly before they release it to the public so hopefully we'll see that soon if
there's features causing issues sometimes they'll pull those features to make sure they have more
time to work on them but it seems to be okay for those of you reporting ios 15.6.1 battery life in
that seems to be the same as 15.6 it doesn't seem to fix much it's basically the same thing in just
a security update so i wouldn't really expect any differences there but again it takes a few days
to notice and as far as performance overall well geekbench scores show that it's pretty good i had
1711 for single core 4713 from multicore i had to run this twice as earlier results were pretty poor
as you can see here multicore was 45.73 i had a lot of apps in the background i thought maybe they
were causing an issue with some of them i closed them out ran it well just a moment ago as you saw
and it's pretty good it's a little bit better now than it was the other day when i ran
it when it first released so it's a little worse for single core better for multi-core
but it's basically performing as you would expect whether that be scrolling through different pages
opening different apps whether that be on an iphone 11 and iphone 8 everything seems to be nice
and fast so i booted this up not too long ago give it just a moment there go to browse with music
different apps are loading just fine i really wouldn't expect any difference in performance and
pro motion is nice and smooth no issues there as far as the overall heat while i did just run geek
bench scores on this it is a little bit warm but it's been a little bit warmer than it was before
the last day or so it was typically a little warmer than normal nothing to be concerned
about is it's not hot but definitely warmer and i thought i'd share that with the flare image
camera again with the thermal camera so you can see here after running geekbench it's about 98
degrees fahrenheit and you'll see there it's quite warm in that specific area now let's go ahead and
take a look at the youtube community poll and some of your comments and at the time of this video
we'll refresh we have 9.2 k or ninety two hundred votes so thanks to everyone that voted thirty one
percent of you are saying that beta six is great three percent are saying it's terrible which is
pretty typical for a public release so that's not bad twelve percent say it's okay but has some bugs
forty 48 are using ios 15.6.1 or older and six percent are using android so thanks again to
everyone that voted now let's take a look at some of your comments ron leady he says running ios 16
public beta 4 on a 13 pro max have several apps that have ui issues particularly blank screens
the first noticed is settings wi-fi and settings bluetooth once i force quit the app the problem
seems to go away will says so far ios 15.6.1 is okay on his 12 pro max battery seems about the
same as 15.6 not heating up as much diana says my iphone 12 mini is running just great on this beta
however my ipad mini started doing an endless restart after getting hot while playing games
i had to hook it up to itunes and wipe it then start over seems to be fine now i do love ios 16
and and can't wait to get iphone 14 pro this next go round and that's sometimes what happens
with betas you'll have to wipe the device and start over so hopefully you don't have those
issues but again make sure you report those in feedback so apple is aware stacy says using ios
16 public beta 4 on iphone 10s so far it's been great no app issues encountered yet and battery
life has been great for me things are definitely on the right track regarding stability and i'm
looking forward to seeing what improvements and the next beta brings and so that's everything
with ios 16 beta 6 and public beta 4 of course we should see weekly releases like i mentioned
before and hopefully we'll see some additional changes but as we get closer to the final version
we'll see less and less features less and less changes and they'll just make things more stable
battery will improve and overall it should be a great release hopefully it's much more stable
than early ios 15 and 14 versions but let me know how it's going for you in the comments
below and if you've found anything else i'd love to hear from you in the comments 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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