what's up guys my name is brandon and
welcome back to apple weekly this past
week was very active with several
software releases and a good amount of
leaks and rumors so to start the week we
finally got the public release of ios
15.5 and all the other software and then
a few days later we got the first beta
of ios 15.6
so we're going to discuss both versions
of ios in this video and talk about how
they've been running along with the
important security updates that 15.5
brings and then after we discuss the
software we're going to talk about why
apple's arvr headset might be here
before we expect it some more ios 16
leaks how airpods could blow your
eardrums a new homepod coming soon and
more and of course as always if you guys
want to stay updated with all things
apple make sure to click that subscribe
button down below so you don't miss next
week's apple weekly episode all right so
let's start off by talking about the ius
15.5 release so this is the first public
release in over a month and it came with
a few changes i've been loving the
podcast change when you go into podcast
right here and then go to the settings
for the podcast and then the
automatically download section right
here if you set this to like the five
latest it will just go ahead and remove
the other downloads i've been enjoying
that it's actually been saving me some
space already so that's one feature that
was included with 15.5 along with a few
other really small ones but i think the
biggest reason that you should consider
updating to 15.5 if you haven't done so
already is the security side of things
there are several security patches like
25 plus security patches in this update
to fix up some kernel bugs some webkit
bugs some wi-fi bugs and more so we
don't always see that many security
patches so ios 15.4 and 15.4.1 have a
lot of vulnerabilities that are still
opened up so that's again a big reason i
would go ahead and update to 15.5 if you
haven't done so already i know the
features are boring but you know the
security side of things makes it worth
updating and then i did also want to
briefly touch on universal control
because with ios 15.5 it came out of
beta it no longer says beta next to
universal control in your settings on
the ipad and the mac but i have to say
universal control feels exactly the same
as it did in beta which is not a bad
thing i mean it worked fine for me but
don't expect things to get you know much
better just because it's out of beta now
it runs exactly the same as it did
beforehand now i did also want to
mention the nasty bug that's out there
affecting ios 15.4 through 15.5 and even
the 15.6 beta and it's actually a bug
that disables imessage and facetime with
no way to turn it back on unless you get
a new sim card that's right imessage and
facetime just randomly disable and you
cannot re-enable them unless you get a
new sim card so this is apparently like
i said been going on since ios 15.4 and
it's still not patched in 15.5 and you
can see here mark german tweeted out
about this he said there's a very nasty
iphone and t-mobile bug where imessage
and facetime for a device's phone number
will randomly deactivate and there is no
way to reactivate it the only solution
that worked for me is getting a new
physical sim card an extremely
disappointing issue another solution
flagged me by some is removing your esim
account from the iphone and setting that
up again and then he posted a follow-up
tweet to say that t-mobile reached out
to say they are working with apple on
trying to resolve the issue sounds early
though t-mobile saying it's an icloud
slash apple id related problem so that's
pretty interesting and this is something
i think could definitely lead to an ios
15.5.1 sometime relatively soon
especially now that a notable figure you
know is bringing this to the limelight
you know i'm sure people have been
talking about this for a while but now
that mark german and a lot of others are
actually being notified of this i'm sure
apple will go ahead and fix that so with
that being said i would expect a 15.5.1
sometime in the coming weeks to patch
that issue but anyways finishing up on
15.5 overall i mean the update is great
performance and battery life are both
about the same as they were on 15.4.1
to me i think battery life and
performance are a little bit better just
slightly but it's not going to be a
massive difference from 15.4.1 unless
you had battery drain issues i know some
people said their battery drain was not
fixed with 15.4.1 and they updated and
now they're saying it is fixed on 15.5
so if you have any issues those could be
resolved but overall 15.5 is a solid
update not anything too exciting but
again it's great for those security
patches and potentially better
performance now as far as ios 15.6 beta
1 and that's what i'm running right now
on at my iphone 13 pro max here and this
is the most boring first beta like i can
ever remember the only thing that's
changed are just a few strings and the
code related to accessibility but i will
say after using 15.6 beta 1 the
performance is a little bit worse than
15.5 and you know battery life is about
the same it seems a little bit worse but
i'm just going to give it the benefit of
the doubt and just say it's the same as
15.5 but performance is underwhelming on
15.6 beta 1. so if you have not updated
to 15.6 beta 1 yet i would hold off i
would wait until at least beta 2 and
just stay on 15.5 for now you're really
not gaining anything by being on 15.6
beta 1 anyways so you may as well just
stick with the better performance and
probably the better battery life as well
on 15.5 all right so now what is next
for apple so next up is either going to
be 15.5.1 or 15.6 beta 2. so as far as
ios 15.6 goes i do believe apple is on a
two-week cycle to begin so that puts us
at about may 31st through june 2nd as
potential release dates for beta 2 of
15.6 sometime in between there now i
could also see apple releasing a 15.5.1
within the next two weeks as well maybe
even as early as next week but it seems
like that issue may be a little bit
complex so i'm not sure if apple's going
to be able to fix it so easily but we'll
have to wait and see but thanks to that
you know t-mobile and sim card bug i do
think we are going to see a 15.5.1
sooner rather than later especially
since 15.6 is not going to be released
until the end of june i don't see apple
letting that bug slide for a whole month
and then of course we're just a couple
of weeks away from seeing ios 16 get
revealed right there on monday june 6th
i will be live streaming here on the
channel so i cannot wait for that and
that of course is the most anticipated
release of all right so now let's move
on to the latest apple news so let's
kick things off with some wwdc and ios
16 news so when asked about ios 16 mark
german at bloomberg said this while i
don't expect apple to present a full
redesign of the software there should be
major changes across the system new ways
of interacting and some fresh apple apps
the news about watchos 9 will be
significant as well and that sounds
about right i mean almost every leak
that has come out recently has been
exactly what i reported on here on the
channel over a month ago like two months
ago so you guys got the early scoop if
you followed those videos those leaked
videos i did for ius 16. and speaking of
ios 16 the public beta might be coming
later than usual this time around
according to german who said this ios
16's first public beta is scheduled
alongside ios 16 and developer beta 3 in
july first ios betas are typically
released alongside beta 2 that means the
public beta may be running behind
current internal seeds are a bit buggy
things are still fluid and could shift
so that's pretty interesting to hear and
kind of lead you to believe that ios 16
is going to have more features than we
think if it's going to be that buggy on
the initial build so i'd imagine more
people than normal will also be
downloading the developer beta this time
around and i'll hear a lot of complaints
and a lot of people having bricked
devices this year now as for the actual
event he says apple's developer
conference will be held virtually and
spanned the entire week the big news
will be on monday when the company holds
its annual keynote address to announce
its latest software and other products
the key here being other products which
just further indicates that we should be
seeing at least one new piece of
hardware at this event but hopefully
even more but the one product we thought
for sure was coming is apparently not
coming now and that is the higher end
apple display with mini led which was
rumored to be called the studio display
pro and this is pretty unexpected
because again we thought this would be
coming in june alongside a new mega
powerful mac pro but the likelihood of
that is now dwindling and this comes
from ross young who tweeted this out the
27-inch mini led monitor has been
delayed as it was going to be produced
in quanta in shanghai which has been
locked down production is in progress of
being moved to a different location and
has been delayed and now looks like an
october release so it went from june to
october that is quite the delay and the
bad news is that these china lockdowns
are not only going to impact this
display it's going to impact pretty much
everything apple has planned and that's
not good news at all but let's just hope
that everything gets better soon now
another product that we thought could be
at the worldwide developers conference
but now we pretty much have confirmation
that it's not coming yet is a new
homepod and that's because ming chi quo
just reported that we should expect a
new generation of homepod at the end of
this year or early next year he said
quote apple would release a new version
of homepod in the fourth quarter or the
first quarter of 2023 and there may not
be much innovation in hardware design
smart speakers are undoubtedly one of
the essential elements of the home
ecosystem but i think apple is still
figuring out how to succeed in this
market so it sounds like this could be
the new version of the homepod that
would be sized in between the original
homepod the big one and the homepod mini
so we have to wait and see how that
looks and you know if it has a screen on
it or what but i'm honestly pretty
excited for that i've grown to
absolutely love my homepod and my
homepod minis now remember in the last
episode where we talked about usbc
coming to the 2023 iphone well ming chi
quo has shared more details about
apple's future plans with that usbc port
and he said this portless iphones may
cause more problems due to current
limitations of wireless technologies and
the immature magsafe ecosystem and other
lightning port products like airpods
magic keyboard trackpad and mouse and
the magsafe battery would also switch to
usbc and at the foreseeable future so
this answers the question i had last
week when i was wondering if everything
would switch over to usbc or if it would
just be the iphone so it looks like
apple is going to eventually completely
phase out lightning in favor of usbc
like across the board which i found to
be pretty interesting i didn't think
apple would ever do it but looks like we
might see that sometime soon all right
so now let's talk about one of the most
hyped apple products in a long time and
that is the ar vr headset so it might be
coming sooner than we think and i say
this because apple board members just
recently got their first look at this
headset so german said this in a recent
report apple executives previewed its
upcoming mixed reality headset to the
company's board last week indicating
that development of the device has
reached an advanced stage the company's
board made up of eight independent
directors and apple ceo tim cook
convenes at least four times a year a
version of the device was demonstrated
to the directors during the latest
gathering so it looks like apple is
proud of what they've created and
they're showing it off right now so i
don't know call me crazy but i think
that timing is pretty strange you know
apple's worldwide developers conference
is just a couple of weeks away so i
don't think you know that we could throw
out the possibility of the arvr headset
getting announced at this event i could
see it happening now of course it's not
going to ship to customers it's not
going to ship to us until next year
early next year but i don't think it's
you know unlikely that apple could
announce this at the worldwide
developers conference so what do you
guys think do you think we're going to
see this on june 6th or do you think
apple's going to wait until later in the
year to reveal that and then finally
let's discuss a strange and scary story
about a lawsuit against apple and the
airpods so a 12 year old boy from texas
allegedly suffered a permanent hearing
loss when a loud amber alert sound came
through his airpods so the lawsuit
alleges that he was using his airpods
pro and watching netflix on low volume
when the amber alert was issued and it
quote went off suddenly and without
warning at a volume that tore apart his
eardrum damaged his cochlea and caused
significant injuries to his hearing he
will have to wear a hearing aid for the
rest of his life and a big part of this
lawsuit is against the airpods because
it claims that the airpods quote do not
automatically reduce control limit or
increment notification or alert volumes
to a safe level that causes them to emit
and there are no directions to adjust
the alert sound or warnings that the
volume could be so loud that it would
cause damage so this is pretty
interesting and i'm usually against
people that sue apple you know just for
obvious reasons but for this one if it's
actually true if everything they said is
true i think apple's gonna lose that
lawsuit that's pretty crazy i think they
would need concrete proof of these
claims you know to just make sure he
wasn't having issues before that but
that's pretty crazy and i actually had
people in my discord like asking me if
it's safe to wear airpods anymore
because of this so it's definitely
affecting the way that some people are
kind of seeing and using airpods now but
let me just say that if you're worried
about this happening to you just turn
off amber alerts in your settings so if
you go into your settings right here and
then go to notifications and then go all
the way down to the bottom just turn off
amber alerts and everything down here
just turn off amber alerts emergency
alerts and public safety alerts turn all
of those off if you're you know worried
about this in the slightest and you guys
probably know these alerts are pretty
loud but i didn't think they were ever
loud enough to like damage somebody's
hearing permanently that's pretty crazy
so what do you guys think about this
have your ears ever been damaged from
using air pods or any other headphones
i'm curious to see what your thoughts
are on this lawsuit as a whole down in
those comments below but anyways guys
there you have it that is the latest
batch of apple news from this past week
along with some additional info on ios
15.5 and pretty much nothing on 15.6
beta 1 but i still wanted to talk about
it in this video but if you guys enjoyed
this one i would appreciate if you give
it a thumbs up also make sure to
subscribe for more ios 15 and ios 16
coverage coming very soon but anyways
guys thanks again for watching and i'll
see you soon
you