hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and iOS 16.2 Developer beta 2 released to developers today and
iOS 16.2 public beta 2 should be out soon if it's not out by the time you're watching this video
expect it in the next day or so now this came in at 779.7 megabytes on my iPhone 14 pro Max and was
about the same size on all the devices here along with this apple also released all of the other
betas for the other devices watch OS 9.2 beta 2 iPad OS 16.2 beta 2 Mac OS 13.1 beta 2 TV OS 16.1
beta 2 and audio OS 16.2 beta 2. that's actually the homepod updates name 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 as you can see the build number is 20c5043e with beta 1 we had an e at the
end as well however we should expect a few more betas before the final public release we'll talk
about when to expect that a little bit later now now this update does have a modem update in it we
went from version 1.21.01 on the 14 pro Max with beta 2 it's now 1.21.05 now as far as what's new
well the first thing is if you're in India you now have 5G support unsupported phones so if you
have an iPhone that supports 5G so a 13 a 14 an iPhone 12 you'll now actually have support for 5G
and you can find that under settings so if we go back into our settings and you go to Cellular and
within your cellular data options you can see voice and data if you tap on this you can now
Force 5G to be turned on you'll have 5G Auto and also LTE options you may have additional options
as well depending on your carrier so it's great to see that brought to India now if we go to the lock
screen and we customize it let's go and customize and let's remove a widget here we now have some
new widgets for health so if we scroll down you'll see under Health we now have medications so we can
see our schedule medications for the day we have a smaller widget as well and we also have a widget
at the very top so we not only have options for your weather and calendar events but we also have
health as well so if you have medications you can actually see them at the top this is a great
addition and great if you use medications all the time they're just bringing more and more widgets
last time we got the new sleep widgets with beta 1 so that's something they keep updating we'll
probably see more of these as the betas continue now when you're customizing the lock screen also
there's something new here as well so if we go over to beta 1 that I have on my 14 pro will
bring down the lock screen here or the home screen we'll go to customize and if we tap the three dots
in the bottom right you'll see we have a new option for show photo in library if we tap on
this we can see our wallpaper within the library itself bringing us directly to that photo so it's
just a nice update to make it easier to get to now with iOS 16.1 we gained live activities but
Apple added another option with 16.1 beta 2. they actually added it back but if we go into settings
and then we go down to the TV app we scroll down a little bit we have live activities that was in
beta 1 when you tap on live activities we now have a new option for allow live activities and
now more frequent updates with beta 1 this was basically empty and you'll see it says allowing
more frequent updates lets you see more real-time information but can drain your battery faster so
so it's now giving you the option do you want to see more updates or preserve your battery
so that's something they've added with 16.2 beta 2. also something small in this update is if we
go to settings General and then software update you can see it actually says iOS 16.2 iOS is up
to date but this is no longer bold with beta 2. it was larger and more bold with beta 1. it's a small
change but just something I thought I'd mention now freeform was something that was added with
beta 1. this is an app that will be automatically installed once iOS 16.2 releases to the public and
it allows you to have a custom shared screen where you can share whatever you'd like so you can draw
on the screen leave notes comments and everything else and you'll see it says hi this is new I
noticed this time around it syncs much faster between devices so if we go over to the iPad
we'll go into the iPad go to freeform and let's create a new one here and we'll just write zolotek
it's pretty messy but you get the idea and let's go back and see how quickly it sinks now it synced
quickly before you'll see it automatically showed up and the same freeform board is already there
so it's synced across both of them if we go into the pencil and just draw another couple lines here
we'll give it a moment to sync on the iPad and it shows up automatically so it's much faster than
it used to be it seems like they're improving performance all the time with this also sharing
and everything else should improve over time so it's much more seamless once you're using it now
something else I noticed with beta 2 is how fast connectivity with airpods Pro 2 switches between
devices so if I open these up I'll connect them to beta 1 so I'll just put an airpod Pro 2 in my
ear you'll see it connects and it was really an issue for me on beta 1 hopefully this is
resolved but let's go ahead and see what it's like we'll go ahead and play a song it's connected here
so it's playing a song in my right ear let's go over to the 14 pro Max we'll hit play
give it a second it automatically moves and it's very very quick so it's definitely much
better than it was before so this is something I noticed right away once updating to Beta 2.
that's great news and hopefully that goes along with overall connectivity and the modem update
as well so that modem issue I've been having a lot of issues with the cellular modem with disconnects
things disconnecting from my car while I'm playing music and much more so hopefully that's resolved
however we don't have satellite connectivity yet satellite connectivity is something that's
coming later on it should be available on the 14 series devices but it's not to be found anywhere
in cellular or anywhere else I looked in emergency SOS and it's just not there yet it'll probably be
added a little bit later or with iOS 16.1.1 we'll talk about that in a moment as far as bugs that
they've fixed well one that they've fixed that's very obvious and I'm very glad they fixed has to
do with the camera if you go to the lock screen enable the camera you couldn't swipe up and just
go back to the lock screen or go home it was sort of locked and would keep you from doing
that the swipe gesture just wouldn't work now it's working as it did before so that's great news also
if we go to the App Store it seems to be loading much faster it loads you can go into things very
quickly you'll see it just pops up and loads as you would expect so if you wanted to load an app
install that app it just seems to be much more responsive this time around we'll have to wait
and see if cellular is truly fixed with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth disconnects and more as well as carplay
but it will take a few days to know that for sure now let's go ahead and take a look at the release
notes so we'll go into feedback and within the feedback app we'll go to recent activity one thing
I wanted to mention before we take a look at the iOS notes is they now have homepod notes as well
so release notes for home Potter in here if you're a beta tester giving known issues or anything else
so let's go into the notes and you'll see there's some known issues for freeform they're still
working on it and there's some workarounds here where you can't delete boards while offline or if
iCloud data is disabled for freeform and they give a workaround for that they did resolve an issue
with the keyboard with beta 2 so it says when typing in Chinese pinion hopefully I'm saying that
properly selecting an option from the candidate bar is unresponsive they've resolved that there's
also new features with swift UI they've resolved some issues for that as well so it's great to see
them continue to improve this but of course we need some additional fixes hopefully they've been
implemented we don't know for sure though now as far as overall performance so far it's been nice
and fast I'll show you the benchmarks in a moment but it's been nice and fast everything's really
smooth from promotion to older devices so if we go over to the iPhone 11 we'll load music for the
first time sort of the standard thing I do we'll let it load it's loading over Wi-Fi but scrolling
seems to be what you would expect for a 60hz display everything's loading as expected and the
speed can be affected by Wi-Fi but definitely it seems to be a little bit better this time around I
did have some hiccups I had some re-springs before with beta one hopefully those are resolved but
again that can show up a few days later swiping home from an app sometimes there was lag again it
hasn't happened with beta 2 but hopefully it stays that way it may show up again in a few days as far
as the heat of the device it's a little bit warm after installing the uptake which is typical in
running apps but nothing that's really hot it's nice and cool for the most part it's not hot at
all as far as to touch it's slightly warm so that that's a good sign and also as far as benchmarks
like I said we'll check that in a moment but it seems to be better than it was before so just
opening apps scrolling promotion is better as well if we go into benchmarks you'll see I had
1 877 for single core 5307 for multi-core I also ran it on the iPhone 11 since I hadn't run it in
a very long time and that had 1 324 for single core 3435 for multi-core if we compare this to
the history if we go back here you can see in both updates it seems to be a little bit better single
core is better for beta 2 for me multi-core is also better so in general it seems to be doing
much better than it was for beta 1 and even iOS 15 versions so on the iPhone 11 we were running
iOS 15.6 the last time I Ran geekbench So it's doing quite well overall not really any slower
or anything it feels nice and fast so that's a great sign hopefully it will continue to improve
as we get closer to a final release now as far as battery life we'll take a quick look at this but
this takes a few days to measure there's no way to know within a few hours 100 what the battery
is going to be like you need to use it for a few days cycle the battery a couple times and you'll
see with beta 1 I didn't have the greatest battery life so I used almost 50 percent of my battery and
used 2 hours and 37 minutes of screen active time at 3 hours and 9 Minutes of screen idle
time so it hasn't been great today is a little bit better two hours and 57 minutes of screen
on time 6 hours and 29 minutes of screen idle time and used about 30 percent of my battery so
hopefully this is a sign that it's going to get better but again it will take a few days to know
now as far as iOS 16.1.1 release well apple is definitely working on some issues in fact
they publicly announced that they're working on issues to solve some issues with their ad Network
so that means I would think iOS 16.1.1 you'll see here it says there's an issue impacting SK
ad Network for users on iOS 16.1 we are working to quickly resolve this issue in a software update
they also need to resolve the issue with Wi-Fi for many people that they're experiencing with
16.1 and other bugs so I would expect iOS 16.1.1 either this week as soon as tomorrow or sometime
next week last year we had an update on the 17th with iOS 15.1.1 we could see it again this week or
next week we don't really know Apple hasn't given us a specific release date but I would expect
it very soon as far as iOS 16.2 beta 3's release usually we're on a bi-weekly cycle so every couple
of weeks however they could switch to a weekly cycle so we could have it as soon as next Tuesday
or the Tuesday after however I would expect a final release in mid-December as typically Apple
takes holiday break for Christmas and other things in mid-December so usually that's what happens
as they had 15.2 released last year on December 13th so I would expect that sort of same rollout
this year with iOS 16.2 and we can expect that probably in mid-December as well so a few more
betas until then as far as airpods updates while Apple updated airpods Pro 2 Powerbeats Pro and
Beats Studio buds while I was filming this video I was able to update the airpods Pro 2 and if we go
into settings we'll go into our airpods that are connected scroll down and you can see the version
5b58 so that's the new version number for airpods Pro 2 but they don't say what's actually included
so you'll see it says for firmware details go in here and see an update about it so it just
tells what the current versions are but it doesn't say what's actually in it other than
bug fixes and other improvements so hopefully there's more than that but I just updated them
by plugging them into my Mac with a lightning cable they updated pretty quickly but you can
connect them to your iPhone plug them in just set them down and they'll update automatically
now as far as anything else that's everything so far that we know about in iOS 16.2 beta 2 and if
you're wondering if you should install iOS 16.2 beta 2 well if you're trying to resolve an issue
I never recommend trying a beta however I would just wait for iOS 16.1.1 and then we'll see how
it goes over the next few days with this beta so hopefully it's going to be much better than beta 1
more stable and more but again it takes a few days to know all of that now if you found anything else
I'd love to hear from you in the comments below and of course I want to thank again Matt Ryan
and Francisco for your help in helping me find some of the features I mentioned in this video
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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