Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and this past week was filled with news regarding an issue
with the iphone 13 series devices as well as apple watch series 7 on newer updates more details about
the upcoming iphone se3 iphone 14 and more this is your news update for the week of december 26
2021 and if you don't want to know more about rumors and things like that and you want to
just listen to what the news is i'm going to cover this week's news a little bit differently
i'll have news at the beginning and then i'll let you know when we'll go into the rumors or things
that might be coming in the future so i'll cover just the news at the beginning as some people have
told me they don't want to hear about rumors and things now the first thing is if you have a series
7 apple watch and you've installed the latest version of watch os 8.3 apparently some people
are having issues with charging i haven't seen this personally but many say it charges extremely
slowly so as you'll see it was a little bit slow there for some reason but i'm at 98 i've had it
off the charger for a while and if you're on the latest version some people are saying they'll put
it on the charger and it might go from say five percent and then increase by two percent over the
period of an hour or more so there's definitely an odd bug but it's only specific to the series 7
apple watches so that definitely could be a pain for some people but i just want to make you aware
that it looks like it's a known problem at this point and if you have a series 7 experiencing
this maybe try a reboot and then see if that resolves it until apple patches it with an update
maybe with watch os 8.3.1 or 8.4 it's been about a year since the introduction of apple fitness plus
and to celebrate that along with the new year and the holidays apple has some new sections within
the fitness plus app that you can actually go back and look at some of the workouts so you'll
see the best of 2021 that's listed here as well as a new celebrate section with some new workouts so
there's about five new workouts here that you can choose from along with some new badges for the new
year as well so if it's something that you use be sure to check those out as those have been updated
recently now if you use apple maps apple continues to update it depending on the city you live in
this past week they updated philadelphia with landmarks and so philadelphia has some
rich history in the united states if you're not familiar with that where there's independence hall
where the constitution was signed as well as the liberty bell is there and much more so you can see
liberty bell center here they've updated the landmarks with 3d maps more information and more
so that's been updated in philadelphia last week it seemed they updated australia with the new maps
so they continue to do this hopefully they'll roll it out to everyone but it seems to take
quite a while for them to do this as it seems to be a manual process so when it is done it'll
be very nice but right now it just is in specific cities now if you've been waiting to use apple's
digital id where you can use your phone as your your wallet and also your digital id to check
through different things such as maybe getting on an airplane or more it looks like that's coming
very soon so if you've been waiting for that the tsa or basically the security agency in the united
states when you get on a plane they're going to start allowing supported states to use this
in about february at this point and so that tells us a couple different things that tells
us that the next update probably ios 15.3 will have something to do with that in it it seemed
to be in the code in previous versions and they just haven't enabled it and then also you'll need
supported states to get behind that and at this point there's quite a few there's about 30 states
that are going to support this in the future it will open up eventually and here's the list here
on the left so if you want to see if your state's included there's more and more that are being
included of course it's going to take a while for all of them to do this but it looks like a lot
of people are signing on of course you don't have to do this but it just makes it one less thing to
carry you'll be able to use your iphone or apple watch so that'll be really nice if you want to
use that for convenience sake now ios 15.3 beta 1 has been out for a little bit at this point a
little over a week i've been using it full time on this device but i talked about that yesterday in
a follow-up video and it looks like that digital id will be a feature in this update now we don't
know that for sure but based off what we've seen in the past that makes sense since we haven't seen
any big features in it yet and typically based on year over year we may not have another update till
beta 2 for another couple of weeks last year it took a little while before they released a beta
2 of ios 14.4 and then it released to the public in late january so i would expect a similar sort
of release schedule where we'd have it at the end of january so that it's ready for february to have
that digital id ready so that makes a lot of sense maybe we'll only have a couple betas maybe we'll
have a few more betas we don't really know until apple does that but typically i wouldn't expect
anything this week or even next week possibly the following week the week of the 9th or 16th
so it will be a little bit typically based off of year over year what we see as far as updates go
now as far as future products we'll talk about that now so if you're not interested in those
thanks for watching up to this point but we'll talk about the iphone se3 first the iphone se
3 is said to basically be the same thing as we have here with the iphone se second generation
and it's been a couple years since they released this and so the new version is said to look very
similar have a 4.7 inch display the same sort of touch id although i was hoping for it to
move over to the power sleep wake button and sort of have more of an ipad air style setup and maybe
something different with the overall shape or design but basically most people are saying it's
going to be the same as what we have here with maybe some upgraded internals and upgraded camera
as well as hopefully a bigger battery that's one of the downfalls of the sc compared to
the latest phone so a bigger battery a faster processor which is more efficient
and probably a pretty inexpensive price typically around 3.99 to start and looking back with iphone
se 2's release that was in april 24th when it released so we could have a few more months
although more people are saying that it's going to be earlier this year so
we'll have to wait and see if that's true but at this point we can count on it as it looks like
apple is starting to ramp up production for it or at least pre-production also in a recent patent
found by patently apple apple has developed a new fingerprint sensor which can not only
read fingerprints but faces and even transmit information between devices as you can see here
this is what it kind of looks like in their patent and according to the patent it says in
some cases the 2d or 3d image may be an image of a fingerprint a face or a scene in a field of view
in some cases it may be useful to wirelessly transmit or receive information between devices so
we could see a new style touch id that maybe has face id built in it's something i wasn't really
thinking about but that's something that they've recently patented and patently apple found and
maybe that would go in a larger iphone se that's rumored to come out the following year maybe the
iphone 8 plus size device something along that line with this sort of size and maybe a new style
fingerprint sensor so i would love to see touch id make a return every year we see a new iphone
and we expect iphone 14 in september again just like we get one every year around that time and
this time around a site called the blog do iphone is saying there will be no physical sim card tray
in the next iphone now we've heard things like this before in previous iphones and i'm not
really sure the credibility of this website but it does seem that this is something apple would
do to maybe free up some space internally maybe open it up to put a larger battery better thermals
or things like that or hopefully not change it as it's something i personally like to easily be able
to swap sim cards i know you can do this with an e sim pretty seamlessly but it's much easier just
to pop a sim card out pop it into a new phone and then be able to test that phone out so i actually
like the sim card i hope it doesn't go away but we've heard this for a long time and i think
eventually it probably will go away as it's extra cost it's extra plastic and metal and doesn't seem
to be necessary anymore with esims but let me know what you think about that in the comments below
also to go along with the iphone 14 many are saying that the notch is going away next year
for the 14 pro and 14 pro max phones so where they narrowed the notch this year narrowed it
and then it protrudes a little bit more into the display this time around we may be getting a hole
punch display provided by samsung or lg similar to what we have on the pixel 6 pro that i have here
and so a hole punch display i actually have grown to really like if apple can figure out maybe an
under the display fingerprint sensor or face id like the patent i showed you earlier that makes
a lot of sense where they could reduce the overall need for sensors in the display so we would just
have a camera there where we would need that hole punch but again many people are saying this and
it seems to be reiterated by many many reliable sources and some of those sources have a very good
track record so this seems to be believable as apple does start getting things ready this early
in the season so that they can produce millions and millions of phones later in the year the
upcoming 27-inch imac should be showing up in a few months as production has apparently begun
however some sources are saying it will have an lcd while others are saying a mini led display
similar to that of the ipad pro however maybe there could be options such as a regular model
and a pro model so we don't really know since we're hearing mixed reports from different
people but it looks like it is getting ready for production or at least started production
and will apparently have colorful options maybe like that of the current imac but i tend to think
it would be more along the lines of silver in space gray to be more on the pro line of things
also apparently apple is still going to release an updated mac pro but with intel inside updated
intel chips for those that need them to do specific tasks that the apple silicon just doesn't
do as well yet so that could be something we see next with upgraded processors or maybe a way to
upgrade the one you currently have now if you have one of the new apple silicon devices apple
is apparently planning to replace the chips every 18 months which means we would see an m2 pretty
soon with maybe a new macbook air so that seems to make a lot of sense if they are replacing it every
18 months or so with an updated chip with maybe some increased functionality maybe even better
thermal control as well as better efficiency so that could be just a few months away at this point
and the next generation chipset apparently tsmc is expecting to start producing three nanometer
chips for the m3 chip in late 2022 for release in 2023 which would go along with this 18-month cycle
of apple continuously updating them over and over now apple is still working on a mixed reality
headset and all signs point to a 2022-bit debut so lots of information going out about that all over
the sort of supply chain and apple has recently hired andrea schubert from meta who worked with
oculus so they keep picking up people for ar and vr and so it looks like we could have something
new this year maybe a one more thing and so that's everything as far as what we know of the upcoming
products for this past week as well as some odd issues with the series 7 apple watch and iphone
13s let me know what you're looking most forward to in the comments below and of course if you'd
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