Hi, everyone.
Aaron here for Zollotech and iOS 15 has been in beta for a little while. Now.
We've had a couple of releases and every day people message me and say,
when is iOS 15.
S next beta coming out? When is the final version?
So I want to go over the iOS 15 release schedule,
and this will be based off what we know from the previous years of iOS 14 and
iOS 13 release dates. Also,
I want to go over if you should install the beta since many people ask me that
as well, and also what to expect, if you do install them. Now,
the first thing is before we get started,
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Now the first thing is release schedule iOS 15 has had kind of
an odd release schedule previously with iOS 14.
We had an odd year where we had a late release.
And then this year we had the release of iOS 15 beta one on the
7th of June. Now this was earlier than last year.
And so we had it on the 7th of June and then on the 24th,
about 17 days later, or so we had beta two.
Then we had a beta two rerelease and public beta two,
which is really public beta one, but they called it public beta two,
just so the numbers aligned and that was released on June 30th. Since then,
we have not had an update in many people are asking, when will the next one be?
Well, if we take a look at the iOS 13 releases and the iOS 14 releases,
generally we're on a two-week cycle give or take one or two days.
So as you can see the iOS 13 release dates, for example,
we had a 14 day span than a 15 than a 15 and then a re-release
and then a 12 day.
And then you see it gets a little bit less and less as we get closer down or
closer to the final release.
And we had a big span with the GM or the final version before it came out to the
public with iOS 14 betas. We had a similar release 15 days,
then15 days, then 13 days, then 14 days.
And then we went down to a closer to a week by week schedule.
This is what I would expect for iOS 15, since this is pretty consistent.
If you go back to iOS 12, iOS 11 and so on.
So that means we're a few days out now from iOS
15, beta three, based on this time of the video,
that means I would expect it as soon as tomorrow,
or it could be the following day, generally we're on a two week cycle,
but they did do a rerelease.
So that means we could wait another week when we get this next release,
we can sort of figure out when we'll have releases. After that,
I would expect a two week release then maybe another two week release two
weeks later, and then switch to weekly schedules until the final release,
which I believe will be sometime in the third week of September.
So September 15th or 16th, for example, somewhere in that timeframe,
based on what we had in the past,
of course it could be an any one of these dates,
but that seems to be pretty typical of what apple does every single year.
So I would think the third week or so of September,
we'll see a final release of iOS 15 to the public. Now of course,
apple can change this up.
They've been changing up the release schedule every single year,
and this year has been even harder to predict so they could change it up.
They could have three weeks schedule release dates between betas.
They could have a final release in October,
but based off what we've seen every single year,
that seems likely so we should have a release any day. Now,
now if they skip this week,
we'll have early next week with betas two weeks after that, again,
based on what we know in the past.
So that seems to make sense based on that information, again,
I'm basing this up 100% off of what we have from previous versions,
because apple does not tell anyone what and when to expect these final releases.
Now that leads me to, should you install iOS 15 betas?
Now I've mentioned this in different update videos,
but for those of you wondering if you should try it out,
I would say now that we're on the public beta,
we're at a little bit more stable point where it's fairly safe to install a
beta. However, there's a couple of things you should know. For example,
you should know that you can't downgrade without a computer.
So if you want to go from iOS 15 back to a public version of iOS 14,
whether that be iOS 14.7, for example, or 14.6,
you'll need the user computer to do that. So as long as you can do that,
and you also have a backup to that, secures all your data,
or you're using iCloud to sync your contacts, then sure, it's fine to do that,
but just know what you're getting into.
But the overall experience has been fairly stable.
I've had a few problems with the beta and in general, it's been pretty good.
Now what I mean by a few problems is, well,
one thing is airdrop just doesn't seem to work for me very well.
I go to airdrop a photo, for example, it doesn't do anything.
Even after a reboot I've been having more and more issues with this lately with
beta two and beta two rerelease, for example, it just doesn't seem to work.
I actually have to airdrop it to something with a previous version and then
airdrop it to other devices. It can receive airdrops,
but I can't airdrop from the phone. For some reason, that's an issue I'm having.
I've had a few crashes and Re-springs.
A Re-spring is when the screen goes black.
And then you've got a little dial spinning in the middle and then it comes back
up. I've had a few issues there.
I've had a few issues throughout with maybe some widgets not showing up.
So if I go over here and well, this weather widget, for example,
some of these widgets just will go blank and not show up until I reboot the
phone. Now none of this hurts my overall usability, all of my apps work,
but for some people banking apps don't work for example.
So if you have some critical banking apps, my banking app seemed to work. Okay.
But some people are not having good luck with those.
So if you have things that you're doing that are critical to your phone that you
need,
and you only have one way to access them and you don't have a computer or an
iPad, for example, I might pass on the beta. However,
if you know that the apps aren't that critical,
you can access them through safari, something like that. Well then sure.
Go ahead and try it out. Most people that have been using this so far,
whether it be older devices, such as the iPhone six S plus for example,
are having pretty good experiences. Overall.
It's probably the most stable early beta in a very long time,
maybe since iOS 12. So the beta's fairly stable this early on.
It doesn't seem to crash very often.
Some people complain of freezing for example. So if we scroll through,
maybe we go into the control center or we're scrolling through through apps.
Sometimes it will freeze or stutter a little bit,
but you can see the overall speed is quite good.
There's not really too many issues with this public beta. For example,
it seems to be working really, really well. So occasional freezes,
and some people are saying that their VPNs are not working.
So if you use those and those are critical,
keep that in mind and shortcuts may not work for some people as well.
So there's definitely some issues here and there,
but it seems to be performing pretty well on older phones. So like I said,
the 6s Plus you can see as I've used it, as I go into different applications,
maybe I go to artists and scroll through things,
seem to load pretty quickly compared to iOS 14.6, for example,
I'd say it's about the same, or maybe even better performance overall.
It seems to be performing well,
except for when you first boot it up after the first boot up,
maybe a minute later, it's fine. But before that, it can be a little bit slow.
We'll go into weather for example, and you'll see, this is working okay,
but it's not matching what I have on the other phone,
which is connected to the same internet connection.
One is telling me 90 degrees. One is telling me 89 for the same location.
So there's still a few different bugs throughout now. Again,
for those concerned about battery life overall battery life may take a hit.
Some people say that it's quite good. Some people say that it's bad.
For example, for me, battery health has gone down a little bit,
but this is not because of the beta.
It's just because batteries deteriorate over time.
So I'm at 98% after using this every single day since its release,
which is quite good, 80% after two years is normal.
And if we look at yesterday's usage, for example,
it's not great to hours and 15 minutes of screen on time,
four hours and 48 minutes of screen off time,
whether that's playing music or something else.
But I used about 60 to 70% of my battery life.
And I only got two hours of screen on time. Now,
the day before I got about two hours, one hour and 43 minutes,
and I used 40% of my battery. It really depends on what you're doing.
So depending on what you're using your phone for,
there's definitely some things going on in the background causing this to have
poor battery life about six hours is pretty normal. However,
I can charge this anytime I need to, I have a charger nearby.
I have one in my car. And so it's not a big deal for me,
but if you need battery life and it's critical to get you through a day,
well then of course I might hold off and not install a beta.
So hopefully that helps you decide with that.
Your phone may get a little bit warm. So if the phone getting hot as a problem,
it may get warm, running a beta. As it's doing a bunch of that,
you may not normally be doing in the background since it is a beta and it's
early. So there could be bugs and issues overall. And if you have those issues,
just make sure you report them in feedback. If you are running a beta,
this helps apple determine what's going on and then actually be able to fix that
specific problem.
And sometimes they'll even message you back and let you know what's going on or
ask for more info. So you'll see recent activity, inbox,
and then all the different bug reports I've supported, so or I've reported.
So they sometimes will contact you back,
get more information and work on that bug.
So it's a nice way to kind of go back and forth with apple. If it's a major bug,
they'll address it right away. And then they prioritize them based on severity.
So it's great to see that.
So if you're thinking of going to iOS 15 from an iPhone XR for example,
running iOS 14, the overall experience for a beta is great.
You may have some bugs and you may have bad battery life,
but in general it seems to be holding up really well.
So hopefully that helps you with the overall release dates.
It's a little bit confusing, but I broke it all down from iOS 13 and 14,
to give you an idea of what to expect overall with the releases.
It can take some time. Apple can change this up.
It's not set in stone and they don't tell anybody when they're coming out.
So they generally don't let anybody know.
So we just have to wait and see what they do. Now,
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Thanks for watching. This is Aaron. I'll see you next time.