Apple's iOS 16.3 Beta 1: A New Era of Awareness and Features

iOS 16.3 beta 1 is finally here, and it brings with it a plethora of new features and improvements that are sure to excite Apple enthusiasts. One of the most notable features in this beta update is the introduction of a new "awareness" game for iOS users. This feature allows users to see how they can use certain features on their iPhone, such as singing or playing music, and it also provides them with information on how to transfer music from their iPhone to an Apple HomePod.

The awareness feature is essentially like a mini-game that teaches users about new features in iOS 16.3. For example, when you open the Music app and start playing a song, the app will let you know how it's being used and then guide you on how to find your song inside the app. This feature is not available in iOS 16.2, but it seems that Apple has decided to introduce it in beta 1 to give users a heads-up about what's new.

Another feature that has been included in this update is a new splash screen that teaches users how to transfer music from their iPhone to an Apple HomePod. This is a great way for Apple to provide users with more awareness about this feature, which might not be as well-known among some users. The splash screen provides step-by-step instructions on how to use this feature, making it easy for anyone to get started.

In addition to these features, iOS 16.3 beta 1 also includes a new focus on security and privacy. Apple has emphasized the importance of two-factor authentication in order to unlock your phone or use iCloud passwords, making sure that users' devices are protected from unauthorized access. This is a significant improvement over previous versions of iOS, and it's great to see Apple prioritizing user security.

One feature that has been highly anticipated but still not seen in this beta update is the dedicated classical music application for Apple Music. Although Apple mentioned this feature during WWDC, there hasn't been any concrete information about its release date or availability. It's likely that we'll see it in a future version of iOS, possibly in 16.4.

Another feature that was announced during WWDC but still hasn't arrived is Apple Pay Later. Apple has also hinted at the possibility of a high-yield savings account through Apple Pay Later, which would allow users to save money and earn interest on their purchases. However, there's been no official announcement about when this feature will be available.

The final thing that's worth mentioning is the battery life improvements in iOS 16.3 beta 1. Using a 13 Pro Max device, I've found that I get around 6 hours and 24 minutes of screen time with a 100% charge on most days. On one particular day, I got 8 hours and 30 minutes of screen time on a 100% battery, which is impressive considering the age of my device (around 15-16 months old). The battery health is also looking good, with an average of 91%.

It's worth noting that since this is before the holiday season, it's likely that Apple will release one more beta update before the final version of iOS 16.3 arrives in January of next year. This means that users who update to 16.3 beta 1 may be stuck on this version for a while, dealing with any bugs or issues that come up during testing.

Overall, iOS 16.3 beta 1 is looking pretty stable, and it's exciting to see Apple prioritizing user security and awareness about new features. If you're an avid Apple enthusiast, you might want to consider updating to this beta version, but be aware that there may be some bugs or issues down the line.

Battery Life Performance

I've been testing my 13 Pro Max device for a while now, and I'm happy with its battery life performance in iOS 16.3 beta 1. According to Apple's official specs, I should be getting around 9 hours of screen time on a single charge. However, in real-world usage, I get closer to that number.

Using this device for most of the day, I find that I can easily squeeze out around 6-7 hours of screen time without needing to recharge. On one particular day, I got an impressive 8 hours and 30 minutes of screen time on a 100% battery, which is more than I expected from my aging device.

The battery health on my 13 Pro Max has also been looking good, with an average reading of 91%. This might be due to the fact that I've had this device for around 15-16 months, and it's likely that the battery will degrade over time. However, Apple's efforts to improve battery life in iOS 16.3 beta 1 are definitely paying off.

It's worth noting that if you're planning on putting this update on your main device, you'll be stuck with this version for a while, dealing with any bugs or issues that come up during testing.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso not even a day after Apple released iOS and iPad OS 16.2 to the entire public they shot out and they gave us 16.3 beta 1 for iOS and iPad OS so in this video let's talk about what's new what they could have improved and if there's anything worth really talking about 16.3 beta 1 because again it is the first beta so we should be getting some new features but without further ado let's get into it okay everyone let's get right into this video and the first thing I do like to show off is exactly what this build number looks like for iOS and iPad OS 16.3 beta 1. so if we go into our general go into our about section I'll bring it up here and I'll show you guys that we are on iOS 16.3 and the version number is 20d5024 lowercase e so we should be getting updates but I will say that normally this is Apple's final update of the holiday season so we probably won't get beta 2 until next year technically in early January so if you do decide to update to iOS 16.3 beta 1 just know that whatever bugs come with it you'll be stuck with them for longer than usual because normally after the first beta Apple Waits two weeks for the second beta but this one will be at least three to four weeks so keep that in mind but that is the version number we're dealing with and it's the same thing on the iPad over here and then in terms of build size on the iPad side it was almost five gigabytes and on the iOS side I just didn't take a screenshot but it should be roughly the same so give yourself at least 8 to 10 gigs of open stores in order to get this installed and get it installed correctly because last thing you want is for it to freeze up when it is installing so keep that in mind about five gigs to get it installed on either one of these devices and yes I know it is a large update so there should be a lot of features that come with it but normally it's not too many feature updates and it's just the fact that it's a brand new beta it has to reinstall and install pretty much a brand new iPad OS version which is 16.3 and iOS version 16.3 so now in terms of what's new the big new feature with 16.3 is all about security so iOS 16.3 brings support for protecting your Apple ID with physical security Keys people have been using UB Keys as a form of multi-factor authentication for a while it runs either off a USB or it runs off of an NFC tag as well so basically I'm going to show you guys how it works but you can now use a physical key for multi-factor authentication with your iCloud and iOS and iPad OS device and then what's really nice about this is this little piece right here so Apple told nine to five Mac that the security key system integrates with its device the device transfer process so let's say you're using an iPhone 13 like I am or an iPhone 14 Pro Max and the next year you get a brand new phone that same key as long as you keep your same iCloud will then still work as a multi-factor authenticator with that new phone so you don't need to repair it you don't need to re-authenticate it or anything like that and again this is just another level of security that Apple already added with their Advanced Data protection for iCloud which is basically end-to-end encryption for all iCloud Services whereas right now Apple only has end-to-end encryption for things stored in iCloud such as health data and passwords that's really the only thing aside from iMessage but ideally Apple will begin to roll it out to things like photos things like notes anything that involves iCloud will have end-to-end encryption so the way to get into this new version of multi-factor authentication with a physical key go into your settings go into your iCloud then go to passwords and security and then if you go into your settings and go to add security key give it a second and then this is what pops up so here's a prompt so basically it says a Fido certified security key is a third-party Hardware that you can use to verify your identity strongest account security because it relies on a physical asset to secure you so unless you have that key you cannot get it into whatever you're trying to get into so you can get hacked with a password or anything like that but it does require two security keys in order for this to happen so one fractional use and one for redundancy because the last thing Apple wants is for you to set it up with one key you physically lose it and then you're kind of stuck in with a locked and bricked iPhone so you just press add security key I personally don't have one but all you have to do is you tap it to the back of your phone where the NFC Reader is and you start going from there so we'll press continue and unless you know what you should sign out of so these are all inactive accounts which I don't use anymore I don't even have those devices but it lets you know like hey these devices aren't compatible with that just keep that in mind but that is pretty much a process and it seems very very easy I'm curious to know if they added it to the iPad so if I go into settings if we go into our iCloud if we go into passwords and security you do have the ability to add security keys on the iPad itself so that's always great news so now that we've got that out of the way another quick thing that I didn't notice is if you go into your Apple music you actually get a new splash screen which is interesting because Apple came out with this new Apple music sing situation for iOS 16.2 but looks like with iOS 16.3 it's kind of giving us a little bit more awareness of this new feature so it says belt it wrap it sing it and you can see that it lets you know how it's used and then you can find your song inside of there so it looks like apple is kind of like internally advertising it a little bit more to people but again only on 16.3 and not really 16.2 and then we also got a new splash screen which I'll throw on the screen of Apple kind of teaching you with a splash screen of how to actually transfer music from your iPhone over to a homepod because again most people I mean if you're in this space you were aware of that feature but I guess not a lot of people knew that you could literally just start playing music on your iPhone and then tap your homepod and it'll transfer that music over to the homepod so that is something new that did come so it's just a splash screen so again more awareness so the name of the game here is privacy security and then on top of that awareness of new Apple features that's pretty much everything when it comes to what's new the last thing I will mention is let's look into battery life and see how we've been doing on battery life again I'm using a 13 Pro Max which again now at this point might be about 15 to 16 months old and we're doing about 6 hours and 24 minutes of screen on time so let's look on a day like Monday eight and a half hours of screen on time on about hundred and ten percent charge it looks like on a day right here like last Tuesday eight and a half hours of screen on time with a hundred percent battery so I'm getting you know anywhere from eight to nine hours of screen on time on a 15 to 16 month old device which I'm all for and just to show you guys real quick when my battery percentage is like I'm at 91 battery health and again I'm always running betas I always have this thing plugged in I don't follow the best practices for battery health but that's just something to be aware of and I'm sure the 14 pro Max could do even better but that is everything new with 16.3 beta one let's finish up this video and get out of this view so as you saw apple with 16.3 it looks like they're really going towards a security game with being able to use NSC enabled two-factor authentication in order to unlock your phone or use it during iCloud passwords or even use it when transferring from an old iPhone to a new iPhone so I do welcome the new feature I'm all about security the more secure we can be with our devices the better so shout out Apple for including that and it should be out with 16.3 whenever it does release to the public but outside of that everything was pretty much as more like awareness to some features that came with 16.2 and then also what I'm still waiting for is three main things that Apple talked about earlier on so one of them is Apple music classical which is supposed to be a dedicated application for classical music which we saw in the code early on in 16.0 betas and we're still not yet seeing it but then there's also two other things that Apple actually mentioned themselves like their high yield savings account and then Apple pay later which they announced during WWDC and still we haven't seen that at all either now 16.3 almost six months after WWDC so those are some things to look out for as these betas start iterating or maybe Apple's gonna wait till like 16.4 to really release that we don't really know but one more caveat that I will mention is since this is kind of before the holiday season this should be Apple's last beta update until January of next year so you will be if you do want to update to 16.3 beta 1 and you are in the developer program you'll be stuck on that beta 1 for a solid two three maybe even four weeks so whatever bugs come with it you're going to be dealing with those for a while so keep that in mind if you do plan on putting it on your main device but outside of that it does seem pretty stable but I will say if I wasn't making these videos to let you guys know what's coming and what's new I probably wouldn't be updating to 16.3 beta 1 but that's going to do it everybody if you made it to the end leave a little dolphin in the comments down below so I know you made it to the end and if you want to watch more Mac OS iPad Os or iOS videos click on one of these right here and until next time I'm Fernando I'm out of hereso not even a day after Apple released iOS and iPad OS 16.2 to the entire public they shot out and they gave us 16.3 beta 1 for iOS and iPad OS so in this video let's talk about what's new what they could have improved and if there's anything worth really talking about 16.3 beta 1 because again it is the first beta so we should be getting some new features but without further ado let's get into it okay everyone let's get right into this video and the first thing I do like to show off is exactly what this build number looks like for iOS and iPad OS 16.3 beta 1. so if we go into our general go into our about section I'll bring it up here and I'll show you guys that we are on iOS 16.3 and the version number is 20d5024 lowercase e so we should be getting updates but I will say that normally this is Apple's final update of the holiday season so we probably won't get beta 2 until next year technically in early January so if you do decide to update to iOS 16.3 beta 1 just know that whatever bugs come with it you'll be stuck with them for longer than usual because normally after the first beta Apple Waits two weeks for the second beta but this one will be at least three to four weeks so keep that in mind but that is the version number we're dealing with and it's the same thing on the iPad over here and then in terms of build size on the iPad side it was almost five gigabytes and on the iOS side I just didn't take a screenshot but it should be roughly the same so give yourself at least 8 to 10 gigs of open stores in order to get this installed and get it installed correctly because last thing you want is for it to freeze up when it is installing so keep that in mind about five gigs to get it installed on either one of these devices and yes I know it is a large update so there should be a lot of features that come with it but normally it's not too many feature updates and it's just the fact that it's a brand new beta it has to reinstall and install pretty much a brand new iPad OS version which is 16.3 and iOS version 16.3 so now in terms of what's new the big new feature with 16.3 is all about security so iOS 16.3 brings support for protecting your Apple ID with physical security Keys people have been using UB Keys as a form of multi-factor authentication for a while it runs either off a USB or it runs off of an NFC tag as well so basically I'm going to show you guys how it works but you can now use a physical key for multi-factor authentication with your iCloud and iOS and iPad OS device and then what's really nice about this is this little piece right here so Apple told nine to five Mac that the security key system integrates with its device the device transfer process so let's say you're using an iPhone 13 like I am or an iPhone 14 Pro Max and the next year you get a brand new phone that same key as long as you keep your same iCloud will then still work as a multi-factor authenticator with that new phone so you don't need to repair it you don't need to re-authenticate it or anything like that and again this is just another level of security that Apple already added with their Advanced Data protection for iCloud which is basically end-to-end encryption for all iCloud Services whereas right now Apple only has end-to-end encryption for things stored in iCloud such as health data and passwords that's really the only thing aside from iMessage but ideally Apple will begin to roll it out to things like photos things like notes anything that involves iCloud will have end-to-end encryption so the way to get into this new version of multi-factor authentication with a physical key go into your settings go into your iCloud then go to passwords and security and then if you go into your settings and go to add security key give it a second and then this is what pops up so here's a prompt so basically it says a Fido certified security key is a third-party Hardware that you can use to verify your identity strongest account security because it relies on a physical asset to secure you so unless you have that key you cannot get it into whatever you're trying to get into so you can get hacked with a password or anything like that but it does require two security keys in order for this to happen so one fractional use and one for redundancy because the last thing Apple wants is for you to set it up with one key you physically lose it and then you're kind of stuck in with a locked and bricked iPhone so you just press add security key I personally don't have one but all you have to do is you tap it to the back of your phone where the NFC Reader is and you start going from there so we'll press continue and unless you know what you should sign out of so these are all inactive accounts which I don't use anymore I don't even have those devices but it lets you know like hey these devices aren't compatible with that just keep that in mind but that is pretty much a process and it seems very very easy I'm curious to know if they added it to the iPad so if I go into settings if we go into our iCloud if we go into passwords and security you do have the ability to add security keys on the iPad itself so that's always great news so now that we've got that out of the way another quick thing that I didn't notice is if you go into your Apple music you actually get a new splash screen which is interesting because Apple came out with this new Apple music sing situation for iOS 16.2 but looks like with iOS 16.3 it's kind of giving us a little bit more awareness of this new feature so it says belt it wrap it sing it and you can see that it lets you know how it's used and then you can find your song inside of there so it looks like apple is kind of like internally advertising it a little bit more to people but again only on 16.3 and not really 16.2 and then we also got a new splash screen which I'll throw on the screen of Apple kind of teaching you with a splash screen of how to actually transfer music from your iPhone over to a homepod because again most people I mean if you're in this space you were aware of that feature but I guess not a lot of people knew that you could literally just start playing music on your iPhone and then tap your homepod and it'll transfer that music over to the homepod so that is something new that did come so it's just a splash screen so again more awareness so the name of the game here is privacy security and then on top of that awareness of new Apple features that's pretty much everything when it comes to what's new the last thing I will mention is let's look into battery life and see how we've been doing on battery life again I'm using a 13 Pro Max which again now at this point might be about 15 to 16 months old and we're doing about 6 hours and 24 minutes of screen on time so let's look on a day like Monday eight and a half hours of screen on time on about hundred and ten percent charge it looks like on a day right here like last Tuesday eight and a half hours of screen on time with a hundred percent battery so I'm getting you know anywhere from eight to nine hours of screen on time on a 15 to 16 month old device which I'm all for and just to show you guys real quick when my battery percentage is like I'm at 91 battery health and again I'm always running betas I always have this thing plugged in I don't follow the best practices for battery health but that's just something to be aware of and I'm sure the 14 pro Max could do even better but that is everything new with 16.3 beta one let's finish up this video and get out of this view so as you saw apple with 16.3 it looks like they're really going towards a security game with being able to use NSC enabled two-factor authentication in order to unlock your phone or use it during iCloud passwords or even use it when transferring from an old iPhone to a new iPhone so I do welcome the new feature I'm all about security the more secure we can be with our devices the better so shout out Apple for including that and it should be out with 16.3 whenever it does release to the public but outside of that everything was pretty much as more like awareness to some features that came with 16.2 and then also what I'm still waiting for is three main things that Apple talked about earlier on so one of them is Apple music classical which is supposed to be a dedicated application for classical music which we saw in the code early on in 16.0 betas and we're still not yet seeing it but then there's also two other things that Apple actually mentioned themselves like their high yield savings account and then Apple pay later which they announced during WWDC and still we haven't seen that at all either now 16.3 almost six months after WWDC so those are some things to look out for as these betas start iterating or maybe Apple's gonna wait till like 16.4 to really release that we don't really know but one more caveat that I will mention is since this is kind of before the holiday season this should be Apple's last beta update until January of next year so you will be if you do want to update to 16.3 beta 1 and you are in the developer program you'll be stuck on that beta 1 for a solid two three maybe even four weeks so whatever bugs come with it you're going to be dealing with those for a while so keep that in mind if you do plan on putting it on your main device but outside of that it does seem pretty stable but I will say if I wasn't making these videos to let you guys know what's coming and what's new I probably wouldn't be updating to 16.3 beta 1 but that's going to do it everybody if you made it to the end leave a little dolphin in the comments down below so I know you made it to the end and if you want to watch more Mac OS iPad Os or iOS videos click on one of these right here and until next time I'm Fernando I'm out of here\n"