hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech an apple released iOS 17 beta 4 today to developers iOS 17
beta 4 is out to developers and I would expect iOS 17 public beta 2 in a day or so now it's available
on all the supported devices from the iPhone 10s all the way up to the iPhone 14 pro and 14
pro Max and along with this apple also released iPad OS 17 beta 4 watch West 10 beta 4 Mac OS 14
beta 4 TV OS and homepod Os 17 beta 4 as well as Vision OS beta 2 and Studio display 17 beta 4. now
this particular update was not huge it was 1.34 gigabytes that's on the 14 pro Max and was about
a gigabyte or so on the other devices 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 down to General then about and if we
tap on the version number you can see the build number of 21A 5291h as we get closer to a final
release typically that letter will get closer to the letter A then we'll have a release candidate
and the final version and this update has quite a few things to talk about the first thing is there
is a new modem update so if you're updating from beta 3 re-release or the public beta to
public beta 2 you should have a modem update and hopefully that helps with overall connectivity
connectivity and iOS 17 in general has just been okay hopefully this resolves some of that but
it'll take a few days to know that as far as new features there's quite a few new ones the first
one has to do with airdrop if we go into settings and then we go to General and then airdrop under
airdrop we have a new option for bringing devices together we can disable this now where we airdrop
just by bringing our devices close together I think it's really nice but if you want to turn
it off you can and it says easily swap numbers with name drop share photos and more by holding
the top of your iPhone close to another and by air dropping from one device to another by just
touching the top of them together you can quickly send a photo or anything else and it will show
up on the other device you can disable this now if you want to Within settings if we go down to
standby at the bottom there's a new option for Show preview on tap only standby can hide the
previews of a notification until you tap on it so if we have that enabled and then if we put it on
maybe a dock here so we can do standby we'll just turn the screen off have it go into standby mode
once we're in standby if we get a notification we'll tap on it and it will let us go into that
notification and see what it says otherwise it will hide it and keep it private another small
change in settings is the icon for home screen and app Library if we scroll down on beta 3 on
the left you'll see with beta 4 on the right the icon has been updated and it's a more colorful
grid pattern within messages they've updated the little app icon to the left if we tap on the plus
to the left they've made things a little bit more consistent everything now has a little round icon
the spacing has been updated and photos this one I'm not so sure I like has been replaced with the
photos app icon instead of the most recent photo so maybe they'll bring that back with beta 5 but
at this point it looks like they've just got the different apps as well we can again still
rearrange things by moving up and down by pressing and holding and also the little more icon now is
round instead of oval additionally that bug still works where if you have it basically is the third
icon down and we double tap on it it will open up whatever is there or nearby so if you double tap
on the button and you have voice memos there or something else nearby it will actually bring that
up so it usually has to be around the third or fourth icon within Safari if we go to our
bookmarks and then go to the option to clear it's no longer full page or doesn't go all the way to
the top it's a small change but something they've updated in the control center they've updated an
icon also the Apple TV icon in the bottom left is updated with a black circle instead of an outline
Circle for the little remote itself it's a small change but again another change also in settings
if we go to accessibility under accessibility if we go to display and text size there's a new
option for prefer horizontal text it says prefer horizontal text in languages that support vertical
text so that's an option that you can enable or disable if you want to another slight change I
noticed is when I went into my battery settings for battery health I took a screenshot as these
typically disappear but under in insights and suggestions I had a new icon for auto brightness
before it just showed the little tips app icon so this has been updated just again another very
small slight change and before we take a look at the release notes I wanted to give a shout out
to the telegram and Discord communities that we have I'll link them in the description as well as
Braden and Matt for helping me out as well finding additional features now let's go ahead and take a
look at the feedback app and go to recent activity and under the latest notes there are pages and
pages of known issues as well as resolved issues in fact there's 70 categories of known issues
with additional issues under each one of those categories there's also new features where it
says to test new features such as adaptive audio personalized volume and conversation awareness
developers need to install airpods beta firmware and I've talked about that before we could see a
new update for airpods firmware but known issues tons of different things as well as 16 categories
of resolved issues with 40 resolved issues mentioned so tons of things in here and if you're
having issues make sure you check the feedback app and the notes to see if Apple's already aware if
it's not listed here make sure you submit feedback in the feedback app but again known issues for
cellular and much much more tons of different changes and updates here now as far as bug fixes
we know that seem to be working properly well one thing that's great news is the keyboard bug
so the keyboard seems to be very buggy typically on iOS 17 beta 3 and earlier now it's showing up
properly we have our icons if we say hi we can tap send and everything is here sometimes there was
a workaround where you had to tap return the new contacts widget is now working properly so if you
have it set to call someone or maybe message them tap on the little button there and it opens right
up so it seems to be working as intended now that notification bug though is still here it's jumpy
it doesn't work properly and just seems to sort of jump around all over the place so I'm not sure why
it does that but it continues to be an issue and they haven't fixed it yet hopefully they see this
video and some others complaining about this and resolve it very very soon
now as far as overall performance it seems to be pretty good despite what geekbench actually
shows and I'll show you that a little bit later performance is nice and fast you've seen me go
into different apps they open up and load as expected different data loads is expected it's
smooth Pro motion is smooth and surprisingly the heat of the device is nice and cool the back of
it is cool to the touch for the most part it is processing a little bit since we're actually on
an early beta and installed it and has to do a bunch of background processes but for the most
part it's staying nice and cool as far as battery life well we'll have to wait and see for me if
you've been following along it hasn't been great my battery health is down to 92 percent with many
more Cycles than we had last year at the same time battery life over the past few days and there's
that auto brightness thing I showed you earlier with the tips if we look at yesterday I only had
three hours and 31 minutes of screen active time and 4 hours and seven minutes of screen idle time
and used almost 100 percent of my battery that was the camera even though I didn't use it very
much there's some odd bugs here and there the day before was almost two hours of usage with
50 battery use so it's really not great in general hopefully they fix it with this beta I know some
people have had a better experience than I have though and if you're wondering if you should
install iOS 17 beta 4 or iOS 17 public beta 2 when it's released I would say if you're on the iOS 17
betas absolutely this may be a good time to try it out as usually by the fourth beta it's much
more stable of course only time will tell and we'll take a look at that on the weekend with
the regular follow-up but it takes a few days to know what it's like as far as storage and more
and we'll take a look at storage quickly as some of you have asked about that we'll wait for it to
load it loaded pretty quickly and if we scroll to the bottom you'll see system data is only taking
up 1.07 gigabytes this can vary greatly from 20 to 50 gigabytes and back down it will use
storage as needed you'll see the system data is only 11.01 gigabytes when you install an update
it overwrites the previous one and doesn't take up too much additional story if any at all now as far
as iOS 17 public Beta release like I mentioned public beta 2 probably later today or tomorrow
the next beta with iOS 17 beta 5 will probably be in two weeks with iOS 15 beta 5 and iOS 16 beta 5
they released in August August 10th for beta 5 of iOS 15 and August 8th for iOS 16 beta 5. so
I think this will be the last two week cycle that we have then we'll move on to weekly Cycles after
this based off of the previous years we also could see iOS 16.7 beta 1 as soon as tomorrow or maybe
next week typically we'll have an iOS 0.7 update before the release of the next version so we could
see that as the final iOS 16 release before iOS 17 in mid-september that's usually what we have every
year as far as overall benchmarks I did run those and they're not great compared to the previous
version if we go in I already ran it let's go into the screenshot that I have and I actually
ran this twice because I had poor results on the multi-core score you'll see the single core score
is 2616 compared to 2648 on the previous version on multi-core we had 5960 compared to 6790. now
as far as the overall performance and using it I haven't noticed really any difference however the
scores actually say otherwise we could see this change after a few days after it's done processing
everything in the background so I wouldn't really worry about it too much but it's just
worth mentioning as far as iPad OS 17 beta 4 if I find anything other than what I've mentioned it's
an iOS 17 beta 4 I'll be sure to mention it in the follow-up as well but so far it has the same sort
of updates as far as the icons with home screen and app library and everything else seems to be
the same I haven't really noticed any differences other than the initial differences with iPad OS
17 beta 1. if I find anything else though I'll be sure to share that later this week and of
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