hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and today apple released ios 15.6 beta 4. this is currently
available to developers and hopefully by the time you're watching this video it will be out to
public beta testers as well if not today usually the following day now this came in at 606.4
megabytes that's on the iphone 12 pro and was between 500 and 600 megabytes on the other devices
here as well along with this apple also released ipad os 15.6 beta 4 watch os 8.7 beta 4 tv os 15.6
beta 4 mac os 12.5 beta 4 and homepod os 15.6 beta 4. now let's take a look at the build number and
talk about what's new so we'll go to settings then general then about as you can see the build number
is 19g 5056c at this point i thought we'd have an a at the end which means maybe we could have
a beta 5 or we could have a release candidate next we'll talk more about that a little bit later now
this particular update does have a modem update at least on the iphone 12 pro where we went from
version 2.70.00 to 2.70.01 so that should help with connectivity although it is much better than
ios 15.5 already now as far as new features and changes first there was a new promotional update
or email sent out to those who create podcasts and it says create social posts as unique as your show
and gives more information about this this was sent out to creators today if they have a podcast
also that new macbook air should be available as soon as next month so hopefully we'll see that
very soon and you can see that on apple's website configure it now if you're looking for that
so we'll go over to apple.com and you can see the macbook air here with different pricing and more
it's still only available in july also i did mention in other videos but one to share here
since this is updated even if you're not running the betas if you go to settings and then under
settings tap on your name and then subscriptions apple has updated the subscriptions interface with
more information separated it a little bit more easily and then if you go into a subscription
it looks a little different and has an easy cancel subscription button so they've updated
this on ios 15.5 all the way to ios 16 betas now there are new features and changes in beta 4.
one of those has to do with safari if you go into your settings scroll down to safari under
safari scroll to the bottom if you scroll down to where you can clear history and website data
tap on that clear the history and data it will now ask you if you want to close tabs
it says do you also want to close open tabs this will not affect tabs in your tabs group
you can keep the tabs or close the tabs it's just a small change but something that they've updated
also we'll keep that for now and if we go back up into our communication safety settings
this is for a child it's disabled by default but i talked about it before but if you go into your
screen time and tap on one of your children and under that child if they're young enough you'll
have the option for communication safety tap on communication safety and there's a new option for
improved communication safety you can turn this on or leave it off as it is by default
and it says help apple improve communication safety by sending analytics and usage data
analytics and data are aggregated in a form that is not personal identifiable and it says
no message or media are shared with apple and then there's more information about it so you have the
option and i think there might be a typo in there is not personal identifiable maybe personally it
should say but again it is a beta and this particular update just has this option now
so that's something new within this update also in your settings if you go under accessibility under
voiceover and braille there's some new braille options if you have a compatible device i don't
have a compatible device as you can see here but if you do there'll be some new options for
different panning keys thumb keys and more such as c2 and c3 options so these are things that are
added within the code that you can't see directly but is there there's also additional updates
within the code just like there has been in previous betas and there's updates to the health
sharing code so if you're using health and you're sharing health there's additional options there
as well also within the home app if maybe you're sharing a home with someone and then someone sends
you an invite that you don't recognize they maybe invite you to control a lock on their home and you
don't recognize it you'll now have the option to report that invite as junk ignore it or cancel it
now i don't have anyone that can actually share that invite with me so i can try that out that's
not in my contacts list but if you do see that there should be an option here within the home app
also under software updates there's some code changes as well you'll see there's an update
available if you have one and you're on the betas so not a huge change but some small changes within
the home app within the wallet app there's some code changes as well if maybe you're adding a
balance to your device sometimes you could have an error and if you do have an error it will give
you a message saying that an update is in progress so that's only replicatable if you have that error
but that's in the code itself also there's wording changes when you're setting up an iphone with an
itunes and podcast account so that's when you're actually setting up your phone and
setting up those accounts some of the wording will be slightly different not a whole lot of changes
so with ios 15.6 it's mostly small changes code updates and security updates once it's released
we'll know what those are as far as known and resolved issues within apple's notes there are
no known and resolved issues you can see in the feedback app here are all the issues or notes for
beta 4 but there are two known issues one of them says the ios device that initiates pairing needs
to be logged into the same icloud account as the home hub only the owner of a home not an invited
user can pair matter accessories also there's a known issue that's been there for a while with
xcode with xcode 13.4 where it's unable to prepare 15.6 beta devices for development they tell you to
use xcode 13.3.1 so some very small known issues however we've talked about in the past storage
issues and if we go into our settings and go to storage i did notice that it loads very quickly
now or at least it did for me so we'll see if it actually loads quickly this time and it did load
quickly so going into that takes just a moment and then you can see your ios storage and then system
data sometimes this can take a moment to fill but does not seem to be taking up a huge amount
of storage so we'll give it just a moment here system data completed at 6.18 gigabytes and this
can vary between 0 and 20 gigabytes it's at the bottom for a reason as it typically manages itself
however i'd love to hear from you if it's using a ton of data as it seems to be resolved for the
majority of users if it is presenting a problem make sure to report that in the feedback app
now as far as the iphone overheating or getting too hot most people report with ios 15.6 with
earlier betas that it's nice and cool and this time around it hasn't even gotten warm today even
running benchmarks it was barely warm so that's a good sign it seems to be staying nice and cool and
even with the iphone 12 pro models it was an issue so it seems to be much cooler than it was before
and that's great now that we're getting into summer and it's even hotter outside
however if you have a case sealing everything it definitely could be quite warm now as far as
the next releases we can expect ios 15.6 either beta 5 or release candidate as soon as next week
typically this late in updates will have them week to week it's very rare not to and then we
could have a release candidate next week with a final release maybe in the week of july 10th
if we don't have it then we could have it pushed out a week with beta 5 then the release candidate
then the final release now next week we could possibly expect ios 16 public beta and then beta 3
releasing as well to developers usually apple will push out the public beta and then beta 3 will come
within the next few days to the following week we should see that of course with additional
updates and changes and i'll keep you informed of that as well and then of course we'll have ios 15
and ios 16 betas usually till the end of august with ios 15 and then september usually around
mid-september will have the release of ios 16 to the public so that's what you can expect along
with the release of ios 4 or iphone 14 and 14 pro pro max and iphone 14 max all of those things we
can expect in mid-september and of course we'll have security updates with this and we'll find
out what those are when it releases to the public with ios 15.6 now as far as if you should install
ios 15.6 beta 4 at this point if you're running the betas definitely install it however if you're
running maybe ios 15.5 and having major issues ios 15.6 does seem to be fairly stable however
it is a beta so make sure you have a backup and a way to roll back your phone if you need to
as you'll need a computer to do that if you're having issues but most people that switch to ios
15.6 have better battery life and in general have just a better experience if we go into settings of
course i haven't been using this as my main device but battery health on this device is 100 of course
it wasn't my main phone at all at all really usually i use the max model and typical battery
life for this you'll see today i've just been running a little bit for an hour and 39 minutes
and we're at 25 usage so it's pretty good so far especially since i just installed a beta
and usually it will get you through a day without a problem most people report on beta 3 the last
version that they were getting through a day on previous devices whether that be an iphone
7 8 or 11 most people were having great battery life with it as far as overall performance it does
seem to be performing well i did run minecraft here just to try it out see how quickly it loaded
and you'll see we're back in and resumed and it's nice and fast frame rates are great of course if
you have a pro motion display it may be a little bit different for you and you can see it's nice
and fast in general frame rates are great and of course i'm not playing this very well but you'll
see it's super smooth and it loaded very very fast whether that's on this device or an older device
now i did run benchmarks with geekbench 5 and if we go into that it's a little bit lower than
before with single core at 1579 and multi-core at 3994. if we take a look at the history again like
i said it's a little bit lower and typically after it's done processing in the background
these numbers will bump up and usually be a little bit better or about the same so they're within 20
to 30 that's not really a big deal typically that means we'll have pretty good performance overall
the multi-core is a little bit lower but again it's processing things in the background with
the latest update so i'll be sure to run those a little bit later and we'll have a follow-up
on the weekend where we talk about that a little bit more and so that's everything in
ios 15.6 beta 4. now if you've found anything i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
and of course if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper i'll link it in the description
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