hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and apple released ios 15.4 last week and we've all been
using it for about a week or so and i've been using it full time on my 13 pro max but if you're
a developer or public beta tester and we're using ios 15.4 rc you've actually been using it for
about two weeks so i wanted to talk about what the overall experience is like not just my experience
but your experience based off the youtube community poll where there's thousands of votes
hundreds and hundreds of comments where i've compiled all of that information to give you
the best understanding of battery life not only on the latest devices but older devices too
so we'll talk about that as well as what the overall experience is like any remaining bugs
and if you can install it on your device if you haven't already but first i want to talk
about a few new features that i didn't mention in the initial what's new video
there were over 20 minutes of just new features and changes alone and there's even a few more so
let's take a look at those first now the first change has to do with visual lookup this is a
feature we've had in the united states for a while but it's now available in canada also places such
as the uk singapore germany and a few other places it's showing up as well so you may or may not have
this but what it does is allows you to maybe take a picture of a tree or a flower or a landmark
and it will give you more information about that that's something that you can typically see let
me show you what it looks like you can see here's a photo i took of the world trade center and the
oculus here and down at the bottom where you have the eye you actually have a little star on it tap
on that and it will give you more information about it so it will tell you exactly where it is
give you more information about the landmark and more so you have a lot of information here
if you take a photo it says one world trade center and then more information about that so
hopefully that's showing up in your country and if it's outside of those countries i mentioned
let me know in the comments below if you're seeing it as well there's also an update in shortcuts so
maybe you're adding something to do with battery they've updated the icons here and you'll see it
says get battery level and set low power mode now those are different colors and they look a little
different just a small change to the icons but it is an update also in safari there's an update that
i didn't mention and if you're using experimental features and you go into settings then you go to
safari under safari go all the way to the bottom go to advanced under advanced experimental
features go all the way to the bottom maybe you changed all of these things if you go all the way
to the bottom you now have reset all to defaults i mentioned this in some of the earlier beta videos
but i never mentioned it in the what's new video so those three things are what's new in
this update that i didn't mention in the initial update video and like i said right now ios 15.4 rc
and the public release are the same thing so we have a ton of data of what it's like
as far as the overall experience but one thing i did i thought that would be a little bit fun
is ask you on twitter what you thought was the best iphone color now that apple has some new
green colors this is sierra blue but if we go to twitter i wanted to show you that poll as well now
on twitter i know not everyone follows me there so i wanted to share this but as far as your favorite
iphone color 24 of you said that you liked green or alpine green 49 of you said blue or sierra blue
9 said red and 18 said others such as gold space gray or silver and that's out of 3 492 votes so
a ton of people are actually talking about that so that's great to hear what your opinion is i
know a lot of people really like blue i actually really like the green color the new alpine green
as well as pacific blue i think those are some of my favorites but i typically lean towards graphite
unless i'm doing a video about it and need to show a new color now the overall experience is quite
stable for most people however there are some odd things some people actually experience such
as maybe the phone really slowing down now this is pretty few and far between i haven't experienced
it but typically when you reboot the phone it resolves that issue so most people are not seeing
that and most people say that it performs better than any version of ios 15. so that's a great
thing also in settings the storage bug is resolved in this update so if we go into general and then
we go to iphone storage i won't be mentioning that anymore since it's resolved unless it's changed
and it's not resolved in maybe future updates now it taking a while to load is not the problem as
long as it loads within say 30 seconds it's not an issue and then these things will fill in with the
different data and more down at the bottom you'll see it's taking a bit for system data to show up
that's normal as long as it shows up it's actually working and as long as these numbers are correct
it's working so the storage bug was a problem where it wouldn't either load at all or the
numbers were actually really incorrect now many have messaged me and said that system data is just
taking up way too much data in this update and so i wanted to mention that a little bit because
system data changes so maybe you install an ios update it's five gigabytes it doesn't take up an
additional five gigabytes to what your iphone is already using but instead it installs the update
or downloads it unzips it or uncompresses it then installs the update does all the background
processes then removes what it doesn't need anymore so you'll see here ios is taking up 9.18
gigabytes and then 29 kilobytes for system data it will change over time and reduce your storage
so as long as you don't need that storage you'll see i have quite a bit free if i go to the top
i have 109 well 109 gigabytes used out of 256 so i have quite a bit left so don't worry about
that storage it's not a big deal it will actually resolve itself and that will fix itself on its own
now also those of you that have mentioned pink or purple displays that seems to be resolved in this
update i haven't heard a single person mention it other than in some of the earlier betas it seems
to be resolved despite apple not mentioning it now performance on older devices even the iphone 6s
and 6s plus again many people are saying that it's performing quite well so it's good on all of them
with the exception of that stutter and slowdown i mentioned and a reboot seems to fix that
now the big question a lot of you seem to have is what is battery life you're concerned about
upgrading because of battery life and so let me share my battery life then i'll share a couple
others battery life and then i'll talk about what hundreds of you had to say so the first thing is
if we go into settings we'll go back here we'll go down to battery battery health on my phone is 100
this has been used every day put on the charger every single night and it's my main phone if we
go to the last 10 days every one of these last 10 days was on ios 15.4 and so yesterday was not as
good but hours and 56 minutes of screen on time 6 hours and 46 minutes of screen off time and i used
about 60 percent of the battery 60 to 65 percent today 50 percent of the battery 3 hours and 26
minutes now this isn't great for most people on a 13 pro max however i have some odd issues here and
there using some of the background activity such as music because that music bug is still there
so most people say that this is much much better i can get through a day without a problem
usually you can get 10 to 14 hours of screen on time with this but let me share a couple others
with you now abhishek sent in his battery life on an 11 pro max and as you send in your battery life
i'll be sure to maybe pick randomly if there's a bunch of them or just use those in example videos
every weekend for follow-ups but he has an 11 pro max and he had 4 hours and 49 minutes of screen on
time 40 minutes of screen off time and used about 55 of his battery the day before that 5 hours and
26 minutes now lewis sent in his battery life on telegram i have a telegram channel he did as well
as a discord channel but lewis sent this in this is on a 13 pro max 100 usage he got 14 hours and
30 minutes and 11 minutes of screen off time on the other day he sent in 15 hours and 56 minutes
and so you can see he just started charging it so there is a charge in between there it can
make a difference but typically it's getting most people through the day and according to what you
had to say on the youtube community poll most people say battery life is better than 15.3.1
or earlier versions by a lot 77 percent of you have said that battery was better than before
23 of you say that it's worse that's after using over 200 data points from different people saying
it was better the same or worse so if it was the same or better 77 so that's pretty good and that's
better than out of any other update we've had in a long time now stability is good i haven't had any
crashes but i have had some issues with cellular connectivity lately switching again between 5g and
5g uc this could be specific to t-mobile since i see a few other people mention this but data will
drop temporarily so if it's switching between 4g lte and then over to 5g sometimes data will just
drop then it will come right back so there's some little blip there sometimes that happens
now that doesn't happen to everyone but it does happen to me on the 13 pro max now as far as wi-fi
not a single person mentioned that there was a problem with it and one person mentioned bluetooth
but was reporting that it was better with their headphones so this is great news and typically i
do this test where i use my air pods and just kind of open them up and see what happens so let's try
that here i'll grab my air pods air pods three let's open them up oh one just fell out on the
table let's see what happens it still has not come up on my phone let's see it popped up on my ipad
and there it's on my phone for me it connects fine but sometimes it does seem a little bit
delayed but i've had no problems with it cutting out or anything like that like i said that music
bug is still there streaming music still seems to be a problem for me so that is a problem where it
uses additional power and then battery life and some people do mention that the phone is getting
a little bit warmer but typically that's not an issue apple manages that very aggressively on
the phone but if it's getting to the point where it's dimming the display well then that can be an
issue also carplay continues to have issues but less people mentioned a problem this time around
so if it's disconnecting from carplay it seems to be better and i would love to hear from you
in the comments below about that now i did want to share with you the geekbench scores and then we'll
talk about if you should update or not i just ran the benchmark a couple times on the 13 pro max and
this shows that the single core is great 1718 and then multi-core is a little bit lower than when i
ran it with the rc when it was first installed for so 4670 before it was about 4 800 so it can vary a
lot if i ran this a little bit later maybe it was done processing in the background maybe i bring
the screen brightness down it could improve as far as the iphone 10 and iphone 12 pro i have here you
can see both of them here so i ran both of them you'll see there's a screen protector on the right
phone so it looks a little bit different but that gives you an idea of what it looks like as far
as benchmarks go and hopefully yours are within 100 or 200 or so that typically is within range
as long as you're there you shouldn't have any issues now if you're still wondering if you should
install ios 15.4 and you haven't yet i would highly recommend that you do based off of security
alone if you go to apple's security website you can see all of the updates here where there's tons
of different updates to security so everything from core media to cellular to facetime to kernel
and so on you can see there's pages and pages of updates notes and music and bluetooth so
i would highly recommend it for that but you're also gaining over 50 changes and updates as well
as performance that seems to be better than any other version of 15. so ios 15 was a bit buggy
to begin with this seems to be a much more stable version where battery really improves over time
so if you're not seeing that improvement yet give it a few days if you just installed it and then it
should improve usually it will take a few days and then you gain the benefits of it then we'll move
on to the next version so i would expect ios 15.5 beta 1 probably early next week typically with all
the releases that apple pushed out with the new ipad and iphone se and then these ios updates
they usually wait until the following week and then we'll move into 15.5 then later on we'll
get to wwdc 2022 where we'll see ios 16. so ios 16 ipad os 16 watch os 9 mac os 13 and then of
course tv and home pod os 16 as well then we'll see all of the major feature changes and more
we'll see those in june then typically we'll have that released in september now we can
expect those updates for or those invites rather for wwdc 2022 typically at the end of the month
so last year they pushed it out on the 30th we can expect it around that time frame where we'll
have wwdc now the question right now is whether or not that will be a virtual event or be in person
typically in the past couple of years it's been virtual maybe they'll do one more that's virtual
since google's doing that again with google i o or maybe they'll be the first in-person
event in a long time or they'll just wait for a while and do that in september but either way
we should get those invites within another week or so and know more about that now let's go
ahead and take a look at some of the comments from the community poll and about 10 or so of
them and see what you had to say so the first one is from kevin taylor it says since ios 15
i've been having horrible standby time on my ipad pro 2018 and just canceled my apple music and
deleted the app and now the standby time is only dropping about two percent overnight now instead
of almost 40 to 50 percent so i think it was that problem that musicbug you've been posting about
other than that 15.4 is amazing and great battery life across all my devices and that's
definitely an issue if you've got apple music on your device and you're using it in streaming
apple mentioned that in earlier betas where it was a problem and they haven't yet at least mentioned
that they've fixed it so hopefully they have but when you're streaming and you didn't download that
music it's definitely different ahmed said everything's great one issue is cellular 5g
and lte disconnects for 4 seconds and similar to what i was experiencing it seems when it switches
sometimes it just drops the internet altogether in fact while i was recording this video i had that
issue on this device so it switched from 5g to lte and just dropped so i'm not sure what that is
typically i have pretty good signal right now i have two bars of lte which is odd usually it's a
little better but that's what we're at right now ahmet verma said the main thing i was waiting for
in this update was face id with a mask but i'm disappointed it works but only 4 out of 10 times
now i've seen some responses to these comments or this comment and typically i agree with them on
this so generally you want to add your face again and see if that helps and if you wear glasses make
sure to add that as well so face id with a mask seems to work fine at least for me about 9 out of
10 times if not 10 out of 10. so maybe try adding that and it could be something to do with maybe
where the mask is placed so if the mask is above maybe your cheekbones that could probably make a
difference but it's hard to say as everyone's face is a little different barack yildiz says
everything is fine i'm so happy using my iphone 7. the battery is improved even battery health is 83
interface is very smooth iphone 7 users can update their phones with contentment
so this is great news on older phones like i said earlier with the battery overall it seems to be
great on all devices tenaci simbanda hopefully i'm saying that properly music volume gets stuck on
low after a notification have to press volume up for it to go back to normal again and so i haven't
seen this myself but a couple people mentioned this so i thought i'd mention this comment
larabadi says update seems fine overall but my ios and system data has drastically increased reducing
my overall storage by three gigabytes i would give that a few days typically that will improve and
then just be back to normal so usually after it finishes processing or indexing in the background
it no longer needs those update files and sort of offloads them and gets rid of them austin holland
said so far the only issue i have on my iphone 11 pro is the battery isn't lasting as long
i've had the 15.4 update since since the release day so usually i would say give it a few days
but it's been a few days so hopefully it improves but i would go into your battery
see if there's anything abnormal otherwise maybe reboot and see if that resolves the issue
maybe do a hard reboot where you press volume up volume down press and hold your power sleep wake
button until it reboots hopefully that resolves it as it seems to resolve a lot of the other small
odd issues i mentioned earlier mega lo 86 says on my iphone se 2020 the battery life is improved
with the most noticeable difference in standby as the percentage barely drops compared to before
so this is great news overnight it's not dropping that's what's happening on my ipad
as well it seems to be greatly improved when it's actually turned off but i'm just still
having some odd issues with the ipad blaz novak says battery is very bad it's just draining like
crazy updated yesterday on the 13 pro max and if you updated yesterday like i said make sure you
give it a couple days and see if it changes hopefully it will actually fix that over a
couple days the tech librarian says iphone 13 pro max on 15.4 has introduced some new bugs
i've had some dropped calls and freezing that was pres wasn't present until updating so like i said
maybe a hard reboot fixes that problem typically it seems to for most people i've had a couple
people mention that to me and it did resolve their issues so a few odd bugs here and there
but for the most part it seems to be very stable kwara of tandon says i'm on ios 15.4 on 13 pro
and it's the most awesome and stable update to date absolutely love this update promotion feels
much better and more fluid the face id with a mask works really well great videos aaron thank
you and we'll take a look at one more tomato blast says everything is buttery smooth on my
iphone 11 but the battery life is going down the drains i usually got around seven hours
of screen on time on the previous versions and now i'm barely making it to 530. i don't know
if the problem of my battery or it's something else if anyone has a solution please let me know
and so with that i would say like i said give it a couple days see if it improves but it seems to
be really hit or miss as over 75 percent of people are saying it's better so if you look at most of
the comments it seems to improve but it does take a few days sometimes more for others i would say
on an older phone it could process a little bit longer since it's a little slower processor so
there's definitely factors to consider there and so that's everything with ios 15.4 i think
it's definitely the best update since ios 15 as far as stability at least what i'm hearing from
you over the past couple of weeks so hopefully it continues this way and we see more and more
stability with ios 16 and more now if there's any additional features or anything else you'd like to
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