what's up guys my name is brandon and this past week was one of the more boring ones of the year
but the good news is this is the calm before the storm because things are going to start picking up
next week and they won't be slowing down for a while so we'll discuss why that is later on
in this video but before that we're going to cover even more new features and changes found
in ios 15 specifically beta 4 we're going to discuss the performance and the battery life
the community poll when to expect beta 5 and a potential ios 14.8 along with some controversial
privacy moves that apple just recently made and they will be implemented in ios 15. so we have a
lot to cover and if you guys enjoy these weekly follow up update videos make sure to give this
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thumbs up button down below if you do enjoy these videos and of course if you enjoyed this video
specifically but anyways let's go ahead and start off with some additional new features and changes
found in ios 15 beta 4. so the first feature is very interesting and this was discovered by a
reddit user you can see right here and it appears that in ios 15 the camera app will now be able
to auto remove lens flares from the sun in post processing so i'm not sure if this is specific to
you know devices if it depends on if you have like a certain chipset in your device and above that is
unclear at the moment but it looks like apple is implementing something to remove lens flares
from the sun which could be huge because that's always been you know an issue when you take photos
outdoors especially when it's really sunny and you know you have those lens flares that kind of ruin
the image so it's awesome that apple is working on a way to use ai you know to get rid of those lens
flares and speaking of photos i also just recently discovered a new feature inside of photos when we
swipe up and we can view the metadata right here and actually if you tap and hold on the metadata
where it says ultra wide camera 14 millimeters f 2.4 if you tap and hold on that you can see
exactly which camera lens took the picture you have to tap and hold right there to see it
and when you you know let go it takes it away but really cool so it looks like it used
the triple camera the 1.5 millimeter or 1.54 millimeter lens now another new feature that i
talked about in previous videos but never actually showed is the live updating of contacts you have
their location for so now if both of you are on ios 15 you can see down here it shows live and
it's updating this person's location in real time so you can see they're driving right now
and you can see you know when they're walking when they're driving it shows a live update instead of
taking like a minute or a two minute interval sometimes 30 second intervals between refreshes
it's all live now and you can even see the green pinging off of their profile picture right there
which is really neat a really cool feature and again you do both have to be on ios 15 for this to
show up properly we also have a new feature inside of the maps application so apple is continuing to
steal the features from waze which i am here for i love the waze application but you can see that
now it shows your estimated time and traffic in the apple maps application so i love this
first we were able to report you know police ahead and report crashes ahead now we can actually see
the time and traffic which is nice now i'm not sure if it will reroute you if it detects you know
a quicker route i'm not too sure that's something that weighs still has the edge over apple maps 4
but you can at least see the estimated time and traffic now in the default maps application now
the shared width feature is a big one on ios 15 and i just recently noticed that it shows up
in apple music right here so i knew it showed it before like in messages and things like that
but when you go to the actual album or single you could see who actually sent you that song and when
you tap on this it will actually take you to where in that message thread they sent you the link
to that song which is really neat i just like how it shows up inside of the music application like
this also new inside of the app store we have app store events so they now show up like this so this
is a new feature in ios 15 and the first one at least the first one i've seen was with tick tock
and this tick tock summer camp right here so when you search for tick tock
it shows and then also when you go to the today view and i don't have a screenshot of this
but when it was going on it appeared like right down here i believe somewhere on the main today
view near the top not the very top but it was like right down here somewhere so that is a new
feature that apple you'll probably be seeing more of that you know once ios 15 gets released to the
public you'll start seeing more app events so i guess it's in-app events which is pretty neat
we also have a change inside of fitness plus so if you're a fitness plus subscriber you can
now filter workouts by equipment so you can see down here under music you now have the option
to sort by equipment so if you just wanted to use dumbbells or if you just wanted to use the mat
or whatever you can go ahead and sort by that you can filter your workouts by the equipment which is
nice now if you guys remember in my what's new video i talked about how the visual lookup icon
has been tweaked in beta 4 but unfortunately still on my 12 pro max it is not working so the visual
lookup is not working but here on my 12 pro it is so when i swipe up on like a cat for instance you
can see it shows the visual lookup right there and this has actually been tweaked here in beta 4. so
you can see a slight difference in the paw print right there the location of it's a little bit
different and then also this right here the lookup so it says look up cats so it already identified
that if you tap on look up cats right there it will pull up the results right there so just
some minor changes to the verbiage and also the icon looks a little bit different as well so we
go down you can see it's like the sparkly eye now whereas it was something a little bit different it
didn't have the sparkles before and then when you swipe up when you cycle up right here you
can see it fills in and we do have the little look up cats right there which is new now also
starting in ios 15 apple has announced that they will be scanning your icloud photos for images of
csam or abuse and children i don't want to say the full phrase because i could get demonetized here
on youtube but apple is making a big move with implementing csam detection and it has been met
with a ton of scrutiny and a lot of controversy as expected because on one hand it's great that apple
is helping catch predators and you know locate potential missing children out there but at the
same time it definitely puts a dent in the privacy of icloud and our photos stored there and really
just apple as a whole because they've really been pushing this whole privacy narrative for a while
now now google and many others have been doing this for years so it's nothing new but apple again
has been making a push for mega privacy but i'm sure that this seems a whole lot worse right now
since it's fresh news and not even out yet because again it's starting with ios 15 when it comes
out to the public but maybe once apple clarifies this a little bit better and kind of ensures that
privacy won't be impacted as badly as we think it will be we'll probably have a different feeling
towards this so let me know what you guys think about this down below i don't want to spend this
whole video talking about this because i could go on and on and on i debated making a whole video on
this but if you want a link to this article and a couple of other news outlets out there as well
a couple of different takes on this i will leave those linked down in the description below i
think it's very important and something that i really want to hear your guys's thoughts on
down in the comments below someone know if you think this is a good move from apple or a bad
move and kind of a breach of our privacy let me know what you think now getting back to ios 15
beta 4. so one thing i did also notice in beta 4 over the past few days is that twitter and i
know a lot of you guys have said this as well but twitter is crashing a lot and it even caused a
respring on my iphone 12 pro yesterday morning so it completely froze and then resprung after trying
to load up my twitter mentions so that's the first time that's happened but i have heard a lot of
you guys say that you know twitter is crashing a lot and it has for me as well so that is common
it's not just you just wait for you know twitter to eventually update their app to not crash on ios
15. now also i have been having issues with the now playing not showing up on the lock screen or
on the control center or even with siri sometimes i'll play a song on siri and it's playing and then
i just don't see anything up here in you know my status bar in my control center rather and i go to
play another song you know choose a different song and music and it plays a different song
on my iphone than it's playing on my homepod so just some really strange issues going on
with music and you know the now playing screens so i'm sure that apple is going to fix this in the
next beta because it is a pretty major issue so i would expect to see changes to the now playing in
beta 5. and then also today i did have an issue with my banking app for the first time so my face
id just completely broke and beta 4. i don't know why it just doesn't work for my banking
application anymore and i know a lot of people are having issues with their banking apps as well and
that is expected those are not going to be fixed likely until the official release of ios 15. so
you may just have to use your you may just have to log in in safari instead of using the application
or of course you could always downgrade to ios 14 if it's a huge deal to you i do have a tutorial
for that if you want to watch it's linked down in the description below but other than that there
really haven't been too many other bugs i mean really just twitter and the banking app that's
really the two main issues i've been having on ios 15 beta 4 and it seems like you guys are having a
few issues but really not near as many as we're in beta 3. so we'll talk more about those in a moment
in the community poll but before that i do want to talk about the performance and the battery life so
as far as performance goes like i just mentioned really not too many bugs and performance overall
has been really good on ios 15. now ipad west 15 i have had a few issues on especially with
the world series of poker application i don't know if any of you guys played that but i have had some
issues with that crashing and just overall lag so it appears the ipad os 15 beta 4 is not quite as
stable as ios because really on my iphone 12 pro i've had really no issues besides you know like
i said twitter and then now playing and just the occasional you know glitch and the occasional app
crash but nothing too major here on beta 4 which is a really good sign because i think that beta 5
will be just excellent and really going to be one they could put on your main device now as far as
battery life goes battery life is still not great to me so i talked about this in my previous video
but battery life is still just not great in my opinion here on beta 4. so i go into my
battery here on my 12 pro which i use every single day it's my main device and i have this on a beta
4 right here so i know the charts don't tell you the full story but you can see i have you know
you can see kind of my charts right there so i do charge a lot throughout the day but i have noticed
that i'm not getting quite as good of battery life as i was on of course ios 14. so i'm still missing
out on about 45 minutes of on-screen time here on ios 15 the beta compared to ios 14.7 or 14.7.1 so
still gonna get much better battery life on ios 14 than on ios 15 but i would start expecting to see
some improvements coming to battery life within the next couple of betas now that apple is really
getting all these features out of the way all right so now let's go ahead and see what you
guys had to say about ios 15 and beta 4. so if you navigate over to the community tab here on
my channel you can see i did post this just the other day so i asked how is ios 15 beta 4 been
running for you over the past week and leave a comment with the device you're running so we got
19 000 votes so thank you to everybody who voted i'm going to vote for good because that's how it's
been for me and it appears that that is the most popular aside from being on 14.7.1 or lower so 25
of people are saying it's good just a few minor bugs and it's not excellent with no major bugs
and good battery life so that seems about right because that's what my experience has been as well
so you can see the top comment i pinned this and i asked you guys is your battery life better
or worse here on beta 4 and you can see it's way better battery is pretty good better for me beta 3
had better battery life and performance so that's interesting and worse someone said same beta 4
battery life has been worse as people are saying it's bad better so they're talking about compared
to other beta so yes beta 4 compared to other betas is definitely better but it's not better
than ios 14 at least not for me and most people so you can see there that's everybody's response
to that so now let's go and see what some of you guys had to say so you can see here max has the
top comment it says i've been having issues since beta 2 with twitter crashing and battery life but
in beta 4 i have more stuttering music on apple music pausing and unpausing and connection issues
on the airpods pro between devices iphone 10r and ipad air 4. so i have had issues with apple music
pausing and i thought that was just my signal but it appears that maybe other people are having
that bug as well so someone's also talking about twitter crashing in here and facebook sometimes
freezing randomly so a lot of people having kind of the same issues i've been talking about there
are some bugs in the photos app and i can't switch between tabs properly and safari other than that
it's pretty solid battery life is still worse than 14.7.1 but better than the previous beta so i
agree there was smart tech and i've not had issues with switching between tabs in safari but you guys
let me know if you've been having any type of issue with that in safari so andy here has an
issue with the iphone se 2nd generation and photos crashing and luca chimed in here saying he has the
same problem with the same phone so it may just be related to that phone because i've not had any
issues with photos crashing but if you guys have let me know in a comment down below but it appears
you know at least eight people have that issue as well i'm not sure if they all have the iphone
se second generation or if that's a little bit more widespread and it's just maybe not happening
to me andrew said that it's stuttering big time off and on so that's pretty interesting i've not
really had too many issues with that not that buggy at all so logan here is talking about an
issue that i thought was fixed in beta 4 because it was for me but he says problem is that twitter
doesn't have the same notification sound as it did before so i'm not sure what's going on with
the notification sounds but it appears that they may not be fully fixed even still here in beta 4
although i don't think twitter has a unique like a custom notification sound so i'm not too sure
about that and maybe it does i don't know i don't have the sounds turned on
but it seems like there may be an issue with the notification sound still here in beta 4.
battery life definitely wasn't great how to downgrade to 14.7.1 so definitely an issue
with battery life for a lot of people even myself included honestly if i wasn't you know doing these
youtube videos i probably would still be on ios 14.7.1 just from the battery life alone i'm on the
iphone 10s at the moment couldn't search in the app library only bug i've noticed so far so maybe
some issues going on with the app library safari crashes on me sometimes when closing tabs so apple
actually reported that that was fixed so it's been fixed for me i don't have that issue i even
demonstrated it on video but maybe it's not fully fixed so some people are still having the issue
when closing out of tabs with the x on the search bar so hopefully apple does fully fix that in the
next beta like they said they did in beta 4. so jonathan here says that he's having issues with
multiple notifications coming in at once my alarm not ringing and he's still having issues with
the glitch with miss call still showing up after clearing them so that's actually been fixed for me
so when i would miss a phone call you know and i went to clear it i would go out of the phone
application it would show up as one that was on beta 3 but in beta 4 it now clears properly at
least for me you just have to go into the phone application and on the missed call stay there for
like two or three seconds and then go out of it and then you should see that notification clear
that badge clear from the phone app but as far as the alarm not ringing or multiple notifications
coming in at once i've not had issues with those so you guys can let me know down below if you
are relating to jonathan here but thank you to everybody who commented in this poll as usual i
do appreciate it i did read every single comment here on this community post so thank you for that
and also thank you to everybody all 19 000 of you who voted in this poll it really helps me get a
better idea as to how the beta is running for you guys all right so now what is next for apple let's
go ahead and open up our calendar here and talk about what's next for apple so ios 15 beta 5 is up
next so next week is going to be the week of the 9th that is when we should see ios 15 beta 5 so it
could come really any day from monday to wednesday in my opinion so it seems like apple has really
been favoring the tuesdays and the wednesday so the 10th or the 11th seem likely for beta 5. and
let's jump ahead for a second and talk about ios 15 beta 6 because i do want to talk about
the upcoming change to the release schedule for apple's ios 15 beta so before from betas 1 through
beta 5 it's going to be two weeks in between each beta but after beta 5 i can see apple switching
over to a weekly release schedule so that means that if we get beta 5 next week on the week of the
9th which we should that means that on the week of the 16th the following week is when we should see
ios 15 beta 6 and then from here on out we should see a new beta for ios 15 every week leading up
to the final release of ios 15 the final public release which should be sometime in mid-september
so that's my guess apple does usually do that after the fifth beta however it could also be
after the sixth beta so we'll have to just wait and see i am hoping though that we do have you
know a new beta every single week after beta 5 comes out that would be really nice now as far
as an ios 14.8 goes i do think that this is still possible to be released now this has not been
rumored this has not been confirmed or anything like that this is just purely me speculating and i
think that there is a possibility of seeing an ios 14.8 next week as well the week of the 9th i think
that the week of the 16th would be the final you know possibility for apple to release in ios 14.8
if we're going to go through beta stages which we probably will so i think there is a possibility
of seeing 14.8 beta 1 next week as well although of course i would probably put that at like a 50
chance there's really no telling if apples even want to release a 14.8 or if apple's just going
to do like 14.7.1 14.7.2 14.7.3 and just stay on the 14.7 all the way until ios 15 gets released
and even afterwards so it's hard to tell right now apple is super unpredictable but that's what the
next few weeks looks like in terms of ios release schedules but anyways let me know what you guys
think about these releases down in the comments below let me know what you think about this video
overall down in those comments below and if you enjoyed this i would appreciate if you
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coverage coming very very soon but anyways guys thanks again for watching and i'll see you soon
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