hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and iOS 16.4 beta 4 has been out for a few days I've
been using it full time on my iPhone 14 pro Max and also my iPad Pro I wanted to talk about the
overall experience not just my experience but your experience based on the YouTube Community
poll where there's over 6 000 votes and over 100 comments we'll talk about that we'll also talk
about some new apps and changes to those but first let's start with some new features now the First
new feature in beta 4 I wanted to mention has to do with photos now there's some changes in photos
but also visual lookup is coming to more places so visual lookup looks at landmarks and gives you
more information about them based on the photos you've taken and you can see here's the bridge
that I took a picture of quite some time ago and apparently this is working in the Philippines now
if it's working for you in a different region where it didn't before though I'd love to hear
from you in the comments below also if you go into settings and under settings if you scroll
down until you find Game Center the first time you go into Game Center you'll actually get a
new splash screen I missed this in the initial what's new video as I didn't notice it but you
have one that shows up that talks about activity widget and also activity access so just some new
features with beta 4 or iOS 16.4 there also seems to be a new splash screen with stocks depending on
how many times you open it sometimes it shows up sometimes it doesn't now if you've taken a
photo or maybe just gone into the photos app to edit maybe today's wallpaper and I'll link this
in the description like I normally do but as you can see here if we modify this just change it a
little bit maybe go to the next one change it a little bit hit done and then go back to edit
we can revert back some people are seeing this actually show a little icon that looks more of
what reminds me of iOS 7. instead of the actual word revert they're seeing a little icon for it
so let me know if you're seeing that I'm not seeing it but some people are actually seeing
that based on maybe the amount of different things they have at the bottom that have been adjusted so
if you are seeing it let me know in the comments below and on Twitter my friend Steve Mosher posted
the first one I mentioned this in the initial what's new video where the MLS season pass image
was added to the TV app you can see that here in the season pass if you want to subscribe to
MLS season pass you can and it's just giving more updates to that with more wording changes there as
well additionally he also mentions miscellaneous changes including Apple pay later that we're still
waiting for and also you can see that some of the code was compiled on March 6th so this was
done maybe before they released it that's pretty typical though that some of the code has been
compiled before so that's a slight change now also if we go into settings and then we go to our name
at the Top If we scroll down and go to Advanced Data protection these icons have been reverted
back now I've talked about this before where we thought maybe they were getting ready for iOS 17
and changing the icons to match what we have on Mac OS where they're more of sort of a neomorphic
design with maybe more depth that's something I would love to see brought back but they've
reverted back to Flat icons with the messages backup and also voice memos hopefully this changes
in the future but maybe iOS 17 will get this maybe it won't and it was just a mistake hopefully they
just realized we pushed those out too early and we'll fix it later now as far as some things I
wanted to mention first Apple news is Apple Maps gets an update for all of the people on iOS so if
you're in Apple Maps and you go to the city Boston Apple continues to update it with updated Maps so
in this case if we zoom in here on Fenway Park or any Landmark it will not only give you information
about it but there's detailed 3D models about it as well so that's something that's been updated
here as well now this past week of course the yellow iPhone launched I mentioned that in a
different video where I actually unboxed it and it's just a different color but it's an iPhone 14.
I was really disappointed that they didn't release Pro Models with a new color whether it's yellow or
red or something else but hopefully they do maybe next year they did last year with green this year
there was nothing now if you subscribe to YouTube TV that's getting a price bump so I wanted to go
over some new app updates as well where YouTube TV is going up to 73 dollars per month now if you
have YouTube TV and you were paying 65 dollars per month that price will increase on April 18th
so unfortunately the price is going up and it's more expensive now than different cable plans
from providers such as spectrum and more so that's a bit of a disappointment as many cord
cutters were actually using different apps like I have Apple TV Plus Hulu Netflix now YouTube TV
is just more expensive now Apple music classical is being mentioned more and more and it's in the
browse section under Apple music so if you go into browse you'll see it here I did mention
this in the initial what's new video but you can pre-order it it's coming out soon on March
28th that hints it may be a release date for iOS 16.4 we'll talk about that in a little bit though
also something else is last week I mentioned how MLB's app was actually getting live activities
this time around the NBA app is getting that so if we go back into settings and scroll down to
NBA you can go into live activities now these were enabled by default but it allows for live
activities on your lock screen and also if you have a 14 pro or 14 pro Max it will actually
show live activities in the dynamic Island giving an update on scores so it's nice to see more and
more apps utilize this I think Sports is one of the best places for this but we're seeing this
used more and more also a new app I wanted to mention is called landmarks this actually uses
landmarks from Apple Maps and gives you more information about it such as the Los Angeles
in international airport and if we go to the next you have the New York Stock Exchange you have the
trans-american pyramid and different ones around the world so you can go back and search for what
you want in any different city where they have different landmarks so if we pick maybe Sydney
you've got the Harbor Bridge you have the opera house and these are all drawn by Apple for their
Maps update so it's really nice here that we have these and you can see that within Maps
but it's a free app I'll link it in the description if you want to check it out
now if you're using the Apple Store app so if we go into Apple Store wait for it to load
it's taking a moment here if maybe we go into iPhone 14 we now have the option not only to chat
with an iPhone specialist but in the United States we can actually sort of browse visually over video
with an iPhone specialist now they won't see your video feed but you can see theirs you can talk to
them and maybe get an idea of size comparison between a 14 pro Max a 14 pro and different
phones if you're trying to figure out what's right for you and you want to shop virtually so that's
something they're offering in the US now again you have to go to the Apple Stores website or the
app and you can chat and maybe do that visually if you want to shop with someone through video
now with all the recent updates with chat gpt4 Bing integration and now Google integrating their
own AI solution Bing and things like that are gaining more information to give you a better
experience and this is apparently in the works with apple Apple's working on their own version
of AI to help out with Siri and apple opted for security but that's really slowed down
the advancement of Siri compared to others so hopefully we'll see something with iOS 17 or
maybe later but Apple actually had an AI sort of meeting for internal people there at the
Steve Jobs theater a couple weeks ago so maybe they'll integrate something like that maybe it's
a different version we don't really know but they definitely need to do something as Google and
Microsoft and of course Amazon they'll all leap above what Apple has to offer soon if they don't
do something so hopefully they update that soon also one bit of news I wanted to mention is Apple
is coming out with its own 5G modem a few years ago we had Intel modems in our phones and those
weren't that great Apple opted to go with 5G with Qualcomm and Qualcomm gets a little bit of money
for each one of those after they stop the Intel deal Intel stopped making those modems and they
bought all of the patents now they're working on their own and hopefully that will make for
a much better power solution meaning we'll have better performance and battery life overall like
they've done with their apple chips so we have their silicon where we have the M1 processors M2
we have the A8 and all the way up to the latest ones so they've been making their own processors
for a while and they seem to be leaps above what anyone else can do hopefully they get this right
but it seems to it's going to launch with the iPhone se4 if the current information is correct
but either way Apple's definitely working on it hopefully it rolls out sooner rather than later
now we've got four beta versions of Iowa 16.4 and we're currently on a build number ending with the
letter B typically once we get to b or a we're close to a final release meaning I would expect
iOS 16.4 beta 5 or more likely release candidate or iOS 6 16.4 RC as soon as Tuesday or Wednesday
of next week that seems to be the most likely as I would expect Apple to release the final
version of iOS 16.4 to the public most likely on the 27th or 28th of March to go along with apple
music classical no apple music classical doesn't require iOS 16.4 so they could push that anyway
but I think that seems likely as we'll get that get that done by the end of March and then move
on to iOS 16.5 beta 1 in early April now sometimes Apple releases the first beta of the next version
the day after the public release or they wait a week we just don't know these days with apple but
I would expect it in the last week of March for iOS 16.4's public release or the first week of
April that seems to make the most amount of sense as far as iOS 17 well we're expecting that in the
first week of June for beta testers then we'll see that a few weeks later for public beta testers we
have developers first and public beta testers and we're also waiting for those WWDC invites so the
worldwide developer conference 2023 or WWDC 23 is expected in the first week of June we haven't
seen those invites yet last year at this time we already had them so we're still waiting for them
Apple sometimes released it in April sometimes they've released it in March we just don't know
but we're waiting for those invites and they'll go out to different people in the press and also
different developers can sign up to be there so we should see all of that along with those new
os's very very soon just a couple months away now the overall experience of iOS 16.4 beta 4 is much
better this is more like it and is a much better representation of what I expect from IOS the
stabilities improved and most things are working properly now one of those things is the battery
widget the lifts are now there I mentioned this in the initial what's new video but the battery glyph
has returned where before it just had the circle you didn't know what it was representing also
if we go into FaceTime they fix that if you're in a FaceTime or maybe a zoom call you can see
the icons have returned for video effects and also the mic mode so that's showing again and if you're
using a third-party keyboard and using messages sending photos and gifs or gifs just not working
properly again that's actually finally working as you would expect and also the Apple music delete
bug has been fixed so maybe you downloaded a song or added it to a playlist sometimes it would just
disappear randomly or right after you play it that's been resolved with beta 4. the back tap
bug has been resolved as well depending on what you set it on if you used back tap to double
tap the back of your phone it would cause it to re-spring or basically do sort of a reboot you'd
see the Apple logo and then you would come back to the home screen so that's been resolved apps
are now opening properly again for me with beta 3 they would just cash you'd open it up it would
crash immediately then you'd open it up again and it would work properly you could reboot it and it
would fix it but now it seems to be fixed and that hasn't occurred again also Bluetooth seems
to be better for me not only connecting to airpods like I have here but also connecting to my vehicle
with my car keys things like that it seems to be a much better connection less sort of static when
you're connected no issues there so a much better experience I still do have an issue with them on
my Mac and that's more of the Mac I'm waiting for the update there is that Max not running a beta
also storage seems to be much improved as far as using less space for the overall cache files so
if we go into settings again and if we go down to the bottom of storage you'll see system data
here and this is really just cache data so not really anything to worry about but it seems to
be using a lot less and maybe the OS is a little bit more efficient this time around so it doesn't
need it so if you have a phone that's near its full storage capacity this should be better let
me know if it is for you in the comments below also photos seems to be improved it hasn't seemed
to get gotten any worse for me meaning that when you take a photo sometimes it's overly processing
and dark so I'll turn off Raw photos and let's turn off the lights here snap a photo also take
a screenshot and see if it represents the same thing and from what I can tell it looks pretty
much the same pretty much the same as you see on your display is what you're getting so let
me know if you're experiencing the same thing Apple hasn't said they've fixed it but there's
been a lot of information out there from different creators such as MKBHD and others and it seems to
be resolved this time around so hopefully it's better for you let me know in the comments below
there is one bug that seems to remain and that has to do with notifications so the notifications bug
where you had squared off to edges and then they would go to round that seems to be fixed however
scrolling through them sometimes is really choppy and I can show you what that looks like in Twitter
and you can see here this was sent over by Noah so thanks for sending that you'll see it's just
really sort of stuttery I'm not experiencing that but some people are and make sure you're reporting
that in feedback if you're having that issue he's already reported it but just wanted to make sure
you do if you're having issues as well now as far as the overall battery life and battery health
let's go into settings again we'll go back and go to battery now my battery health overall is still
at 98 percent this is after 134 Cycles as you can see on coconut battery here it's a Mac app that
you have to install outside of the App Store so if you're looking for that that's where that is and
it's normal 80 after two years is completely normal Now battery on beta 4 has been better
than beta 3 for me yesterday I had four hours of screen active time time and 4 hours and 32 minutes
of screen idle time and used about 75 percent of the battery if we go back to when I was on beta 3
I used almost a hundred percent of my battery and only had three and a half hours this still isn't
great today is better at two and a half hours and only about 25 percent used so I'm at 77 percent so
close to 25 percent used it's better than it was it still isn't great for me it could be some apps
I have and you can see my home and lock screen is using the most phone and other things but it seems
to be getting a little better some people say it's a lot better as far as overall performance it's
quite good very smooth no issues here I haven't had it slow down or stutter and playing a music
or playing a song Rather in music if we swipe home the dynamic island is nice and fast no stutters
there it hasn't returned since beta 3. although it took a few Taps to go back home there so it
seems to be much better than it was performance is great and heat is great I know some people are
concerned is it's getting warmer out the back of the phone is nice and cool for me but let's take
a look with the thermal camera and at the hottest point I'm seeing about 32 degrees Celsius 32.4 is
the highest I've seen in Fahrenheit I'm seeing 92.8 I think is the highest I saw there but in
general this isn't anything to worry about I've mentioned this before Apple runs their processors
very hot processors get warm when they're just working normally and that's why in some PCS you
even have liquid cooling and other things so I really wouldn't worry about it unless it's hot
to the touch where you can't even hold on to it I would probably ignore it overall it's doing what
it's supposed to do now if you're wondering if you should install iOS 16.4 beta 4 well I
would probably wait until the release candidate if it's on your main device Apple typically says
don't run them on your main device so if you're worried about bugs and things like that I would
hold off wait until the final release if you have an extra phone well then sure you can try it but
make sure you have a backup and a computer so you can restore if you need to now let's take a
look at some of your comments Iowa a 16.4 beta 4 user on my 14 pro Max somehow still getting
that annoying storage bug and I feel the camera quality hasn't improved at all pictures still
come out dimmer Molina Morrow 5789 said using iOS 16.4 public beta 4 on my iPhone 10r and
so far it's been pretty smooth no app crashes or bugs downloaded simply because of the new emojis
but I don't regret it Zomboy 4313 says hi Aaron I'm running iOS 16.4 public beta 4 on my iPhone
SE 2nd gen I can report the spotlight back tap bug has been fixed where my iPhone would re-spring if
I used a backtap spotlight in an app and then on the home lock screen Spotlight overall seems to be
more responsive but there is still no animation when prematurely exiting Spotlight on the lock
screen I hope that gets fixed soon your videos are always helpful and informative hope iOS only
gets better from here mvg-180 says I'm running iOS 16.4 beta 4 on my iPhone 14 pro Max and I've
had a great experience so far promotion is smooth no app crashes resprings or freezes hopefully we
get the RC next week and so that's everything with iOS 16.4 beta 4. if you found anything
else I'd love to hear from you in the comments below and of course we're all looking forward
to the final release hopefully within a couple weeks let me know your overall experience 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 like I normally do if you haven't subscribed already though please subscribe and
if you enjoyed the video please give it a like as always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see
you next time now if you've stayed this long into the video thanks so much I do plan to bring the
music back very soon but I wanted to ask what you would like to see in these videos in the
future is there anything else you'd like for me to add or maybe just remove news or anything else
I'd love to hear from you in the comments below thanks again for watching I really appreciate it