hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and ios 15.4 beta 4 has been out for a few days
i've been using it full time on my iphone 13 pro max and my ipad pro and wanted to share with you
my overall experience any remaining bugs and a few new changes and features that have been found
since the what's new video so i want to share that as well as your experience based off the
youtube community poll where there's 16 000 votes and 200 comments i've looked
at all the comments read them and compiled a list as far as what's going on with the beta
whether it's super stable or has additional bugs and more but the first thing is a couple
changes or features if we go into settings and then we go to notifications under notifications
there's a change here so if we scroll all the way down you'll see there's tracking notifications
this is a new icon here and there's tracking notifications to do with find my and you can
see all of them here so you can additionally set this up individually now where you had to go into
find my and sort of customize notifications based on that they've changed it to this
also within find my in the me tab they've updated it as well so if we go into find my under find my
in the me tab you'll see here at the bottom if you scroll down it says customize find my
notifications and customize tracking notifications they've updated this with more granular controls
so something a little bit different also if you're in canada and you use apple news canada now has
local news rolling out so under news if you're setting this up and using it for the first time in
canada you'll now have the option for local news that was something apple updated this past week
now the overall experience of this update is quite good it's been very stable for me performance and
promotion seem to be excellent so if we go over although it did seem to not respond to my touch
input there but promotion and the smoothness of it seems to be great and i've personally had no
crashes or reboots i haven't had that pink display issue myself i'll talk about that in a moment but
overall i've had a very stable experience apps may be a problem for some people as
far as them crashing and things like that but i personally have not had any issues with that
cellular connectivity though is a little odd this time around so you'll see currently i'm on
5g uc but switching between that and 5g seems to be a little bit slower this time around there was
a modem update in this update and for some reason sometimes when i'm using music it just sort of
holds off for about 10 seconds or so reconnects and then works again so this cellular switching
thing must be trickier than we realize as far as the programming behind it and switching with
these frequency updates so hopefully they get this sorted soon but right now it still seems to be a
little bit problematic and quite a few of you said the same thing now wi-fi does appear to be better
for most so if you're using wi-fi and you are having issues most people are saying it's better
there are a few people having issues with it dropping in things but that could be related to a
specific brand of router where maybe that needs an update as well oftentimes apple will update wi-fi
and in my years in the telecom industry we saw this a lot where cisco routers would just not work
properly after an apple update so they wouldn't be able to kind of communicate with iphones and the
cisco routers would need an update and they'd have to work with apple to get that fixed so
there's some odd issues in this one for some people on specific routers thankfully
i haven't seen it on unify devices or ubiquity devices and it's working fine
there but maybe if you have linksys or cisco or something else you may experience some issues
as far as bluetooth bluetooth does seem to be working great for me but not for everyone so
when i connect to my car it uses the tesla app to connect it seems much much faster this time around
when you walk up to the car it'll automatically unlock that this time around it's much faster
but for some people when connecting to bluetooth it seems to be slower specifically with airpods
so let's give that a try so we'll open up airpods here see how long it takes still hasn't connected
there we go so maybe it's a little bit slower this time around but for some people it seems to be
extremely slow and then they lose their connection so there's some issues here and there thankfully
i personally haven't seen too many but that is a little bit slower than before but for third-party
apps it seems to be better now as far as battery life overall it is a beta and battery life can
vary greatly so if we go to battery life here my battery health is at 100 and i did a video about
battery health with a ton of questions many people asked the other day and so i'd definitely check
that out if you wonder what battery health is how it works and all of that but we'll take a look at
the last 10 days and yesterday i had five hours and two minutes of screen on time 5 hours and
54 minutes of screen off time now one thing i've noticed a lot is mail is using a lot of background
activity this time around i've even had other people message me saying the exact same thing
why this is i'm not sure i didn't change any mail settings or anything however it does seem to be
a problem you'll see that day i used almost well 65 percent of my battery and i should be getting
a little bit better life than that this morning here you'll see i've had i've used it 44 minutes
and three hours and 25 minutes of screen off time and i've barely used the battery maybe
10 15 at this point and it's doing okay but again it's a beta and still has some issues
especially with those background issues with mail specifically and sometimes twitter but
it seems to be using more power than it should now matt sent in his battery life on an iphone 13 so
i wanted to share that and you'll see his screen on time a day or so ago was 2 hours and 33 minutes
and 1 hour and 36 minutes of screen off time with about using it a quarter of its battery so 25
again the next day or the day before two hours and 43 minutes one hour and 39 minutes of screen off
time and again a quarter of the battery however he only charged it two hours ago so that may
play into the extended battery life there so in order to get this to be very accurate you need to
not charge it pretty much from the time you wake up to the time you go to sleep and see what you
get throughout the day or you could just have it run all the way down to see what you're getting
total if you wanted to do that now battery life on the ipad continues to be pretty poor
so on the ipad if we take a look at it here we go into settings we'll go down to battery
give it just a moment and you'll see now i'm already at 30 now i was at 40 when i started
this video so it's draining quite fast and it was last charged a couple days ago and you'll see i've
got a total of about two hours of screen on time and then 6 hours and 11 minutes of screen off time
find my is using a lot of background information and i don't use this with the screen off ever so
there's some odd issue that continues to go on i did try turning on low power mode and it made a
huge difference it stopped all of that background activity and i got all my battery life left
or back but i don't want to use low power mode is that's really only designed to be used for when
you need to get through the day and you don't have a charger nearby so that's one of those things
that i typically don't want to do but it does seem to be nice and smooth and i haven't had any
crashes or anything like that now i have had quite a few people say that the storage bug is actually
resolved so we'll check it here i just booted this phone up so we'll go to storage and see how fast
it loads on the iphone 11. so most people have messaged me saying that it's resolved in this
update everything loads quickly you saw it loaded pretty quickly there system data and ios and so
it looks like the storage bug has been fixed from beta 3 to beta 4. any people that said it wasn't
fixed before are saying that it's fixed now so it definitely appears to be working properly
now there's been no mention of that pink or purple display and it rebooting so that's a good
sign it seems like they fixed it in this update although they haven't confirmed it hopefully we
get a confirmation by the time the final version's out and also the music bug does not necessarily
appear to be fixed so some people are saying that it's still causing a lot of background user usage
the cpu is getting warm since it's using a lot of power and of course it's using more battery
because of that so that's just sort of one of the side effects of that using a lot of cpu power so
hopefully they fix that streaming issue very soon maybe it has something to do with lossless
but we're not really sure now as far as apple carplay this continues to have issues and some
people have even said once they plug in their phone sometimes it won't work without rebooting
their phone so there's continued or ongoing issues and it seems to be very different depending on
which vehicle you use so if you have a bmw a honda mercedes a ford any of those different cars
can cause different issues because they're all using sort of their own stereos so they may need
updates but that's not as easy to do is update the phone so hopefully apple can resolve this quickly
as far as remaining bugs some people are saying the apps are freezing or crashing
i did hear from a few people that said whatsapp is having a problem and it's crashing over and
over so apple has changed something in 15.4 that probably whatsapp needs an app update or maybe
will be resolved by the time it's released to the public so we don't really know a hundred percent
and then a lot of people are having issues with the app store just not connecting properly so
you go into the app store you'll get a message it doesn't connect and you have to try it again and
then it works so that seems to be a pretty common thing and then as far as remaining bugs the last
one is with voiceover on siri will actually repeat itself twice for some people so i heard this from
a couple people so if you're asking it something and you have voiceover turned on it just repeats
itself so it seems to be a little bug in the code as far as overall performance well i
already mentioned that it's quite smooth on my 13 pro max and it doesn't really matter what device
you're using it does seem to be pretty smooth overall whether it be an iphone 10 or something
else so pro motion is good on the newer devices but overall performance is good here of course
i don't have an internet connection i'm in the middle of nowhere and i'm not using a hotspot so
you'll see it's quite smooth as far as scrolling and different applications seem to work just fine
of course like i said there's no connection here so it's not going to work there but if we go into
settings and scroll it seems to be fine so no issues with performance as far as benchmarks i
did mention in the what's new video that i would run benchmarks and then share those with you
after a few days and i did do that and we'll take a look here we'll go to cpu or history cpu
and you'll see on february 25th i actually ran it again and scored 1731st single core
4757 for multicore that's on the 13 pro max so you can see here that the single core is a little bit
lower by four but the multi-core score is higher and so that's a great sign it's over a hundred
points higher and the overall performance seems to be fine and match that we're within range that you
really shouldn't notice a difference if it's about 100 either direction so it works quite good and
that explains why it's super smooth and fast now as far as the benchmark scores on the other phones
i wanted to share that as well so again i ran the benchmarks on the iphone 11 and iphone 10 and you
can see on the 11 it is 1 320 for single core 2 415 for multi-core on the iphone 10 it's 903
for single core and 1888 for multi-core so it's doing just fine compared to what it was before
and should be performing like it was or better and that leads me to should you install ios 15.4
beta 4 well if you're already on one of the betas you should install it without question pretty much
the reason for that is you're testing betas you need to find the latest bugs after they've updated
and then report them in feedback however if you're not a beta tester i'd probably hold off at this
point until the final release so make sure you're submitting feedback in fact i have someone that
regularly messages me that submits a ton of feedback and oftentimes apple will get
back to them and work with them to figure out what the problem is and then they'll see that
issue resolved so that happens quite a bit if you submit a lot of feedback or feedback
and they've have some questions about it you'll often see them work on those issues based off of
priority if it's major or not now as far as ios 15.3.2 i thought for a while maybe we'd see that
but now that we're getting closer to a final release of 15.4 i'm not so sure we'll see that
based on what we have here i think we're going to see a release candidate of 15.4 in the first week
of march with a final release around the 8th we expect an apple event on the 8th and so i don't
think we'll see a 15.3.2 but it is possible this week that they could do that to address
security issues and bugs but typically since we're so close to 15.4 they'll probably just
hold off till that but again apple changes things up a lot so maybe we'll see something like that
as far as 15.4 like i said the rc and then probably the final around the week of the 8th or
march 8th or so and we should expect apple invites to go out probably this coming week as well if
there's going to be an event on the 8th if there's an event on the 8th many people expect new macs
that new iphone se3 and probably a new ipad air so we should see all of those very soon and hopefully
we'll see invites this week and if we do of course i'll be sure to let you know now let's go ahead
and take a look at the youtube community poll and some of the comments and as you can see it says
22 percent of you are on fifteen point four beta four sixty six percent of you are on fifteen point
three point one two percent are on fourteen point eight point one one percent are on 13.7 or older
and 9 of you are on android so thanks to everyone that actually voted in the poll and commented now
let's go ahead and take a look at some of your comments so just like last week i thought i'd
go over the comments face to face maybe change it up a little bit and i've picked some randomly
just as i was going through all the different comments and the first one is from mel harris
it says 15.4 beta 4 iphone 12 mini has been good battery life is better than beta 3 very smooth
no reboots or crashes everything works on my ipad 12 pro again very good battery life is not great
but battery life hasn't been good on that ipad for a while smooth and fast no complaints there
and again like i said on my ipad if i turn on low power mode it goes right back to normal
so that mail app and other things seem to be using a lot of power for some reason
christina virum says i'm on 15.4 beta 4 on my of my 11 pro max and it's running great battery life
is almost back to normal real players says i'm on 15.4 beta 4 using iphone 13 everything is running
gray and battery life is amazing i'm getting around 7 to 12 hours of screen on time i'd be
curious if you're actually plugging that in during that screen on time or if that's actually from
zero or 100 down to zero danny avalos says or avalos says both beta 4 and 15.3.1 still have
really bad battery drain and overheating issues i'm convinced apple is doing this on purpose
well i would say there's something going on on your device specifically if it's having
overheating well technically they don't overheat they get warm and then apple kind of throttles
it and pulls the heat down that way but really they don't change this it seems to be getting
better with beta 4 so i would definitely check out some of your apps one thing i've seen is facebook
will use a ton of power and until they update their apps they continue to do those things so
look at your apps see what they're actually using and most people are saying they're getting better
battery life so there's definitely something going on specifically on that phone cameron apple fan
says using ios 15.4 beta 4 on my 13 pro max so far i will say battery life is better than 15.3.1
public release also more apps are smoother for me since it can take advantage of 120 hertz and
performance is faster i have zero complaints on 15.4 beta 4. keep up the awesome content i enjoy
them all love your videos thank you for that hk the fun side says ios 15.4 beta 4 on my iphone
13 pro performance is good i believe battery life was good in beta 3 and beta 4 some battery drain
overall no bugs run smooth nexus says i'm using ios 15.4 beta 4 on my iphone 11 and iphone se
1st generation and it's great performance is great everything feels super fast and smooth and battery
life seems to be even better than 15.3 was the issue where the storage takes a while to load has
definitely been fixed in 15.4 it loads right away for me now even in low power mode jose adorno says
using 15.4 beta 4 on a 12 pro max pretty good so far ipad os 15.4 beta 4 has not been kind to
my 9th gen battery is pretty bad just got it last week so it's brand new and like i said something's
up with that ipad so hopefully they fix it with a software update hopefully 15.4 resolves it i know
about 15.2 it seemed to improve and then once we got to 15.3 betas it just went bad again so
there's something going on in the background that i hope they resolve very soon
karen liz henriquez says it's going good good quality and battery i'm on 15.4 marley allen said
my lte and 5g have been hit and miss since beta 4. i constantly get pages not loading and drops
with the internet connection iphone 12 pro max ios 15.4 beta 4. and like i said the connection for me
has been odd as well when i'm switching between different versions of connections so lte which
is 4g or 4g and 5g there's some odd issues there where it just sort of drops and then
works again i'm not sure what that is and why it takes a while but there's some switching going on
that's hopefully improved with the software update noodles said had to reboot after my iphone got a
little warm because mail.app decided to use 60 of my battery seems fine now and so like i said mail
is causing a lot of issues for a lot of people so maybe it has to do with icloud plus and some
of those features i'm not really sure archie said most stable versions so far battery life is great
and performance is smooth and fast had no bugs or crashes and so that's everything for ios 15.4 beta
4 some nice little feature updates and changes but not a whole lot as we get closer and closer to a
final release there'll be more and more refinement but if you find anything more in this update that
i haven't mentioned in any of my videos i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
and of course we're waiting for that apple event as well so if we get an invite this coming week
i'll be sure to let you know about that as well expect an rc this week and a final release very
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