hi everyone aaron here for zollotech and
today apple released ios 15.5 beta 4.
this is currently available to
developers and i would expect the public
beta usually later in the day by the
time i release this video or the next
day the last beta they actually released
by the time this video was out now along
with this apple also released ipad os
15.5 beta 4 watch os 8.6 beta 4 tv os
15.5 beta 4 mac os 12.4 beta 4 homepod
os 15.5 beta 4 and also a new studio
display 15.5 beta 2. that's for the
studio display camera as they're trying
to fix that
now this came in at a fairly reasonable
537.1 megabytes that's on my iphone 13
pro max and it was between 400 and 600
megabytes on all the devices we have
here now let's go ahead and take a look
at the build number and talk about
what's new so we'll go to settings then
we'll go to general then about as you
can see the build number is 19f5070b
as we get closer to a final release
we'll get another build where the build
number will switch to an a at the end
and then we'll get a release candidate
and a final release typically so we
could be a few weeks away from a final
release to the public we'll talk about
when to expect that a little bit later
in the video
now the first thing is there's no modem
update in beta 4. so coming from beta 3
to beta 4 on the 13 pro max we still
have the same modem build number of
1.61.00 for the modem firmware so it's
the same update i really had no issues
with cellular connectivity with beta 3.
hopefully beta 4 is the same or maybe
it'll just be resolved from some other
code within but we'll have to wait a few
days to see what it's like now many of
us are excited for ios 16 and wwdc or
the worldwide developer conference apple
announced that this would take place on
june 6th 2022 and that some people would
be able to attend but they would have to
apply to do that this is the place where
we'll see ios 16 for the first time beta
1 released to the developers and all of
the new features and as you can see
today they've actually said when you can
submit to try and attend through this
program so as you can see here it says
eligibility attending this event is free
and open to members of the apple
developer program and apple developer
enterprise program invitations will be
allocated through a random selection
process and are non-transferable it says
you have to submit your request by may
9th at 9 am pacific time to may 11th 9
a.m pacific time you'll be notified of
your status or whether or not you can
attend by may 12th at 6 pm pacific time
so if you wanted to attend in person and
you're a developer you'll be able to
watch the keynote with other developers
and engineers as well as the state of
the union videos along with apple
engineers and meet with different
experts if you need help developing your
app so that's open may 9th
now last week with beta 3 apple updated
air tags and that started rolling out
there's a new version
1.0.301 that helps with the different
volume when you're trying to locate an
item with an air tag and many people
don't have the update yet in fact within
the code it actually says when it will
roll out so 10 of people with air tags
will get the update today another 25
percent will get it by may 9th or total
of 25 percent and then all air tags that
don't already have the update should be
updated by may 13th so these updates are
rolling out very slowly unfortunately
there's no way to force this to update
similar to what you can do with airpods
so we just have to wait for it to update
as far as new changes and updates within
ios 15.5 beta 4 well this is a pretty
small update from beta three there's a
new graphic change when it comes to tap
to tap to pay so when you tap to pay
through your iphone to another iphone
which is a new feature we'll see in the
future
my friend steve mosher thanks again for
helping me with this tweeted this out
and you can see it here so you have
basically a very similar icon here for
tap to pay there's a slight color change
and it's shifted ever so slightly so you
can see that here so not a huge change
there and then mostly there's wording
changes within also so if your iphone is
unable to access cellular data or radio
antennas such as the ultra wide band
antenna some of the wording has changed
where before it would say either
reinstall ios or that it couldn't make
or receive calls now it will actually
say there is a problem with iphone's
ability to access cellular data or make
and receive calls or messages so that
has to do with apple's new fixing
program where you can repair your phone
yourself and you can see that by going
to apple or going to their website and
that's apple's
selfservicerepair.com website where you
can borrow tools change out your display
on your own if you want to do that so
those messages have been updated they'll
probably change further once 15.5 is
released to the public
now universal control looks like it's
very close to exiting beta on the ipad
we've had universal control for a little
while now and if we go into our settings
go to general and then airplay and
handoff you'll see it says cursor and
keyboard beta the code shows beta is
removed in some instances so it looks
like we're getting very close to just
having the feature without apple
changing anything so it looks like they
finally got this working 100
however it still says beta with beta 4
so maybe we'll see that change in the
future
now as far as known and resolved issues
well there was a major issue that
happened with ipad if you're using an
apple pencil and a magic keyboard that's
resolved this time around let me show
you what that looks like so if i move my
phones aside with the ipad attached to
the magic keyboard you'll see i have my
apple pencil now i can use my apple
pencil when it's attached to the magic
keyboard with beta 3 this was a problem
and it just wouldn't work once you
detached your ipad it would work fine
but it wouldn't work with the magic
keyboard attached so this time around
they fixed that issue and it's working
just fine there was also another issue
that was happening with mail i heard
more about this as time went on this
started affecting me on monday where i
would go into mail and try and clear
mail and it just wouldn't clear or i
would have a notification that i have
messages and they just wouldn't appear
in my mail so that's actually been
resolved at least it's working properly
now on beta 4. also many people are
still having that issue with storage so
if we go into iphone storage in our
settings let's see how long this takes
to load and i'll try it on the iphone 11
also since i just booted that up before
the video so we'll go to general with
the new update and we'll see how long it
takes it seemed to load pretty quickly
there and if we go to the bottom most
people were concerned about system data
i really haven't had too many issues
with it and you'll see on the iphone 11
it loaded nice and fast and is only
using 2.6 gigabytes this was only an
issue because it was using up to 50
gigabytes on some iphones i would say if
it's below 20 or definitely below 10
gigabytes that's fine the os will
actually use this as needed whether it's
installing the update processing in the
background indexing and more so you'll
see now it's even below a gigabyte for
me so i'm curious if this is resolved
for you
within a few gigabytes that's fine under
10 gigabytes typically isn't a problem
but it does seem to be resolved for me
on this update as far as overheating in
the phone being hot well even after
updating to beta 4 it was nice and cool
this time around it stayed nice and cool
with no issues whatsoever so that's a
great sign no real problems or heat
issues it doesn't get overly hot at
least so far on beta 4 and beta 3 was
getting very warm for some people
however it was better than beta 2. now
as far as additional resolved issues and
known issues well apple has not updated
the feedback app yet with new nodes so
we don't know if there's anything
different going from beta two to beta
three there was zero differences they
actually kept the same notes and just
changed the actual number so as i check
on my mac here that's in the background
on the developer website i don't see any
updates either so so far they haven't
updated it at all hopefully they update
it in the future where we'll see if
there's any differences but so far at
the time of this video they haven't
changed anything with the notes so we
don't know if there's any changes
enhancements or anything else if there's
any changes of course i'll let you know
in the follow-up video as far as overall
battery life well battery life has been
hit or miss for me sometimes it's good
sometimes it's not you'll see my battery
health is at 100
i also checked this on coconut battery
and it's still 100 that's an app on the
mac where you can check your battery
health if we go back we'll take a look
at the last 10 days
and you can see here i'm at 2 hours and
21 minutes of screen on time yesterday
and 5 hours and 18 minutes of screen off
time i used about fifty percent of my
battery that's not very good and
the prior week or last friday three
hours and fifty minutes of screen on
time six hours and thirteen minutes of
screen off time home screen and lock
activity with notifications is using a
lot of power so that's something i just
need to change but it does get me
through a day typically at fifty percent
maybe forty to fifty usually i expect
fifty to sixty percent but it is a beta
but as we get closer to the final i
would expect this to improve as far as
overall performance well so far it's
been quite good geekbench scores show
that and i'll show that in a moment but
on everything from the iphone 8 plus
whether we're going into music loading
that loading a song scrolling we're just
loading off wi-fi it's taking a moment
here
you'll see it's loaded and scrolling and
everything is nice and fast i haven't
really seen any performance complaints
with any of these betas especially from
beta 2 to beta 3. take a look at the
benchmark scores i scored
1729 for single core and 4806 for
multi-core multi-core has improved quite
a bit if we take a look at the history
you can see here that multi-core is one
to 200 higher than previous run tests
single core is about the same so quite a
bit of an improvement there maybe that
has something to do with background
processes no longer needing the cpu so
it definitely seems to be a little bit
better i'll take a look at all of them a
few days after we've used this for a
while and then i'll do a follow-up on
the weekend now that leads me to should
you install ios 15.5 beta 4 i would say
at this point it's definitely stable
enough typically by the time we're at
beta 3 or beta 4 you can try it out
however if you're using it on your main
device and you have critical
applications i would just make sure i
have a backup and a computer so i could
roll back to the current public version
if i needed to use it otherwise if
you're already beta testing on beta 3
definitely update to beta 4.
now as far as ios 15.4.2
at this point i said in my follow-up
video as well i'm not really expecting
anything from apple at this point maybe
we won't see an update if we do maybe
we'll see something in the next couple
of days to address security concerns and
maybe some bug fixes but right now it
would be very minor and it looks like
apple is really focusing on 15.5 release
and maybe ios 16. currently we're on a
weekly schedule with ios 15.5 betas so i
would expect beta 5 or a release
candidate by next week next tuesday or
wednesday on the 10th or 11th with maybe
a release candidate the following week
with a final release maybe at the end of
may maybe on the 23rd or 24th before we
get to wwdc on june 6th then we'll have
ios 15 betas and ios 16 betas at the
same time until a final release in
september usually around the middle of
the month where they release it to the
public so that's typically what apple
does every single year so that's
everything with ios 15.5 beta 4 not a
huge release but some exciting news
about wwdc if you were hoping to attend
that and also we're waiting for that air
tag firmware update as well not really
any huge updates at this point and i
wouldn't expect any major changes until
ios 16 is released maybe apple's just
focusing everything on ios 16 and
hopefully we'll see quite a few
surprises with that now if you've found
anything else in ios 15.5 beta 4 i'd
love to hear from you in the comments
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