hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and today Apple released iOS 13.4 to the
public this is available to all iOS 13 supported devices so iPhone 6s and newer
and iPhone se and everything up to the iPhone 11 pro max now it's also
available for iPad with iPad OS thirteen point four but I'll cover the iPad
changes in a separate iPad video because while a lot of the things are the same
there's some significant updates to iPad now this update is the same update as
iOS 13 point for GM or golden master that came out last week
so if you already have that version because you were a beta tester or
developer this is the same exact thing you will not have an update and so if
you're updating for the first time if you're a beta tester it will be four
gigabytes or so or a little bit less depending on which device you're using
but for the most part it will be a lot smaller now if you're not seeing the
update all you need to do is go to settings go to general go to software
update and you'll have the update if it's not installed already show up and
then you can install it now other than that if you have the beta profile
installed and you're not seeing the update uninstall the beta profile remove
it reboot your device check for a software update and it will show up but
again if you had the GM version you're already on the final public release now
let's take a look at the build number and talk about what's new the build
number is 17 II 255 and this particular build number is what you should be
seeing if you're on the final version that released to the public now there
are quite a few changes and the first thing is there is a modem update so if
you are previously having issues with Wi-Fi or LTE connectivity that should
now be resolved so if you were having issues with that it should be working
much better in fact I've seen much better connection with my iPhone 11 Pro
Macs and other devices I've been using as well so thankfully Apple has fixed a
lot of that now aside from that there are new emoji so let's take a look at
that now there are nine new momochi and there's things like smiling face with
hearts hands press together party face other things here as well so you'll see
there's about nine new ones and if you use momochi stickers you'll have all of
the updates and have some extra options as well
now let's take a look at the TV app where Apple has made a few changes there
as well within the TV app we now have family sharing so if you have family
members set up under iCloud family sharing you'll see who's able to see
your TV and movie shows and see what they're sharing as well so it's a nice
little addition now Apple has also updated the settings for the TV app so
if we go into settings and then we scroll down tap on TV we now can adjust
streaming options and download options based on the amount of bandwidth we have
available so maybe we have a data cap with our provider we can adjust that
accordingly so under cellular for example you can change it to
high-quality or data saver for streaming the same is true for download options so
you have fast downloads high quality and then some other options below as well so
it's nice that we have the option to adjust that based on our data usage and
what we have allotted to us now Apple has updated mail as well in a couple
different ways and they've added a lot of bug fixes as well which I'll cover at
the end of the video now within mail if we go into an email
down at the bottom we have icons here that are more readily available instead
of having just two icons like we did before so now we have the trash or
recycle bin we have files folders then we have reply and a new message if I hit
reply this is where all of our options are so we can flag email move messages
things like that and in using this I find that mail still has quite a few
bugs but again there's a lot of bug fixes as well that I'll cover a little
bit later on however within mail if you use encrypted mail they will
automatically encrypt if you have s mime setup so responses to encrypted emails
are automatically encrypted if you have that configured and you go to reply to
an email so it saves you a little bit of time and gives you some added security
now with this update Apple has finally added iCloud folder sharing so this is
something they had announced initially with iOS 13 and they finally added it
with 13.4 so if we go into the files app you can see here is desktop and this is
the desktop that's on my Mac as well now if I want to share something within a
folder with someone else you can do that now so if you've long press on a folder
see this is my iPhone comparison folder and then I'll tap on share it pops open
and if I go down to the bottom I have the option to add
people so I'll go ahead and add people and within this dialog now we can add
people to share this folder with we can adjust permissions to allow people to
modify the folder to modify the fault the files within the folder or we can
change it so they can just read only so you can control to limit access to only
people you explicitly invite or grant access to also you can give permission
to choose who can make changes or even upload files so that's a nice change we
have that ability and it's live now and should help with collaboration now the
app store gets an update as well or wait for it to load here and within the app
store the update is for universal purchase support so for example if you
buy say this app here the elderscrolls blades and it's available on Mac and
iPad the developer now has the option to allow you to purchase it once here and
get it on all platforms so it's just a universal purchase support but the
developer does have to enable that but it can work across your iPhone your iPod
Touch iPad Mac and even Apple TV now also there adding recently played arcade
games if you use Apple arcade the recently played games will now appear in
the arcade tab so you can continue playing them on iPhone iPod Touch iPad
Mac and Apple TV so maybe you started the game hot lava here you'll be able to
continue on your iPad and it will easily transition between the two so it's
really nice there and then there's some new list views and things for your games
so if you go into games you have all sorts of different list views sorting
options now down at the bottom we have different categories and things like
that but there's some easier list views and things so you can see more of your
games easily now if we go into the shortcuts app there's some changes as
well so in shortcuts they've added a new feature called
Shazam it so if I go into here and then I add an action you'll see if I search
for it I can Shazam it so while you can ask Siri to listen to a song and let you
know what it is you can also add it as a shortcut now where it will check for it
based off just pressing a shortcut so you have that option and maybe you can
use it in a different clever way as well now if you have apple carplay there's a
couple different updates as well now these have to be added by developers so
you won't see them initially but basically on the dashboard of
carplay third-party navigation apps can support the dashboard so if you're using
Google Maps or ways you can see that on the dashboard as well also in call
information can appear on the carplay dashboard as well so depending on what
you're using for a call application if you're using apples it will just show up
on the dashboard but if you're using something else a third-party developer
can add that as well now if you use augmented reality maybe in a furniture
app to arrange a room see what something looks like by using the camera apple is
now updated a our quick look to support audio playback so maybe there's there's
a game and they want audio playback within the AR file they can now do that
that's more for developers though now Apple has updated predictive typing
support for Arabic so if you're using Arabic for your keyboard or your
language you can now have predictive typing so maybe you're saying hi how are
you and down here the predictive typing will work for Arabic now now other than
that there's powerbeats support in here with the icon so if you have the new
power beats headphones the icon will show properly and then also they've
updated VPN support to show you when you disconnect from it so I have a VPN
configured through a VPN app will connect it and in the top here you'll
see it says VPN now generally when you quit the VPN it should pop up here and
show you that it's crossing it out and that you've disconnected for some reason
my phone's not doing that but I have seen this in previous versions of this
beta so why it's not showing up I'm not sure but that is something that they've
updated so it's a nice little touch now in addition to everything I've mentioned
within the code there's mentions of Karki which we haven't seen yet but
maybe Apple will announce it closer to iOS 14 but what that means is if you
have a card that uses NFC support so maybe something like a Tesla where you
can tap your card up against the pillar and unlock the car or that could be RF
as well but Apple may add that functionality within the iPhone itself
so that means you may be able to just tap your phone up against your car
closely probably with a case of some sort and then unlock your car now many
applications can do the same thing if you have certain cars like Tesla and
Lincoln and Hyundai and things like that but at this time
there may be support directly for the key itself now aside from everything
I've just mentioned there are a ton of changes and all of the changes I've
already mentioned apply to older phones as well so the iPhone 6s plus the iPhone
XR these are all included with every change I've mentioned today so as long
as they support different functionality such as memo G you're good to go now
let's talk about all of the bug fixes Apple has added with this update now
I'll run through these quickly because there's a lot of them and the first one
is they fixed an issue in the camera where the viewfinder may appear as a
black screen after launching it so if it was coming up like this but not showing
anything that should be fixed they've also addressed an issue where photos may
appear to use excess storage so I saw this a little bit where photos was
taking up a tremendous amount of storage even though they weren't on the device
that should be fixed as well they've also resolved an issue in photos
that may prevent sharing an image to messages if I messages is disabled
they've also fixed an issue in mail where messages may appear out of order
I've seen that myself within mail and again I've had issues with mail not
working properly still then they've also addressed an issue in mail where the
conversation list may display empty rows they've resolved an issue in mail where
mail may crash when tapping the share button in quick look they've also fixed
an issue in settings where cellular data may display incorrectly so it may show
that cellular data is off even though it's still on they've also addressed an
issue in Safari where web pages may not be inverted when both dark mode and
smart invert are active and yes you can use them together but not many people do
because most people just switch over to dark mode for example they've also
resolved an issue where text copied from a third party application on the web may
not show up properly when you're trying to paste it if dark mode is active they
fixed another issue in Safari where a CAPTCHA tile may display incorrectly
they've also fixed issues with reminders where it may not show a new notification
for an overdue recurring reminder until it's complete they've also resolved an
issue where reminders may not send notifications for completed reminders
they fix an issue with iCloud Drive appearing to be available in Pages
Numbers and Keynote even when it's not signed in they've also fixed an issue in
Apple music where the music videos may not stream in high-quality so
you're using music videos on your iPhone the quality may have been less than less
than what you were looking forward to that should be fixed
they've also resolved an issue where carplay may lose connection in certain
vehicles and they've also fixed an issue in carplay where the main view in maps
may move away briefly from the current area and there's three more they
addressed an issue in the home app when tapping an activity notification from a
security camera may open a different recording so maybe you have security
cameras set up you get a notification that someone's walking by you tap it and
it shows you the backyard instead of the front yard that should be fixed as well
they've also resolved an issue where shortcuts may not appear when tapping on
the share menu from a screenshot so maybe you took a screenshot and then you
go to share it and it wasn't showing properly and then finally they've
improved the burmese keyboards so punctuation symbols are now accessible
from numbers and symbols so those are all of the major changes in this update
that Apple has noted but that doesn't mean they haven't fixed other things now
one of the things I've seen where people say it may or may not be fixed is when
you long press or 3d press on settings and then tap on Bluetooth now this works
for me about 80% of the time and then it doesn't if I open it it's working fine
now so it just depends on what's going on but right now it's working fine the
other day it was crashing so there's still a few issues in here but most of
the bugs they've worked out now as far as anything else with battery and
performance well battery has actually been pretty good and I'm not going to do
benchmarks in this particular video because I did them on the GM version
which is the same version so the numbers will be the same but if we go to battery
here you'll see my battery health is 100% and then if we go to 10 days the
last 10 days yesterday I had 4 hours and 58 minutes of screen on time 39 minutes
of screen off time and I used only about 30 to 40% of my battery more like 30% so
if you times that you would get about almost 15 hours of screen on time I
would say 12 hours is pretty normal and you can see my uses mostly or my usage
is mostly Twitter the home screen of lockscreen mail and YouTube and things
like that Twitter is my number one use and so
right now it's been phenomenal battery life I've had no issues with it and I'm
pretty happy with that now on older devices such as the iPhone 6s plus this
is the oldest supported device as far as its processor inside the reports I'm
hearing so far based off the GM which is the same version like I said is that
it's pretty smooth it's one of the best updates ever and if you have an older
device most people are saying it's really good you'll see if I open the
camera it's nice and fast that's the first time I've opened the camera on
this update everything from gaming such as minecraft there to opening the App
Store will give it a second here to load and we're good to go so you'll see this
was the first time I opened the app store since rebooting the phone and it's
working nice and fast and if you have something like the iPhone 10 are for
example again you're going to have the exact same experience compared to what
I'm having on the 11pro Macs but what you'll see is it's much faster
than what you have with a previous version of thirteen point three point
one Apple has really made some changes in this that helped quite a bit
and I'm confident in saying there's no reason not to upgrade at this point if
you're on a previous version and you don't want to modify your phone or
anything like that but let me know what you think about it
in the comments below those are all the major changes there's probably a few
little things here and there but for the most part that's everything that Apple
added and I would expect an iOS 13 point 4.1 or 13 point 5 before September and
with the way things are going currently it's really hard to say what they're
going to do but still we should expect iOS 14 later this year if something
doesn't change so we'll see what happens and hopefully we'll see some updates
that are larger with that version but this is the most stable version I've
seen yet as far as iOS 13 is concerned but again let me know your thoughts in
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