hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and today apple released ios 15.4 beta 2. this is currently
available to developers and hopefully by the time you're watching this video it will be out
to public beta testers as well this came in at 887.8 megabytes that's on my iphone 13 pro max
and it was similarly sized on all the devices here from the iphone 8 plus iphone 10 iphone 11
and along with this apple also released ipad os 15.4 beta 2 watch os 8.5 beta 2 tv os 15.4 beta
2 and mac os 12.3 beta 2 those are all currently available now if you're installing the betas one
thing to note from the apple notes is that if you're on an ipad pro 12.9 inch fifth generation
like this one here or third generation 11 inch ipad pro you can only update to ipad os 15.4 beta
2 from ipad os 15.4 beta 1. you have to go from beta 1 to beta 2 you cannot go from 15.3 to beta2
there's some odd bug with it that they mentioned specifically in this update now let's go ahead and
take a look at the build number and talk about what's new so first we'll go to settings then
general then about and as you can see the build number is 19e 521 and this particular update does
have some new features in it some we can see some we can't but the first new feature is a
modem update so they did update the modem whether that be on an iphone 13 pro max or an iphone 12
they updated it to 1.57.00 on this device it may be a little bit different on your device as well
that should help with connectivity although connectivity on beta 1 has been okay it should
help with switching between different cellular networks or switching between different available
speeds and things like that so that has been updated the first thing i wanted to mention is
that on every device i booted up here it came up to the hello screen so you can see on the 8 plus
that's why i had the screen off it came up to the hello screen on every single device here when i
booted it up and then made me go through a few different setup options so now you can see that
i'm in and it's working like you would expect so for some reason it seems like it fully installed
or kind of reset some of those settings upon the initial install now as far as features and updates
well the first thing is in the magnifier app so within the magnifier app one thing i mentioned
in the ios 15.4 beta 1 additional feature videos that i've done is that there's a new camera icon
here well now if you tap on the camera icon it looks a little bit different so it says auto
close up and front before it looked different than that so i have the example here on the iphone 10
which actually has beta 1 on it and you can see what it looked like so we had a little slider
before i kind of like the slider better now we've got this sort of menu here that looks a little
bit different so that's the first change within beta 2 apple has added a new feature that they
announced today would be coming later this year and you'll see on the news release it says or
apple's newsroom it says apple empowers businesses to accept contactless payments through tap to pay
on iphone so you'll be able to tap to pay and even use your credit cards with tap to pay capability
on certain iphones that support it that code can be found within beta2 and steve mosher again who
i've referenced many times my friend here posted a picture of what that looks like within the code
so you have this new sort of graphic that shows up and a new sound once that payment has been made
very similar to what you see on maybe a cashier or register where you're tapping your credit card
so that's something they've updated directly in here there's also code that's been found in here
as well again by steve that references allowing you to install third-party apps outside of the app
store now they maybe need to get this ready due to lawsuits and things that are pending against them
and different bills that have gone through the senate talking about antitrust and allowing
third-party apps so some of that code is here it's not fully functional as far as i'm aware
that i've been able to get it to work but the code is actually there somewhat ready to go so we could
see maybe third-party app stores or third-party apps installed just like you can do on mac os
but on iphone also within the code is updates to apple's digital id we've heard about this since
the initial introduction of ios 15 but we've yet to see it roll out to the public it's said to be
rolling out in maybe a few states and tried out in a couple airports where we could use our id
on our phone to check through different tsa checkpoints or airports within the united states
using our iphone or apple watch of course you can use your physical id instead but it looks
like if your state supports it we might have that rolling out soon but it's not active yet but they
are getting ready if you're using face id with a mask and maybe it can't see you because your
phone's laying down on a table or the camera is below your eyes i got a new prompt that says
look down to unlock so when you're wearing a mask this will show up if it needs to maybe
scan your face a little bit differently to unlock your phone so that's something they've updated
in beta 2. now one thing i checked since many of you asked is face id on older devices is not yet
supported on any of the devices other than iphone 12 or newer so i did check on the iphone 11 if we
go to face id and passcode you'll see on the left on the iphone 11 we don't have the option like we
do on the 13 pro max with use face id with a mask and then the ability to add glasses so it looks
like it reset the add glasses part with installing this update so you may want to set that up again
but it deleted that but it's not on older devices yet maybe we'll see that in the future but it's
not there now now in accessibility there's an update as well although you can't really see it
but if you use voiceover this can be very helpful for those that need it so if you turn on voiceover
this is a way to explain what's on the screen we'll turn it on for now and you have to learn
how to use it but i'll show you what this is if we go into the camera within the camera if we're
in cinematic mode on one of the new iphone 13 models it will better explain what things are and
help you know where to tap to focus how to tap to focus and what you're locked on so if i tap
so it's saying focus locked and it's giving us more information about it so that's been updated
let me turn that back off there we go and now it's off but there's some new voice over options within
there more than just for that specific thing but cinematic mode is one of the biggest changes there
one thing i wanted to mention is a new change in the update from 15.3 to beta 1 that i didn't
mention in the more new features videos that i did earlier this week so if we go into shortcuts and
maybe we create a shortcut and add a battery they've changed these icons for those battery
modes so if i bring in 15.3 here you'll see get battery level looks a little bit different they've
sort of changed the battery icon and then also set low power mode has changed to sort of an orangis
icon so they've updated that with this particular set of betas so just small changes but something
they've changed also with the introduction of 15.4 we got new share play options within music
and a new icon within certain applications however there were some issues with that icon
so if we go into apple fitness go to fitness plus maybe select a workout tap the three dots
you can see the share play icon prior to the beta 2 this was actually not aligned properly
in a lot of apps it's now aligned where it should be and again thanks to braden for pointing this
out as he mentioned that i didn't notice that initially within this update they've resolved
two issues that they've mentioned specifically in the notes the first one has to do with icloud plus
custom email domains i mentioned that in beta 1 where they added the option for icloud mail
if you have icloud plus you can add a custom domain however email address verification
was not completing properly before that's been resolved in this issue so that should work for you
also if you're in the eu there was a delay of verification when adding a digital health
certificate within the health app that should be resolved and it should work properly now
now there's also 15 known issues and there's a few notable issues that still exist in beta 2.
so signing into ipad is limited to apps in this beta so when you're signing in there could be
issues there the health app can crash when you attempt to onboard the blood oxygen feature from
within the app also pairing of thread accessories so if you're using a thread accessory with your
home app that won't work at all also purchasing downloaded content again from the itunes store and
tv app may cause it to sort of fail on the device and in order to fix that you'll need to reboot it
so there's quite a few notable issues as well as some others so as far as that goes it seems
to be stable so far but there's definitely some issues within this however there's no mention
of fixing the storage bug and it seems like it's still there i've seen people mention this already
it did take a while to load it does seem like it's loading okay for me now
although system data hasn't but it's just kind of odd and they haven't addressed this specifically
it doesn't affect functionality but it's something that's more of an annoyance
also the pink screen bug they haven't mentioned at all where your device can completely go to a
pink or purple display and then reboot that hasn't been fixed or at least they haven't mentioned that
it has and i know people were experiencing that with beta 1 so it could still be here with beta 2.
also the music streaming bug where it could use additional processing power and cause poor battery
life again that has not been addressed or at least they haven't mentioned it but we'll have to see
after a few days using this beta now as far as if you want to try this update and if you should
install ios 15.4 beta 2 i would say probably hold off at this point if you have a critical
app that you need to use or you have some issues that may affect your overall productivity on the
device but if you have an extra device or you're already on beta 1 i would definitely install it
with these betas there's going to be some additional bugs since there's so many new features
in them or changes so maybe give it a few days before you try it out and i'll be doing a follow
up to let you know about stability and things like that as far as overall performance performance
does seem to be okay i did run benchmarks on these we'll take a look at a moment but performance is
okay opening different apps whether that be music or something else i'm opening it for
the first time on the 8 plus here so it's just loading off the network it's taking a moment
and it seems to be okay let's scroll here seems to be nice and smooth and opening different apps
should be fine as well so this is a newer device normally i use a 6s plus to check out minecraft
so let's see how quickly it loads here typically it's pretty fast but
generally they'll have good frame rates we'll use recommended settings hit play
and i installed the beta for the first time on this device so that's why some things are reset
we'll give it just a moment and see how long this takes so it's going along pretty quickly and it's
a fairly new phone so we'll give it a moment to build this and see what the frame rates are like
it took about five to ten seconds to load that probably about five or so and frame rates look
pretty smooth so no issues here on this device of course i wouldn't expect it to be any different
really on a 6s plus or anything else if it was performing fine for you before now let's go ahead
and take a look at the benchmarks and then we'll talk about when to expect ios 15.4 beta 3 and the
release candidate so we'll go into geekbench 5 and right after installing the update i ran this
and i had 1726 for single core 4716 for multi-core if we take a look at the history you'll see that
on january 27th with beta 1 we had a little bit higher single core score by three and multi-core
score is actually better today by seven so it's actually within the range they should perform
about exactly the same so benchmarks are pretty good let's take a look at all of these devices
from left to right we have the ipad pro 12.9 from 2021 followed by the iphone 8 plus then the iphone
11 then the iphone 13 pro max and all of these are really close to what we had with beta 1 and so
yours should be performing similarly to this and you really shouldn't see any differences there
so we had great performance with beta 1. i would expect great performance with beta 2 as well when
it comes to battery life battery life will take a few days to know for sure so i'll be covering that
more in depth in my follow up but we can take a look at beta 1 it was not great for me and not for
quite a few other people so under battery health you'll see i have a hundred percent
and if we go to the last 10 days yesterday i had two hours and 32 minutes of screen on time 8
hours and 14 minutes of screen off time and 11 was used by siri and i didn't even use siri so there's
definitely some odd bugs in beta 1 hopefully we'll see much better battery life with beta
2 as that used over 50 of my battery so i would expect similar updates there as far as battery
life on the ipad i had some weird bugs with the ipad battery life if you saw my follow-up video
so under settings i don't know why it wants face id but we'll go to settings battery give it just
a moment and over the last 10 days you'll see it gives battery life and i was getting about five
hours of screen on time the odd thing is it says last charge to 100 2 hours ago prior to this it
was actually saying a couple days back even though i had charged it so hopefully they've updated this
and fixed those bugs but they haven't mentioned it but it does seem to actually be registering
correctly at least on the ipad now as far as when to expect ios 15.4 beta 3 or the release candidate
typically i think we're going to be at a one to two week cycle i'm thinking we're at a one week
cycle for the reason of a march event on march 8th we're expecting an apple event on march 8th and
that would give us a few more betas or a couple more betas and a release candidate before that
release so i'm thinking probably by the 15th we'll have beta 3 then beta 4 on the 22nd or sometime
around there and then maybe a release candidate in the first week of march with a final release
in the second week of march maybe after that event it's just based off of what we see year over year
and we'll have to wait and see if we don't have a beta next week we're still on that bi-weekly
schedule and we'll have to wait maybe to later in march we're just not sure yet but we'll have to
see if we have that early next week we also could have ios 15.3.1 to fix a couple bugs since we had
watch os 8.4.1 with a small bug fix and security update so we could see that even this week as
well but we'll have to wait and see but again we should have that march event in the second week
of march it's looking like and so that's it for everything in this particular beta of course if
i find any additional features as it does take some time to sort of see those features pop up
i'll let you know in a separate video later this week also if you found any additional
features i haven't mentioned in the video i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
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