hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and today Apple released iOS 16.4 developer beta 4. this
is available to developers iOS 16.4 public beta 4 will usually be out by the time of this video
or the following day now this came in at 600.2 megabytes that's on the iPhone 14 pro Max and
was about 550 to 600 megabytes on all the devices you see here along with this apple also released
iPad OS 16.4 beta 4 Mac OS 13.3 beta 4 watch OS 9.4 beta 4 along with TV OS 16.4 beta 4 and
homepod Os 16.4 beta 4 yesterday those two TV and homepod os's came out yesterday now let's
go ahead and take a look at the build number and talk about what's new we'll go to settings then
we'll go to General then about as you can see the build number is 20e5239b we're getting closer to
a release candidate and final release we'll talk more about when to expect that a little bit later
but this build does have a modem update everything single build of iOS 16.4 as far as the betas go
has had a modem update so far hopefully continuing to improve overall connectivity but we'll have to
wait and see however the first change here is with software updates and so far Apple actually has not
implemented the new way to software update if you're a developer so if we go into software
update and then you go to Beta updates we have the option to change out your Apple ID or change
it to a developer account that's different I've shown you that before so far this does not seem
to be needed you can still install this with a beta profile so maybe Apple's just trying to fix
some things and they'll update this eventually now other than software updates Apple also removes the
beta profile after you install it even if you had that beta profiled installed so if you go
into settings and then you go to General go down to VPN and device management the profile will be
gone however you can add it back if you're a developer so I tried this out you can add it
back but I'm thinking this is because Apple wants real developers to use this instead of
just people downloading profiles so you can add it back but it will automatically remove it after
installing this update now within the about page and then coverage they've again updated
these glyphs before these were actual glyphs now they're actual photos of the devices you can see
here with the airpods Pro 2 it's still showing the glyph but now they're actually updating with
pictures of actual devices from airpods Pro to airpods Max to different Apple watches and
the iPhone itself so I'm seeing that updated with beta 4 and it looks a little bit different for me
now if we go into the books app there's a new splash screen here they Continue to update this
and of course I showed you that they have the new page turned back but it says welcome to
Apple Books find great books and audio books you can read or listen to anywhere on all your Apple
devices tap get started and then you're into a book it's what you would expect here go into your
menu of course nothing here has really changed you still have the option for page curls slide or none
which everyone seems to be quite pleased about as far as Apple listening and bringing things back
that people have really wanted so it's great to see that just giving you more information about
that now if we go into the home app within home and if you go into your update settings you now
not only see the beta update for homepod but you also have a new option for home upgrade available
now we've had this for a while if you're on 16.4 however within this code this time if you update
this and then try to share your home with someone else so they can actually use some of your devices
if they have a mixed matched home architecture update it will actually reject that and tell
you they need to upgrade first so that's something that's within the code that will make a difference
if you're not upgraded already also if we go into the music app Apple talked about bringing
Apple music classical and under the browse tab you can see discover Apple music classical so
they're pushing this and this isn't necessarily on the beta but it showed up recently and it's
on other phones as well not running the beta but it's saying coming March 28th you can see the app
here and pre-order it which it's free if you have apple music anywhere anyway or five dollars if you
don't per month so that's something that's coming soon it's just being pushed within the Apple music
app here so it just gives more information about it now something yesterday I wanted to mention is
Apple released a new wallpaper in celebration of a new store opening in South Korea if we go
to download you can get it here I'll link it in the description but you can see this wallpaper
here and install that on your phone if you want to use that they also released the yellow iPhone
yesterday I did a video about that just wanted to share that I'm still not really sold on this I
wish it was a little more vibrant than more pastel but we'll have to wait and see if it grows on me
Apple also updated something in the App Store if we go back here they updated the Clips app
so this is something that you may or may not use but Clips has been updated so it fixes an issue
in which projects cannot be accessed when using a managed Apple ID with iCloud and it also includes
General stability and performance improvements so that's something they've actually updated just
today as well now within the code there's more changes as well and those are things of course
you can't see we're waiting for Apple pay savings accounts and then also Apple pay or apple wallet
in different countries such as South Korea but also within apps such as Shazam there's actually
updates as well so if we go into Shazam there's wording changes and where is it here here it is
there's wording changes throughout here as Apple continues to refine this there's also a lot of
wording changes when you're setting up an iPhone now so they've just refined what it says overall
it's not really anything different but they will actually have different wording on it just to
clarify what you're actually setting up and how you're sharing your data additionally if we go
into the TV app there's some new shows starting today Ted lasso and other things and they're also
really pushing the season pass of MLS for soccer so this is something that they're pushing giving
more information about you may actually see a splash screen for it or more information but
they're now pushing that and as far as beta 4 we're seeing more and more refinements now
remember iOS 16.4 actually receives a bunch of different updates from new emojis always
on display settings 5G Standalone new widgets for Apple wallet a lot of different shortcuts updates
as well as music updates podcast updates web push notifications and the other things I shared today
so lots of things are being updated in this and as we get closer to a final release of iOS 16.4
we're going to see more and more refinements and less and less changes so that's something we're
seeing with beta 4. now as far as storage I have seen some people mention that so if we
go into our settings storage finished loading and as you can see I'm using 124.4 gigabytes
of 256 gigabytes used most of that is actually different apps and media and you'll see actually
if we go down to the bottom my system data has actually decreased by quite a bit now Apple uses
this as cached information but it seems to really have been decreased with this particular update
hopefully you're seeing the same let me know in the comments below now I do want to mention quite
a few things Apple has fixed this time around with beta 4. one of them has to do with notifications
now I don't really have any right now but as far as them being squared off I'm not seeing that as
soon as I pull them down I thought maybe at the very top they were slightly squared but they've
fixed the speed of that so they look proper by the time you're pulling them down I'm not sure I'm
actually seeing them squared off though it's such a quick transition that it's hard to even catch
also you may notice already that the glyphs inside the battery widget the small battery widget are
now working this time around where they weren't working before so you've got your headphones here
a car if you're monitoring the battery in that it's actually showing the proper information here
as far as what's being monitored so that's a great thing and then also when using FaceTime they fix
this as well so if we go into FaceTime on the left I have beta 3 on the right I have beta 4 and as
you can see the icons for both video effects and mic modes are back so we have the camera and the
microphone back they were gone with previous betas now it's actually been fixed and has returned also
good news is I haven't had anything return as far as the swipe home lag like we had in earlier
betas and with iOS 16.3.1 so if I play a song swipe home it goes to the dynamic Island nice
and smooth I haven't had that slow down again where I had it slow down before so hopefully
that's fully resolved it seems to be much better this time around and also it seems to be nice and
smooth just scrolling through different things I did have some issues with beta 3 with sort of the
private relay issues or just loading things within Safari in general that seems to be resolved this
time around but again sometimes those things can return after a few days but so far so good as far
as the notes let's go into the feedback app see if we can refresh here and now we have the iOS
notes now there are 12 different resolved issues and 13 different known issues as far as resolved
issues that's one more than last time and two more known issues than last time so there's
still some issues going on with this update you'll see the new features here for home and
then also if we scroll through you've got known issues for iCloud drive a lot of this is related
to development though so you may or may not see this so we'll continue down here and you'll see
here pass keys and authentication services and then some resolved issues here with autofill and
more lots of different issues I'll link these notes in the description like I normally do if
you want to read through them all but again different things with swift UI and more but
there's definitely some bugs still remaining with syncing different accounts and things but known
issues are mostly gone one thing I did want to verify is still there if we go back into settings
if you go to your name at the top in settings go to iCloud and then go to Advanced Data Protection
One thing that's a bit disappointing is it seems the icons have reverted back to what we have with
iOS 16. they're now flat again for messages and as well as voice memos so we don't have the updated
icons that many of us were getting excited about for iOS 17 like we do with Mac where we thought
they would match all of them so unfortunately that's not here and it looks like they may not
be changing icons after all but for one reason or another they've actually chosen to go back
to the flat icons I would like to see them bring back some more textured detail like we had with
some of the skeuomorphic design but something a little bit more modern as far as that goes
now as far as overall performance like I said it's nice and smooth no issues here whatsoever just
scrolling through whether that just be promotion in general swiping up and down seems to be nice
and Fast And as far as overall heat it's nice and cool in fact all of the betas have been nice and
cool I know some people are concerned as it's getting warmer outside for the summer it seems
to stay nice and cool now that's without a case if you have a case on that can be actually holding in
heat and keeping it a little bit warm nothing to really worry about as Apple manages it but just
wanted to mention that and as far as the battery life well today it's actually been pretty terrible
I'm already down to 51 percent so let's go back to our battery and if we scroll down to battery
go to battery health and charging I'm at 98 you can see the different cycle count here that I've
been sharing all along and then also if we go to the last 10 days well today I've only used 3 hours
and 14 minutes of screen active time 8 hours and 27 minutes of screen idle time and I've used 50 of
my battery or so or 49 yesterday I only had three hours and 34 minutes of screen active time and 11
hours and 23 minutes of idle time and used over 75 percent probably 80 percent of my battery I've had
really poor battery life right now and I'm again not sure what's causing it but it hasn't gotten
better for me some people say that it has for me it actually hasn't it's hopefully going to improve
it is a beta so I don't pay too much attention to it but so far it hasn't been great for me now as
far as iOS 16.4's RC release or release candidate I would expect that as soon as early next week
we're already on a build ending with the letter b sometimes it'll be ending in the letter A but
I think we're getting close to a final version we could have a beta 5 next week I owe a 16.4 beta 5
but I think we'll see iOS 16.4 RC then a public release maybe either the following week or they
could push it to April but I think it's probably going to be around Monday the 27th if I head to
guest properly Apple hasn't said publicly yet but that seems most likely iOS 6 18.5 has been found
in different analytics by different websites such as Mac rumors and also we still haven't
seen anything about iOS 16.3.2 yet so iOS 16.3.2 is not being found in any analytics anywhere so
right now it looks like Apple's just working on 16.4 and then of course they're probably really
working on iOS 17 that we should see in the first week of June so with WWDC we can also expect WWDC
2023 invites any day now could be today could be tomorrow could be early next week but we
should expect those very very soon now as far as benchmarks for those of you following along
I did run them in geekbench 6 so if we go into geekbench 6 it came out at 2502 for single core
6096 for multi-core that's actually a little bit less than last time so if we go into photos I took
some screenshots of it and you can see with beta 3 we had 259 for single core compared to 2502 and
then for multi course 6240 compared to 6096. it's not too far off that I would really be
concerned with that but if I find anything more as far as new features and changes I'll be sure
to let you know in a follow-up video later and of course we'll have that follow-up this weekend
where we talk about news as well as the overall changes and much more that's been found in here
with the experience let me know your experience with it so far in the comments below and of course
if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper it will be linked in the description as it always
is 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
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