hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and today Apple finally released iOS 16.4 developer beta
1. this is available to all developers around the world at the same time iOS 16.4 public beta
1 should be out usually within a day or so now this particular update is a very large install
if you're on the public version of iOS 16.3 or iOS 16.3.1 you'll see it came in at 5.44
gigabytes that's on my iPhone 14 pro Max so anytime you go from a regular version to a beta
or from a beta back to a regular version you're going to reinstall the whole OS it'll be a huge
install and then it will just overwrite the old OS now this was released alongside iPad OS 16.4
beta 1 watch West 9.4 beta 1 Mac OS 13.4 beta 1 and tvos and homepod Os 16.4 beta 1. now let's
go ahead and talk about what's new as well as the build number there is a lot to talk about in this
such as new emoji and much much more now let's go to settings will go to General then about as
you can see the build number is 2 0 e 5212f and this particular update does have a modem update
if you're updating from the previous versions you should have some sort of modem update to help with
overall connectivity and more now the new features in this the first thing has to do with updating
software in general apple is changing this with the next version with beta 2. if we go to the
software update page if we go into the software update page you'll see there's Now Beta updates
under beta updates if you're a public beta tester or a developer you'll get these options they're
now going to be tied to your beta developer account with your Apple ID so there's no longer
going to be a profile you'll need to sign up with your Apple ID and then you'll have these options
here otherwise you won't be able to install it so this is an all new way of doing this apple
said it's beginning with 16.4 beta and they said members of the Apple developer program will see
a new option to enable the debatas directly from software updates so you won't be able to install
them with a beta profile any longer meaning all the websites that sort of feed those beta profiles
out to people that aren't developers are going to no longer be relevant as there's no way to
install the beta without actually paying for it 99 a year or if you're a public beta tester you
can sign up for free there under the about page instead of warranty it now says coverage if we go
into that it shows all the different coverage for all the devices we have tied to this Apple ID so
you can see coverage expired or that we have Apple Care Plus or something else so that's
something all new in beta 1. under the cellular data Options under voice and data there's an all
new option for 5G Standalone this is something that is new that says it uses 5G for all cellular
activity including cellular network connections in certain conditions 5G Standalone may be used
when necessary to provide cellular service this hints at upcoming three gigabit per second service
around the world and in different areas so that's something that's all new and also some people
have informed me that iOS 16.4 beta 1 brings 5G support for turkey as well so if you're in turkey
and you're seeing that let us know in the comments below if we go into messages there's all new Emoji
to comply with Unicode 15 standards you can see them here we have a shaking face we have a pink
heart a blue heart a gray heart we have a donkey a moose jellyfish Ginger we have hands that are
facing Palm up toward the right toward the left and also within the code while we don't see it
yet or I haven't been able to find it there's actually mention of rock paper scissors being
able to type Rock and seeing a closed fist or your hand open for paper so maybe that will be a little
bit later or something that's coming in the future additionally there's a bunch of different updates
for the keyboard specifically for autocorrect for Korean keyboards it's enabled by default
for testing and feedback if you're in Korea also Ukrainian keyboard now supports predictive text
we also have Gujarati Punjabi and Urdu keyboards which add support for transliteration layouts and
there there's new keyboard layouts available for Choctaw and Chickasaw as well so all of
those keyboard updates are in 16.4 there's an all new widget so if you're using widgets on
your widget page here let's go ahead and add one we'll add a widget here if we scroll down
under wallet there's new widgets for order tracking so we have three new widgets and it
just shows order tracking in the larger medium and small size as well if you use Focus modes like I
do go into your settings go under focus and if you have an iPhone 14 pro or 14 pro Max with an always
on display if you select a focus and then go to the bottom and add a Focus filter there's some
new options or a new option for Always on display so you can turn that on or off based on your focus
overall so they've finally added that they've also added a bunch of new shortcut actions so
if you use shortcuts there's a ton of new actions and you can see those here so set silence on known
caller set stage manager set true tone there's also one for set announce notifications shutdown
lock screen intercom and set VPN there could be even more but so far that's what's been found
in shortcuts within music and podcasts we have a bunch of new changes Apple actually made an
announcement about podcasts we'll get to that in a moment and but if we go into the music app and we
go under our library under an artist you can see there's an artist icon at the top now on the left
I have IOS 16.3.1 iOS 16.4 is on the right if we go into that artist page itself we'll just go into
the artist page in the top right we can favorite the artist tap on the star and at the bottom it
now says favorite it on the old one it doesn't it just highlights the star itself so it's a small
change but something that's updated additionally if we press and hold and maybe play next on one of
the songs there's a new icon or a little graphic that appears below it so let's do that again if
we press and hold we'll Tap Play next it shows up down at the bottom saying playing next if we do
that on the previous update it doesn't really show anything other than a large icon in the
center they've changed the overall look to this completely also if we go back to our library we
can now access our profile in the upper right if we go into albums in the upper right it now has
little arrows for sort instead of the word that says sort if we go into the podcasts app and we go
to our library there's a new option for channels so this is all new so if you're following maybe
one of these different channels and they have multiple shows you can see all of their different
shows here so VOX media podcast Network you'll see them here and see the other shows that they have
available back under our library page under our recently updated podcasts it now gives a count of
new podcasts you haven't listened to so you'll see here it says Gadget lab for new on the previous
update it doesn't say anything at all when you're listening to a podcast and it's complete and it's
going to go to the next podcast it will now give different podcasts that are unplayed but also that
you may not follow but you might have saved so it will just progress on to the next podcast that way
these same improvements are going to roll out to carplay as well so if we go into Safari you can
see the announcement here and within Safari you can see the announcement where it says iOS 16.4
what's new for Apple podcasts so channels that I showed you up next improvements enhancements
to episode presentation up next in browse coming to carplay as well so they're updating it overall
and they'll have even more precise analytics if you actually have a podcast and you want to know
about who's listening to it or even watching it so that's been updated we should see that with
the final release of iOS 16.4 the airpods icon has changed when it connects to your device on
the right it's now a gray background with the white air pods on the left previous versions
showed white with black so they've changed that I'm not sure I like that change let me know what
you think about it in the comments below one thing we've known has been coming to iOS for
quite some time that they finally implemented with iOS 16.4 is web push notifications so
whether you're on a website or in a website Apple location it can now push notifications
if there's an update this is something we've had on the Mac for a long time that they're finally
bringing to iOS within the home app Apple has brought the home architecture update back with
iOS 16.4 we had it in the past Apple removed it or pulled it from devices due to problems
now it's returned so that's returned in 16.4 along with manual and automatic software update
support on matter accessories so if you're using matter accessories you can now switch
between automatic and manual I need to get a matter accessory though so I can see that
if you're using passkey there's something that can be enabled by developers and that's autofill
so passkey autofill on websites can be implemented with 16.4 and on the iPad side there's support for
tilt and Azimuth support for apps so that's something that developers can Implement with
apple pencil also Swift or Swift UI which is the development app has a family of new modifiers
that let you build even richer resizable sheet experiences with swift UI so those are implemented
that's more for developers though also within the code there's quite a few things such as
rock paper scissors that I mentioned before Apple pay Savings Account Support so that's something
that could be coming in the near future however Apple could just push that to current devices
and there's also event service apps in here as well what that is specifically I haven't
been able to find it but if you have let me know in the comments below one bug I'm hearing about
that I wanted to make sure you are aware of is nordvpn does not seem to be able to connect to
iOS 16.4 so if you're on this version nordvpn may need an update to work properly the lag so
far hasn't returned but there's a lot of known issues and bugs that remain in this update and
if we take a look at the feedback app we can take a look at that so you'll see in the feedback app
IOS and iPad OS 16.4 notes and you'll see backup and restore issues watch migration might fail when
restoring a backup to a new phone you'll see there's new features some I mentioned already
as well as deprecations for core telephony and core ml there's new features for home that I
already mentioned and known issues all throughout so be careful if you're installing this update as
there's definitely going to be a bunch of known issues for iCloud drive as you can see here
as well as fixed issues for map kit Pages numbers and keynote has some known issues and additionally
there's more known issues just throughout with autofill and more so still things to be concerned
about and if you're wondering if you should install iOS 16.4 beta 1 well if you're a developer
I'm sure you already know you're getting into a beta that's fine if it's not on your main device
but I would probably hold off and just see how this is after a few days as early betas tend to be
a little bit more buggy than later betas however so far it seems to be okay but still if you're
a developer be sure to try it out and if you're developing an app for it but I would wait for the
public beta at least if you want to try it on your main device or maybe a secondary device you have
as far as overall performance so far promotion is nice and fast and on older devices whether it's
an iPhone 11 or iPhone 8 so far it seems nice and fast if we go into music we'll give it a second to
load it's the first time I'm opening it it seems fairly smooth and in general just going into
different apps opening them whether that's the app store or something else seems to be okay I really
haven't noticed anything here as far as issues so in general it seems to be behaving as you would
expect but again it takes a few days to know if we're going to have any slowdowns or anything like
that as far as overall heat of the device it's been a little bit warm right after installing this
huge update but so far it's nice and cool right now so no issues there it seems to be doing fine
as far as that goes we can look into that a little bit more in the weekend follow-ups as far as
battery life it will take a few days to know but iOS 16.3.1 battery has actually been quite good
for me it seems to really have improved it for me I have 99 or 98 battery health now so that's the
first time going in and looking at that and if we take a look at the last 10 days yesterday I had
three hours and 14 minutes of screen active time 13 hours and 19 minutes of screen idle time and I
used about well 60 of my battery or so so I'm not sure what the screen idle time is but it wasn't
really in incredible battery life but better than I had before so depending on overall usage this
seems to have improved a little bit where I can easily get through the day now I'm not charging
before I go to bed at night I'll put it on the bed stand at night charge it but usually I was
getting down to 20 now I'm at 50 or so by the time I go to bed as far as future releases well usually
with early betas we're on a bi-weekly schedule so probably not next week but the week after we'll
probably get beta 2 however Apple could change this they've been changing a lot of that however
in between we could see IOS 16.3.2 as we already have that for TV OS and homebot Os so we could
see small incremental updates and then probably a final release in March or April with iOS 16.4
to the public so we could have some sort of event in March we don't really know but if we do usually
around that time frame we'll get a final release of course don't expect any major changes until
June with iOS 17. while that's not expected to be a huge update it is expected to have new features
and usually at WWDC or the worldwide developer conferences when we'll see those so it's going to
be a little while until we see that but probably not any major features until then now as far as
benchmarks for those of you measuring this I did run it in geekbench 5 and there is geekbench 6 now
so we'll take a look at both with geekbench 5 it scored 1875 for single core 5346 from multi-core
if we take a look at the previous times I've run it so let's find the most current one here or one
of the more recent ones February 3rd it was 1875 and 5054. so it seems to improve it's about the
same it's not too much of a big deal but with geekbench 6 they've changed it dramatically and
the numbers have changed a lot so if we go into here and we go to CPU Benchmark let's run that
and see what we get now geekbench 6 completed and we have 2515 for single core 6066 for multi-core
now unfortunately this one does not seem to back it up so I'll take a screenshot of it for next
time but just if you want to compare with your device and see what it's getting this is what
we got with geekbench 6 the first time I've run it so that's everything so far in iOS 16.4 beta
one of course if I find anything else I'll have more about that in a follow-up later
this weekend if you've found anything else I didn't mention I'd love to hear from you in
the comments below and of course I'll link this wallpaper in the description as I normally do if
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