what's up guys my name's brandon and after the craziness that happened last week,
this week was bound to be a lot less exciting when it comes to apple software updates but we did get
one update and that was watchos 8.4.1 which dropped on tuesday and i did make a video on that
here on the channel if you want to check it out it will be linked down in the description below
but aside from that we've been discovering even more new features and changes in ios 15.4 beta 1
and this update is insane it's a lot bigger than expected it's probably the biggest update to ios
15 since the initial version i mean there's just so much that's changed in this update it really
makes up for all the lost time with ios 15.3 we're in beta and ios 15.3 forever for really no major
changes but anyways we're going to talk about even more new features and changes in ios 15.4 beta 1.
we're going to talk about the performance the battery life we're going to cover some
of the latest apple leaks and rumors and much more alright so let's start off with some more ios 15.4
features and changes and the first thing is actually inside of apple music and when you
go into a playlist let's just go into my tunes playlist right here and you start scrolling down
you will notice that the name of the playlist is now sticky and it sticks to the top menu bar right
there as you scroll down so this is a very small touch but it's actually pretty useful because
sometimes when i'm deep in my playlist i forget which playlist it is so it's nice to have that up
right there especially if you're browsing random playlists you can always see that when you're
scrolling down which is nice now also if you have to press on the music icon on the home screen we
have a couple of new options here as well number one is play my station that's new and then also
play most recent is right there as an option as well both of those are new and 15.4 beta 1. now
we also have a new screen for apple pay before you unlock your phone so if i go ahead and activate
apple pay right here you could see that this is a new page it's slightly different i'm going to move
it away from my face you can see this white screen right here has a new ui compared to ios 15.3 so
i'm going to bring over my 15.3 device right here you guys can see of course that is what it looked
like previously and it showed kind of everything it doesn't show all of your cards in here anymore
so it just has a whole new ui when you go to apple pay on 15.4 we also have a nice change
when it comes to keychain when you save your passwords like in safari if you enter any password
you can save it to your icloud keychain well keychain will now prompt you to enter a username
when saving a password without once if you save a password and your username's not there it will
prompt you to enter that username so shout out to a reddit user for bringing this to my attention we
also have a minor change inside of the stocks application so now when you go to the stories
on the front page you can see we have more of like a widget style of ui right here so just a
slight difference between 15.3 on the left 15.4 on the right everything is the same once you go into
the article but it's different on this main screen right here another very interesting feature that's
coming in ios 15.4 is push notifications for web-based applications so third-party applications
and web-based applications will now be able to send you push notifications natively so this
was found in the code and you know nobody's using it yet but it looks like in the code it was found
that soon push notifications are going to be enabled for web-based applications which is going
to be really awesome for a lot of people also one of the big features that i mentioned that i feel
like is going under looked right now is inside of shortcuts automations and when you go to one
of your automations you can see there's a little bit of lag right there and that's what i'll talk
about later in this video as well but when you go into here we have the notify when run option
right there which will essentially disable your shortcut notifications which is something we've
been trying to do forever of course this doesn't disable them permanently but now you will not
get a notification when the automation is run which is something that has always annoyed me
and it's worked really well over the past week i've used this obviously i changed my wallpaper
every single day every single time at sunrise i would always wake up with a notification from
shortcuts but now i don't and it's nice i've also really been loving the wallet widget obviously i
don't like how much money i spend sometimes but it does update in real time which is nice it'll
help me monitor and kind of track my expenses as well just at a glance without having to go into
the wallet application and then i also wanted to talk about universal control so i didn't show this
in my initial video but if you go to your ipad os 15.4 settings and then go to your settings general
airplay and handoff you will see we have a new toggle there for cursor and keyboard and it says
it's in beta and it says allow your cursor and keyboard to be used on any nearby mac
signed into your icloud account so that is a toggle you need to make sure is enabled before
trying out universal control but my experience over the past week i've used it every single day
is amazing especially for a first beta of course it has been delayed several times so it's expected
to be good even in the first beta but it is awesome i honestly at this point cannot live
without it so i really hope it improves and i've only had a few bugs but it's worked pretty amazing
so far now as far as the bugs go in ios 15.4 beta 1 i have had issues with apps crashing i
talked about this in last week's video i talked about espn crashing and as you can see it still
crashes upon launch even after an app update so you know that's an issue i've also had issues with
reddit crashing it works fine just now but it does randomly crash sometimes so random app crashes but
that's pretty much it i mean i have the occasional lag i do have issues with shortcuts as well
shortcuts is a lot laggier than it was on 15.3 when it comes to switching between menus it's
faster when i go into a shortcut and edit things around but when i switch to these menus sometimes
it really hangs like we saw earlier in this video also inside of my settings if i go down to general
and then to background app refresh and then all the way down you'll see that we have a weird
icon right there no icon for the web toggle so that's a minor bug here of course things you see
in betas and then also some people are having cell connectivity issues where their cell connectivity
just kind of switches back and forth between 5g and lte continuously it just flashes back
and forth between those two and it can't make up its mind so it only fixes itself after a reboot
but that is an issue with cellular and then also last week i did mention issues with face id just
simply not working sometimes well i have not had that experience since then so that seems
to be not super common what i experience so face id has actually worked really well over the past
week i've used it multiple times to pay for things just using it and of course i don't have glasses
so i haven't tested out how accurate it is with a mask and glasses but if you have let me know
in a comment down below how that's working out but so far this seems like a really really solid
feature even in the first beta so it's only going to get better with time and i'm excited for that
now as far as the performance goes it's still running pretty well not much has really changed
since last week's follow-up video aside from a few more minor issues like apple music crashing
and some other ui bugs just minor things like that there's still some minor lag when multitasking and
you know again when i'm in the shortcuts app and going back and forth between these two tabs
but again it's a first beta and i'm not too mad at the performance so far especially when i check out
my geekbench score here you can see we got a 1740 on the single core and a 48.89 on the multi-core
so very strong scores there of course i'd like to test this later on as well once the phone is kind
of re-indexed and cooled down a little bit so pretty solid scores there on ios 15.4 and then
as far as the battery life goes you know last week i had not used the software long enough to
really come to a conclusion about how good or bad the battery life is but now that it's been
more than a week of using it i have a good idea of battery life on beta 1 and while it's not bad
it's definitely not good either i noticed a drop of about 50 minutes 50 to 55 minutes
of on-screen time compared to ios 15.3 so definitely room for improvement and i'm sure
we will get that with the coming betas but not too hot on the battery front so far here with beta 1.
all right so now let's talk about what is next for apple so next up is ios 15.4 beta 2 and like
i mentioned in last week's video last weekend's follow-up video i said that we could see a beta 2
sometime late this week or early next week and now it's looking like it's going to be
of course early next week so i'm guessing the 7th or the 8th is probably when we'll see
ios 15.4 beta 2. apple has been liking tuesdays lately so i would put my money on february 8th
but of course apple is super unpredictable and it could come really at any point
next week and then as for the final version of ios 15.4 this is coming in the first half of march so
this was confirmed by bloomberg and this you know aligns with what i said previously that we could
see ios 15.4 at the apple event or shortly after and that's looking like it's going to be the case
apple will likely talk about ios 15.4 at their apple event which has been rumored to be coming
on march 8th that's when we could expect to see an apple event so that could be the day that we
see ios 15.4 the final release or it could come the next day on the ninth or even the week after
all we know is that it's going to come for sure in the first half of march which technically gives
us until like the 15th or the 16th as the latest possible date and you guys already know the drill
if you're not following me on twitter already make sure you go over and follow me on there
that's where i give you guys updates on everything when it comes to ios release dates alright so now
let's move on to some of the latest apple news so you guys remember the redesigned 27-inch imac
pro that we've been talking about for the past few weeks well it looks like that's been delayed from
the upcoming spring event to sometime later in the summer this news comes courtesy of ross young who
tweeted out quote we no longer expect the apple imac pro to launch in the spring looks more like
summer still with a mini led backlight but fewer mini leds slash zones than an ipad and macbook
pros we expect panel shipments from june but the product may not launch until august or september
now the imac might be delayed but the new iphone se ipad air and new mac mini are almost definitely
coming at the spring event and the latest source of this news is mark german so i made a full video
yesterday going through everything to expect at this event including the date of the event
which is currently set at tuesday march 8th so if you guys want to check out that video and see
everything to expect at the event i will leave that linked up in the cards right now and also
down in the description below but super exciting our first event of the year first event really of
many to come with what could be a record-breaking year for apple in terms of product launches
now this next story is very interesting and it relates to side loading applications which is
where you basically install an application from a third party website so a us sentence
committee just recently approved an antitrust bill called the open app markets act which would allow
side loading on the iphone this is something that's been controversial for quite a while now
and just days before this meeting to approve the bill apple's head of government affairs
tim powderly sent a letter to committee members urging them to reject the bill saying quote side
loading would enable bad actors to evade apple's privacy and security protections by distributing
apps with critical privacy and security checks these provisions would allow malware scams and
data exploitation to proliferate but the bill was approved regardless and we are now a little closer
to side loading becoming a reality on ios now we do have to wait and see what happens next on the
senate floor but this is very very interesting and has a huge mixed reaction so what do you
guys think are you for or against side loading applications from places outside of apple's app
store i'm personally stuck in the middle because i can see how this would cause malware on ios and
ipad os i think it will definitely lead to more malware but at the same time i also know how fun
some of these games and applications are that you can only get from third-party websites because
you know it's illegal to be in the app store things like the you know n64 emulators or the psp
emulators you know the game boy emulators things like that really fun stuff that we used to be
able to do that we basically don't have access to anymore at least not easily and that would become
a reality again we'd be able to play all those old games on our iphone again but at the same time
again we do risk all of the malware and other bad things potentially coming to ios so let me know
what you guys think in the comments below and then finally in some very strange and potentially scary
news someone out there is removing the speaker from apple's air tags and selling them online
now sure if we lived in a world where people were not crazy this would be a non-story but of course
we're not especially here in america so when i saw this headline the first thing i thought of
is that some creep is gonna go buy these and slip them into unsuspecting victims you know belongings
a purse whatever and stalk them and even if they get the alert on their phone that an air tag is
tracking them when they hit the play sound button to try to get rid of the air tag it's just not
going to make a noise because there's no speaker installed anymore so that is you know super creepy
but the other side of this argument is so that if somebody stole your item they would not be able
to find the air tag and throw it out and get rid of it so you're always going to be able to track
said stolen item because the people who stole it are not going to be able to find
the air tag that you hid there but you know let's be honest most people who are you know thinking
about buying these who searched up to buy a modified air tag are probably not buying them
with the best intentions in mind i mean i could be wrong but what do you guys think do you think
the only creeps are buying these or do you think people are buying them for a good reason now i'm
also curious if you think we're gonna see apple discontinue the air tag after so much negative
press really ever since they were first released it seems like bad story after bad story after bad
story is coming out about the air tags really not a lot of positive stories out there about them but
it's apple people are always going to blame apple you know when when tiles out there when all these
other manufacturers are out there that do the same thing their trackers do the same thing you know
even arguably less secure because you don't even get alerts on your phone when you're being tracked
i don't know how those work but i'm sure they're not as secure and as high-tech as apple's air tags
are but you don't really see too many negative you know stories out there about them but of
course the air tags are more popular so people are going to blame the air tag and not just you know
every other tracker on the market but i don't know what do you guys think about this do you
think apple's going to have to discontinue the air tags do you think this is just going to blow over
what do you think about this and also do you think they're going to have to release a new version
so people can't modify these and take the speaker out at least not as easily really
curious to see what you guys have to say about this one as well but anyways guys there you have
it that is the latest batch of apple news from this past week along with some additional info
on the highly anticipated ios 15.4 if you guys enjoyed this video as always i would appreciate
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