hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and ios 15.4 beta 1 has been out for well over a week
at this point and i want to talk about even more new features that are in this particular update
i've been using it full time on my 13 pro max so after the new features section we'll talk about
the overall experience battery life remaining bugs and more as i've had it full time on my
main device as well as my ipad pro now the first new feature has to do with the magnifier if we go
into the magnifier you'll see that we have a new icon here for the camera if we tap on the camera
we can now switch between auto telephoto macro and the selfie camera so we can spin that around and
use the magnifier for that so that's a new feature you will not see it on 15.3 so that's built in if
we go into the magnifier you just don't have the icon for the camera so it's just not there also
within music or on the music icon there's a new change as well press and hold or 3d touch haptic
press we'll do it one more time here and i miss 3d touch for sure press and hold you'll see that
we have some new options play most recent and play my station so it will play your radio station that
they've curated for you based on your likes as well as your most recent song on the older version
it doesn't do that within the music app if you're playing a song and you tap on the three menu dots
you'll see under view full lyrics there's actually a new icon so on the right is the new version on
the left is the old version and vueful lyrics just has a new icon that matches share lyrics as well
just a slight change there also within the music app my friend steve mosher found a new music icon
that might relate to maybe a new classical music service coming out later on we're not
really sure yet but it's a purple icon instead so an apple music purple icon maybe it will be
coming with ios 16 we don't really know but it looks like something new there's also an updated
air pods icon so if we go into our settings go to accessibility scroll down to where it says
air pods under air pods you'll see that the icon has been updated so the old one is on the left
the new one is on the right showing airpods pro where it was more of a over-the-ear headphones on
the left maybe airpods max and thanks to vasile for sending this in within the home app there's
code referencing the ability to have dynamic wallpaper in the background i wasn't able to find
a setting for this yet but it looks like it's in the code for something we could see in the future
also in the stocks app there's a slight change so if we go into stocks within stocks and if we
scroll up from the bottom where we have business news you'll see that it looks a little bit more
like ios 15 style where you have boxes around different things before we didn't have that on
the left here you can see it's sort of borderless on the right we have more of the ios 15 stylized
borders that surround all of the different news stories so that's been updated with this update
also within news there's a change as well under news if you tap on audio in the center
you'll see that it has a new section at the top that says editors picks so you can scroll through
it looks a little bit different and below as you scroll down you'll see more to explore all audio
stories sports and recently played it's just a little bit different and they've updated the
ui within news within third-party apps such as spotify there's also a new share play button now
i showed you this in the music app where again if you tap the three dots you can share play and it
has a new icon there i showed that in the what's new video however if you go into spotify or other
third-party apps and go to share a song tap on the share button once you share the song tap on more
and here you can see there's a new share play icon so it's just a new icon to allow you to share play
within third party apps within wallet i found a change where if you press the plus in the upper
right you now add to wallet you'll see it says available cards but it also gives suggestions from
other apps that can actually add a pass to wallet so you'll see it says from apps on your iphone
and now it's listing an app so on 15.3 i have the exact same app installed but it's not showing up
so it's a small change but it is something that's different and it now can suggest it letting you
know that you have additional functionality from third-party apps also there's a change that has
to do with safari so if you're using safari maybe on a mac you're probably already familiar with if
maybe you go to a website they have a new post they can notify you when they post something new
this is functionality we don't have on ios yet but it looks like we might in the future if we go into
our settings scroll down to safari under safari go to the bottom go to advanced under advanced
go to experimental features and scroll down just a bit you'll see built-in web notifications you can
now be notified when you go to different websites that have those notifications if you want to
so that might be a feature right now that they're trying out it might be a permanent feature in the
future where it asks you just like it does on a mac now some time ago we got security
recommendations maybe if we have a passcode that's been compromised now there's an additional
notification that pops up that's been found mac rumors found this and you'll see here that maybe
you have a notification it says hide the security security recommendation you can hit hide or cancel
so that's something they've updated just a quick way to get rid of that if you've
already changed it maybe you have duplicates it gets rid of that notification permanently
so it's a nice little update i haven't seen it but they're seeing it in the the keychain app
or when they go to a site that needs that within your settings if you go to face id and passcode
under face id and passcode if you scroll down you have the option to allow access when locked if you
turn this off for apple wallet there's a new ui so maybe you don't want your cards to show right away
when you double click the power button this keeps that from showing up but they've changed the user
interface so if i lock the phone double press the power button let's try it one more time i triple
pressed it that time let's go ahead and lock it double press and you'll see we have a new ui
if we go on the other phone with 15.3 double click you'll see that it just says face id so now it's
sort of saying face not recognized enter passcode it's just a little bit different interface with a
face at the top within reminders they've updated this as well tap on new reminder tap the little
camera icon and you now have the option to scan text just like you do in the notes app so again
if we go into reminders on 15.3 you'll see if we tap the camera icon we only have the option for
scan document so now we can scan text as well it just gives us a little extra control as to what
we want to do specifically now that new face id functionality where you can use the phone without
using an apple watch to unlock it if you're wearing a face mask or glasses or with glasses
works pretty well but can be a little bit slow from time to time i'm hearing feedback about that
and of course we want to submit that via feedback so that apple knows about that as well if they
don't already however many people keep asking will they bring that to older phones and the answer is
we don't really know apple has not specified that it's specific to the 12 and newer so maybe they'll
bring it to an older version but it could have something to do with the neural engine internally
where it just can't do the advanced calculations or doesn't have the power to do it rapidly so we
don't really know yet there isn't an official word from apple whether they can or can't do
it or what's causing that but at least in the first beta we've had it on this device
when beta 2 comes out of course we'll check and see if they've updated devices so you can do that
in additional devices hopefully we'll see that now before i share the remaining issues i wanted
to share my battery life so if i go into settings go to battery battery health on this device is 100
i charge it every night and when i'm in my car and we'll take a look at yesterday i had two
hours and 24 minutes of screen on time 5 hours and 50 minutes of screen off time with mail using
quite a bit with notifications for some reason i did have others say that mail was using a lot
and i used over 50 of my battery life the day before when i used 100 of my battery or almost
i only had 4 hours and 55 minutes of screen on time and 6 hours and 48 minutes of screen off time
this beta has not been good for me as far as battery in fact the first night that i had it
installed or the first couple of nights i went to bed with about 20 to 30 percent of my battery life
left typically i'm well over 50 percent i'm well within the day and i'm at 70 right now and that's
just not great so hopefully it improves it's an early beta so i don't really hold that against it
but as far as the ipad goes i wanted to share that as well now on the ipad with ipad os 15.4 beta 1
if we go to settings go to battery wait for it to load here you'll see that my battery usage hasn't
been that great over the past few days so you'll see it's it's only using about 25 percent of the
battery you'll see yesterday it says i used 4 minutes but 20 hours and 17 minutes of screen
off time which makes no sense as i don't use this with my screen off also the day before an hour and
23 minutes it's also reporting incorrectly when i last charged it it says last charge to 78 on
tuesday it's at 7 30 p.m we're currently at 81 so it didn't count the charge that i put it on last
night so there's some odd battery calculations going on maybe they're working on this to get this
to work properly so definitely some odd issues with battery in 15.4 beta 1. now the overall
experience is definitely very smooth and fast but it's not terribly stable for me and the reason i
say that is sometimes safari doesn't load websites properly whether you're on private relay or not
and i've also had some odd resprings or the phone crashing when i clear notifications i actually had
that happen i cleared all notifications the phone completely crashed then it rebooted and it was
back to normal i've also had to hard reboot it a couple times and some of that has to do with
data connectivity so in the morning often when i wake up wi-fi will not be connected for some
reason however if i go into my settings it shows that i'm connected the status in the status bar at
the top right just shows that it's not there i've also had this happen with cellular connectivity
it will show almost no bars or no bars or zero signal yet i'll have a great signal and be able to
go on safari or stream music without any problems whatsoever so the status is not indicating the
proper status and i've also had issues with bluetooth so an example would be with my car
when you walk up next to a tesla it actually senses it via bluetooth and unlocks for you
it wasn't doing that and it wasn't allowing me to connect airpods easily or anything else i had to
fully turn off bluetooth and then it worked again other times i couldn't get things to work again
until i fully rebooted the phone sometimes there's weird things showing up where maybe an icon is
missing or different things like that where maybe an image should be and there's just nothing there
so there's some very odd bugs in this particular update but bluetooth and signal and things are
mostly pretty good signal between switching 5g 5g uc 4g have been great on this update but just the
actual status indication of it has not been great so very strange bugs in this update now i have
had some people say that the pink screen issue is fixed meaning that the phone will sort of crash go
to a pink or purple screen and then reboot however i've had quite a few people tell me it's not fixed
apple has confirmed this is a software issue but they haven't said that it's fixed yet in
this update so we'll have to wait for them to actually push that and say that it's resolved
because right now it definitely is not apple also still needs to fix the storage bug this
seems to be a worse bug on this phone than it was on my previous ones sometimes it can take
minutes to load some people are not seeing it load at all you'll see it's taking quite a while
and if i do the same on 15.3 it's typically even faster so normally before it was nice
and fast i thought they fixed it with 15.3 but it was much faster than 15.4 at least for me
but of course now it's not loading on 15.3 as well but it was much faster so it gives you an
idea that there's still some odd bugs with that as well as it not reporting accurate information
as far as overall storage size additionally the music bug is probably still there where if you're
streaming music and it's not downloaded it's going to sort of heat up the phone more because
it's using more processor power and in turn your battery life won't be as good because it's using
additional power for no reason this could be due to lossless audio or something else but apple has
not resolved it yet or they haven't said that they have and most people are experiencing that odd bug
with streaming so i definitely think it's still there now earlier in the week apple unexpectedly
released watch os 8.4.1 many people thought we'd see ios 15.3.1 maybe the next day or so because
the actual date for the watch os release was february 8th and we're still not at the eighth so
it's odd that they would have that marked as the eighth and then also they mentioned
with a previous update with test flight if you use the test flight app test flight allows you to test
other apps so that aren't out yet they updated test flight and then referenced ios 15.4 beta 4
which were not even at beta 2 yet so they had some odd dates with this so maybe we'll see 15.3.1
early this next week or maybe we'll just never see it but they didn't specify everything exactly
in the update other than that it's security updates and i did a separate video about that
however 15.4 beta 2 i would expect that as soon as tuesday next week so maybe we'll have a 15.3.1
on monday or tuesday and then followed by a beta release but it's been a week or so i think we're
on a bi-weekly schedule and i would expect a beta released at least between monday and wednesday of
the upcoming week typically tuesday or wednesday though with a final release either at the end of
february or maybe early march as we're now hearing that there be there'll be an event in the early
march so maybe the 8th we'll have an event from apple where we'll have new ipads as well as some
additional things as well so that iphone se 5g or third generation we could see as soon as then so
maybe we'll have the update within that week that's typically what apple does so maybe we'll
have about three more betas or so maybe beta 4 maybe beta 5 and then we'll have the final version
so it looks like that could be the most reasonable expectation of when we'll see it now as far as
the community poll and comments i want to take a look at a few of them because quite a few of you
have commented since at the time of this video there's now 23 000 votes talking about the beta
18 of you are using ios 15.4 beta 1. 70 are using 15.3 or older 2 percent are still on ios 14.8.1 or
older one percent are on 13.7 or older and nine percent are using android so quite a few of you
using public versions or different versions now as far as a few comments let's take a look at them
and you'll see that there's a few different ones here one from 27 minutes ago that says
some bugs for sure but the use of face id with a mask makes up for those bugs face
id with a mask is finally here tony said i'm using ios 15.4 beta 1 on an iphone 11 pro max
battery health is on 90 after updated i can feel the battery drain real fast don't know
is it only me feeling it and i would say no a lot of people are having that experience
i am dehan says i have an iphone 8 with 15.4 beta and an iphone se with 15.3 and i dare
say the iphone 8 runs smoother than the sc what really is an advancement is the ability to auto or
in automation to turn off notify when run syptum inc says i'm using 15.4 beta 1. it's
been great for me battery is great no bugs it's great that it brings the best feature face id
while wearing a mask matt bronson says 15.4 beta 1 the espn app crashes every time i try to open
it besides that it's fine and espn will need to re-update their app to make it compatible
with 15.4 so hopefully within the next few weeks or maybe it's an issue with the beta
we'll see a fix for that david hansen said having problems charging 2020 ipad pro after 15.4 beta 1.
charging is super slow not even sure if it charges at all when it reaches some low charge
it had been on the charger all night but only 16 percent tried different chargers and power banks
but still not working nobody says i'm on 15.4 beta 1 on my iphone 12 pro and when i use the keyboard
there's a weird audio whenever i type sometimes people say that it actually duplicates the audio
and others say there's a different sound when maybe putting in a password i haven't experienced
that but quite a few have messaged me about that cole says 15.4 beta 1 so far it seems to be stable
i've only found one bug and it's presented itself twice since the update was installed
the first time was immediately after my phone powered back on and i needed to enter my passcode
the numbers were making a double click sound as if i was clicking the number twice
the second time this happened was when i entered a two-factor authentication code on the pop-up
numerical pad i think it has something to do with the code that controls value inputs but
who knows other than that minor bug it's been surprisingly stable debbie said ios 15.4 beta
1 on an iphone 11 pro terrible battery life home app crashes many times a day
hazardous says i'm on ios 15.4 beta 1 mainly for the face id with mask feature on my 13 pro
but i feel the battery life is garbage screen on time so far is 1 hour fifteen minutes and somehow
nineteen percent used i had no volume being played at all and my brightness is below fifty percent
and so that's everything in this particular update of course there's some new features we'll probably
find some additional ones as well and if you found anything i haven't mentioned in this
video or the previous videos i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
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