hi everyone aaron here for zollotech and ios 15.4 rc has been out for a few days i've been using it
full time on my iphone 13 pro max and wanted to share the overall experience before it releases
to the public this coming week so like i said it's releasing to the public this week we don't know
which day yet but expect it within probably monday or tuesday of this coming week now we'll talk more
about that a little bit later and we'll be sure to look at all of the comments and things that you've
said on the youtube community poll i'll read some of those but at the time of this video over 16 000
people have voted and 200 people have commented i've taken all of that information compiled it
into a list to get the best idea of what ios 15.4 is like right now and whether or not you should
update when it releases now the first thing is i didn't do a full apple event recap but i did do a
short it was my first short i've ever done and it was a 60 second recap of the entire event if you
haven't seen that be sure to check it out but it was a little bit late so i didn't do a full event
recap for those of you asking now ios 15.4 brings a lot of features and changes and so the ios 15.4
rc video was over 15 minutes of just straight features the full version has even more so i'll
talk about that of course when it releases but the experience of this overall has been very good
and stable with the exception of one thing where i went into settings and i went into software update
and just going into settings it would slide in from the left that's an animation that's sort
of odd that we see from time to time in order to fix that i had to reboot otherwise i haven't had
a single problem on this update many of you have been saying the same thing and a lot of you have
been saying on older devices now the iphone 10 is not that old but i have that here on older devices
many of you were saying that the experience was similar it was super fast on the iphone 6 the 7
8 all of the current iphones are doing just fine on this update and a lot of people are saying it's
the best version we've seen yet so that's great news i know a lot of you will be happy about that
and hopefully you're having a similar experience if you're on the rc and once you update to the
final version so first i wanted to share my battery life so we'll go back to battery
and you'll see my battery health is at 100 on my 13 pro max i've used it just about every day
since release and charged it every night and the last 10 days well yesterday was 5 hours
and 2 minutes of screen on time 6 hours and 31 minutes of screen off time and i used 75 percent
of my battery however today is much much better at three hours and 46 minutes of screen on time
and six hours and four minutes of screen off time i listened to music while i slept last night so
i do have some background music that was that was the background activity here for music and
you can see it used a bit of power however it was charged at that time so i'm not sure why
it's counting that but either way i only used a little over a quarter of my battery and got almost
four hours of screen on time that's phenomenal battery life now abhishek sent in his battery
life i'll share one of his photos or screenshots from his 11 pro max and you can see with about
50 usage he had 4 hours and 36 minutes of screen on time 18 minutes of screen off time
similarly matt sent his battery in he used about 50 to 60 percent of his battery on an iphone 13
and had four hours and 34 minutes of screen on time two hours and 59 minutes of screen off time
all of this to say battery life seems to be much much better on this update and it seems to be
a little bit better on my ipad as well on the ipad as you can see here let's go into settings
we'll go to battery take a look at it give it just a moment to load and i charged it earlier today an
hour ago to 82 then i had to leave but today i used it 2 hours and 43 minutes before then with
an hour and 7 minutes of screen off time and used about a quarter of the battery we're back up to
normal battery life on this version you'll see the day before three hours and 58 minutes of screen on
time 37 minutes of screen off time and less than 50 usage it looks like apple has fixed the issue i
was having with battery life with this version so that's great news i haven't had a single lock up
or anything with the ipad and it's behaving just like you would expect when you picked it up new
so that's great news for the ipad like i said i haven't had any crashes or reboots
but cellular connectivity has been a little bit hit or miss only when switching between
5g and 5g uc for whatever reason there's something there where it will drop for maybe 10 seconds then
i'll get my connectivity back and everything's fine i've heard this from a few of you in the
comments as well so it's only that specific thing and maybe it's only with t-mobile specifically so
some odd issues there but when i do have 5g uc it performs quite well so if we go to speed test here
we'll just go down and look at that quickly give it just a moment since we have two bars of 5g uc
give it a second here we'll let it load and you'll see well it's pretty good 300 400 megabits
per second and climbing so that's pretty great now it's at 500 megabits per second just about
and so that's great download speeds especially with only two bars of signal so if i had more of
course i'd have more but upload is about 15 to 20. so that's typically what i get out here i'm in the
middle of nowhere i'm a ways away from a cell tower but that gives you a general idea of what
it's like using this so 16 megabits per second up was the fastest i got
now as far as wi-fi haven't heard a single thing about that that's great news and also for those of
you using air pods i have heard that it's a little bit slow connecting so i'm trying to grab my air
pods here that it's off in my backpack to the left so i can show you in real time so here are airpods
pro let's open them up some people are saying they're very slow to connect so give them a second
they've already opened up on my ipad but again on my iphone it's not doing anything there we
go so it recognize the ipad first then the iphone that can happen with multiple devices but it was
quick on the ipad slow on the iphone now as far as additional issues some did mention that they
had an odd blur in the top i've seen this at the top of the screen where it blurs out the screen
almost like you're in the control center but it never clears so in order to fix that someone
said they had to reboot so that was an odd issue the storage bug is definitely fixed i've heard
from you multiple times that it's fixed on all devices it seems so going into storage you'll
see it's loading here on my 13 pro max it's taking a moment and sometimes it will but it loads fully
and the numbers are actually reporting properly so you'll see everything's working fine
system data is fine and that's working well now that pink display issue is a bit of a concern
the pinker purple display issue was happening for one person that mentioned it on beta 4 and 5
they got a replacement device and they said it was resolved they said however when they went into
sort of the diagnostics there was a lot of kernel panics that's kind of the underpinnings of what's
running the os so it could have been a software update that caused it maybe an earlier one
they said it happened after i believe 15.2 if i remember correctly so it's possible that was
causing it and there was some odd issue there a full restore may have fixed it other than that one
person i haven't heard from another person saying it's fixed however the music bug does still seem
to be there where it's using a lot of background activity when streaming if the song is downloaded
it doesn't seem to be happening but if you're streaming a lot of music and apple music it's
causing that as well as battery drain now like i mentioned it seems to be performing well with the
battery and heat is no problem whatsoever some people mentioned that the phone is staying much
cooler when they're playing games so it's doing a better job of managing the overall processor
and thermals other than that though carplay does remain to be an issue for certain people i hear
mostly from those using carplay on hondas and acuras being that they're the same manufacturer
mostly that's what i'm hearing people with issues with those particular cars however i do hear once
in a while with maybe bmw but typically it seems to be honda so maybe there needs to be an update
i'm not really sure at this point performance overall i just ran benchmarks again on the devices
so you can see here 1732 for single core 4818 for multi-core if we take a look at the history
and when we ran it last well you'll see that it's actually improved quite a bit in fact multi-core
is much better than any of the others by about a hundred or so single core is around the same so
it's performing as we would expect or better than we would expect let me show you the other devices
as well with the iphone 11 and iphone 10 you'll see the iphone 11 has 1320 and 3484 for multi-core
single core on the iphone 10 is 864 and 2515 from multicore so this gives you a general idea of how
it's performing after a few days now as far as whether or not you should install this update well
i would recommend definitely installing it once it's released to the public however if you haven't
updated it yet maybe you're on beta 4 or beta 5 this should be the final version unless apple
finds an additional problem with it so i would definitely install it there's no reason not to
and the feedback app is even gone so if they do come out with another update they'll just
release that and you'll be able to update then again to the final if we don't already have it
so i really wouldn't hesitate and if you want to try it out this is the time to try it out
but just make sure you have a backup make sure you have a computer so you can restore if you need to
now as far as ios 15.4 release like i said apple said it's coming this week
now some websites are saying friday that's very unlikely based on what they've done in the past
they haven't given a specific date typically it's on a monday or tuesday
but you just don't know until they actually either announce it or release it so friday
is when all of those products they announced at the recent peak performance event release
so everything from the iphone that's green to the iphone se third generation the mac studio and all
of those things so it's really unlikely that they release it on that day typically it's before but
either way we can expect it this coming week as far as the next version well we can expect wwdc
invites probably before the end of the month leading to june where we'll have wwdc or the
worldwide developer conference in the beginning or probably the second week of june usually the
6th or 7th where we'll have new features with ios 16 and a ton of different software updates
so we'll have our early betas then ios 16 beta 1 and more now this coming week we could also see
if apple is so ambitious we could also see ios 15.5 beta 1 or they could wait for the next week
hopefully they wait for the next week because it's been a very busy week with all the updates not
only to ios but mac os and more and products and more so hopefully we'll see that in a week or so
now let's go ahead and take a look at the youtube community poll and read some of the comments
i did do a poll earlier to see if you wanted me to film outside when it's kind of dark and dreary
out and you said yes so it's starting to rain a little bit hopefully we can get to comments
without being rained on too much but you'll see at the time of this video there's 16 000 votes
22 percent of you are on 15.4 rc 66 of you are on fifteen point three point one or older two percent
are on fourteen point eight point one or older so a lot of people love have updated finally one
percent are on 13.7 or older and nine percent are on android so thanks again to everyone that voted
and commented now let's go ahead and take a look at some of the comments so it's actually raining
out a bit and hopefully we have a bit of daylight left so we can get through some of the comments
ross houston said running ios 15.4 rc on my iphone 13 pro ipad pro 11 or 11 3rd gen and ipad mini 6th
gen in previous versions i had an issue with the 13 pro becoming quite hot randomly but that seems
to be gone with the rc can't seem to find any issue during typical use on any of the devices
it appears to be a really solid piece of software loving the videos and hello from scotland mr rheen
says running the rc on my 13 pro and it's lovely best ios 15 version so far even more fluid than
the version before and the 120 hertz display feels kind of unlocked it's great that's great to hear
i know a lot of people say i mention promotion all the time but it definitely feels different in 15.4
t singh says running ios 15.4 rc on my 13 pro max and my wife's 13 pro no issues for me whatsoever
been rock solid and battery seems great too wondering if this will be the actual build
that will get released i think it probably will but again we won't know until next week
i've moved underneath some coverage here so hopefully this is a little bit better but tim
r says 15.4 rc runs pretty good on my 11 pro max battery life is still not great though yesterday
i got 8.5 hours of screen on time with efficiency at plus or minus 5 battery left it's better than
before but still far from what the 11 pro max should have been capable with a battery that's 99
health and so it really seems hit or miss in fact my brother was just using an 11 pro max on 15.3.1
and he said that it seemed noticeably slower than it was before and he's someone that is pretty tech
savvy so he was saying the os in general felt slower i handed him a 12 pro max and it seems
much much faster to him so there could be some issues but 15.4 definitely seems a lot better
dr kushik said running ios 15.4 rc on my iphone 13 and it's the best version of ios 15 so far
battery life is excellent and no annoying bugs i'd love to see what you have to say about it
in your weekly follow-up video have a good day zolotag and definitely i would agree with you i'd
say it's one of the best versions of 15 if not the best although it will take a few days after
everyone has it millions and millions of people to see what it's like yatami said and hopefully i'm
pronouncing that properly battery life is greatly improved from the betas to the rc although i can
tell that it still drains more frequently from 15.3.1 also the musicbug is still there annoying
how they just haven't done anything about it or anything to it i think they are working on that
and hopefully we'll see a change with that very soon but maybe there's something there with using
5g and switching between all of those things that makes it more difficult not really sure as far as
that goes yet dstech said so i'm on the rc i've been having problems still with switching from 5g
uc to 5g like i mentioned before calls drop if i'm on another call i reported it to apple many times
in previous ios 15 or 15 beta releases battery is better using an iphone 13 pro max and i'm
really interested to know exactly why this is happening i'd love to know or speak with a modem
engineer or someone that works specifically on this to see if there's something that can be done
or if it's just the way 5g and 5g uc switching works since that's a little bit newer jason
bradbee said running 15.4 rc on my iphone 12 and ipad pro 9.7 so far no problems super smooth and
battery life seems better with around 9 hours of screen on time on a 95 charge looking forward to
trying out universal control next week when mac os gets updated loving your videos they're helping me
get through isolation due to everything going on and i'm glad i can help with that that's one thing
i really pushed when everyone was sort of locked down at the beginning and through 2020 2021 to
try and provide as many many videos or content as possible so that people had something to do so i'm
glad it's helping you out and hopefully things are much much better very very soon despite everything
else going on matt says seems well battery life has improved additionally apple got back to me
about the odd imessage bugs i've been having and appears to have fixed them so that's some great
news that imessage bug was there for a lot of people i personally never had it but there's been
odd bugs all throughout and i think 15.4 should be much better and of course we'll see 15.5 and so on
until we have the final release of ios 16. and that's everything for ios 15.4 if you've found
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