hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and today apple released ios 16 beta 4.
this is available to developers and hopefully by the time you're watching this video it will be out
as ios 16 public beta 2. however if not today usually it's the following day so we'll look
for that tomorrow if we don't see it soon now this came in at 1.67 gigabytes on my iphone 13 pro max
and was about the same size on all the devices we have here from the ipad pro to the iphone 8 plus
iphone 10r and iphone 11. now along with this apple also released xcode 14 beta 4 they also
released ipad os 16 beta 4 mac os 13 beta 4 tv os 16 beta 4 and home pod os 16 beta 4. they did not
release watch watchos 9 beta 4 and that's fitting because i forgot to put on my apple watch today
now let's take a look at the build number and talk about what's new so we'll go to settings
then we'll go to general then about and this has changed a little bit where we have the
build number here right away so the build number shows and if we tap on it it brings us to that new
screen so you'll see it says this update includes improvements and bug fixes for your iphone
and you can see the build number is 208 5328h and this particular update does have a new modem
update in it at least for the 13 pro max bringing us to version 2.08.01 now as far as new features
updates and changes well there's quite a few to go over the first one you can't see just yet has to
do with activity kit that was released for the new ios 16 live activities api for developers
which allows them to now use live activities on the lock screen so if we set a timer on the watch
maybe we'll set a timer here for 10 minutes hit start pull down notifications we have live
activities here apple showed this in the ios 16 keynote where we'd have many more like this such
as uber or starbucks and more so now developers can make their apps have this so hopefully we'll
see that fairly soon now within messages is where we get our first new feature or change go into
messages and as you can see i left a message however if we tap on that we can now see any
edits we made so at first i said this is an ios 16 beta 4 test we see that then test to see if
messages changed this is an ios 16 beta 4 test to see if messages change let's see and then finally
this is an ios 16 for beta 4. and you can hide the edits or show them and you still have 15 minutes
to edit them but apple has also changed it so you no longer have 15 minutes to undo send so if we
press and hold on this it's now changed to undo send for two minutes so you can't do that for 15
minutes this is just for protection and of course we also can see those edits now which is really
nice wallpaper customization continues to get refinements if we press and hold go to customize
hit done then tap on customize home screen you can see here they've now labeled what the different
options are below original color gradient photos or blur in beta 3 and before there were no labels
there as you can see so they've now given us clarification as to what those are also if you're
customizing your wallpaper press and hold and if you don't have any widgets below your time there
it'll actually now say add widgets where it wouldn't be for it was just a blank space so
that's something they've updated and then also widgets will allow you to customize them further
so if we go into batteries this is something i didn't mention before that was just discovered
but if you tap on the battery you can now see that we have options for that specific widget
so it says keep track of the battery levels of your devices automatic or turn that off so that's
a little bit different and then also in this beta if we go into the clock they've changed some of
the naming so you'll see here it says city digital so on beta 3 on the left it says city on the right
with beta 4 it says city digital the same is true with city analog where before it would just say
clock so they've updated some of the naming here just a little bit but some refinements here and
there now if we go to delete a wallpaper press and hold we've seen this before just slide up and
now you can delete but when you tap on delete it actually says delete this wallpaper this wallpaper
will be removed from both the lock screen and the home screen so it just says delete this wallpaper
it's a small change but something that's different on carplay there's some changes as well
you can see this is a carpuride device and if we go over go into settings and then we go to
wallpaper there's some new wallpapers so you'll see we have our typical one we have a new blue one
for day and night and then we also have some other ones here more of a black and white version so you
have your regular one from ios 16 a blue one and a black and white version you can see all of the
wallpaper available here if we're playing a song and then we go to our lock screen or our widget
and notifications they've actually changed the way this looks a little bit the font is a little
bit different you can see here it's actually not saying the album name anymore and also just looks
slightly different the album art is also larger in beta 4 so it's more edge to edge as you can
see here and then also if we go in and maybe play this song so we'll go in and if we want to adjust
the volume when you press and hold the volume slider actually gets a lot bigger where before it
got bigger a little bit but not a ton the same is true with the actual slider for going through the
track it gets much bigger as you press and hold to let you know that you've actually pressed on it
so that's a small change the same is true on the home screen or the lock screen where you move your
thumb it's just much bigger than it was before in the home app we also get additional wallpapers as
well so if we tap on the three dots in the upper right go to our home settings scroll down until we
see our home wallpaper tap on choose from existing you'll see there's two new ones here compared to
what we had before we actually have a couple new wallpapers so some are some blurred flowers
and then sort of a wall in the corner and maybe some different blurs here but nothing really that
different just a couple new added wallpapers if we go into settings and then go to notifications
they've now added some graphical examples of what these actually mean so you have count stack and
list before we actually didn't have those there with beta3 we had the names but not sort of a
graphical representation of what they actually do so that's a little different also within settings
if we scroll down to wallet and apple pay at the bottom we now have an option for notifications
before we didn't have that so there's just a new switch there to turn notifications on or off for
wallet and apple pay within settings again if we go down to accessibility under accessibility
if we scroll down we now have control nearby devices now we had this before if we triple
clicked the power sleep wake button but now they've made it a separate settings
option so if we go into that we can control nearby devices and just access this a little bit easier
also within settings under sirian search siri call hang up has returned this was removed with beta 3
it's made its way back with beta4 so now you can use siri with your voice to hang up a call
so that's something that they've brought back and they must have had some issues with it and
now it's returned if we go into shortcuts there's some changes there as well or some fixes rather
within shortcuts under voice memos it now says talk to voice memos hold the home button or say
if you have a home button on your device before it would just say hold the side button now it's
corrected depending on the device you actually have so you'll see on the 13 pro max with face
id it says hold the side button so that's just been fixed in this update within mail there's an
update if we go into mail and then slide to the right a little bit we have archive and remind me
this has been updated compared to beta 3 where it actually says later so it's a small wording change
but they've updated it from beta 3 to beta 4. also if we go into settings and then scroll down
to mail under mail if we scroll all the way to the bottom we now have undo send delay so if you
want to undo sending your message you can actually change that from off 10 20 or 30 seconds so it's
a new option they added with beta 4. within the app store if we go into the app store and we tap
on our account in the upper right there's a change as you can see with beta 3 we have subscriptions
on beta 4 they've removed that and they've just kept it under icloud where it's always been so
they've removed it from the app store itself and just put it all in one place there are also
a bunch of new splash screens depending on if you've gone into an app for the first time so
if we take the iphone 10r which i haven't opened these purposely on and we go into notes for the
first time we should get a new splash screen that just says quick note on iphone more powerful smart
folders remember one less password also we have one in the app store so if we go into the app
store give it just a moment here we also have a new splash screen saying welcome to the app store
and also if we go into game center we have a new one as well so if we go into our settings
then scroll down and then go to game center have a new splash screen that says what's new in game
center see all your friends play activity and achievements on the redesigned dashboard and
player profiles now throughout ios 16 beta 4 there are a ton of different wording changes throughout
little things here and there where they changed some of the wording and thanks to steve moser for
pointing that out to me also a bunch of known and resolved issues remain tons of resolved issues let
me show you one of them if we go into settings and then we go over to our name at the top and
then go into icloud and if we go into passwords and keychains you can see it says securely store
your passwords prior to this update there was actually a spelling mistake there so they've
fixed a ton of different things and we can see those if we go into the feedback app so if we
go into feedback go to inbox then go to our beta 4 release notes you'll see the first thing says
users can experience slow animations when using zoom after leaving the magnifier app like i said
there's over 110 different things they've resolved so vision prescription attachments aren't readable
when restored from icloud they've fixed that if we scroll down and keep going you'll see
everything from mail a bunch of fixes there to maps where if a user long presses on the add stop
field in route planning maps quits unexpectedly again they've resolved this so tons and tons of
things they've fixed but there's also still 17 known issues remaining so there's definitely
still more to fix but they've resolved more this time around compared to what we had before where
there were a ton of bugs now we have more resolved issues so we've reached the point where much more
has been resolved than remains according to the notes now i know some of you will ask me have they
resolved the storage issues and so far it seems there's no issue with that it was resolved in 15.6
it seems like it's resolved here where it would tell you that you don't have storage available
even if you did so it looks like it's working okay for me it's going to load take just a moment
loads nice and quickly and typically i tell people to ignore system data as it can take
up a lot and then free itself up if you need more storage so at this point it seems like
most of that's resolved but again let me know if you think there's an issue in the comments below
as far as the phone getting too hot this time around it seems to be staying nice and cool
prior betas it would heat up quite a bit it's not too concerning as they do regulate this with the
chip but it still seems to heat up a little bit it is slightly warm but nothing like it was in prior
betas so that's good as far as ios 16 public beta 3 and ios 16 beta 5 i would expect at this point
we could be on a weekly release schedule now it's possible they change this up but we could
see a release next wednesday possibly or they could push it again two weeks until the 10th but
typically we'll have a new release every single week until the final version comes out usually
in mid-september alongside the iphone 14 14 pro 14 plus and 14 pro max so that's what you can
expect as far as that i haven't heard anything additional about ios 15.7 or even ios 15.6.1
i would expect a 15.7 beta as soon as tomorrow potentially but apple could decide they're not
going to do that this year they have done that every year prior though where we would have an ios
15 beta or ios 14 betas before up until the end of august with an early september release we could
see that this year but so far we haven't seen anything and of course that leads me to should
you install ios 16 beta 4 and if you're on beta 3 absolutely when public beta 2 is out absolutely
install that if you're on a stable version of ios 15.6 just make sure you have a backup and you're
reporting issues in the feedback app there can be issues i've heard of a lot of people
downgrading and i do have a video about that in my description if you need to help with doing that
but typically they seem to be fairly stable as we get further and further on as far as battery life
we'll talk more about that this weekend with the follow-up video and battery life typically has not
been very good for me on this device with these betas so battery health is at 100 for me still
i've been using it every single day since it released yesterday i had 8 hours and 43 minutes of
screen on time at 2 hours and 38 minutes of screen off time so it's getting better but i still used
about 75 to 80 of my battery again we'll talk more about that in future updates this weekend as far
as overall performance i did run benchmarks and it does seem to be nice and fast on the iphone 8 plus
whether you're going into a different app be it minecraft we'll go into that quickly
and after creating a world frame rates do seem to be fairly smooth there's a little bit of a hiccup
so maybe not as smooth but it did just load so it seems okay now if we move quickly of course
this isn't the most intensive game we're going to be trying some new ones in the future here
probably call of duty or something else but we'll talk more about that in future updates
i know i've talked about it a little bit before as far as overall benchmarks i did run them on
the 13 pro max and if we go into geekbench you'll see here i scored 1723 for single core 4667 from
multicore i ran it twice today as it was a little bit low the first time but it actually improved
the second time versus the previous beta so very similar as far as the single core only five points
lower and it's actually higher with the multi-core so really nothing to worry about it's performing
as you would expect very similar to beta 3 which most people said performance wasn't an issue
but there's still good could be some issues with different apps and things such as banking apps as
people have seen but it really depends on the app and so that's everything with ios 16 beta
4 of course i'm sure we'll find more about this and i'll have more as far as new features if we
find them in a follow-up video later this week if you found anything i'd love to hear from you in
the comments below and of course i'll link this wallpaper in the description like i normally do
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