what's up guys my name's brandon and this past week was another interesting one as we got the
release of ios 14.7.1 on monday and then on tuesday we saw the release of ios and ipad os
beta 4 along with the latest beta versions of watchOS, tvos and macos but in this video we're
going to discuss how ios 15 beta 4 has been running in terms of performance, connectivity,
battery life and also cover some additional new features and changes found in the software and
we're also going to be discussing ios 14.7.1 and the features and security patches brought in that
update we're going to talk about when to expect ios 15 beta 5 uh potential ios 14.8 and more all
right so let's go ahead and kick things off with some additional new features and changes found
in ios 15 beta 4 which is now out for developers and public beta testers of course if you missed
my initial video that will be linked up in the cards and down in the description below but we're
going to talk about some additional new features and changes that i did not cover in my initial
what's new video and the first new thing i found is actually it just happened tonight i just found
this right before recording this if i go into one of my focus modes right here so let's go ahead and
do sleep because that's where i discovered this if you go to the lock screen you can see that we can
actually tap on the focus from the lock screen now so if we tap on this and now opens up the focus
right there whereas on previous versions if we tap on it it does nothing so this is beta 3 on the
left hand side we have to haptic press to open up that menu on previous betas we also have a slight
change inside of the photos application here in beta 4. so if we swipe up on an animal or a plant
you can see that for whatever reason right now the visual lookup is not working for me so you can see
here on beta 3 it is working it identifies this as an animal when we tap on that you can see it will
show that this is a cat so it's working there but for whatever reason it's not working here for me
on beta 4 but beta 4 kind of changes up the icon a little bit and it moves the icon around on the
image more so also i did notice that when we go to adjust right here so we go and tap on adjust to
adjust the time and date of the photo you can see that it now shows the original and the adjusted
time right there and you can see over here on beta 3 it only showed the original time right
there and then also up top you could see that when you go to change it it shows adjust and before it
just said done up in the top right when you finish adjusting that photo's date and time so just some
minor changes here inside of photos and actually one more thing inside of photos if we go down to
the for you tab and then go down to our memories right here and we go to one of our memories you
can see that we can now share it so before and beta 3 up in the top right you can see that the
share icon is grayed out but now here in beta 4 you can actually share these memories if i go and
tap on share you can see it says choose shareable soundtrack so you get to choose a soundtrack right
here so you can see we have all these different songs to choose from so you can see we have dreamy
sentimental gentle you have all these different ones so i'm just going to choose chill right here
you can hear it then tap on done and then you can share that memory right there which apple does a
great job with these memories the way they put them together it's a lot better than it was in
ios 14. so i would definitely be sharing some of these and i'm glad that we are now able to
and of course you can just save the video there as well here in beta 4. inside of the control center
we have a few changes here in beta 4. so first off you can see the notes icon that's what it
looked like in the control center on a beta 3 but now in beta 4 you can see it over here on the far
right that is the new notes icon so when we tap on that you can see the new icon that displays
right there as well when you have to press on it and also if you look closely at the scan document
glyph it's slightly changed so you can see there's like a piece of paper folded over whereas before
it was like a piece of paper with a few lines on it so just a minor change there and the glyph as
well and then also inside of the hearing control center toggles you can see the little ear right
there if we happen to press on that you can see that background sounds used to have this icon down
here in beta 3 but now in beta 4 it actually has a more you know accurate description or depiction
i should say of background sounds with that new updated glyph which i like a lot better and then
lastly we have a slight change inside of the text size control center toggle right here so if we go
into that and we switch over from home screen only to all apps you can see we have a little animation
there and at beta 4. so beta 4 on the right beta three on the left here's what it looked like
before it would just go back and forth but now we have a smooth little animation there inside
of the control center toggle and also the text is slightly bigger down below as well whereas before
it would be a lot smaller also if we go back to the lock screen and we look at the little camera
glyph down at the bottom you can see that it has now been updated here in beta 4 to match the
rest of ios so before on beta 3 you can see you have to look really closely but the camera glyph
has the little shutter button right there on the left-hand side you can see it right there but now
here in beta 4 you can see it's been changed and it's a lot cleaner and it looks like it does on
the actual app icon here in ios 15. so it matches now on the lock screen we also have a couple of
small changes inside of the weather application so first thing you can see when it shows the time
look right here how it says 2 am you can see the am is a different font it's kind of closer
and smaller than the two whereas before in beta 3 you can see it just showed 2 am and normal text
so apple has done something a little bit different with how they put the am and the pm after the time
right there then also if we go down you can see 10 day forecast is now smaller than it was before so
here on beta 3 on the left you can see the font is a little bit bigger and more pronounced there so
it's a little bit smaller which i like it smaller i think if we go down we also have a few other
changes down here so if you look at the text all around you can see that the text is a little bit
less opaque than it was in beta 3. just all around so where it says rainfall humidity feels like all
of that is more opaque and a little bit lighter than it was and previous betas also the humidity
glyph icon has been updated so it's smaller and a slightly different look than it was in beta 3.
and then also when we swipe down you can see that the 86 degrees and partly cloudy is more opaque
here in a beta 4 whereas in beta 3 it was less opaque so apple's really messing with the opacity
inside of the weather application on the text now if we go into our settings and go to accessibility
and then into voiceover you can see that we have a new toggle here for quick settings so you can see
quick settings right here right below typing that was non-existent in beta 3 and if we go ahead into
quick settings right here you can see you have all of these different quick settings which you can
move around if you use voiceover which is a nice new feature to have there now if we go into our
settings and go to privacy and then into location services and then all the way down to the bottom
to system services and then all the way to the bottom and to significant locations
we have a slight change right here so you can see that now shows a summary and recent records
whereas before it would just show your places and your history so a slight change there
also you can see these are boxed off instead of taking up the entire screen so a nice little
change here in beta 4 to the significant location section inside of your privacy settings also if we
go into our settings and go to erase all content and settings you can see there is some slightly
different verbiage here in beta four so first of all you can see there is more you know of a
description for what you're about to do whereas before it was just one sentence right there and
then also it said securely erase but now it just shows continue or not now now also inside of a
stacked widget i showed you guys that we had a new little glyph icon here if we go into edit stack
you can see that we have a new smart rotate and widget suggestions those are both new glyphs
right there but what i didn't show in my what's new video is that there's actually a really cool
animation for the smart rotate right there so we go to edit stack and go to smart rotate take a
look at that animation so that is a cool new animation here in beta 4 that was not there
previously so i really like that animation also widget suggestions has a neat little animation
there as well i wish apple would do these really cool animations all throughout ios and not just
kind of hidden inside of a widget stack right there but that's also new in beta 4. so those
are quite a few more new features and changes found here in beta 4. there are a lot that i
found a lot of really small things but they are changes nonetheless now one thing i want to cover
that i talked about in my previous video but a lot of people seem to be confused by this and i'm
not too sure why i mentioned how there's a refresh button now on safari so inside of safari and a lot
of people took it as though i didn't know that you couldn't swipe down to refresh so yes i covered
that in multiple videos i know that you can swipe down to refresh but what happens when i'm all
the way down here you know all the way down the page and i want to refresh you know if i want to
refresh it's going to take me right back to that page and right back to that section i was on on
that page like i'm reading an article or something i'm not going to always want to go all the way up
to the very top just to refresh so that was the whole point you know ios or apple i should say
introduced this new little refresh button there and at beta 4 and it's very handy when you're
all the way down the screen and you want to just simply tap to refresh that's what i was talking
about that's what's new here and at beta 4 and i really like that little change to the address
bar and then i did also want to mention that the spotlight search bug has been fixed here in beta
4. so this is driving me absolutely nuts in beta 3. it just simply would not work sometimes i would
have you know blank spotlight icons sometimes i would have to type out the entire application
for it to show up and then even sometimes then it still wouldn't show up so spotlight search
you know all the bugs i had with it have been resolved here in beta 4 thankfully because i
rely on that heavily and then also in beta 3 i'll talk to you guys about a really strange bug i had
and a lot of people also had this bug where you just simply could not stack the same size widget
so if i go into here and i add this widget in right here you can see that i can now easily stack
the widgets as expected so for whatever reason and beta 3 you were not able to stack the same size
widget which made no sense but that has been fixed of course so there are quite a few changes in bug
fixes here and beta 4 but unfortunately we still do have some bugs that need to be resolved and
the first one has to do with the no playing so this is a bug i mentioned in my previous video
but sometimes when i'm playing music or playing a video whatever i'm playing if i'm playing any
type of media on my phone sometimes it just simply does not show up in my control center on my lock
screen when i connect to like my tesla it doesn't show the song that's playing on the tesla or if
you have like a head unit it wouldn't show any information whatsoever so this is still happening
for some reason in beta 4. i'm hoping that it's fixed soon because it's very annoying so of course
it does get fixed with the reboot but that's the only thing that fixes it is a reboot even when i
close out of that application and go back in it doesn't fix it only a reboot does now also some
users are reporting that live wallpapers are not working so they're working fine for me if you set
a photo as a lock screen and then you know press and hold on it it works and it shows up properly
but some people are having issues with live wallpapers just simply not working whatsoever now
some users myself included are also having issues with twitter so sometimes twitter will just crash
for no reason sometimes i'll be in the middle of typing a tweet or a reply to a tweet sometimes
i'll just open it for the first time and it just simply crashes so there do still seem to be issues
with the twitter application even after it's been updated so i'm not sure what's going on there but
that is the you know most talked about application that's crashing aside from banking applications
which i also wanted to talk about so a lot of people are still having issues with banks you know
banking applications not opening at all and then some users like with chase are having issues with
face id authentication so i've had some users who have the chase bank application and they cannot
log in via face id so that's an issue some people said their banking apps work now in beta 4 whereas
they did in beta 3 and now some people are saying that they don't work when they did work in beta 3.
so just hit or miss at this point hopefully developers do update their applications to
be compatible with these ios 15 betas although of course some of you guys will have to wait
until ios 15 is out to the general public all right so now let's talk about the performance and
the connectivity so first of all the connectivity has actually been really good here in beta 4. so
as far as cell connectivity of course i don't use my 12 pro max i use my 12 pro which i am on the
fourth beta right now the fourth public beta and connectivity has been fine really no issues with
wi-fi or cell connectivity and it seems like i've had a lot less complaints at least so far
from connectivity on beta 4. so i'm hoping that that modem update and just overall connectivity
is improved here it is for me and hopefully it is for you guys as well now as far as the performance
goes performance is also excellent here in beta 4. it's definitely better than beta 3
in my experience i knew that from pretty much first install it just felt smoother especially
safari it still to this day you know seems faster than beta 3. so i'm definitely you know having a
great experience with safari overall performance is great the geekbench scores are higher than
they were in beta 3. playing games is a breeze everything just feels really good here on beta
4 so if you were considering you know getting this on your main device and you don't have to
worry about banking applications or if you can like test it out i would you know at this point
say it's fine on a daily driver device but if you want to wait until beta 5 just to be extra safe
i wouldn't blame you either now as far as battery life goes here is the one area where i would say
that if you're you know kind of on the edge about updating your main device to ios 15 beta
the battery life is still not great you're still going to have worse battery life than on ios 14.7
or point seven point one so you know i still get you know about six and a half hours of on-screen
usage on my twelve pro whereas i should be getting closer to seven to seven hours and fifteen minutes
like i did on ios 14. i guess five or whatever it was when i went to the ios 15 beta so ios 14
i was getting at least 30 minutes more of on-screen time so battery life will take a hit
that's expected on a beta but hopefully that does start improving with the next couple of betas but
i would say again if you're on edge if you don't know if you should update your main phone to these
ios 15 betas the battery life could be one thing that kind of hold you back you may want to wait if
you are really really you know you really need the best battery life possible i would just you know
maybe wait until that does get improved a little bit but that's pretty much it for ios 15 beta
4 really nothing but good things to say about it honestly i mean i really don't have too many bugs
outstanding that need to be fixed at this point performance and battery life seem great we're
getting a lot of new features and changes things are really looking up from here so i did also want
to talk about ios 14.7.1 so i do have that on my iphone 12 right here let's go ahead and unlock
this this is currently on ios 14.7.1 so if we go into here you can see we're on 14.7.1 here on
the iphone 12. now this update was very minor it really only fixed a bug with the apple watch
unlock for touch id devices and it did fix that a lot of people are very happy that
that has been addressed now we did also have a major security bug that was patched in 14.7.1
and i did recommend in my video for everybody to update no matter what version you're on because
that exploit was being actively used so 14.7.1 it was you know i did predict that that was going to
come and sure enough it did and it's definitely one that you want to go ahead and install
performance and battery life are just as good if not better than ios 14.7 and of course you
are going to have a much more secure device here on 14.7.1 this of course is if you are not on the
ios 15 betas but if you do want to downgrade i did make a video on that and you would downgrade now
to 14.7.1 which is kind of just a better version of 14.7 all right so now what is next for apple
so if we go into the calendar right here you can see that we're about to enter into august yes 2021
is flying i cannot believe it's already august 2021 so as for ios 15 and beta 5 we could possibly
be on a one-week beta cycle but i'm starting to lean towards we're still on a two week cycle
i think that after beta five gets released we will be on a one week cycle after that now it is always
possible to get a beta five next week on the week of the second but my guess is going to be that
we're getting it on the week of the 9th so i think that after we get beta 5 on the week of the 9th
then we'll switch over to a one week beta cycle and we'll have beta 6 on the week of the 16th beta
7 on the week of the 23rd leading all the way in to september until the eventual final release of
ios 15 sometime in mid potentially late september now as far as an ios 14.8 beta 1 i do still
think that's possible however it would have to be released next week maybe the following week if at
all so i think that we could possibly see a 14.8 beta 1 next week or the following week it's really
hard to say at this point you know there's really it seems like from at least from the outside that
there's really no reason for a 14.8 to be released but i still would not be surprised to see it
of course we could always see a 14.7.2 if apple does fix another security bug so we'll just have
to wait and see but those are my predictions for when we'll see ios 15 beta 5 and of course a
potential for an ios 14.8 beta to begin so anyways guys there you have it that is ios 15 beta 4 some
additional new features and changes we talked about the performance the battery life all that
good stuff there are actually a lot more changes in this fourth beta than i originally thought so i
found a lot of small things hope you guys enjoyed that i really try to find you know the smallest
details that have changed just because it's fun and it's actually something that's changed so why
not share it with you guys but anyways if you did enjoy this video and you appreciate all of
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