hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and today Apple released iOS 13.4 GM
this is the golden master or final version that will be released to the
public and that will be released to the public on Tuesday March 24th
according to nine-to-five Mac now I had thought it would be earlier this week
due to the power beats the Apple released and needing those this update
to actually support those but it looks like they pushed it to Tuesday or maybe
they plan that all along it's hard to say but this is available to developers
right now and may or may not be available to public beta testers Apple
in the past has not necessarily made the GM or final version available to public
beta testers however they do call this beta 6 on their website so on the
developer portal it says beta 6 for some reason and apple also released watch OS
6 point 2 GM today along with Mac OS Catalina 10.15.4 beta 6 and beta 6
of Apple TV OS 13 point four so it is the GM version I'll show you that with
the final build number along with all of these changes this update came in at
four point zero nine gigabytes on my iPhone 11 pro max when you're going from
a beta to a public version it's usually very large just like this one so on all
of these devices I had almost four gigabytes of data to install so it was a
pretty big update now let's take a look at what the build number is and then
we'll talk about all the features the build number is 17 e 255 and that's the
final version that will be released to the public and with this update come a
lot of changes so let's first start with iOS and then there's a lot of bug fixes
at the end so we'll cover iOS iPad OS and then the bug fixes and the first
change is with memo G's there's some new memo G stickers so let's go into
messages and you can see there's new memo G stickers now on my iPhone on the
left here you'll see there are less stickers so they've added nine new
stickers you've got someone behind a Mac or an iPad and some different changes as
well I don't really use momochi stickers but there are some new ones if you want
to use them now they've made some updates to the TV app along with its
settings so if we go into the TV app I already have it open you'll see we now
have family sharing so family sharings there you can see who you're sharing
your different movies and TV purchases with and it just shows all your
different family members there we also have some settings
updates and you'll see in settings for TV we now have streaming options as well
as download options so you can now change it to have higher or lower
quality based on how much data you have left and as well you have the same
settings for cellular so you have Wi-Fi options for fast downloads or high
quality and things like that so it just depends on what you need for yourself if
you don't have data maybe you don't have an unlimited plan you can modify this
for whatever you need now Apple has finally added iCloud folder sharing this
was promised with iOS 13 and it's finally here so if we go into the files
app and then I go to my desktop which is shared across all of my different Macs
we long press on iPhone comparison here and then we go to share under share we
have the option to add people if I tap on add people we can now add people and
you can give them different permissions as well so along with sharing this
folder you can decide who actually can modify the folder who can change
different applications or change different documents within it so for
example you can limit access only to people you explicitly invite or grant
access to or you can have permissions to choose who can make changes and upload
files so you can do all of this now with this update so it's really nice that
they've added this now within mail there are a lot of fixes I'll talk about later
but they've also updated it so that there's a new bar at the bottom if
you're in an email so now you have a little bar at the bottom with your trash
folder reply and new mail so if you reply you can see they've moved
everything around and it's just a little bit easier to actually tap on trashing a
message or deleting a message and it's a lot better than before where we only had
two icons so they've updated this and I think it's much better now other than
that responses to encrypted emails are automatically encrypted if you have
configured s/mime so if you have s/mime configured it will automatically encrypt
an email when you reply so that's really nice now with the app store they've
updated it a little bit with universal purchases so for example developers can
decide whether or not to allow you to purchase an app and share that across
not only your iPad but also an ipod touch mac or
Apple TV also if you subscribe to Apple arcade you'll see recently played games
at the top and there's now a list of you foresee all games now shortcuts has a
small update and let's see if I can find shortcuts I don't use it too much but if
we go into shortcuts we can now make a Shazam it option so you'll see it says
Shazam down here let me just create a new one and we'll add an action within
actions you can now Shazam it so you want to listen to specific music and let
it tell you what it is you can do that by pressing a button in shortcuts so you
now have that option now if you have apple carplay that's been updated a
little bit too with third-party navigation app support for the dashboard
itself so if you're using the dashboard you can have third-party navigation
right there also you can have call information on the dashboard if the app
developer adds it so that's an option there's also updates to augmented
reality for quick look support a developer has to add that though and
that pertains more to the new iPad and then with the keyboard there's no
predictive typing support for Arabic so if you speak Arabic or you're reading
Arabic you'll have that option then also there's some additional changes on the
iPad with the keyboard and then there's mentions of the car key support within
code of the beta but I'm not so sure that it's in the final release so you
could use your phone as a car key along with your car so if you have a Tesla or
maybe one of the other cars such as a Lincoln that has that that option with
NFC for your car key you could use it with your phone now other than that if
you're using a VPN there's now a new status when you're disconnected so let
me start a VPN I'll turn on a VPN here we'll give it just a second and you'll
see the VPN is turned on if I turn it off there's now a new icon that should
show me when it turns off although it didn't work that time let me connect and
it shows that it's turned on maybe I'll give it a second here and so you'll see
that I have a VPN if I turn that back off and normally it will show that it's
turned off but it is a new icon that's there now there are a lot of fixes but
let's first talk about what's new an iPad OS because everything that I've
already covered applies to iPad OS but there is a major change to iPad OS now
this morning Apple announced new iPads with a new camera some new updated specs
but also support for a new keyboard with a trackpad and with that trackpad they
announced support for a new style of cursor on the iPad now we thought this
was coming with iOS 14 but it's now here with thirteen point four so if I plug in
my USB C to lightning cable along with my trackpad from my Mac Pro so here's
the trackpad from the Mac Pro let's get out of this here we're in keynote I can
now move it around on my iPad now you can do this wirelessly but because it's
already paired with my Mac Pro if I unplug this it will just repair with the
Mac Pro so I'll just leave it wired for now but they also added support for the
Magic Mouse The Magic Mouse to the trackpad trackpad too and third-party
Bluetooth and USB support and we now have gestures so if you take two fingers
you can swipe between the screens you can scroll you can do four fingers just
like all of the gestures on the Mac so if I hover over an app like keynote all
I need to do is click go down to continue and it's the same as basically
using it on a Mac so it's really nice we'll just click on my presentation wait
for it to load we can double click to edit and then we've got the keyboard
here so it's really nice it brings basically Mac functionality to an iPad
and you can scroll with two fingers set up gestures you can see I can scroll
back and forth everything just works super fluid and fast
now there's also multi-touch gestures for zoom and everything else so all of
the things you expect you can do so bring that back go back it's really nice
and I'll be using this much more in the future
now we're only missing basically a version for Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro
for iPad so I'm looking forward to hopefully some pro apps but basically
we've got all the same functionality they've also updated everything within
the OS so photos is updated with new tabs and new keyboard gestures and all
sorts of things and if you want me to do a separate video on iPad OS let me know
in the comments below now along with the trackpad support there's new options for
it as well so you can tell it to hide the cursor for two seconds or after two
seconds you can change the color if you don't want any color right now it's sort
of see-through but if I go to blue and then I move the trackpad around
you'll see it's highlighted in blue and you just have a bunch of different
options for the mice and trackpad so it's nice to have all of these different
things supported on iPad making it basically a normal computer now with all
of those different updates that comes a ton of different bug fixes and while
Apple normally mentions most of them there's probably still some they didn't
mention but there's a lot of them so I'm going to run through them very quickly
so it fixes an issue in the camera where the viewfinder may appear as a black
screen after launching it so this was happening to some people it's now fixed
it also addresses an issue where photos may appear to use excess storage and
that's something I saw people were saying photos we're taking up a huge
amount of storage so that's now resolved it also resolves an issue in photos that
may prevent sharing an image to messages if messy if I message is disabled so
maybe you're using SMS or MMS that will now work as well it also addresses an
issue in mail where the conversation list may display empty rows it resolves
an issue where mail may crash when tapping the share button in quick look
it fixes an issue in settings where cellular data may incorrectly display as
off so if you're using cellular it should stay on if you have it turned on
it also addresses an issue in Safari where web pages may not be inverted when
both dark mode and smart inversion are active now if dark mode is turned on
they fixed it where if you copied some text from web content on a third-party
app it was invisible when you went to paste it it will now show properly they
also fixed an issue in Safari where CAPTCHA tiles may display incorrectly it
also addresses an issue in reminders where it may not issue new notifications
it also it resolves an issue where reminders may send notifications for
completed reminders it also fixes an issue where iCloud Drive appears to be
available in Pages Numbers and Keynote even when you're not signed into it then
it fixes an issue in Apple music where music videos may not stream in
high-quality it also resolves an issue where carplay may lose connection in
certain vehicles it also fixes an issue where car play in maps may move away
briefly from the current area so maybe you had it centered where you are and it
would move away briefly it also fixes an issue in the home app where you tap on
an activity notification it brings you to the wrong security
camera so that should be fixed it also resolves an issue where shortcuts may
not appear when tapping on the share menu within a screenshot so maybe you
take a screenshot and then you go to share it all of your options will now be
there and then finally it improves the Burmese keyboard so punctuation symbols
are now accessible from numbers and symbols there's also some additional
language updates within the keyboard on iPad OS now it's not necessarily listed
on iOS but it is for iPad OS so it's really hard to say what's going on there
but see if those options are available to you and I'd love to hear from you in
the comments below if you use that now all of those changes are available right
away once you have this update and I think it's a huge improvement and that
just goes to show how many bugs there were with iOS 13 I oh s 13.4 betas have
been the most stable and the highest performing of any I've seen so
performance is great I think you'll find it much smoother we'll take a look at
the benchmarks in just a moment but first let's talk about battery if we go
into the settings and take a look at the battery you can see my battery health is
at 100% and I've been running beta 5 for the past week if we take a look at the
last 10 days you'll see that my usage it's about 3 and a half hours and 3
hours and 56 minutes of screen off time but in that time I only used about 30%
of the battery and then by the time I go to bed it's still got a lot left so if I
was to use it to a hundred percent I could times this by 3 almost and get 9
to maybe 12 hours depending on what you're doing and that's usually what
I've been telling people thirteen point four has been really good for the
majority of people on the betas and I would expect that to be with the final
as well but it will take a few days to know that now other than that the
performance has been really good and so I have the iPhone 6s plus here that has
the oldest processor in it and performance is pretty good if I scroll
through everything this is the first time I've opened music it loaded like I
expected things like minecraft should load pretty fast we'll wait for it here
you'll see it will zip right along and frame rates tend to be pretty good in
this update so this is not a very intensive game but
you can see if I create a new world create a new world and
I hit create will let it load for just a second load times are the same or better
than iOS 13 point three point one so expect this to be a pretty good update
for most people now other than speed on the iPhone 6s plus the 10r gets the same
updates as does all of the different devices so everything is nice and smooth
and fast and expect it to be much better optimized for everything from the iPhone
7 to the iPhone se and everything in between
newer or older so in general this is a really good update now let's take a look
at the Geekbench scores now I'm using Geekbench 5 and I ran this right after I
updated so these numbers can increase but this is what I got initially I
scored 1290 for single core 3253 from multi-core on the 11pro Max
now if we take a look at the history we'll go to CPU on march 10th you can
see that the numbers were a little bit higher but again this is right after I
installed it so I would expect these numbers to go up most people are seeing
them a little bit higher now let's take a look at all of these devices on the
Left we have the iPad pro 12.9 from 2018 followed by the 6s plus than the iPhone
XR and the iPhone 11 Pro Max this should give you a general idea of what
your scores will look like if you run the same test now keep in mind I ran
this right after I installed the update and these could improve over time after
everything in the background is done configuring that's it for iOS 13 point
for all the major changes there may be some small tweaks here and there to
different icons and things like that but those are all of the major changes with
this update let me know what you think about it in the comments below
and if you're experiencing poor battery life expect that to increase over the
next couple of days as it finishes what it's doing in the background that's
pretty normal with an update this big now if you'd like to get your hands on
the wallpaper of course I'll link it in the description as I always do and if
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this is Aaron I'll see you next time