hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and ios 15.4 beta 2 and ios 15.3.1 have been out for a
few days at this point so i wanted to share some new changes or updates within the 15.4 beta 2 as
well as the overall experience of that and 15.3.1 overall now i've been using the beta full time on
my 13 pro max and ipad pro and i have 15.3.1 on an iphone 7 as many requests that i show that device
as well as an iphone 13 pro so we'll talk about the experience in a moment
but first let's talk about some changes or additional changes in features or updates
in ios 15.4 beta 2. and the first thing is they've actually removed something which was a bit of a
surprise but they removed a small feature or sort of setting and that has to do with icloud.com
so if we go into settings tap on our name at the top and then password and security where we have
legacy contact and things at the bottom just like we have before prior to this we actually had an
option to access icloud data on the web it's no longer an option you can't turn it on or off
anymore it's just something that's not there so they've removed this for now i'm not sure if it's
going to come back or they're just going to leave it on in general since if you're subscribed to
icloud you probably should maybe have the option to access it on the web if you want to graphics
have been found in the ios 15.4 code that confirm that apple is adding support for captive wi-fi
networks on different devices which would allow them to be used in situation where there's maybe
a web portal or an additional sign up step to access wi-fi maybe in a hotel or a place where you
actually have to go to a sign-in page after you connect to their wi-fi network so it looks like
they're adding something like that very soon once 15.4 is released also it seems that they're adding
something within news as well a manage sports section so that's something we haven't seen yet
within news maybe you go into following you'll see different things that you're following and
you could manage sports as well so that looks like they've added it we're not seeing it physically
yet but we should see it in the release of 15.4 now something they've actually fixed in this
update that's been confirmed is where you would maybe opt out of sharing voice recordings from
siri it was actually sending them anyway beta 2 fixes this so if you go into your settings
go to privacy under privacy down at the bottom under analytics and improvements if you scroll
down you'll see it says share with app developers and then improve siri and dictation with improved
syrian dictation when this was turned off sometimes it was sharing those recordings
and i opt out of those things i do allow a few different things such as health and activity but
most of these i turn off and when they're off they should be off so this particular update fixes it
but again that's part of being a beta tester sometimes things just don't work as intended
also there's one thing to know if you're using shortcuts with apple watch faces so maybe if we
go into shortcuts you're going to set up an apple watch face and you go to select a watch face to
have it set automatically you'll see here we can search for watch faces so maybe we want meridian
or we could look for the unity watch face it's just not showing any watch faces at all so that's
not really a feature but it's something that's not working properly so if you're seeing that in
beta 2 that's probably why it seems to be not working so we'll need to submit that in feedback
within the code of beta 2 there is also mention of a new os or operating system apple has long
been rumored to be coming out with an augmented reality or maybe virtual reality headset and it
looks like they leaked the name of their operating system called reality os it's actually within the
code of the beta so we don't know anything about it other than that there's a new os that they're
working on that makes sense with their job hirings and more so it looks like it's going to be called
reality os or that could just be a code name but either way they're definitely working on something
we may not see that until maybe a few years from now but it's within the code so it makes me think
it's probably sooner rather than later so i can't wait to see that hopefully we'll see that maybe at
wwdc now as far as the overall experience let's first talk about 15.3.1 many of you
that are running it are saying that it's fairly stable and a very similar experience to ios 15.3
and many people have messaged and told me the same as well as on the youtube community poll
there are a few issues with it though so one of those is quite a few people are mentioning
that the device is being quite warm all the time and this is an iphone 7 in jet black
and it is quite warm so this is a very warm phone right now i booted it up and it's really not doing
anything it's just sitting here and it's also lost about well 25 percent of its battery since
turning it on so for whatever reason it must be processing a lot of information in the background
also people are still continuing to see issues with car play so if you're plugging your phone
in or whether that be wireless carplay many people are saying that it's very buggy now that could be
a couple different things whether that be the iphone or your manufacturer's stereo or device
in the car handling that or managing that but either way it's definitely changed and less stable
than it was before however it does work for many people but it's still a problem for many as well
also many have said that there's odd sort of cellular drops with 15.3.1 i haven't seen this and
i haven't heard any complaints directly from my family that's running it full time but there are
a few people saying that it drops for them with 15.3.1 maybe it just doesn't jump onto cellular
data once you leave wi-fi in your home so some strange issues there now battery life with 15.3.1
is mostly the same as 15.3 based off the comments in the youtube community poll and information that
some of you have sent me now cameron sent me his battery life full time since i've been using the
beta full time you'll see here that yesterday he had five hours and 49 minutes of screen on time
55 minutes of screen off time so that's doing pretty good and then today three hours and 59
minutes of screen on time 19 minutes of screen off time and he only used about a quarter of
his battery that's on an iphone 13 pro max so the day before with almost six hours of screen on time
he used under 50 of his battery so that's pretty typical what you would expect on a 13 pro max
where you would get about maybe 12 to 14 hours of screen on time very typical it's working well
for him not everyone but a good amount of people say it's basically the same as 15.3 however again
there are people that say it does get a bit warm and that seems to be an issue for some however
this phone is nice and cool so it's kind of odd that they were booted up at the same time and one
is warm when it's hot but still processing in the background as far as stability and speed on 15.3.1
most people say that it's quite stable i haven't really had any issues with it no reboots or
resprings and performance on this is okay many people again asked me to show the iphone 7
and performance on this after booting up really wasn't that great it was
very stuttery after the initial boot up so again it's probably processing in the background
and it keeps wanting me to update my apple id on and off too but you'll see as i open different
applications it stutters a little bit i don't think this will be any different than 15.3 since
it's just a minor update but there's definitely some slowness here at least on the initial boot up
and hopefully it improves but right now it's kind of odd on newer devices i wouldn't expect
that experience though beta 2 has been much better for me than beta 1 with ios 15.4 many of you have
told me the exact same thing so beta 2 fixes many issues people had with small bugs and glitches
and i've also had no random reboots or resprings like i did with beta 1.
most people are saying they're having the same experience so apple definitely resolved a lot
of issues in this update apps seem to be working as they should now so for those of
you that have banking apps or different apps that would just crash i heard that with espn
many people are saying that they seem to be working as they should without those apps needing
to be updated so app will definitely improve the code in the background also the overall experience
is nice and smooth and fast it doesn't seem to matter what device you're on whether that's a
pro motion device or not it seems to be nice and smooth however someone did mention that on
pro 15.3.1 seem to maybe change or stutter a little bit depending on what you were in whether
that be settings or something else so there's definitely something with that and a reboot
fixed it for them so some odd bugs here and there but with the beta it seems to be mostly stable
with 15.3.1 there still will be a few things that should be resolved in the beta updates
now as far as overall battery life we'll talk about that and then the remaining bugs
with this update battery life it seems to be okay it's definitely better than
beta 1 for me but there's still some things using background activity that shouldn't be
so if we go into settings go to my battery life go to battery health you'll see i'm at 100 percent
and those of you that have dropped battery health from installing an update or after installing an
update it's not caused by the update it's just simply checking the battery health itself so or
the battery capability of the physical battery so that happens all batteries degrade so the
update doesn't cause it it's just rechecking it and it could vary after a couple days as well
but battery life on this particular update hasn't been great for me after fifty percent of usage
yesterday i only had three hours and 12 minutes of screen on time and seven hours and eight minutes
of screen off time so that's not very good battery life however you can see that music is using
background activity even though i'm not using it a whole lot and that's typically because of that
music bug still being there quite a few people have mentioned that the music bug is there
where it uses additional cpu power while you're streaming music if it's not downloaded
and in turn causes battery drain so that seems to still be there hopefully they fix it in a future
update or at least address that they've fixed it it's something that's causing a lot of sort of
excessive battery drain also you'll see apps using background activity that shouldn't be so hopefully
they'll fix that in future updates however a few others of you have had better battery life than me
so if we take a look at the battery life here this is from abashek this is on an iphone 11 pro max
he had 7 hours and 17 minutes of screen on time with 20 minutes of screen off time and
used about 60 or 75 of his battery matthew sent in his battery on an iphone 13 as well and had
six hours and 25 minutes of screen on time and 28 minutes of screen off time using about 60 percent
of his battery which is quite good on an iphone 13. on the ipad though it's a different story
for me with the betas with the ipad it seems like i'm constantly charging the battery so you'll see
i'm only at 23 percent and i used it yesterday some if we go over to settings go to battery
give it just a moment there's an odd bug here where it says last charged thursday at 1 18 pm
well it's been charged since then and it's kind of odd that it's sort of giving me these odd
times where it's charged typically i'll charge it every day or so or every other day so if we
go back maybe two a day or so ago on friday i only had two hours and five minutes of screen on time
25 minutes of screen off time and typically after regular usage i'm only getting about five hours of
screen on time this is not really good for this device i should be cl getting closer to 10 and
you'll see find mine is using 42 percent of my background activity i'm not even using that app
so even if someone's looking to see where you are it should be using the device that's turned on
not my ipad so if i'm using my phone also siri used 30 or 13 of my battery and home did as
well which again shouldn't be using background activity so these are all bugs within the os
however the ipad experience is fine i really haven't had a single bug other than the battery
issues also many others have told me siri is using different background activity from them as well so
definitely an odd bug with them however there has not been a mention of green or red tint in
some time so whether people are just dealing with it and know that it's an issue or it's maybe gone
away apple has not addressed it specifically i haven't seen it in quite some time from a lot of
people so i'd love to hear from you if you're still having green tint on maybe a 12 pro max
maybe the red tin on a 13 pro max things like that i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
about that now also the storage bug seems to be a big issue for quite a few people while that
doesn't affect functionality of the device it's more of an annoyance than anything else
however i thought they fixed it on 15.3.1 but quite a few people told me that it's
still happening to them or it just won't load so if we go into iphone storage
you'll see here it loaded on the iphone 7 it's still loading if we check on beta 2 we'll go to
iphone storage it seems to load pretty quickly for me it loaded very quickly on the iphone 7. that's
the first time i've opened it on the iphone 7 as well so on thirteen or fifteen point three
point one it's working fine on fifteen point four beta two fine for me as well but not everyone is
experiencing that seems to be okay system data is taking a bit to fill in in beta two but on
the public version it seems to be much better maybe they're still working on it at this point
one other person mentioned that they have an issue with charging where it wasn't working properly and
randomly stops charging whether that be on an iphone or ipad so they thought maybe it was due
to third-party chargers similar to what we had with the apple watch but i haven't experienced
that and i've only heard that from one person but i thought i'd mention it since if that is an issue
apple will need to be made aware of it through the feedback app so if you're having that issue
definitely let me know in the comments below and make sure you report in feedback
now as far as when to expect ios 15.4 beta 3 and the final release i would say at this point
you can expect it probably next week where we would have beta 3. however if we're still on a
two-week cycle it could be maybe the week of the 20th so we'll have to wait and see by tuesday or
wednesday whether or not we have that update with a final update probably releasing sometime in the
second week of march around march 8th many expect apple to announce an event on march 8th where we
would have new ipads maybe an iphone se generation 3 and we would have that update released maybe
after the event or the day after the event that's typically what apple would do so we can expect at
least another beta with a release candidate and then a final release that's typically what apple
does now also if you're wondering if you should install 15.3.1 i definitely would install that if
you haven't already and you want to be on a public version it has the latest security updates and
also someone asked me if you're on ios 14 will you have those security updates and the answer
is apple's no longer updating ios 14. so you're still vulnerable to those security vulnerabilities
if you're not on the latest version of 15. also you're missing out on a couple hundred feature
changes as well as far as 15.4 beta 2 if you want to try it out so you can use your face id
with a mask without using an apple watch you can do that but just be aware there are still a few
bugs in here it's much more stable than beta one but just be aware that it could have some issues
now let's take a look at the youtube community poll and take a look at what you had to say
we'll take a look at maybe five or ten comments let's refresh here and i've read every one of
these comments before making the video and on fifteen point four beta two you'll see that we
have thirteen thousand votes at least at the time of this video with two hundred and twelve comments
nineteen percent of you are on beta two sixty two percent of you are on fifteen point three
point one and twelve percent of you are on fifteen point three or older three percent of you are on
fourteen point eight point one and five percent are either on ios 12 or older versions as well
as android when it comes to fifteen point three point one i actually only made this
live a couple hours ago but this particular update seems to be great according to 61
percent of you five percent say it's terrible 13 say it's okay but has some bugs nine percent are
using the betas which makes sense based off of this here and thirteen percent of you are using
something else now let's take a look at a few comments from each of these joseph w says ios
15.3.1 seems the same as 15.3 on my iphone 13 pro and i would expect that performance and battery
life have been consistent and remain the same since 15.3 and 120 hertz feels smooth in 15.3.1
david friedman says been running it on my iphone 13 and battery life and performance has been great
also siddhartha's hopefully i'm saying that properly the storage bug is still there hassan
alhadari said i have updated directly after the release of 15.3.1 in fact nothing changed in my
mobiles 12 pro and 10s max performance or the battery life it's perfect for me t-man said no
new issues found on my iphone 11 battery's good or as good as it can be at 86 percent waiting
for iphone 14. screen's good no weird tint cameras are good no apps are acting unusually or closing
again no new issues let's take a look at the other poll where we have 15.4 beta 2. again we'll sort
and see what you had to say jeremy lee said using ipad pro 11 2nd gen i've been experiencing
charging issues since beta 1. it randomly stops charging i think it's related to the multi-port
gallium nitride chargers hope apple fixes this in the future and i think this might be the second
person i've seen mention this as well so hopefully they will fix that junior burrito said hi erin i'm
on ios 15.4 beta 2 and the big problem i'm having now is face id intermittently works besides that
everything else looks fine so again for those of you wanting to try this update out you may want to
hold off just because sometimes things don't work properly archie said very stable so far
third-party apps working fine and smooth as ever with promotion haven't found any bugs not so sure
how battery how good battery is though gadgetgamer said running ios 15.4 beta 2 here and so far
not bad battery seems decent however safari sometimes randomly goes back to an old search
with no way of going back other than that everything is good for a beta abhishek lamba
said ios 15.4 beta 2 is quite stable on my iphone 11 pro max it is far better than beta 1 battery i
wish it could be a little more sometimes there are stutters here and there but that's okay
the cool gamer 60 iphone 10s max on beta 2 the battery seems to drain a lot faster now for some
reason but other than that no bugs or slowdown daniel odessa said on ios 15.4 beta 2 iphone 13 is
freezing rebooting acting sluggish storage doesn't want to load not good at all trinivius minifee
said pretty good so far not too many bugs i can notice i'm running the beta on my iphone 12 pro
max matt barton said ios 15.4 beta 2 on an iphone 13 pro have a settings bug where upon entering
settings and making a selection a grey screen with settings appears closing settings then reopening
clears this battery life is not as good as the previous beta vincent says i'm using iphone 12
pro on 15.4 beta 2. most of the apps are working some apps like the banking app crash on me battery
is very good my screen on time is estimated about seven to eight hours with 91 battery health so far
this update has been very smooth and so that's everything with ios 15.4 beta 2 and ios 15.3.1
again i wouldn't hesitate to update to 15.3.1 but you may want to hold off if you're on the
betas or wanting you to try out the betas as they still could be quite buggy but either way they
seem to be pretty solid compared to the previous beta and i think it'll be great once we get beta
3 a release candidate and a final release where we'll have those new emoji and everything else so
i'm looking forward to that and of course ios 16 once that's released that won't be until september
but we'll see it for the first time in june so i really look forward to that hopefully we'll
get a new control center design as i've talked about last year as well as maybe some new icons
and more it seems like we're due for quite a few changes so i'm hoping we see something like that
but if you found anything else in 15.4 beta 2 i'd love to hear from you in the comments below and of
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