hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and today Apple released iOS 16.4 RC or iOS 16.4 release
candidate this is available to developers and probably by the time you're watching this video it
will be out to public beta testers this should be the last version if there's no additional issues
with it that releases to the public probably sometime next week we'll talk about that in
a moment but this particular update is fairly large because it fully reinstalls the OS it was
5.45 gigabytes on my iPhone 14 pro Max at about the same size on all the devices here now along
with this apple also released iPad OS 16.4 RC a Mac OS 13.3 RC watch OS 9.4 RC TV OS and homepod
Os 16.4 RC and also iOS and iPad OS 15.7.4 RC so all of those are available now let's go ahead and
take a look at the build number and talk about what's new so we'll go to settings then we'll
go up to General then about and as you you can see the build number is 20e246 now this should
be the final version of iOS 16.4 like I said unless there's some future issues with it then
we could get a release candidate too now this was able to be installed with the beta profile
installed even if you didn't have a developer account but either way you should be able to
install it next time I would expect Apple to remove the beta profile actually working so
make sure you're a developer or public beta tester so you can get the next updates if you
want the beta updates now this update does not have a modem update in it it's the same modem
at least on the 14 pro Max as the previous beta or beta 4 was so no changes there now there's
a lot to talk about as far as new features the first one has to do with messages messages now
includes 21 new Emoji to comply with the latest Unicode standard everything from a shaking face
to a blue or pink heart jellyfish Wings you can see different hands facing different directions
we have more Maracas and a few other things such as a blackbird down here or Raven and
other things as well with moose and donkey and a few others with different skin colors as well
now in phone and FaceTime there's some updates as well Apple has added a new voice isolation for
cellular calls or FaceTime calls so if we go into FaceTime and when you're in a FaceTime or phone
call tap on your mic mode in your Control Center and you'll see a new voice isolation option so you
have voice isolation and wide spectrum that's the same thing you'll get with FaceTime or phone calls
as well now this will depend on your device that you have as well also there's going to be updates
with 16.4 in cellular settings so if we go back into settings under your cellular data Options
under voice and data you'll now have 5G Auto 5G on LTE and 5G Standalone depending on your
carrier it's available in the US to T-Mobile and different places around the world so I'll cover
all of the different places mentioned when this actually releases and we go over that
now if we go out and then go into the books app I've mentioned this in the past couple videos
Apple added back the page turn animation so we now have the option to curl the page instead of just
slide or none so now if we just turn the page here it sort of curls and if we turn off dark
mode you can see that a little bit better so it just sort of curls like a natural book page and
we can swipe through the different pages so that part's really nice they've included that and some
people may get a splash screen there as well if we go into settings and then scroll down to Siri
and search we have new Siri voice options based on the language if we go into language go up to
Arabic we have two new voices here so we'll go back so you can take a listen so here's voice one
and here's voice too
and again if we go back we have new Hebrew voices as well so if
we go to Hebrew change that go back to our Siri voices here's voice one
and here's voice too hi
so it's nice that they've added those those should be available once this releases to the
public now also they've made an update within photos I mentioned this in previous videos but
they've actually confirmed this so if we go into photos and if you go to the album Tab and if you
have duplicates you can go into duplicates and now the duplicates will actually show up even
if it's across an iCloud shared photo library so depending on what you have selected if you have
duplicates in your shared Library it will detect those and then you can remove those they've also
changed some wording when you go to delete a different photo so this was from a different
video I did some of the wording has changed not a big deal there but if it is a duplicate across
shared photo albums you'll now have the option to merge them or delete them now if we go back
into our settings and then go to accessibility there's a couple accessibility updates one of
them has to do with voice over voice over will now work in maps and the weather app
if you're using it so if you have this enabled and then you're actually using the weather app or
different weather widgets you can now use that across maps and weather so that's great
they're adding additional support back with an accessibility if we go to motion under motion we
have a new option for dim flashing lights you'll see it says video content that depicts repeated
flashing or strobing lights will be automatically dimmed so you can turn that on if that's
something that would help you out and you're affected by those flashing or strobing lights
also if we go into the home app they've updated this as well with something we've been waiting for
for quite some time and within home if you go into your settings you'll see we now have home upgrade
available now you will need to update all of your devices so that it can update this but this is the
new home architecture upgrade so that's something they finally added with this update so if you want
to install that you can you'll see it says upgrade all homes complete the steps to upgrade your homes
and take advantage of the improved performance and reliability of the accessories in your home
so I'll do that later as all my devices become upgraded back within settings if we go to display
and brightness scroll down to always on display if you have a 14 pro or 14 pro Max you'll have
these options and they've rearranged what they look like and you'll see there's three options
for show wallpaper show notifications and always on display with some wording changes here as well
on our home screen if we swipe to the right we'll see that we have our widgets within our widgets
there's a new one here tap the plus scroll to the bottom tap on wallet and you'll see a new one
here for active order tracking so you'll see order tracking no active orders where it can track those
in the wallet app so that's something they've added they've also updated podcasts significantly
with this update now I've covered some of this in different videos and I'll cover this more
thoroughly in the final release but podcasts has been updated with a lot of different small changes
here and there as well as Apple music Apple music has been updated quite a bit and also Apple music
classical is launching on the 28th so if we scroll down you can see apple music classical and it says
coming March 28th so all of those things have been updated there's also huge updates to shortcuts so
shortcuts gains a bunch of different actions such as shutdown lock screen intercom announce
notifications a bunch of different things again I'll cover those in depth as I've covered them
before in different videos we also have an all new tips app as far as the way it looks see if we can
find it here within the tips app it's all new as far as the way it looks where they've organized
it based on different devices you own everything from photo and camera to all your devices with
airpods and home pods with even user guides at the bottom so they've updated that quite a bit
if you want to use this as a user guide to learn more about your phone they've also added a new
feature where you can now have web notifications for things added to your home screen so if maybe
you add a notification or a different web app to your home screen this is just Apple's website you
can now get web notifications on your iPhone so all of those are new in 16.4 also they've updated
some things as well in the code which reference in all new airpods case and airpods so that's
something in the codes we could be seeing soon maybe that's at WWDC or something else but they
are referenced there there's also a new update with with iPad with iPad OS 16.4 RC they've added
tilt and Azimuth support now I mentioned this in previous videos where it was found in the code and
what Apple says is it allows you to preview Your Mark at any angle before you make it in notes and
supported apps so if we go into notes and within notes depending on where your pencil is so we can
right here you can preview Your Mark at any angle so that's something that they've added tilt in
Azimuth support something that's really nice they've also fixed an issue with apple pencil
responsiveness that may occur while drawing or writing in the notes app so that's one of the
first bug fixes they've updated with 16.4 another thing they've actually addressed is if you have a
family account on your iPhone so maybe you've got a family account you give a phone to your kid and
they go to purchase something sometimes it would fail to actually request if you have that set up
so it will actually ask you if the person can can buy this if it's one of your children so maybe
they request to buy something it didn't show up before that's now fixed they've also fixed some
issues with home now this probably has to do with the home architecture upgrade but they've fixed an
issue where matter compatible thermostats could become unresponsive if they were paired to Apple
home additionally they've also fixed issues with crash detection again so they continue to fix that
so if you have an iPhone 14 with crash detection built in under emergency SOS and this is where it
can call after a severe crash that's been updated again they've just said that they've optimized it
they haven't said anything else about it now also there will be Apple security updates now there is
a lot more to talk about in 16.4 but I've covered most of that in other videos I'll cover that in
the final release but if we go to the security notes within the security website you'll see they
haven't listed it yet and that's typical before it comes out Apple doesn't list the different
security updates once it's released to the public they'll actually list this here and give us more
information about it also one other thing I wanted to mention is that with apple wallet
if you're in South Korea iOS 16.3.1 and 16.4 will support Apple pay previous versions could support
it as well Apple turned that on yesterday so if you're in that location you can gain access to
Apple pay now finally it may not be through all banks but it should be available for you
now additionally there's more to talk about like I said with Music shortcuts and more lots of
different changes in this update but they haven't mentioned anything about storage however storage
seems to be fixed quite a bit for a lot of people quite a few people have messaged me after last
week's video saying that the cash storage and I'll show you that in a moment when this loads is not
taking up as much space now that it's loaded let's scroll to the bottom and you'll see my
system data is only taking up 11.05 gigabytes this should be helpful for a lot of people that weren't
able to either install apps or just ran out of storage because system data was using so much
of it it should manage itself but shouldn't use a ton of it so that seems to be much better this
time around now Apple has not mentioned anything about fixing the camera this is a concern but in
the beta updates that I've done it seems to be better meaning that when you take a photo if we
go over to our photo here if we take a photo and let me just take a photo quickly and then take a
screenshot oftentimes it would over process it and make it too dark this seems to be better in this
update but Apple hasn't said that they've fixed it so that's a bit of a disappointment for a lot
of us that were hoping they were actually going to fix this so far they haven't said anything about
it however lag with scrolling seems to be better I haven't had that return since beta 2 so beta 3 and
on was much better and the swipe home bug seems to be much better as well so if I turn this all
the way down and play a song swipe home it goes into into the dynamic Island and then works fine
it's not slow it doesn't stutter it works great so that's something they seem to fix since the
previous betas now as far as the release notes let's go into feedback and within the release
notes you can see there's still known issues and resolved issues along with the new features
I mentioned so one of the known issues is watch migration might fail when restoring a backup to
a new phone so there's still some issues going on here but most of these have been resolved there
are still known issues with things like home as well as iCloud drive and other things as well
new changes with the keyboard and more so a lot of great updates in this update of course like
I said I'll cover more and more with the final release now as far as performance overall seems to
be nice and smooth like I mentioned of course it takes a few days to know that for sure and as far
as the overall heat it's staying nice and cool no issues there and for those of you that want to see
the thermal camera it is processing a bit in the background so it's warmer than normal but let's
take a look and as you can see we've hit about 88 to 89 degrees Fahrenheit so pretty reasonable it's
not too hot and with Celsius we're seeing 32.5 So Pretty good overall no issues really there
it seems to be staying nice and cool as far as my overall battery well here you can see the overall
battery Cycles if you've been following along but battery does take a few days to measure so
we don't really know what it's like so far but my battery health is at 98 and then if we go to the
last 10 days you can see yesterday on beta 4 I had three hours and 36 minutes screen active time at
6 hours and 56 minutes of screen idle time most people are saying that this beta is better or the
beta 4 version was better so far it's been better for me but overall battery life hasn't been great
3 hours and 12 minutes today of screen active time and I've used about 40 of my battery 39 if
you take a look at the battery in the upper right and so battery overall seems to be okay it should
get better over the next few days as background processing is complete and everything is working
better and if you're wondering if you should install iOS 16.4 RC I would say at this point
if you have a developer account or a beta account and you want to try it on your main device this is
the time to try it out as this should be the final release unless there's some additional
issues as far as when to expect the public release well based on what we know already I would expect
it probably Monday the 27th or Tuesday the 28th lately Apple's been releasing the public versions
on the 27th but Apple music classical comes out on the 28th so we could see that we also could
see an rc2 by the end of the week if there are issues if there isn't this should be the final
version with a release next week then either later that week or the following week we'll also see iOS
16.5 beta 1. we'll continue to see iOS 16 updates until iOS 17 releases to the public typically in
September but we do expect to see iOS 17 in early June with WWDC invites probably going out any day
now sometime this week and they'll show off the next versions of iOS where that's where we'll see
most of the big feature changes so far there's no mention of other smaller versions I think we're
going to revert to security updates instead of 0.1 or 0.2 updates such as 16.3.2 or 16.3.3 I
think we'll get to those security response updates later for that now let's go ahead
and take a look at the benchmarks we'll go ahead and go to geekbench 6 go to the CPU Benchmark run
it and see what we get geekbench 6 completed and we have 2510 for single core 6102 for multi-core
if we take a look at last week where a little bit higher for single or about eight points and about
six points higher for multi-core so a little bit better there it's keeping in line with what we
had before performance has been great overall now if I find anything else in this update I'll
be sure to do a follow-up this weekend talking about new features the experience and more so be
sure to check that out and if you found anything I'd love to hear from you in the comments below
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