what's up guys my name is brandon and this past week was insane when it comes to ios software
and i had a ton of fun over this past week! So on Wednesday, Apple released ios and ipad os
15.3 along with the new macOS, watchos and tvos updates. And then on the very next day on Thursday,
Apple released the first beta of the next major ios release iOS 15.4, along with all the other
macOS, watchOS, and tvOS updates. But in this video as we do every single saturday
we're gonna be discussing some additional new features and changes found in ios 15.4 i'm going
to show you guys my first experience with the long awaited universal control feature we're going to
talk about the performance when to expect the next ios release and then finally we're going to cover
some of the latest apple leaks and rumors that have come out over the past week all right so
let's start off by talking about perhaps the biggest feature in ios 15.4 and that is mask id
so if we go into our face id and passcode section right here you can see we have the option now to
use face id with a mask so we no longer have to use an apple watch while wearing a mask to unlock
our phone via face id so this is a big new feature you could also add glasses here as well while
wearing a mask and this is an awesome feature however it only works on the iphone 12 and newer
so the iphone 12 and 13 series are the only ones who can take advantage of this new feature i'm
guessing it has to do with the chipset inside and that has some sort of impact on the front-facing
camera and sensor that would also explain why the selfies got much better after the iphone 12 so we
don't know for sure that that's the reason but that is my guess but this feature is awesome it
works really really well it also works for apple pay and for third-party applications so that was
one of the limitations when using this feature when you had to use an apple watch to unlock
your phone while wearing a mask but you can use apple pay and third-party apps with this feature
also now another very big feature is that third-party applications will now finally
get to take advantage of 120 hertz so this is included in the release notes and you can see here
that third-party apps will now be able to use 120 hertz so to be able to take full advantage
of these displays on the iphone 13 pros we also get some very nice changes inside of the
shortcuts application mainly in the automations tab right here so now in automations if you go
to an automation you can see we have a new toggle down here for notify when run so now
you can disable notifications when an automation runs which is super handy that was always one of
the most annoying things and one of the reasons you had to do that work around to disable shortcut
notifications but now you don't have to worry about that with automations because there is now
a toggle for that also if we go into an action inside of shortcuts and we go to the scripting
section right here you will see that some of these glyph icons have been changed as well so
here's how it was in 15.3 you can see open app is different get what's on screen is different almost
all of them have been changed maybe not all of them but a lot of them have been changed here in
ios 15.4 we also have a nice new feature added to the icloud keychain so if we go to your settings
here and then go down to passwords and if you tap on one of the websites that has your password
saved you can see here under account options we now have a new toggle here a new feature
for add notes and now you can add notes about that passcode another very interesting feature coming
in this update is a new trade-in tool so this was found in the code by 95 mac and you can see
here they say that the tool will use the camera to detect cosmetic details of another device
which probably includes things like scratches dents or broken glass once the scan is complete
the tool will send the cosmetic details to apple so basically it seems like apple is trying to
streamline the whole trade-in process of trading in an iphone and basically this feature is going
to help apple understand if the phone is in good condition or bad condition so very interesting i
will have to try that out once we learn more about this but right now it's still in development it's
only found in the code we also have some changes related to shareplay so now when you go into
the music application for example and you tap on the three dots right there you can see that it
now says share play so before that would just say share but now it says share play when you tap on
that you can see you get this splash screen right here that says keep facetime conversations going
as you watch tv shows and movies listen to music or share your screen so apple is now making it so
that you can share play from applications instead of having to go into facetime and make a call
and then activate share play after that so much easier way to activate this i really like this
change it's also in every other application they could share play in also in 15.4 we have live text
integrated in the notes and reminders application so now when you tap on the little camera icon down
there at the bottom we now have the option to scan text so you can see 15.3 on the left 15.4
on the right just the new option added there to that section also you can see here we now have
support for adaptive triggers on the ps5 dual sense controller so if you play games with your
controller you will be happy to see that's been added here with this update and of course we have
over 30 new emoji in this update you can see all of these ones right here including things like a
pregnant man so you can see right here you have a pregnant man emoji and multiple skin tones and
a lot of very interesting and different emoji were added here with this update we even have
a minor change to the airpods screen when it pops up for the first time you can see just some minor
changes in the overall shape and look of this and then speaking of the airpods you can also
now update them from a mac with mac os 12.3 so in the first beta it was found that you can now
update your airpods from mac os and not just from your iphone and then like i mentioned in the intro
we also got universal control with ipad os 15.4 and mac os 12.3 all right you guys always love
when i do these little vlogs so i decided to do a vlog for this universal control little demo right
here so we're going to go ahead and log in to our imac go ahead and put my touch id in right there
which we have that on the ipad as well but we have face id we go ahead and unlock this right here
so you can see we have both set up side by side ipad os 15.4 beta 1 mac os monterey 12.3
beta 1. if i take my mouse here and i just move it over take a look at this of course it doesn't
work the first time i try it so let me give this a second let's go ahead over sometimes
it doesn't work right away it's still in the first beta so let me go ahead and troubleshoot this so
if you go into system preferences and then go to display on your mac you will see right here
sometimes you have to go to add display and then link keyboard that will fix the issue sometimes so
now it should work i notice that happens sometimes so you can see now when i take my mouse and take
it over to the ipad it's acting as an external display which is awesome i can go ahead and open
up twitter if i want to i can drag and drop files i could do so much it is so cool it works so well
there's no latency whatsoever of course i'll have a much more in-depth tutorial about this feature
on my channel and a separate video and of course on the final uh what's new video for ios 15.4
but so far this is awesome i love being able to drag files let me just show you guys real quick
so if i take a file right here i'm going to take this over and then drag and drop it in my files
and there we go it's going to be right in my files application right here and that's just super cool
i love this feature now as far as bugs go in this update i really haven't had a ton of bugs
i mean a lot of bugs were mentioned in the release notes but honestly i have not noticed any of those
listed at least not yet but i have had a few other issues like i had espn and reddit specifically
crash on me so both of those applications crashed once and that was kind of annoying i haven't
had an app crash since like ios 15 i believe the initial version so that was kind of disappointing
also i had some issues with face id in third party applications so it just simply would not
work in certain apps even in the app store when i went to download a new application my face id
would not work and i think it had something to do with the mascot d and the new changes to face
id it fixed itself when you disable and re-enabled face id so that will be a temporary fix if you are
facing that but that is one thing those are really the two things i noticed so far is app scratching
and issues with face id but not too bad for a first beta especially a first beta with a
lot of changes and then as far as the performance goes performance feels pretty good i have had some
minor lag and a couple of apps crash on me like i just mentioned but really nothing terrible face id
is one thing i did also want to mention because not only did it get the new mask feature but it
also feels actually much quicker than 15.3 to me i don't know if this is placebo you guys let me
know in the comments down below if face id is not only more accurate but just unlocks quicker now
again it could be placebo but it feels faster than 15.3 to me and then also i would expect
third-party applications to start feeling smoother on the iphone 13 pro series and anything else with
a 120 hertz display because after ios 15.4 we are going to have the updated ui kit animations
for developers to take full advantage of these 120 hertz promotion displays so i cannot wait to see
apps like twitter and instagram and every other application that just get a lot smoother with
that new frame rate adjustment now as far as the battery life goes battery life is all right it's
not bad it's definitely a noticeable decrease in both on-screen and off-screen time compared to ios
15.3 but i mean that's expected for a first beta i'm not too upset about it especially because it's
not my main device but hopefully it does improve with time i notice about at least an hour less
of battery life which is pretty significant going from 15.3 all right so now what's next for apple
when can we expect to see the next ios release and the next release is going to be ios 15.4 beta 2
and i would expect that late next week most likely on february 2nd or 3rd now if it doesn't come out
on one of those days it could come out early the following week on the week of the 7th maybe on
the 7th or the 8th but i would expect apple to be on a one-week cycle a one-week release cycle
for ios 15.4 only because i think there's going to be quite a few betas at least four betas and
then we'll probably see a final release either at the end of february or sometime in early march
my guess at this point would probably be early march and we could also see an apple spring event
in early march as well which could line up for the final release of 15.4 we'll have to wait and see
on that now as far as ios 15.3 goes this is the latest public release if you are not beta testing
you're likely on ios 15.3 and this was a relatively boring update mainly a bug fix
stability and security patch update of course we have a major fix for the safari bug that would
leak out your browser history and your google ids so that was a very important bug fix and the
main reason you should have already updated to ios 15.3 at this point but the performance the
battery life everything is excellent the battery life is actually better than 15.2 and 15.2.1 to me
performance is also slightly better just because we do have a lot of those bug fixes
that i talked about in previous videos but as far as any additional changes i've not found anything
else new here with this update again it's just a very minor bug fix update and most of you guys
watching this video who are on 15.3 right now are probably just waiting for ios 15.4 at this point
all right so now let's move on to some of the latest apple news so last week we talked
about the upcoming apple spring event and what's coming at that event we discussed a new ipad air
and a new iphone se that would be coming but leaker dylan dkt who mysteriously disappeared
from twitter just recently by the way revealed that a redesigned mac mini is also coming so
this new mac mini is expected to come with an m1 pro or m1 max chip and of course a full redesign
as well and here's what he said in the tweet for the apple spring event we will be receiving the
mac mini with m1 pro and m1 max the new 5g iphone se and a new ipad air imac pro is still on track
currently for a release in the spring yet i have heard that there are still concerns with regards
to production so notice how he also mentions a new imac pro and that is the next thing i want to
discuss is the upcoming 27 inch imac pro and the fact that it might include a special more powerful
version of the m1 max chip so in a separate tweet he said i have received confirmation
that there will be an additional configuration for the upcoming imac pro beyond m1 max a 12 core
cpu configuration was tied to a snippet of code referencing the imac the internal naming candidate
is imac pro for a reason it is targeted towards pros so i cannot wait for that that sounds amazing
and i would definitely be getting that if that comes true and especially if it releases as
early as the spring but again there are concerns about the production so we may see a delay with
the imac pro we also got some very interesting news about the future of airpods so according
to a patent application that was filed by apple recently they are playing around with the idea
of verifying your identity by checking the shape of your ear canal so apple describes the current
issue by stating quote conventional systems do not address whether the user wearing the headphones
is authorized to interact with personal features of the device such as receiving messages
from the device accordingly improved systems for user identification using headphones is desired
and apple also has a possible solution for this issue and it's using a sonar so they state quote
for example various characteristics of the user's ear provide an echo of the ultrasonic signal which
is unique to the user variations in the surface of the user's ear canal may cause the ultrasonic
signal to reflect off the surface and generate an echo having a signature that is associated with
the user so that sounds insane and i definitely cannot wait to see when that comes but i would
not expect that within the next couple of years but hopefully we see that within the next five
years and then finally i wanted to also talk about apple's q1 at 2022 earnings because they
were super super impressive as usual so you can see here i tweeted out about their revenue and
their profit so the revenue for this quarter was 123.95 billion versus 118.6 billion expected their
eps their earnings per share was 2.10 versus 189 expected which is also a big beat and then
the profit also rose 20 percent to 34.6 billion which is just insane so apple continues to kill
it so there you have it that is the latest batch of apple news from this past week along with some
additional info on the highly anticipated ios 15.4 if you're not testing this on the beta i know you
cannot wait for the software to come out hopefully it does come in early march of course stay tuned
to the channel for any updates on that so if you guys enjoyed this video i would appreciate if
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