hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and today apple released ios 15.4 beta 5. this was a bit
of a surprise as we thought we'd probably see a release candidate instead but now we have beta 5.
and this came in at a fairly small 421.5 megabytes that's on my iphone 13 pro max
and it was about the same size on all the devices in this video from the iphone 11 6s plus iphone 10
and ipad pro now along with ios 15.4 beta 5 apple also released ipad os 15.4 beta 5
watch os 8.5 beta 5 along with tv os 15.4 beta 5 home pod os 15.4 beta 5 and mac os 12.3 beta 5.
all of those are available now to developers and hopefully soon by the time you're watching this
video to public beta testers as well last week it came out a little bit after i posted the video
now let's take a look at the build number and talk about what's new so we'll go to settings
then general then about you can see the build number is 19e 5241a and this is a slightly
newer version even though it has an a at the end of it so they've updated it a little bit
and i was quite surprised that we didn't have an rc or release candidate instead i was pretty
convinced we'd have one but according to mark german on twitter he's actually said that this
is the last version of ios 15.4 before the public release however i'd be very surprised if they
didn't release a release candidate first before that final release now as far as new changes and
updates well as far as a new modem update there is no new modem update at least on the 13 pro max
from beta 4 to beta 5 we have the same version number 1.59.03 so with the 13 pro max if you
were having issues with it switching between 5g and 4g or other connectivity issues i would not
expect those to be resolved in this update now as far as other things that are changed or new
the first new thing has to do with a new notification splash screen apple has been updating
this throughout the os with 15.4 and the first time i went into apple wallet i saw this so you
can see here we have a new icon for notifications and it says get updates on your purchases receive
transaction notifications whenever your cards are used with apple pay you can turn on notifications
or not now you're going to see more and more of these new style notifications with little
splash screens the first time you go into a lot of apps with 15.4 now the next thing i saw that
was new is the first time i went into the home app and set it up on a different device i went in here
and i saw this new notification i've seen this in the code before but i've never seen it actually
appear on the display and it says home would like to send you critical alerts critical alerts always
play a sound and appear on your lock screen even if your iphone is muted or do not disturb is on
manage critical alerts in settings and you can allow that or not allow that so that's something
new that i saw that may have been there before but i really didn't see anything other than that
aside from that the only other new thing that i was able to find is a new siri notification or
siri when you ask it about the march event that we were waiting for invites for so if we hold
down the siri button or power sleep wake button and say what will be announced at the apple event
you can see now it's saying you can get all the details about apple events on apple.com
however when i asked this a bit earlier i actually posted this on twitter as well it says you can't
hurry news no you'll just have to wait and so it was saying something different some people are
seeing this sometimes you have to ask multiple times and it will pop up but it looks like we
could have an apple event very soon although we didn't see invites today as we expected
now in 15.4 there are a ton of changes there are 35 features and changes overall that i counted
since the first beta such as face id with a mask 37 new emoji and much much more however in beta
5 we're going to see less and less changes since this is getting closer and closer to
a final release with the a at the end of the build number it typically means we're getting
closer to a final build and it will be released to the public fairly soon but as far as this
particular update i'm not seeing anything else i went through a ton of different apps settings and
more however that doesn't mean there's not some small changes here and there but it is seemingly
more refined now this time around apple has not mentioned any specific issues that have been
resolved in their notes so within the notes they haven't mentioned anything so they didn't mention
anything about the storage bug being resolved although it seems to be resolved since beta 3.
many of you have messaged me saying that it's been resolved and if i test it on the iphone 11
or the 13 pro max you'll see it takes a moment to load but it's popping up properly every time
the 11 loaded much faster with this storage update but i do have a lot more things on the 13 pro
max but you can see it updated and then it just filled in the system data so it looks like it's
working properly on everyone's device at least that's what most people have told me now apple
has also mentioned 12 issues that are still known so there's 12 known issues mentioned in the notes
but they're all the same as beta 4 such as signing into an ipad is limited to apps in this beta
and the health app crashes when you attempt to onboard the blood oxygen feature from within the
app so if you're in health trying to set up blood oxygen sometimes it can cause a problem and just
not work properly but there's no mention at all of the pink screen bug where it would actually reboot
and sort of present you with a pink or purple display however most people say that's been
resolved and they haven't seen that since about beta 2. but some people are seeing that on ios
15.3.1 still there's also no mention that they've resolved the issue with the music bug where you're
streaming music and in turn it causes additional issues where it would use more processing power
and then in turn cause worse battery life or excessive battery drain i haven't seen that at all
apple has not mentioned it however it does seem to be performing better as far as that goes but
there's still maybe a few bugs here and there in this now as far as when to expect ios 15.4 rc and
the release well since this is beta 5 and we're on the a build number we could see an rc within a few
days and still have that apple event invite maybe go out tomorrow where we would have that event on
the 8th that could change at any time given everything that's going on around the world
apple can actually make this very fluid and move it around to whatever works best so maybe we'll
see it then maybe we'll see it a little bit later but last year with ios 14.5 we had as many as
eight betas and then a release candidate and then a final release in april we could see any sort of
similar scenario coming up with that and maybe we'll see that released in a week or it could
be a few weeks at this point given what's going on apple could maybe change this a little bit
but either way we can expect an update fairly soon that seems more and more stable as i've been using
it as far as overall battery life battery life does seem to be getting a little bit better there
are some odd bugs here and there but if we go into battery battery health on my 13 pro max is at 100
and i will be mentioning about battery life and what it's like after using it for a few days since
using it just for another hour or so doesn't really give us a full picture of what's going
on so be sure to check back for the follow-up but with beta 4 you can see i had four hours
and 30 minutes of screen on time 5 hours and 49 minutes of screen off time and used about 60 of my
battery this wasn't that great and music was using background activity despite me not using it all in
the background so there's definitely some odd issues there and the same is true with the ipad
with ipad os 15.4 i've had some very mixed battery life it's been very odd showing me times that it
was charged when it wasn't actually charged however this is accurate now so maybe they've
resolved that where it says last charge to 84 an hour ago that's when i was installing the update
and i was getting excessive screen off time so you'll see here i have 5 hours and 40 minutes
of screen off time yesterday i didn't use it at all with the screen off with the screen on i used
it for about an hour and a half watching youtube doing messages and things like that but i haven't
found anything that's causing this screen off time so i'm not sure what that is and haven't figured
that out yet hopefully it's resolved in this update but it will take a few days to notice
as far as performance overall performance seems okay but upon initial boot of the 6s plus it was
quite slow and sluggish you'll see now it's loading music i open this for the first time
we'll give it just a moment here there we go and it's okay but it's scrolling okay this time but
it's been quite sluggish the first time i booted it up it took quite a while to finish back out
background processing and you could see right there it actually stuttered for a moment so
there's some issues going on here or there as far as frame rates and games and things i did want to
share minecraft but i would love to hear from you what would be a better example other than
minecraft maybe something that you use more and more however my kids play minecraft every day and
so do a lot of other people i know so i thought it was a good example so we'll give it just a moment
to load and see what the frame rates are like now it did take about 30 seconds or more to actually
load this time around so that was a bit slow but the frame rate is nice and smooth and i'm not
seeing any issues there so games should function fine and as far as the overall heat of the device
the device is a little bit warm the 6s plus since loading that game but it's not excessively hot
i know quite a few people worry about that and apple is quite aggressive at actually managing
that but even after installing the update it felt a little bit warm which is typical but not overly
hot so i wouldn't really worry about that too much with this update it seems much better than it has
in the past as far as benchmarks i've been sharing those more in the follow up video but i did run an
initial benchmark on the 13 pro max and you'll see it scored 1737 for single core 4693 for multi-core
this is actually slightly better in some ways than what i ran the other day
where we had a little bit higher for multi-core but a little bit lower for single core so
it's doing quite well it's within a hundred either way and should perform as you would expect
and that leads me to should you install ios 15.4 beta 5 well you've probably heard me say this many
times before if you're a beta tester definitely install it already so you can find any additional
bugs report your feedback and make sure that you fill out that feedback form so apple can fix any
additional issues that might be in it however if you're wanting to try this out and you're not on
the betas already as long as you're realizing that it's might have some bugs here and there
it's definitely something you could try out just make sure you have a backup we're in the final
stages of ios 15.4 and it should be fairly stable but again there could be bugs so if you're trying
to solve an issue from 15.3.1 or an earlier build i would hold off until the final release
since you're bound to have at least a bug here and there typically with betas so if you're
looking for better battery life or something like that wait for the final release and go from there
so that's it for everything in ios 15.4 beta 5. of course if i find anything else i'll be sure
to share that in a video later this week and be sure to check back for the follow-up on the
weekend where i cover everything from performance to battery life additional bugs and things they've
fixed and more if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course i'll link it in
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