hi everyone aaron here for zollotech and
ios 15.5 beta 4 has been out for a few
days i've been using it full time on my
iphone 13 pro max as well as my ipad pro
and wanted to share the overall
experience not just my experience but
your experience based off the youtube
community poll that i have on my youtube
channel so we'll take a look at the poll
and read some of your comments at the
end of the video but first i want to
talk about some features and different
changes in 15.5 beta 4 and then we'll
talk about experience battery life and
more now the overall features with 15.5
aren't very many at this point and the
reason for that is most of it's in the
code one thing that we noticed from
earlier betas is apple pay cash so apple
cash they've updated the icon and
they're also going to update the payment
system there's additional code in beta 4
for paying with your phone or receiving
payments with your phone and we should
see that enabled hopefully when 15.5
releases it seems to be the one major
feature that we're going to get with it
also in 15.5 beta 4 is an ability that
apple brought back that was removed with
ios 15.4 there's an apple music api that
apple removed an api is a way for
developers to use features directly in
ios code and implement that into their
own app with ios 15.4 apple was allowing
people to use maybe apple music apis to
change the playback speed of songs
however you can't do that in apple's own
app however you could do that with
third-party apps apple removed that
ability with ios 15.4 and has since
heard a lot of feedback from developers
and brought it back with ios 15.5 beta
4. so apps such as perfect tempo which
offered that ability should now work
properly with playback speed that's
something that was actually confirmed by
an apple software engineer that's on the
apple music team he posted an update in
earlier this week and let people know
via igeneration so that's something
they've reevaluated and
decided to re-enable in beta 4. now also
something that's not really related to
beta 5 that i wanted to share but a lot
of people have been messaging me about
is youtube hdr videos hdr videos that
are in 4k 60 only went up to 480p at
this point now it's back up to 2160p hdr
so at 60 frames per second before if it
was a 30 frame per second video you
could watch it in 4k before that you
could only watch it in dvd quality at
480p that's since been resolved and that
was done with a youtube update and some
of the code on their end so
it looks like youtube's updated that it
only goes up to 1080p on some devices
such as the iphone 8 plus so as you can
see here the same video 1080p 60. so
depending on the device it may vary but
at least it's allowed in hdr
and in hd or 4k at this point before
that it wasn't even in hd resolution so
they've since fixed that so that's great
to see
now i also wanted to mention an app that
you may or may not have seen on my phone
for a while i've had it in beta testing
and it's called acrylic this app is now
launched as of may 6th and this allows
you to create your own wallpaper
directly in the app so you'll see here
we have different points we can tap this
point and then we can change the color
palette we can change a ton of different
things about it so let me try that again
there we go i tapped the point you can
change the actual color maybe we want a
blue there
maybe we want a different color in this
corner
maybe we want let's try yellow here and
you can see if we move this around it
changes in real time so you can create
wallpaper with this there's a lot more
you can do with it and adjust but if you
want to create it in any way you want
you can make a million different plus
combinations of different wallpaper then
save them and use them on your device so
i believe it's a paid app at 1.99 but
it's definitely worth checking out if
you're into wallpaper you can make your
own and there's a ton of different
features in here as well so it's really
nice to see this updated you'll see it
says welcome to acrylic so it's a brand
new app highly recommended if you're
into wallpaper
now the overall experience of ios 15.5
beta 4 has been really hit or miss some
things are better some things are worse
than earlier so one thing i'm having
issues again with is airdrop airdrop
continually gives me issues with beta 4
where it seemed like it was fixed in
beta 5. so if i go into a photo so
here's a photo of an air tag i took and
you'll see here my different devices
that are currently enabled or available
for air dropping if i try and drop it to
the iphone 11
we'll see what happens then it sends
let's try the iphone 8 plus because
sometimes this takes a really long time
so i've had this sit around for a good
30 seconds to a minute and not work it
seems like it's working fine now but it
seems to be very hit or miss and
sometimes it just doesn't work properly
another thing i've seen in this update
that isn't as good is the cellular
connectivity i've had a lot of issues
where i'm just driving and it drops out
so maybe i'm listening to music it'll
all of a sudden say that cellular data
isn't available and i'll have to turn on
airplane mode turn it back off and it
reconnects i don't know if that's when
it's switching between cell towers or if
it's something else but i've heard this
not just from one person but myself and
many others so this is something that
quite a few people are experiencing with
beta 4. there's definitely some weird
cellular connectivity bugs so i didn't
have this in beta 3 it seemed like it
was fixed it looks like it's back in
this update
also some people are saying that they
have lag now i haven't experienced this
i've seen some people say that they have
lagged to the point where they
downgraded back to beta 3 or ios 15.4
on any of these phones i haven't seen
any one of them
produce a huge amount of lag or anything
like that so if we're scrolling whether
that be in the app library let's go into
music
you'll see it loaded nice and quickly it
doesn't seem to be very laggy or
anything like that it seems to be
performing as you would expect so really
no issues there at least for me but some
people seem to be having an issue it
doesn't matter on which device but i
haven't had an issue here as far as the
overall storage bug quite a few people
messaged me saying that it looks like
it's resolved so if we go into let me
turn on dark mode if we go into general
and then we go down to storage
wait for it to load here now while we're
waiting for that let me do the same on
the iphone 11
we'll go to general and then storage
we'll see how long it takes and it does
seem to take a while to load still it's
still calculating system data and it
does depend on how much data you have
but you can see the ios size in general
is very similar you can expect around
nine to ten gigabytes that's typical the
overall system data on my iphone 11 is
2.77 gigabytes on the 13 pro max well
it's still calculating so let's see how
long this takes it took just a moment
and it's only four kilobytes so
that's a little unexpected that it's
very little data at all but typically
this will range between
a couple gigabytes up to maybe 10
gigabytes very few people seem to have
any issues with it anymore but there are
some people with huge amounts of data
that's being used you'll see it actually
jumped up to 8.7 megabytes so
it's an odd issue where some people are
seeing gigabytes used but i haven't
heard anyone say that it's using over 20
or 30 gigabytes now so it looks like
whatever data was in there seems to be
resolved when it comes to wi-fi and
bluetooth wi-fi really didn't hear many
issues the only thing i heard was
someone that actually went from 750
megabits per second down to 650 but that
could be any number of issues whether
that be the router or internet provider
so i haven't heard that from anyone else
but it still could be an issue for some
as far as bluetooth i didn't hear a
single issue this time around or with
carplay as well and with bluetooth with
things like air pods when i open them
near different devices when you've got
so many around it can take a while to
pop up but when i'm using it by itself
it's nice and fast now there's an odd
new music bug that's been discovered by
techcrunch and i wanted to show you what
that is so what it is is when you're
using a third-party app and you have it
in your dock so let me switch this to
spotify with the music app you'll see
now i have it switched to spotify where
i had my apple music app if i go into
the app store and re-download apple
music
we'll wait for it to install once it's
installed it will actually take the
place and you'll see it did it already
it took the place of spotify which was
on the far right and then put apple
music back to its original position so
that's actually a bug they've discovered
apple's acknowledged it and we'll be
working on it and we'll probably see
that resolved with the next beta whether
that be beta 5 or the release candidate
now as far as the overall heat of the
device it really hasn't been too warm
other than just a moment ago this
started to get a little warm it's normal
for the phone to heat up if you're doing
intensive tasks or charging it but for
it to get excessively hot i have seen a
couple people say that it is very warm
most people said it was resolved with
beta 3. so some issues are coming back
with beta 3 it seems as far as overall
battery life battery life was really
poor the first day but with a new update
anytime you install a new beta or a new
public version usually the first day
it's working on a bunch of tasks in the
background and it can be pretty poor
after that it did improve a bit and if
we go to battery health you'll see i'm
at 100
and i also use coconut battery to help
measure this this is an app that's not
on the mac app store but it's a
third-party app you can install for free
and check your battery health and so it
shows 100 capacity as for the last 10
days of battery well if we take a look
at yesterday i had 3 hours and 21
minutes of screen on time 8 hours and 6
minutes of screen off time the screen
off time doesn't make a whole lot of
sense and my background app activity is
turned off for twitter but it's still
showing there so that's a bit odd but i
did use about
sixty percent of my battery that day the
day before
you'll see two hours and 54 minutes of
screen on time six hours and eleven
minutes of screen off time now today
i've had it off of the charger for
many hours at this point about eight
hours and i'm still at 75 percent so i
typically go to bed with about 50
percent left as far as battery life on
the ipad well that again has been very
odd standby time sometimes is really bad
so i'll go to bed and come back in the
morning and it's basically down to zero
or ten percent it's been pretty poor for
the past few days and let's take a look
at battery life now again with coconut
battery you can see my ipad battery
health and also let's take a look at the
last 10 days so yesterday i used it
quite a bit 3 hours and 53 minutes of
screen on time 28 minutes of screen off
time and that took up about 75 percent
of my battery so it's really not great
about five to six hours of screen on
time is what i can expect with this ipad
now hopefully that gets improved with
maybe even ipad os 16.
now as far as overall performance and
benchmarks performance like i said seems
to be pretty good i did run geek bench
scores on these so we could take a look
so if we go into benchmarks here or
geekbench you'll see on the 13 promax it
scored pretty high
1732 for single core
4807 for multicore compared to the other
day when i ran it it's a little bit
higher for single core by about three
and multicore is one higher than b4 but
it's actually much higher than the
previous beta so it's doing quite well
as far as overall speed and seems to be
behaving like you would expect
i'll read the benchmarks on the 11 and
iphone 8 plus so let's take a look here
on the iphone 8 plus we have 920 for
single core
2473 from multi-core on iphone 11 we
have 1 319 for single core 3054 for
multi-core so again basically what you
would expect on those devices if you're
wondering if you should install ios 15.5
beta 4 well at this point if you're a
beta tester i would highly recommend it
and then if you're having any issues
report it in the feedback app to make
ios better for all of us and then apple
can figure out what issues we're having
if you're not a beta tester at this
point because of the bugs that it's
having i would recommend against it if
you're trying to resolve issues such as
battery i would typically tell someone
not to install it and to wait for the
release candidate or the final version
and as far as when to expect the final
version at this point it looks like
we're having betas every single week
last tuesday we had beta 4 i would
expect beta 5 or a release candidate on
the 10th or 11th so maybe a release
candidate this coming tuesday or
wednesday with a final release if it's a
release candidate the following week if
it's beta 5 then i would expect a
release candidate the week after that
with a final release maybe around the
23rd or 24th as far as ios 15.4.2 i had
thought we'd already see this released
so maybe apple's just going to roll
everything into ios 15.5 with maybe bug
fixes and security fixes however it is
possible we could still see an update
this coming week i'm not counting on it
but it is possible based on the past but
i'm really counting on ios 15.5 on the
24th sometime around there
with ios 16 beta 1 on june 6th and
continued ios 15 betas all the way until
a final release in september where we
have ios 16 released to the public so i
took a look at the community poll and
put some of your comments on my ipad so
let's go ahead and see what you had to
say chris palmer said ios 15.5 beta 4 on
my iphone 13 pro good update overall
smooth and snappy noticeable battery
drain when idle overnight one noted bug
after my update when receiving calls and
over speaker phone my callers have
complained that they could not hear me
or at times they have stated that it
sounds as though there was some feedback
or distortion making it difficult to
hear what i said so this is really the
only comment i saw mentioning any issues
when on a phone call but again certain
situations are different for all of us
depending on what phone we have what
version phone what beta and so on ron
leady said on beta 4 having issues with
slow app response can actually see
display changes and modem issues then
again my poor iphone 10 has taken a
beating over the years maybe it's time
for a replacement
i would say there's definitely a
noticeable difference when switching
from a 10 to even a 12. my wife actually
upgraded last year from an iphone 10 to
an iphone 12 pro and said she couldn't
believe how much faster it was so if you
were thinking of doing that you could
either get a 13 pro or maybe wait for
the iphone 14 or 14 pro
dhopper 598 said storage is still bugged
for me on beta 4 and has for months it
says i'm using 53 gigabytes of system
data nearly half of my device's storage
now this comment was actually posted
after i recorded the first part of the
video i go back and see if there's
anything new and so this was the first
one i saw with huge storage usage so
maybe try a third-party app see if you
can maybe clear some of that out i have
heard about some success with that with
people clearing out the app data and
then it fixes that problem for them matt
barton says ios 15.5 beta 4 on a 13 pro
running smooth with improved battery
life from beta 3.
gavish rajwar says ios 15.5 beta 4 going
good on my iphone 10s performance is
great didn't test the battery life but
it fixed the overheating which i faced
on the beta 3. facing small bugs like
the music app won't play music sometimes
when tapped on any song or by pressing
the next button other than that it's
been great and one thing i didn't
mention in the video a little bit
earlier is sometimes when tapping on
music it just doesn't seem to play so i
don't know if that's a cellular
connectivity issue or if that just has
to do with some bugs with the screen i
really haven't had any touch bugs but
maybe it has to do with just music in
general masood said battery life has
been great for me on my iphone 13 pro
max on ios 15.5 beta 4 without any
issues and it's been good and by the way
love your variety of wallpapers and
videos and keep up the great work and as
always aaron i'll see you next time mija
justin says using ios 15.5 beta 4 on my
13 pro max while the stability and
performance is great i did notice a
faster battery drain as well as some
heating issues when using the phone for
longer periods of time no other issues
so far i hope they fix the heating and
faster battery drain issues before the
rc keep up the great work thank you and
so that's everything for ios 15.5 beta 4
not a ton of real big issues but some
odd bugs that have seemed to come back
whether that be with music or brightness
for some or cellular is the biggest
issue for me though and i hope they fix
that soon let me know what you're
looking most forward to with ios 16 and
what you hope they change or update i'd
love to hear from you in the comments
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