Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and today apple released ios 15.4 beta 1. this is available
to developers and hopefully soon to public beta testers and you'll see it came in at a very large
5.37 gigabytes that's on my iphone 13 pro max and anytime you go from a public version of ios 15.3
to a new beta or back to a regular version it's going to reinstall the entire os and will be a
large install now it was about the same size on all the devices here the iphone 11 the iphone 10
and i'm still installing it on the iphone 6s plus this has been installing for over an hour at this
point so if you have a 6s 6s plus or se don't be surprised if it takes that long but it was between
four and six gigabytes now apple also released ipad os 15.4 beta 1 that i have here on the 12.9
inch ipad pro from 2021 along with watch os 8.5 beta 1 tv os 15.4 beta 1 and mac os 12.3 beta1 and
this is a pretty exciting update with features we've been looking forward to for a while now
let's first take a look at the build number and then talk about what's new so we'll go to settings
then general then about you can see the build number is 19e 5209 h so we're probably a little
ways out when it comes to betas we'll probably have three or four of them before a final release
now as far as anything new well the first thing new is there's a modem update on the iphone 13
pro max it went to modem update version 1.55.00 so there's a modem update so if you were having
connectivity issues or switching between 5g 5g uc lte or anything like that hopefully this has
improved even more now the first new thing that's in this update is under settings if we go under
settings go to face id and passcode put in our passcode you'll see that it says use face id
with a mask now we could do this before using an apple watch but now we can do this without an
apple watch so it says face id is most accurate when it's set up for full face recognition only
to use face id while wearing a mask iphone can recognize the unique features around the eye area
to authenticate you must be looking at your phone to use face id while wearing a mask if we turn
that on you'll see that it says use face id with a mask or don't use it with a mask so we can use it
with a mask and now we can set it up so first position your face in the camera then move it
around so we can do that and you'll see i'm not wearing a mask so it says your face must match
the existing face id appearance so make sure it's already set up then go ahead and place a mask on
it can also work with glasses but we'll try again
it says remove your mask in a safe environment to set up face id so it's going to guide you in
every way possible to get this to be accurate so you'll see now position your face we'll set it up
and then give it a moment give it a moment to rescan it says done and we only had to scan once
now we have the option to add glasses so you'll saw you saw that i was wearing glasses there just
a moment ago i'll put my glasses back on they're just for reading and it says add glasses using
face id while wearing a mask works best when it's set up to recognize each pair of glasses you wear
regularly face id will work with a mask or with a mask doesn't support sunglasses we'll hit continue
and get started and again it's looking for those glasses move your head again and now it's set up
and it says complete so now we should be able to unlock the phone while wearing glasses and
a mask so let's try that we'll put the face mask back on we'll lock the phone pick it up
and it unlocks right away nothing coming from my watch it's not jiggling letting me know
it's doing it directly from the phone again unlock and it works right away so this is something i
think a lot of people have been waiting for it's a great addition and a huge feature update for
those of us that need to wear a mask every day or have glasses and a mask it should help a lot
apple has added a new widget to ios 15.4 so if we go over to our widgets go to edit we'll add a new
one scroll all the way down and you'll see there's a new wallet widget this will give you a quick
glance at your apple card balance and this is a generic placeholder the balance will be accurate
if you have it tied to your account this phone doesn't have the apple card on it and then you can
just add it and it will tell you to add your apple card in wallet if you don't already have it set up
so you've got that new widget in this update they've also added a bunch of emoji to bring
us up to unicode standard 14. so version 14 adds 37 emoji with different colors as well
but you can see here's all the new ones here from a melting face to palms facing left and right
biting your lip you've got eggs with your eggs within a nest you've got a jar an x-ray bubbles
id an equal sign and more so all of those are added in 15.4 you can see all of them here the 37
different ones and then of course there's color variations on some of these so those have been
updated in 15.4 and are available there now one of the most exciting things has to do with ipad os
and mac os and that's universal control universal control is now active in mac os 12.3 beta 1 and
ipad os 15.4 beta 1. if you have both of those betas installed you'll be able to use it and
what that allows you to do is control multiple devices with the same trackpad and keyboard so
if i take my mouse here or trackpad just move over to the left where there's an ipad give it a second
it recognizes and then sort of comes through to the display on the ipad i can click on safari
and then click on whatever i want click in here type apple.com from this side and it will type
over here hit return and we're there in reverse we can use the same thing with the magic keyboard
go back over to our mac click on safari maybe type in apple you'll see it works
so again we can do that in reverse now it works universally between both devices so we can go back
and forth you can also use a third party track pad or mouse while you're doing that if you have
this docked or anything else you should be able to use it so it works seamlessly between them
and it's active now it just works and it works really well so i'm glad to see that's finally here
now additionally on the ipad there's a new option in control center so if we go to settings and then
we go to control center you'll see we have the option for keyboard brightness now so if you have
an attached keyboard you can brighten the keyboard on it so if i connect it to my magic keyboard
and we go to the control center you see i have a keyboard backlight option however i can't use it
because the lights are on if i turn the lights off give it a moment it realizes the lights are dim
and now i can control the keyboard brightness on and off or up and down so that's something they've
added with 15.4 so it's great to have all of those features they're listening and that's something
i've wanted for a very long time is a way to easily control the keyboard brightness without
going directly into settings within the ipad if we go into settings and then scroll down to notes
under notes we can now change the corner swipes so you'll see it says corner gesture and then
left corner swipe off quick note or screenshot that's for notes itself before we could do this
for apple pencil and they had it in a different area now they have it within notes also in this
update they've added additional features for the ps5 dual sense controller before we could
use this via bluetooth to control our games whether that be call of duty or something else
but now there's firmware that allows us to use the dual sense adaptive triggers so game creators can
update their games to allow you to use those dual sense adaptive trigger features if you've ever
used this you know these are the best triggers out there when it comes to haptic feedback and more so
now they can do that so hopefully we'll see that added to different games online whether that be
call of duty minecraft or anything else apple has also updated keychain with an additional feature
so if you go into settings and you go down to your passwords i created a test password just
so you could see this here we now have the option to add a note so we can add a note within our test
password and this is not a real password for the website but you can add a note in here if you want
to say maybe this is an old password or maybe you need to keep track of something like that
so you can just keep a note of whatever you need within keychain now also to do with passwords pass
key sign in on websites is now available as long as it's enabled by developers so what that means
according to mac rumors is that websites that allow for authentication via face id or touch id
allow you to authenticate with an iphone instead of having to enter a password now
so that's something that you'll be able to do with this within apps that you share place such
as music you can share directly from the sharing options so if we go to the options
in music you'll see it says share play at the top before it would just say share song so now there's
actually a share play option built into this and any other app that allows you to use share play
there's also a new preference within your tv settings so if we go into settings
go down to tv under tv scroll to the bottom you'll see it says device preferences up next display so
it says allow tv shows and movies played on this device to influence your for you recommendations
and then you have these options here so show sports scores use play history and up next display
with still frame and poster art so that's a new update or option within this update also within
settings if we scroll down and we go to safari within safari scroll down to the bottom you'll
see advanced under advanced we have experimental features scroll all the way the way to the bottom
and we have reset all to defaults thanks to my friend matt for sending this in and as you can
see it says reset all to defaults on the previous version you don't have that option so maybe you
forgot what you turned on or off now you can just reset it all back to default a nice little update
when you open up airpods it's a little bit different now the little floating screen that pops
up looks slightly different it has more bold text and the overall look is a little bit different
thanks to alessio for sending this in within the european union apple has added the ability to
add a vaccination record to meet their standards now now this is available in most european union
countries with the exception of switzerland liechtenstein cape verde north macedonia and
palestine those should be added eventually but as apple works with governments around the world
to add that those will be available later on so those should be available within this update and
when it's released to the public now there's some resolved issues in this update as well there are
seven resolved issues typically having to do with xcode and some fixes for developers so nothing
really user facing but there are some fixes there with swift ui and more there's also 13 known
issues and a few notable ones as well so if you're using emergency sos with the five presses that's
disabled in beta 1 with the exception of india as there's a problem where it unintentionally
defaults for some users so if you're using that sos feature or that's very important to you
i wouldn't update to this beta within the home app if you're using home with thread-based accessories
and trying to add a new one in beta 1 it doesn't allow for pairing thread-based accessories
using that communication standard also some matter-based accessories may not work in beta 1.
also within messages if you press and hold on an image to quick view it going back and trying to
scroll sometimes doesn't work so that's a problem they say to fix that exit out of the conversation
go back in if it's not allowing you to scroll so those are some notable things there's 13 total
known issues so there's no mention of anything as far as the storage bug or music bug or anything
like that so if we go into settings and go to general and then storage for some people it
seems to be resolved in 15.3 for others it doesn't and based off how slow it's loading here i would
say it's still a concern but now that we have the feedback app back we can report feedback so that's
the first time i've gone into storage it's taking a while we definitely need to report that in
feedback also like i said the music bug and pink display bug is not showing up as far as something
is being resolved yet so that's when your phone sort of crashes and reboots or resprings
sometimes the display will come up pink and then show you that and reboot or pink or purple
so no mention of those fixes no mention of the music fix where it uses additional cpu cycles
but we'll have to wait and see if they fix that throughout the beta updates now it just finished
installing on my iphone 6s plus like i said this has got the wallpaper from the one the other day
let me go ahead and log in and let's see what the performance is like because this just rebooted so
i can share with you in real time what it's like so we'll go back to listen now give it just a
moment to see how it loads as everything sort of boots up and starts indexing in the background
you'll see it's actually quite smooth as we scroll through so not too bad there if we go over
and maybe see how frame rate is in minecraft i typically like to use that app we'll give it just
a moment to load here now it took a little bit to load but frame rates is what we're looking at here
and it seems to be pretty steady so right after rebooting when it's typically working the hardest
it's quite warm at this point but frame rate seems steady there but the overall heat while
installing it it will warm up quite a bit that's typical when you're installing an update plus i
had it plugged in but it seems to be responding quickly and performance seems to be pretty decent
now as far as battery life we'll give this just a moment to run the benchmark so we can
check those in a moment let me close the other apps here i'll just show you in real time
we'll let it run here we'll go into geekbench we'll let this run and let's take a look at
battery life because battery life is going to take a few days to sort of figure out what it's
doing but i've been using 15.3 and you'll see that storage bug is still going on so there's
definitely an issue there they haven't fixed that but battery life battery health on this device is
100 and someone asked me to show battery health on other devices so here's battery health on the
iphone 10 88 after a few years of being used and it was used by my daughter for a little
while after i used it and typically battery life takes a few days to measure but on 15.3 yesterday
i had four hours and 18 minutes of screen on time 14 hours and 55 minutes of screen off time music
used 11 i think that's due to the bug as i used it maybe for 15 minutes in the background but i used
about 60 percent of my battery so battery life is okay but that music bug is still there if i
wasn't using music at all or just closed out of it and didn't stream this probably would improve but
most people say 15 3 is better and again i'll have a follow up with more information this weekend
now as far as performance let's take a look at those geekbench scores so on this device
it's still running on the 6s plus but on the 13 pro max it scored 1729 for single core 4709 for
multi-core if we take a look at the cpu history on the 22nd it scored on the rc version is the last
time i ran it you'll see it's better than the rc with single core and multi-core so it's actually
doing quite good it's within the region for error but it's quite good no problems there whatsoever
and is performing really nicely and it's nice and fast let's take a look at the geekbench scores on
all these devices as soon as it finishes on the 6s plus from left to right we have the ipad pro
12.9 from 2021 followed by the iphone 6s plus then the iphone 10 iphone 11 and iphone 13 pro
max these are all of the scores that were run right after updating so these could improve
although these seem to be pretty typical now they don't seem to improve too much after a few days
from 15.3 experience anyway so if you're anywhere around these numbers you should be good to go and
that leads me to should you update or install ios 15.4 beta 1 i would say if it's on your main
device and you use it for productivity or work or anything else probably skip this and wait
till the second beta as early betas have a few bugs like the ones i already mentioned however if
you have a secondary device or one that's not as important you could definitely try it out however
i typically say make sure you have a backup and a computer to roll back to the public version if you
need to do that or experience problems if you're trying to maybe update to it because you're having
a problem with a public version it's never a good idea to update to a beta just because you're not
going to resolve those issues betas are to test for those issues so you want to report
and feedback and sort of see what's going on and help apple fix the software if there's bugs in it
so otherwise i would say no on a main device if you have an extra device you could definitely try
it out now as far as when to expect ios 15.4 beta 2 and a release based off of what we see normally
with betas usually within two weeks i would not expect a beta in the first week of february here
probably the week after that apple of course can always change this but typically with early betas
beta 1 beta 2 we won't see weekly updates we'll see bi-weekly updates then maybe a final release
sometime in march so maybe we'll see that before a march event or something along those lines
with major new features coming in june with ios 16 at wwdc so don't expect too many changes
although this update is a pretty great update so far and they'll probably add even more with beta
2. if you've found anything more please let me know in the comments below and of course
if i find anything more i'll let you know in an update video with maybe more new features
and things like that there's definitely going to be a lot of little things throughout this os
as i'm seeing a ton of it in the notes with my with thanks to my friend steve moser so
lots to go over here and it's going to take a couple days to figure out everything in it
if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course i'll link it in the description like
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