what's up guys my name is brandon and today apple released ios 15.4.1 a little under three weeks
after the big release of ios 15.4 and along with this release we also got iPadOS 15.4.1,
tvOS 15.4.1, homepod os 15.4.1, watchos 8.5.1 and macos monterey 12.3.1. But of course in this video
we're talking all about ios and ipados 15.4.1 and this update is one that should fix a lot
of issues that you guys have been facing with 15.4 so we're going to talk about those fixes
along with the performance the battery life and if you should update or not we'll also briefly touch
on some of those mac os issues that have been patched as well and as always if i notified you
of this update before your iphone did make sure to hit that subscribe button down below all right so
let's first take a look at the size of this update so you can see here ios 15.4.1 came in at 313
megabytes on my iphone 13 pro that size will vary depending on your device and the version you're
coming from but it should not be a very large download it should be under 500 megabytes for most
people so let's go and check out the build number for this update in our settings general about
we can see here the new build number is 19e 258. and if we scroll down to the modem firmware you
can see that is 1.59.03 so no change from 15.4 all right so now what's new here in 15.4.1 and
as always with a double point update like a .4.1 we're not expecting any big new features
or changes we're expecting mainly bug fixes and that's exactly what this update brings so battery
drain was easily the biggest issue for most people after updating to 15.4 and i even discussed that
in depth in my latest apple weekly episode last saturday but thankfully this update fixes that
issue so if you look at the release notes here you can see apple mentions a fix for quote battery may
drain more quickly than expected after updating to ios 15.4 so it's pretty rare for apple to actually
name drop battery drain in the release notes they don't do that too often so it's good to see
that they actually did notice an issue with battery draining and addressed a fix for that here
with 15.4.1 less than a month after the release of 15.4 this update also includes a fix for made
for iphone hearing devices like hearing aids those may have lost connection within some third-party
applications on 15.4 but this update fixes that so if you're having issues with your made for
iphone hearing device specifically in third-party applications that issue should be addressed in
15.4.1 and then the final thing mentioned in the release notes is a fix for braille
devices so apple says quote braille devices may become unresponsive while navigating text
or displaying an alert so three main fixes with this update but of course apple does also include
other bug fix updates that they don't mention in the release notes so i would expect to see other
bug fixes and we'll talk more about those this weekend and my follow-up video because i'm sure
other bugs have been squashed with this update as well that just were not mentioned so apple
did also release watch os 8.5.1 today so that did include bug fixes i know some people had issues
with battery draining and some series 7 watches would not charge properly so i would assume that
watch os 8.5.1 fixes those issues and then more importantly mac os also got an update with 12.3.1
and mac os 12.3 had a ton of bugs a lot of really bad bugs like bricking max and things like that
as well but you can see here apple did mention a couple of fixes for mac os monterey 12.3.1
usbc or thunderbolt external displays do not turn on when connected to a mac mini 2018 as a second
display there's also a fix for game controller so you can see apple mentions bluetooth devices
such as game controllers may disconnect from your mac after playing audio through some beats
headphones and then apple didn't mention it in the release notes but i would assume that 12.3.1 fixed
the issue where version 12.3 would brick max with a replaced logic board so if you replaced
your logic board on your mac and you tried to update to mac os 12.3 it would just brick your
device so i would assume that that doesn't happen with 12.3.1 but anyways going back to ios 15.4.1
did you guys have any other issues with 15.4 after updating because i feel like the storage bug a lot
of people don't really have that bug anymore when you go into your iphone storage and it just would
not calculate up there you may need to wait like five to ten minutes for older devices for that
to properly calculate up here your storage but i mean aside from the storage bug and the battery
drain bug i don't really see any other issues with 15.4 i'm sure there are others but let me know in
a comment down below if this update fixed them and exactly what that bug was i will also mention that
in my apple weekly episode this coming saturday and then as far as security updates in 15.4.1
you can see here we do have one cve that has been addressed so it's an apple avd
bug and it says here the impact was an application that may be able to execute arbitrary code with
kernel privileges and apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited
so that is definitely something you want to be aware of anytime that an issue has been actively
exploited that's something you definitely want to take note of and update your phone for so you can
see here the description was an out-of-bounds right issue was addressed with improved bounds
checking and then moving on to the performance i would not expect any boost to performance
from 15.4 to 15.4.1 mainly because this is just a bug fix update apple is only focusing
on the bugs so unless there was a bug that impacted the performance you know of 15.4
i would not expect any type of improvement to the performance here on 15.4.1 but nonetheless i will
show you guys the geekbench scores on a 13 pro so we got a 1732 on the single core and a 47 48
on the multicore so pretty respectable scores but again you're not really going to notice a
big change from 15.4 now as far as battery life goes of course battery life you are going to see
an improvement with 15.4.1 because that was one of the bugs that apple patched with this update
is the battery drain so if you did face any type of battery drain or you just noticed that
you weren't getting as much on screen time as you were on previous versions of ios you should
expect to see a fix for your battery your battery should last longer and like it did pre ios 15.4
all right so now should you update to ios 15.4.1 and i say if you update it to 15.4
then absolutely it's a no-brainer to update to 15.4.1 this is the supplemental bug fix update
to fix any issues that may have been caused by updating to 15.4 and even if you didn't update to
15.4 because you were scared of all the battery drain reports now is probably a better time
to go ahead and consider upgrading because the battery drain has been resolved with this 15.4.1
update not to mention this bug that may have been actively exploited also gets patched with 15.4.1
and then finally let's talk about what to expect next from apple in terms of software updates so
next up is going to be an ios 15.5 beta 1. so if you are on the beta program if you get betas
on your phone you should be seeing a 15.5 beta 1 within the next few weeks so it's hard to say with
apple they've gone a really long time probably a record long time without releasing a beta but
we are expecting to see 15.5 the final release sometime around early june end of may early june
according to mark german so that's what we're going to see next in terms of a big public
release but we should also see a 15.4.2 and maybe even a 15.4.3 before we see a 15.5 final release
but nonetheless we should see a beta for 15.5 go out pretty soon and i would also expect a 15.4.2
sometime in april as well but anyways guys there you have it that is ios 15.4.1 a very small update
but a very important one especially if you were having battery drain issues
on 15.4 so hope you guys enjoyed this video if you did as always i would appreciate if
you give it a thumbs up and of course make sure to subscribe for a lot more ios update
videos and my apple weekly video this coming saturday where i'll discuss just how much better
the battery life is on 15.4.1 but anyways guys thanks again for watching and i'll see you soon
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