what's up guys my name is brandon and apple just released ios 15.4 beta 1 to registered developers
just one day after the final release of ios 15.3 and for public beta testers you guys should be
seeing this update very soon now in addition to this ios release we also got ipados 15.4 beta 1,
tvos 15.4 beta 1 homepod os 15.4 beta 1, watchos 8.5 beta 1, and macos monterey
12.3 beta 1. But in this video of course we're talking all about ios and ipad os and what's new
in the software along with when to expect the next beta and eventually the final release all right so
let's start off with the size of this update so you can see here it came in over 5 gigabytes on
my iphone at 13 pro max of course the size will vary depending on your device but it will be
pretty large if you came from 15.3 since we're going back to a beta so expect a large download
for this first beta here if we go ahead and check out the build number settings general about 15.4
we can see the new build number here is 19e 5209 h so a pretty long build number and an h at the end
does indicate that we have quite a few betas of 15.4 to go as expected i would guess that
we'd probably see at least four betas of 15.4 before we get the final release but we'll have
to wait and see on that and then as far as the modem firmware you can see that has also been
updated here in this first beta it's now 1.55.00 all right so now what's new here in ios 15.4
beta 1. and let me just say right off the bat this is a much more exciting update than ios 15.3 we're
only on the first beta and it's already more exciting than at 15.3 so first off right after
installing this update i noticed we got the hello screen when we came back from you know rebooting
the device after updating and then after that we got a brand new prompt that i have not seen before
that's because it's new here in ios 15.4 we now have the option to use face id with a mask we no
longer need an apple watch to unlock our phone via face id while wearing a mask so this is huge and
you will see this after updating your device for the first time you'll see this on the setup screen
of course you can also set this up later in settings and if we go ahead into our settings
right here let's go back and then go down to our face id and passcode put in our passcode and
you'll see down here we have use face id with a mask and not only that we can also now add glasses
but before we click on that i just want to read this little section down here you can see it says
face id is most accurate when it's set up for a 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 iphone to use face id while wearing a mask so very interesting there
and then like i said we do also have the option to add glasses and when we tap on that you can see
this right here so it says 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 with a mask does not support sunglasses
so it's mainly talking about like reading glasses and just everyday glasses that you wear so i don't
personally wear glasses so i did not test this out but i have tested out the face id with a mask
and i have to say that it is much better than when we had to unlock our phone with a mask
while wearing an apple watch it is very accurate and very fast i was genuinely impressed with this
and especially for a first beta i did not expect it to be so fast and so accurate
but it works very well so far and that's probably only going to improve throughout the beta stages
so i'm very excited for this feature this is a big feature i know it's late but apple had to
perfect it like usual now also in 15.4 we have 37 new emojis so apple does not usually release
new emojis in the first beta but they changed things up this year with ios 15 and we got 37
new emoji in the first beta of 15.4 so you can see some of the new ones right there i will have all
of the new emojis if you want to see every single one of the new ones i will have that linked down
in the description below but you can see quite a few of the new ones right here i really love
the one where it's pointing at you i think i can you know use that a lot in conversation along with
this one right here the melting face you can kind of see them a little bit bigger down here
as well if i go over to this section right here you can see some of those new ones right there so
i'm a fan of a lot of these emojis especially the picking one right there so always fun of
course it's not gonna make a huge difference in your day-to-day life but i always love having new
emoji now for those asking about new wallpapers unfortunately we do not have any new wallpapers
and this updates if we go to our wallpapers right here and then go to the still section you can see
nothing new has been added here in stills and the same with our dynamic wallpapers and our
live wallpapers nothing added here with 15.4 at least not in the very first beta just new emoji
another new feature in this update is a brand new widget so we now have an apple card widget that
shows your card balance your available credit and a chart of your weekly spending so you can
see right there i only spent money on wednesday so it shows on the w right there that's when i spent
some money and it is color coordinated with what you know category you spent money on so if you're
familiar with the apple card you know what i'm talking about but also if you go ahead and tap
and hold on this and go to edit widget you could change the period from weekly to monthly or yearly
so for instance if i changed it to monthly right here and then went back it will update and you
can see what months i spent money in and it is color coordinated as well with the categories so
pretty cool if you use the apple card now perhaps the biggest new feature that was released today
is universal control so yes universal control the long delayed super hyped feature that is coming
to the ipad and the mac has been released today in ipad os 15.4 beta 1 and mac os 12.3 beta 1.
so i will show you know that feature in action in my follow-up video this weekend just because i've
not downloaded the new mac os beta just yet but i will show you guys how that works in my follow up
this weekend super hyped about that feature and i cannot wait to test it out now as far as the
release notes go as you guys remember ios 15.3 did not have any release notes for any of the betas
or the final release which is very strange but ios 15.4 has a ton of things mentioned here and
the release notes along with some new features as you can see right here so i wanted to talk
about a couple of these this one is mainly for developers right here same with this one right
here but this one's pretty interesting so it says support is added to the passkey technology preview
enabling signing in to passkey compatible websites and apps on mac and ipad using an iphone with a
saved pass key we also now get support for the new dual sense adaptive trigger firmware features
so i'm not sure exactly what that is but i do know the dual sense is the ps5 controller so something
has been added with that we also have some new features for the health application and the first
one is pretty important so it says verifiable health records now support adding vaccination
records in the eu digital covit certificate the eu dcc format to the wallet and health applications
so that is good news if you are in the eu we also get a new share play feature so it says a new
group activities api allows you to present ui that enables starting a share play session from within
your app so i guess that's mainly for developers there being able to add that api so we should
start seeing more share play you know pop-ups added to applications in the future and then
several new features here for storekit if you are a developer so pretty interesting a lot of things
added in the release notes here 415.4 beta 1 which is always a good thing now as far as the digital
driver's license goes i know a lot of people have been asking about this non-stop ever since it was
first announced but the code is there in ios 15.4 but i'm not seeing any mention of a digital id
or digital driver's license anywhere in the wallet settings just yet now this could be added over
the air later on and once it gets approved for specific states and once apple you know fully
rolls this out but again you're only going to be able to use this at the airport anyway
for tsa so maybe we'll see something later on but for right now i don't see anything related
to that digital id in 15.4 beta 1. now apple is also working on a way to allow payments from
iphone to iphone without any additional hardware like a square reader or anything like that so mark
german reported on this and he says that this is coming in a future ios update so this is
not even something that requires new hardware it's just going to be enabled via software so
this could be coming in ios 16 or even at a later ios 15 release we'll have to wait and see but that
sounds very very interesting and i'm sure there are even more new features and changes in ios 15.4
beta 1 but that's all i found so far i will let you guys know when i find anything else of course
in my follow-up video on saturday and also in my future ios 15.4 beta videos now moving on
to the bugs and bug fixes once again referring back to the release notes right here you can see
that the release notes show quite a few known issues so i would expect some bugs given that
this is a first beta and especially because we do have a few new features and changes introduced in
this update as well so i would not expect it to be super stable not like 15.3 which was super stable
for a beta but i would not expect that and you can see there are a few known issues in here this one
right here says email address verification may not complete during the setup of an icloud plus
custom email domain the health app crashes when you attempt to onboard the blood oxygen feature
from within the application and there are multiple home kit issues here home issues as you can see
and also this one is interesting for messages a conversation transcript won't scroll after
viewing a photo and quick look that's pretty much everything mentioned in the release notes
there are some other things i wanted to talk about as well like the storage bug number one so
for most people this was fixed in ios 15.3 but if not make sure to go ahead and download 15.4 beta 1
if you do have a test device of course and check if this has been fixed for you and then i also
wanted to mention that viewing pdfs in safari is no longer laggy you're now able to actually view
a pdf in safari without it looking like it's you know just super lagging like you're on
a device with the storage almost full it was really bad in previous versions really ever
since ios 15 but that has been resolved here at least for me and 15.4 beta 1. now as far as the
performance goes performance feels just fine so far i mean i've had a few minor hiccups in
my limited time with the software so it doesn't feel quite as solid as 15.3 but that's expected
for a first beta and i will discuss my overall experience after spending more time
with the software in this weekend's follow-up video on saturday of course i post a video
every single saturday to let you guys know how these software versions have been running i did
also want to run a quick geekbench test so we got a 1734 on the single core and a 4817
on the multi-core so slightly lower than ios 15.3 but of course that could always improve
with future betas and of course we still have the final release to go so i would expect the
performance and the geekbench scores to improve with time and then as far as the battery life goes
battery life is always hard to tell after just using the software for such a short amount of time
but it feels the same to me so far of course it's not gonna really feel any different after only
using the software for a couple of hours so no real difference in battery life for me but i would
expect a minor hit just like with the performance but of course i will let you guys know in my
follow-up video on saturday how my experience has been with the battery life as well all right
so now what's next for apple so i'm guessing that we're gonna be on a weekly cycle for the ios 15.4
betas but of course time will tell and if we are on a weekly schedule i would expect beta 2 some
point next week most likely late next week like the third so february 3rd is a possibility for
the second beta or we could wait until early the next week on the week of the 7th maybe on the 7th
or the 8th but i would expect a weekly schedule for these releases and as far as the final release
we should see that probably in early march would be my guess now apple is rumored to have
a spring event so we could see the release of ios 15.4 after that event that is a possibility but of
course we'll have to wait and see a lot can change in a month and apple is always always changing
things up so stay tuned to the channel to keep up to date with what changes with these release dates
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