so very ironically as soon as i start talking trash about the battery performance on ios 15.4
it stops draining it's been like a solid 20 to 25 minutes at this point and it hasn't gone down for
48 at all absolutely ridiculous the second i start talking trash about it it won't go down wow okay
hello everyone iscooltech here so apple has just released ios 15.4 to the general public bringing
a ton of new features and changes so in this video i'm going to be taking a look to see if
it's worth updating your first generation iphone sc to this release so we'll take a look at things
like the battery life the overall performance animation smoothness etc so of course if you do
have an iphone se and you care about that iphone se you should absolutely consider subscribing to
the channel so you always know if it's a good idea to update your phone or not anyways let's
get straight into the content all right so as always we're going to start off with the overall
performance so considering that this chip in the iphone sc first generation the a9 is almost seven
years old it does not fail to impress in terms of performance even when on ios 15.4 so for example
opening up the app store is fairly quick it's not the fastest thing in the world it's not like
a 13 pro max or an iphone 12 but it definitely is really quick for its age opening up a lighter app
like the calendar of course is almost instant uh the camera is also really quick and almost ready
to go as soon as you launch the app all right so next up we're going to run a quick benchmark using
geekbench 5. so i'm going to open up geekbench here cpu benchmark and run benchmark now i'm
not going to make you guys sit and wait through this i'll be right back when it has completed
all right so now you guys can see here we have a single core score of 559 and multi-core score
of 10 19. so taking a look at the averages you can see here that on average the iphone
se first generation receives a single core of 536 and a multi-core of 986. so this is
about normal it's not too much of a difference at all you won't notice it in real world usage which
is a good thing considering that these averages are what your device should be performing all
right so now let's talk about the animation speed so since updating ios 15.4 i have noticed
absolutely no difference in the animation speeds overall it is really the same as every other ios
15 release in my experience animations are very smooth basically i haven't noticed any serious
changes since about ios 13 really ios 14 more like it which is good because throughout ios 14
and even some early releases of ios 15 animations seem to be improved more and more per update but
now they are at a point where they are just really smooth and i don't notice any major stuttering
in the widgets pages or in the app library or anything as we used to last year with ios 14.
now of course the ram management i would say it's also about the same i haven't noticed any
major app reloads or anything of the source since updating to 15.4 if anything it might be slightly
better than before since a lot has been ironed out but compared to 15.3 and 15.3.1 i really haven't
noticed much of a change at all so if you're one of my more observant viewers you may have noticed
that my battery percentage has taken a steep nose dive throughout this video and that is pretty true
but before i talk about that i do want to mention quickly that my maximum capacity is currently 87
almost time for a replacement and has had unexpected shutdowns before
but i have manually turned off all the protections as you can see right here
so back to the battery life yeah since updating ios 15.4 i've noticed a pretty direct
hit on the battery life on the iphone sc first generation uh mainly coming from ios 15.3 and
15.3.1 which were actually pretty good in terms of battery for me uh and i think this is a major
reason i would not recommend you update to ios 15.4 if you're currently experiencing
good battery life on the previous release or any previous releases of ios 15.
because ios1504 like i said i've noticed very poor battery life of course it's kind of slowed down
with this latest release of ios 15.4 when compared to earlier betas but it's still definitely worse
than it was beforehand all right so as much as i would love to be able to at least say that
the standby drain has improved it really hasn't it's actually the worst i've really seen it in at
least two years at this point when i was thinking of a drain of about 20 to 25 overnight which is
absolutely abysmal i again haven't seen a drain like this since somewhere in the middle of ios 13
which we all know was notorious for a bad battery life on iphones like the iphone se so of course um
with bad standby drain also comes a little bit of overheating i have noticed the phone gets slightly
warm nothing that should impact your daily usage but i thought i would mention it in this video
understand that almost everyone is going to have a different experience there are so many variables
that you have to consider like your battery health your usage your configuration all that
type of stuff really determine how your phone will perform in terms of battery life and overheating
so i just want to let you all know as always that you know that is the case so with all that being
said i wouldn't recommend updating ios 15.4 just yet it would maybe wait another release or two
like maybe a 15.4.1 15.4.2 or even 15.5 depending on how apple goes forward um unless you absolutely
have to update again if you're doing perfectly fine on your current release of ios i would just
recommend waiting there if you don't need to update all right everyone that is all i have
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is all i have for this video thank you for watching and i will see you in the next one
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