Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and ios 15.4 beta 1 has been out for a few days i've been using
it on my main device my iphone 13 pro max as well as my ipad pro and i have it on the other devices
here i wanted to talk about some new features that i didn't mention in the initial what's new
video as well as the overall stability what battery life is like and any remaining bugs
that are happening as well as what you had to say based off the youtube community poll
so we'll take a look at all those other things but first i want to talk about new features
and the first new feature which i mentioned in the what's new video but wanted to clarify something
is face id while wearing a mask or glasses but not having to use your apple watch if you go under
face id and passcode put in our password you'll see we have the option to use face id with a mask
and add some glasses this is a really nice feature now that we don't have to use an apple watch
it's more accurate however it's not available on anything older than an iphone 12 so on an iphone
11 like i have here if i go to the same place put in my passcode you'll see the options not here
so maybe this has to do with the neural engine but i wanted to clarify this because a lot of
people have been asking it's only iphone 12 and newer currently that doesn't mean they
can't update it in the future with future betas but right now it's only on the 12 and newer
maybe it has to do with the neural engine on the processor or something else but many people
have been asking that now as far as the first new feature i want to share with you one of them is in
the app store if we go to the app store and we tap our name in the upper right or our icon for our id
you'll see there's a new option for notifications this was not there in the previous version
if we tap on this notifications option you'll see it says new features and updates so we can
get notifications about that or recommendations and offers so we have those options now built
in we can turn them on or off and if you want to be updated of course now we have that option
so it's a nice little option for notifications there's also an update for notifications within
shortcuts so if we go into our shortcuts app and what you need to do is go into your automations
if you have a personal automation that you've already created such as when carplay connects
or something like that you'll see it says ask before running and notify when run
if we turn this on you'll see the other one disappears where it would ask before running what
you need to do is turn off ask before running it will prompt you and say don't ask before running
we'll tap on don't ask and you'll see the other option appears for notify when run
so if you want to get rid of those notifications when it's running in automation you can now do
that within notes there's a new option so if we tap on the little camera icon here
you'll see it says scan text in previous versions we didn't have that option we would have to sort
of tap and hold to scan the text now it's just a new option built in so choose photo or video
take photo or video scan documents and now scan text it's a nice little option they've added now
if you have an iphone 13 pro or pro max with 120 hertz promotion apple has now allowed third-party
apps to take full advantage of that where they had to go into their code and modify that you should
see more third-party apps supporting this whether that be overcast or something else scrolling seems
smooth and they may need to enable a trigger within their code itself to enable this but
either way they've given them more options so it should be smoother and in much more apps from what
we've seen so far so hopefully we'll see that very soon in the future within settings is a new mail
option if you subscribe to icloud plus so if we go to settings tap on your name at the top and then
icloud under icloud you'll see icloud mail tap on icloud mail and you'll see it says custom email
domain you can learn more and you can add your own domain again you'll need icloud plus and there was
a splash screen the first time i went into this i wanted to share that with you so here's the custom
email domain splash screen it says use icloud mail to send and receive email with up to five custom
domains that you already own members of your family sharing group can also use your domains
you have only for you you and your family now it's a little bit buggy and you can go
into it and try and set it up but oftentimes it doesn't even open so you should see this prompt
once you open that up and try it but it is a little bit buggy in the first beta but it's
a new option there within settings there's a new option as well so in settings if we go to general
then we go to background app refresh scroll all the way to the bottom you'll see there's now an
option for web web is something that isn't in previous versions such as 15.3 you'll see here
if i scroll to the bottom there's no web on 15.3 on the left and there's no icon for web either
so this is something that's new we're not sure what it is but they've added it in the beta so
something a little bit new and thanks to jack for sending that in now if you're adding a password on
a website in safari and maybe you don't have an email address you've just entered the password
it will now prompt you with a new prompt and ask you to enter that and see if you want to
save it in your your keychain so you can see here this is what it looks like it says would you like
to save this password in your icloud keychain to use across apps and websites on all your devices
enter the username for this account to finish saving your password and allow safari to autofill
thanks to ryan for sending this in and as you can see this is what it looks like so you can save it
or hit not now so you'll only get that if you're setting up a new password or maybe logging in and
you have a password only set up for that website now additionally nine to five mac found that
within the code there's a new trade-in tool for scanning cosmetic details with your iphone camera
so this is something that could be used if you're trading in your iphone and you'll
see here it says the tool will use the camera to detect cosmetic details of another device
which probably include things like scratches dents or broken glass once the scan is complete the tool
will send the cosmetic details to apple apple considers all these details to determine how much
it will pay for a customer's old device so this is a tool we could see in the future when you go to
trade in your phone it may use your camera to scan that whether you'll need any iphone or maybe a 13
pro max specifically we don't know but it looks like that tool should be available in the near
future when 15.4 launches and thanks to everyone else that sent in all of the different things that
are new in this update as well as the things that i didn't put here that i actually checked across
everything i always appreciate people letting me know if they think they've found something new
now as far as the overall stability in this update well it's pretty good for the most part
my experience has been stable over the past day or so but the first day i used it i had
the phone completely crash it restarted and i have a low battery on a couple devices here
it restarted and then completely crashed rebooted re-sprung or respringed and then
came back to normal it hasn't done that since but others have mentioned they've seen the same
thing so there's definitely some stability issues going on and of course you want to report that in
the feedback app however i have most issues when i use photos so i airdropped a photo to this device
when i'm usually looking at wallpapers and things like that i'll do that dropped it to the device
and it crashed the phone that's where it initially crashed also adding a photos in messages or adding
a photo in messages typically gives me a problem unless i use the share sheet within photos
also there's delays in saving photos sometimes when saving from other apps they just don't
show up in the photo app so something's changing there so maybe we'll see some updates to photos
in the future since there's some odd bugs with that those are the bugs i've experienced and
many of you say it's fairly stable other than what i've already mentioned
a few people were mentioning issues or one person in particular was mentioning an issue with fitness
plus so if you're using apple fitness plus they were saying that it was a little bit
slow or unresponsive so again consider these things when you're wanting to try out a beta
there's definitely some bugs in this first beta everything from universal control on the ipad
being a little bit buggy seems to work pretty good but there's definitely some issues here and there
also that storage bug seems to be more prominent in this update than any other i've used when i
go into storage wait for it to load it seems to take a very long time or just not load at all on
my 13 pro max even on 15.3 it seemed to be fixed and it's not in this one so you'll see it just
loaded here but when i looked at it the other day it wouldn't load system data still has it loaded
and we still don't have the icons on the side so whatever's going on there apple's making a change
we're not aware of yet but i would expect that to be resolved hopefully soon and i'll be sure
to report that in feedback and if you're using the beta i would recommend you do too if you have
that issue other than those bugs it seems to be pretty good now the experience on my ipad has been
fairly steady as well so on the ipad it's been pretty good i haven't had any issues but battery
life is where there's always a concern so on my ipad if we go into battery i haven't had my ipad
crash or anything at all you'll see it was last charged to 100 39 minutes ago and i'm still at 100
because of that so if we go back a day i used it for two hours and 26 minutes and it had 21 hours
and 33 minutes of screen off time i never use this with the screen off i'm not streaming music with
it or anything so there's some odd bugs here and there that keep draining battery for no reason
and in that time with that two and a half hours i used about 45 percent of the battery or so so
this could definitely get better again i'm trying to figure out what's causing this background drain
you'll see find my is causing some of it photos might be files and things like that but there's
some odd issues going on with battery on the ipad and there has been for a while but i think this
time around it's a little bit worse at least for me as far as the iphone is concerned well let's
take a look at my battery here so we'll go back go to the battery there it is look at battery
health and as i mentioned in my 15.3 video for the follow-up i wanted to show you battery on
an older device as many people have been asking for that so the iphone 10 has 88 battery health
it's a few years old at this point it was charged every single night but it's still performing fine
i wouldn't really change the battery unless it tells you to or you get really low maybe down
to 70 percent or so but it seems to be okay on this update now as far as my battery life
when i'm actually using it well over the past couple days let's take a look at friday here
friday was pretty poor so you'll see 1 hour and 49 minutes of screen on time 7 hours and
14 minutes of screen off time and i used almost 75 of my battery so that's not very good at all
then well yesterday two hours and eight minutes of screen on time eight hours and five minutes of
screen off time and i used 50 so battery life on this bait is pretty poor for me and others
are saying the same thing i had a user comment that said the exact same thing his name's renee
messaged me and said this battery life is not so great and others are saying the same it's a first
beta they've added a bunch of features typically battery will take a hit a little bit there now
i want to share with you someone else's battery life as well just so it's not just my experience
but this is thanks to abashek for sending this in on an 11promax on 15.4 beta 1. you'll see
he had five hours and 23 minutes of screen on time and 16 minutes of screen off time and used
about 50 percent of the battery so he's actually have having much better battery life probably
10 hours 11 hours of screen on time which is correct for that phone so that's pretty good and
then yesterday three hours and 54 minutes and then 23 minutes of screen off time and again 50 battery
so it's a little more consistent for him than it is for me and in general it's doing pretty well
as far as overall connectivity it's actually been really good for me so my experience when coming
from 15.3 to 15.4 beta 1 they did update the modem and i've had no issues it seems to connect much
faster for me now with this beta so they changed something there that definitely improved it at
least in my situation on this phone so i'd love to hear if you're having the same experience as well
wi-fi and bluetooth and everything else has been fairly solid and most of you mentioned the same
thing so it seems to be a pretty decent update but there are a few issues i typically find them to be
around photos now as far as when to expect ios 15.4 beta 2 and then the final release
i don't really think we're going to have beta 2 this coming week in the beginning of february i
would think it's going to be in the second week so i'm not sure of that yet of course apple can
change that up but typically just based off of year over year and previous betas i would expect
the first two or three betas to be bi-weekly and then we move to weekly releases if they do release
it this coming week well then we can expect it sooner than i thought but i would expect this
beta to be out by the end of february or sometime in mid to late march depending on how they release
the betas so within the next couple of months probably leading up leading up to a spring event
usually where they'll release this around that time frame sometime in late march so hopefully
we'll see that along with a bunch of new products such as imac and more now let's take a look at the
youtube community poll and take a look at some of the comments now at the time of this video let me
refresh it here there's 8.9 k votes or 8 900 votes and 142 comments prior to making this video i read
all the comments to give you an idea of what it's like the bugs and more and you'll see eighteen
percent are on fifteen point four beta one seventy one percent are on beta three or fifteen point
three rather and you can see that from the fifteen point three poll many people watching this channel
and voting on this are still on the public version two percent are still on ios 14.8.1 or older
one percent are on 13.7 or older and seven percent are using android so thanks again
to everyone who commented and voted let's take a look at 5 or 10 comments or so roberto said
15.4 beta 1 here no major issues here only a minor glitch with the keyboard seems to reload every 5
or 10 seconds and with the rhodes exit and car play characters are way too big battery is not a
problem so far brayden said everything has been fine for me with the exception of two things
battery life and fitness plus is slow and sometimes unresponsive on my apple tv 4k tv os
15.4 beta 1. rahul mundra said very buggy for me on my iphone 10s max the entire front and back
camera module along with face id is now broken and does not work have put the same in feedback
app i've tried to use a fresh install of 15.4 but in vain have to downgrade to 15.3 public release
also bugs in the email app ios 15.4 beta on iphone 10 good performance but no major changes from 15.3
disappointed from apple for now giving new face id features for old phones connectivity is might
be the issue battery is good jd says 13 pro 15.4 beta 1 working great notifications to randomly
glitch and turn squared instead of round just dave said i had ios 15.4 on my 13 pro max since
release without any issues so nice not having to go through the screen time workaround every day
to turn off the shortcuts notifications mel harris said using 15.4 beta 1 on my 12 mini and ipad pro
12.9 it has been great battery life is excellent and very smooth no crashes all apps work properly
and opening fast universal control is fantastic jeremy debose said 15.4 13 pro max and 2018 ipad
pro solid so far no freezes crashes resprings etc strong battery performance still so far so good
philip watts says i'm running 15.4 beta on 12 pro max and it's been running good and the battery
life has been excellent faraz said i'm using ios 15.4 beta 1 on an iphone 13 pro max still have
the same buttery and flowness experience though feeling a quick battery drain however the usage
is the same as earlier abhishek lamba said ios 15.4 beta 1 on an iphone 11 pro max it's been fine
until now waiting for the face id mask feature which is tremendously useful these days hope apple
brings it in the next beta but ram management is good the keyboard clicks while entering password
is weird it sounds like double clicks otherwise it is quite smooth and stable to date colin 1c apple
tech says i'm using an iphone 10s with ios 15.4 beta 1 ever since release and it's doing just fine
and the battery life is at 4 hours and 30 minutes of screen on time and 40 minutes of screen off
time with 78 of maximum capacity seems to be doing just fine after school days and thank you zolotek
for the hard work you've been doing on youtube and thank you for watching christian 7 says i'm on ios
15.4 beta 1 and i don't have any issues on my 13 pro max this is my main device and so far it's
been running great my battery is the same i had on 15.3 and so that's everything with ios 15.4 beta 1
be sure to check back pretty soon hopefully we'll have beta 2 and if you found any additional
features i'd love to hear from you in the comments below as maybe there's some other things we've
missed here so it looks like there's going to be a lot of little changes coming in the future
and then of course ios 16 with wwdc in june so we should see ios 16 hopefully with a minor or
major redesign and some additional features and more if there's anything else you'd like to see
in these follow-up videos i'd love to hear from you in the comments below and of course if you'd
like to get your hands on this wallpaper i'll link it in the description like i normally do
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