hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and ios 15.4 beta 3 has been out for a few days i've
been using it full time on my iphone 13 pro max and wanted to share the overall experience with
you not only based off my experience but based off your experience based on the youtube community
poll so at the time of this video there's over 11 000 votes and 161 comments so i took all of those
comments i've read all of them and then compiled a list of the things that we can experience within
this particular update whether that be good or bad now the first thing is my experience overall has
actually been pretty good as far as performance and promotion and things like that with smoothness
on the latest devices so i really haven't seen any issues with that i haven't had any crashes
or reboots or anything like that and i've also had pretty good cellular connectivity you'll see right
now i'm on 5g uc and switching between that and 5g seems to be pretty good if we take a look at
speed test here you'll see my overall speeds are pretty good i am in the middle of nowhere kind
of but we'll go to speed test and let's see what we get so we'll hit go and cellular connectivity
switching has been much better in this particular update it was improved before but now it's even
better so you'll see i'm almost well i'm 530 to 550 megabits per second even a little bit higher
than that for download we'll give it just a moment to upload we're almost hitting 600 at this point
so 585 and then about 27 megabits per second up give or take so it's actually quite good this is
a sub 6 version of 5g it's quite good so no issues there and i haven't had any switching switching
with wi-fi and everything else seems to be good as well now i know some people had some issues with
wi-fi that seems to be dependent on the modem or the router that you're using rather and it
doesn't seem to be an issue for me but if you do have issues i would look for a router update as
i've seen a few different odd issues typically on things like cisco or linksys but either way
check for an update there if you haven't already also bluetooth seems to be pretty good
so bluetooth connectivity whether that be with air pods or something else seem to connect pretty
well so if i grab my air pods here i'll just pull them out of my backpack that's to the left of me
grab the air pods open them up let's see what we get see how quickly they connect and they actually
connected to my my ipad first but you'll see they pop right open and we're good to go so air pods
seem to connect fine i haven't had any drops there or anything else also there's a few fixed things
in this update that i wanted to mention and the first one is some people sent me an odd blur that
was in the upper left so depending on what you're doing whether that's in the control center or
somewhere else there was this odd blur sort of a box in the upper left that would just stay there
it wouldn't go away all the time sometimes when you'd go into settings it would be there
and then other times it would just appear randomly and then go away that seems to be fixed in beta 3.
i've had no reports of that and i've even seen people mention that it's resolved in this update
as far as the storage bug i've had 99 of you tell me that the storage bug has been resolved
while it doesn't load as fast as it did with previous updates it definitely seems to load fast
and the information is accurate so it's much much better and you'll see there we go it just
continues to update so it's much better system update's not showing that will take a moment but
in general it's actually working this time around where before with previous betas sometimes it just
wouldn't load altogether now before i talk about the overall bugs in this update i did want to
mention battery life now i've been using this full time like i said on my 13 pro max and my ipad pro
my battery health on my iphone is 100 and that's from charging it every single night and i fast
charge it using a a magsafe charger or a wireless charger depending on where i'm at whether that be
on my nightstand next to my bed or somewhere else and you'll see yesterday i had two hours
and six minutes of screen on time six hours and six minutes of screen off time today so far i've
had two hours and four minutes of screen on time and four hours and 30 minutes of screen off time
i'm having some apps use the background quite a bit but i haven't seen siri do this where it did
before i do believe music is still having that bug though where it's using additional battery life
but also a few of you shared your battery life with me as well so if we go into photos
you'll see this one's from abashek and you'll see this is on an 11 pro max and today he's
had three hours and 47 minutes of screen on time 48 minutes of screen off time and used about 30
of his battery if we take a look at a debut a couple days before that 7 hours and 40 minutes and
then 27 minutes of screen off time using a hundred percent of his battery so it's okay it's not
phenomenal but it's decent on an iphone 13 sent in from matthew these screenshots are a little blurry
for some reason but a couple days ago the day it came out or the day after it came out he had one
hour and 56 minutes of screen on time one hour and 48 minutes of screen off time and used 25 of his
battery so like i said it varies greatly depending on device this is actually quite good you'll see
here four hours and 28 minutes one hour and 17 minutes and used about 30 percent of his battery
the ipad though is a different story so on the ipad i've had a really terrible experience with
battery smoothness and everything else seems to be fine but when we go into the battery we'll give
it just a moment here and you'll see it says it was last charged thursday at 202 am that's
actually not accurate at all since it was charged before that and after that and you'll see here
today i've used it for 44 minutes yesterday i used it for an hour and 56 minutes my screen on time
is about five hours with this device i feel like i'm plugging it in more and more and some people
say to wipe the device i've tried that in the past but this continues to be an issue not only
on this ipad but other ipads i've seen as well now as far as additional issues that are working well
one thing i didn't mention before is that automated shortcuts seem to be working better
if you're using automations and things like that so most people are saying that this has
been resolved however there's odd issues still going on with maybe dragging different things
around within shortcuts when you're setting it up changing a shortcut it's causing problems so maybe
you go into this one here and you want to change something around sometimes it's just not easy to
do so sometimes there's some odd bugs but for the most part shortcut seems to be working much better
apple did not mention whether or not the pink display or purple display bug has been resolved
and i haven't seen it myself nobody's commented on it no one's messaged me about it so at this
point it seems like it's probably fixed some people did say they hadn't seen it with beta 2.
again that music bug seems to be a continued ongoing issue where music is regularly causing
additional cpu usage and in turn causing a lot of battery drain so when you're playing music
that's not downloaded and it's streaming well that can cause a problem if it's downloaded it
takes care of that problem so if you're listening to the same music over and over i would suggest
downloading it for now until it's fully resolved as far as apple carplay i've seen other people
say that they continue to have issues and on reddit someone was able to use carplay
but not until they rebooted their device so they'd plug it in then they'd have to reboot in
order to get it to work properly i've seen ongoing issues and it doesn't seem to be the manufacturer
apple for some reason changed something and it's causing a lot of problems
there's also some mention of lag and slow down now that could be on certain devices that are a
little bit older this is an iphone 10 or it could be on other devices but there's slow down from
time to time some people are seeing with lag and there's not a whole lot of mentions of lockups but
there are quite a few mentions of apps crashing so that could be random apps espn other apps as well
where they would just be in that app and it would completely crash depending on what you're doing
typical apple apps don't seem to have that problem but third-party apps may need to be updated in
order for that to work properly again spotlight is not showing contacts for some people so if you're
using spotlight to search for contacts it seems to be an issue for some there's also an odd issue
when you're using handoff maybe you're playing music and you want to airplay your hand off to an
to a homepod or something else where it just sometimes doesn't work you can send that to
a different device and it doesn't seem to work however i've noticed this personally
trying to send mac audio over to home pods that are paired that are sort of in a stereo pair i
haven't been able to get that to work with the recent public update so maybe there's something
that they changed that's going on there one other thing to mention is someone did say that their
vpns are not working again we saw this in the past i would maybe try and turn off private relay and
see if that resolves it within your settings otherwise it seems to be okay for most people
like i said before performance is good whether that be on this device or others but i did want
to share with you the geekbench scores as i mentioned before where in geekbench 5 i ran
this again just before filming this video and i have 1730 for single core 4778 from multicore if
we go to the history we'll take a look at that you can see today on february 18th first the previous
time we have a higher single core on both not only this but beta 2 which was february 8th and
we also have a higher multi-core on both so after using this for a few days the score increased like
i would expect and let me share with you a couple other devices here just so you get an idea of what
they are and so i have the iphone 10 on the left and the iphone 11 on the right and you can see
these scores i just wanted to share them with you as i said i would in the what's new video so that
gives you an idea if yours are anywhere near this it should be about the same and if they're within
about 100 either direction it should be doing just fine one other thing i wanted to mention
is apple stopped signing ios 15.3 what that means is that it's no longer available to downgrade to
typically when they do that it means a new update is going to be coming out very soon now at this
point since we're a few weeks away i believe from 15.4 maybe we'll see in ios 15.3.2 as soon as next
week i don't know this for sure but typically when apple does that we'll see it within a couple weeks
so they could just wait until 15.4 releases and so as far as ios 15.4 i would expect maybe beta
4 on next tuesday or next wednesday with a release candidate the following week and around the apple
event that's expected on march 8th i would expect a final release now of course this could change
they could release it earlier than that or even later but typically that's what apple does so i'm
waiting to see if they're going to put out a new little update with security updates and bug fixes
such as 15.3.2 or not so we'll have to wait and see what they do with that but i expect
the final release of 15.4 in the second week of march at this point unless apple says otherwise
now as far as anything else well that seems to be everything in this update i did do a more new
more new features video the other day but i also wanted to share with you the youtube community
poll and i wanted to do this a little bit different i started doing these polls years ago
some others have taken the idea and used it as well and so i want to change this up a little
bit and read some of the comments in a little bit more personal way and maybe talk to you directly
if you had questions and more in future videos but let's take a look at the poll and then we'll talk
about some of the comments so you'll see here 20 percent of you now are on ios 15.4 beta 3.
69 of you are on 15.3.1 2 of you are on 14.8.1 one percent are on 13.7 or older and eight percent of
you are using android so thanks to everyone who voted and commented it really helps us get a great
idea of what the overall experience is like within this update now i want to talk to you a little bit
more personally this time around and maybe change up the follow-up videos just for something a
little bit different since we're outside so i have five or ten comments on my ipad right below here
and we'll read off a few of those and i'll respond if there's any questions and things like
that especially in future videos if we want to do that now the first comment is from james rigo or
riggett i'm not sure how to pronounce that but i apologize running ios 15.4 beta 3 on my iphone 13
pro max and ipad pro 2021 and so far it's running fairly well notice the bug when streaming music
for the first time in this release makes my phone warm up a bit and i get the odd music glitch in
carplay very impressed with universal control though and that's one of the things i've been
waiting for since the announcement of ios 15 and mac os 12 and finally it'll be coming to all of
our devices probably in a few weeks renault butler said running ios 15.4 beta 3 in my 10s max no bugs
to report when i downloaded it over the air i had started to see battery drainage but i but what i
did was erase the phone saved a backup first and rebooted from the saved backup i found out that by
doing so it fixed the problem and gave me three to four gigabytes back on my iphone storage capacity
not icloud storage by doing this it helps i even did it on my ipad pro m1 2021 i hope this helps
i haven't tried that but i have fully wiped my devices before and tried installing over itunes or
finder on a mac and that didn't seem to help so much for me but if i don't see this improve in
the future of course i'll try it again christina viriam or virum said ios 15.4 beta 3 is running
good on my iphone 11 pro max there's a little bit of room for improvement in regards to battery life
but it still gets me through a whole day the only bug i have in google photos or is
that in google photos that it keeps crashing on me and i'm not too bothered about it so i really
don't have any complaints paul turner said on my iphone 11 pro ios 15.4 beta 3 so far so good
my automated shortcuts finally started working again which hadn't worked since ios 14. battery
life is no better or worse than the previous betas however time will tell and i mentioned
this particular issue earlier where shortcuts is definitely seeming to perform better this time
around there's also a small change where it will allow you to input things for facebook messenger
although i wasn't able to find that and i didn't mention in my sort of what's new or more new
features videos either the aviator 7 says wait beta 3 is already out beta 2 isn't even public yet
and i actually had a video on that so hopefully if you're subscribed and you have notifications
on you'll actually see those updates and sometimes people are telling me they're not seeing those in
my feed for some reason in my subscriber feed or just in my regular channel feed however it should
be there and i have a video all about it with even additional features and more noaa messer says it's
been pretty good for me on my iphone 13 pro max and my 12.9 inch ipad pro from 2020. performance
and battery are good the only issue i'm having is trying to connect either my phone or my iphone or
my ipad audio to my homepod minis and when they are connected there are all sorts of audio issues
the audio keeps abruptly cutting in and out and it's really annoying i actually noticed this
issue on beta 2 and it's still here on beta 3. hopefully apple will fix this by the rc or final
release of ios 15.4 i did submit feedback on this to apple and love your videos and thank you and
i have the exact same issue when i go to airplay i thought it was just me at first and then i saw
this comment and you actually sent me some of that information and some screenshots and i appreciate
that so i actually found this exact same issue when i go to airplay or sort of dump that audio
over to a homepod it doesn't seem to work properly so it's really annoying and i'm i'm sure it'll be
fixed but again we'll have to submit feedback and wait for them to do that jeremy dubose says
13 pro max and 2018 ipad pro no major issues battery is not as good as 15.3 was 8 to 10 hours
verse 10 to 12. no resprings and only a couple times where the phone froze for a few seconds if i
could only get my airpods to stop connecting while in the case i haven't seen that but i have had a
few people message me i think it's really hit or miss so maybe try unpairing them repair them and
hopefully it resolves the issue or it may take an update in the future with beta 4 or beyond brandon
styles says i'm running 15.4 beta 3 on an iphone 13 pro i'm experiencing issues with spotlight
search not displaying information from my contacts is anyone else having this issue i mentioned this
a little bit earlier in the video i personally haven't seen this but i don't really search my
contacts a whole lot but i do see them popping up when i search for different things so maybe
turn the option on and off in spotlight and see if it helps if not definitely report that in feedback
george banahin says ios 15.4 beta 3 hasn't been bad but there are minor setbacks for one i feel as
if the battery life on my iphone 11 has gotten a bit weaker even though my battery health has been
100 on about five months of use and i've had an app crash not long ago about 40 minutes ago but
that's only happened once otherwise everything is fine like i said many people are seeing apps crash
that could be a result of the update or maybe they change something so those apps need to be updated
we'll just have to wait and see joe jenkins says i'm running ios 15.4 beta 3 on an iphone 12
performance is good so far and battery life is good as well the only issue i'm having is my
widget stacks are not working properly it's not rotating like it should otherwise everything else
is running smooth so i haven't seen that myself but i have had them rotate to a point where i
don't want them to i'll remove that turn it off and then i see it again on another device where
it constantly rotates even though that option is off i don't want it to switch automatically but it
does sometimes philip watts said i'm running ios 15.4 beta 3 and the performance is all right and
battery has been good on my 12 pro max and so with this update if many of you are wondering
if you should try out 15.4 beta 3 or maybe just betas in general this one's pretty stable but
i would just warn you that if you don't have a backup and don't know how to revert back to
a public version maybe you want to hold off or if you're just trying to solve bugs and battery life
definitely don't try out a beta for that reason as they will generally have bugs and that's what
they're all about figuring out what the issues are since there's millions of devices out there
and we all have a slightly different set of apps and different experience overall now i'd love
to hear from you in the comments below whether or not you found any additional features and whether
or not you like this sort of video where i'm on camera during the comments or maybe something else
you'd love to see in these follow-up videos i kind of use these as a time to try some different ideas
and see if they work for you so or work for all of us really and see how they are overall
but let me know what you think about that 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 i'm using an iphone
so the front-facing camera is not in the normal spot but if you want to get this wallpaper like i
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the video please give it a like as always thanks for watching this is Aaron i'll see you next time