hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and today
Apple released iOS 16.4 to the public this is available to everyone everywhere around the world
at the exact same time on the iPhone 8 all the way up to the iPhone 14 pro Max so if you have an
iPhone that supports iOS 16 you'll be able to install this update now this particular update
will vary in size anywhere from about a gigabyte to over five gigabytes if it needs to do a full
install depending on what version you're actually upgrading from now there's over 50 features
to talk about so let's go ahead and just jump right in and get started but if you want to see
all the different sections we're going to talk about be sure to check out the chapters Linked
In the description now the first thing has to do with messages so let's go into messages and
you can see we have new Emoji this is to comply with the latest Unicode standard and we have
everything from a shaking face to a pink heart a blue heart we have a mousse a jellyfish we have
a hair pick we also have hands facing up and 21 total with different skin colors and more for
the different ends and then of course you have other things such as Maracas and more so those are
available to everyone now the next thing has to do with cellular voice calls something's been added
that's been here for a while for FaceTime but if we place a phone call if you make a phone call
and you go into the control center you'll now have a voice isolation option while we had this
for FaceTime calls for a while we now have this for phone calls so it should help isolate your
voice from your surrounding environment if it's a little bit noisy now within settings under
cellular data if we go into our voice and data settings depending on your carrier you'll now have
5G Standalone as an option this is available on T-Mobile some people are seeing it in Thailand and
other places around the world depending on what your carrier is also iOS 16.4 brings 5G support
for turkey so those have all been added they may have added it to other countries but they haven't
said specifically now there's a lot to talk about in music as Apple has updated this a little bit
if we go into music and then we go to an artist page and on the left I have IOS 16.3.1 and if
we go to NF here you'll see at the top we now have a little icon with the artist and then
we can go into this then we get to the main screen with the different album information so
it's just a little bit different and it's been updated also when you favorite an artist there's
a new animation so if we favorite the artist you have a new animation here let me show you that
a little closer just want to favorite the artist it looks a little different within an album if
you tap the three dot menu you see rate song If you have this enabled now has a new icon where
it's a star that's sort of half filled in they've also updated a bunch of animations within music
meaning if you add to playlist play next or play last the overall animation is different so if we
tap add to playlist then we tap my mix playlist we'll just add again so you can see it and you'll
see it pops up at the bottom this was different before where it just popped up on the whole
screen they've done the same for play next again it shows up at the bottom play last so you get
the idea but it's completely changed all of the different animations for that also when you're in
a library you can now access your profile in the upper right tap on your little icon in the upper
right it goes to your account and you can view your profile here back in the artist page we have
a new icon for sorting instead of just the word so if you tap on it you can sort by title recently
editor here but it just looks a little different now within the album if I play a song we'll
just tap on this one here you can see the little waveform next to it has been updated with
a little accurate waveform of the actual song and if you want to listen to Just classical music that
will be a completely separate app with apple music classical going forward and along with music we
also have Shazam that's built into the phone but if we have the app and we go into maybe an album
here tap the three dots in the upper right there's a new menu there so that has been updated in 16.4
now if we go over one here to Apple Books Apple Books has been updated where they've brought back
the page turn animation when we go into a book we go to the menu in the bottom right in that menu
go to themes and settings and then we have this option here tap on the option and we can now
change it from slide to curl or none they took away the page turn animation and now they've
brought it back so you can turn the page like a normal book and it looks a little bit different
when we're in light mode here it's easier to see and you can see we can just turn the page like for
reading an actual book this is something a lot of people wanted back and I'm glad it's returned
while it gets an update as well if we go over to our widgets and then just press here or scroll
at the bottom and hit edit scroll down under our widgets if we go to wallet scroll over you'll see
we now have order tracking so there's a regular size sort of a double size and then a quadruple
size for active order tracking so if you have a lot of orders within maybe Apple wallet where
it's tracking things you've purchased they'll show up as far as a widget goes so that's a nice
little addition and if we go into our settings and then go to wallet we have a new setting there as
well so we go down to wallet and Apple pay if we scroll down you'll see we have a new option for
compatible cards it says verifies that your saved cards in Safari autofill are compatible with Apple
pay and allow you to use them in wallet so you can turn that on or leave it off within the wallet
app itself if you go into your Apple card in the bottom right there's a new sort option you can
sort by all payments disputed transactions refunds and adjustments and purchases we also have some
new options if you're using a Discover card and I took a screenshot of this since the message
has since disappeared but you'll see it says virtual card number enabled that's for Discover
card it says continue to use your card as usual when shopping online it's now available in Safari
autofill with your real card information hidden so that's a nice update similar to what Apple's own
card does for your iPhone additionally when you go to make a payment for your Apple card the overall
animation is a little bit different when you do that so now when you make a payment it looks like
this so you can see it's just a slight animation or change to the overall look of it so that's been
updated there's also some accessibility updates that are very nice so if we go into settings and
then we go to accessibility under motion we have a new option for dim flashing lights this says
video content that depicts repeated flashing or strobing lights will be automatically dimmed now
this can interfere with things like YouTube where it seems dim all the time however it should
use AI to figure out what's overly bright or strobing and then reduce that for you to help you
out additionally if you use voiceover they've now added additional support for maps and the weather
app so if you're using voiceover to recognize what's on the display weather should now give you
information as well as maps in general so that should be an additional thing to help you out
a little bit more if you're unable to see that there's also some new Siri voices so if we
go back and within Syrian search if we go to our language and then we change it to Arabic
we have two new voices here there's a couple others as well I'll show you in a moment but
if we go to our Siri voice here's voice one and here's voice too again if we go back and we change
our voice to Hebrew there's also some updates here as well so we'll go
back go into our voice here's voice one and here's voice two hi back within settings if we go into Focus under our
Focus modes depending on which mode we're using if we're using one maybe for office scroll down add
a filter and if you have an iPhone 14 pro or 14 pro Max with an always on display you'll have a
new Option here to enable or disable the always on display based on the overall Focus filter so
that's available now under display and brightness if we scroll down and go to always on display
you'll see that they've rearranged some of the options so this is just more of a visual change
with some new wording but they've switched it around where we have always on display at the
bottom now instead within photos if we scroll down to the bottom in an album we have the option
for duplicates if you have duplicates they'll show up and while that's not new with iOS 16 what is
new is it now works across shared photo albums so if you have a shared album with families
using iCloud shared photo library this will now scan that and allow you to merge those and
it will change across the different devices so you can merge those copies emerges them together
and they're no longer duplicates so you'll start seeing those as it scans the library for that
also if we go to a landmark you'll see this picture here which is one I actually took of the
World Trade Center if we tap on this it actually identifies it with visual lookup so if we tap on
this this is something again we've had for a while where it identifies landmarks flowers animals
and more and it's showing up in more places such as Philippines Ireland and others with this
particular update so if you're seeing that let me know in the comments below shortcuts gets a bunch
of different actions and this time around there's 12 of them and you can see them here I've actually
added them just to show you quickly but you'll see there's one for shutdown auto answer calls set
silence unknown callers set always on display lock screen intercom said announce notifications
set night shift set VPN set true tone set stage manager so all of those have been added as far as
action and additionally if we go into one of these we can actually change the icon at the top now so
if we go in here you'll see it says choose icon and we can change this around whether or not we
want the standard icons we had before or one that actually matches what we're talking about whether
it's settings or not you now have the option to change that to whatever glyph you would like or
you can use the regular settings icon depending on what it's actually for within the podcast app
they've updated it with a few new features one of them has to do with the library under the library
tab there's a new channels tab under channels it actually has different shows from people you
already follow so maybe there's a network if we go to the verge you can see different ones here for
top shows if we go back Apple Insider you'll see the different podcasts here as well so it's a nice
little addition to give you maybe more suggestions as far as podcasts and also if you're using up
next you'll now have podcast play that listeners have saved to their library but may show up from
shows you don't follow but they would be related if you're using up next also under podcasts you
follow so if we go back to maybe Library here and scroll down a little bit it's actually showing
you how many podcasts you haven't listened to yet so you'll see there's three new here and it was
tells when it was updated here we have four new that I haven't listened to so it's actually
giving you a count of what's actually been updated so nice little updates nothing huge but
these also carry across the carplay so I wanted to show you that if we plug in our iPhone to
our carplay device give it a second to show up there we go go into podcasts within podcasts
under listen now we now have up next so just like I mentioned before with up next it's here as
well so you have up next with maybe some episodes of things you weren't normally listening to also
if we go to browse we have curated playlists under featured new and noteworthy we can go in and take
a look additionally if we go to our library go to our shows under shows if we go into maybe a
podcast we haven't listened to maybe we'll go into this one here you'll see it puts the latest
episode at the top now if you have an Apple Watch and you go into the watch app go to your face
gallery and then scroll down to where you have color color has been updated with the latest
spring updates for the Apple watch bands so if you go in here you'll see not only does it sort of
archive fall 2022 we now have spring 2023 so this applies not only to color but other watch bands
as well where we have sky purple fog Sprout green so you'll find one that actually matches what you
use on your watch itself Safari gets some updates and if you add a website to your home page with
this link here that I have for the Apple website you can now enable push notifications so maybe
this website supports push notifications it will notify you when something has been updated you can
enable or disable that but if the website supports it you'll now have that additionally if you're
using a third-party browser such as Google Chrome or maybe Bing or Firefox they'll be able to add to
home screen now as well however the app will need to be updated to allow it so if we go to share
in the Google Chrome app you'll see we don't have that option but eventually if they want to add it
Chrome can update their app and you'll be able to add a web link here as well additionally in Safari
if maybe you have a text file it now adheres to whether or not you have dark mode enabled or not
so if you're viewing a text file you'll see now we're in light mode and then back to dark mode so
that's a nice little update if you're reading or using text files on your Safari browser itself
in settings we get quite a few new updates and the first one has to do with the about page if we
go to General then about within the about page we have a new coverage option tap on coverage and
coverage will show you all the different devices you have currently on your account and if they
have coverage with Apple Care or not you can go into that device and see the coverage when it
expires buyers and see more information as far as renewing it and more so it's nice that you can
manage it from here you can also open the Apple Support app so that's something they've added
with all the different icons for the different devices you might have if we go into sound and
haptics we have a new option for personalized spatial audio we had this option before but it was
found under the airpods settings of the airpods themselves now we have a dedicated section for
it so you can stop using it or set it back up also if we connect airpods they've made a slight
change here you'll see the icon there is actually different than what we have on 16.3.1 so it's a
slight update you can see it there and it just looks a little bit different in settings under
General and then software update you'll have the option to be a beta tester or a developer this is
if you've already signed up to be a developer or public beta tester there's no longer profiles here
if we go into this you'll see where it says beta updates we can turn it off if we no longer want
to receive betas or we can switch from developer to public beta depending on if we've signed up
for those programs also we can change our email address associated with that account maybe you're
using your own device but you're using someone else's developer account you can switch that if
it's your employers or your testing tap on your email address and you'll see it says you can sign
in with a different Apple ID that is enrolled in the Apple beta software program or apple developer
program so you'll see that in many different developing environments where you may want to
change that within settings if you tap your name at the Top If we scroll down we have Advanced
Data protection if we go into that this feature is now available in more countries with this update
such as the Netherlands Yemen South Africa Belgium Germany Norway Denmark and others many people have
been telling me they're seeing it enabled now if you're seeing it let me know in the comments below
if we go into the home app and then tap in the three dots in the upper right for our settings and
then go to our home settings and then go down to software update you'll see there's a home upgrade
available for the new home architecture upgrade this is something that's returned with iOS 16.4
and is available so you can learn more about it and then go and continue and upgrade everything
you'll need to update the software first on all your different devices then it will allow you to
upgrade the overall architecture for it there's also manual software update support in matter
accessories so you don't have to actually tell them to update every single time you can actually
choose whether or not you want them to be updated if you have a bunch of matter accessories so they
won't automatically update on you if we go into the tips app Apple has updated that as well Now
tips was redesigned a little bit recently but if we scroll to the bottom we now have user guides so
we have user guides for iPhone Apple watch Ultra homepod airpods or whatever you actually have you
won't necessarily see it unless you actually have those devices but you can see your devices here
and of course the different user guides which is really nice now on the lock screen says try and
log in multiple times and it doesn't work properly so we'll go ahead and do that on a different
device and lock it out you'll see here on the left with 16.3.1 and 16.4 on the right if the iPhone is
unavailable it says try again in one minute we now have a support page that shows up underneath it so
you'll see it says support.apple.com iPhone slash passcode if we go into the fitness app scroll
down to where we have Awards tap on show more and scroll down a bit you'll see here with our
move goals we now have new options above 3000 so you'll see that here it's a small change but
they've added this here so on the left again is 16.3.1 we only have up to three thousand for move
goals now we have up to four thousand so they've just updated that a little bit the keyboard gets
some nice updates as well if I go into Mastodon I typically use Ivory but I'll just use this for
an example and maybe share this post we'll copy it then go back into messages and then paste you'll
see here if we paste it now has Rich previews of the actual post itself now you can paste different
links but it actually recognizes Mastodon as well and has Rich previews of it also Ukrainian
keyboard is now supporting predictive text also Gujarati Punjabi and Urdu keyboards add support
for transliteration layouts additionally there's new keyboard layouts that are available for
Choctaw and Chickasaw so those have been updated in the keyboard app itself so hopefully that's
helpful if you're in those areas now also there's an update with iPad and on iPad OS 16.4 if you
have an apple pencil with a hover supported iPad meaning you can bring your pencil over the top of
the display and it will show what the cursor looks like there's now tilt in Azimuth support So as you
can see in notes Here I have the marker selected and the line because it's my pencils tilted
to the side the line is longer as I tilt it up you'll notice that it actually gets narrower and
then eventually turns into a DOT at 90 degrees so you'll see that here as I tilt and you're hovering
over the display developers can add this as well so it's a nice little update there now it also
fixes an issue this time around there's a few different bug fixes they've mentioned and they've
fixed an issue where the apple pencil may not be responsive when you're actually drawing in the
notes app so they fixed that with this particular update Apple has fixed an issue in 16.4 with buy
requests if you have a family account set up and maybe you have a child they go to purchase an
app it should pop up on your iPhone asking you to approve or deny that purchase sometimes that
wasn't happening and they've now resolved that in this update they've also addressed an issue
where matter compatible home thermostats would sometimes become unresponsive if they were used
in apple home scenarios that should be fixed this time around also if you have the latest iPhone
14 series and you're using emergency SOS and you have crash detection this has been optimized
again it was being set off accidentally in many scenarios different ski resorts and more and
they continue to optimize this you can turn this off but I wouldn't recommend that necessarily I
would leave it on and then maybe if you're going to a location where you're skiing you may want
to disable it but I typically leave it on and just cancel the request if it was to pop up on my
phone and it was a false alarm so they hopefully have optimized this and continue to fix this
if it becomes a problem now there are some bugs remaining in iOS 16.4 that people have experienced
sometimes there's little graphical glitches some odd things with maybe notifications I can show
you that so if you have a notification sometimes it would show up improperly where it would just
sort of pop in and out and it doesn't show as it should it's not nice and smooth sometimes it'll
just show little half icons as well now as far as any other bugs remaining well mostly it seems
to be with notifications Bluetooth seems to be fairly stable however they haven't mentioned that
they've fixed anything with the camera the camera continues to not process photos as far as what you
see is what you get it seems especially with skin tones photos like this sometimes we'll be over
processed and just isn't really what most people have come to expect from iPhone quite a few people
have mentioned this in different videos such as MKBHD and hopefully Apple addresses it but so far
they haven't mentioned anything about it in this particular update the betas do seem to resolve
it a little bit but it doesn't seem to be fixed other than what I've already mentioned Apple
hasn't mentioned that they've fixed anything else with this particular update however there
are security updates with this update and the security website will be updated typically
a few hours after the update is released and then they'll tell you everything that's new with
that security update so typically there's quite a few things at every major release so they patch
a bunch of known bugs and then resolve the issues with that and so if you're wondering if you
should install iOS 16.4 absolutely just for the security updates if you're wondering about
that and it seems to be fairly stable overall as far as overall battery life well that's going
to vary from person to person depending on what device you're using and some people have let me
know that it's great others have said that it's actually an issue for them so if we go to our
battery you'll see my battery health is at 98 percent this has been my main device and I've used
it consistently since it released from September or so so this has been my main device other
than testing other phones and the last 10 days well you can see where we had here two hours and
45 minutes of screen on active time four hours of screen idle time with only about 25 usage it's
actually doing quite well for me today so the prior days were not great just really depends on
people's overall experience and what they're using but it seems like it's gotten much better after
using it for a few days it's much more stable as far as performance performance seems to be
quite good whether that's an older device a newer device everything seems to be nice and
smooth I really wouldn't hesitate to upgrade because of that people that are on older
devices such as iPhone 10 seem to say most things are smooth promotion on the latest phones
is nice and smooth with scrolling and I haven't heard a single complaint with overall performance
with this particular update so that's a good sign now additionally when to expect the next updates
well typically later this week or early next week Apple doesn't say specifically when to expect it
but Apple typically will release iOS 16.5 beta 1 is what we're expecting next with some minor
updates and of course we'll see the major updates with iOS 17.
IOS 17 in June will typically be
shown to developers we'll see the new features they'll release it to developers a few weeks later
to public beta testers and then typically a final release in September that's usually what Apple
does every single year that was is where we'll actually see the majority of new features we won't
see much with iOS 16. there'll be more stability and minor changes at this point and so that's
everything in iOS 16.4 an awful lot to cover there lots of little changes that Apple's getting ready
for the future hopefully to make iOS 17 better than ever let me know if you found anything else
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