iOS 17.4 Released - What's New?

iOS 17.4 is a major update that includes

more than 50 new features and changes

along with an important one that you

can't even see so in this video you're

going to see all of those new features

and changes and we'll also discuss the

performance the battery life and if you

should update or not first off we have

new emojis so these are some of the new

Emoji included in iOS 17.4 with Unicode

15.1 so some of these include a head

shaking forwards a head shaking from

side to side a phoenix a lime a mushroom

and a broken chain and there's also 18

additional people ody emojis so these

guys face right now and you could also

have different combinations for the

families with kids right here iOS 17.4

includes some major changes to the

podcast application so if I go ahead and

open up podcasts I will have

17.31 on the left 17.4 on the right

throughout this video so you can see

right away way some changes here so

first off in the top left you will

notice that listen now is now home and

also down in the bottom tab bar you can

see that listen now is now home in 17.4

and there is also a new glyph icon to

replace the play button and while down

there you might also notice that the now

playing bar is more like the Apple music

style so it's more of a floating style

it doesn't go edge to edge like it did

on

17.31 it also has has a lighter

background and it kind of just hovers in

place again reminiscent of Apple music

but the much bigger change here happens

inside of the now playing view when you

have a podcast playing and you will

notice down in the bottom leftand corner

we have a lyrics glyph icon and when you

tap on that that will pull up the

transcripts so now in 17.4 you have

podcast transcripts that play along in

real time with the person who is talking

in the podcast

very similar once again to what you see

with apple music and you'll notice that

after it's playing for a while you will

get a little search bar that pops up in

the bottom right there and you can tap

on that with an animation and you have

the option to find within that specific

transcript so if I want to find maybe if

they say sports at all you can see it

comes up four times and it will take me

automatically to where it says Sports

and if you tap on that specific spot it

will take you to that section in the

podcast and play it and you can see this

little animation here when you go out of

the search section back into the full

transcript right here so that is neat

also if you tap on the three dots up in

the top right you have a new option for

view transcript where you can see the

transcript as just plain text and you

also have a search button up in the top

right hand corner where you can search

for whatever you want and you can see

the UI the style of this is very similar

to the safari find on page and the great

thing about podcast trans descriptions

is that they can be used with

accessibility features such as text size

increased contrast and most importantly

voiceover and then if you go into your

library and go to latest episodes you

will notice that the glyph icons in the

menu up in the top right hand corner

have been removed because I think before

in

17.31 they kind of conflicted with the

check marks on the left hand side so

it's more clean now in 17.4 and by the

way Apple has made the Home tab cohesive

throughout iOS 17.4 not just in the

podcast application but also inside of

the books application so now instead of

read now it is now home and again up top

in the top left you can see that change

up there as well and also inside of

Apple music so in apple music instead of

listen now with the play glyph it now

says home with the home glyph and again

up in the top left that has changed as

well and speaking of music if you go

into the music recognition toggle and

you scan for a song that you didn't know

the name of and you use Shazam to pull

up this page right here there are a

couple of changes here as well so first

off you can see that the bar is a little

bit bigger here where it says Music open

and add to the text is larger and more

bold it's also more of a white color

also you can see the same for top songs

right there and also the top buttons up

here are now a darker color than they

were on previous versions of iOS also

when you tap on the three up in the top

right hand corner you can see multiple

changes here as well so now it says

listen in music instead of open and

apple music and now instead of add to

Apple music it says add to a playlist so

you can now add to a playlist from this

Ellipsis menu right here there's also

add to my music and more ways to listen

as a drop down right here and you could

also open it up in Spotify oh and also

the share button is now at the bottom

whereas before it was above view artist

also view artist is now goto artist so

multiple changes here in this little

menu also in the top left you can see it

does say apple music up there so there's

kind of like a title for this dropdown

and if you go down to the very bottom we

have some changes here as well so it

used to say track information in all

caps now it is no longer all caps same

with share song at the bottom used to be

in all caps and also bold now it is more

normal with a less you know weighty font

it's not as heavy and then right here we

have when it was shazamed and the

location so that was not even added

before on

17.31 and also I'm not sure if it's this

song or if it's just a change but the

colors are now different as well so it's

red instead of purple and we saw that up

at the top as well you can also now open

music in apple music classical if it is

available you can see right there it

says listen in classical before it said

open in classical and it was up top but

now music is the first option and

classical is second also in the Apple

music application if you go to the top

top pick section or if you go down to

made for you you will see a new heavy

rotation mix now this is a serers side

update it's not just for 17.4 but it

says the tracks you can't get enough of

lately all in one place updated daily so

it's going to take all the music you've

been listening to a lot lately and it

puts it into one playlist automatically

and it updates on a daily basis which is

really nice and that's something that

spotifi has had for a while but now it

is finally on Apple music by the way if

you want to get your hands on either one

of these wallpapers or the wallpaper

that you see on my home screen here I

will leave all of these linked down in

the description below now there's also

been a big change for the iPhone 15

series if you go into your settings

battery and then right here you'll

notice that it now shows battery health

and charging optimization separately so

before so I have my iPhone 15 Pro here

on the left 15 Pro Max on the right this

one's on

17.31 this one's on 17.4 you can see the

difference here before it just said

battery health and charging but now

those have been separated and when you

went into there before it would just

show this it would show your maximum

capacity it would show your Peak

Performance your charging optimization

and clean energy charging but now if you

go into battery health you'll notice it

shows multiple new things in here so it

shows the battery health as normal so

it's going to relieve a lot of people

and not make people as anxious when they

go into battery and they just see normal

right away most people are not going to

go into it and check that percentage

anymore so I think this is going to help

alleviate a lot of stress that people

have over their batter's capacity but

anyways also in here we have the cycle

count so this was found in the settings

General about before and then down here

we have manufacturer dates and also the

first use and iOS

17.31 that information was in settings

General about and then all the way down

here at the bottom and also cycle count

was below those two but now it's up here

and it also gives you a little bit more

information

on what the cycle count actually is now

what's interesting here is that also

underneath of battery health we have a

link right here that says about battery

and warranty and when you to on that you

get a little kind of a snippet of a

support document from Apple that tells

you that the original battery was

designed to retain 80% capacity at 1,000

Cycles under ideal conditions and apple

actually raised this from 500 Cycles to

1,000 Cycles because the iPhone 15

series batteries outperformed Apple's

original expectations so that is great

to see if you have an iPhone 15 series

and if we go into the charging

optimization section here you can see

there is a slight change here as well so

we do have clean energy charging down

there at the bottom whereas before that

was in the main section of the battery

health and charging not inside of

charging optimization so minor change

there this update also adds a much

needed change to the stolen device

protection feature feature that was just

introduced with iOS 17.3 so if you go

into your settings and face ID and

passcode and put in your passcode and

you scroll down you will see that stolen

device protection now has its own

section so before on 17. 3.1 it was a

standalone just an on or off button

right here and you couldn't really do

anything else but now in 17.4 it has its

own menu its own submenu here and from

here you'll notice a big change and that

is that you can now require a security

delay always not just when you're away

from a familiar location and if you

forgot what the whole security delay

feature is it basically just means that

like if you try to change your Apple ID

password and you're away from a familiar

location like your home or your work

you're going to have to have an hour

delay between face ID scans you have to

change your you know you have to put in

your face ID at first when you go to try

to change an Apple ID password for

example and then you'll have to wait an

hour and then put in your face ID again

you will not be able to use a password

to bypass the biometric scan of your

face so that is a great way to prevent

like a thief for example from stealing

your phone and you know draining your

bank accounts and changing your Apple ID

password because in that case they would

have to scan your face twice over the

span of an hour and that's just unlikely

so anyways that is when you're away from

familiar locations but if you want to

change that to always have that delay

now you can do that in iOS 17. four and

this is great because sometimes certain

locations would be considered a

significant location or a familiar

location like if you go to a gym every

day or if you go to a cafe every day

your phone might pick that up as a

familiar location so if somebody were to

steal your phone while you were working

out or while you were drinking a coffee

in the cafe your phone would register

that as a familiar location which would

mean that they would not have to go

through the whole security delay anymore

more they would just be able to change

your password right away now of course

they're still going to need to have a

face ID scan but they're not going to

need that second authentication and that

1 hour delay because you were at a

familiar location because again on 17.31

you did not have the option to always

require a security delay it only you

know happened when you were away from a

familiar location so hope that makes

sense this is a pretty complicated you

know feature to talk about here now iOS

17.4 is going to be perhaps the biggest

iOS update of all time for those living

in the EU because iOS 17.4 introduces

side loading so side loading is

officially live for those who live in

the EU now if you don't know what side

loading is basically that means that you

can install applications from thirdparty

App Stores so that is a thing that we

have always thought was never going to

happen on the iPhone but it's finally

here you could also set an alternative

app store as your default app store if

you would like to now this includes you

know we're going to start seeing app

stores from epic games to install

fortnite and you're going to see a lot

more of these alternative app stores

come out to those in the EU and

hopefully this does spread over to the

US eventually as well now side loading

is not the only thing that 17.4 ads

because there's also support for

third-party browser engines so Safari's

browser engine is webkit we all know web

kits but now Chrome can use its native

blink engine on iOS for the first time

and also thirdparty payment applications

and Banks now have access to the NFC

chip and can offer contactless payments

directly on the iPhone without using

Apple pay or the iPhone's Wallet app and

by the way if you are in the EU this is

a screen that you might see when you go

to install an application it says to

verify the information before installing

Google Chrome and this example now

something that has changed worldwide and

is not exclusive to the EU you is game

streaming applications are now able to

be included in the App Store and not

just in the browser so before

applications like nvidia's GeForce now

or Xbox cloud gaming previously you

could only access those through a web

browser like Safari but now they are

able to have their own Standalone app in

the app store which could mean that

you'll be able to get all those games in

one in the app store soon because 1.4

allows for it now if you go into the

account section in your app store you

will notice some changes here as well so

first off you can see that underneath of

our profile picture and our name we now

have Game Center so that is new and then

also under that we used to have

purchased subscriptions and

notifications but now we have apps

subscriptions purchase history and

notifications so you can go into here

and you can see all your apps that you

previously downloaded so before you had

to go to purchased and then my purchases

but now that is apps and my apps and

that's where you can see all the

applications that you installed and then

the purchase History Section is where

you can see all of the purchases that

you made in the last 90 days or you

could also tap on that and change it to

a different date range now in the intro

I mentioned how there's a big change in

iOS 17.4 that you're not going to be

able to see and that has to do with

imessage because iMessage is now more

secure thanks to Apple's new

state-of-the-art postquantum

cryptographic protocol for iMessage

which is called pq3 now pq3 is designed

to protect against Harvest now decrypt

later attacks where a bad actor collects

encrypted data with the hope of

decrypting it with a quantum computer in

the future now the messaging service

signal previously added a very similar

technique to their service but Apple

takes it a step further with what they

consider level three security compared

to signals level two now Apple achieved

level three by adding a quote periodic

postquantum rekeying mechanism that has

the ability to self-heal from Key

compromise so think of this rekeying

mechanism like a secret code that

changes regularly to keep your messages

safe so if a bad guy AKA a postquantum

computer that doesn't even exist yet if

they ever figure out your old code pq3

the thing Apple just introduced in 17.4

will create a new code that the bad Guy

cannot guess from the old one and what

this means is that even if somebody

gains access to your messages once via

that encrypted key they cannot keep

doing it so it's basically like having a

self-fixing lock on your messages so if

all that still went over your head just

know that iMessage is about to get a

whole lot more secure starting with 17.4

and iMessage was already secure but now

after this update iMessage has the

strongest security properties of any at

scale messaging protocol in the world

and that is from Apple themselves if we

head into our settings and go to the

Siri and search section you will notice

that before it said automatically send

messages now it's messaging with Siri

and if you go into that section we have

a change here as well so we have a new

Option down there that says read

messages and you could add a different

language here so basically what this

means is that Siri can now read out

messages in different languages and this

is not going to change the primary

language that Siri listens to and

responds in it's only going to read out

the messages in the language that you

select and speaking of Siri the Siri or

hey S command is now available in German

languages so you can now have the option

in German to just say Siri instead of

the full hey s also in settings if you

go down to the messages section and then

go all the way down to the very bottom

we have a new section down there for

messages for business and if you go into

there there is a loan toggle for

business updates and if you have this

enabled that means that you will receive

messages from businesses that you opt

into to get things like order status

flight notifications fraud alerts or any

other transactions that you opt into

also if you go into the contacts

application and go to one of your

contacts there's a change to the

contacts view so first off you can see

that the image is a lot more compact now

so the whole section here is much more

Compact and the image does not take near

as much space as it did on 17.31 so

everything inside of here is the same

but you'll just notice that the top part

is much Slimmer now in 17.4 I think this

looks a lot better than before and then

also call identification now displays

Apple verified business name logo and

Department name when available and then

if you call a contact that does not have

a contact poster you will notice that

the background is no longer this ugly

gray color it's now more of a you know

kind of a gradient over the wallpaper

that you currently have on your device

so it looks a lot better than it did

previously and that will also show on

the actual phone call not just this call

failed screen there's a new clock widget

in this update so if you go to add a

widget to your home screen and go to

clock you will notice that there's a new

one once you go over a few times you

will see that we now have City digital

so this is a new widget it's very

similar to the digital clock that you

see right here clock digital except for

it now shows the city up in the top and

then also the hour marker down there in

the bottom here's what that looks like

on the home screen I like it in the

wallet application if you go to your

Apple cash card and tap on the three

dots up in the top right hand corner and

go to card number you will notice that

you can now set up a virtual card number

for your Apple cash card so basically

what this means is that if stores or

websites do not accept Apple pay and it

asks for your card detail you can now

pay with your Apple cash card and when

you go to set up the virtual card number

and you tap on continue you will have to

authenticate yourself and there we go it

says number added Apple cash will now

use a virtual card number and is also

available in Safari autofill and when

you go back into the settings for the

Apple pay cash card you will now see

your full virtual card number so you

have your expiration date your security

code all of that and you can also

request a new card number with a tap of

a button so now if you go to buy a

wallpaper pack on Brandon but.com or

anywhere else in Safari and you go to

where you need to put in your credit

card information you can see that now in

Safari autofill we do have apple cash

there and then if you go into your

settings and go to privacy and security

there's now a wallet section right here

so before there was not a wallet section

but now it shows up right here and it

says that apps that have requested

access to Banking and Financial accounts

will appear here and then also in this

section you'll see pass Keys access for

web browser so if you're using pass keys

in your web browser those will now show

up here inside of the privacy and

security section in your settings

there's also a few changes in the TV

application so you'll notice right away

on the home screen that we now have

these arrows next to up next whereas

before there was not an arrow you can

now go into a standalone section for up

next whereas before you just had to

swipe over here on the home screen and

then if you go into a movie or a TV show

and look underneath of the title you can

see that where it says Apple TV plus it

now shows a glyph icon to the left of

that and that's going to show for any

movie or TV show based on the

application that you can watch that TV

show or movie in and there's also an

arrow there because you can tap on that

to go into said application so in this

example it's just Apple tv+ so it stays

in the app and then as you scroll down

you'll notice some changes here as well

so again we have the arrows under

trailers bonus content related cast and

crew so before it was only under related

but now you can see that we have those

arrows on all of these sections like

bonus content for example you can go

into its own section whereas before you

just had to scroll here on the page of

that show and then also under cast and

crew the how to watch section has been

revamped as well it's no longer this big

oversized card it's just a more minimal

card as you can see right here oh and

then also if you go back to the Apple TV

plus Tab and then go to newest releases

you will notice that the layout now

matches the rest of Apple TV whereas

before it had this dual you know row

right here this dual column and now it's

just this one more minimal single file

column right here on 17.4 which is what

we had on everything else in 17.3 so you

can see top chart movies top chart TV

shows everything was a very similar

layout but for some reason Apple

neglected the newest releases but now

that has been changed with 17.4 Small

Change in the files application the

iCloud Drive glyph icon has now been

modernized so it now has the more modern

look instead of the old classic iCloud

logo now iOS 17.4 is also a big update

for carplay so you're most likely not

going to benefit from this now but it is

laying the foundation for the future of

carplay so first off if you have a car

that supports the dual screen Apple Maps

experience with carplay you will get

this new change where there's an Apple

Maps option that shows information about

upcoming terby term Maneuvers in the

instrument cluster so it now shows it up

on your gauges where your speedometer is

right there so you're going to be able

to swap the display type between the

main and the instrument cluster by

tapping on the map configuration button

in the top right of the maps screen so

that is available for cars right now

however iOS 17.4 also introduces next

generation carplay support So carplay

2.0 which is going to launch launch in

the US later this year there's now eight

new carplay applications that are

implemented in the code of 17.4 and you

can see that these are car camera charge

climate closures media tire pressure and

trips and then also this goodbye text

was in the code of iOS 17.4 which

suggests that Apple carplay 2.0 is going

to show this when you turn your car off

which is going to be super satisfying

because that is of course the same font

that we get the hello on on the Mac and

the iPhone and then for the developers

out there there is a new API that allows

you to turn off hand gesture reactions

in video calls now as far as bug fixes

go we do have a few bug fixes in iOS

17.4 as well the most notable one is the

notification center bug has finally been

fixed after pretty much almost a year at

this point it was introduced in June and

it is now finally fixed in 17.4 and if

you don't know what that bug is is take

a look at the left and the right at the

same time when you go right here you can

see it's very stuttery on

17.31 it lags like crazy but now that is

fully fixed and our notification center

is as smooth as butter there's also been

a fix for the find my widget where

sometimes the contact pictures would

show up as blank so it's not happening

right now but sometimes the picture

would go blank on 17.31 that's been

fixed in 17.4 and this update also fixes

an issue for dual SIM users where the

number changes from primary to secondary

and is visible to a group they have

messaged now as far as the performance

goes performance is going to be better

here on 17.4 compared to iOS 17.3 and