iOS 18.4 Beta 4 Released - What's New?

iOS 18.4 Beta 4 Released - What's New? | iOS 18.4 Features, Changes, Performance & Battery Life

Apple just released iOS 18.4 Beta 4 to registered developers (soon to Public Beta testers), and it contains a few new changes, including yet another change to Back Tap, Notification Center bug fixes, and more. In this video, we cover those new features/changes, the performance, battery life, and when to expect iOS 18.4 RC and final. Enjoy!

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*Chapters:*
0:00 iOS 18.4 Beta 4 is here!
0:24 Size & Build Number
1:17 What’s New?
3:11 News+ Food change
4:00 Weird bug fix
4:55 Notification Center bug fixes
5:34 Search improved?
6:10 Release Notes
7:47 Performance on iOS 18.4 Beta 4
8:40 Battery Life on iOS 18.4 Beta 4
9:03 iOS 18.4 Beta RC & Final Release Date
10:31 Thoughts?

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Have a fantastic day & I'll see you soon!

[BrandonButch]

So, what do you think: Beta 5 or RC next?

[chickenbawqueyt]

I might be missing something here, but why can't the back tap banner just use the dynamic island? Feels like Apple is slowing forgetting it even exists

[kennykwan]

This is one of the biggest releases for those living in South Korea because we can FINALLY use the find my feature for the first time ever!!

[bignienie]

Beta 3 has been really buggy on my end so hopefully beta 4 is a bit better

[ylihao]

That Back Tap banner could have been a Dynamic Island style animation or notification bubble instead

[kiero]

I wonder if they'll ever add an Apple Intelligence option for all the languages in the world. Poland is one of the few countries where people buy iPhones, yet there's still no Siri or AI support. It's a bit embarrassing that they still haven't thought about us.

[BALLR_YT]

I love the Weekly Apple News videos keep it up

[GO_Forward_]

Thanks Brandon.

The *Search* function whether I’m doing it from the Home Screen or looking for something in the Settings menu still sucks for me — regardless if I’m on the stable or developer beta version.

The worst is when I’m doing search within the *Mail App.* Often times nothing shows up. Half the time it tells me there’s *”an issue downloading them from the server…”* It is *so frustrating!*

Apple really needs to get better at this on the future versions of iOS 18.

[_lonath_]

The issue with the search is it works sometimes and it doesn’t sometimes with different things. I’m on 18.3 still and searching for Sim gives me results

[tomascicenasofficial]

fourth beta and youtube quality bug is still here, damn

[philkaido]

Brandon, Are you a Light Mode or Dark Mode user?

[dev.arch]

I am so glad they finally fixed the Notification Center bug! It has been very inconvenient.

[Rainbows_]

I wish we still had the option for weather as a wallpaper 🤦🏻‍♀️

[sachinsherry]

Brandon how are you so quick to publish a video 🎉🎉

[mike.elimelech]

For backtap I wish they would just have the haptic engine vibrate when you use backtap to give people some haptic feedback much like the haptic when you unlock your phone or authenticate with Face ID.

[ahmadmessi]

I don’t know if I am the only one who has a huge problem with the camera app ( it doesn’t matter if I open the app from the side button or app itself) it’s so buggy and slow especially when I switch between photo mode and video etc, it’s so slow and annoying:/
I have an iPhone 16.

[hanuraiga]

Just installed on my iPhone SE 2020.
I just noticed they slightly fixed 3D wallpaper in this update, but only works in homescreen not on lockscreen.

[MinimaLune]

These bug fixes worth 10x than the addition of new animations on iOS.

[SquidNick]

Stir/Shaken "verified" calls (under Recent Calls) still not showing for me in either Beta 3 or Beta 4. Are they working for anyone else? I'm TMobile

[a.r.achterberg]

I’m on 18.2.3 and I REGRET updating. My iPhone is so buggy that I can’t even connect to a WiFi network without restarting the device!! Amazon Music, Alexa, ChatGPT extensions, Bluetooth connectivity and MANY MORE PROBLEMS!!

It’s just a pain the 🍑