iOS 18.4 Beta 1 Released - What's New?

iOS 18.4 Beta 1 Released - What's New? | iOS 18.4 Features, Changes, Performance & Battery Life

Apple just released iOS 18.4 Beta 1 to registered developers (soon to Public Beta testers), and it contains several new features and changes, including Apple Intelligence changes, Siri, and more. In this video, we cover those new features/changes, the performance, battery life, and when to expect iOS 18.4 Beta 2. Enjoy!

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*Chapters:*
0:00 iOS 18.4 Beta & Everything else released
0:44 Size & Build Number
1:21 What’s New?
3:15 Cellular in CC
3:41 Quality of Life change most will miss
4:40 Re-download of Apple Intelligence models
5:11 Apple Intelligence in the EU
5:27 Apple Intelligence for more languages
6:00 Priority Notifications are here!
7:28 New Playground Sketch
8:03 Messages change
8:30 Visual Intelligence on older iPhones
9:05 On-screen awareness & other Siri changes
9:42 New Shortcuts action
10:03 New Siri voices
10:20 Apple Vision Pro app on iPhone
11:09 Apple just killed Recipe apps
12:39 New Mail app comes to iPad and Mac
13:00 Release Notes
14:03 Performance on iOS 18.4 Beta 1
15:08 Battery Life on iOS 18.4 Beta 1
15:31iOS 18.4 Beta 2 Release Date
16:47 That’s it!

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

[BrandonButch]

What a surprise Friday release! Thoughts on 18.4 Beta 1 so far?

[umudumu]

We really need an ability to customize the Control Center in landscape mode. Now it is a complete mess when you use it while holding your phone horizontally.

[Setnour]

I still want the Cellular toggle swapped with the AirDrop toggle in the control panel but this is fine too

[BrandonButch]

I'm loving these new Ambient Sounds in the CC! Have you tried them yet?

[jonathancineus]

Ambient noise. Recipes. Better Apple Intelligence? I like this.

[calebmcmath]

I can confirm Ambient Noise works for non-Apple Music subscribers. There's also a small popup near the top when using Back Tap.

[SimplyPops]

I’m most excited for the cooking recipes on the news app 😂

[acesman]

The whole reason I upgraded from my 13pro max was for Apple Intelligence, and we’ve yet to get the full version that was advertised

[itjustmark]

there should be a double tap action for the action button

[tahaplh]

And if I may add, Siri is STILL as crap as ever

[rdvgrd]

I can’t believe you could really use background music without Apple Music account or subscription. But very cool of we actually can on release!

[Tim_Myers]

I love the Genmoji update but it's annoying that using it to send to an Android makes it a large image and not just a small emoji.

[LoshGD]

imagine it plays an ad while trying to sleep

[ESchubert]

Just updated it to the beta and my whole interface is so slow when I navigate to other pages. Ugh.

[soldierboy]

I don’t understand how can such a big corporation with 3 trillion dollars of networth be so slow in deploying updates and launching themselves globally

[rewindd]

on this beta, they also made back tap have a popup when you use it, presumably with other accessibility functions as well. they also made back tap WAY better, and it recognizes it every time now.

[smkasrr]

the focus mode icon has an updated animation where instead of fading in and having an on text the on text is gone and it kinda scrolls in like apples clock app

[Joha-bib]

As a German I am getting the public beta as soon as possible

[Giveitaresssstt]

I’ll be impressed when they give us a Siri that is ACTUALLY good, there is so much potential I just hope they don’t fuck it up

[mr.blanco]

The ambient light that shows on the Dynamic Island appears to be 5x brighter now. When u use photos or video apps