Welcome to Apple Insider: The Fifth Beta of iOS 11.4 and Updates to Mac OS, TV OS, and Watch OS

We are here with Andrew, and we have the fifth beta of iOS 11.4 alongside the fifth betas of updates for Mac OS, TV OS, and watch OS. This is the fifth beta, so what really is they're changing at this point before this actually gets released? Luckily, not much has changed, which means we are getting closer and closer to release.

There's one minor change that stands out, though - a ridiculous back and forth with the volume icon inside the control center. It was originally broken in iOS 11.2, then it was fixed, only to be half-broken again. But now, in the fifth beta, it is finally fixed once more. This means that everyone can rest easy knowing that the volume icon now animates correctly as the volume is adjusted in real-time.

Now that we've addressed this minor change, let's look at the two looming questions: how has performance, and will this be the GM? First, let's take a look at performance. We ran our normal Geekbench test and compared it to how we've seen in iOS 11.3 as well as all the other betas that we saw off for iOS 11.4. Unfortunately, nothing too exciting has been discerned yet. We can still see that we have some pretty solid performance. Looking at them in comparison, we still have a really high single-core score and a decently high multi-core score.

However, it's worth noting that they did drop a little bit. If we go back to May 7 when we ran it on the last beta, which was all a huge improvement in performance, we can see that we have about $4,210,300 for our single-core score. But we definitely dropped on that multi-core score, although single core is still up there. So, no real hits to performance.

Moving on to our second question: will this be the GM? This is for sure a sizable update, coming in at 2.2 gigs for the iPhone 10, which is something you don't usually see unless it's going to be the actual GM update before being released. When we jump into settings and check out the actual version number, we still have "a" appended to the end. We also have a few additional characters there that we wouldn't normally see if this was the actual GM version.

So, is it the GM? We're not sure yet. We could still see one more beta release before the final version arrives, but we are very confident that this will be released before "Dub" Dub DC arrives at the first week of June. Feel free to wildly speculate in the comments below if you enjoy this video and hit that subscribe button as well! Also, check out our price guide which makes it extremely easy to find the best deals and Apple products updated daily. Be sure to follow us on social media and we'll see you in the next video!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome to Apple Insider everybody it is Andrew here and we have the fifth beta of iOS 11.4 alongside the fifth betas of updates of Mac OS TV OS and watch OS now this is the fifth beta so what really is they're changing at this point before this actually gets released and luckily not much the fewer changes means we are getting closer and closer to release there's one minor change which is this ridiculous back and forth with the volume icon inside a control center it was originally broken in iOS 1124 then it was fixed then it was half broken and now it is fixed once more here in the fifth beta so everyone can rest easy that the volume icon now animates correctly as the volume is adjusted in real time so that leaves us with two looming questions one how has performance and then - is this going to be the GM so let's say you look first at performance so we run our normal Geekbench test and we compare it to how we've seen in iOS eleven point three as well as all the other betas that we saw off for iOS eleven point four and well nothing too exciting is been discerned we can still see that we have some pretty solid performance looking at them in comparing until we saw in the past we still have a really high single core score as well as a decently high multi-core score now they did drop a little bit so if we go back to maybe back to May 7 when we ran it on at the last beta which is all a huge improvement in performance we have about forty two hundred and ten thousand three hundred you can see we definitely dropped on that multi-core score but single core is still definitely up there so no real hits to performance then going on to our second question is this gonna be the GM this is for sure a sizable update coming in at two point two gigs for the iPhone ten that's something that you don't usually see unless it's going to be the actual GM update before being released however when we jump into settings and we check out something like the actual version number we still have that a appended to the end we also have a few additional characters there that we wouldn't normally see if this was the actual GM version so is it the GM we're not sure we still could see one more beta release but we are very confident this will be released before dub dub DC actually arrives at the first week of June so feel free to wildly speculate down below in the comments if you enjoy this video like it and hit that subscribe button also check out a price guide which makes it extremely easy to find the best deals and Apple products updated daily be sure to follow us on social media and we'll see you in the next videowelcome to Apple Insider everybody it is Andrew here and we have the fifth beta of iOS 11.4 alongside the fifth betas of updates of Mac OS TV OS and watch OS now this is the fifth beta so what really is they're changing at this point before this actually gets released and luckily not much the fewer changes means we are getting closer and closer to release there's one minor change which is this ridiculous back and forth with the volume icon inside a control center it was originally broken in iOS 1124 then it was fixed then it was half broken and now it is fixed once more here in the fifth beta so everyone can rest easy that the volume icon now animates correctly as the volume is adjusted in real time so that leaves us with two looming questions one how has performance and then - is this going to be the GM so let's say you look first at performance so we run our normal Geekbench test and we compare it to how we've seen in iOS eleven point three as well as all the other betas that we saw off for iOS eleven point four and well nothing too exciting is been discerned we can still see that we have some pretty solid performance looking at them in comparing until we saw in the past we still have a really high single core score as well as a decently high multi-core score now they did drop a little bit so if we go back to maybe back to May 7 when we ran it on at the last beta which is all a huge improvement in performance we have about forty two hundred and ten thousand three hundred you can see we definitely dropped on that multi-core score but single core is still definitely up there so no real hits to performance then going on to our second question is this gonna be the GM this is for sure a sizable update coming in at two point two gigs for the iPhone ten that's something that you don't usually see unless it's going to be the actual GM update before being released however when we jump into settings and we check out something like the actual version number we still have that a appended to the end we also have a few additional characters there that we wouldn't normally see if this was the actual GM version so is it the GM we're not sure we still could see one more beta release but we are very confident this will be released before dub dub DC actually arrives at the first week of June so feel free to wildly speculate down below in the comments if you enjoy this video like it and hit that subscribe button also check out a price guide which makes it extremely easy to find the best deals and Apple products updated daily be sure to follow us on social media and we'll see you in the next video\n"