The Last 10 Days: A Screen Time Update

Yesterday, I spent three hours and 40 minutes on screen active time, with six hours and three minutes of screen idle time. Today was not much better, with only three hours and 16 minutes of screen active time. It's been a struggle to stay focused, but the screen time updates have helped me get through the day.

In addition to the screen time tracking, my iPhone has also been displaying a battery life icon in the upper right corner. This icon appears when my battery is at around 20% or lower, indicating that I need to recharge my device soon. This feature seems to be working as intended, and it's reassuring to see that my phone's battery health is being monitored.

Overall, I'm pleased with the performance of my iPhone running iOS 17.4 beta 3. The camera app has been updated, and I've taken a few photos using both the regular camera and the telephoto lens on my iPhone 15 Pro Max. One photo is displayed here, showcasing the improved image quality on the public version of iOS.

Comparing the performance of iOS 17.31 to the beta version, the CPU benchmarks show that the public version has slightly higher scores. The single-core benchmark results in 2,934, while the multicore benchmark yields 7,125. In contrast, the beta version shows a slight increase, with single-core scores reaching 2,951 and multicore scores reaching 7,226.

Experiencing iOS 17.31 on My iPhone

As for my personal experience, I've been running the public version of iOS 17.31 on my daily driver iPhone. Overall, it's been a smooth ride, with only minor stuttering issues from time to time. The battery life has also been good, although not as long-lasting as some users have reported in previous versions of iOS.

In the comments section, several users shared their experiences with iOS 17.4 beta 3. Luigi serban mentioned that the laggy keyboard problem is still present in the public version of iOS. Majid men sewer mentioned that battery draining issues were reduced after updating to 17.31 from 17.3. 15 Pro battery life was deemed okay, but not as good as the previous version.

Other users reported positive experiences with iOS 17.4 beta 3. Kelvin H. 4682 stated that their iPhone 12 Pro Max's battery health is good and battery life is satisfactory, although not as long-lasting as in previous versions of iOS. NOA Messer 5023 mentioned that they're running iOS 17.31 on their iPhone 15 Pro Max with no major issues, aside from some slight stuttering.

The comments also included experiences from users who have updated to the public version of iOS 17.4. Mark Walsham reported that some apps utilizing NFC for reading Transit cards are broken in the current version. Stacy gray shared a positive experience with iOS 17.4 Dev beta 3, mentioning stable performance and excellent battery life on their iPhone 14 Pro.

Benchmarks: A Comparison Between iOS 17.31 and iOS 17.4 Beta 3

To compare the performance of iOS 17.31 and iOS 17.4 beta 3, I ran CPU benchmarks using my iPhone. The results show that the public version of iOS 17.31 has slightly higher scores than the beta version.

If you're considering installing iOS 17.4 beta 3, it's worth noting that if you've already installed iOS 17.2, you should install the beta update. If you haven't installed the beta yet and want to try it out, waiting for beta 4 or the release candidate might be a better option. Additionally, it's always a good idea to have a backup before installing any new software.

That concludes our experience with iOS 17.31 and iOS 17.4 beta 3. We hope this article has provided you with valuable insights into the performance of these versions of iOS. As we wait for the release candidate or public version, let's keep an eye on the comments section for any additional feedback from users who have experienced the beta.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi everyone Aaron here for zolot and iOS 17.31 has been out for about a week at this point and iOS 17.4 beta 3 has been out a few days there's even more features and updates to talk about since the iOS 17.4 beta 3 is out what's new video and we'll talk about the overall experience not just my experience but your experience based off the YouTube Community poll we're at the time of this video there's over 23,000 votes that's pretty incredible and 279 comments I've read every single one of them to determine what the overall updates are like for everyone as far as the experience we'll talk about some of the comments at the end of the video but first let's talk about some Apple news and then some of the features now iOS 17.4 we already know enables side loing and thirdparty apps in the EU however Microsoft has said it will not have an Xbox store as originally thought as there's no room for monetization this is actually due to Apple's changes and policies making it very much a disadvantage to have a thirdparty App Store so that's something we're not going to have it looks like however as far as apps go with the Apple vision Pro it's been out a couple weeks and apple is now celebrating that there's a thousand different apps and also 250 games with apple arcade and 12 unique spatial games as well if we scroll down you can see all about the different games such as chess and more and also things such as super fruit ninja and more to come a little bit later so if we keep scrolling down you can see things that are coming out later so you'll see here as we keep going alto's Odyssey Gibbon beyond the trees by Broken rules Spire Blast by orbital KN and they'll be much more in the future as more and more people develop for it so that's already out also speaking of Apple Vision Pro it looks like an airline is going to be handing them out to passengers while they're flying this is a new luxury Airline called Beyond and it's going to be offering passengers Apple Vision Pro or it's a newer Airline so they'll be able to use this on flight however since there's no profiles maybe they can use mobile device management or something else but it's very difficult to go into guest mode and you have to do that individually so it'll be different to see how they actually do this but either way hopefully we can enable that here is when you're trying to show somebody the Apple Vision Pro it's difficult because you have to go into the control center go into a guest mode and if they take it off their face they have to set it up all over again so maybe there'll be a solution to that in the future another app has slipped through the cracks at Apple which was an app that had video content that had not been approved by the creator meaning that it was pirated content and the app claimed to be an eyesight test but instead gave you access to videos it shouldn't have apple since pulled it but it seems to happen every week now at this point as there was an app last week with last pass that really didn't belong there so maybe they'll start to tighten down security that way as they've said it's a safe place specifically in a splash screen with iOS 17.4 so they'll really need to tighten Security on that one other feature that they introduced this week has to do with apple music for Valentine's Day there's two new stations one named love and one named heartbreak how long they'll actually last we don't really know but you can see these here it will just pick it based on what you might like and also heartbreak as you can see here and it's just picking them randomly so that's something that was added on February 14th for Valentine's Day and you can see all of the different ones it's picking for me and this is combined with my wife as well as it's not separated so things she likes things I like sort of combine into that which is nice now iOS 18 is something apple is working on we've heard a lot about this and they're working on new AI versions of Spotlight this time around we know it's coming to Siri but it looks like Spotlight is going to get some AI updates so they'll be able to actually use that to figure out what you're looking at maybe as you're searching they'll do what Google does and allow you to see more information maybe summarize things and more we'll have to wait and see when iOS 18 is launched but it looks like we're going to have more features than we anticipated also it's expected to bring a vision os- like design now whether or not it's going to be round icons we've talked about that before I really doubt it will be round icons but I do think they'll add more depth maybe change them overall make them more like what we have on the Mac I hope they're doing that so they're working mostly on AI hopefully some sort of redesign or at least some more customization with Control Center and much more let me know what you want to see most is I know most people just want to have split view and have a stable operating system now with iOS 17.4 it brings many new features and there's been some odd changes this year so Apple's brought some new and then removed some so they've lost a bunch of features and it's kind of odd so we have Sid loading for the EU changes with NFC with payment with that as well as game streaming apps will now work in the App Store podcasts will get voice transcriptions I've shown you that so if you go here you can see the voice transcriptions we'll also have carplay updates new Splash screens and updates to music podcasts and books where we have a home button and then also a new widget that we've seen here which also goes to a dark mode based on the time of day we'll have update to privacy settings fixes and more as well as even updates to shortcuts with home screens there and more so lots of things coming soon but Apple removed some this week week as well now there is an updated call screen I've talked about that a little bit so if we place a phone call and you'll see during a phone call it actually blurs the background of the wallpaper you're using so it matches it's just blurred out in the background and it's a nice kind of look where they've carried this forward and they haven't gotten rid of it which is really nice also one thing I wanted to share is if you go into Apple wallet and maybe you don't have access to a website that uses Apple pay you can now use an apple Cash Card you'll see we can set up or generate a virtual card number and then use our Apple cash card after adding different funds to it to pay for things online if it only accepts a credit card so that's something that's available probably only in the United States for now but at least it's there now one thing you may have already noticed when we were in Safari is if we go in here you'll see that they've brought the actual address bar back to its smaller size I actually liked when it was a little bit bigger you can see that here on the previous version where it sort of was more edgo Edge or closer to that now it's a little bit smaller to show the different tabs if you have those open I hope they bring this back maybe make it an option or maybe it's part of iOS 8 and they didn't want us to see that also within the clock app if we start a stopwatch we used to have a dynamic Island update or live activity for stopwatch itself they've removed that hopefully they'll bring it back by the time this releases to the public but for some reason when you swipe home it doesn't go into the dynamic Island anymore that was something a lot of people appreciated including myself that I'd like to see them bring back Apple also removed a feature where they had shareplay that worked with your homepod or Apple TV this was an earlier betas of iOS 17.4 and I know a lot of people looked forward to that you could share play to a homepod have maybe a brother or sister or family member or just a friend change the music contribute or whatever you'd like that's no longer available so hopefully they'll bring that back by the time iOS 17.4 is out or maybe a further version 17.5 or iOS 18 also Apple confirmed that personalized web apps are not going to work in the EU in a new developer page that's been updated this is only in the EU and this is part of why they actually had to change it where the digital markets act said that it has an impact on that and they weren't able to actually do it so you can read all about it here I'll link it in the description but they won't be able to use it but it says EU users will be able to continue accessing websites directly from their home screen through a bookmark with minimal impact to their functionality so that's something that they had to do just for this update that was impacted by the EU so let me know what you think of that in the comments below this week Apple stopped signing iOS 17.3 meaning you can no longer downgrade to that version you've only got iOS 17.31 and the latest betas and due to this I think this may be a result of the gold digger virus or Trojan that's going around that if you were using test flight could infect your device now that is so far been removed and it won't work on test flight but it will work with an MDM certificate or mobile device that's been managed so that's something that is still around maybe they'll patch that very soon if they haven't already and get that rolled out maybe in an iOS 17.3 point2 or maybe they'll just add it to iOS 7 1.4 very very soon as far as releases this week while we had Vision OS 1.1 beta 2 I did a video about that and iOS 17.4 beta 4 is expected as soon as next Tuesday or Wednesday so typically what we have every week is usually on Tuesday or Wednesday we could see beta4 or possibly a release candidate if we do see an RC we could have a release on the 26th or 27th so that it's before March before Apple has to comply with the European Union if not we could see it maybe on March 4th with an RC next week or the week after and then a final release around the 4th so that's what I'm expecting so far we don't know 100% but we also know apple is working on iOS 17.5 as it's been found in analytics so they're working on that that's usually going to release within a day or two after the public version of iOS 17.4 also one other thing I wanted to mention is watch West 10.3.1 I mentioned this before but it seems to fix issues with dictation so that's something that seems to be a little bit better and also new code once again shows apple is working working on a homepod with a display so code within iOS 17.4 is showing this so we could get a homepod with a display with maybe a new OS called home OS that we've seen within the code before as well all of those things could be very exciting and be launching fairly soon as far as the iOS 17.31 experience battery seems to be worse for some people after a couple weeks initially it was quite good then more and more people are complaining about it but other people say it's phenomenal still so it seems to be about 50/50 at this point and we don't really know 100% but it seems like it's great for some I suspecting some apps are causing this issue also Apple fixed the text overlay issue with iOS 17.31 but selecting text with the cursor and arrow seems to be more difficult for some if we go into notes and here's a note I used in a previous video just press and hold selecting sometimes isn't as easy and a little bit buggy let me know if you're seeing that in the comments below now the keyboard is fine for me but I've heard from other people in both versions that it can be quite buggy and not keep up so again if we go back into a note and maybe type this is a new note sometimes it just seems to lag a lot I've been hearing this more and more and it seems to be an ongoing issue also some people still have the brightness issue where it will automatically sort of drop on its own lock the phone it will drop a little bit wake it back up and sometimes it's just really buggy it hasn't happened to me but some people still complain about it also a couple people have said there's still charging issues they plug in their phone it doesn't charge they reboot it and it charges that's something that should have been fixed a long time ago and we thought it was but seems to be back for some people also Emoji stickers still are an issue for some so if we go into messages within messages if we go maybe to a sticker here you'll see that they're blank if I go to maybe some of the stickers they don't show up and then sometimes they do this is problematic on 17.31 but seems to be working properly on 17.4 beta 3 so if we do the exact same thing on this version and again if we go in go to stickers you'll see that they actually load for me on 17.4 beta 3 but again this update has been a little bit buggy for the keyboard for many seems to keep up for me on both versions no issues here but again if we go into notes and say this is IOS 17.4 beta 3 seems to keep up just fine but if you're a super fast texter sometimes it won't but typically around 60 words per minute it will keep up just fine but some people still complain about this over and over so there's no keyboard lag for me I've had good connectivity and those stickers are working but connectivity has been a problem for some people where it would disconnect from Wi-Fi I've actually had pretty good connectivity overall occasional there's been some bugs today there was a bug where it sort of dropped off I had to shut off Wi-Fi reconnect that could have been part of my mesh system or something else there's still a stock wallpaper bug that's around where sometimes when you go into a stock wallpaper we'll go into this you'll see the wallpaper is sort of light there if we switch dark mode here or to light mode switch back sometimes it doesn't stick sometimes it does you'll see it's very odd how it's reacting so it's very dark on the lock screen it's just not behaving how you would expect so there's an odd bug there if you're using one of the stock wallpapers also if we switch back some people are complaining of carplay dictation in 17.4 beta3 password autofill is not working for some people in apps also NFC is not working for some Transit cards in the EU maybe so they are having an update with NFC so maybe we'll see that fixed in the next version face ID and apps isn't working for some again there's some internet issues here and there and canceling an incoming call can cause an odd bug in the dynamic Island where sometimes there's just nothing but dots there additionally when calling someone you may see only half of the wallpaper show up I haven't seen that myself but I've seen others that have mentioned it also notifications while the bug is gone the notification bug is finally gone still it still sometimes comes up with squared boxes here instead of the rounded corners and they snap to the rounded Corners it's very odd I see it from time to time also so the wallpaper dimming bug is there still a little bit on this wallpaper it seems to vary depending on the colors of the wallpaper but they'll sort of desaturate or dim a little bit also some people in the very worst scenarios are having their device crash and restart over and over thankfully I haven't seen that here and it's very few and far between but a few people have experienced this now as far as the release notes let's go ahead and take a look at those within the release notes I'll link these in the description but they Continue to update these with resolved issues which is great such as the App Store they fixed certain App Store product sheets will show a cannot connect to iTunes Store error they' fixed that there's still known issues with things such as Maps but they've fixed other things such as the camera and home kit they've also resolved issues in messages such as the mimoji and third party mimoji or stickers in general I've talked about that a little bit as well as pass keys where they've fixed registering pass Keys might not work on certain websites they've resolved issues with podcasts setup assistant shared iPad storeit and much more so lots of things have been resolved they're great that they Continue to update this hopefully we get more and more information once they release it to the public showing exactly what the bugs are overall now as far as the overall performance of this update so far it's been pretty good and I think the geekbench scores will show that and I'll show that in a little bit but if we go into maybe our app Library here and scroll promotion is nice and fast and I am running the same version on iPhone 11 here as well I showed this in a different video the other day but if we go into music maybe we'll go to the library here and if we just Scroll of course we don't have promotion on the iPhone 11 but in general things seem to be nice and fast other than it just loading from Wi-Fi that can take a second opening apps opening weather you'll see seems to be pretty reasonable again it's pulling that information from Wi-Fi but things seem to be what you would expect and not really any slower than any previous version as far as the overall heat well this phone after a day or so is nice and cool using it regularly it's not getting too hot and that's what I've seen throughout 17.4 but again let's take a look with the thermal camera with 7 1.3.1 and 17.4 you'll see on 17.4 beta 3 we're at about 88.5 to 89° F on 17.31 we're around 84° or 83.5 de F on 17.4 beta 3 we have 32.8 de C and on 17.31 we're at about almost 30° C or 29.5 as far as battery health and battery life let's go ahead and take a look at the actual cycle count first as you can on the 15 devices so we'll go to General than about on the left I have 29 Cycles which isn't that many but on the right I have 109 Cycles on my phone that I use every day now first let's take a look at iOS 17.31 and thanks to Gabriel on my telegram Channel he sent this in and this is on an iPhone 15 Pro he has 95 Cycles with his battery and he had 13 hours and 40 minutes of screen on time he said it was plugged into his car during the day but it only charges at about 1% or so every half hour so that's pretty typical if it's just plugged in it should easily get you through a day he has 100% battery capacity as well so in general it's doing pretty well some people say it's phenomenal others say it's not but as far as iOS 17.4 beta 3 let me take a look on this device and you can see my overall battery health here with the cycle count from coconut battery and again I have 100% if we go into the last 10 days yesterday I had 3 hours and 40 minutes of screen active time 6 hours and 3 minutes of screen idle time today 3 hours and 16 minutes so it hasn't been great for me it is getting me through the day most of the time and also you can see in the upper right I have that round icon where the battery is sometimes that shows up when you're at about 20% or so or getting low so that's something that's been changing Back in Forth for some reason that we're seeing on this update now as far as the overall camera and any updates there well it seems like it's pretty good overall here's a couple photos that I took with both phones and then one just by itself with 17.4 beta3 let me know your experience with it though and as far as if you should install iOS 17.4 beta 3 well if you're on beta 2 already definitely install it if you're wanting to try the betas and you haven't installed it yet maybe wait until beta 4 or the RC is out this coming week and see if it's more stabilized if they add additional features and things like that otherwise you may want to wait and typically if you ask if you should install it I typically say wait a little bit or make sure you at least have a backup now as far as the overall benchmarks I did run those a little bit just before this video and you'll see if we go back here go to the history it had 2,934 for single core 7,125 for multicore if we take a look at what we had with 17.31 we'll let it load here for just a moment and again go to the CPU benchmarks and then go to the history you'll see it here 2,951 7,226 so it's a little bit higher on the public version this is pretty typical but within a few hundred they should perform just fine now as far as what you had to say about the overall experience let's take a look at some of your comments Luigi serban said iOS 17.31 laggy keyboard problem still there 15 Pro battery life is okay Majid men sewer 4833 said when I was on 17.3 the battery draining was so bad I only got like 5 to 6 hours of screen time on my 15 Pro Max after updating to 17.31 it is back on track like 17.21 now battery is good for me and I'm waiting for 17.4 update where most of them say the battery is lasting like no other updates Kelvin H 4682 said I'm running iOS 17.31 on my iPhone 12 Pro Max my battery health is good battery life is good too but not as good as the previous version of iOS I have no real issues to report there are no dropped calls no network connectivity issues browsing is very smooth and apps open and close without any latency NOA Messer 5023 said running iOS 17.31 on my iPhone 15 Pro Max experience has been good good batter battery and performance I have some slight stuttering from time to time but nothing too crazy notification bug is annoying but thankfully that's fixed in iOS 17.4 can't wait for iOS 17.4 to be released to the public and of course iOS 18 in June love your videos Aon keep up the amazing work thank you Michael Green 2234 said 17.4 beta 3 is having issues connecting to the internet normal face ID apps aren't working at all Mark Walsham 7115 said 17.4 beta 3 seems okay but with one exception it seems to have broken some apps which I use that utilize NFC for reading Transit cards Stacy gray said running iOS 17.4 Dev beta 3 on my daily driver iPhone 14 pro with battery health at 92% no complaints at all finally having lock screen notifications not jumping all over the place is fantastic in general this is very stable smooth build with excellent battery life I'm looking forward to seeing what iOS 18 has to offer now especially given Apple finally appear to be fixing some of the long-standing bugs that have actually plagued iOS for a long time now so that's everything with iOS 17.31 and iOS 17.4 beta 3 hopefully we get a new beta or release candidate soon and maybe they get all of those features back that they've since removed let me know if you found any additional features in the comments below and if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper I'll link you in the description like I normally do if you haven't subscribed already though please subscribe and if you enjoyed the video please give it a like as always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next timehi everyone Aaron here for zolot and iOS 17.31 has been out for about a week at this point and iOS 17.4 beta 3 has been out a few days there's even more features and updates to talk about since the iOS 17.4 beta 3 is out what's new video and we'll talk about the overall experience not just my experience but your experience based off the YouTube Community poll we're at the time of this video there's over 23,000 votes that's pretty incredible and 279 comments I've read every single one of them to determine what the overall updates are like for everyone as far as the experience we'll talk about some of the comments at the end of the video but first let's talk about some Apple news and then some of the features now iOS 17.4 we already know enables side loing and thirdparty apps in the EU however Microsoft has said it will not have an Xbox store as originally thought as there's no room for monetization this is actually due to Apple's changes and policies making it very much a disadvantage to have a thirdparty App Store so that's something we're not going to have it looks like however as far as apps go with the Apple vision Pro it's been out a couple weeks and apple is now celebrating that there's a thousand different apps and also 250 games with apple arcade and 12 unique spatial games as well if we scroll down you can see all about the different games such as chess and more and also things such as super fruit ninja and more to come a little bit later so if we keep scrolling down you can see things that are coming out later so you'll see here as we keep going alto's Odyssey Gibbon beyond the trees by Broken rules Spire Blast by orbital KN and they'll be much more in the future as more and more people develop for it so that's already out also speaking of Apple Vision Pro it looks like an airline is going to be handing them out to passengers while they're flying this is a new luxury Airline called Beyond and it's going to be offering passengers Apple Vision Pro or it's a newer Airline so they'll be able to use this on flight however since there's no profiles maybe they can use mobile device management or something else but it's very difficult to go into guest mode and you have to do that individually so it'll be different to see how they actually do this but either way hopefully we can enable that here is when you're trying to show somebody the Apple Vision Pro it's difficult because you have to go into the control center go into a guest mode and if they take it off their face they have to set it up all over again so maybe there'll be a solution to that in the future another app has slipped through the cracks at Apple which was an app that had video content that had not been approved by the creator meaning that it was pirated content and the app claimed to be an eyesight test but instead gave you access to videos it shouldn't have apple since pulled it but it seems to happen every week now at this point as there was an app last week with last pass that really didn't belong there so maybe they'll start to tighten down security that way as they've said it's a safe place specifically in a splash screen with iOS 17.4 so they'll really need to tighten Security on that one other feature that they introduced this week has to do with apple music for Valentine's Day there's two new stations one named love and one named heartbreak how long they'll actually last we don't really know but you can see these here it will just pick it based on what you might like and also heartbreak as you can see here and it's just picking them randomly so that's something that was added on February 14th for Valentine's Day and you can see all of the different ones it's picking for me and this is combined with my wife as well as it's not separated so things she likes things I like sort of combine into that which is nice now iOS 18 is something apple is working on we've heard a lot about this and they're working on new AI versions of Spotlight this time around we know it's coming to Siri but it looks like Spotlight is going to get some AI updates so they'll be able to actually use that to figure out what you're looking at maybe as you're searching they'll do what Google does and allow you to see more information maybe summarize things and more we'll have to wait and see when iOS 18 is launched but it looks like we're going to have more features than we anticipated also it's expected to bring a vision os- like design now whether or not it's going to be round icons we've talked about that before I really doubt it will be round icons but I do think they'll add more depth maybe change them overall make them more like what we have on the Mac I hope they're doing that so they're working mostly on AI hopefully some sort of redesign or at least some more customization with Control Center and much more let me know what you want to see most is I know most people just want to have split view and have a stable operating system now with iOS 17.4 it brings many new features and there's been some odd changes this year so Apple's brought some new and then removed some so they've lost a bunch of features and it's kind of odd so we have Sid loading for the EU changes with NFC with payment with that as well as game streaming apps will now work in the App Store podcasts will get voice transcriptions I've shown you that so if you go here you can see the voice transcriptions we'll also have carplay updates new Splash screens and updates to music podcasts and books where we have a home button and then also a new widget that we've seen here which also goes to a dark mode based on the time of day we'll have update to privacy settings fixes and more as well as even updates to shortcuts with home screens there and more so lots of things coming soon but Apple removed some this week week as well now there is an updated call screen I've talked about that a little bit so if we place a phone call and you'll see during a phone call it actually blurs the background of the wallpaper you're using so it matches it's just blurred out in the background and it's a nice kind of look where they've carried this forward and they haven't gotten rid of it which is really nice also one thing I wanted to share is if you go into Apple wallet and maybe you don't have access to a website that uses Apple pay you can now use an apple Cash Card you'll see we can set up or generate a virtual card number and then use our Apple cash card after adding different funds to it to pay for things online if it only accepts a credit card so that's something that's available probably only in the United States for now but at least it's there now one thing you may have already noticed when we were in Safari is if we go in here you'll see that they've brought the actual address bar back to its smaller size I actually liked when it was a little bit bigger you can see that here on the previous version where it sort of was more edgo Edge or closer to that now it's a little bit smaller to show the different tabs if you have those open I hope they bring this back maybe make it an option or maybe it's part of iOS 8 and they didn't want us to see that also within the clock app if we start a stopwatch we used to have a dynamic Island update or live activity for stopwatch itself they've removed that hopefully they'll bring it back by the time this releases to the public but for some reason when you swipe home it doesn't go into the dynamic Island anymore that was something a lot of people appreciated including myself that I'd like to see them bring back Apple also removed a feature where they had shareplay that worked with your homepod or Apple TV this was an earlier betas of iOS 17.4 and I know a lot of people looked forward to that you could share play to a homepod have maybe a brother or sister or family member or just a friend change the music contribute or whatever you'd like that's no longer available so hopefully they'll bring that back by the time iOS 17.4 is out or maybe a further version 17.5 or iOS 18 also Apple confirmed that personalized web apps are not going to work in the EU in a new developer page that's been updated this is only in the EU and this is part of why they actually had to change it where the digital markets act said that it has an impact on that and they weren't able to actually do it so you can read all about it here I'll link it in the description but they won't be able to use it but it says EU users will be able to continue accessing websites directly from their home screen through a bookmark with minimal impact to their functionality so that's something that they had to do just for this update that was impacted by the EU so let me know what you think of that in the comments below this week Apple stopped signing iOS 17.3 meaning you can no longer downgrade to that version you've only got iOS 17.31 and the latest betas and due to this I think this may be a result of the gold digger virus or Trojan that's going around that if you were using test flight could infect your device now that is so far been removed and it won't work on test flight but it will work with an MDM certificate or mobile device that's been managed so that's something that is still around maybe they'll patch that very soon if they haven't already and get that rolled out maybe in an iOS 17.3 point2 or maybe they'll just add it to iOS 7 1.4 very very soon as far as releases this week while we had Vision OS 1.1 beta 2 I did a video about that and iOS 17.4 beta 4 is expected as soon as next Tuesday or Wednesday so typically what we have every week is usually on Tuesday or Wednesday we could see beta4 or possibly a release candidate if we do see an RC we could have a release on the 26th or 27th so that it's before March before Apple has to comply with the European Union if not we could see it maybe on March 4th with an RC next week or the week after and then a final release around the 4th so that's what I'm expecting so far we don't know 100% but we also know apple is working on iOS 17.5 as it's been found in analytics so they're working on that that's usually going to release within a day or two after the public version of iOS 17.4 also one other thing I wanted to mention is watch West 10.3.1 I mentioned this before but it seems to fix issues with dictation so that's something that seems to be a little bit better and also new code once again shows apple is working working on a homepod with a display so code within iOS 17.4 is showing this so we could get a homepod with a display with maybe a new OS called home OS that we've seen within the code before as well all of those things could be very exciting and be launching fairly soon as far as the iOS 17.31 experience battery seems to be worse for some people after a couple weeks initially it was quite good then more and more people are complaining about it but other people say it's phenomenal still so it seems to be about 50/50 at this point and we don't really know 100% but it seems like it's great for some I suspecting some apps are causing this issue also Apple fixed the text overlay issue with iOS 17.31 but selecting text with the cursor and arrow seems to be more difficult for some if we go into notes and here's a note I used in a previous video just press and hold selecting sometimes isn't as easy and a little bit buggy let me know if you're seeing that in the comments below now the keyboard is fine for me but I've heard from other people in both versions that it can be quite buggy and not keep up so again if we go back into a note and maybe type this is a new note sometimes it just seems to lag a lot I've been hearing this more and more and it seems to be an ongoing issue also some people still have the brightness issue where it will automatically sort of drop on its own lock the phone it will drop a little bit wake it back up and sometimes it's just really buggy it hasn't happened to me but some people still complain about it also a couple people have said there's still charging issues they plug in their phone it doesn't charge they reboot it and it charges that's something that should have been fixed a long time ago and we thought it was but seems to be back for some people also Emoji stickers still are an issue for some so if we go into messages within messages if we go maybe to a sticker here you'll see that they're blank if I go to maybe some of the stickers they don't show up and then sometimes they do this is problematic on 17.31 but seems to be working properly on 17.4 beta 3 so if we do the exact same thing on this version and again if we go in go to stickers you'll see that they actually load for me on 17.4 beta 3 but again this update has been a little bit buggy for the keyboard for many seems to keep up for me on both versions no issues here but again if we go into notes and say this is IOS 17.4 beta 3 seems to keep up just fine but if you're a super fast texter sometimes it won't but typically around 60 words per minute it will keep up just fine but some people still complain about this over and over so there's no keyboard lag for me I've had good connectivity and those stickers are working but connectivity has been a problem for some people where it would disconnect from Wi-Fi I've actually had pretty good connectivity overall occasional there's been some bugs today there was a bug where it sort of dropped off I had to shut off Wi-Fi reconnect that could have been part of my mesh system or something else there's still a stock wallpaper bug that's around where sometimes when you go into a stock wallpaper we'll go into this you'll see the wallpaper is sort of light there if we switch dark mode here or to light mode switch back sometimes it doesn't stick sometimes it does you'll see it's very odd how it's reacting so it's very dark on the lock screen it's just not behaving how you would expect so there's an odd bug there if you're using one of the stock wallpapers also if we switch back some people are complaining of carplay dictation in 17.4 beta3 password autofill is not working for some people in apps also NFC is not working for some Transit cards in the EU maybe so they are having an update with NFC so maybe we'll see that fixed in the next version face ID and apps isn't working for some again there's some internet issues here and there and canceling an incoming call can cause an odd bug in the dynamic Island where sometimes there's just nothing but dots there additionally when calling someone you may see only half of the wallpaper show up I haven't seen that myself but I've seen others that have mentioned it also notifications while the bug is gone the notification bug is finally gone still it still sometimes comes up with squared boxes here instead of the rounded corners and they snap to the rounded Corners it's very odd I see it from time to time also so the wallpaper dimming bug is there still a little bit on this wallpaper it seems to vary depending on the colors of the wallpaper but they'll sort of desaturate or dim a little bit also some people in the very worst scenarios are having their device crash and restart over and over thankfully I haven't seen that here and it's very few and far between but a few people have experienced this now as far as the release notes let's go ahead and take a look at those within the release notes I'll link these in the description but they Continue to update these with resolved issues which is great such as the App Store they fixed certain App Store product sheets will show a cannot connect to iTunes Store error they' fixed that there's still known issues with things such as Maps but they've fixed other things such as the camera and home kit they've also resolved issues in messages such as the mimoji and third party mimoji or stickers in general I've talked about that a little bit as well as pass keys where they've fixed registering pass Keys might not work on certain websites they've resolved issues with podcasts setup assistant shared iPad storeit and much more so lots of things have been resolved they're great that they Continue to update this hopefully we get more and more information once they release it to the public showing exactly what the bugs are overall now as far as the overall performance of this update so far it's been pretty good and I think the geekbench scores will show that and I'll show that in a little bit but if we go into maybe our app Library here and scroll promotion is nice and fast and I am running the same version on iPhone 11 here as well I showed this in a different video the other day but if we go into music maybe we'll go to the library here and if we just Scroll of course we don't have promotion on the iPhone 11 but in general things seem to be nice and fast other than it just loading from Wi-Fi that can take a second opening apps opening weather you'll see seems to be pretty reasonable again it's pulling that information from Wi-Fi but things seem to be what you would expect and not really any slower than any previous version as far as the overall heat well this phone after a day or so is nice and cool using it regularly it's not getting too hot and that's what I've seen throughout 17.4 but again let's take a look with the thermal camera with 7 1.3.1 and 17.4 you'll see on 17.4 beta 3 we're at about 88.5 to 89° F on 17.31 we're around 84° or 83.5 de F on 17.4 beta 3 we have 32.8 de C and on 17.31 we're at about almost 30° C or 29.5 as far as battery health and battery life let's go ahead and take a look at the actual cycle count first as you can on the 15 devices so we'll go to General than about on the left I have 29 Cycles which isn't that many but on the right I have 109 Cycles on my phone that I use every day now first let's take a look at iOS 17.31 and thanks to Gabriel on my telegram Channel he sent this in and this is on an iPhone 15 Pro he has 95 Cycles with his battery and he had 13 hours and 40 minutes of screen on time he said it was plugged into his car during the day but it only charges at about 1% or so every half hour so that's pretty typical if it's just plugged in it should easily get you through a day he has 100% battery capacity as well so in general it's doing pretty well some people say it's phenomenal others say it's not but as far as iOS 17.4 beta 3 let me take a look on this device and you can see my overall battery health here with the cycle count from coconut battery and again I have 100% if we go into the last 10 days yesterday I had 3 hours and 40 minutes of screen active time 6 hours and 3 minutes of screen idle time today 3 hours and 16 minutes so it hasn't been great for me it is getting me through the day most of the time and also you can see in the upper right I have that round icon where the battery is sometimes that shows up when you're at about 20% or so or getting low so that's something that's been changing Back in Forth for some reason that we're seeing on this update now as far as the overall camera and any updates there well it seems like it's pretty good overall here's a couple photos that I took with both phones and then one just by itself with 17.4 beta3 let me know your experience with it though and as far as if you should install iOS 17.4 beta 3 well if you're on beta 2 already definitely install it if you're wanting to try the betas and you haven't installed it yet maybe wait until beta 4 or the RC is out this coming week and see if it's more stabilized if they add additional features and things like that otherwise you may want to wait and typically if you ask if you should install it I typically say wait a little bit or make sure you at least have a backup now as far as the overall benchmarks I did run those a little bit just before this video and you'll see if we go back here go to the history it had 2,934 for single core 7,125 for multicore if we take a look at what we had with 17.31 we'll let it load here for just a moment and again go to the CPU benchmarks and then go to the history you'll see it here 2,951 7,226 so it's a little bit higher on the public version this is pretty typical but within a few hundred they should perform just fine now as far as what you had to say about the overall experience let's take a look at some of your comments Luigi serban said iOS 17.31 laggy keyboard problem still there 15 Pro battery life is okay Majid men sewer 4833 said when I was on 17.3 the battery draining was so bad I only got like 5 to 6 hours of screen time on my 15 Pro Max after updating to 17.31 it is back on track like 17.21 now battery is good for me and I'm waiting for 17.4 update where most of them say the battery is lasting like no other updates Kelvin H 4682 said I'm running iOS 17.31 on my iPhone 12 Pro Max my battery health is good battery life is good too but not as good as the previous version of iOS I have no real issues to report there are no dropped calls no network connectivity issues browsing is very smooth and apps open and close without any latency NOA Messer 5023 said running iOS 17.31 on my iPhone 15 Pro Max experience has been good good batter battery and performance I have some slight stuttering from time to time but nothing too crazy notification bug is annoying but thankfully that's fixed in iOS 17.4 can't wait for iOS 17.4 to be released to the public and of course iOS 18 in June love your videos Aon keep up the amazing work thank you Michael Green 2234 said 17.4 beta 3 is having issues connecting to the internet normal face ID apps aren't working at all Mark Walsham 7115 said 17.4 beta 3 seems okay but with one exception it seems to have broken some apps which I use that utilize NFC for reading Transit cards Stacy gray said running iOS 17.4 Dev beta 3 on my daily driver iPhone 14 pro with battery health at 92% no complaints at all finally having lock screen notifications not jumping all over the place is fantastic in general this is very stable smooth build with excellent battery life I'm looking forward to seeing what iOS 18 has to offer now especially given Apple finally appear to be fixing some of the long-standing bugs that have actually plagued iOS for a long time now so that's everything with iOS 17.31 and iOS 17.4 beta 3 hopefully we get a new beta or release candidate soon and maybe they get all of those features back that they've since removed let me know if you found any additional features in the comments below and if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper I'll link you in the description like I normally do if you haven't subscribed already though please subscribe and if you enjoyed the video please give it a like as always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time\n"