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iOS 11 Beta 4 | What's new?
Apr 30, 2024
More Apple news: http://www.cultofmac.com iOS 11 Beta 4 has been released to developers and it's packed with changes, tweaks and new features. Check them out in this video! Follow us! Twitter: https://twitter.com/cultofmac Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cultofmac Instagram: https://instagram.com/cultofmac/
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Hey, what's up guys, Stephen Culls of Mac here, and Apple has just released iOS 11 Beta
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4 to developers, and it's jam-packed full of new features and tweaks
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So let's not waste any more time and get straight to it. As with each beta release, iOS 11 Beta 4 issues a whole ton of bug fixes and stability improvements
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There's also a few changes in terms of UI. Firstly, there's a new, slightly bolder WiFi icon at the top of the screen, new icons for
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contacts, reminders and notes, as well as a new icon for cellular or, in the UK, mobile
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data when you force touch on the settings app within Control Center
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Speaking of Control Center, there's a new countdown for screen recordings, which is super handy as previously they would begin recording instantly, meaning there would always
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be a few seconds of video showing the Control Center being swiped away
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Now there's a countdown from 3, giving you time to get to the screen you want the video to start from
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The Bluetooth button now shows as non-connectable, instead of just disconnecting from a current device
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Finally, for Control Center, there's a new animation for when you turn on the low power mode, to indicate just how low the juice is on your iPhone, which is a nice touch
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The app switcher has also had a bit of a refinement, as well as being smoother when closing apps
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When they're all closed, the app switcher itself now closes, whereas in previous betas
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it would show a blurred home screen, and you'd have to tap through to get back to the home screen
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Additionally, the app switcher will now not open if you've not got any apps open in the background, which makes sense
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In the settings app, you'll now notice an individual tab for Siri, instead of it being
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under the general tab, which makes it slightly quicker to access, I guess
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As well as a new airdrop tab under settings to choose who you want to allow access to
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share files with you, the same way you can in Control Center
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My personal favourite and probably most requested update has finally made its way to iOS 11
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Beta 4, and that's the ability to swipe on notifications again. If you've seen my iOS 11 review, you'll know I hated that I was no longer able to swipe
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and thankfully they brought it back. So now if you swipe left, you can view the notification in more detail, or clear that
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individual notification. If you swipe to the right, you can open the app the notification has come from
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And if you do a full swipe to the left, it will remove the notification, just the way it would in Mail
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Something also worth noting is that I've seen on Twitter that some people aren't able to false touch on notifications anymore like this, mainly on older devices, but let me
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know in the comments section if you're still able to do that, and what iPhone you're using
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Voice has been altered yet again, but not necessarily for the best
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It's a little clunky for me, it's breaking up words and sounding a lot more like a robot
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although when I tried to film it, it's sounding fine. Steven, I don't really know any good jokes
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None, in fact. The photo drawer in the messages app has also had a little redesign, but there's now this
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bar at the bottom, presumably to make it easier to scroll through your pictures
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Previously it was a little bit clunky, and you might have accidentally dragged an image instead of scrolling
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Hopefully though, Apple will put some sort of graphic here in future betas, just to make it that little bit clearer
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At the moment it looks like a bug, even though it works well, and is a welcome feature
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Within the files app, they've actually removed the on my iPhone or on my iPad location, which
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seems a little bit strange. For a file manager, that's obviously a location that you could really use
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Hopefully it's just been withdrawn while they sort out some bugs. For example, in beta 3, I was unable to drag files from the cloud to the iPad, which feels
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like it should be a no-brainer. Finally, the iPad has seen some new tweaks with beta 4, specifically within the camera
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app, which now has a nice tidy layout for some settings on the right hand side, all
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stacked up. As well as a redesign of the maps app, which looks a whole ton cleaner and redefined
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No new features within the maps app though, just a redesign. iOS 11 will be released for iPhones and iPads this coming September
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Well that's it for this video, but let me know in the comments section down below if you've come across any changes that I've not mentioned in iOS 11 beta 4
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