iOS 18.4 RC2 is Out! - What's New?

0:00 hi everyone Aaron here for zolotete and today Apple released iOS 18.4 RC2 or release candidate 2 iOS 18.4 RC2 is available to developers and public beta testers and just like iOS 18.4 it supports all iOS 18 supported devices from the oldest iPhone XR 10S all the way up to the 16 Pro Max This came in at a very large 7.65 GB reinstalled the entire OS overwrote the other one So there must have been a significant update here and it was the same size on all the devices we have here Along with this Apple also released iPad OS 18.4 RC2 along with Mac OS 15.4 RC2 the other day Now let's go ahead and take a look at the build number and talk about what's new as we finally have some new

0:46 notes here with new features and updates If we go into settings we'll go to general and then about As you can see the build number is 22E240 And this particular update does have some new features that we weren't aware about before that Apple mentioned in their notes And there's some bug fixes as well So we'll talk about that But the first thing is the modem update There is no modem update whether you're coming from beta 4 to the RC or RC2 So hopefully connectivity is decent but we won't know what that's like until we talk about it in the weekend follow-up and we've given it a few days As far as new features well Apple Intelligence features are now supported in eight additional languages and two additional English loces We've been hearing about this for a while Apple has actually specified where it's supported For example India and Singapore French

1:32 German Italian Japanese Korean for South Korea Portuguese simplified Chinese and Spanish And you can see all of the different locations here So you'll be able to utilize Apple intelligence in those loc We of course have all those features I've mentioned before I'm just going to talk about the major one here where we have ambient music You saw a little bit of lag there but typically it's fast You'll see we have the ambient music updates visual intelligence updates But there is one thing in the news app that they've updated I talked about this before where we have food But one thing I missed was if we go in you'll see you can follow in Apple News One thing we missed when I went in is if you go into a recipe we actually have a cook button and now we have a new cooking mode So we have our ingredients list here along with directions and what

2:18 you would do and you can go from step to step There's some haptic feedback here as well So this is a nice addition if you have news Plus you can use it with a new cooking mode Setup assistant now streamlines steps parents need to take to create a child account for a kid in their family So it enables child appropriate default settings if parents prefer to complete setup on a child's account later That's typically found under your family settings So if you go under family here at the top you can see typical settings that we have with things such as screen time ask to buy Apple cashe subscriptions and ask to buy now works with Face ID That's something I was able to set up the other day Makes it much easier where I had to put in my password before and it was a bit of a pain So this is something that's available and it looks like it's working a little bit better now If we go into

3:03 the fitness app if you're using Apple Fitness Plus and we scroll down maybe we're exploring and we go down to our collections we can show all And if we go into this one maybe get into a groove with a dance tap the plus button you can now add collections to your library So you can delete it from here Or if we go back to fitness go to our library under collections you'll see that I recently added this one However there's a little bit of a glitch there but it says get into a groove with dance So this is now an option if you want to add collections to your library In addition to this there's support for 10 new system languages So if you're using an iPhone and you want to use it in a different language there's quite a few options here 10 new ones you can see listed below such as Tamil Telugu Erdo and more

3:49 Now photos has a new option under settings So if we go into settings go to apps then go down to photos here under photos If we go into photos scroll down you'll see the option to show recently viewed and shared We can turn this off if we don't want to see these making it a little bit different or more customizable Another thing they've updated has to do with importing photos to Mac Hidden photos are no longer included for import if you're using Face ID and it's enabled in your photo settings So they won't show up You won't actually see them included So they won't show up on a Mac if you're trying to hide some specific photos with personal information Apple pushed out a big update for Final Cut Pro on the Mac and iPad yesterday bringing it to version 2.2 on the iPad and 11.1 on the Mac

4:37 There's also updates to Compressor as well as Motion and also Final Cut camera on iPhone There's some nice updates that make it more usable some bug fixes that we've been waiting for for quite some time So if you haven't updated already it's a free update if you already have Final Cut on either of those devices As far as bug fixes in RC2 well Apple has mentioned one at least publicly There are others as well we'll talk about in a moment But if we go into screen time and you're using screen time they've fixed an issue where screen time app limits would persist even after a child uninstalls and reinstalls an app It looks like they've fixed the camera bug finally We don't know that 100% until we try it for a few days But if you lock the phone wake it up slide over to go into the camera oftentimes it would be a black display So far even with RC1 I

5:24 haven't seen this return Some people have said there were random reboots with RC1 I haven't seen that on any of my devices including the iPad or iPhone but I've seen that from a few different people And also notifications seem to be fixed They seem to scroll nice and smoothly No issues here There's haptic feedback where it should be and just swiping them off and using them seems like it's working properly So no real issues there Thankfully they've fixed that And so far the micro stutters are gone Some people did see them return after a few days I didn't see them on RC1 but some people would scroll and it would just stutter You'll see it just loaded there on the iPhone 11 so maybe they're there This just loaded and finished installing the update so maybe that has something to do with it But either way I didn't see them return on the 16 Pro Max Anyway there's quite a

6:10 few resolved issues in their release notes However these release notes don't seem to be updated much compared to RC1 You'll see all of the same sort of things with resolved issues with Apple Intelligence There's a known issue with Apple Vision Pro app where the workaround is to update to beta 2 or later However on RC2 that doesn't seem to apply So these notes seem seemingly need to be updated And all of the new features and bug fixes seem to be the same from RC1 Resolved issues with Wi-Fi calling Writing tool issues have been resolved and it seems to be the same there iOS 18.4 is expected as soon as next week Apple said it would release to the public in April I would expect it as soon as the 31st or sometime next week That's typically what we have We have an RC then a week later the public release And that's what I would expect this time

6:55 around Then we'll move on to iOS 18.5 beta 1 maybe with some more new features However the focus is really on iOS 19 Apple announced when WWDC 2025 would be and we now know that it will be on June 9th through the 13th On June 9th we expect to see iOS 19 beta 1 So based on what we've seen before that's what I would expect of course with a public release in September at some point before the iPhone 17 launch Apple could change this but they seem to be sticking to the same thing they've done year-over-year for many years As far as performance well I did mention the micro stutters a little bit but so far one thing I noticed right away is it seems very smooth and snappy on the iPhone 16 Pro Max Whether it's promotion going into apps setting wallpaper I didn't

7:41 have the touch issues as much I tried this a little bit earlier I played around with it for a little bit Going into the camera is fast and I've really had no issues whatsoever with it It seems to be very fast I do expect it to be indexing quite a bit in the background so it will take a little bit of time at this point As far as heat while it is a little bit warm it's processing in the background a whole update So I don't really expect changes there And when it comes to battery well if we take a look at battery battery health So we'll go to battery battery health I'm at 100% with 157 cycles using RC1 If we go maybe to the day before I only had 3 hours and 3 minutes of screen active time but I did use about 60% of the battery This is actually pretty good with 3 hours and 50 minutes of screen idle time It's improved over beta 4 so

8:26 hopefully RC2 improves it even more You'll see Mail is using quite a bit of background activity and looks like it's pushing information at this point As far as if you should install iOS 18.4 RC2 well I would definitely recommend it if you're on RC1 And if you want to try this out and you have the public beta this is the time to try it out if you're on iOS 18.3.2 Other than that I think it's a solid update and it seems to be much better than what we expected initially So it's much more reliable and they've fixed quite a few bugs Now let's go ahead and take a look at the benchmarks Initial benchmarks came back with 3,489 for single core 8,479 for multi-core We do need to give this a little bit of time as it's a little bit lower The phone is a bit warm It's definitely processing in the background So I would expect this to

9:13 increase quite a bit in a day or so So I'll have to let it cool down and try it a little bit later Now let me know if you've found anything different in RC2 what your experience has been so far I'd love to hear from you in the comments below Of course I'll link this wallpaper in the description like I normally do And if you haven't subscribed already 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 [Music]