A number of user-facing updates have appeared in iOS 17.4, together with new CarPlay choices and an altered Battery Well being part.
To this point, iOS 17.4 has centered on getting iOS prepared for EU regulation due to the Digital Markets Act. Other updates embrace new emoji and computerized podcast transcriptions.
The fourth iOS 17.4 beta has a couple of small updates and adjustments to the battery well being monitoring menu. Apple additionally eliminated references to homeOS.
When you go to the battery settings in iOS 17.4 beta 4, it has a brand new sub-menu for Battery Well being. As a substitute of exhibiting a share, which could possibly be ambiguous to some customers, it states the battery’s situation, i.e., “Regular.”
Tapping into this menu reveals detailed battery well being info like most capability share and cycle depend. Beforehand, cycle depend was solely seen within the gadget’s About menu.
The cycle depend and new Battery Well being menu seem like unique to iPhone 15 fashions.
Curiously, this replace coincides with the information from Apple that iPhone battery well being for iPhone 15 has been improved. It now cites that it takes 1,000 cycles to succeed in the 80% capability mark — it was beforehand 500.
New CarPlay instrument cluster information
Clients with suitable autos can view particular info from CarPlay within the instrument cluster. Particularly, with this replace, upcoming maneuvers will be proven within the instrument cluster.
In iOS 17.4, with supported CarPlay autos, Apple Maps will current a brand new instrument cluster expertise with details about upcoming maneuvers. Customers can swap the specified show kind between the principle and instrument cluster display screen by tapping the map configuration button on the higher proper of the Maps primary display screen.
The replace to CarPlay is particular to the prevailing system, and fashions with sure sorts of dash-connected sensible automotive programs ought to have the ability to take benefit. It isn’t associated to the futuristic CarPlay Apple announced in 2022.
All the things else
There are a handful of smaller adjustments to iOS 17.4 in beta 4. They’re largely language adjustments in alerts or parts of code solely seen by builders.
- Third-party marketplaces: Builders can have a number of marketplaces, customers can set default marketplaces for Highlight and Siri, and deleting marketplaces removes all apps from that market
- Battery settings: mentions of how software program and {hardware} programs assist counter efficiency impacts as batteries age
- Video reactions: now off by default in sure circumstances, seemingly set by the developer with the choice for the person to show them again on
- Spatial Video seize: detailed info offered about seize, together with that 3D video takes up about twice the area as 2D
- Apple Pockets: new permissions for offering anonymized transaction information to Apple
- Apple Podcasts: the now taking part in bar now floats just like visionOS UI — thanks Stephen Robles
Because the EU’s Digital Markets Act goes into impact in March, iOS 17.4 is predicted to be launched earlier than then. The subsequent beta cycle could possibly be the discharge candidate earlier than the ultimate launch.