iOS 16.4 Beta 4: Apple Music Classical and Different New Options

The await iOS 16.4 is sort of over. Apple launched iOS 16.4 beta 4 to public beta testers Thursday, a few week after the corporate launched the third iOS 16.4 public beta. This fourth beta means the vast unveiling of iOS 16.4 might be shut at hand. Beta testers can now check out new iOS options, together with Apple Music Classical and new emoji.

These options can be found solely to people who find themselves part of Apple’s Beta Software program Program. New iOS options might be enjoyable, however we suggest downloading a beta solely onto one thing apart from your main cellphone, simply in case the brand new software program causes points. Apple supplies beta testers with an app known as Suggestions. The app lets testers notify Apple of any points within the new software program so the issue might be addressed earlier than common launch. 

Listed here are a number of the new options testers can discover within the iOS 16.4 betas.

Apple Music Classical

Apple beforehand introduced it might launch a brand new standalone app for classical music, known as Apple Music Classical, on March 28. With 16.4 beta 4, you’ll find a brand new class known as Apple Music Classical within the Music app. In the event you faucet into this part, a web page will open the place you possibly can preorder the app from Apple’s App Retailer and watch a video to study extra concerning the app.

Apple Books updates

The iOS 16.4 beta 2 replace brings the page-turn curl animation again to Apple Books, after it was eliminated in a earlier iOS replace. Earlier than, once you turned a web page in an e-book in your iPhone, the web page would slide to 1 facet of your display screen or it might vanish and get replaced by the subsequent web page. Beta testers can nonetheless select these different page-turn animations along with the curl animation.

With iOS 16.4 beta 4, a brand new popup seems once you open Apple Books for the primary time after downloading the replace. It lets you understand you possibly can change your page-turn animation, theme and extra. 

31 new emoji

The primary iOS 16.4 beta software program introduced 31 new emoji to your iOS machine. The brand new emoji embrace a brand new smiley; new animals, like a moose and a goose; and new coronary heart colours, like pink and light-weight blue. 

The brand new emoji all come from Unicode’s September 2022 suggestion listing, Emoji 15.0. 

Apple Podcasts updates

The primary beta introduced just a few modifications to the way you navigate Apple Podcasts. Now you possibly can entry podcast channels you subscribe to in your Library. You can too use Up Subsequent to renew podcast episodes you’ve got began, begin episodes you’ve got saved and take away episodes you wish to skip. 

Apple ID and beta software program updates

With the third iOS 16.4 beta, builders and beta testers can test whether or not their Apple ID is related to the developer beta, public beta or each. You probably have a unique Apple ID, like one in your job, that has entry to beta updates, iOS 16.4 beta 3 additionally helps you to swap to that account out of your machine.

Preview Mastodon hyperlinks in Messages

Apple’s first iOS 16.4 beta enabled wealthy previews of Mastodon hyperlinks in Messages. That is good as a result of Mastodon noticed a 400% improve within the charge of latest accounts in December, so that you may be receiving Mastodon hyperlinks in Messages.

Music app modifications

The Music interface has been barely modified within the first iOS 16.4 beta. Once you add a tune to your queue, a small banner seems close to the underside of your display screen as a substitute of a full-screen pop-up.

See who and what’s coated below AppleCare

Beginning with iOS 16.4 beta 1, you might go to Settings to test who and what gadgets are coated in your AppleCare plan. With iOS 16.4 beta 2, this menu will present you a small icon subsequent to every machine that is coated below AppleCare. 

Focus Mode, Shortcuts and always-on show

You probably have an iPhone 14 Professional or Professional Max, iOS 16.4 beta 1 helps you to allow or disable the always-on show choice with sure Focus Modes. A brand new choice in Shortcuts known as Set At all times on Show was additionally added, along with new Lock Display and Set VPN actions.

New Apple Pockets widgets

You may add three new order-tracking widgets for Apple Pockets to your house display screen with the primary iOS 16.4 beta. Every widget shows your monitoring data on energetic orders, however the widgets are completely different sizes: small, medium and enormous.

Extra accessibility choices

The primary beta replace added a brand new accessibility choice, too. The brand new choice known as Dim Flashing Lights, and it may be discovered within the Movement menu in Settings. The choice’s description says video content material that depicts repeated flashing or strobing lights will robotically be dimmed. Video timelines may even present when flashing lights will happen.

New keyboards, Siri voices and language updates

The primary iOS 16.4 beta added keyboards for the Choctaw and Chickasaw languages, and there are new Siri voices for Arabic and Hebrew. Language updates have additionally come to Korean, Ukrainian, Gujarati, Punjabi and Urdu. 

There isn’t any phrase on when iOS 16.4 shall be launched to most people. There isn’t any assure these beta options shall be launched with iOS 16.4, or that these would be the solely options launched with the replace.

For extra, try develop into an Apple beta tester, what was included in iOS 16.3.1 and options you might have missed in iOS 16.3.

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