Following the iOS 16.3.1 updates this week, Apple released the first beta of iOS 16.4 for iPhone in addition to iPadOS 16.4 for its tabletsas well as the respective betas of watchOS 9.4 for Apple Watch and tvOS 16.4 for Apple TV.
The first beta of iOS 16.4 brings many novelties among which we can highlight a bunch of new emoji including donkey, jellyfish, ginger, waving face, maple, fan, maracas, comb, polka dots, goose, wing and hearts in blue, gray and pink. We leave you all the new emoji in the image below so you can check them out for yourselves. Remember that in order for the recipient of the emoji to see it, they will also need to update their iPhone to iOS 16.4.
It also added new features for Safari and other browsers. Now, with any browser other than Safari, you can add shortcuts to your favorite websites to your iPhone desktop. You can also receive notifications from your favorite websites as if they were apps. Unlike Safari on macOS, no website will be able to ask you for permission to send notifications, instead you will need to add it to your home screen to receive notifications from this website
Another major change will be how betas can be installed on your iPhone and iPad. As already happens in Apple TV, it will not be necessary to install a profile, but by registering your account in the developer program, you will be able to automatically install the betas on your devices. It’s much more comfortable for users but it will mean the end of sharing profiles to be able to install betas on your devices. Now everything will work with your account, and if you are not registered as a developer, you will not be able to install the beta
The first betas of watchOS 9.4 and tvOS 16.4 are also available for developer download. We do not know what new features bring these first Betas apart from improvements and bug fixes. If we find anything, we’ll update the information here.
