The iOS 15.4 Update Is Exactly What You Didn’t Know You Needed — What’s New?

With 37 New Emojis, Mask ID, Email Domains, and many more

Nikhil Vemu
Mac O’Clock
Published in
6 min readJan 30, 2022

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The iOS 15.3 update disappointingly hadn’t any much to bring — just few bug fixes, security updates, and wording changes. However, the iOS 15.4 Beta is released lately, and is awesome, it overdelivered lots and lots of important features I just couldn’t wait to share with you.

A couple of these were already promised by Apple in WWDC 21, and now my wait is over.

#1. Face ID — with mask, without Apple Watch

Back in the iOS 14.5 days, Apple released the so-called Mask ID that could unlock your iPhone even while you’re wearing a mask. For that, you needed an Apple Watch, yes, few hundreds of dollars, damn.

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