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i went on vacation like an actual out-of-country vacation i packed my ipad

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strapped on my watch pocketed my iphone and took no other devices

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while i'd used the iOS 15 beta since our

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video talking about it on this trip i was about to be fully immersed in the

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iOS 15 ecosystem for about a week and a half

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which included being fully immersed in rage

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for 15 minutes on my flights thanks to one of apple's

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innovations but now now

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i'm on the other side of the official release

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iOS 15 which we're going to use to refer to both the iphone and ipad versions for

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now has a lot of good things going for it

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safari in particular became a lot more useful for me thanks to the new ui

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although from everything i've seen that's clearly not a universal opinion

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while i appreciate the easier access to tabs and the better tap overview mac

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address host jonathan horst disagrees and hates the new ui

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see he's something of a tab fiend while

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i'm more conservative with how many tabs i open on my mobile devices so it really

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seems to depend on how efficient you are to apple's credit they

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seem to have taken this dichotomy seriously and have been tinkering non-stop of of course the beta which

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originally didn't even have a refresh button the idea being that you'd simply

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use the new pull to refresh function but that didn't work on every website user

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outcry about it was brightly swift and loud so apple just put the freaking

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button back in they also let you toggle the position of the tab bar from the bottom to the top

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although they apparently didn't care whether you'd like to change the new flat ui

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the biggest improvement to safari by far is extension support safari previously

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had limited support for things like content blockers and advanced sharing

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options but now it supports full-fledged desktop style browser extensions

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noir and dark reader can do dark mode for any web page hyperweb can run custom

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user styles and scripts and one password can actually show

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pop-ins to fill forms plus many more steve jobs said safari on iphone was

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just like the desktop and now for the first time that's kind of true of course

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if you're deep into apple's ecosystem you already have your own password

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manager which has gotten a big upgrade in the form of a built-in two-factor

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authenticator it's a nice touch that helps simplify the experience similar to

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how apple pays changes have simplified the checkout process

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i brought it up during the beta video but the new sheet for choosing a payment

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card saves so much time when you're trying to check out quickly online

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and you can do that without revealing your email address now thanks to hide my

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email which works surprisingly well i've only used it a couple of times but what

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it does is set up a randomly generated burner email you could use this for

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example to set up filters to automatically sort through your junk mail and keep your primary email inbox

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spam free or as spam free as it can be these days

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speaking of spam free turns out focus in the new notification summary are serious

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time savers as long as you dial it in just right see

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focuses let you choose which apps or people get to bug you at any given time

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but that can lead to missing important phone calls when you get to work and

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your phone automatically enables the work focus and you get a call from the

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doctor's office but they use a private number and your phone is like mr doctor i think he's got something

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much more important to do like admiring the LTT water bottles new colors and

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updated motherboard design at lttstore.com so what i'd really like to see is both a

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white list and a blacklist in focus so i could mute teams or my work email when

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i'm at home but still get those important calls

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thankfully notification summary shows silence notifications when i check it so

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maybe this is by design one feature i wouldn't make any changes

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to is spatialization for stereo music which makes it sound like audio is

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coming from a speaker in front of you instead of directly from your headphones

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i mean yeah it seems pointless but it can actually help with listening fatigue

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which can affect some people who listen to music or other audio for long periods

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of time like yours truly apparently i thought this was the thing that everybody had

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anyway there have been plugins that do the same thing on desktop media players

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since the 90s and apple's tweak on it here is tracking your idevice's position

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as the virtual speaker which thankfully you can turn it off if you think that's

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goofy iOS 15 has a few other features that

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might make you think huh okay the quick

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notes feature on ipad seems like a great idea that i usually remember is there

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only because i activated by accident and i never remember the new car keys

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feature for apple wallet as cool as that may be because it's useless for anyone

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who doesn't own a 2020 or newer model bmw same deal with state id cards and 3d

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maps which aren't widely available just yet but if you live where they are oh

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man that will be so cool for you

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the shared with you section in apple's first party apps would be a cool way to

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keep on top of things that are well shared with you provided that you unlike

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me have many friends that are a iphone users and b sharing things with you

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similarly facetime enhancements like portrait mode and grid view would be

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great if i did more telecommuting and if spatial audio worked on airpods instead

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of only your device's speakers seriously every other spatial audio

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enabled thing only works on airpods so i don't know what craig federighi was

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smoking when he approved this feature but i do not want some then there's some

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stuff that sounded cool on paper like on-device siri processing awesome

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except only language processing gets done locally so you can't actually do

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much without an internet connection other than set some timers and alarms

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launch apps and control media playback unfortunately you can't even have siri

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take a note while offline even if your default save location is on this iphone

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and there's no clear reason why apple wouldn't let you do that

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other than to assert dominance icloud private relay sounded like a decent vpn

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alternative for non-techies until i tried to use it at the airport

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leading to 15 or 20 minutes spent wrangling to try and get some kind of

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connection on my idevices whether that be actual internet access or just seeing

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the freaking in-flight menu well as it

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turns out when private relay is on you can connect to the inflight wi-fi but

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you can't access anything because private relay has to route through

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apple's servers first but private relay can't reach apple's

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servers without internet access ok so you just have to turn private

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relay off you can't turn private relay off unless

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you have internet access already because if you don't have it the private relay

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option in icloud settings simply disappears this is literally a catch-22

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great great book just pick it up sometime you can disable private relay on a per

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network basis by going to the network properties but it doesn't always seem to

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remember this setting i eventually managed to get online by mashing the

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wi-fi button until private relay somehow stayed off to be fair to apple this

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feature is still in beta but i didn't know that it meant putting a

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strain on my sanity i was willing to forgive apple though

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until i learned that while your watch

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can now let you know if you've left your phone behind your phone can't let you

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know if you've left your watch behind for some reason and that

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was the last straw at this point it became clear to me that

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this whole thing feels half baked even after factory resetting all my i

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devices there are still a number of bugs and jank things that just aren't apple

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for all the good that i had to say about safari for example i'm getting frequent

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crashes on ipad os and while i'd love to pin an extension like one password to

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the url bar i can't in fact if i have more than two active

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extensions it hides them all behind this extension icon with a number showing you

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how many you have this wouldn't be so bad if not for the

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fact that touching this doesn't give you the extensions menu it just gives you

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the standard page menu which you also get by pressing the menu button right

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next to it like why

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you want you ready for another one the home screen on ipad gets the same widget

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support as on iphones but there's a cost adding a widget no matter where or what

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size takes away a row from the grid now this is presumably because on iphone

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a widget starts at four icons worth of space and the ipad has different spacing

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but apple was there no way really no way to adjust

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the size of widgets on an ipad you can perfectly emulate x86 apps on

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ARM but you got stumped by widgets

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i've also had some difficulty realizing when i'm using multiple instances of an

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app on the app shelf there are times when third-party apps open a new window

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without my realizing it and it's not immediately obvious while using the app

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nor is it on the dock nor even in the command tab switcher that this is the

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case at one point i had about half a dozen

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safari Windows open without realizing it which is just weird

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as a regular macOS user i'd love to use the same command plus tilde shortcut for

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switching between adap's open Windows here but no

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you simply have to interact with the shelf or use the multitasking menu both

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of which do thankfully have keyboard shortcuts this seems

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kind of bone-headed and really makes you wish they'd give us proper window

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management on the ipad already i mean heck there's there's no reason why mac

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os can't run right now on m1 ipads right right apple please

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while we're talking about ipad os there are still a number of bugs related to

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apple's wonderful 400 add-on the magic keyboard let's open a new tab and start

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typing right away wait what there's search results but

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what i typed isn't in the search bar if i keep typing now it just completely

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forgets whatever was there and brings up new search results based on the most

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recent letters i typed this doesn't happen if i wait until the new tab

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animation is finished but i am a busy

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man this is the kind of silly oversight that i expect in beta software not in a

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final release and especially not for hardware that i spent

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far too much money on

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there's more of that jank to be found on iphone if a web page supports reader

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mode it'll show a button on the address bar then fade out after a couple of

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seconds if that i'm just going to enable reader mode

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here and oop well me i guess and hey remember how safari ships with a

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bottom bar by default now well watch what happens when you rotate

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excuse me what this is on the final release of iOS 15. does this seem like

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apple's usual level of polish to you and that's not even bringing up all the

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major features that were promised but not finished in time for the release

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like share play watch together this seems to be a running theme with recent

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iOS releases and indeed microsoft's got their own share of things that weren't

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done in time for Windows 11 either it really feels like the release it now and

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patch it later mentality is getting pushed to new extremes every

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year as many issues as there are though there are a ton of tiny little quality

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of life improvements under the hood and we shouldn't forget about those like

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there's a magnification loop when selecting text now that's so natural

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that i forgot it wasn't a thing in iOS 14. there's the ability to transcribe

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text from photos you've already taken which became super helpful for managing

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travel documents with the arrivecan app on the way back to canada the extra

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context to spotlight searches means you can search for even vague subjects and

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photos and it'll intelligently pull relevant results the magnifier app once

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hidden behind accessibility options works great and has come in handy

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already i mean how often have you tried zooming in on your phone's camera to

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read something really small or at a weird angle and you can quickly remove notifications

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from certain apps either temporarily or permanently from the notification shade

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and time sensitive notifications like delivery and ride sharing apps come

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through regardless of what focus you're on safari automatically uses https whenever

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it can and background sounds can be used to maintain focus or promote rest

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oh and watch os which i haven't even touched on it all because it hasn't

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changed that much does have a few quality of

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life features of its own that i've used like being able to run multiple timers

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and label them they even show up on the always on display albeit usually a

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couple of seconds off still useful for determining roughly how far away a timer

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is though it also supports the new focus settings and mirrors what you've said on your

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phone can't say i'm a huge fan of the photo's watch face though i like to be able to

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tell what time it is on my watch not look at a pocket-sized photo whenever i

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raise my wrist but maybe i'm in the minority there i mean

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i don't see a reason to upgrade from the iphone 11 series to the 13 series but

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i'm sure plenty of people will do it anyway get subscribed by the way because

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there's plenty more to say about that too and you won't want to miss it at the

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end of the day the iOS 15 series of mobile operating

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systems has made my mobile experience much more like the desktop one

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particularly on the ipad which is something i never thought i'd be able to

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say is it perfect hell no

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but on the whole is it good

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thanks for watching guys go check out our video on the iOS 15 beta where i go

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over the features more generally you know i had more that i was going to

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write here but that's kind of the end of the thought it's more general this is more of a i

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used it for a while and this is how i feel