WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:07.600 i went on vacation like an actual out-of-country vacation i packed my ipad 00:00:05.279 --> 00:00:13.679 strapped on my watch pocketed my iphone and took no other devices 00:00:10.559 --> 00:00:16.080 while i'd used the iOS 15 beta since our 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:20.400 video talking about it on this trip i was about to be fully immersed in the 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:22.320 iOS 15 ecosystem for about a week and a half 00:00:21.279 --> 00:00:27.039 which included being fully immersed in rage 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:32.160 for 15 minutes on my flights thanks to one of apple's 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:35.760 innovations but now now 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:39.280 i'm on the other side of the official release 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:43.520 and i think i'm ready to talk about it but first i'll talk about our sponsor 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:46.640 antline audio thanks to online audio for sponsoring this video the mod mic 00:00:45.360 --> 00:00:50.160 wireless 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conservative with how many tabs i open on my mobile devices so it really 00:01:40.479 --> 00:01:46.560 seems to depend on how efficient you are to apple's credit they 00:01:45.119 --> 00:01:51.759 seem to have taken this dichotomy seriously and have been tinkering non-stop of of course the beta which 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:56.640 originally didn't even have a refresh button the idea being that you'd simply 00:01:53.920 --> 00:02:01.439 use the new pull to refresh function but that didn't work on every website user 00:01:58.880 --> 00:02:04.880 outcry about it was brightly swift and loud so apple just put the freaking 00:02:03.600 --> 00:02:09.679 button back in they also let you toggle the position of the tab bar from the bottom to the top 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:14.400 although they apparently didn't care whether you'd like to change the new flat ui 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:18.480 the biggest improvement to safari by far is extension support safari previously 00:02:16.959 --> 00:02:23.520 had limited support for things like content blockers and advanced sharing 00:02:20.720 --> 00:02:28.160 options but now it supports full-fledged desktop style browser extensions 00:02:25.920 --> 00:02:32.879 noir and dark reader can do dark mode for any web page hyperweb can run custom 00:02:31.040 --> 00:02:37.840 user styles and scripts and one password can actually show 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:43.040 pop-ins to fill forms plus many more steve jobs said safari on iphone was 00:02:40.640 --> 00:02:47.680 just like the desktop and now for the first time that's kind of true of course 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:51.440 if you're deep into apple's ecosystem you already have your own password 00:02:49.040 --> 00:02:55.040 manager which has gotten a big upgrade in the form of a built-in two-factor 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:58.480 authenticator it's a nice touch that helps simplify the experience similar to 00:02:56.879 --> 00:03:01.599 how apple pays changes have simplified the checkout process 00:02:59.920 --> 00:03:05.120 i brought it up during the beta video but the new sheet for choosing a payment 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:08.400 card saves so much time when you're trying to check out quickly online 00:03:06.959 --> 00:03:12.800 and you can do that without revealing your email address now thanks to hide my 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:16.640 email which works surprisingly well i've only used it a couple of times but what 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:20.319 it does is set up a randomly generated burner email you could use this for 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:25.120 example to set up filters to automatically sort through your junk mail and keep your primary email inbox 00:03:23.920 --> 00:03:30.480 spam free or as spam free as it can be these days 00:03:30.480 --> 00:03:36.080 speaking of spam free turns out focus in the new notification summary are serious 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:41.360 time savers as long as you dial it in just right see 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:45.519 focuses let you choose which apps or people get to bug you at any given time 00:03:43.519 --> 00:03:48.640 but that can lead to missing important phone calls when you get to work and 00:03:47.200 --> 00:03:51.680 your phone automatically enables the work focus and you get a call from the 00:03:50.239 --> 00:03:57.280 doctor's office but they use a private number and your phone is like mr doctor i think he's got something 00:03:55.200 --> 00:04:00.080 much more important to do like admiring the LTT water bottles new colors and 00:03:59.040 --> 00:04:06.640 updated motherboard design at lttstore.com so what i'd really like to see is both a 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:10.239 white list and a blacklist in focus so i could mute teams or my work email when 00:04:08.480 --> 00:04:13.519 i'm at home but still get those important calls 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:17.519 thankfully notification summary shows silence notifications when i check it so 00:04:15.519 --> 00:04:21.519 maybe this is by design one feature i wouldn't make any changes 00:04:19.280 --> 00:04:24.560 to is spatialization for stereo music which makes it sound like audio is 00:04:22.960 --> 00:04:28.960 coming from a speaker in front of you instead of directly from your headphones 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:32.160 i mean yeah it seems pointless but it can actually help with listening fatigue 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:34.960 which can affect some people who listen to music or other audio for long periods 00:04:33.919 --> 00:04:39.759 of time like yours truly apparently i thought this was the thing that everybody had 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:43.600 anyway there have been plugins that do the same thing on desktop media players 00:04:41.440 --> 00:04:48.720 since the 90s and apple's tweak on it here is tracking your idevice's position 00:04:45.840 --> 00:04:51.680 as the virtual speaker which thankfully you can turn it off if you think that's 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:57.040 goofy iOS 15 has a few other features that 00:04:53.840 --> 00:04:59.199 might make you think huh okay the quick 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:03.520 notes feature on ipad seems like a great idea that i usually remember is there 00:05:00.960 --> 00:05:07.039 only because i activated by accident and i never remember the new car keys 00:05:05.440 --> 00:05:11.280 feature for apple wallet as cool as that may be because it's useless for anyone 00:05:09.440 --> 00:05:16.479 who doesn't own a 2020 or newer model bmw same deal with state id cards and 3d 00:05:14.479 --> 00:05:19.919 maps which aren't widely available just yet but if you live where they are oh 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:24.479 man that will be so cool for you 00:05:22.639 --> 00:05:28.720 the shared with you section in apple's first party apps would be a cool way to 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:34.560 keep on top of things that are well shared with you provided that you unlike 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:39.600 me have many friends that are a iphone users and b sharing things with you 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:44.000 similarly facetime enhancements like portrait mode and grid view would be 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:48.560 great if i did more telecommuting and if spatial audio worked on airpods instead 00:05:46.400 --> 00:05:53.680 of only your device's speakers seriously every other spatial audio 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:57.840 enabled thing only works on airpods so i don't know what craig federighi was 00:05:55.039 --> 00:06:02.479 smoking when he approved this feature but i do not want some then there's some 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:07.520 stuff that sounded cool on paper like on-device siri processing awesome 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:10.639 except only language processing gets done locally so you can't actually do 00:06:09.280 --> 00:06:15.360 much without an internet connection other than set some timers and alarms 00:06:13.039 --> 00:06:19.680 launch apps and control media playback unfortunately you can't even have siri 00:06:17.520 --> 00:06:25.039 take a note while offline even if your default save location is on this iphone 00:06:22.960 --> 00:06:29.360 and there's no clear reason why apple wouldn't let you do that 00:06:27.039 --> 00:06:34.000 other than to assert dominance icloud private relay sounded like a decent vpn 00:06:31.840 --> 00:06:39.120 alternative for non-techies until i tried to use it at the airport 00:06:36.880 --> 00:06:43.120 leading to 15 or 20 minutes spent wrangling to try and get some kind of 00:06:41.360 --> 00:06:48.800 connection on my idevices whether that be actual internet access or just seeing 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:51.120 the freaking in-flight menu well as it 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:55.280 turns out when private relay is on you can connect to the inflight wi-fi but 00:06:53.440 --> 00:06:58.479 you can't access anything because private relay has to route through 00:06:56.720 --> 00:07:02.720 apple's servers first but private relay can't reach apple's 00:07:00.479 --> 00:07:06.160 servers without internet access ok so you just have to turn private 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:10.400 relay off you can't turn private relay off unless 00:07:08.479 --> 00:07:13.520 you have internet access already because if you don't have it the private relay 00:07:12.080 --> 00:07:18.479 option in icloud settings simply disappears this is literally a catch-22 00:07:17.039 --> 00:07:23.599 great great book just pick it up sometime you can disable private relay on a per 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:27.360 network basis by going to the network properties but it doesn't always seem to 00:07:25.440 --> 00:07:31.199 remember this setting i eventually managed to get online by mashing the 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:35.840 wi-fi button until private relay somehow stayed off to be fair to apple this 00:07:33.440 --> 00:07:39.599 feature is still in beta but i didn't know that it meant putting a 00:07:37.280 --> 00:07:44.560 strain on my sanity i was willing to forgive apple though 00:07:41.520 --> 00:07:46.160 until i learned that while your watch 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:50.080 can now let you know if you've left your phone behind your phone can't let you 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:54.560 know if you've left your watch behind for some reason and that 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:58.560 was the last straw at this point it became clear to me that 00:07:56.479 --> 00:08:02.800 this whole thing feels half baked even after factory resetting all my i 00:08:00.479 --> 00:08:07.919 devices there are still a number of bugs and jank things that just aren't apple 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:13.199 for all the good that i had to say about safari for example i'm getting frequent 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:17.280 crashes on ipad os and while i'd love to pin an extension like one password to 00:08:15.039 --> 00:08:21.120 the url bar i can't in fact if i have more than two active 00:08:19.039 --> 00:08:24.160 extensions it hides them all behind this extension icon with a number showing you 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:27.919 how many you have this wouldn't be so bad if not for the 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:31.759 fact that touching this doesn't give you the extensions menu it just gives you 00:08:29.840 --> 00:08:35.599 the standard page menu which you also get by pressing the menu button right 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:38.399 next to it like why 00:08:36.880 --> 00:08:43.680 you want you ready for another one the home screen on ipad gets the same widget 00:08:40.800 --> 00:08:48.480 support as on iphones but there's a cost adding a widget no matter where or what 00:08:45.839 --> 00:08:52.640 size takes away a row from the grid now this is presumably because on iphone 00:08:50.800 --> 00:08:56.080 a widget starts at four icons worth of space and the ipad has different spacing 00:08:54.800 --> 00:09:01.360 but apple was there no way really no way to adjust 00:08:59.040 --> 00:09:08.160 the size of widgets on an ipad you can perfectly emulate x86 apps on 00:09:03.839 --> 00:09:10.399 ARM but you got stumped by widgets 00:09:08.160 --> 00:09:14.480 i've also had some difficulty realizing when i'm using multiple instances of an 00:09:12.160 --> 00:09:19.279 app on the app shelf there are times when third-party apps open a new window 00:09:16.800 --> 00:09:24.880 without my realizing it and it's not immediately obvious while using the app 00:09:21.920 --> 00:09:27.760 nor is it on the dock nor even in the command tab switcher that this is the 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:32.720 case at one point i had about half a dozen 00:09:30.560 --> 00:09:37.120 safari Windows open without realizing it which is just weird 00:09:34.800 --> 00:09:40.640 as a regular macOS user i'd love to use the same command plus tilde shortcut for 00:09:39.040 --> 00:09:44.560 switching between adap's open Windows here but no 00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:48.880 you simply have to interact with the shelf or use the multitasking menu both 00:09:47.040 --> 00:09:53.920 of which do thankfully have keyboard shortcuts this seems 00:09:51.920 --> 00:09:57.760 kind of bone-headed and really makes you wish they'd give us proper window 00:09:55.680 --> 00:10:02.240 management on the ipad already i mean heck there's there's no reason why mac 00:09:59.680 --> 00:10:06.320 os can't run right now on m1 ipads right right apple please 00:10:04.560 --> 00:10:10.720 while we're talking about ipad os there are still a number of bugs related to 00:10:07.920 --> 00:10:14.399 apple's wonderful 400 add-on the magic keyboard let's open a new tab and start 00:10:13.040 --> 00:10:19.040 typing right away wait what there's search results but 00:10:16.880 --> 00:10:22.800 what i typed isn't in the search bar if i keep typing now it just completely 00:10:20.640 --> 00:10:26.000 forgets whatever was there and brings up new search results based on the most 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:30.839 recent letters i typed this doesn't happen if i wait until the new tab 00:10:27.360 --> 00:10:33.680 animation is finished but i am a busy 00:10:30.839 --> 00:10:37.839 man this is the kind of silly oversight that i expect in beta software not in a 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:41.120 final release and especially not for hardware that i spent 00:10:40.160 --> 00:10:45.760 far too much money on 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:49.680 there's more of that jank to be found on iphone if a web page supports reader 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:53.200 mode it'll show a button on the address bar then fade out after a couple of 00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:57.519 seconds if that i'm just going to enable reader mode 00:10:54.640 --> 00:11:02.000 here and oop well me i guess and hey remember how safari ships with a 00:10:59.760 --> 00:11:06.720 bottom bar by default now well watch what happens when you rotate 00:11:04.160 --> 00:11:11.760 excuse me what this is on the final release of iOS 15. does this seem like 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:14.560 apple's usual level of polish to you and that's not even bringing up all the 00:11:12.959 --> 00:11:18.000 major features that were promised but not finished in time for the release 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:22.079 like share play watch together this seems to be a running theme with recent 00:11:19.839 --> 00:11:25.279 iOS releases and indeed microsoft's got their own share of things that weren't 00:11:23.279 --> 00:11:30.000 done in time for Windows 11 either it really feels like the release it now and 00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:35.279 patch it later mentality is getting pushed to new extremes every 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:39.839 year as many issues as there are though there are a ton of tiny little quality 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:43.440 of life improvements under the hood and we shouldn't forget about those like 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:46.800 there's a magnification loop when selecting text now that's so natural 00:11:45.200 --> 00:11:50.640 that i forgot it wasn't a thing in iOS 14. there's the ability to transcribe 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:54.560 text from photos you've already taken which became super helpful for managing 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:58.640 travel documents with the arrivecan app on the way back to canada the extra 00:11:56.800 --> 00:12:02.640 context to spotlight searches means you can search for even vague subjects and 00:12:00.560 --> 00:12:07.440 photos and it'll intelligently pull relevant results the magnifier app once 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:11.279 hidden behind accessibility options works great and has come in handy 00:12:08.959 --> 00:12:14.560 already i mean how often have you tried zooming in on your phone's camera to 00:12:12.880 --> 00:12:18.959 read something really small or at a weird angle and you can quickly remove notifications 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:22.800 from certain apps either temporarily or permanently from the notification shade 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:26.480 and time sensitive notifications like delivery and ride sharing apps come 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:31.600 through regardless of what focus you're on safari automatically uses https whenever 00:12:29.600 --> 00:12:36.720 it can and background sounds can be used to maintain focus or promote rest 00:12:34.079 --> 00:12:39.279 oh and watch os which i haven't even touched on it all because it hasn't 00:12:38.240 --> 00:12:43.440 changed that much does have a few quality of 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:47.200 life features of its own that i've used like being able to run multiple timers 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:51.279 and label them they even show up on the always on display albeit usually a 00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:54.160 couple of seconds off still useful for determining roughly how far away a timer 00:12:53.279 --> 00:12:58.160 is though it also supports the new focus settings and mirrors what you've said on your 00:12:57.200 --> 00:13:03.920 phone can't say i'm a huge fan of the photo's watch face though i like to be able to 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:07.360 tell what time it is on my watch not look at a pocket-sized photo whenever i 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:10.639 raise my wrist but maybe i'm in the minority there i mean 00:13:08.959 --> 00:13:14.160 i don't see a reason to upgrade from the iphone 11 series to the 13 series but 00:13:12.800 --> 00:13:18.079 i'm sure plenty of people will do it anyway get subscribed by the way because 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:22.160 there's plenty more to say about that too and you won't want to miss it at the 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:26.160 end of the day the iOS 15 series of mobile operating 00:13:24.160 --> 00:13:29.920 systems has made my mobile experience much more like the desktop one 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:32.399 particularly on the ipad which is something i never thought i'd be able to 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:36.639 say is it perfect hell no 00:13:34.959 --> 00:13:39.279 but on the whole is it good 00:13:38.160 --> 00:13:45.120 yeah i think it is and so is our sponsor manscaped manskage 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:49.440 provides an all-in-one grooming kit that has you covered from head to 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:53.519 toe their performance package 4.0 features their awesome lawnmower 4.0 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:57.440 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