WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.490 (notification bell dings) - [Jonathan] Do you remember what you were doing in 2014? 00:00:06.490 --> 00:00:10.863 I was 25 and bored. 00:00:11.880 --> 00:00:15.000 God, that was seven years ago. Man, how time flies. 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:18.420 But there is a milestone from 2014 worth noting 00:00:18.420 --> 00:00:21.730 because it's when this came out. It's the iPad Air 2. 00:00:21.730 --> 00:00:27.270 And despite its age, it will be getting the latest iOS 15 update in the fall. 00:00:27.270 --> 00:00:31.470 That makes it the longest supported iOS device in Apple's history. 00:00:31.470 --> 00:00:35.150 So that's through eight generations. 00:00:35.150 --> 00:00:38.490 And on the iPhone, the six-year-old 6s and SE 00:00:38.490 --> 00:00:43.200 will get the update as well. That's frankly, unprecedented in this segment. 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:48.260 It shows how Apple's tight integration of software and hardware really stretches the longevity 00:00:48.260 --> 00:00:53.550 of their products. And I thought it might be a neat way to get a taste of what's to come in iOS 15, 00:00:53.550 --> 00:00:58.563 before it gets released in the fall. So let's see how these devices run with the latest beta. 00:01:02.203 --> 00:01:06.400 (drawer slides) (objects rattling) 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:11.380 There it is. For comparison's sake, let's look at Android. 00:01:11.380 --> 00:01:16.650 Google announced their latest version, version 12 of their mobile software this summer too. 00:01:16.650 --> 00:01:20.410 And when it gets released in the fall, the oldest supported device that I knew of 00:01:20.410 --> 00:01:24.200 will probably be this, the Pixel 3. 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:29.010 It came out three years ago in 2018. Now, that year, I can remember a little bit better 00:01:29.010 --> 00:01:31.923 because I moved to Winnipeg. 00:01:34.180 --> 00:01:38.700 Nevertheless, Pixel phones have been reliably getting updates for three years now, 00:01:38.700 --> 00:01:42.880 because Google committed to it. Get any other Android phone and chances are, 00:01:42.880 --> 00:01:45.963 you'll get one update, if you're lucky. 00:01:47.140 --> 00:01:50.550 With the iPhone, only the original got three years of updates, 00:01:50.550 --> 00:01:55.290 everything released after got more, but that didn't mean they got all the fancy new features 00:01:55.290 --> 00:01:59.280 included in their updates. And so, there are a few things admitted 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:02.680 from the iOS 15 update for these devices too. 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:08.000 Fancy 3d maps and turn-by-turn navigation, no live text recognition and no spatial audio 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:11.623 in FaceTime calls among other things. That's fine. 00:02:11.623 --> 00:02:16.520 And we'll dig into those when the software gets released, make sure to stay subscribed for that. 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:22.120 The question is how does the iOS 15 update run on these aging devices? 00:02:22.120 --> 00:02:25.970 Rather well, I must say. These are both old devices though. 00:02:25.970 --> 00:02:30.210 So there are slightly slower loading times here and occasional stutters there, 00:02:30.210 --> 00:02:33.660 but it's not unusable like an iPad 2 with iOS 9. 00:02:33.660 --> 00:02:37.280 I'm still waiting for that picture of the dress to load. Apparently, it's white and gold? 00:02:38.590 --> 00:02:44.570 If you're worried about any of the update slowdowns we remember from the past, (coughs) battery gate, (coughs) 00:02:44.570 --> 00:02:50.510 I wouldn't worry too much about it with this one. After over a week running both of these devices, 00:02:50.510 --> 00:02:54.410 they don't seem to run all that much slower than equivalents running iOS 14. 00:02:54.410 --> 00:02:58.370 Appearance-wise, the operating system is still as flat and plain as ever. 00:02:58.370 --> 00:03:02.310 On the iPad, one can now add large widgets to the home screen, which is nice, 00:03:02.310 --> 00:03:07.150 and multitasking is a little bit more discoverable. There are three dots on the top of open apps 00:03:07.150 --> 00:03:10.330 that allow you to move Windows to split view or slide over. 00:03:10.330 --> 00:03:15.080 Generally speaking, it works well on this iPad Air 2, but if you do try to web browse, 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:18.600 while watching a YouTube video, you'll hear some stutters. 00:03:18.600 --> 00:03:21.920 The most annoying thing happens regardless of what iPad you're using, 00:03:21.920 --> 00:03:24.783 because look what happens when you miss the button. 00:03:28.850 --> 00:03:32.320 Mercifully, it's much easier now to add apps into slide over 00:03:32.320 --> 00:03:37.890 because before, you could only add apps available in the dock, which was a royal pain to deal with. 00:03:37.890 --> 00:03:42.260 Here's what you had to do. Close the open app, then open the app you want to have in slide over 00:03:42.260 --> 00:03:46.840 to put it in the recent three on the dock, then close that up, then reopen the original app, 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:50.190 and then drag the new app into slide over. 00:03:50.190 --> 00:03:54.207 Now, though, all apps are available on an app library located on the dock. 00:03:54.207 --> 00:03:56.790 (upbeat music) 00:03:58.010 --> 00:04:04.410 Now how about old iPhones? In iOS 15, many inputs no longer span across the screen. 00:04:04.410 --> 00:04:10.040 The group together in rounded squares, like in the classic iOS days, only with less definition. 00:04:10.040 --> 00:04:13.560 It's not so bad, except that borders take up so much space 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:17.220 on this SE. So that in-apps like calendar, 00:04:17.220 --> 00:04:20.510 critical information, like the date gets truncated. 00:04:20.510 --> 00:04:27.150 Why don't you prioritize the year? Now, there is a solution in iOS 15 to help with that. 00:04:27.150 --> 00:04:31.150 It's a feature that lets you adjust the text size on an app by app basis. 00:04:31.150 --> 00:04:36.530 So by adding this aA button in the control center, I can shrink the text in only the calendar app 00:04:36.530 --> 00:04:40.470 to 85% to fit the date. Great. 00:04:40.470 --> 00:04:45.880 But I'm not the only one who nitpicks Apple's design decisions to this degree. 00:04:45.880 --> 00:04:49.810 One of the biggest changes with iOS 15 is with Safari. 00:04:49.810 --> 00:04:53.580 They've moved the address bar to the bottom, and now you can swipe between tabs. 00:04:53.580 --> 00:04:59.520 Yay! Another swipe gesture! But this final design came after many weeks of outrage 00:04:59.520 --> 00:05:05.290 from the community. 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When it was unveiled at WWDC back in June, 00:05:36.530 --> 00:05:40.870 everything was to be compacted into one interface row on all platforms. 00:05:40.870 --> 00:05:46.810 What was problematic about this design was that it required too many buttons and options to be hidden in an all-encompassing submenu, 00:05:46.810 --> 00:05:50.460 like the junk drawer in your foyer. So things were hard to find. 00:05:50.460 --> 00:05:53.660 And when Apple tried reintroducing the buttons back into the floating orb, 00:05:53.660 --> 00:05:58.490 it got real crowded real quick. That and the fact that a floating pill shape 00:05:58.490 --> 00:06:01.940 flooded over many website's bottom interface buttons. 00:06:01.940 --> 00:06:05.820 Ultimately, the current interface is much like it was before all of this, 00:06:05.820 --> 00:06:10.660 but I'm still a little bothered by the way tabs look on iPad OS and macOS. 00:06:10.660 --> 00:06:16.410 They're contained in these weird and wide pill shapes that just waste space and make it hard to tell what's open. 00:06:16.410 --> 00:06:20.680 Tab groups are the big new feature in Safari and it lets tab fiends organize their tabs 00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:25.570 better into groups with titles, et cetera. You can even turn your clusters of already open tabs 00:06:25.570 --> 00:06:30.690 into a group to get them out of the way. Now, they're supposed to be syncing across devices, 00:06:30.690 --> 00:06:36.480 but the tab groups that I've made on my iPad aren't showing up on my iPhone and vice versa. 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:40.200 So beta bugs? (notification bell dings) 00:06:40.200 --> 00:06:47.320 Oh yeah, notifications. There are new focus and notification settings in iOS 15 00:06:47.320 --> 00:06:51.180 that provide you an interesting way to better manage your notifications 00:06:51.180 --> 00:06:55.530 for the different states you might be in. So when you set up the work state, 00:06:55.530 --> 00:06:58.640 you could choose what apps and people can make your phone chime. 00:06:58.640 --> 00:07:01.670 You can also set up custom pages on the home screen full of apps 00:07:01.670 --> 00:07:05.620 that you'd only use at work and make it visible only during work time. 00:07:05.620 --> 00:07:10.740 It appears to be a more customizable and robust version of Apple's Do Not Disturb feature. 00:07:10.740 --> 00:07:15.050 The default focus states are driving, sleep, personal and work. 00:07:15.050 --> 00:07:18.340 You can choose who disturbs you and when, or even where, 00:07:18.340 --> 00:07:22.240 and then label it for the times and states of your life when this would be handy. 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:27.620 So a work focus is good to make sure only colleagues and apps that you use at work notify you. 00:07:27.620 --> 00:07:31.060 Though, it's a little tedious to have to go through one's contact list 00:07:31.060 --> 00:07:34.120 to choose the right people for that focus. 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:40.253 Like all your work colleagues in work, friends for personal and study buddies for study? 00:07:41.290 --> 00:07:44.683 A Select All toggle would also be really nice here. 00:07:45.680 --> 00:07:49.650 My personal problem with this is FOMO. I always get the feeling that I'm missing out 00:07:49.650 --> 00:07:54.180 on something important when I'm in my work focus mode, which turns on automatically 00:07:54.180 --> 00:07:59.730 whenever I arrive at the office. But I guess, that's what this feature is all about anyway, 00:07:59.730 --> 00:08:03.330 isn't it? You do get a while in focus notification 00:08:03.330 --> 00:08:07.310 in your Notification Center during those times. I think it'll be useful, 00:08:07.310 --> 00:08:12.140 even though it might be yet another thing to maintain as life flows. 00:08:12.140 --> 00:08:16.500 Now there are a lot of apps on iPhone that send you notifications right away 00:08:16.500 --> 00:08:19.790 when you really don't care, but Apple's notification summary feature 00:08:19.790 --> 00:08:23.320 might be a good solution for that. There are a lot of apps 00:08:23.320 --> 00:08:27.820 that you probably don't want bugging you every day. So you can put them in the notification summary, 00:08:27.820 --> 00:08:30.880 which can be scheduled to pop up once or more times a day 00:08:30.880 --> 00:08:36.120 to show you what you missed. But this doesn't solve the most infamous notification problem. 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:40.130 The sharing economy. You know those apps where you require instant notifications, 00:08:40.130 --> 00:08:43.793 like when you're getting your meal delivered, but you don't need to know about the 5% off deal- 00:08:43.793 --> 00:08:46.960 (notification bell dings) Right now, really? 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:50.170 I tried notification summary by turning on all of the apps 00:08:50.170 --> 00:08:54.610 I previously had off to see what I'd get. And after a few days, I have to say, 00:08:54.610 --> 00:08:57.870 it's just as annoying as using notifications 00:08:57.870 --> 00:09:03.680 that would normally appear on the lock screen. Easier to clear perhaps, but I'm just turning this off. 00:09:03.680 --> 00:09:07.310 Oh, and look here. I have two sub levels in notifications 00:09:07.310 --> 00:09:11.418 where my While in Work Focus contains my notification summary. 00:09:11.418 --> 00:09:15.900 (Jonathan laughs) I feel like notifications are somehow more complicated than ever. 00:09:15.900 --> 00:09:19.120 Perhaps, the defaults will lead you into a more manageable life. 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:22.710 And there are plenty of options for power users, but I don't know, 00:09:22.710 --> 00:09:25.410 I just feel like my mom's gonna avoid all this anyway. 00:09:26.968 --> 00:09:29.718 (tranquil music) 00:09:32.350 --> 00:09:36.950 The quick obsolescence of technology has been an ongoing discussion for a while now, 00:09:36.950 --> 00:09:41.630 but using these two seemingly ancient devices over the past week with a beta version 00:09:41.630 --> 00:09:46.200 of the latest software, it shows that Apple's mobile devices are being given longer lifespans 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:51.590 than I ever expected them to get. This iPad Air 2 is impressively competent, 00:09:51.590 --> 00:09:55.640 even after all these years, but there is however one fly in the ointment 00:09:55.640 --> 00:10:00.870 worth mentioning. While Apple's software support is unparalleled in its longevity, 00:10:00.870 --> 00:10:06.280 the hardware still has batteries, which aren't accessible and wear out quickly. 00:10:06.280 --> 00:10:12.320 It would be nice to see the devices last equally as long in hardware as it does in software. 00:10:12.320 --> 00:10:17.890 Otherwise, if you own an iPad Air 2 that you bought new and still working, 00:10:17.890 --> 00:10:21.860 you made a extremely good long-term purchase, 00:10:21.860 --> 00:10:23.823 all thanks to iOS 15. 00:10:25.480 --> 00:10:28.823 Thanks for updating to this Mac Address. And since you made it this far, 00:10:28.823 --> 00:10:32.310 I think it means the video is worthy of a like, or even a subscribe. 00:10:32.310 --> 00:10:36.660 Now, one thing to note is that Apple plans to provide bug fixes 00:10:36.660 --> 00:10:41.760 and security updates to users who choose not to update to iOS 15, 00:10:41.760 --> 00:10:45.910 so that means that you can update this old phone, 00:10:45.910 --> 00:10:47.933 but you don't necessarily have to.