before the first iPhone it was expected that maybe you'd get bug fix updates
from your carrier if you were lucky now
Apple users statistically update within 1 to 5 weeks of a new release amazing
how things change so quickly isn't it and so many things have changed in the
latest iPhone update that they might change the way that you use your iPhone
so what has changed in the 15th major release of iPhone
OS what if if they're not going to call it iOS on iPads they might as well call
it the old
name I've been using the iOS 15 beta for a little while now and unlike Android 12
apple is bringing big changes not to the overall look and feel but to new
features and usability improvements that might end up making you more productive
starting with notifications notifications now feature bigger icons
and you now have a configurable notification summary panel this makes it
easier to distinguish messages and actionables from news updates and other
things that you'll want to look at later what's more you can schedule that
summary to be delivered at a time when you can sift through it at your own pace
you can even mute individual notifications for an hour a whole day or
eternally banish them to the shadow realm right from your notification
center this goes hand inand with Apple's new Focus setting which only allows
notifications through from apps or people that you specify it's a
legitimately useful feature that lets you well focus on what you're doing be
it working or exercising gaming driving
or splunking summaries will show up silently in the notification shade and
notifications will come through when Focus mode is disabled so no need to
worry about missing something Focus status is shown in iMessage so your
contacts know you won't be able to see their text right away but they can also
Mark it as urgent which will send you a notification anyway a great news for
both those who respect your personal space and those who don't notifications
aren't all it's good for though you'll also get to control which home screens
are shown for each Focus that means I can have a focus that has all the apps I
use for work front and center when I arrive at the office no need for work
folders or anything like that then when I get home I can make it automatically
switch over to personal so lonus can't pester me about how the server room has
caught fire again it's your problem this time Linus anyway you can also set a
focus to activate at certain times or during certain activities like workouts
it's all surprising ly useful also useful the Slick updates to find my not
only can you creepily track family members in real time now actually a
thing that I do because I don't drive and I need to know where my ride is you
can now be notified whenever you leave something behind be it an i device or a
compatible tracker like air tags as Jonathan over at Mac Address showed this
tracking network is legitimately robust enough to handle such a task iMessage
which has been called messages for a while now is getting more robust too
there's the questionable stuff like new Emoji am I the only one who's creeped
out by those things anyway the the big thing is much
deeper integration with apps including the ability to share specific articles
web pages TV shows photos and more
directly through a message and you'll also get those shared items inside the
appropriate apps this makes so much sense and I'm looking forward to seeing
if this integration can be done with third party apps as well or if it's just
an Apple only thing for now I haven't looked at the dev
articles speaking of Apple only though FaceTime is no longer Apple only sort of
you can schedule and share links so anyone can join the call through a browser on a PC or Android frankly this
is such an apple thing to do give the non-believers a taste of the experience
but don't give them the real thing until they prove their dedication by
purchasing a highquality Apple product yeah it's kind of annoying but it sort
of makes sense because FaceTime is also picking up new features
like spatial audio that makes people appear to be speaking from where they
are on screen and a new grid view that gives you more of an organized view of
everyone in the callic glance add to that a new voice isolation mode for busy
environments and you got aidable video conference in that but that's not all it
can do share play gives you a way of watching TV shows and movies together as
well as sharing your screen for remote support or for just showing off those
photos or apps basically Apple's focus seems to be on making FaceTime
accessible and useful for far more than than just video calls The Wider web is
also a focus for apple and I 15 with significant updates to Safari that make
it a bit easier to navigate although I am finding my muscle memory keeps trying
to hit the top bar in order to get to the address bar that's now at the bottom
that's going to take some getting used to but swiping left and right between
tabs makes me far more likely to actually use multiple tabs on my phone
and brings a feature to Safari that has existed on other web browsers for quite
a while with that in mind I'm probably not who tab groups are meant for and
I've got my own VPN account so the new private relay which serves as a sort of
VPN Light Within Safari doesn't really mean much for me either although it's a
nice privacy bonus if you've got ipla plus there are other features that are
pretty useful though like pull down to refresh and the new startup page with
quick access to your Cloud tabs favorites and frequent sites is a pretty
nice touch if people share websites with you on iMessage they also show up here
even if it's questionable links from your relatives who still don't know what a meme is although you can turn this off
but Anthony you say these are all iOS 15
features you already told us about you're right voices in my head let's
talk about the things I haven't told you
about there's a dedicated magnifier app that used to be an accessibility feature
it uses the camera to take a temporary photo that can be manipulated directly
in the app with helpful filters brightness and contrast controls it will
be a huge blessing for anyone who's ever tried to read the fine print in the App
Store terms of service another accessibility tool that's going to be
legit timately useful for a lot of people is per app accessibility options
so now you can increase the font size on apps with tiny text enable or disable
autop playing video for misbehaving apps or do smart color inverts specifically
for apps that don't normally have a dark mode just to name a few examples another
really cool thing text from images and it's not just scanning from the camera
app like they showed on stage any text input field is able to scan directly
meaning you can scan say a URL on a sign or a sheet of paper it works
ridiculously well and I can even open URLs from a PC just by pointing the
camera at the address bar LTT Store.com by the way not enough in many Apple apps
including Safari and photos text and images can be highlighted directly so
you can copy or translate it on the Fly do you understand how big that is for
reading and getting information out those terrible image only product
pages what that's just a me thing that's not even the only thing you can do with
it a drag and drop is now possible with files text and images so you don't even
need to manually copy and paste anymore more and there's multi-touch support so
you can awkwardly take a text blurb through a swipe tour of your open apps
they love that there's some new stuff for airpods too it's not available yet
but conversation boost promises to help with hearing conversations over
background noise it's something that I've struggled with for most of my life
what is available right now though is a neat newer control center icon called
hearing that lets you play back different kinds of noise which can be
helpful for focus sleep and probably other things I'm not even aware of it's
kind of fun actually turning up the volume makes water sounds feel more
turbulent and dark noise kind of feels like the interior of a plane in flight
this works with regular headphones too notes and reminders can now have tags
associated with them for easy organization and search and speaking of
Spotlight is more useful pretty much across the board including results from
the web definitions photos messages and
more although Fresh Off upgrading you'll probably need to wait a while before
photos are indexed also apparently these are hot dogs nobody said it was perfect
actually maybe they are hot dogs
a bunch of little quality of life improvements really add up here like a
streamlined interface for inapp Apple pay using multiple cards and there's a
built-in authenticator for two Factor codes with support for autofill and they
brought back dial controls for setting alarms something I've missed since they
removed it in iOS 14 it's enough to make Android die hards consider switching
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temporary iCloud storage space for handling the backup and transfer of your
old phone which is pretty sweet if you're not into the whole cloud storage
racket iOS now moves photo albums files
and folders and accessibility settings from Android devices too if none of that
impressed you there's even more new features we didn't even have time to
cover even though this is just a beta it's clear that iOS 15 is going to be a
significant Improvement for pretty much everyone it might not have many
headliner features I mean mimoji is the second thing on the page here but the
experience that I've had so so far has been much more streamlined and obtrusive
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today thanks for watching guys go check out our recent video on Android 12 for a
bit more on the direction Google's been pushing things it really feels like it's
becoming a same thing only different situation and that's fine