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Another September, another iPhone, and with it, another version of iOS.

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So here are the top five features we're looking forward to in iOS 15,

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which is actually going to be available on devices going all the way back to the iPhone 6s.

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You know, your grandma's phone. Let's start off by talking about focus.

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You know, that thing that you can never actually do because you're on your iPhone all day.

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The focus feature in iOS 15 allows you to set up different use profiles depending on what you're doing at a given time.

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It's a bit like a souped-up version of the feature of the same name for Android,

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except the Android offering only allows you to turn focus mode on or off

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rather than making separate profiles for work, the gym, sleeping, playing Magic the Gathering, etc.

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Focus will also let you filter notifications by person,

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so you won't have to put up with text from your boss when you're off the clock and trying to game,

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or from your annoying friend who pulls over your favorite team's rival and is ruining your watch experience.

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Next up are updates to FaceTime, one of which will make it easier for you to talk to folks who aren't on iOS.

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After all, Android still controls about 73% of the worldwide smartphone market,

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so it's a feature that's well overdue. It makes sense to let iPhone people talk to non-iPhone people.

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FaceTime will generate a link you can send to anyone not running iOS,

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which will allow them to open up the FaceTime session in their regular browser.

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FaceTime will also enable SharePlay, so you can indulge in the very pandemic-y experience

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of watching a movie or TV show with your friends over the app.

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And also, it brings spatial audio, which Apple says is going to block out background noise from your calls while you're out and about.

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Let's move on and talk about the new augmented reality features in iOS 15,

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which are similar to a couple of existing Google Lens features.

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One is LiveText, which can copy text from the camera,

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as well as translate it if you're looking at something written in a foreign language.

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The other is called VisualLookup, which can give you information on whatever you're pointing your camera at.

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Useful if you're examining something unfamiliar, but I do have to wonder if that fake Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas would fool it.

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Another cool feature is the ability to drag and drop photos and text from one app to another,

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making it easier to do things like place photos in an email or MMS message.

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You'll have to use a second finger to switch into the receiving app, but that's not all that much to ask.

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I mean, it's not like I pick up my coffee like this.

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The feature might not work on every app, but Apple is banking on you using its built-in messages and photos apps,

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which will be compatible with drag and drop, just as they have already been on the iPad.

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And one more thing! See what we did there. Let's wrap things up with a shared with you feature,

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which is designed to make it easier to find links and media that your contacts have sent you

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without having to dig back through hundreds or even thousands of messages.

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Shared with you will group everything that's been sent to you in a specific app into one list.

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So if you suddenly need to recall the name of a song your friend sent you 10 months ago that you still haven't checked,

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shared with you should be able to bail you out. There are plenty of other features we didn't have time to go into detail about,

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such as Apple Wallet now supporting hotel room keys. So if there's any you would have liked us to discuss, get a conversation going down in the comments.

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