Apple's latest iPhone update is here, and it's brimming with features that anyone can appreciate.
You don't need to be a tech wizard to get excited about it.
Let's dive into an awesome feature in iOS 17, AirTag sharing. It's like handing someone a
digital key to your physical keys. And with the holidays coming up, this is a great stocking
stuffer. Here's how it works. We'll open the Find My app on the phone, and I'll tap Items at the
bottom. Then I'll tap David's keys, which is my keys. Then we'll scroll down a little bit to share
this AirTag, and it's as easy as tapping Add Person. How is AirTag sharing useful? Well,
maybe you're on a family road trip. You share an AirTag you place in the car. If someone needs to
know where the car is parked or if it's moved, they can check their phone. Cool. Ever since
iOS 17, there has been a new default notification sound, and it stinks. It sounds like you
accidentally butt-dialed someone and then hung up on them. Starting in iOS 17.2, you can change this
finally. I'll open the Settings app and tap here on Sounds & Haptics. Scroll down, and you'll see
this brand new Default Alerts section. Tap on that. Now you can change it to whatever you want
in this section. Unfortunately, these still aren't customizable like ringtones are,
but at least this is a step up from what we originally had, which was nothing. Next up,
a prediction I have about a setting you don't like, Inline Predictions, the helpful new feature
that makes you feel like your iPhone is trying to read your mind and finish your sentences. But
instead, it's just putting the mess back in your messages. Let's open the Settings app. We're
already there. Tap back, and then tap back to Settings again. Then we're going to go to General
here. Tap on that. Then we're going to scroll down to Keyboard and tap on that. And in this
Keyboard section of Settings, we'll tap the switch next to Show Predictions Inline to turn it off.
Turning this off is like shutting down your overeager friend, who always thinks they know
what you're about to say, so they interrupt you. No more I'm on my way to the store turning into
I'm on my way to the moon. Speaking of messages, let's delve into what our more privacy-conscious
fans are saying is the best new iOS 17 feature, iMessage Contact Key Verification. Here's how to
turn on Contact Key Verification. I'll open the Settings app on this phone. Tap on your name at
the top of the screen. Then scroll down all the way to the bottom here, and you'll see Contact
Key Verification. Before we turn it on, you need to know that every Apple product you own
has to have iMessage that's capable of running iMessage Contact Key Verification for this to
work. Tap on that, and then turn on Verification in iMessage. You'll get some information here,
and then I can tap Continue. This feature is like a secret handshake for your messages.
What does it do? Well, think of iMessage Key Verification like sending a letter in the mail
in a special magical envelope. When you write a message, it goes into this envelope,
which can only be opened by the person you're sending it to. This is because only you and
your friend have the magic wands, which are the keys, that can open these envelopes. Now,
what if a wizard hacker tries to create a fake wand to open your messages? If it spots a fake
wand, it tells you, which ensures that only the other magicians or your friends with the right
magic or key can read your messages. This way, your secret conversation stays safe and private.
And I can also show my public verification code, and I can put this online. I can even put it in
my Twitter profile. This isn't a password or anything private because the keys are hidden.
Now, let's say you're in the Messages app and you want to use this. Well, you have to tap on
the contact at the top here, and then scroll down to the bottom,
and you'll see Advanced Message Security, which is new, David Payette,
Verification Off. To use Contact Key Verification, ask them to
turn it on in Settings. So, for those of you precocious people who like to be privy to the
latest privacy precautions, iMessage Contact Key Verification in iOS 17 is a great feature you
don't want to overlook. Next up, we're going to talk about battery in About. Let's open Settings,
tap back to Settings. I'm going to tap the top here, just to go all the way to the top,
and then tap on General. Then, I'm going to tap on About. Then, I'm going to scroll to the bottom,
and if you do not have an iPhone 15, you will not see this section. Why? Well, because Apple chose
not to put it on your phone. There's literally no reason why it shouldn't
be there. But, just saying, Battery, Manufacture Date,
First Use, Cycle Count. Things like first use when your phone was assembled
and number of charge cycles are here. If you think you have a problem with your battery,
you can cross-check this number with your battery health percentage to see if it's time for a
replacement. Next up, Name Drop. Picture this, you're at a networking event and instead of
fumbling around with business cards or handing someone else your phone, you just hold your iPhone
near the top of someone else's. Presto, your contact info is shared. Sounds convenient, right?
In fact, a lot of people, and the police, say you should turn it off. But is that true? Or is
it a bunch of belogna? Here's why you might consider turning it off. Sure, sharing contact
info is easier than ever, but do you really want to accidentally beam your details to someone
nearby? It's like accidentally casting a spell in the world of wizards. Oops, wrong person. But
you do have control over your information. When you use Name Drop, a glow emerges from the top
of both devices and you're given the option to receive only or share. But in the heat of
the moment, you might accidentally share more than you intended. As we said, police are recommending
you turn off Name Drop. But why shouldn't you turn it off? Well, in my opinion, it's awesome.
And it's not like it happens totally automatically. You do have to confirm it.
It reminded Zek and me of when Apple Pay came out. It was the same kind of mass hysteria. People
were going to be walking around with NFC little gadgets and stealing your money because now I can
wirelessly Apple Pay. But that didn't happen. One thing I don't love about Name Drop is that
it's only for new contacts. You can't use it at this point to update your friend's contact
if they move, for instance, which would be useful. Let's take a journey now to the new Journal app.
I'll tap to open it up. Do you want to allow Journal to use Face ID? Yes.
Welcome to Journal. Continue. It's easy to create blank journal entries, which it should be. But if
I tap plus here at the bottom of the screen and scroll down here, I can see, think about a recent
topic you were curious about. What sparked your curiosity? Who's the wisest person in your family?
What have you learned from them recently? Well, obviously me. And what have I learned from myself
recently? That I'm the wisest person. I'm going to be making my own entries because I instantly
start picking apart their stupid suggested journal entries. But maybe you like the prompts. Do you?
Let us know in the comments section below. A couple of quick thoughts before we move on.
If we go to Settings and then back to General, back to Settings and scroll down to Journal.
Tap on that. Tap here on Lock Journal. You have to enter your iPhone passcode, which I'll do,
and then turn on Lock here. And you could require a passcode after one minute or immediately or 5
or 15 minutes. If you're writing stuff that you don't want your nosy friends to read,
it's a good idea to lock up your journal and enjoy a little bit more peace of mind.
One more cool setting. If you're bad at remembering things like I am sometimes,
go back to Journal and tap on Journaling Schedule and turn on Schedule. And you could be reminded to
journal at a specific time every day or whichever days you want to. You put a lot of effort into
journaling every day. We put a lot of effort into making these videos. So hit that like button and
subscribe to show some appreciation for us. Next up, we're going to talk about one of our
favorite topics here at Paid Forward, your laundry. Have you ever looked at a clothing tag
and seen these little symbols? I had never noticed them before, but you can see that there's these
little symbols that actually mean things. And how do you find out what they mean? Well, look no
further than the Photos app. When you take a photo of the laundry tag, you can go into the Photos app
and use visual lookup to see what each of these symbols mean. What a cool life hack.
I'll tap into the photo here and at the bottom of the screen, look real quick,
there's this laundry icon. I'll tap on that and then tap Look Up Laundry Care.
Do not dry clean. Washing, maximum 40 degrees Celsius. Bleaching with non-chlorine agents.
Tumble drying. Ironing, maximum 110 degrees Celsius. No more excuses if you shrink that
cashmere sweater, my friend. That was a lot of information pretty fast. If you want a write-up
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PDFs. Next, we'll talk about some crop I really like. Do you like a certain part of a photo you
took and want to crop it out quick? Well, now you don't even need to go into the Edit section
in the Photos app. Let's head to the Photos app on the phone here
and let's see here. I'll tap here on this picture of my brand new Steinway A and you'll notice in
the upper right hand corner of the screen real quick, tap that Crop button. That brings you
right to the correct part of the Edit section and you can even tap this Auto button at the top
and it'll automatically crop your photo. Now, it could be terrible like it just did with this.
Apparently, it thinks that my Steinway should be falling off like a ship, like it's just
falling off the side of a ship. So I'll tap Done and use this incredible
machine learning and artificial intelligence that's built into the phone. And I mean,
boy, that's much better. Let's give some attention to a groundbreaking
feature for iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max users, the ability to record videos directly to an
external USB drive. Let's look at the difference. This creates a much more seamless workflow for you
content creators out there like us. It streamlines the workflow, which allows you to transfer the
files really, really fast, which you could really never do before with an iPhone.
What do you need for this to work? Let's start with the surprise external hard drive.
We'll get to the accoutrements in a second. Apple has a lot of tech jargon on their website about
what you need. We'll drop some links in the description section below to external SSDs
that you can use with your phone. These are the solid state drives, not the old school
spinning ones because the old school ones can't save data fast enough for the video.
That's how you do it. This is probably how the filmmakers at Apple shot the scary fast event
this past October. Let's unpack a hidden gem in iOS 17, offline maps. We've all been there, right?
You're on a road trip in the middle of nowhere and your GPS says, sorry, can't help. But with
iOS 17, that's a thing of the past. Here's how to do it. I'll show you my favorite way.
Swipe back to the home screen and open the maps app. Now I'm going to search maps for a place
I'm visiting on vacation. Let's check out Lake Placid. All I need
to do is hit this new download button and I can pinch to zoom in or out to
either get more of the area or less of the area. So if I know
I'm going to go to Saranac Lake, maybe I'll get all the offline maps for this giant area.
And as we change the area, we see the size of the map changing below. Obviously the bigger the area,
the bigger the download. Then tap download and that's it. It'll just work. At first I thought,
this isn't really that cool of a feature, but it is. So when you hit dead zones,
your map doesn't go blank. That's great.
It's like having a trusty old paper map, but it's smarter and you don't have your
dad giving you dirty looks in the back seat for not folding it back together perfectly.
Speaking of driving around, let's talk about a feature that's changing the game for drivers.
Imagine this, you're cruising down the highway and you get a text message with an image. Now we all
know that looking at your phone while driving is a no-go. Enter Siri, your trusty CarPlay co-pilot.
Siri and CarPlay isn't just about reading text messages anymore. It's about keeping you informed
safely. Here's how it works. You receive an image in a message. Instead of tempting you to peek,
Siri chimes in. Siri gives you a verbal description of the image. It's like having
a narrator in your car telling you a story based on the picture. This is a big win for road safety.
You keep your eyes on the road, your hands on the wheel, and still get the gist of the image.
Thanks for watching our video. If you have any cool tricks you'd like to share with us,
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