hi everyone and welcome back this is paul from tech link and on the new ios 15
apple has introduced a lot of great features in the photos app that i want to talk to you about
the memory section has seen a huge update also we now have a feature called live text
that can recognize text in a photo you've taken and allows you to perform several actions with it
and the spotlight search is more powerful than ever so make sure to watch through the whole video
to find out everything you need to know about every major update of the photos app on the new
ios 15. now the first feature that i want to talk to you about is the exif metadata or exchangeable
image file format this allows you to see basic information that is generated whenever you take
a photo so if you tap on the picture you're going to see there is a new info button below
the image and if you tap on it or simply swipe up you're going to see there's a new information
panel which will provide you all this exif metadata so you can see the file format the camera
it was taken on the lens type and the shutter speed used and also the resolution the size
or the location where it was taken however this only works for pictures taken with your own camera
if the image was saved from a third party app you're going to see where it came from
and slightly different metadata another great add-on allows you to change the date and time of
when a photo was taken so let's say you have some pictures saved from third party apps which will
show the date they were saved onto your device to change that you have to simply open that photo
and tap on the info button which will bring up the panel i showed you before and now you will see
a new adjust button display next to the date and time they were saved so select that and now you
will see a calendar from where you can pick up the date you can also set the time and if it
was taken in a different country you can set the time zone to reflect that also on the old photos
up you could only see the location where picture was taken but now if you open the info panel and
tap on the location you will notice there is a new edit button which if you select will give
you the option to search for specific place so just pick the one you want and now if you go
back you will see the location has changed if by mistake you selected the wrong place you can press
edit again and you will see an option to revert the location to its original one when it comes to
photos saved from third-party apps you will notice that the metadata is incomplete so now you can
add a location to those as well following the same steps select a picture bring up the info panel
and tap on the add a location button and now you can type in the search bar
the place where it was taken selected and you will see a location has been added to the picture
moving on to the memory section there are some nice add-ons that i want to talk to you about
on the previous versions of ios we had the option to add some predefined tracks to these slide shows
now apple has decided to take this a step further and they created memory mixes a feature which can
suggest songs based on your apple music listening history that may go with the photos and videos in
a specific memory to do that you have to open the photos up on your iphone and select the
for you tab and then you have to pick up a memory that you want to edit from the memory section
so tap on the memory again to bring up the controls and select this new memory mixes
icon which looks like a musical note with stars and now you can swipe right and left
and the photos app will use machine learning to combine suggested music tracks
from apple music with different memory looks which is another feature that i will take you
through in a few seconds so bear with me once you come across a song you like just tap on the screen
and the music and look will be applied to your memory if you can't find the track you like you
can tap on this music icon and browse through apple's music top suggested songs and other
categories or if you are looking for a specific song you can use this search function right here
once you found the track you like press done and the song will be applied to your memory
now as i mentioned before there's a new feature called memory loops which consists in several
photo and video filters that can add a particular mood to the content of the memories
there's 12 to choose from and each one works by analyzing every individual photo and video
and applying the right amount of contrast and color adjustment in order to get a consistent
look to do that you have to open a memory that you want to edit from the for you tab now tap on the
screen again to bring up the controls and pause the memory and select the memory mixes icon from
the bottom left corner you then need to select the memory looks icon which is like free overlapping
circles so select the one you want and press done to apply your selection another change that is
worth mentioning in this update to the memory section is the ability to manage which images
appear in a memory so if you feel like a photo doesn't belong there you can simply remove it or
if you think some pictures have been left out you can add them to that specific memory to do that
you have to select the for you tab in the photos app and select the memory that you want to manage
you then need to tap on these three dots icon and select manage photos from the drop down menu
and now you can simply tick or untick the pictures to manage your selection
also if you press show selected you can see them in full screen rather than those small thumbnails
and again you can select or deselect the ones that you want to leave out of the memory now if
you manage to get till this point of the video i would like to take a second to thank you for
your patience and thank you for watching also i would kindly ask you to press that like button so
i know you are here so moving on i want to take you through my favorite photos feature on the
new ios 15. apple has introduced what they call live text which is a feature that can recognize
text within the photos you've taken and also allows you to perform several actions with it
so for example if you want to copy and paste text from a picture you have to
simply launch the photos app on your iphone or ipad and find a photo that has some text in it
and you're going to see there is a new text finder icon which if you press is going to
highlight all the text within the photo in order to copy some of it you have to press and hold
on a word and then drag the ends of the selection tool to highlight all the text that you need
once you are done take your finger off the screen and select copy from the pop-up menu and finally
open whichever app that supports text input press and hold your finger and select paste
from the pop-up menu also live text features an optical character recognition which means that if
you have a picture of a handwritten text you can still copy it and paste it as a digital text but
even better let's say you took a picture with some text in from a foreign language that you would
like to translate now you can do that as well by following pretty much the same steps like before
so open a photo from your library that contains text in a language that you want to translate
like this one right here now tap and hold and use the selection tool to capture the text
that you want to translate and select translate from the pop-up menu if it doesn't detect the
language automatically tap on change language option and pick the original one from the list
the next feature introduced by apple in the ios 15 is called visual lookup
which can recognize the content of your pictures we did have something similar on the previous
versions of ios where you could search in your photo library for an object like let's say cars
and you would bring up a whole lot of pictures containing cars in them but now thanks to machine
learning the photo app can identify landmarks animals plants and other various objects and
providing information about them information that they gather from the web so for example if i open
this picture of a kitten you're going to see that the info button now has a little star over it
which means there is a visual lookup which we can examine and if i press it another icon shows up
in the picture telling us that they identified an animal and if i tap on this icon the lookup
search results will come up with all kind of info about that particular object that they identified
so they're telling me this is either a bombay or barmy's cat that and they show me similar images
from around the web this feature however is not always that precise so they could see a donkey
being identified as a dog or the other way around also at the moment it is limited for the u.s
so if you want to make use of it you would have to change your time zone like i did now if you are
a long-term iphone user you might be familiar with the people album which tries to identify
faces in your photos so you can label people with their proper names and use that label as
an organizing element in your library however the face recognition isn't always totally accurate and
it might happen that someone's face gets mixed up and matched with a different person so apple has
introduced an option that allows you to correct naming mistakes that may occasionally happen
to do that you have to open the photos app on your iphone and select albums scroll down to people and
places and tap on it select a person and tap on these three dots icon at the top right corner of
the screen and now you're going to see there's a new manage tagged photos button which if you press
will allow you to check or uncheck any photos that have been mis identified as that person
also if you want to add any untagged photos of that person tap tag more photos at the bottom
and confirm the identity of the person in the photo and when you finish press done to save your
changes still related to the person recognition you now have the option to feature a person less
or remove it from some of the sections of the photos up or the home screen widget and there's
two places where you can do that the first would be in the featured photos on the for you tab so if
you long press on an image containing a person in it you're going to see a new button that
says feature this person less if it's a group photo you're going to get an additional menu
which allows you to choose who you want to see less of the second place where you can do that
is in the albums tab so if you have someone that is showing up in a lot of your pictures
you can go to people and places and select that person in question you then need to tap on these
three dots icon in the top right corner of the first image and select feature that person less
you will need to confirm your selection again and the settings will be saved for future usage
last but not least i want to talk about the spotlight search which has been improved and
has integrated the photos up as well so now for example you can swipe down on your home screen to
bring up the spotlight search type in photos and start searching pictures by specifying locations
people scenes or things in your photos like plants or pets also if you type in something
in the spotlight search you're going to see that alongside results from the web and series
knowledge some photos might appear as suggestions too and these are all the new ios 15 photos app
features that i found most interesting there are a lot more tiny changes here and there which i
don't retain that important in my opinion apple has made a big step forward by introducing them
and i really like the new live text feature but what do you think of them let me know
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come up on the screen and like always thank you for watching and i'll see you next time