What is going on everyone it is Mike and welcome back to Tech 24/7 TV.
So Apple just released the newest version of its operating system which
is Iowa's 13 works on the iPhone works on the iPad and in today's video
I'm going to go through share my favorite tips with you. And if you're
looking for the best tips for your iPad that content dropping very soon
so make sure you are subscribe but notifications to be alerted when that
content does come out. First up it's dark Mo. Now this year Apple finally
gave what people been asking for since I think it was in April and TV was
about three or four years ago.
This is system wide dark mode now. Let's start with a few tips and dark mode.
Now you can enable and configure this preference by navigating to the settings app.
Then go down display and then the brightness. And the first thing you can
be presented with is a radio button for either a light or dark appearance.
So you can have the appearance automatically change based on the time of
day by either sunset or sun up or based on you know an actual time of day.
Not me personally I like to have at sunrise sunset and not worry about
it kind of set it forget it that person. Knew when I was 13 this year the
ability to darken your wallpaper and background if you have dark mode enabled
now this is going to help you if you ever find yourself looking at your
phone either late at night maybe your bed.
You can enable dark mode in the brightness slider counting control center
but you can also save yourself a step and put it directly in a control center.
Now let's navigate back to settings then head down the control center.
Let's click customize and there you see all the options which are sorted alphabetically.
Let's tap on the green plus button next to dark mode and leave it where
I was placed. Now if we open up control center which is found either in
the top rate if you have an iPhone 10 or later or from the bottom up there's
the dark Mo toggle right at the bottom row allowing you to enable or disabled
with just one press.
And listen it's better than to presses and who doesn't like to save time.
Nonetheless one here for dark mornings can be a little advance but it's
simple once you see me do it. Now if you don't know what shortcuts is you
can think of this as being analogous to programming a computer without
needing to know how to program it.
Let's open up shortcuts. Now you may or may not already have shortcuts
in there but let's click on the ad shortcut
And then there in that dialog box where and type in appearance.
Now that variables are pre filled here with dark. But if you tap on it
with your finger you can either choose light or ask each time. Let's leave
it how it is. Gordon Neiman you couldn't name it dark mode or the clever
if you want.
I don't any mine darkest of nights and I'm a tap safe. Now I can activate
Siri and say darkest of nights and she will enable dark motives and conversely
I can create one for you know a light appearance and call that let there
be light in zero will do just the opposite.
All right. Next let's see what's new in messages. First give me the ability
to add a profile pic that is automatic exchange with people at you message with.
Let's open up messages and then on top right hand corner we're going to
click on the horizontal ellipses. We're going to select edit name and profile.
Now for me my first name was already filled out for you may or may not be.
But go ahead and fill that out. Put your first name last name your nickname.
Now I'm going to go and choose edit res running the photo. Now for me I
have pre-existing photos here that Siri knows that is me. I'm a go in choose
the camera button underneath and I can take a photo of myself or I could
click the plus button to create a new animal G.
Now I mean it's like using an existing in emoji. I'm going to go ahead
and use this in messages that I'm going click Done. Now you have the option
to use his picture everywhere including your Apple Store profile. In addition
to your photo on your Mac your iPad and your Apple TV. Now I'm going to
use this automatically share it with context meaning the next time I send
a message to someone whether it's my mom my dad you know it doesn't really
matter as long as you're my contact list. They'll get a pop up on their
side saying that name and or profile pic of the person that they're messaging
with has changed and given the option to save it.
Also new in messages this years can be the additional styling that you
can do to your individual motor character they have new hairstyles new
head wear makeup piercings so you can do a lot of customization and even
better you can add emoji or an animal G for someone in your contact list
by going into contacts looking at their picture looking at it and then
adding the animated character. Number three is can be haptic touch and
this is probably my favorite update for I was 13 because it brings functionality
that was previously limited to more expensive devices to everyone it can run. IOW
IOW 13 including iPads happy coach allows you to short press on almost
anything within ISIS 13 and I paid a W to get contextual menus now for
example you can short press on the messages I kind of see different contextual
menus say so you can't send someone a message. Now this list is dynamic
and it should change based on time of day and location but also the rabbit
hole is going to go a little bit deeper here.
Now I can press on the contact photo to see options in terms of how do
I contact them. In addition to being able to short press on the message
thread to get a preview of the messages and other pre canned responses.
Now what is really nice here is that previewing the message doesn't actually
mark the messages read if you have read receipts on and if you do everyday
use in town you can actually choose the option there to market is right.
Now if you remember when there was something called jiggly mode if you
want to go and move an app around your phone you had a long press on that
app right. Three or four seconds and all the icons would go out and enter
Julie mode.
That's why I think the call is very technical term jiggly mode but this
is gonna be real simple. Now you can long press on any app for about three
seconds and that will put all the apps into jiggly mode or if you short
press on any app from the home screen the very first options can be rearrange
apps which is the same exact thing. Again this is going to work in a number
of different places including the iPad. So really all it does is just start
experimenting and short pressing it anywhere that you can.
Now I don't know about you but I used to get around 20 to 30 robo calls
per day until this feature came out and it has been a savior to my sanity since.
Now the feature is gonna be called Silence unknown callers and it's found
in settings then under iPhone. Now this does exactly what it says it's
going to do it's going to silence any phone number that's not stored in
your contact list or that series is not aware of by sending that caller
directly to voicemail. Now this is one thing you give caution here that
while this is a great feature if you're someone who happens to either video
join a lot of conference calls for work or if you dial into bridges often
if that bridge happens to call you instead of you calling into it like
WebEx does and Skype does this if you don't have that phone number stored
in your phonebook from the bridge right those calls will go directly to voicemail.
So that was something I had to tweak the first few times I actually had
this going on. So there are many new features inside Iowa's 13 that are
about privacy and security but I'm to focus on two of them. The first ones
would be location services so new this year that you can go ahead and set
up new controls for location access to any number of apps can ask for your
location and what you can do new this year and you can to go ahead and
grant at one time access to check your privacy controls you're going to
go to go in settings you're gonna get a privacy location services and then
you're going to get a listing of every app that's installed on your iPhone
and whether or not they're getting location data.
Additionally you can go ahead and limit the ability for an app to go and
gain access to Bluetooth data that could gain by scanning your local environment.
And then for Bluetooth settings you're going to go in the same menu it's
going to be listed right below that. And you'll get a listing of apps and
ask for your Bluetooth data.
Our sixth and final tip is safari Safari is more robust than ever.
It's giving users fine grained control over privacy. So go on tap on settings
and go down a safari which is the fifth section from the top. And here
in Safari were going to look for a couple things. So the first thing is downloads.
So now in Safari there is desktop class browsing meaning now that you can
go and use your phone to go and navigate the Web sites and you'll get served
the desktop version of that Web site no more mobile versions. And additionally
what you could do is you can download files to your phone here your Dallas
folder is price set to iCloud Drive and what that means is if you have
iCloud Drive enabled if you download the song or picture it's going to
put that piece of content or that file into a sync folder between all of
your devices.
Now you can choose to override that by choosing a different folder between
be on your phone or even can go and put it into an external drive.
Now the next thing is going to be in the next section now which you can be tabs.
And now when I was 13 you the ability for automatically close safari tabs
after a given period of time and that's configurable you one day one week
or one month.
Now the last few tips are good for those of you who have an apple watch
and you upgrade to watch OSX first year the ability to delete apps that
are core to watch a Westlake breathe activity alarm stopwatch bring up
unnecessary space because if you have an older Apple Watch you only have
16 gigs of internal storage and every gig counts and if you do actually
delete something that you shouldn't have. You can always re download that
from the apps or brick now on watch where 60 of the appstore on your wrist.
Second I'd go out and turn on ambient noise alerts and I think you'll be
really surprised how often you find yourself in an environment that is
loud enough to damage your hearing.
Just something you gonna be aware of. All right. That about wraps it up
for me. Those are my six tips they get you started on I was 13 and watch
us once you leave any questions that you have about either IAW 13 or watch
OSX in the comments below. And again if you're looking for six tips to
get you started. I pedals. I'll go ahead link that above. It will be available
after I've had OS launches on September 30th. I am Mike and this is tech
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