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 one to five
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 they're not going to call it ios on
ipads they might as well call it the old
name
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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 in hand 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
spelunking
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
the 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
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 linus 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 surprisingly useful
also useful the slick updates define
mine 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 idevice 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
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anyway 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 high quality
apple product yeah it's kind of annoying
but it sort of makes sense because
facetime's 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
call at a glance
bro add to that a new voice isolation
mode for busy environments
and look at a committable video content
tonight but that's not all it can do
shareplay 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 just video
calls the wider web is also a focus for
apple and ios 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 iplod 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'll
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 legitimately useful for a lot of
people is per app accessibility options
so now you can increase the font size
and apps with tiny text
enable or disable auto playing video for
misbehaving apps
or do smart color invert 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 i mean i can
even open urls from a pc just by
pointing the camera at the address bar
lttstore.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
but do you understand how big that is
for reading and getting information on
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
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 new 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 in-app 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 sides
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don't miss our review when the iphone 13
arrives
and if you do join the dark side apple's
got you covered with 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 bracket
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
memoji is the second thing on the page
here
but the experience that i've had so far
has been much more streamlined and
unobtrusive
and at the end of the day that's what
you want from your phone
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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