there have been a lot of big changes to
ios since we published our last video
about ios 15.1 we're talking about a new
siri voice some new privacy settings
some changes in the camera app and we're
going to answer one of your questions
from the last video but first we're
going to start with a feature that feels
about a year overdue and that is
unlocking your iphone with face id while
wearing a mask a previous ios update let
you do this with an apple watch now you
can just do it all the time no apple
watch necessary so i'm gonna go to the
settings app
scroll down to face id and passcode i'm
going to enter my passcode then scroll
down here face id with a mask turn that
switch on set it up it's much like the
setup process for regular face id you're
just wearing a mask so we set this up on
david's phone let's give it a whirl
that's right you're going to have to
take my word for it here that it works
but let's see all right it worked there
we go third time's the charm yeah this
feature has been pretty hit or miss for
me especially if i'm out and about and
i'm wearing a winter hat and the hat
comes down to your eye range because
what it's doing is it's detecting the
unique features around your eyes so if
those are obstructed in any way at all
this might not work when i worked in the
apple stores of tech there was a woman
who came in once her husband had just
died it was very sad she had his iphone
she asked us to help get back into it so
she could get some family photos we
couldn't do anything fortunately apple
is now built in a feature that lets
family members access their relatives
photos yep that is legacy contacts go
back to the main page of the settings
app and scroll all the way up and tap on
your name at the top of the screen
then tap password and security
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then scroll down to legacy contact tap
on that then tap add legacy contact i'll
give you some information here and you
can add the person that you want is your
legacy contact exactly
you need their death certificate and you
need the code that gets generated as
part of this to send that to apple
after the person dies and then apple
reviews it sends you the information
back so that you can get into their
account but the one thing to know is
that you cannot access their keychain
photos chat messages you can get that
but if you're relying don't rely on this
for passwords next up an option we've
had for wi-fi for a while now now we
have it for cellular too let's go back
to the main page of the settings app
scroll down and tap on cellular
tap cellular data options limit ip
address tracking limit ip address
tracking by hiding your ip address from
known trackers and mail and safari we
recommend turning this switch on yeah
it's one of the ways that email
companies know how to target you so well
as there's these hidden tracking pixels
this protects you from that next up
another relatively new feature notes for
passwords one of the uses i think that
could be for this is just writing down
the answers to your security questions
when you sign up for important accounts
it's a little bit clunky to get to at
this point but it could be useful also
good for hints for your passwords let's
go back to the main page of the settings
app and scroll down to passwords tap on
that
face id
log in so if i just go ahead and i click
on a password let's go to facebook it's
the right thing to do yeah and then just
tap add notes and there you go my
password shows up on the screen that's
nice so we'll blur that right out but
you can add a note like uh start taking
notes password we're getting all those
passwords
so you can just type some then tap done
upper right hand corner of the screen
now that note shows up below the
password and if you see any strange
messages coming from david lynch's
account in the near future
it's totally not our fault next up a new
feature for icloud plus subscribers hide
my email in the mail app in 2004 bill
gates said that spam email messages
would be gone within two years he was
not correct about that so this is a good
feature yes you go to the mail app and
you start composing a new message tap on
the from field
and then tap on your email address and
then just select hide my email before
sending that email right so somebody
gets it they can reply to you but they
reply to the anonymous address that then
gets forwarded back to you so it's not
like they can't send something back if
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yeah let's go back to the settings app
and talk about the new siri voice you
mentioned at the beginning of this video
recorded by a member of the lgbtq plus
community so in the settings app scroll
to siri and search tap on that
then tap on siri voice and the new voice
is american voice number five hi i'm
siri choose the voice you'd like me to
use i really like this idea apple i
think is using siri as a way to promote
social justice kind of in a subtle way
next up is the app privacy report let's
go back to the main page of the settings
app cue below siri and search is privacy
tap on that
then scroll all the way down to app
privacy report there's a lot of
information here it can be a little bit
overwhelming uh it's just good to keep
an eye on what your apps are doing right
so let's pick on facebook for instance
well that's pretty easy to do app
network activity facebook 521 contact
domains if you tap on facebook there's
just a lot there's a lot i know it's
nice that they've provided this report
for people but it would be nice if they
categorized each of these into their
purpose like is it is it just a tracker
for advertising or is it an analytics
platform it's nice that they did this
but how useful is this to most people
ios 15.4 has brought us a new widget a
wallet widget for apple card users if i
go to the home screen just press and
hold anywhere and tap that plus button
upper left hand corner of the screen
search in your widgets for wallet tap on
that
add widgets you can see your card
balance see your spending habits i don't
use my apple card as you can see so it's
not very interesting for me but if
you're an apple card user and use it all
the time good information here next
we've got some iphone 13 pro and 13 pro
max features the first is the macro
camera lens it's now super easy to
switch back and forth go back to the
main page of the settings app and scroll
down to camera tap camera scroll down
and make sure that switch next to macro
control is on that's how you can build a
toggle back and forth in the macro lens
and whatever the other lens is called so
now if you go to the camera app
and we bring are you ready for me i'm
ready all right here we go bring this up
super close super close super close to
see that little flower up here
when it's illuminated like that that's
how you know it's in the macro lens if
you want to turn off the macro lens just
tap on the flower the picture gets a lot
worse as you can see so
there you go whoa yeah it's a lot better
if you turn off that switch next to
macro control you won't see this flower
appear you can't toggle back and forth
so what is a good example of something
to use
with the macro lens you're taking a
picture of a very small insect or a
flower a flower sure flower it's a
flower button also for iphone 13 pro and
pro max users pro motion display now
supported in third-party apps so this is
an interesting one for me because since
it's so new i think that there could be
bugs with it still i mean there were
bugs that's why it's taken them this
long to release it in the first place
and i want to talk about a battery life
issue that may occur in certain people's
phones yep so let's go back to the
settings app
back to the main page of settings scroll
up
and tap on accessibility
then tap motion you'll see the switch
here limit frame rate right limit it to
60 frames per second which is the
default it's always been 60. if you
notice a big battery drain immediately
after you update your phone to ios 15.4
come in here and try turning off limit
frame rate because if it's 120 hertz and
third-party apps are now able to use it
let's say facebook not that we would
want to pick on facebook but if facebook
was allowed to use it and you're on
facebook a lot
it might cause a lot more battery drain
air tags have some new anti-stocking
features darn it when you set up an
airtag for the first time look at this
new splash screen saying hey it's
illegal to stalk people with air tags we
can tell law enforcement if people find
this unknown air tag near them also
you'll get quicker notifications when an
unknown air tag is near your phone apple
doesn't want to get sued apple doesn't
want to get does he want to get sued
yeah there have been a lot of stories
about people using air tags to stalk
other people and apples you know maybe
they weren't anticipating that they were
anticipating it
i don't think that they were
anticipating the level of it like now
it alerts people faster than it used to
if they're being tracked
so maybe they weren't giving the
criminals enough credit for being able
to you know click bank we got a question
in our previous video about a safari
settings let's go back to the main page
of the settings app
scroll down
and tap on safari come down here to
privacy preserving ad measurement back
in the day
one year ago advertisers could tell if
it was you specifically who clicked an
ad so then apple built this thing called
privacy preserving ad measurement that
anonymizes that data so that advertisers
can tell that the ad was clicked but not
who you are if you want to disable that
attribution completely turn this switch
off if you've had it left on for a while
or you want to keep leaving it on you
can clear out that data that's been
saved by clearing your history and
website data on your iphone they say if
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