What is going on everyone. It is Mike and welcome back to
Tech 24/7 TV.
It's been a week since Apple released the second feature
release of iOS 13 which really covers a ton of new features
and in today's video I'm going to outline my ten favorite
features in iOS 13.2 as well as how to find them.
Now I'm gonna put timestamps to all the features in the
comments below in case you need to come back to a
certain section. But without further ado let's get started.
First up, it is A nnounce M essages with Siri which is
going to come to both the iPhone and the iPad. W hen this
is enabled and you're wearing one of your new H1 enabled
bluetooth headphones which include the AirPods P ro,
AirPods 2, PowerBeats Pro, or even the New Beat Solo P ro
you're going to hear a soft alert tone followed by Siri
reading the name and incoming message along with giving you
the option respond.
Now, t his is really useful in situations where you know your
hands aren't really accessible to touch your iPhone such
as working out, commuting to or from work maybe on a bike or
while you're maybe just out for a walk.
Now to enable this feature, lets go and open settings,
tap notifications, and then tap on Announce M essages
with Siri. As of right now this feature is only available with
the message app, but it's likely that we'll see this
functionality expanded to other third party messaging apps.
Now this feature can be configured in one of four
different ways and you really can think of a kind going from
the most restricted to the most broad.
1) Siri will announce messages from anyone that you've
identified in your contact list as a favorite.
2) Siri will announce messages from anyone that you've
message today.
3) Siri is going to announce messages from anyone that is
stored in your phone book or 4) Siri will announce all messages
including numbers that aren't even stored in your phone book.
For me I found that it works best from when my iPhone is
configured to announce messages from anyone that story in my
contact list. That's because I tend to receive messages from
multiple threads that are more than a day old and I wouldn't
have visibility to that new message on an old thread or
until I replied in I don't want Siri messages reading messages
from numbers that I don't store like two factor authentication
codes or other shore codes.
Now to complement announced messages with Siri, my second
favorite feature coming to both the iPhone and the iPad i n iOS
13.2 is going to give you a quick toggle to enable disable
the feature right from control center.
now to enable the quick toggle let's go ahead and head
to settings.
Let's go to control center, customize control. Then we're
going to tap on the green plus button which is labeled "A
nnounce M essages with Siri." Now this will allow you to
quickly toggle A nnounce M essages with Siri on or off any
anytime that your bluetooth headphones are going to
be connected. Now you might be thinking to yourself why would
I even want to turn this feature on if I had to have
it enabled. Well let's just say maybe you're working at the gym
or you're out for a run and you don't want to lose your
concentration by getting a message from your boss swipe
down from control center. Turn it off and you'll be
message free during that time.
Sticking with a control center theme you're going to find new
glyphs to properly identify any first party bluetooth
headphones including the new AirPods Pro.
Now I know it might seem small but all about Apple sweating
the little details. Now that same glyph can be found anytime
that you toggle the volume up or down using the volume rocker
and then pull the volume slider in it's going to show that
this is probably my most anticipated feature because I'm
always finding myself in a situation where I need to share
audio with someone in most of time that is my wife and we're
on a plane.
New in iOS 13.2 is the ability to share audio from your iPhone
or iPad to a friend or family member's H1- enabled bluetooth
headphones and I liken this to a software based
headphone splitter.
To access this feature you go to pop into to control center
and make sure that you're wearing their
bluetooth headphones. You're in tap on the audio tile and then
you can be presented with a share audio menu tap on that.
Go ahead bring the case of a second pair of AirPods or
PowerBeats Pro near the iPad cap and share audio and then
you're connected.
Now you're back at the now playing title which reflects
two pairs of air pods being connected.
You can individually adjust the volume here or by pressing the
volume slider in control center or you control the volume on
both sets of headphones with the volume rocker.
Coming in number five to closely integrate your iPhone
in your HomePod together with the ability transfer audio to
and from the home pod using the iPhone. Now in order to use
this feature the HomePod will also need to be running iOS
13.2 out and to enable this feature on your iPhone, y ou
need to go into settings tap on general tap on your plane
handoff and make sure that transfer to HomePod
is enabled.
Once that enabled bring your phone in close proximity your
home part of you you need a confirmation that the content
is being transferred from your phone to your HomePod or
vice versa.
Now this is going to work while you're listening to music
through the Apple music app or while you're taking a
phone call. This last summer Apple raked over the coals for
allowing contractors aka external employees to listen to
Siri or hoardings without getting consent from consumers
so this is the ability to go ahead and delete that search
history right from your iPhone iPad or HomePod.
Number seven.
Long press to edit home screen. A s part of this year's upgrade
to iOS 13, Apple added software based force touch support to
all devices that are running iOS 13.
Now new in iOS 13.2 is the management of your apps from
the home screen giving you more streamlined controls and the
ability to delete apps right from the home screen by long
pressing on an app icon and selecting delete.
Number eight is new emojis and emoji picker.
Now if it wasn't for new emojis, I really wonder
of whether or not people would be so inclined to upgrade to
the new software release year over year. But I
really digress. iOS 13 is going to have 70, count them,
70 new emojis covering a wide range topics as well as a new
emoji picker that's going to give you the ability to mix and
match skin tones between two different people.
Number nine camera resolution and frame rates. This next one
is a close second as my favorite feature because I use
it so often. And that's the ability to change the camera
resolution and frame rate right from within the sock app.
Now I know it feels like Apple finally listened to us
on this one, albeit the change is only for the iPhone 11 Pro
and the iPhone 11 Pro Max.
Now to change either one of these, you're going to
go and open up the stock camera app you swipe over to video and
then tap on the top right hand corner where use has a frame
rate and each one can be change independent of the other.
Now last but not least we are going to stay with the same
theme of cameras in iOS 13.2 is deliver improvements using deep
fusion which is Apple's take on producing more detailed and
sharper pictures through the iPhone's neural engine.
The result should be most prevalent and noticeable in
photos that really contain a lot of texture like dogs,
cats, hipsters with long beards and everything similar.
Now if you really want to see what the differences between
the photos that have diffusion the ones that don't,
you'll need to turn off capture photos outside of frame which
is in settings under camera.
Now it is unfortunate that the new feature is only going to
apply to the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and the iPhone
11 Pro Max because it has the A13 bionic but hopefully Apple
can find a way to enable the feature maybe the least
some degree.
All in all there are a lot of great features in iOS 13.2,
really covering the wide range of devices. Now I want to know
what your favorite features is in iOS 13.2 or even better yet
let me know what you're holding out for that Apple still hasn't
delivered on.
Now I am Mike and this is tech 24/7 TV hit like hit subscribe
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