hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and over the past couple of weeks there's been some major app
updates so i wanted to go over those and then also talk about when to expect the next versions of ios
and now the first thing is yesterday apple announced the apple card update we saw this in
ios 15.5 code and we just never saw it actually show up and if we go into the wallet app you'll
see that there's an apple account card now now this account card can be used with your itunes
balance to pay maybe in an apple store so you can use this just like you would with your wallet to
tap to pay and you can load this up like you would normally you'll see it says ready to use pay with
your iphone in an apple store shop online or buy apps subscriptions and other services
so instead of using a credit card you can load this up with gift card balances it's the same
thing as what you had before with an itunes card but now it's here so you can just add that within
the wallet app press the little plus in the upper right we'll go back and with the plus in the upper
right it'll be under previous cards if you already have it set up or you'll have it here available
as a new card to add then you can just add it and it will show up with your account balance
so that's something they updated yesterday that's available now and i've had people around the world
tell me that it's available so some people have said it's not in their area yet such as the uk
but others from places such as saudi arabia have told me it's available also so it doesn't seem
to be region specific for some people it seems to be rolling out now others it's showing up a
little bit later with apple's worldwide developer conference swiftly approaching they've updated
the developer app the developer app was updated today and allows you to explore all wwdc 2022 has
to offer including session videos digital lounges one-on-one labs coding and design challenges and
more so you can actually go in here and see all about wwdc it will have the schedule when you can
watch it and much more so you'll have everything from the apple keynote you'll see june 6th then
the platform state of the union at 1 pm pacific time after the keynote labs and more so as apple
is actually presenting this information this will be updated where you can go in and view it all
yourself so i would highly recommend you download the developer app if you want all the information
not just what they have in the keynote now along with this every time they update these apps they
also push out different stickers so if you go into the messages app you can see new stickers that are
from that developer app so if you go into here and then go into your stickers down at the bottom
scroll all the way to the right go to more under more you'll see that if we scroll down
we have developer so if you have the developer app installed you can see that here and now we have a
bunch of new stickers so we have a bunch for wwdc and different emojis or animojis or emojis here
with gears turning birds around your head and then also things such as wwdc 2022 as you can see here
so you can send those stickers use any one of those and you'll see all of them available
so if you install the app you can see all those stickers now and then use them and send them along
so those are all available now for those of you that don't use google maps or apple maps apple is
actually or waze has actually updated the waze app so if you go into waze so within the waze app once
you go into it and you're at your main location you'll have a music icon in the upper right
it now supports apple music so it will see all of the different options within your phone such as
youtube music spotify audible or apple music and that's been added to waze so you can now use that
with apple music while you're using waze as well so that's an update that came out the other day
now if you use whatsapp as your messaging platform or you just have it on your phone they've finally
updated it to allow for those emoji reactions i mentioned a few weeks ago so you now have those
features that they said were going to be coming soon they're now available so you have access to
them and then also if you're using whatsapp on an older device they've said that in the future
they're no longer going to be supporting ios 10 or ios 11. so if you have a device that has one of
the older versions of ios on it 10 or 11 you'll either need to upgrade to ios 12 or newer or
get a newer device so that's something that may be a bit unfortunate if you're using an
older iphone but just wanted to make you aware of that now if you're on reddit in any amount
of time you probably have already heard of the apollo app apollo is a great third party app
for following along on reddit and they've had a major update in may as you can see here it says
today's update to apollo apollo is a crazy one with completely revamped custom notifications
brand new gorgeous icons and a slew of other handy features and bug fixes read on so you've got
different notifications as we scroll down you'll see we've got some new icons you can change to
and even more so you can see tons of other improvements so things such as a new video
deblurinator feature that helps with the improved or improving the quality of reddit video playback
or added the option to hide media controls by default when opening the media viewer
so they've completely updated this with a huge update and if you use apollo
this is a big update and worth updating to now also instagram got an update this past
week and some people haven't been too happy about it they've updated this icon so it's a
little bit more vibrant and bright and that's not too much of an issue for a lot of people
but it just seems to have a lot of ads in it and more now they updated it with visual refreshes
brighter icons and new typography so if we go into it here's my profile on instagram
and you can see it here so i have a bunch of things mostly about when ios updates come out
and they've just given it a refresh here and there so if you're using instagram you may have already
seen the update but quite a few people have been having some bugs with it as well and even problems
today communicating with it so that's been updated but there's additional things that they've fixed
here as well but hopefully they'll have another update soon addressing many people's concerns now
there's an app i actually shared in my what's on my iphone video that i thought many would enjoy
called plane finder it helps you see nearby planes and they've actually updated this with
better sorting so if we go to plane finder here there it is plane finder shows all of the local
air traffic or anything around in real time and like i've said i'm pretty surprised it's
actually legal to see all of this but now under filters you can sort by military planes as well so
custom filters here and you have to have premium to do this but you can actually sort by military
plane regular plane of course if it's a military operation it's not going to show you that
but it will show different aircraft throughout the air in real time you can actually sit at an
observation area at the charlotte airport and see planes as they're landing in real time with their
actual information changing and their altitude and as they're landing it shows them they're sending
and shows everything about them so it's an app i really appreciate especially if you're tracking
someone that's coming to visit you or maybe a loved one that's going to fly somewhere else
you can see that in real time where they are what altitude they're at and what speed they're at so
that's been updated with a higher focus just for military aircraft and sorting ability now
with wwdc 2022 quickly approaching there's an app i would recommend if you're excited about
it called i event timer now this is a paid app and if you go into it it will actually tell you
time until the next apple event so right now it's 10 days 22 hours 9 minutes and 8 seconds
so you can download this app and as the next event is actually announced it'll switch to that and
then give you a countdown it'll actually notify you as well on your iphone and apple watch you'll
get a notification that we're only nine days out or eight days out and then it will let you know so
if you want to keep track of that that's a great way to keep track of it and i'll link it in the
description so i'll link all of the apps if you're not familiar with them and they're not apple apps
now at the time of this video many of us expected ios 15.5.1 to be released already and the reason i
say that is yesterday apple released tv os 15.5.1 and homepod os 15.5.1 or audio os 15.5.1 and that
was to address an issue where the music would stop playing you can see that in your home app if you
go here and it's not updated already you'll see a little update option and then it will update your
homepod to no longer have it skip music so that's something they pushed out yesterday and usually
when they push out those updates they'll push out an ios update as well but they haven't done that
yet so we're expecting that as soon as either later today or possibly the next few days it's
very unusual for them to do that but it's possible we could see an odd friday release or maybe we
won't see one at all but it seems very likely that we'll have that and then next week around next
tuesday or wednesday the 30th or 31st or maybe even june 1st i would expect ios 15.6 beta 2.
of course the big update will be on june 6th at wwdc with ios 16 beta 1 to developers and then
a public release probably a month or so later in july at some point that's typically what they do
and it could be a little bit later than that this year from what people are saying so all of
those updates are expected soon i'm hoping we have 15.5.1 soon to fix some issues that we're having
with 15.5 but either way i'll keep you updated if we do swift playgrounds got updated this past week
to version 4.1 swift playgrounds is apple's app to teach coding and also you can create an app
right within swift and then push it to the app store so that's something you can do here and they
updated it on the ipad with some major updates but even bigger updates on the mac but on the ipad
you'll see it says keep going with apps helps you understand how data moves through swift ui apps
animating shapes teaches you how to create modify and animate shapes capturing photos is an advanced
look at creating your own camera so you've got the version history here and there's even more
on the mac where they've updated it quite a bit so on the mac side we have the ability now to build
mac apps with swift ui you'll need to have mac os 12.4 later but you can do that in swift ui or
swift playgrounds now directly on the mac instead of using xcode so that's a possibility you also
have guided walkthroughs to teach swift ui app building basics app previews apps built with swift
playground can run and install to application folders and much more so this was a major update
to swift and it's something you can completely use on the mac instead of maybe using xcode if you're
not familiar with it so maybe you're coming from an ipad to a mac this would be a great transition
apple also updated final cut pro this is a bug that we were having with it where they updated
it to 10.6.3 to fix a bug with transitions so it improves reliability when dragging and dropping
to replace a transition it improves reliability when dragging a transition onto a connected clip
and i've found this was a problem when you're copying and pasting maybe one complete project
to another project that where you want to try something different it would really change how the
transitions worked and their duration and length so that's something they've resolved they've also
fixed an issue where custom sound effects do not always appear in the sound effects browser
so those three things have been improved with final cut pro and i know a lot of people welcome
that now my favorite photo editing app for maybe creating thumbnails and more for my videos is
pixelmator pro they've again updated it to version 2.4.3 and introduced an all-new photo browser
which adds a few handy workflow improvements and fixes according to them so the photo browser has
been redesigned from the ground up and it improves support for icloud photos and smoother photo
browsing overall so that's the major update with pixelmator so a lot of things as far as that goes
and of course there's minor fixes here and there but i wanted to share the ones that got
the larger updates and so that's everything with the app updates this past week of course many of
us are excited for the next version of ios and to see just what wwdc will bring us with ios 16
ipad os 16 watch os 9 mac os 13 which is rumored to be called mammoth and maybe even reality os
that shows with a vr headset or ar headset i'm looking forward to all of those things and we're
only about a week and a half away let me know what you're most excited about in the comments below
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