Hi, everyone, welcome back to my channel. Hopefully everybody had
a great start to their autumn, Autumn is my favorite month. So
I'm very, very excited. And this month is my birthday. So being
that the last couple of birthdays have pretty much
sucked, maybe even a few, I decided to be selfish, pamper
myself and just do everything that I want to do because it's
my damn birthday, and this year, no one's gonna ruin it. So with
that I bought myself the new iPhone 13 Pro Max is huge, but
for some reason, I like big ass phones, because then I can find
them. So one of the reasons that I switched from my xR to the 13
Pro Max was because of the camera, it has a great camera,
and I felt like my XLR camera wasn't that great, especially
now that I've been using it to film tic tocs and reels iPhone
camera, which just was not cutting it. So now I got the
iPhone max. And with that I also upgraded to the new iOS 15. And
so I have seen how Apple has really focused on productivity,
and just being very mindful of people's time. And so I wanted
to go ahead and share with you my favorite new features that
came with iOS 15. And for those who don't know me, my name is
Shevonne. And I talked about productivity time management
organization, and just sprinkle in there things that I have
learned as a program manager for an IT consulting company of 50
plus people on that team. And as well as my time as an online
student when I was going through the MBA program last year. So if
you're interested in that, please subscribe, share, do
anything you want to do. But I am glad you're here. And with
that, let's
go ahead and get started talking about the productivity features
on iOS 15 that I'm using first new feature that I want to share
with you is the schedule summary. So if I go to my
settings, and I search, which is what I usually do now, I
searched schedule summaries, which is under notifications,
you can turn that on. And what you can do is you can put on
their apps that either you don't want to get the notifications
too much, or apps that you feel are just time slots, which
there's some apps for me that are like that, you want to make
sure to put them in a summary. So I have these summaries. To
come at these a lot of times, you can decide what makes sense
for you. And then you can go on here and see the different apps
and then decide which ones you want to add in that schedule
summary. And what that does is you won't get a notification for
that app until the times that you have selected and it groups
them. Let me see if I have one here. Yeah, so here you'll see
like, here's my afternoon summary. So here if I click on
the number, I can see all of the summaries that I put as one of
the schedule summaries that I don't want to get all the time
that has been so useful because I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm
one of those people that when my phone dings, I tend to look at
it and I don't want to put it on Do Not Disturb because if
someone like my kids or whatever, messaged me I wasn't
able to get the message. The only way I would is if they
weren't on my favorites and they called me which is not something
that they tend to do so this has been super helpful in making
sure that I get the summaries without being bombarded by them.
The other feature is focus so I just talked about Do Not
Disturb. And with that I use that all the time because a I
don't want to be getting any messages while I'm sleeping. And
be I just don't want to be disturbed and I did tell my
family who I have in my favorites. I was the only way
that you can decide if that person disturbs you or not. You
I would tell them call me and there were times I was like one
time that there was like an emergency and at three in the
morning. One of my family members called me and I was able
to pick it up so that has been replaced by focus. And what I
love about this is that it now has more than one Do Not Disturb
option which now they call focus and you can add more. And that
is really great because on top of the fact that you have the Do
Not Disturb I have it for driving so I am trying to make
sure I do not check my phone while I'm driving. And I even
send mess like a message saying like hey I'm driving or whatever
the Automated one that iPhones sends people, I have that. So
the good thing about that is that you can have this on and
you can have the focus status, send it to people you want to
send it to, it doesn't have to be to everyone, which I really
like. So let me go ahead and focus on just one of them. So
right now I'm using the work one. So here I have the people
who can message me the app. So you can select like which apps
can still send you notifications. And those can be
outside of the schedule summaries. You can have the
focus status. So if someone messages you, it will just say
like, hey, this person, it has some notification silence, so
leave her alone, I'm just kidding. It doesn't say that.
And then the homescreen, you can decide to hide the notification.
You can even have custom pages, which I think is freaking
amazing. So yes, I have way too many damn pages, but you can
decide, I just want to see this one in that one. And then during
that time, it will only show the pages that I selected, which I
think is pretty cool. And then you can have it turned on
automatically. or any type of automation that you want to
have, it kind of reminds me a lot of the Google Home and I'm
assuming that probably Alexa has the same thing. But like I have
my routines here, I have like let's say like go to daycare.
And I can go ahead and select the way I want the routine to
work. So I feel like that's what Apple is going for with the
focus, which I think is pretty cool, because I use those
routines to death. So now it's cool that I can use the focus as
well. And the other thing that's really great about the focus
that it can be either shared across devices, if you have more
than one Apple device, which I do, or you can decide to just
have it be customized individually. That's pretty
amazing. So definitely the focus is one of the features that I
love that they basically boosted the Do Not Disturb gave you more
the bit the ability to customize that and habit for different
points in your day. In a way I don't know why they have so
hidden, which makes no sense to me why they have it hidden, but
they have background noises. So if you're someone who prefers to
have like background sounds, I have white noise machines all
over the house. I have it in the baby's room. I have it in my
room, Google Home has the Google Home minis have them as well.
But I prefer just having a separate machine because it's
just so convoluted just using the Google one, I do use the
Google shusher for the baby. So I have a schedule that at six in
the morning, which is when he tends to kind of start stirring,
I have a thing turned on so he can sleep another hour and let
me sleep. One thing that Apple just added is background sound.
So as you see they do have it like embedded which maybe
they'll change that in the future if more people use it.
But if you search background sounds you'll see on here, now
you can turn this on. And you can have different background
sounds, I don't know if you'll be able to hear because I'm
using my headphones,
which I think is pretty cool, especially for someone who who
needs them. Again, I have my own white noise machine. But for
someone who doesn't, then this is actually a good option. It
does help you focus. I know that like in therapy sessions, they
use white noise machines a lot. And it also is to make sure that
the people outside don't hear what's happening. But it's
something that I love and just try it and see if it's something
that will help you as well. The other thing that they have also
updated is FaceTime. So before you could only FaceTime people
who had an iPhone, well, I think they're trying to compete with
like Google meet and zoom and all those other ones. Now you
can create a link and actually talk to people who do not have
iPhones, which I think is pretty neat. Because now I can use
FaceTime with other people. That is good, because let's say I'm
doing like an example. My kid's dad does not he uses an Android.
So if I wanted to have like a group discussion with the kids
and him and me, then I can send him a link and he can join in
and then I don't have to worry about like setting up something
on the computer or whatever. So I think that that's pretty
useful, especially if you're quickly trying to catch up on
something instead of having everything on text, which I'm
not gonna lie some of these texts, chains can go pretty
lengthy. So instead of just doing that, just quickly jumping
on a FaceTime and just getting it done and you haven't really
used it Yes, yet on this new phone. But you can access your
recordings everywhere, which is good because one thing that I do
sometimes is I'll record voice memos, and then later on convert
those to text and use those As the start of something that I'm
writing, so if I'm let's say I'm in the car, and I remember or I
want to talk about something, I'll put it in a voice memo. So
now instead of me having to go and airdrop this to another
device, I can now access it anywhere or even on the PC,
which one thing I will know. And I do want to make a video on
that iCloud on a PC laptop, if you use the desktop version
doesn't work very well. So they need to improve that. But you
can still use the web version. And one thing as well is that
you can do like playback speed. I listen to my podcast, I'm like
1.5 or two, because as you can tell, I'm a pretty fast talker.
And I do better when I'm hearing someone else talk fast, which
sounds silly, but it's true. But you can do improve the playback
speed. And also like share multiple voice memos, which is
nice. So it still looks the same. But it's just the fact
that now you have those additional options. And just
adding in here because I'm already talking and I guess Siri
thought I was talking to her and Siri I'm not to stop series that
one thing that they added for the watch OS is now you can have
multiple timers and I use this watch for cooking. And having
especially if you have like different things that are
cooking at different times. And this can also be for like if
you're trying to get different things done for when you're
setting because I know I used to set multiple timers for that. Or
if even if you're trying to do like the Pomodoro Technique, you
can now set different timers and they can all be going at the
same time, which I think is pretty useful. Well, I'm glad
that you were able to see how I'm using my new phone with the
iOS 15 to be more productive. Please share with me any of the
features that you're using. I would love to hear them because
maybe I did not capture them all or there's one that I did not
think about. I did watch a few of the tech videos, mainly
Brandon Bush, I think I said his name correctly. He did like a
one hour video I'm going to post it down below. I recommend that
video that video taught me so much about the new iOS 15 and as
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