What is going on, everybody?
I am Mike.
Welcome back to Tech 24/7 TV.
I am so glad that you're back with me today, folks.
This is like New Year's to me.
This is WWDC, Apple's
Worldwide Developers Conference.
It just wrapped up and they showed us everything that's
coming to the iPad for iPad OS 15.
And I don't know about you, but I am excited.
There are a lot of great features coming to the iPad,
some that are exclusive to the new M1 iPad Pro.
But let me tell you, we have a lot to talk about because in
today's video, I'm going to tell you my favorite features
for iPadOS 15.
Let's get started.
Now, before we get into it, I just received this BRYDGE
twelve-point nine-inch max plus for the twelve-point nine-
inch iPad Pro.
Let me know if you want to see this reviewed down in
the comments below.
As I mentioned, iPadOS was 15 just released, this is
the first beta,
If you are new to betas and you want to think about installing
this on your device, I'll tell you at this point,
don't do it.
This is really for devices that are being used for development
at this point in time.
Wait for the public beta.
It's going to come out in July.
It's not very stable at this moment for the most part.
Now, the iPad that we see here, this is the
home screen, which we see.
There's some widgets on the homescreen.
So things definitely look different.
Previously, we are only allowed to put widgets on the left-hand
side of the menu and these widgets will disappear when you
scroll from page to page.
Well, new this year is that one you could put widgets anywhere
on the home screen.
And two, they can go on multiple home screens.
This allows you really to customize what widgets you have
where and use your iPad for different functions.
I really like this feature a lot.
I like the way that they added a new size, extra-large widget
for some of the applications.
Now, developers still need to update their apps to take
advantage of this.
So if you are searching for a widget and no extra-large
images are available, that's because the developer
hasn't updated yet because they have all the way until
September of this year to go and update their apps to
support iOS 15 and iPad OS 15.
All the apps that support right now are going to be the ones in
Apple's own ecosystem.
And I would suspect that we see more in terms of apps being
supported and even tweaks of the design over the next
several betas because it's going to be a long time.
It's 90 days.
In addition to the home screen being updated to support
widgets anywhere on the screen, there's also the
function of organizing your library.
So I can take multiple pages as we see here.
And I can say I want to see this page.
I want to see this page.
I don't want to see this page, just like what we see on
the iPhone today.
So you can add and remove pages if you want it to.
You could have a single home screen if you wanted to.
And with that addition, you also get the app library
simply by scrolling over to the left.
Yeah, left.
And this animates it pops up very beautifully.
It looks really nice.
Still, these apps are arranged in these
predetermined categories, which you cannot update.
These are category headers that are defined by the app
developer when they submit the app to iTunes.
So that's not changeable or customizable.
But look at the way that animates.
It's so slick.
They did a great job of doing this.
It just really makes it feel very polished.
I just can't get enough of it.
So in addition to the app library and how apps
are in there, is going to be redesigned to notifications.
So here we see I swiped on the notification shade.
And there is a few things that are that enabled the one.
The notifications look visually different.
They now have app icons, which is much more larger
and they're prominent.
If you have a contact sending you a message or a contact
that's in a notification.
Their picture is present where before it was just
the application icon.
And then also we see that there is this focus mode.
Now Apple is introducing focus modes that sync
across your devices.
I'm so happy that they did this because if I turn on do not
disturb on my desktop because I'm recording, I somehow forget
to turn it on or turn it off on these other devices that I have
here in the studio.
So this will actually stay in sync across all your devices.
It's very helpful.
Now, there are predefined categories that Apple has
set up there.
I did not set mine up only when I said it was gaming because
I'm doing a video on gaming for the iPad.
So make sure you're subscribed if you want to see that.
Now, let's go back to notifications here.
We're going to look at the notification sheet.
You can actually group notifications based on what you
assume their primary to be or what you want their
priority to be.
iPadOS can do that, but I did not set that up yet.
It's still twenty-four hours that these things are out.
The notification shade and the reworking of notifications is a
very much welcome improvement.
I am very excited about that in addition to these focus modes.
The next thing that we see here is going to be the
changes to multitasking.
Very exciting here.
So let's just say I want to open up Safari and I am looking
at the safari.
I'm looking at the iPadOS site where all the features are
clearly outlined for the new iPad.
Now, let's just say I want to add another window here.
Well, I'm going to tap on this icon here.
I'm going to say, OK, I want to bring something over here to
the left-hand pane.
Well, that app slides over to the right.
And I can then bring something up.
Let's just say I want to bring up craft.
And now that these apps are independent, they're in
two different windows.
And if I wanted to first, I can modify the screen split
percentage that be either more or less based on
whatever I'm doing.
The second thing I can go and do is I can independently
change these windows.
I'm going to swipe down that pushes the safari over to
the right again.
And now I can change the window.
Let's just say I want to use fantastical.
Now, fantastical and safari in the window.
Now, let's just say I want to go ahead and open up
a different paint.
Now, you see here, I still have the craft app that I
was using.
I still have my settings and I still have the two windows that
I was sharing.
Well, let's just say I want to open up Safari again and I want
to go see all windows.
Now, Safari is going to show all windows and I can click on
the plus button.
I can add an app and let's just say I want to run this
in split view.
I'm sorry, in slide over.
So now I see here that I should have at home screen
show our windows.
I'm going to go here and then I have this other app that is in
Slide Over, which is really nice.
And you see here also in the corner, it's like another
app that's running.
This is my quick note.
If I slide up from the right, it brings up the quick note pad
and I can take quick notes.
Hi.
It's kind of clever name because it's aptly named.
And I could say that you should describe for more iPad content
because I make dope
iPad content.
If I wanted to, I could say I'm going to add a link here.
That link is going to be from iPadOS.
Sorry, he's going to be from Safari.
Well, I want it to be from that first safari window and it adds
a link to what's open in the safari window, which you
can choose from.
Now I'm going to throw that back to the corner.
Now let's just say I want to close the safari window that I
have opened and slide over.
And now I have this open here.
I'm going to go ahead and choose to run it in
full-screen mode.
And then Safari opens up in full-
screen mode, I have then this window open is still in
the background, which is fantastic.
So there's a lot of flexibility, at least at
this very early Beta, how this works in terms of organizing
your windows, whether it's in full screen, whether it's in
slide over or in split view.
I like it a lot.
I don't know about you, but I think this is probably the best
compromise to how it works today in terms of
split view windows.
Now, the next time I talk through is exclusive to the M1
iPad Pro and Apple didn't even talk about this on stage,
but it is near and dear to my heart.
If you remember a few months ago I reviewed
some Thunderball docks.
I reviewed some Thunderbolt 3 SSD because the capabilities
that Thunderbolt brings to the iPad is almost limitless.
It's a great feature set.
When I unboxed the M1 iPad Pro, I was
nothing but disappointed.
Very, very disappointed in the transfer rate of how fast SSD
would read and write.
Thunderbolt to the Amazon iPad Pro.
I was getting roughly like 300 megabits per second,
which is not bad.
But in context of a Thunderbolt drive where you can get 40
gigabit link and roughly 2000 megabits per second,
that is much, much better.
I have an eighteen point nine gigabyte file.
If I take this file and if I just drag it over my X5 drive
looking here, you see it spinning it up and it's writing
that file and it's core the way done in what is a much,
much more faster read write.
Speed on this drive than what it was before.
This is roughly what I'm thinking about it.
Right.
Should take about fifteen seconds and it's about
eighteen thousand megabytes.
It's roughly doing about twelve hundred megabits per second,
which is incredible if you think about it.
So I'm very satisfied with this.
It's only coming to the M1 iPad Pro.
The twelve point-nine-inch and the 11-inch.
Obviously, you would have Thunderbolt three for it
to be supported.
In my opinion, it's one of the best reasons to get the twenty
twenty-one (2021) iPad Pro because of the speeds and the
flexibility that Thunderbolt three offers.
All right.
So for this last set of features, we're going to
talk about spatial audio and really the computational audio
that Apple is doing inside of iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 and just
how amazing it is.
If you're not excited about it, you really
should be, because this is great out here.
Obviously, we're talking here on this A-roll camera, but I'm
also recording my FaceTime calls.
I'm on a FaceTime call right now and I have it recorded and
I'm actually recording the audio from my FaceTime call
separately on my computer.
So now what am I doing?
I'm going to demonstrate for you just how impressive the
computational audio is in this context.
And just for good measure, I'm going to move this.
All right, so you could barely hear that we're going to switch
over to this mic now.
So what we are hearing right now is my iPad Pro.
This is Mic Mode Standard, and this is using obviously the
internal mics to the iPad.
And it's kind of what you'd hear on a call if you were
making a call from your cell phone sound better
than analog.
But anyways,
it's going to an HD call.
Let's change the mic mode from standard voice, isolation,
voice isolation.
I have a hard time saying that voice isolation.
And now the fan that's up here, the fan on the on the
camera should all pretty much be silent.
You should be hearing me kind of very narrowly and letting
the iPad focus on me.
I think that this is now focusing on me and you should
let me know down the comments below.
If you can tell the difference between the standard mode,
which we heard first, and this is the narrow mode or the voice
isolation mode while focusing on me.
Now, just for good measure, I'm going to change
it wide spectrum.
And now that we are on wide spectrum, you should be
telling a difference.
We should be hearing a difference between
the very first.
So just to go through them again.
We have.
This is what it sounds like on standard mode.
This is what it sounds like, unvoice isolation mode.
And finally, this is what it sounds like on wide-band
wide spectrum mode.
So I think you should be hearing a difference.
You should let me know, get it down in the comments below.
I'm going to pull this back.
Now, from my perspective, I think this is a very
impressive set of features for iPadOS 15 and I am sure excited
about what is coming to iPadOS 15.
But what I want know from you, what is your favorite feature?
What are you looking forward to in iPadOS 15?
Now, if you want to see more iPadOS 15 coverage, make sure
you are subscribed to run of vacations, because I will
have reviews of all the new features that come out as the
features progress through the developer builds.
In addition to I have my full iPad Pro twenty twenty-one
review coming very shortly and you don't want to miss
out now.
I am Mike.
This is Tech 24/7 TV.
Folks.
I will talk to you in the next one.