Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and ios 15 is filled with a bunch of new features or refinements
and there's been some confusion as to which devices are getting those features many people
have been asking me why am i not seeing a feature on say an older phone since ios 15
is supported all the way back to the iphone 6s 6s plus and newer so i wanted to clarify
which features are not coming to older phones or don't work on older phones and the first thing
you need to know is many of these features that are not working on older phones require an a12
bionic or newer that means an iphone 10s 10s max and newer so if you have an iphone 10 some of the
features don't apply however some of them apply to the iphone 7 but don't apply to the iphone 6s plus
for example so i wanted to clarify those and the first one has to do with weather many people have
noticed some of these nice animations with the sun here or maybe it's raining and the raindrops are
hitting the top of this box here and sort of falling off the edge unfortunately that
feature is not coming to older devices that requires an a12 bionic or newer that must be
due to the neural engine that's inside of that the updated neural engine so some of that requires a
lot of processing unfortunately you won't get that nice animation in the new weather app if
you don't have an a12 bionic or newer now the next thing has to do with the camera and one feature
that's really nice is live text unfortunately live text again requires an a12 bionic or later
and what that does is as i bring the phone closer to something with text in it it will recognize
that text and you can see the text there you can tap on the text and copy it and it will see it
if i switch over to the iphone 6s plus for example it cannot recognize this text so if i do the same
thing it just doesn't have the option because it doesn't have the processing power to do that
so that's something that's not available as well now another feature that has to do with the camera
is quick take video and quick take video has been around for a little while but if you press and
hold and slide up on the photo you can now record a video and if you slide up and down one of the
new features with ios 15 is you can zoom in and out this zoom function is only available on iphone
10s 10r and later it's not available on older iphones for some reason so that's something that's
not available there as well now if we go into the photos app there's some changes there as well that
don't pertain to other devices so we'll go into photos and within the photos app you can see at
the bottom we have a little eye the eye has a star on it meaning there's more information about this
image and it has visual lookup built in so if we press on this it will tell us more about the image
what it is where it's located and if we tap on this button here we can tell what it is and it
will find similar photos to it so it sees that it's the one world trade center in new york city
and there's similar images online about it if we look at the same photo on an iphone 6s plus
you just won't have that option so you won't have the option for visual lookup and it just doesn't
recognize that information you'll still get the enhanced metadata about the photo but you won't
have the ability to see more information about it like you can with visual lookup on newer devices
and again that pertains to a12 bionic devices and later also on the a14 devices so this is specific
to iphone 12 12 pro 12 mini and 12 pro max within the photos or camera in general there's some
improvements as well that are specific to those devices so what that means is you have the ability
for improved panoramic video or photo so if you go into take a pano it says here or panoramic photo
there's improvements here so it stitches them to better together better it also has the ability to
reduce geometric distortion it handles moving subjects better and it reduces image noise
if there's maybe a lower light area it will reduce the noise in the background those are specific to
the a14 and newer so those are only on the latest devices now with ios 15 you now have the ability
to use siri and it will process on the device on newer devices again this is for the a12 bionic
and later and what it will let you do is process the voice on the device instead of having to use
your internet connection and send that off to a server to recognize what you're saying it will
process that information directly on the device the same is true for on-device personalization as
well so what that means is siri can recognize and understand and improve as you use the device and
it learns the context you interact with most new words you type and topics you read about about all
on your device that is specific to the a12 bionic in later you won't be able to have on device
processing unless you have that processor however you can still use siri to ask those requests it
will just take a little bit longer since it has to send that off and then get that information back
again to go along with siri but also the keyboard there's some updates to ios 15 as well that are
specific to newer devices so if we go into notes again if you want to use on-device dictation
it will now do it on the device instead of sending it out so we can tap on the microphone here and
say that this video is about ios 15 and features that are not available to some older devices
period and you can see i can continue to talk to the phone and it previously had a limit of
60 seconds they've removed that limit again on a12 bionic and later devices so unfortunately
you won't have that option to continue to use it for dictation longer than 60 seconds but
those features are available to phones that are a little bit newer now one feature that's available
to most of the older phones is spatial audio with dynamic head tracking if you're using airpods pro
or airpods max for example and you're listening to spatial audio or a movie with spatial audio
if you have an iphone 7 or newer you'll have the option to use that with head tracking so it's not
available on 6s and 6s plus but iphone 7 and newer will have the option with dynamic head tracking
with dolby atmos music for example so that's available specifically on the 7 and newer which
unfortunately is not available to the oldest of phones now another feature that's available on a12
bionic and newer has to do with facetime so if i go into a facetime call and within a facetime call
on a12 bionic and newer you'll have the option to have portrait mode on the photo or the video
that's playing here it's this button in the upper left now you'll see it's not on portrait mode
i'll tap it again and now it's portrait mode it's blurring the background that's specific
to the a12 bionic and newer also the option to change the different spatial audio modes has
been updated with facetime as well so if you go in and you've got your different mic modes when
you take pull down from the control center press and hold on them you now have voice isolation and
wide spectrum these are specific to a12 bionic and newer and i believe this is a limitation of
the amount of processing power that the cpu has in general to not only process video but the spatial
audio as well so that's why i believe they're doing that let's go ahead and end this call
now another thing that's new in ios 15 that's not available on all devices is within maps
and this one is kind of a strange one this globe if you zoom all the way out is not available on
apple maps on older devices for some reason a12 bionic and later again so in order to have this
map and this is true on intel max as well with the latest version of mac os monterey for some reason
you don't have this globe so this is a dynamic globe for some reason they haven't included it
but unfortunately they haven't and that goes along with some other features as well if you're in san
francisco los angeles new york and london right now those are actually highly detailed maps in
ios 15. so let me show you that now on the left i have the iphone 6s plus and that is the furthest i
can actually zoom out so i don't get the globe if i keep zooming out now let's go to san francisco
here and see if we can see any of the detail as well so you'll see i have san francisco on both
iphones and the one on the right you can already see has a little bit more detail over the golden
gate bridge the icon's a little bit different let me zoom in and show you what i mean so we'll zoom
in a little bit here and as i zoom in you'll see that things look a little bit more detailed
so we can change the perspective a little bit move around and you'll see it's very detailed on the
right let me do the same on the older iphone and you just won't have as much detail so as i zoom in
it's not bad let me reorient this but it's not bad but it definitely has less detail on the left with
the older maps so if you don't use apple maps of course this isn't a problem but there's definitely
less detail and that again requires an a12 bionic or newer for that to show up also something that's
coming in the future is walking directions where you can use augmented reality and it will tell you
different locations or landmarks so that would give you walking directions and then use your
camera at the same time to overlay what's going on so that's something i look forward to but doesn't
seem to be available just yet but again that's a12 bionic and later now one that's a little bit
strange that they're not allowing with anything other than an iphone 10s and later is the ability
to add a new feature that's coming a little bit later with keys for your home hotel keys
office keys car keys and your id in the wallet if you're in specific states that will allow it
and so this is specific to iphone 10s and later and maybe that has to do with some authentication
methods but for some reason you won't have the option to add those in wallet in older devices
so that's something specific to the newer devices as well now something that's a little bit more
obvious as to why it's only available on newer phones has to do with 5g so if you have an iphone
12 12 mini 12 pro or 12 pro max and you have a 5g antenna along with the millimeter wave antenna
you have the option in ios 15 for enhanced connectivity when using 5g they've improved it
as well as giving you the option to prefer 5g instead of wi-fi so you have those options but
those are specific to newer phones for an obvious reason now the last thing that's specific to some
phones and not others that aren't included with ios 15 is a new feature called walking steadiness
walking steadiness is a metric that can give you an insight into your risk of falling so if you go
into the health app you go to browse and then you go down to mobility under mobility scroll
down you'll see walking steadiness if you have ios 15 installed this feature is available on iphone 8
and later so it has the sensors that can track movement accurately to know whether or not you
might be at risk of falling so that's something that's specific to iphone 8 and later now what
i've already mentioned are the only features that aren't coming to the older devices everything
else including the new cursor that you have all of the changes to messages and facetime
and everything else will be available on ios 15 on iphone 6s 6s plus and later so
even those features will be available but just the ones i mentioned that are specific to newer phones
won't be available so you still get support with an iphone 6s plus for example so that's great news
on older devices but because of the processing limitations they've limited some of those
features so that's everything that apple is not including for older devices let me know
what your favorite feature of ios 15 is and what device you're using in the comments below
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