a look at 10 of the top sleeper features
in ios
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so let's get started let's talk about
the
more powerful markup tool in ios 14 so i
just took a screenshot
here's the markup interface looks like
you know your regular markup interface
but here's the difference
when you tap on the color icon you get a
whole new color interface
that is bundled with several notable
improvements we'll talk about a few of
them right now so
normally you can just tap the little
color square and that will allow you to
switch between colors in the markup
interface so that
lets you draw with different colors on
the screen
on this particular screenshot just
easily switch between colors like that
but now
instead of just the grid option like you
normally had in ios 13 you now have a
spectrum
option and this allows you to choose
between just a ton of different colors
by sliding your finger
on the color spectrum and as you can see
land it right there on that sort of
miami blue like that
now along with the spectrum you'll also
notice the sliders tab
and this allows you to dial in precise
colors
thanks to these sliders the rgb sliders
you can choose between srgb
and display p3 you can also dial in
a hexadecimal value directly so if you
have a specific color you want to match
that color exactly you can just
type that hexadecimal value right in
there and that gives you that precise
color but here's the real cool thing
you now have an eyedropper tool built
into the markup interface
and that allows you to sample any color
on the display
currently being displayed on the display
as you can see here so i'm going to
actually sample the eraser
just like that and you can see it gives
me the color of the little pink eraser
color
so i can use that but it doesn't stop
there as far as new cool features
now you'll see that little plus sign you
can actually
save favorite color so i saved that
eraser color
and that allows me to use that in other
areas of ios where the markup tool is
available
so i can switch back and forth between
those colors if i want to delete just
tap and hold
and i can delete that save color like
that but here
in the notes app i'm going to open up
the markup interface
and look what we have there we have our
save color from the eraser that i
sampled
so that is a great new upgrade to the
markup tool
in ios 14 if you notice it's a lot more
mac centric
this time as far as all the color tools
are concerned
now let's talk about yet another awesome
sleeper feature in ios 14 and that is
back tap so if you go to settings
accessibility
and you go to touch and scroll all the
way down
at the very bottom of the touch panel
you'll see back tap
and this allows you literally to triple
or double tap
the back of your iphone to execute a
virtually
limitless amount of shortcuts and
actions
and you can see some of the actions that
are built in by default like
invoking the app switcher control center
going to the home screen
invoking reachability spotlight search
if you want to do that
you can dial those in immediately but
where this really gets powerful
is when you mix it with shortcuts from
the shortcuts app
because those can be extremely powerful
they can do all sorts of things
from system level functionality all the
way up to controlling your home kit
smart home devices
but in this example right here i'm just
going to enable a screenshot whenever i
use the back tap functionality
so just double tap on the back of the
iphone like this
and there you go screenshot so let me
just show you one more time double tap
and there it goes creates a screenshot
now where this thing
really gets powerful is when you add
shortcuts to the to the mix here
so i've created a shortcut this
basically will check to see if my string
lights in the background are
on or off if they are on then
set the string lights to off otherwise
set the string lights to on pretty
simple formula there
uh in the shortcuts app so
that's all there is to it i've went
ahead and created this shortcut so
basically whenever this is invoked
it's going to turn the stream lights on
or off it's going to toggle those lights
in the background
but the cool thing is i've assigned this
to the back
tap the double tap on the back of the
iphone gesture
so double tap the lights turn off
double tap again
the lights turn on let's try it again
double tap
the lights turn off i don't know about
you guys but i think that's awesome
now in ios 14's camera app you have the
ability to enable
mirrored selfies so let me show you what
i mean here so here is my hand
notice my thumb in the position of my
thumb on the left side of the screen
wiggle my thumb there there you go so
you watch what happens when i take the
photo
it's not going to be the same it's
actually going to be reversed
as you can see there in normal selfie
mode but
in ios 14 you'll find a new preference
in the camera app settings in the
settings app so let's
head over to the settings app and check
out those settings here
for camera so let's open up camera and
there you go
mirror front camera so what this will do
is anytime you take a selfie with this
enabled that selfie
will be mirrored and reflect the camera
preview so basically what you see
on screen as you take the photo is what
you get
in the end result so take the photo see
my thumb on the left side
thumbs on the left side here in the
actual photo
pretty simple but cool new feature what
do you guys think let me know down below
alright so moving on let's talk about
quick styles
in notes so in the notes app of course
there's all sorts of styles you can go
in and edit by tapping the style button
so that's that little a with the
lowercase a next to it
so i have my cursor right there on this
word i'm just going to double tap that
to select it all
now i'm going to open up the styles menu
and then you can see all the different
styles you can choose between
and that's cool but it's not as quick as
quick styles which is a new feature in
ios 14 so let me show you what i mean
with quick style so i'm going to just
put my cursor there and i'm going to
press and hold or tap and hold
and there i can quickly switch between
any of these styles simply by sliding my
finger
and there i can choose between title i
can select all these guys
and quickly create a numbered list just
like that
so again the whole the purpose of this
is just to be a little bit faster than
having to go through and scrolling
through the
different types of formatting now you
can just quickly go ahead
and create the type style you want right
there on the fly
just by dragging your finger and
releasing and there you go it's really
really simple now
let's talk about carrier lock info so
have you ever tried to sell your iphone
and the person that you're selling it to
you was wondering whether or not the
phone was truly
unlocked well now you don't have to go
through all that now it will plainly
tell you
the carrier lock status right there
within the settings app
in settings general so there you go
carrier lock
so in this example you can clearly see
that my iphone 11 pro max
is completely without any sort of
restriction it is fully unlocked
and hence it will work with any of the
major us
carriers so that is a really nice
feature to have it's certainly a sleeper
feature
now let's talk about private wi-fi
addresses
so you can enable a private wi-fi
address to basically
prevent your real wi-fi mac address from
being exposed
on the wi-fi network that you connect to
so if you enable private address
basically it will spoof
your mac address to this fake wi-fi
address right here
within the settings so that mac address
actually isn't the real mac address
assigned to the wi-fi adapter
so this will help reduce tracking of
your iphone and wi-fi
activity when connecting to a wi-fi
network
and i don't really care about people
seeing this mac address because it's
not the phone's real address the real
wi-fi mac address starts with
8c86 so that's kind of a cool new
sleeper feature and also now in ios 14
you can quickly launch both websites
and applications by just tapping the go
button when you're searching just type a
few letters it'll automatically fill in
what it thinks you're searching for
autocomplete that and then you just tap
go it launches the website just like
that
or the application for that matter so
you can see notes
you can see it actually surrounds the
notes with a little outline
you can see where it says open as well
you just tap go it opens up notes
and now in ios 14 you can limit the
photos that you share with third-party
applications so
back in ios 13 and before if you enabled
photo access to any application it
basically just got everything
and that really when you think about it
doesn't make a lot of sense so apple
fixed this in ios 14. let me show you
how this works
so if you go into settings privacy
and go to photos you'll find the various
apps that have requested access to your
photo library but now
instead of just all photos or none now
you have the ability to select
to be choosy to choose which photos
you want to give access to now this
isn't perfect it is still a little bit
cumbersome and quirky
but oh let's pretend you didn't see that
okay
uh it is still a little cumbersome and
quirky but it's definitely a step
without a doubt in the right direction
because you don't want all these
different applications just having
unadulterated access to all your photos
so you can go in and choose which photos
you want to give access to you can go in
and browse albums
you can search for photos and just
enable or disable like that so
i'm going to go ahead and let's actually
keep the two hands disable the whoosh
photo
and if i want to i can always go back in
tap the edit button and edit
which photos are allowed for this
particular app but now when i swipe over
notice it's also going to prompt me here
on instagram to do the same thing but
notice
that photo of the woosh cleaner is no
longer there
but i'm going to swipe over go in and
edit re-enable woosh
swipe back over and look it's back
so you can enable or disable access to
certain photos
in ios 14. so cool now here is another
really cool feature in ios 14 you now
get an enhanced back button
let me show you what i mean here so i'm
going to delve deep or does that work
dive i'm going to dive deep into the
settings app here
go several levels down
yeah so it will take me forever to get
back to the to the top level right
but now in ios 14 watch what you can do
if you tap and hold
on the back button in the upper
left-hand corner look what you get
you get the full hierarchy so you can
quickly
jump back to any level so i'm just going
to jump back to accessibility
uh yeah let's do sex ability there we go
so it just jumps back just like that
super simple now the final item on this
list is safari translation
and that is so nice because it means you
no longer have to download a third-party
browser or an extension
to translate web pages so now you can do
that directly within safari of course
this has come to the mac as well in ipad
os
but it's such a nice feature to have to
be able to quickly translate
right there within safari with just a
button press
so ladies and gentlemen we've had a look
at all the features
a huge list of features in previous
videos we've had a look at the top
flagship features and now we've had a
look at the top
hidden slash sleeper features what do
you guys think which one
is your favorite let me know down below
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