what's up guys my name is Brandon and today, Apple released iPadOS 13.4 for
all iPads compatible with iOS or iPadOS 13 and while we were not expecting too
much from this update at first, it turns out that this is actually a massive
update! And in this video I'm gonna explain why. So we're gonna be covering
what's new in iPad OS 13.4 including the all new Mouse and trackpad support,
custom keyboard shortcuts, the performance and battery life, and much
much, more. And taking a look at these size of this update you can see here on
my 2019 iPad 10.2 it came in at just about one Giga by 1.05 gigs and that was
coming from thirteen point three point one so the size will hover around one
gigabyte but of course it will depend on your device and what firm where you came
from now as far as the build number we go to Settings General about you can see
there the building number is the same as iOS we have 17 e25 5 so let's go ahead
and talk about what's new here in iPad OS a thirteen point four because this is
absolutely game-changing for the iPad and it's going to change the way you use
your iPad from here on out and the reason for that is because now
Mouse support is no longer just an accessibility feature iPad OS 13.4
introduces true Mouse and trackpad support so I have a Magic Trackpad 2
here and I will be showing you all the new gestures that come with the trackpad
an iPad OS 13.4 but for now I'm gonna be showing you with an actual Mouse and for
this I'm going to be using the Logitech performance mouse but of course this
will work for any Bluetooth or USB mouse this one's actually USB so I have a USB
C to USB a connector right here that I'm just gonna plug in to the bottom of my
iPad so once you hook up your USB or if you connect via bluetooth once you do
that you will see the mouse comes up right away right here you can instantly
tell that it's a little bit different so you can see when you go over top of
applications it changes dynamically it basically shows you that you're hovering
over something that you can change which is really really nice and if you're
inside your settings or inside an application if you just take the mouse
down to the bottom you can see it pulls up the dock just like so and you pull it
up it goes away it's very very responsive and if you want to get back
to the home screen very easily you just click on the home bar right there and it
takes you right back home now you can also
click on other things like the battery so when you click on the battery you can
see it pulls up the control center just click off of it to get off and if you're
in portrait mode and you have the time and the left hand the upper left-hand
corner of the status bar if you click on that it will bring down Notification
Center but if you're in landscape mode you just simply drag from the far left
and will pull up your notification center like so and then you can just tap
on the home bar down here and that will go away and take you back to the home
screen now I mentioned that you can click on the home bar to go back home
but there's actually multiple other ways to go home so you can also take the
cursor right here and just bring it all the way down once it pulls up the doc
keep dragging down and it will take you to the home screen and if you drag a
little bit further and we'll pull up the multitasking view so there are multiple
like gestures hidden inside of other gestures with not only the Magic
Trackpad but also with the mouse here now you can also click to wake the iPad
as well so you click and we'll go ahead and wake the iPad and of course it will
look for your face for face ID and that can make that whole process a little bit
easier so you don't actually have to touch your iPad if you don't want to and
the cool thing about this too and you'll notice that the cursor will disappear
here if you don't use it for a little while it will disappear and then you can
just use your fingers to control your iPad like you do when you don't have a
cursor so there goes that disappeared and you just use it of course you can
use it when it's still on there as well but it's nice that it disappears
actually if we go into our settings right here and then you will see we have
a new section here called trackpad and mouse if you go and click on that you
can see you can change your tracking speed right here you can choose natural
or not natural scrolling so if you like it to be you know when you go down it
goes down you can have that selected I don't like natural scrolling on so I
turn that off you also have your secondary click right here so you can
right click and pull up things like the 3d touch menu so if we go back here and
right click you can see it brings up our 3d touch menu like so the right-click
also really helps when you're doing text editing and just typing and things like
that it just makes life so much easier so now let's bring in the Magic Trackpad
too and I'm gonna show you guys some of the cool new gestures available with
13.4 so let's go ahead and turn this on and it should connect right away to my
iPad since I already had it paired before but if not let's go into our
settings and then go to bluetooth and then you can see right here Magic
Trackpad 2 and it will connect just like so and so the Magic Trackpad acts just
like the mouse did except we have other gestures that we could do with the
Magic Trackpad and only the Magic Trackpad so the first gesture I'm going
to show you guys is yet another way to go home and that's a three finger swipe
up just like so and you can see it takes you home just like that now just like
when you took the cursor and brought it down if you do the three fingers up and
keep going up it will bring up the multitasking view like that now if you
use those fingers and swipe left or right you will jump in between
applications just like so it makes multitasking very very easy and going in
and out of applications a lot more convenient than if you just use your
finger or a mouse now also if we go into our Safari right here we do also have
some gestures that we could use inside of Safari so if we take two fingers you
can go back and forward like so so back and forward to the previous or the page
you went to before that it's really convenient for just getting around and
going back to the webpage you were just also found it much easier to just
navigate around websites with the nav bar so with dropdowns like this then
using your finger it's just so much more convenient and so much more like an
actual desktop or laptop experience when you can actually go through the menus
very easily like I'm doing here with the trackpad another huge benefit to having
something like the Magic Trackpad too is with something like lumen or GarageBand
or wherever you have like a timeline where you're editing audio or editing
video or even editing photos this could come in handy as well so if we go ahead
and do this right here I'm just gonna add in a blank clip right here and by
the way I love just being able to use my finger when I want and my mouse when I
want but anyways the thing I like about 13.4 is that you can actually now skim
back and forth throughout the clip like so or you could use two fingers to pinch
and zoom or zoom out just like so it's very much like the touch bar on the
macbook you can really control projects really easily with 13.4 and the true
mouse and trackpad supports now since we have the trackpad connected we can also
go into settings and see some new options in there as well so if we go to
our settings go to general and then go to trackpad you can see we do have a
couple of different ones right here we have tap to click and that's actually
the only other one we have to finger secondary click there as well so you can
enable these if you want to you can also of course change the tracking speed and
of course you have natural scrolling which I have disabled now also if we go
to our settings and go to accessibility and then go down
to point our control you can see we have some new options in here as well so we
have the automatically hide pointer you can change the setting the duration on
this in terms of seconds I like the two-second default setting we
also have color so if you want it to be easier to see you can change it to
something like blue or green or yellow to be a little bit easier to see on the
screen especially for you guys watching this video you can also change the
pointer size if you want it bigger or smaller you could do so I like mine
being as small as possible you can also change the animation so if we go ahead
and hover over accessibility you see how has that animation there do you want to
turn that off you can and then it just has this really subtle gray background
over top of it instead but I like to have the animations on I think it looks
better it makes it look a lot more dynamic and like it's actually meant to
be used this way you also have trackpad inertia right here which allows the
pointer to continue moving after you lift your finger I would highly
recommend having this enabled you also have your scrolling speed right here
I'll probably up this just a little bit but you can change all these settings
now inside of your accessibility settings and I just think that the
support for this is going to get just so much better as third-party applications
you know pick up on this and you know adjust their applications to work better
with trackpad and mice now that they are actually truly supported in iPad OS and
it's not just you know an accessibility feature that you have dig through the
settings to get to now iPad OS 13.4 also introduces full keyboard access if you
have a smart keyboard so if you go into our settings and go to accessibility and
then down to keyboards you can see you have this option right here full
keyboard access if you turn that on you can go ahead and have full keyboard
access where you can basically control your entire iPad from the keyboard alone
you won't need to touch it you won't need a mouse or a trackpad you can
control everything from the tab keys arrow keys and things like that now
what's really cool is this section right here called command so this will allow
you to have custom keyboard shortcuts on your iPad so once again this is becoming
even more and more like a Mac this is like literally Mac OS now so you can
have custom keyboard shortcuts for pretty much everything as you can see
here tons of different commands you get set up and the fact that you can control
your whole iPad with the keyboard I mean this is just nuts so I don't have a
magic keyboard right now but I will be getting one and I may show this in a
future video as well but if you do have a keyboard definitely go ahead and check
the out and set up some custom commands you
will absolutely love it so these are just absolutely huge features especially
for a point for release this is something you would expect to see and
like iOS 14 or something like that or iOS 13 but no it's in thirteen point
four so this makes me even more excited for iOS 14 honestly but anyways let's
move on to some of the other smaller changes in iPad OS thirteen point four
now if you watched my iOS thirteen point four video you've probably already seen
most of these features but I am still going to quickly cover them because they
are also in iPad OS thirteen point four so the first thing of course is going to
be iCloud folder sharing so if we go to this folder right here and right click
or two finger click to pull up the contextual menu right here you can see
we have share and we have share you also have add people so this is where you can
add people as like collaborators if you want people to add things to a folder or
be able to edit them or you can also have permissions so that that person can
maybe only view only and you can see these different settings you have right
here that you could change which are really nice and this is really making
files the files application more of a competitor to things like Dropbox and
Google Drive now also inside of the mail application we not only get a lot of bug
fixes so there were a lot of bugs and thirteen point three and thirteen point
three point one we got a lot of bug fixes but we also as you can see from
the toolbars right here we have everything available to us to see at
once we have our reply our compose our delete our folders everything is just
available at once instead of being hidden and having to go into these menus
to get to certain things it's all right here right now and you can see here flag
is a lot easier to flag an unflagging now than it was an iPad OS thirteen
point three point one just a lot of improvements to the mail application
that may seem small on the outside but once you continue using it you will see
that mail is just a lot more stable and easier to use than it was in previous
versions now also if we go into the TV application we have some changes in here
so over on the left hand side you can see we have a whole new section now for
genres instead of just having to go to TV shows and sort by the genre up in the
top right that's all available to you right there and that sub menu on the
left hand side and if we go into our settings and go to TV down here you can
see we have some new changes here as well so we have the Wi-Fi streaming
options you could change that from high quality or data saver
you also have your download options Wi-Fi and cellular if you have a
cellular version of the iPad as well and then the device preferences are bundled
together now instead of being spread out you also have your video definition for
your purchases there as well so just some minor improvements to the TV
application and the TV settings there's also nine new meme og stickers so if you
use new emojis in iMessage or wherever you want to use them there are now nine
new ones to express how you're feeling towards something and that's pretty much
it for the main changes in iPad OS thirteen point four I covered some of
the smaller ones in my iOS thirteen point four video so if you want to watch
that I will leave it linked down in the description below but as far as the bug
fixes there were also a lot of bug fixes in iPad OS at 13.4
I mentioned mail earlier but Apple also included all of these as bug fixes for
iPad OS thirteen point four I'm not going to cover every single one of them
but we can read a few of them here just briefly cover them so this one right
here it says address is an issue in Safari where web pages may not be
inverted when both dark mode and smart invert are active so I had somebody
mentioned that to me on social media on thirteen point three on their iPad
specifically so you can see there that has been fixed and we have all these
other ones right here with iCloud Drive Safari issues in the home application
Apple music or music videos may not stream in high-quality fix is an issue
where iCloud Drive appears to be available and Pages Numbers and Keynote
even when not signed in fixes an issue in Safari where a CAPTCHA tile may
display incorrectly so just a lot of really minor things that most people
probably have not run into at least not all of these but they are fixes that you
should be aware about and are just another reason that you should
definitely upgrade to thirteen point four as soon as you can just because
this is a huge update and it's also very stable which I'll talk about here and
the performance section of this video now I should also mention how much more
convenient iPad OS 13.4 makes typing and selecting text highlighting text
anything to do with text editing is so much more convenient and fluid just so
much better on 13.4 you get in and out of things you could double tap to select
a word like that and it's just very easy to drag you know things like this you
can pull it over you can put the text somewhere else just like so it's just so
easy and just really awesome especially compared to iPad OS 13 point three point
one it really feels like you're using Macbook when you have a Magic Trackpad
to hear paired with 13.4 now as far as performance goes iPad OS 13.4 is super
super solid it's probably the most stable version of iOS I've seen yeah and
that's really saying something given the fact that we got all these new features
introduced everything runs super smooth super fast of course I am using the iPad
pro but I also use the budget iPad 10.2 here and everything performs super super
well games web browsing video watching you name it performance is very solid on
this update it is definitely more stable than thirteen point three point one and
four coming from an even earlier version of iOS 13 or iPad OS 13 they're gonna
notice an even bigger difference in terms of performance and as far as
battery life goes battery life is probably gonna be about the same as
thirteen point three point one I've not really noticed a huge difference so far
in iPad OS thirteen point four but honestly that's a good thing like I said
all the new features added and everything like that it's a good thing
that the battery life has not decreased so I think it's increased but we will be
able to tell in about a week when I bring you guys my follow-up video I will
let you guys know how much better battery life is and there's a little bit
hard to gauge on the iPad pro though or the iPad in general just because I don't
have to charge it every single night like I do my iPhone so it's little bit
harder to judge but I will give you guys an update next week in my follow-up
video so now should you update to iPad OS thirteen point four and to that it
should be a no-brainer absolutely you should definitely upgrade to iPad OS
thirteen point four the new true Mouse and trackpad support is quite literally
a game changer I mean the iPad is now closer than ever to a laptop replacement
and makes me even more excited to see what iOS 14 brings in a couple of months
but the fact that all this came in a thirteen point four update is just crazy
I mean it's very unexpected it's probably because the new iPad pro is
coming out with a new magic keyboard which I will be getting in May but the
fact that this has also brought to all the older iPads as well even without
that Magic Trackpad is just awesome so yeah if you have not updated to iPad OS
thirteen point four yet go ahead and do so ASAP because you will absolutely love
this update especially if you have a Magic Trackpad
a keyboard or a mouse in general really anything to take advantage of these new
gestures and the new true Mouse and trackpad support but anyways guys if you
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and things like that things I've noticed over a week of using it and of course
stay tuned because tomorrow I will be unboxing the brand new 20/20 I pad Pro
and comparing it to the 2018 here as well but anyways guys thanks again for
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