What is going on everybody?
It is Mike and welcome back to Tech 24/7 TV.
Apple just released Beta 2 for iOS and iPadOS and we're
covering all the new features in this video.
Let's get right into it.
We have on my left Beta 1 on an iPhone SE 2 and we have Beta 2
running on the iPhone 11 Pro Max and we see here that the
calendar icon which is shows the date obviously and and the
day of the week looks distinctly different from one
another so here on the iPhone SE 2 we see that the day is
fully written out here is abbreviated on the right and
there's a thicker font for the date shown.
Now let's go and go to the widget picker here.
The widget picker actually is a lot cleaner on Beta 2 than it
is on Beta 1 completely.
It's actually much more visually appealing to me.
You get a better sense of what the changes are.
So adding widgets here in the widget picker they just look
cleaner there's more of a border there more prominent,
though text is cleaner there's more padding I think in between
the widgets it looks just better for my opinion.
Now if I want to go and add a widget, let's just say
here I'm going to go and have a smart stack.
Now you see the smart stack has a distinct color, it's blue.
Battery is green, calendar is white so and so forth.
So if I click on smart stack, now the color of smart stack
the ad widget button here at the bottom is actually color
matched to each one of these.
So now depending on which widget would pick if I go back
here what files it's blue if I go to fitness it's
green color.
So each add widget button is going to color matched as can
be specific to the widget that you're adding.
Also here in Beta 2 is going to be two new widgets and one can
be the files widget.
The files widget gives you the ability to go ahead and add
your most recently found files.
It's going to either be in a small or a large widget.
So basically the 2x2 or the 2x8 widget size.
That's kind of cool actually I use that blocks I use files as
my replacement for Dropbox because I hate paying
them any money.
Now let's go to next here's maybe the podcast up next.
This was not here for me in Beta 1.
I heard some people saying that it was up next a podcast is now
available it shows either in a 2x2,
2x4, or a 2x8 size.
So small medium large new inside the photo widget is
going to be a small medium and large sized widget for you.
I actually liked the large size widget though I don't think it
looks good on my iPhone eleven pro max.
I'd like to see something a little bit smaller maybe I
guess it seems like it's kind of odd size.
I will say this again these widgets would look really good
on a very large iPad say let's say 15 inches.
Now the battery widget here this was in beta 1 I just
didn't see it till better two.
Now you see that if you're looking at my phone and the
battery widget actually shows the battery indicator for the
watch on the right the phone on the left.
Any time that you have your watch power off it's going to
give you that option the battery indicator as a visual
perspective but also I'm going to give you the percentage
since I always have my watch connected.
It does show or doesn't show the battery percentage.
I wish they actually did show the battery percentage.
How have you tapped that.
Give you the percentage that would actually be nice.
Another big change using be the weather widget is finally fixed
where showing your current location and not reverting
back to Cupertino.
So that's fixed as well.
We look at the reminders which are the reminders which it's
been cleaned up.
One the number of items in the reminder list has been
relocated from underneath the icon to the top right hand
corner which is visually but looks better and cleaner.
We also look at the note indicator the note actually has
a little bit more text that's going to be readable on the
screen in comparison to the first beta control center for
me has been updated there's better padding between all the
different controls in control center.
Also here in Beta 1 I had the ability to goadd favorite
accessoriesand have them controllable and there now I
have those same accessories, but they're no longer favorites
and the home button is just now kind of taking up the majority
of I'd say about 25 percent of the screen real estate.
There was this animation where I could actually click on it
and it would pop open rather nicely - it does it on my iPad
- but it would open up real nice.
It's not working here in Beta 2 so hopefully that's just some
kind of local configuration that I have my device.
Let's pop in settings we're gonna see that there's some new
iconography for a few things so if we go into iCloud and we'll
see that the family share also the family sharing site that I
think that his legacy is well behind reorganizing on new
setting and Roni and I would see that as their own industry
Hall section has been reorganized it's got
some different icons.
here we have the ability go and change the incoming call
notifications when your phone is unlocked which they could
actually do therefore when it's locked as well because the
whole screen take over so that my thing we talked about the
banner notifications the compact UI elements if your
phone is unlocked how it takes it doesn't take over the whole
screen like it does when it's unlocked or in iOS 13 I really
like that feature and I hope they allow that to compact UI
notification when the phone is locked as well.
Now if we go to Settings> music there's a new feature here for
MOTION cover album art which is actually really cool it
actually looks really cool.
This is gonna be either available all the time,
when you're on Wi-Fi, or it's gonna be off.
Now if I go into music, it's not for all the albums but
it can be for the albums and Apple suggests for you like the
albums from Apple.
Lookhere look at my favorites mix the other album marts
moving and what is actually kind of cool if you scroll down
into where it says made for you if you look at the speed that's
scrolling or the speed that it is kind of changing or
morphing: the favorites mix and they get up mix to get it mix
moves faster so supposed to you know music that can
be higher tempo.
The chill mix moves actually very slow and the new music mix
is kind of a combination or some like a hybrid between all
three of them.
I would say maybe being updated based on the beat per minute of
the music that's gonna be in there.
So this makes you really cool.
Also hear all haptic feedback when you're using the music
controls very slight.
And it's actuallythe haptic feedback simulates the button
is gonna be on either side of where you're pressing.
So if I'm pressing the rewind button it feels like it's gonna
be in the bottom left hand corner if I push the fast
forward button it's in the bottom right hand corner so the
right bottom left bottom right.
You know I'm talking about.
I wonder if I use the now playing control it doesn't do
that from a control center so it's only going to be a music
but it's still it looks clean as hell and I really like the
new design of music and I hope that they continue to move in
this direction because it looks really really good.
If I was looking at this artist let's say I've one focus on
this artist artist page is really bit redesigned there's
more padding in between you know the artist name and the
genre that is in and again it just looks cleaner more much
more visual appeal to it.
In my last video regarding all the new features on the iPad I
found this quick switch feature which is at the bottom.
So basically the pages icon that is shows how many pages
that you have on your home screen,you can push
on it and quickly switch between the number of pages
opposed to swiping across.
Now if you're one of those folks that has a HomePodand you
live in a multi-user household you can now set that music
preference service for your home.
So if you go into home go into home settings
And if you click on your name it will show right below the
section where it shows show me an apple tv it shows media and
you can set your default preferences for
music and podcasts.
Now that will require an update on the developer side so you
probably don't have any apps other than Apple music if
it's in there.
Let's go over to app library a couple of changes here I think
were notable and one bug in my opinion.
If we look here I turned out my notifications which I wouldn't
actually suggest to anyone.
So you see here in this top right hand corner I have
recently added It shows Gmail with
128 notifications, or 128 unread e-mails.
If I go into productivity it actually shows the same app
with the same number of notifications.
Not that Gmail is misrepresenting the number of
number of emails but Apple showing this app in two
different sections which I don't think necessarily makes
sense from a consumer perspective.
Let me know what you think in the comments below.
But I'd rather just see this app only represented once
either in recently added or in the appropriate folder.
That's the thing that I would ever see.
Now if I go ahead and long press in the center of this you
can now go ahead and delete apps from here.
So if I want to go ahead and delete.
Let's just say something whatever I want to delete.
Similarly the Gmail app because right now you're
making me upset.
Deleting Gmail will also delete its data if I click delete.
It's gone from the device.
Also if I go ahead and let's see if I want to go to an app
that's on my home screen or on one of the first two pages of
my home screen if I click on it I can choose to "One" remove
from home screen or in which puts it in the app library or
"Two" delete it.
I'm going to go ahead and remove from home screen and
that takes that app out of there.
And it's now inside the app library which is nice.
There's a couple small minor visual changes let's see if we
look at the clock app the clock app on Beta 1 versus Beta 2
there's definitely thicker hands and the way that it's
designed and Beta 2 versus Beta 1 better as a visual visual.
Not too many people think realizes that the time that
shown in the clock app is actually real time.
Also if you are going into wallpaper.
Let's go into wallpaper settings slash wallpaper and do
preview right for your home screen wallpaper no longer
shows some big amorphous blob like it does on the preview
on Beta 1.
I think last but not least.
But this is definitely my favorite.
If you are watching some type of video that has picture
and picture (PiP).
Let's go to the TV app now the picture in picture video is
basically resized to the bottom half my screen or bottom third
of my screen if I double tap on the window it actually gets
smaller and then it gets smaller again.
So there's nowthree different sizes for picture in picture
video and it works on the iPad as well which is nice.
So you can always just double tap on the video and you'll
take up three different sizes.
For the iPad, there's a couple subtle changes to
the iPad.
First, if you are handwriting text you now have the ability
go on strike through text to go and select it.
In addition to circling the text like you hadn't been to
one and there is a new sidebar sub menu in photos where she
was recently deleted as well as recently added.
That's actually kind of cool.
I hope that they bring this same design side the side bar
element to a collapsible side bar to the Home app,
that's something I literally like to see there as well.
That would be great.
Now those are all the features I found in the latest beta.
After playing with it for a couple hours I'm sure that
there is much much more let me know what you have found in
the comments below.
Now I do have a follow up video planned.
Kind of talking about how everything has progressed you
know after a few days.
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