Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and ios 14 has some great new features in it
and in fact there's hundreds of new features but i want to share with you
14 that you may not know that are sort of hidden and so the first ones have to
do with safari and mail or rather not using
safari and mail so if you've ever wanted to maybe email
someone on a web page so you tap on that link
and you want it to open up in say gmail you can now do that you can now set
default browsers and mail clients as long as the app has been updated to
support that so gmail and chrome have been updated as
well as some others but let's take a look at how to do that
and if you want to change the default you go to settings scroll down to the
application you want to make as default so in this case it would be chrome
under chrome you'll see it says default browser app
tap on that and under default browser app you've got chrome or safari if you
have others they'll be listed here tap on the
one you want to switch to and now it's changed now the same is
true for mail clients as well so if we scroll
down to say gmail as long as it's been updated to
adhere to the standards that apple is set you go to
gmail and you'll see default mail app tap on that and you can
change it to whichever one shows so as they're updated whether you're
using spark or edison or spike or any other new email client
that comes out it will show up here you'll be able to
select the default and it will stay that way so maybe you want
to open a link and you want it to open in chrome it will do that
or you want to email someone it will go to your default app finally so it's
great to see that now the next one has to do with phone calls and apple has
finally updated phone calls that they no longer
take up the entire screen they don't occupy it but maybe you're working and
you want to dismiss this and don't want it on your display
swipe it off and it will just go to voicemail the person won't know that
they're going into voicemail it won't disconnect the call it will
just ring until they eventually get to voicemail
so it's a nice little feature just swipe it off your screen and it
gets out of your way now the next one has to do with photos
so if we go into photos and then tap on albums
scroll all the way to the bottom at the very bottom
you have hidden and hidden albums or hidden
photos you could put there for quite some time but now you can actually hide
the hidden folder as well so maybe you don't want prying
eyes to see what's in there so in order to do that we'll go back to
settings and under settings scroll up or down
depending where you're at and go to photos
go into photos once you're in photos scroll down
and you'll see it says hidden album we can turn that off
and if we go back to our photo app it's now gone
it disappears if we turn it back on it will come back so you'll see we can
see it we'll know to turn it on and off but you would have to know to do that
now it's not password protected but you can hide that folder now now speaking of
photos you can now limit what apps have access to your
photo library so for example maybe you want to post on
instagram but you don't want instagram having access to
thousands and thousands thousands of photos you only want a set amount of
photos available to instagram well you can do that now
again go into settings and under settings you want to find
privacy under privacy go into privacy and then you want to go to photos under
photos find what app you want to change for
example instagram tap on the app and you can see it says
selected photos all photos or none so if we change it to
selected photos we can now pick the photos that we want
it to have access to so we can change it to photos or albums
maybe just these three hit done and now it only has access to
those photos so for example if i go into instagram
and i tap on the plus button at the bottom and go to library
you'll see it says there's only three photos there it did give me the option
to select more but there's only those three available that i chose
so it's a way to secure your photos secure it to a specific album
or a set number of photos that you allow so you can change that however you'd
like and it keeps things a little bit more
secure based on app so it's app to app and you can select any app that you'd
like to only allow some or none or a few of
them now the last thing to do with photos is
if we go into our camera and maybe we want to take a burst photo
normally what we would do is press and hold the shutter button and continuously
hold it well this has been changed to now record
video so if we press and hold it's recording video we can slide up and
you'll see it's locked but if you had that unlocked it would record
burst photos now we can change the burst photo mode to use the volume button
so again if we go into settings
and then we're going to scroll down to camera under camera
you'll see that we have the option for a few different things but we can use
volume for burst and as long as we have that on
now we can just use the volume for burst mode
you'll see it's taking a bunch of photos now as i hold the volume button
or we can press and hold for video so maybe we were taking a photo but we
wanted to record that video we press and hold and it records a video
it's a couple new features that i think are really nice and quick ways to access
those settings now within ios 14 you're probably already aware of widgets
and you either love them or maybe you don't like them at all
but there's one thing that a lot of people aren't aware of that you can do
with them and that's that you can stack them
so i actually have two widgets here that i can scroll between my notes
and the current weather now if i want to add a third one i can do that
now apple already makes what's called a smart stack where it can rotate
throughout the day based on what you want to see
but if you want to create your own slide over to your widgets press and hold
and of course you could add a new one but maybe we want to take this existing
battery widget we'll bring it over and let's drag it on top of the other
one let go slide up and now we can rotate between
three things we can stack up to five different things
here and just rotate through whatever we want so
now i can see my battery status of my phone
and my apple watch and then if you have air pods they'll show up here
if i don't want to see that i just switch it over to weather so a nice
little update that you can do with widgets that a lot of people didn't know
now for years and years we've had pages and pages of applications
but you're probably already familiar with the new app library
and this is designed to actually sort everything and organize it by itself
so maybe you want to clean up your pages but you don't want to deal with deleting
them or moving them around well you can now hide your pages now
press on an empty space or go into jiggle mode that's what apple officially
calls it tap the dots at the bottom you may have
more or less depending on how many pages you have
tap on that and now you can select pages you want to either show or hide so let's
go ahead and hide every page but our main page you
can even have a blank home page if you have just one with no app widgets on it
so let's go ahead and hit done and now you'll see if we slide up we'll lock
everything in we've only got the home screen and the
app library now there is no way to hide the la
the app library but you can make apps go not onto a different home page but you
can have it go directly into the app library or have it go on to a new page
when you download and install apps so not only can we hide the
pages we can hide the apps we install so they're easily accessible either via the
app library or via search so if we want to hide
those specific apps we go into settings under settings go to home screen under
home screen you can see it says newly downloaded
apps add to home screen or add to app library only you can
change this based on your preference and again you can show notifications in
the app library as well if you don't want to you don't have to
so you can have all your newly downloaded apps go directly into the app
library or to the home screen so they will auto hide themselves
keeping everything nice and clean how you've already organized or maybe
customized the home screen now there's a new feature in music that i really like
and i've wanted for years and now we've got it so if we go into the music app
and maybe we're playing a song but we want this to continue after the
album is over maybe we're working hard and we just want similar songs to
continue well if you hit this down this little
menu down in the bottom right in the upper right you now have a little
infinity symbol and if we scroll down you'll see that it's auto played
selections that are similar to what we're already listening to so you can
see that they're already there if i turn off the little infinity it
will stop at the end of the album turn it back on and it will pick similar
songs and continue to play it won't stop until you stop playing so
it's a nice little option maybe you're just listening to some
soothing music some music to do work by or maybe you're working out and
listening to some other music you can continue to play things that are similar
so it's really nice that they've added it
and it's simple to use now if you're someone that uses voice memos maybe in a
classroom or during an interview and you're
recording a conversation so you can listen back to it later on but it's a
noisy environment apple has updated voice memos with a
really interesting new feature so for example we're in voice memos i'll
hit record and now we're talking about voice memos and the application itself
now if we were in a noisy environment we can actually clean this audio up so
if we stop the voice recording and you'll see the voice recording here
if we tap on the three buttons to the left
we have a couple different options one is edit the recording
tap on edit the recording and edit the recording has a little magic wand
in the upper left now if we tap on that magic wand
it will clean up the audio recording and remove background noise so maybe we're
in a very loud or noisy environment whether that be a city or maybe in a
large cafeteria something like that and you really want to be able to hear
that conversation instead of hearing all that noise too
this will actually fix that so you can see you can replace it hit
done you can listen back to it it will fix the audio and it's a great
option especially if you're having a hard time hearing what they're saying
now another new great feature that you may not know about ios 14 has to do with
passwords so if you store a lot of passwords on
your phone using apple's keychain you can now get notifications when that
password may be compromised and to see that you can go to settings
now it may just tell you about it if you're on safari and you're putting in a
password but go to settings scroll down to
passwords once you get into passwords you now have
security recommendations and security recommendations
you'll see a little exclamation point with a red circle around it
and if you have that it means one or more of your passwords has been
compromised on a database or a data breach
and you probably should change it so you can go into that
and then change your password it will even help you do it so it's a great new
security feature that i think more people should implement across
everything so if you're using an ipad you'll see
this as well as an iphone and upcoming with mac os big sur you'll
see it there as well now again going along with security and
privacy there's a new feature that really limits
location tracking within ios 14. so for example maybe you have an application
that wants your location but you don't want to give it your precise location
you can now do that and you do that by going to settings
then you scroll down to privacy then location services
and let's just pick an app maybe let's go to google maps for example
google maps has precise location turned on now if i turn this off iphone will
give it a general location it will not give me an exact location
again you can also select whether you want it to ask you to use your location
every single time with ask next time while using an app
always or never now that it's only got a little bit of
the location let's go ahead and take a look at it so we'll go into google maps
so within maps it's saying it's giving me a general location it is not giving a
precise location and as you can see here with the little
arrow it's got a little question mark on it saying i don't have your precise
location but it has a general idea and so this can be modified on a per app
basis so maybe you don't want every single app
knowing where you're at at all times you can give it a general location
i think that's a great feature as certain applications don't need to know
exactly where i am all the time now another feature
that's really great is when you're deep in menus and you want to see exactly
where you are in those menus in the top left
you can tap and hold where it says back and it will actually give you
in the actual location area you're at so you can see we're in settings
privacy location services and you can go back to either one of those
so it shows us exactly where we're at and that works anywhere within
ios so for example maybe we'll go back from privacy
and instead we'll go to let's say general
then maybe we'll go to iphone storage tap and hold and you'll see it says
we're in general and settings and it works all throughout
the os so maybe you forgot exactly where you went to get an application
setting you can now figure that out just by pressing and holding it's a nice
little update that they've done now finally the last feature in ios 14
which i think is really helpful has to do with sound recognition so if you're
someone that's a little hard of hearing or maybe you're just waiting for the
doorbell to ring and you don't want to miss it
but you want to get a notification if it rings you can now have your phone
listen for that and to do that you want to go to settings
go down to accessibility then you want to scroll down
to where it says sound recognition and under sound recognition
tap on it we'll turn it on turn on sound recognition
and now we have a bunch of different options if we tap on sounds
so if we tap on sounds we can have our phone listen for different alarms
animals cats and dogs household appliances
car horns doorbell door knock water running
or a baby crying and if any of those things happen
it will notify you on your device so let me show you what that looks like
so using my mac i'll just play the sound of a doorbell so let's go ahead and play
the doorbell sound and you'll see immediately it comes in
on my phone and says a sound has been recognized that may be a doorbell
and so it will let you know on your device on your phone that it's heard a
doorbell so it works for any one of those sounds
that i showed you cats dogs fire alarms sirens smoke alarms and i
think it's really helpful and it only takes up a little bit of
space 5.1 megabytes in my case so you can have that turned on and i
think it's a great help especially if you can't hear very well
that will let you know when a very critical thing happens as a final tip or
bit of information i want to share with you one thing
because i've been getting a lot of questions about this if you've ever
noticed with ios 14 a little dot appearing in the upper
right whether that be green or orange that is a security feature to
let you know that an application is using either your video cameras
your rear-facing camera forward camera or the microphone of the phone itself
and so it will change color depending on what it's doing so for example if i go
into the camera app you'll see that it turns green and if i
swipe home and bring down the control center you'll
see it says camera comma recently and it's green it's showing you that
it's using the camera the same is true if maybe we're in a
voice memo recording our voice you'll see that the dot is now orange so
if i stop that swipe up to go home and then pull down
the control center it says voice memos comma recently and
so those are just security features now that are built into ios 14
to let you know that an application is using either your microphone or your
cameras and you are now in control of that you
can change that in the settings of course what uses your cameras like you
always could and so that's there just to let you know if an application is doing
the right thing whether or not you allowed it to record
your voice or video and then it just gives you a heads
up there's no way to disable it it's just there for your safety to kind of
let you know what's going on with the operating system
and if an app is using something it shouldn't be and so those are 14
different ios 14 tips you may not know let me know if you knew any of them or
hopefully i taught you some new things about ios 14
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