hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and today Apple released iPad OS 13.4 this
is the latest version which adds a lot of cursor functionality and things to
the iPads all the way back to the oldest supported iPad so if you have an iPad
air 2 like this one you'll get all the same features that you will with the new
one with the exception of some of the new accessories that are available for
the newly announced two 2020 iPads Pro now this particular update came in at
2.8 4 gigabytes on my iPad air 2 and is similarly sized on all of the different
iPads now if you are on the developer beta or the public beta with iOS or iPad
OS 13.4 beta 6 or GM you will have the final version already so there will not
be an update for you you already have it you just had it a week early so you can
either delete the beta profile or just continue with it installed but either
way you'll already have it and you can see that by going to the build number so
if we go into settings then we go to about and tap on the software version
you can see the build number is 17E255 and that means you're on the latest
build now let's talk about everything new in this video and if you want to
know what's new in iOS 13.4 I'll link those videos as well and I'll also do a
video on watch OS 6.2 all of those were released today and have some significant
updates now the first thing that's major with the iPads and goes back to the
oldest iPad is new support for mouse and trackpad now with the newest 2020 iPads
pro we get a new keyboard with a trackpad and things coming out in May
but this particular device supports it as well so for example if you have a
magic mouse a Magic Mouse - magic trackpad or any third party Bluetooth or
USB mouse you have support now and so this is a magic Mouse - for the Mac Pro
and you'll see I already have a cursor let me zoom in a little bit so you can
see it closer up now in order to pair your Magic Mouse to or Magic Trackpad or
Magic Mouse whatever you have just go to settings go to bluetooth and you'll see
Magic Mouse it'll show up under devices here and it works just like a normal
Mouse so now we have an all-new cursor and we can use the gestures and
right-click so I can just scroll through using the touchpad on the top and you
can adjust these settings in XS a bill so they haven't moved it to its own
separate category yet but you can adjust it here so for example we can go to
pointer control and we have increased contrast automatically hide pointer
after two seconds you can adjust this turn that off if you don't want it to
hide and as you can see I'm moving through it's actually highlighting
things like accessibility we also can change the color of the pointer so maybe
I want it to be white and change the stroke size as well the thickness of the
line around the pointer as you see I move this it changes it and then if we
go back to pointer control we can turn off pointer animations so if we don't
want it to have an animation to highlight accessibility we don't have to
have that and then we have pointer size so you can see we can change the pointer
size we also have scrolling speed as well so all of these things are really
nice and then we can go back home we can bring up the dock we can go back home
it's a little tricky to get it to work on non-face ID iPads but if we want to
go into a different app you can see a highlight here and it works really well
so you can use not only the Magic Mouse but the Magic Trackpad
so let me show you that as well because we have some new features with that so
I'll set the iPad air 2 aside and we'll switch to the iPad pro now this is the
trackpad to my Mac Pro so if I want to pair it to my iPad pro I just go to
settings and you'll see it says other devices I'll turn on the trackpad we'll
give it a second it shows up tap on Magic Trackpad and it's paired so now I
have the same cursor I can swipe up or down with two fingers swipe with three
to go home we can swipe side-to-side to go back swipe up again and if I bring
the cursor down you can see it highlights things so if I go in I've got
the same actual settings under accessibility so if I go to pointer
controls then go to color let me change it to blue so it's a little easier to
see and then go back and pointer size will make it a little bit bigger so you
can see it on the display so you've got the same exact thing so now again if I
swipe up with three fingers you can close that I can go to the app store and
navigate the entire iPad just using the trackpad so you've got all of those same
gestures and as I highlight over things you can see that there's a bar
I can highlight over the home bar swipe up and if I swipe up and hold I can get
all of my multitasking views so it's really nice to use just with the
trackpad and of course in things like photos and things you've got pinch to
zoom so if I go into photos and here's a photo I took from the Mac Pro if I want
to zoom in I can just pinch and zoom in zoom out swipe up go home so it's really
nice we have all of these things and you have all those multi-touch gestures
where you can zoom in and out you can tap secondary click so if I want to
right click on this for example two finger click gives me the 3d press menu
as well so you've got all of those features right from a trackpad or a
mouse it's really really nice now Apple has also added quite a few other things
to this as well now with iPad OS 13 point for Apple finally added folder
sharing with iCloud drive and so if we go into the files app we can go to our
folder that we want to share maybe the platform tools I'll press and hold then
we go to share and now we can add people so we can add people to share this
folder to change files within and control to limit access only the people
you explicitly invite or grant access and you can give them a link to share
this folder also you can change the permissions for who can make changes
upload or download or view files so you have full control over who can see these
files modify them and help you work collaboratively
now the next update is with memo G so if that's something you use with an
iMessage they've updated that and they've updated it with momochi stickers
there's nine new momochi stickers including smiling face with hearts hands
pressed together and party face so there's a few new ones if you use these
they're available it's not anything I really use that much but they're here if
you want to use them now they've updated mail as well and I'll talk about all of
the bug fixes and things like that a little bit later on mail has a lot of
fixes to it but they've also updated the interface just a little bit so if we go
into mail there are now always visible controls to delete move reply or compose
a message in this view so you can see we can reply here and we've got our
different options for things like flag and mark as unread
or move messages and then we have delete folder and compose in the upper right
now this is more of a big deal on the iPhone than it is on the iPad since the
iPhone sort of limited it to two different things now they're just all
visible all the time so that's been updated they've also updated it if you
use s/mime for encryption so if you use that you can now reply and it will
automatically encrypt any emails that are sent when you have that configured
but you will need to have that on the server side configured so everything's
encrypted now they've also updated the App Store and within the App Store a
developer now has the option to give you universal purchase support so what that
means is maybe you purchase an application such as procreate they can
allow you to have that on your iPhone iPad iPod Touch or Mac or Apple TV all
for free and this applies to apple arcade as well as any app throughout so
now you can just have that on all of your devices for one fee if the
developer chooses to do that of course sometimes they're very different so you
don't want to necessarily do that for all apps but the option is there they've
also updated it so that recently played arcade games will now carry across
different devices so maybe you start this new game spider on say an iPad and
you want to continue on your iPhone you should be able to do that across Mac and
Apple TV as well so all of those things should be here and then there's some new
list views to show all of your games and things like that
so you'll have those options and they've just updated it to make it a little bit
easier to see your games or different categories and things along those lines
so some nice little changes nothing major
now there's additional controls if you're using the keyboard within photos
to switch between different tabs so if you hold command you can see those and
some of the controls were there before but they've added additional ones so for
example if I hold ctrl and hit one I can switch to this tab I can go back to my
favorites by holding ctrl and hitting three so we have the ability to just
switch between different tabs very simply again control one three and then
switch between with shortcuts now they've also added a small change in the
TV app where we now have family sharing and so if you have family sharing setup
with different family members you now have that available so they can see all
of your purchases you can see there's and share TV and movie
they've also added some settings for TV as well so if we go into settings and
then we go down to TV let's find that under TV we now have download options
for Wi-Fi or cellular if you have a cellular iPad to allow for high quality
or fast downloads so it just depends on your internet connection what you have
and the same is true for streaming options with data saver or high quality
and then there's additional options down here as well so all of these things are
really nice that they've added and we have those options now there's also an
option in shortcuts so if you use shortcuts for example we now have the
option to create a shortcut and Shazam it so we can tap an icon to Shazam that
and listen to the music around and determine what's playing now you could
use Siri to do that before but they've added it in this and then finally
they've added a our Quick Looks support for audio playback so if you're using
augmented reality it's not something I use a whole lot but if you're using
augmented reality maybe to look at furniture around or things like that
they've added a quick look support for audio playback in the file itself the
USD Z file now with the keyboard they've added a couple things and I'll just run
through those pretty quickly but if we go into notes you'll see the keyboard
here they've added an on-screen keyboard layout for the 12.9 iPad pro that now
matches the smart keyboard so if you have a smart keyboard you can now match
it so for example here's a smart keyboard with it and you can now match
the exact same layout they've also updated Swiss German keyboard layouts
for the iPad pro 12.9 they've added predictive text or typing support for
Arabic so if you're using an Arabic keyboard you'll have that and then
they've added live conversations for Japanese and I apologize I don't know
how to say this other language here but it automatically transforms into the
correct characters without pressing the spacebar to convert text or select
candidates and so if someone knows how to say that Xion or Zhu Ian I could look
it up but if someone knows how to say that please let me know in the comments
below now aside from that there are a ton of bug fixes and so I'll run down
those bug fixes one by one and there's a lot to cover here but I'll go quickly
through them so the first thing is it fixes an issue in the camera where the
viewfinder may not show up when you open the camera so if you open the camera it
could show a blinks that's now fixed so thankfully they've
fixed that they've also addressed an issue in photos where it may appear to
use excessive storage so I saw that on my iPhones they fixed that now they've
also resolved an issue in photos that may prevent sharing an image two
messages if you have I messaging disabled so if you're not using iMessage
it will now work properly they've also fixed an issue in mail
thankfully where messages may appear out of order they've fixed an issue in mail
where conversation lists may display empty rows they've also fixed an issue
in mail when tapping the share button in quick look it could crash so maybe
you're trying to share something here it could crash they've updated that as well
within the app and then they've updated an issue in settings where if you go to
cellular data now this is not a cellular iPad but it may show the data as off
even though it was turned on they fixed that they've also fixed an issue in
Safari where web pages may not be inverted if you're using both a dark
mode and smart invert together and yes you can use them together and if you
were that problem has been fixed they've also fixed an issue in Safari if
you're using CAPTCHA tiles - maybe verify you're human they may display
incorrectly that should now be fixed if you're on a website that users capture
to verify that they fixed a couple issues in reminders as well so if you
use the stock or standard reminders app it addresses an issue where reminders
may not issue new notifications for an overdue recurring reminder until it's
marked as completed they also fixed an issue where reminders may send
notifications for completed reminders they've fixed an issue with iCloud Drive
as well where it may appear to be available even if you have it signed out
when you're in Pages Numbers and Keynote so it will no longer be available if
you're not using it of course also fixes an issue in music where if you're
watching music videos and things like that they were lower quality they've
fixed it so it may show in high quality now and then they've also fixed an issue
in the home app so if you use the home app and you have security cameras set up
with it and I currently don't but if you have security cameras and maybe you
receive a notification that someone's walking in your yard or something like
that you tap on the notification it may open the wrong camera maybe it shows the
backyard instead of the front yard that has now been resolved they've also fixed
an issue where if you take a screenshot and then you
share the screenshot the shortcuts menu may not appear they fixed that as well
and then finally they fixed an issue that improves the Burmese keyboard so
punctuation symbols are now accessible from numbers and symbols so all of these
things have been fixed and probably a lot of other things as well and if
you're on iOS they've fixed some things with carplay now all of those things
have fixed been fixed and I would have to say that after using iOS 13.4 betas
for a while this is by far the best and most stable version of iOS 13 I've seen
so far that's based on a lot of feedback I've heard as well so battery life and
things like that seem to be greatly improved if you're on the previous
version of iOS 13 point three point one and so over the last ten days I use my
iPad mostly as consumption for things like YouTube but you'll see three hours
and 56 minutes of screen on time with a little over 50% of my battery usage and
the screen time is hard to say what it really is because I use this for
ethically and I don't charge it for many days in a row but 10 hours of battery
life is not unrealistic on this iPad and if you have an iPad air 2 you can expect
it to be nice and fast so for example the iPad air 2 everything seems to be
nice and fast and I would not expect a whole lot of slowdowns it does take a
little bit to load but that's the first time I've opened mail on here and then
of course you have mouse support on all of these devices which is really really
nice so I think it adds a whole level of functionality we didn't have before
and I highly recommend updating to this version unless you want to stay on an
older version for maybe modifying it in other ways so that's really it for this
particular update but let me know how your experiences in the comments below
and be sure to check out my other videos of iOS 13.4 and watch OS 6.2 I'd love to
hear what you think of those in the comments below if you'd like to get your
hands on this wallpaper of course I'll link it in the description as I always
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see you next time