Apple showcased the upcoming enhancements to its platform technologies
during the annual developer conference and there are a number of great
features come into the iPad this fall.
Now in today's video we're going to take a peek into Apple's vision for
mobile computing with my five most anticipated features for iPad OS
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What's going on everyone. It's Mike. Now I've spent a few days with the
latest iPad OS and I have five features that I am most looking forward
to when it launches this fall. Coming at number five will be the redesign
of the photos app.
Now if you are anything like me you probably have an ever growing library
of photos and videos many of those photos and videos are to be blurry bad.
There can be screenshots of something I want to remember at the time and
probably forgot or things there are no longer of importance. Now Apple
wants to fix that problem in iOS 13 with the first big update to the photos
app since it was launched in 2014.
In this update Apple is heavily leaning into its power of the A-series
processor for on device machine learning to enhance the experience with
the photos tab when viewing your photos by year day or month. Now gone
are the everyday distractions of screenshots and bad photos to showcase
your very best photos and videos front and center.
Now one of the really cool features about this is the curation that will
auto play a short preview while you're scrolling through the timeline.
Now that in addition to a new contextual menu that you are presented with
when you force touch or maybe it's called 3-D touch I don't know what apples
and a cult in the future but just go with me here.
That contextual menu is presented by giving you quick access to performing
an action on the side photo or video of postage rolling down one to two layers.
Now that photos Apple also get streamlined photo editing controls allowing
for more precise editing. In addition to finally gain the ability to edit
and stylized videos. Now I wonder what this means for a movie since it
seems like a lot of the controls and features are being merged from a movie
into photos. Hey who knows maybe we will finally get Final Cut Pro on the iPad
Coming at number for their enhancements to multitasking now there's a lot
to unpack here. First is the ability to open up multiple apps inside over
at the same time and then shuffle quickly between them. Second it's the
ability to open up the same app and split view. In addition to concurrently
having that same app open in another view with a different app. Now that
means I can have two safari windows open extra and one other then opt to
open another safari window with maybe I'll just see messages. Then use
app exposed to show me all the windows open for that specific app.
It's going to be a redesign home screen coming in at number three the home
screen has a familiar look and feel to it but you're not presented with
a denser cluster of apps. In both portrait and landscape orientation the
current version of IOW for the iPad presents apps and a five by four grade
when the iPad is in landscape mode and I'm going to be a four by five grade
when the app is in portrait orientation. Now both orientations display
an actor that is six by five. This is gonna be really nice because apps
are no longer dynamically shifting around when you change orientations. Included
In that redesign is the ability to pin widgets from The Today view
When you are in landscape mode. For me this is a fairly significant time saver
as I tend to organize the today view with my most important or time saving
apps and by bringing the today of you to the home screen it really saves
me from having a swipe right which I probably do a dozen or so times a
day to launch an app. And it should end up saving me time while making
me more productive
the second item is huge. I think this is the catalyst that will cement
the I've had as a replacement as more and more people are trying to replace
their aging pieces.
I've had OS will gain the ability to read and write files from external
media including SD cards and external hard drives. Go ahead and raise your
hands if you thought how would freeze over before Apple enabled access
to files on external media. This is a big advancement on a couple of fronts
if Apple can execute on this correctly. First it means that you should
be able to read and write common file formats like Word Excel pages to
and from a flash drive. In addition to copying those files to iPad
Second means that you should be able to directly import photos and quite
possibly video captured from a camera directly in apps like Lightroom and
Luma fusion. Now this last one might be a little bit crazy and out there
but hey I can dream right. You might be able to directly play video store
and external media device circumventing purchasing the video from iTunes.
Now all of these use cases require developers to update their apps to take
advantage of the respective API eyes that were developed for this set of functionalities.
Now I was able to perform some initial tests with an external hard drive
as well as an SD card both containing audio and video which ended up working.
Now we will see how this develops as the babies continue into the eventual
release in the fall. But let me know in the comments below if you want
to see a video dedicated to more extensive testing
. It was a really tough choice to choose between access to external media
and this one but I think that this is going to be the creme de la creme.
My most anticipated change coming to iPad Os are the updates to safari
that will make it a desktop class browser. Now many people ask what does
that even mean. Well for starters that means that you are no longer forced
to use the mobile versions of websites like gmail youtube youtube studio
which is a big one and Dropbox. It also means that you'll have the ability
to save files to a downloads folder that lives in I called Drive and you
can be able to directly use that file which is gonna be great.
Now that means I can download a file from any website saw it locally on
my iPad which ends up sinking through iCloud hopefully flowing to other
devices making a sync download folder
For me. This is one of the best features because as a creator I can now
access the new youtube studio features right on safari without the need
for the YouTube studio app. There are few arable mentions here that don't
specifically make my list but are significant in the fact that it will
move I Os forward for many people. Now first there's a new accessibility
feature enabling the ability to connect an external plotting device to
the iPad. Yes that's correct. It's going to be a mouse. Now here we see
an apple trackpad too connected directly to the iPad veal a lightning the
USB cable.
Now just a throttle expectations. Apple says this feature is designed with
accessibility needs so don't go out and buying a mouse. You'll be able
to go in and navigate the iPad. Second if the addition of 30 new keyboard
shortcuts that can be used on the iPod including the ability to take a screenshot.
And finally there's the floating keyboard. Using Apple's version of Swype
called quick path typing. Now that about wraps it up for me folks but I
want to hear from you in the comments below which of the iPad features
has you most excited for. Or maybe you're just excited for one of the features
that's cross platform like dark mode. Me
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