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Are you ready to elevate your iPad experience to new heights?
With iPadOS 17, Apple has just supercharged your favorite
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Stay tuned as we dive deep into five game-changing features
that will change how you use your iPad.
Let's get started.
What is going on everyone?
My name is Mike.
Welcome back to the channel.
I'm very glad you're with me today because we are talking
about five features that are coming to the iPad that are
gonna redefine how you use the device.
Now the iPad is undoubtedly one of the most powerful devices
Apple has in its lineup.
It's portable and highly conformable,
it allows almost anyone to use it after just a few minutes of
picking it up.
Now today, Apple's giving its customers the first look at iPad
OS 17 as part of the public beta.
So if you're installing it on your device, these will be the
five features that I would test out if I were you.
But it's gonna give the ability to kick the tires,
so to speak, before this is released in the fall.
Now I've been using the iPadOS 17 since it was first released
at WWDC back in June.
I've used it for all my computing tasks on my 2022
M2 iPad Pro.
And I'll tell you honestly; it's really solid.
Now here are my favorite features coming to
iPadOS 17.
Number one is personalized lock screens.
Building on the success of its smaller sibling,
personalized lock screens come to iPadOS 17, giving you a way
to personalize your lock screen experiences and take advantage
of that full big display on your iPad device.
There are several new photo features that allow you to set
your favorite image on your lock screen and stylize them in
certain ways, including changing the
typography and the color of the clock.
Wow, we can finally change the color of the clock.
Amazing.
It's only iPad OS 17.
Additionally, you can select photos from your library or
choose from a collection of photos that dynamically shift
throughout the day or even a live photo that will animate
when you unlock your device.
Apple's added some new wallpapers, including some
that already existed in iOS 16, like the pride
theme ones, unity, gradient emoji weather,
and astronomy, as well as some iPad exclusives, such as
showing Apple's classic hello from the original iPad
in 2010.
If you want to create a personalized lock screen on
your device, what you do is hold your finger down on the
lock screen until you get the ability to edit.
From there, you can edit the current one or make a new one
and mix and match your lock screen and your home screen and
as well as tie it to a focus mode.
Number two, supercharged widgets.
Widgets have been upgraded in iPad OS 17 to be
more flexible, interactive, and customizable.
First, you can directly interact with the widgets
without needing to open the associated app.
Say for example, if I wanted to go ahead and check off
something on my to-do list and tick tick, if I wanted to play
a song in either Apple Music or on Spotify, or I could even
control my lights using the home app or maybe even the HUE
app from right there on my screen and I don't need to
drill into the app, which is gonna be this big quality
of life improvement.
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Second, interactive widgets are now accessible from both the
lock screen and the home screen, much like they are
on the iPhone providing useful information at just a glance.
Now on the lock screen, you can have a mix of small and
medium-sized widgets along the left hand side.
Unfortunately, you can't move them from that location,
but hey, listen, beggars can't be choosers at this point.
Now those widgets that are there on the left hand side of
the screen, they're gonna blend seamlessly into your wallpaper
and they are gonna be tinted to match your wallpaper
for maximum readability.
And finally, I don't know, I am super excited about this one.
You can place widgets anywhere on the home screen of
the iPad.
It's like, oh my gosh, why has this not been here sooner?
But now widgets can be placed anywhere on the home screen.
You don't need to be, or they don't need to be adjacent to
one of the apps.
Some of the larger widgets may be confined to one of
the corners, but, they don't need to be anywhere on an app.
You could have a screen just for say, one widget and that's
all they could do and it could be right in the center of
that screen itself.
So that's great.
Finally, Apple's giving us a little bit more flexibility and
customization in iPad OS 17 as it comes to widgets.
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Number three, express Yourself Better with FaceTime.
iPadOS 17 introduces a range of enhancements to FaceTime aimed
at optimizing the user experience during either audio
or video calls.
You probably don't even remember that you can make
audio calls with FaceTime, FaceTime audio.
First, It's gonna be emulating the functionality
of traditional voicemails.
You know it's that little notification widget that you
have on your phone icon where people leave you messages
telling you to call 'em back and you just text them back.
Why are you calling me?
Callers can leave a recorded audio or video message when
you're unavailable to take their call.
Now, the missed call voicemails, you can find
them either in the FaceTime app if you're on your iPad or even
in the FaceTime app and on the dialer or in the phone app
on the iPhone.
But once you're in there, it'll show you all the calls.
You have the ability to save the message, reply to a message
either with a video message or with an audio message, as well
as save the message if you are the receiving party of that.
So it is cool in that way.
Now, I don't know about you, but voicemail is not
a new thing.
I do get voicemails, but they happen to be on the
phone from work.
I don't get a lot of personal voicemails and I actually don't
think I want people leaving me a voicemail when they try
and FaceTime me.
Just send me a text message.
I dunno.
Let me know what you think down in the comments below.
Second, you have a host of new reactions that are available
either in FaceTime or you're gonna be your video calling
platform of choice, assuming that they
integrate it.
But this gives you the ability to send reactions such as
thumbs up, heart balloons, and fireworks.
And lastly, Apple TV is getting exciting new integration
with FaceTime, which is gonna allow you to use
Continuity camera, which is the camera from one of your devices
on the Apple Television where you can initiate a FaceTime
video call from your Apple TV or start the call on your iPad
and then seamlessly transition back and forth, vice versa from
one device to the other, allowing you to interact with
your friends and family with the largest screen that you
have in your house.
It also does support center stage where it is giving the
auto framing no matter if you're walking around
the room, but I dunno about you, but I don't really
walk around that much while I'm taking video calls.
Now these three features add an element of flexibility,
allowing communication to occur seamlessly across all your
devices and giving you an overall better experience.
While using FaceTime.
Stage Manager was first introduced last year in iPadOS
16 and it's been reworked to allow for more fluid
multitasking methods in iPad OS 17.
First, the most notable is a significant increase in the
freedom to arrange in resize windows as well as to
have overlapping windows.
While the features are not as flexible as on a Mac, it's a
considerable improvement over the original version of
Stage Manager, which was limited to
predetermined windows sizes.
This is a big, big win if you like, using your iPad as a
kind of more of a computer replacement because you have a
lot more flexibility with how Windows are arranged,
the arrangement that they're in, whether you add
additional window and whether those windows can overlap.
It's really quality of life improvements and that's
I think, the underlying theme here in iPad OS 17.
Second users can now shift click app icons from the doc,
the app library or anywhere on their home screen,
allowing them to add these apps as windows to
their current workspace.
Where before there was a lot of clu giness.
When you wanted to add a window to your workspace, you had to
those things still exist,
they're much improved, but this is a much better way of
doing so now.
The welcome change greatly improves the usability of Stage
Manager on the iPad, especially when you combine it
with the new freedom to resize and place Windows.
External camera support.
Last but certainly not least, iPadOS 17 now supports external
cameras and USB cameras to replace the mediocre FaceTime
cameras that they have on these devices.
Now this new feature extends to various USB cameras.
It doesn't matter if it's USB-C or USB-A; it even works
through connected cameras.
So if you have like a mirrorless camera or a DSLR,
as long as it has a USB out, you can plug it into your iPad
and it will automatically be recognized.
It even does work with Aldo's 4K CAM Link, I believe.
This also applies to those of you who have an external
display like the studio display back there.
You can use the integrated webcam right on the studio
display and don't have to worry about FaceTime being kind of
off-center down to the left.
Now as of this video, there is only one app that
supports external cameras, and that is gonna be FaceTime.
It's because none of the other apps like Teams, Skype, so on
and so forth have been updated to support the
iPads 17 frameworks.
You'll need to wait until this comes official release in
the fall, but it's all gonna be there.
All these, all of your favorite apps, are gonna
support this service.
Being able to use your device with an external webcam,
I'm excited.
Let me know what you think in the comments below.
I wanna know what your favorite feature is.
Let me know down the comments below or actually hit me
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