Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and this is your news update for the week of january 24th 2021
and this past week was a lot of news about ios 14.4 releasing as well as maybe some new macbooks
ios 15 compatibility and more but first i want to talk about the upcoming iphone for 2021
it seems like we just got the iphone 12 pro max but there's a lot of information saying that the
iphone 13 or iphone 12s whatever apple decides to call it according to digi times apple is indeed
working to shrink the notch a lot of people don't like the notch and so apple is working on
working on making the smaller whether that means horizontally or vertically though is yet to be
seen i think they're going to shrink it vertically more than horizontally as if you've seen the pixel
3xl for example from google the horizontal notch is narrower and it just doesn't look as good so
if they could shrink it vertically make more of the screen available when watching video i think
that would be the better way to do it apparently they've found a way to do this by combining some
of the face id components to make the modules smaller overall so i look forward to that now
also according to digi times apple is working on bringing sensor shift stabilization like we have
in the iphone 12 pro max over to all iphones in 2021 this would bring a couple advantages one is
the stability could be improved we no longer would have the lens mechanism on a float but rather the
sensor like we do in the 12 pro max and also i think they could make the camera bump a little
bit less protruding or make it smaller maybe even a flush camera again and maybe do that by
bringing a bigger battery there hasn't been any information about battery but i would love to see
them update this so that it would be in all phones and bring even better stability in the future so
hopefully we'll see that now this year with the release of the iphone 12 mini a lot of people like
the smaller form factor but according to recent reports in the supply chain it looks like they're
not selling as well as some others so apple has shifted production from the iphone 12 mini
over to the iphone 12 pro where there's higher demand which makes a lot of sense apple does
shift things around from time to time that doesn't necessarily mean the 12 mini is selling poorly
it just means that they have a higher demand for the 12 pro so it wouldn't surprise me if they've
made a ton of 12 minis and now they need to shift over to 12 pros we'll have to wait and see as far
as the sales later on now with magsafe in the new iphone 12 series there's been a growing concern by
some that it interferes with medical devices and apparently it does apple posted a support document
stating to keep the iphone 12 series or mag safe accessories 12 inches or more away from magnetic
reactive medical devices so maybe you have a pacemaker or something like that you need to keep
these magnets away so they don't interfere however you would want to consult with a physician to make
sure that it's okay so either way i think those that have those sort of magnetically reactive
devices would be familiar with this and generally not keep it near their heart or anything like that
so it's just something apple has acknowledged that it does react magnets in general will do that but
if you have mag safe phones or magsafe devices or accessories then it could react to those devices
so just be cautious of that and also check out the support document i'll link it in the description
now finally with the iphones there is a lawsuit against the iphone 6 for planned obsolescence in
italy italy is seeking 60 million euros or those who filed the lawsuit in complaints of
people saying that apple slowed down the phone in order to get people to upgrade now apple has
acknowledged that they do slow them down in order to sort of allow for the battery to be replaced
and not have the phone reboot and then it will go back to normal but prior to this a lot of people
were concerned that apple did that on purpose it didn't tell anyone and so italy is seeking damages
for the users of iphone 6. so that's something that we'll see we'll have to wait and see the
outcome of but it's kind of interesting seeing how this phone's fairly old at this point no longer
software supported really but we'll have to wait and see now last week we had a lot of great new
information about upcoming max from mark german at bloomberg he has a great track record for getting
things right and this week he's given us even more he said that apple is working on a thinner and
lighter higher end macbook air that should show up in the second half of 2021 and have magsafe
now i said last week that we should see magsafe in the new macbooks according to mark as well
and magsafe is a way to charge magnetically that used to adhere to the side of the the macbooks
and maybe you kick the cord it doesn't yank your laptop onto the floor so we would have magsafe
along with thunderbolt and maybe even sd card slots according to mark so that's something i
would really look forward to that i really want back and if you're not familiar with an sd card
this is an sd card just like i use in the camera recording this video and it's much easier instead
of using a dongle to just slide it into the side of the macbook and then be done with it something
i used all the time and when they removed it i was really kind of annoyed that i had to use a dongle
from there on out so be great to have that back now apple is also said to be working on face id
for macs and this makes the most sense instead of having to use the fingerprint sensor to unlock it
which isn't that big of a pain but just having a camera at the top just like microsoft does
with windows hello or you do on your iphone open it up and it unlocks however according to mark
they won't be in the next version of macs but rather the version after that maybe apple's
trying to get that module to be smaller for the notch of the iphones first and then we'll bring it
over to the max but apparently according to mark it won't be in that version so that's a little bit
sad hopefully we'll see more of that in the future that goes along with the new imac as well i think
it's perfect for an upcoming imac that makes a lot of sense but again we'll see a lot of max release
this coming year now just like every year apple's working on the next iteration of their apple watch
and it's said that apple will have a blood glucose monitor on the sensor on the back of the series 7.
now this is from et news so i'm not sure of their track record but it is a patent that they own as
far as a blood glucose monitor but the important thing is to make sure that's accurate because
people depend on that so if they can make that accurate something that you wear on your wrist
without having to use invasive needles or anything like that that would be a game changer for a lot
of people and if they can bring that to a watch that would be great so they could get it medical
certified and things like that it would be amazing for those that have diabetes so i think it would
be something great to see it's hard to say if we'll see it with a series 7 apple watch but
hopefully we see some of something like that very soon as it would help a lot of people now a lot of
people expected an update today because apple said time to walk which is a feature of watch os 7.3
betas or it was was coming out today however they were able to push it to devices with watch os 7.2
so if you go to your workouts for example you have time to walk and all this is if you tap
on this you can take a walk send the audio to your airpods for example and then you can listen
to stories from different people and it will talk to you while you walk you can see it's 28
minutes long and this should be available now on a supported apple watch so if you have watch os 7.2
it should just show up they were able to push it on the server side so we really thought this
would be out with an update today with watchos 7.3 but it looks like apple didn't need that however
i would expect apple to release ios 14.4 along with watch os 7.3 within the next couple of days
at most because today apple released a mac os 11.2 release candidate 2 but they didn't release any
other updates so i would expect them to push this out as soon as tomorrow with ios 14.4 ipad os 14.4
as well as watchos 7.3 tvos 14.4 and homepod os 14.4 expect all of those very soon now when
it comes to the next version of ios ios 15 which we normally see in june at wwdc
and then releasing to the public later in the year around september according to a french
website called iphonesoft ios 15 will no longer have support for iphone 6s or the iphone se or the
iphone 6s plus apple apparently will be dropping support for them we've heard this before but they
would drop support for those three devices and instead you would have to have an iphone
to use the new version so you'd need an iphone 7 or newer now the same is true for ipad so ipad
mini 4 could lose support ipad air 2 and ipad 5. basically any a8 and a9 chips would no longer be
supported so that is what i expect i would think iphone 7 and newer for ios 15 that makes a lot of
sense we've had about six years of support on previous phones such as the 6s for example and
it makes sense that apple would move on and only offer security updates to those devices as needed
now apple is still said to be working on augmented reality and virtual reality headsets so ar or vr
and the first one is said to be a very expensive vr headset so virtual reality where it's similar
to something like an oculus but done in apple's way it's said to be quite pricey and coming as
soon as 2022 according to mark german also they're working on augmented reality and that's what i'm
more excited about where you have typical glasses that could overlay things in your environment
simple to similar to google glass but done much better since it's been years you have more time
to implement things and so you could overlay directions as well as maybe even people's names
i'm interested to see something like that and that won't be coming though probably until 2023 at the
earliest so it's going to be a while now apple is still working on airpods 3 and airpods pro 2
and airpods pro are great but whatever they could do next maybe improve the noise cancellation apple
is said to be working on that and we should see those as early as this year there is no specific
date for that but some have said as early as march or april so we should see those maybe a new design
as well some of the designs have leaked these do look like apples but they're definitely different
so we could see something like that now the final bit of information has to do with the airpods max
and apple looks like they may have made it so you can replace the headband very easily
maybe they had planned for different colors or maybe they're still planning something like that
but you can actually swap these fairly easily if you have a sim card tool so if you take off
the ear cups they're magnetic take them off set it aside extend this out like this will turn the the
headphone then we'll take a sim card removal tool and you insert it here
this is a little scary to do but push it into here and you have to be careful doing this
and there we go the top pops out so you push that in there's a little pin
and now you can swap the headband it has a mini lightning connector sort of look to it
and then it just goes back in like this locks into place and you're good to go it's working
again so you put your ear cups back on so they're easily repairable i guess if you damage your your
head or your headband and it works fine there's no wires going through here that you can see anyway
and now they'll work again no problem so i thought that was kind of neat and wanted to share that
with you so that's it for the news this week and of course look for ios 14.4 very soon and as soon
as it's out i'll be sure to let you know and i'll have a video on that as well if you'd like to get
your hands on the wallpaper of course i'll link it in the description like i normally do and if you
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as always thanks for watching this is Aaron i'll see you next time