Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and ios 15 is filled with all sorts of small refinements and
features while it doesn't have a ton of visual changes it does have a long list of features
and i covered those in the ios 15 beta 1 what's new video and it was about 30 minutes or so of
features but there's a lot of other features that have been found since and so i wanted to go over
what's been found since and there's quite a few and the first one has to do with siri so the first
thing we need to do is go into settings and if we go down to settings and go to face id and passcode
under face id and passcode if you have the option turned on where you can unlock your iphone using
your apple watch when your face is covered there's a new feature that uses the same security method
to help you out with personal requests so for example if i set my phone down let me turn off
the other ones and move them away and show you this new feature so there's personal requests
and you're probably familiar with these but before you would have to pick up your phone and unlock it
to use those personal requests so let me go ahead and lock it hey siri what is my last text message
and you'll see it says iphone 12 pro max responding to siri request and it unlocked
my phone using that to get my personal request so you can ask more personal requests like you
can on a home pod for example without unlocking your phone to do it first so it's a nice feature
you can feel it sort of give you haptic feedback on your wrist to let you know it's unlocked
and then it will answer your request so it works really well and it seems to be pretty
consistent when you ask siri for some sort of request like that now the next feature has to
do with photos and if i go into photos visual lookup will now find different things within
your photos and understand them now i did talk about this a little bit in the what's new video
but the way you can tell is this little i with the star on it so for example if i tap on this
it means it has more information about it and you can of course see more metadata which i talked
about before if i tap on this button you'll see it gives me results siri knowledge about what
it is maps to it and similar web images just like it so it understands what's in the photo
a little bit better now if you go to share this photo and this is a photo i actually took a couple
years ago if i go to share this photo tap on the share sheet here and once you tap on the share
sheet you'll see there's a couple new options you have copy icloud link edit date and time and
edit location so these are new within the share sheet with ios 15. so that's a little bit new
now also you have the option to feature a photo less so maybe you don't want to feature this
as much and you'll see this is an emoji of myself and again if i go to the share sheet
scroll down you'll see i'm featuring it less so i can stop featuring it less but this also pertains
to more than just people for example it pertains to places and also dates so you can feature those
less if you'd like now there has also been some updates to messages so if we go into messages
you'll see my brother here sent me a bunch of photos from the same sort of place or
related photos and if we tap on them we can of course expand them out and scroll through them
but also we can just scroll through them here so we can scroll through them easily here back and
forth if we want to see the photo set we can tap on this little button here that says eight photos
and get a grid of all the photos we can select them and now we have an easy download button to
the right of it so we can download or save to photo library so it's an easy way to save any
photo if it's sent to you you should have this icon now just to easily download that photo
so they've updated this and made it a little bit easier to swipe through all the sort of similar
photos that people are sending to you now if we go home and we go into the contacts app there's
an update there as well now we're in the contacts app and it looks pretty familiar at this point
but if we press and hold on messages it's a little bit different we have the ability to
message on anything that this person is within so instagram or messenger or signal or skype
and the same is true with video as well so under video it used to say facetime for example now
it says video because there's multiple options so it's been updated to allow for you to more easily
message to whatever app you prefer all from the same contact so that's something they've updated
as well now maybe we have an older phone and we're getting ready to upgrade to say an iphone 12 for
example as long as we have ios 15 on our device we can prepare the older device so iphone 6s plus or
newer or 6s we can prepare that device to upgrade to the new phone and there's a new setting to help
you do that so we go to settings we'll scroll down to general under general go down to reset under
reset we now have prepare for a new iphone if we tap on this you'll see it says get ready to move
your apps and data enjoy extra icloud storage to help you transfer to your new iphone and then you
can check your trade-in status if we tap on get started you'll see it says uploading apps and data
to icloud use this iphone to quickly sign in trade in or recycle this phone so this will prepare your
older phone getting it ready to transfer to the new one they'll allow you to use that data for
up to about three weeks according to apple and they'll give you the extra storage necessary if
you don't have a more expensive subscription plan for icloud storage when you're moving your phone
so you no longer have to worry about upgrading to a new data plan to move your device over so that's
something that's really nice that they've added with ios 15. now if we go to the weather app here
there's a slight change as well so you'll see on the right is ios 15 on the left is ios 14.6 14.7
you can see the weather app is slightly different they've moved the sun from the left here to the
right over here so it's just a slight change but it's something they've updated as well now also
within stacks if you use stacks on your home screen it can suggest a new app for example
earlier today it suggested that i call my father since it knew that he called me i missed the call
it popped up in here and showed me that let me show you what that looks like and on my home
screen here's a screenshot i took it says call dad back and then you can tap this it brings you
right to calling him back so it can suggest things based on time of day and it can even update the
stack with widgets that are available that would make sense for you so it showed up i tapped on it
called him back and was good to go this happens with apps i use in the morning it knows i open
youtube for example in the morning it knows i open that and it will suggest that i open
that in the morning for example so it's a little bit of a intelligent update to stacks to let you
know what's going on and kind of intuitively understanding what you do normally now with
the home screen there's some updates as well and one of the things that's kind of funny is you can
add multiple copies of the same app why you would want to do this i'm not really sure unless it has
to do with maybe different focus modes where you could have a screen for home in a screen for work
for example so you can add multiple copies of the exact same app and it's just something you can do
that's kind of odd in beta 1 but they may update this with beta 2. now also if we press and hold
we'll go into our home screens here not only can we now rearrange the home screens by pressing and
holding we can now delete a home screen so maybe we want to get rid of this home screen we can tap
on the delete here and it says remove this page so we can remove page and we can keep those bookmarks
we'll just remove them here for now but we can remove any one of these home screen pages
and or just rearrange them however we want so it's much easier to manage those now and as you can see
here we have all the different options you would expect that they didn't have with ios 14. so that
makes much better use of rearranging home screens and deleting them if you no longer want them now
on the home screen they've also updated an icon to better let you know when your phone is using data
to locate where you're at so for example weather or maybe the app store for example you'll see as
soon as i went into the app store it's trying to locate me it highlights the arrow in blue and then
locates me that makes a lot of sense maybe you're trying to check the weather you go into weather
it locates you here with the blue circle around the arrow and then it goes back to normal so
it's letting you know that i need to pull your location information and then it does that and
then it goes away so it's just a new indication or a new way to understand what's going on with
your location data now if we go into the control center they've updated something small here now
we did expect a control center update they did not do that with ios 15 but they did update the
siri remote for apple tv so if i press and hold on it you'll see on the right it looks a little
bit different at the bottom so we have channel on the right the arrow no longer says menu it just
has a little arrow to the left and then we have sort of a share icon and then a play pause so it
looks a little bit different than it did before with a power button at the top and some menu
options here as well so it's looking for an apple tv once it connects it would have more information
but they have redesigned that now another thing they've updated is when you're scanning a qr
code so let's go into our camera here we'll go to photo and bring in maybe a lego manual
so if we scan this qr code here you'll see it says instructions if you have an app that's using it
so it shows it right here instead of a little pop down from the top so if we go on ios 14.7 it looks
a little different so if we try and scan the same qr code it pops down from the top and says open an
instruction so they've updated that as well it's a minor change but something a little bit different
now maybe we're on a web page or an email and we want to print that email they've updated this as
well so we'll tap the three dots for the menu then we'll go down to print tap on print and the print
screen looks a little bit different we've got our pages at the bottom we also have a range of pages
we have paper size and then orientation so you have letter for example or you can change it to a4
whatever you'd like and you have a couple different options here so they've redone
the airprint screen on ios 15. now if we go into the tv app they've updated that as well so we'll
find tv here go into tv we're on a movie and if we tap the three dots in the bottom right we now have
playback speed we didn't have this before you can see languages subtitles and playback speed tap on
this and we can play it all the way up to 2x speed or half speed for example so that's available in
the tv app on anything you're watching so you can now play it back at different speeds now with ios
15 they've updated something that i'm not sure if this is a bug or something that they're planning
to change in the future but if we go into mail for example and maybe i delete this email in the past
with ios 14 you could use a three finger swipe to undo and redo so you would swipe with your fingers
to the left and it would undo it doesn't do that anymore so you don't have undo and redo with a
three finger swipe built in you can shake to undo and that works but it doesn't work to actually
delete or undo and redo after you delete something so they've changed that hopefully they bring it
back and allow us to use the three-finger swipe again as i use that a lot now for those of you
that use app tracking transparency maybe you have that turned off and it's not working
properly for you or it's just grayed out so that's under privacy under privacy and tracking
app tracking transparency if it's grayed out for you it will now tell you why so someone sent this
in so i appreciate it and it shows you why it's actually grayed out and tells you the reason for
it now so that's something they've updated as well now within facetime they've updated something as
well so let me go into facetime so maybe i'm in a facetime call and maybe my microphone
is muted currently it's on but what if i mute my microphone and then i begin to speak well normally
you wouldn't know that it's muted but now it will intelligently tell you that your microphone is
muted and tap to unmute and then it unmutes your microphone now they've also made an update to
the wallet app which i think is pretty helpful so let's go into wallet and in wallet at the bottom
it says view five expired passes the wallet app will now expire your passes based on if they're
no longer valid whether that be an airplane ticket for example and it's past the date you've already
used it before it would just stay on the screen now it will actually expire those and let you
know that now something they've updated in home is very helpful so if we go into home and with ios 15
you no longer have to create an automation to turn on a light at a specific time for example
now you can ask siri to do that so maybe i want to turn off my studio light at 3 15 pm
turn off the studio light at 3 15 pm we'll give it a moment one moment
i've set the studio light to turn off at 3 15 pm today so now it's set to turn off at 3 15 pm and
maybe it'll show up in automation later but now it should do that on its own before you would have to
create an automation to do that now you can just ask siri so i think that's really much better for
those sort of automations now if we go into the clock app in the clock maybe we go to alarm we'll
tap on edit tap on the alarm we now have the dial back that we had before no longer do we have the
little box with dials that was a pain to use if we go to alarms we'll edit the same one for example
you'll see we don't have that little box anymore they've brought back the scroll wheel to help
us set the time i think this is a much welcome change that many people will appreciate so they've
updated that as well now with the ipad there's some updates as well and the first one has to do
with using iphone apps in landscape mode maybe you have instagram for example and you normally have
to use it in portrait mode now you can use it in landscape mode so we'll go into instagram so we're
in instagram and this is my instagram page if you want to follow me and if we go to one of my posts
about ios 15 when the beta 1 came out you can see that we can view it in landscape now so we
no longer have to have it in portrait mode we can have it in portrait or landscape and even have it
smaller like an iphone if we want to so they've updated that for all of the iphone apps that
aren't updated for ipad now so i think that's a nice addition that many people will be happy with
now also if we go to our settings under settings we go to our home screen and dock
we can now show the app library in the dock that's sort of set up by default but if we don't want it
there we can remove it if we go back into settings turn it back on now we have the app library in the
dock so that's just a small update that they've changed there as well now also according to
developers with the different apis or things that developers can do you can now record game play
for up to 15 seconds if you have a controller connected so they can add that in their app so
you can re that you can directly record gameplay when using ipad os or iphone os or ios 15. now
within notes there's some updates as well on the ipad and i think this will be really great for
those of you that want to use handwritten notes and you can now combine handwriting and images
in handwritten notes and so for example you'll see before you could have an image and then you
could have your airpods and then maybe you could draw on it circle the airpods for example but if
we go back to done that's kind of all we could do but now if maybe we want to say this is air pods
we'll do the same thing it's really messy but you get the idea we'll tap and hold the image
bring it below now we've added it here and it's off to the side so we'll tap we'll move it around
we can resize it now and now we can just draw maybe we want to draw an arrow pointing at
something notate this do whatever we want circle it here we can now combine both so we can move
this around we'll select all and you can move it together or however you'd like so you get the idea
you can move your image you'll see the circle that i put there before stays the other one does not
so you have the option to fully edit this with handwritten notes now so i think that's
a nice update as well and so there's quite a few changes still in ios 15 and i'm sure there's more
to discover later on and of course if i find a bunch more i'll keep you updated in another video
if you found anything else significant i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
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