Software is my absolute favorite hardware yeah she's cool new cameras new buttons whatever
maybe but software that is where the real magic happens and so when WWDC happens every year it
is always one of my favorite Apple events as in this house we call it is Apple Christmas and it is
the most exciting Apple Christmas for yours truly because I love software so much and the worldwide
developers conference Focuses on software in the WWDC keynote which happens the first week of WWDC
they talk about software coming to the developers to kind of get them excited about things to
work on and they tell all of us people what's coming in the future what's coming in the fall
what to get freaking excited for so today I'm going to be chatting about iOS 15. I am also going
to be uploading a video about all the other stuff that happened at WWDC because there's iPadOS 15
watch os 8 mac os Monterey and then we've got some other updates there but the most
things that I'm excited about are in iOS 15 so we had to do a dedicated video so this
video is just going to be me recapping all of my favorite announcements that have come
from iOS 15. so if you're interested in that go ahead and keep on watching
hi all it's Annelies and we've got a lot to talk about so let's go ahead and dive in and I like
looked at my Notes and immediately I saw all the FaceTime updates because folks pretty much Apple
saw that they're really good video chat software I really like FaceTime I'm a FaceTime stan I like
face timing people but over the last year the need for face time or the need for video chat has gone
past just the point of I want to talk face to face with one person and that's why FaceTime was like
made was like hey you want to chat with a family friend it's like Skype we're just chatting you're
not doing work things or like mass scale video conferencing and then obviously with our friend
miss zoom over the last year being very popular Apple took quite a bit of Notes so we've got
FaceTime links sounds familiar you can schedule a FaceTime meeting and send out a FaceTime link
and the really cool thing about the FaceTime links is it works for people that don't have iPhones or
Apple devices you can send a FaceTime link to an Android or a PC user and they can open it within
their web browser on their device which is really cool especially for when you have like that one
green bubble in your iMessage chat and y'all want to do a FaceTime meeting boom that's a really cool
and exciting thing additionally with the whole like taking from the video conferencing features
we've got things like grid view which about time honestly I really like FaceTime and when
they added group FaceTime I liked that as well but I always felt like there's a lot of wasted
space especially with like how the tiles kind of move but then they're like stacked over each
other and I'm like if I could just put this in a grid I feel like we'd see each other a lot clearer
it would be a better experience so glad that they finally updated that they also added that portrait
mode thing that I've been seeing on zoom lately where you can like blur your background which
I don't use it but like it's kind of nice to have so I'm into it and then oh my gosh the thing I am
the most excited about is screen sharing and then I don't know if they're considering it
under the share play umbrella but they came out with this thing that they're calling share play
which is kind of like the um the group watch thing that happens on like Hulu and Disney Plus and I
think there's like a Netflix extension for it to where you can watch your favorite shows but like
also chatting with people but this adds in a video element the thing that they really hyped on was
the fact that there's no like latency or lag like y'all are always on the same page which I watch
a show through Hulu with a friend and that's something that we kind of get an issue with
it's like we do the group watch thing it says it's in sync but it is not it's rarely in sync and then
I just kind of like pause myself until I hear his audio and I'm like okay we're good so I'm excited
to see how FaceTimeSharePlay works but the screen sharing that is the thing that is the thing I'm so
jazzed about you can also do it on your freaking phone and your iPad so you can do screen sharing
on the computer the iPad the phone this is going to make giving people tech support so much easier
oh my gosh as a person who frequently does that I am I'm just a little stoked just a
I'm very stoked with share play you can do the screen sharing you can share music and
like stream that to a group you can do the the video thingamajig all I'm I'm too excited I'm
clearly losing my words let's move on to the next point but I'm very excited about all the updates
coming to FaceTime and I think you should be too but moving on into like the communication realm
we have iMessage updates one of the things that I wasn't excited about watching the keynote but then
when I went back to the Apple website to kind of like get all my Notes together for this video is
what I saw was the the stacks of photos I believe they're calling them collages so if you send like
seven photos to a friend through iMessage typically it makes them each a separate thing yeah
scroll forever to get to the top or the bottom or whatever but now they're going to come in as like
a little stack so you could swipe through them right there but they also don't take up like four
pages of feed within your iMessage so I'm actually kind of stoked about that I'm interested to see
how the mechanics of the swiping are going to be but I think that's really cool when it comes to
iOS 15 we've also got an update with notifications there's gonna be like a notification summary thing
which like yeah whatever what I like is that they seem to be more condensed as well as clearer we've
got things like icons that are gonna be bigger within the notification so if it's a Pinterest
thing you're gonna see the Pinterest icon large and in charge and then you're also gonna have
photos from your contacts for uh I don't know if it's just messages actually the example
they used was messages but I wonder if it works with missed phone calls and voicemails as well
now of course when you've got notifications coming in I don't know if you all use this but I use do
not disturb frequently I use it when I'm filming so that way I can shut all notifications off but
I also use it for like bedtime maybe when I'm working whatever and what we've got coming with
iOS 15 is one of my favorite features of this whole announcement and that is Focus so there's
different modes that they're calling like Focus modes I guess where you can essentially set a
custom do not disturb for a certain time or state of mind if you will whatever you may need you can
set custom do not disturb settings to where only certain notifications come in from certain people
or certain apps you can also set custom Focus home pages so let's say you're doing work
you can create a custom home screen of just all of your work apps and whatever you need front
and center and then you can also make sure that only messages will come through that are from like
people that you work with maybe apps that you use for work and everything else gets due not
disturbed and then you can also do like okay I'm doing creative stuff right now so I want to make
sure that only like the important people like mom significant other like roommates come through just
in case of emergency but I can use all my creative apps and then it silences the other things or you
have personal time where it silences your work apps like this is something that I think is really
cool I can see myself creating a whole bunch of different like Focus profiles so you have like
one for work you have one for personal I have one for like when I'm doing my YouTube videos
and then the other thing which I'm interested to see how this shows up and if you can make
this for certain people but you can set a like away message for iMessage so if I have my like
Focus turned on and I want to set my like not in the office type of message it will say Annelies
is on do not disturb using Focus so if somebody messages me they get notified that it's not going
to come through which I think is cool but I'm also interested to see like does it happen for
everybody does that happen for android users I'm interested to see how that works but I think the
Focus modes are super cool and I want to see how it makes like all your apps disappear can you have
everything set up differently it's like different profiles on your phone almost see now the gears
are turning now they're turning Apple you got me thinking okay so we've got a few more things
left in iOS 15 that I'm pretty excited about one of them being Live Text which is where you
can read text in a picture and you can actually copy and paste it into like a message or a note
and you can also search through your phone by the text that's in an image that you've taken
so let's say you take a picture of a restaurant or whatever and it has the phone number on the
front of it that's like the example they used in the keynote you can copy the phone number that's
there like from the picture and then like click on it you can also search on your phone so if you're
like oh I remember when I was at this place that had the sign that said live laugh love I don't
know I can't think of any other example you can search in your phone and it'll pull up images with
those words in them I think that's really cool it's also very akin to the google app it's like
literally just the google app where you can use that camera take pictures of things and also like
look up what they are it's like a visual search do they have any special word for it Visual Lookup
if you use Visual Lookup on the iPhone it seems to be that it has to be a photo you have taken
that's within your photos library and then you can search like based on what breed of dog this
is or what's that shirt in this picture or what does this say so that's the only thing I don't
like I wish there was a more of like temporary way to do it because at least with the google
search version you don't have to save the picture but it's kind of cool if you've taken a picture,
and you want to go back and look on it and you don't have to do any sort of like opening into
another app to search what you've already seen so there's its pros and cons but I think it's really
cool I do like that Visual Lookup feature within the google app so I'm very interested to see how
Apple does it and then for the last of like the iOS 15 specific things we've got some updates
with the wallet app the first one that I think is pretty freaking insane is that you are going to be
able to add your government id now this seems to be like it's only in the united states for
like your driver's license I don't think anything has been said about passports but you can put your
state id or driver's license within the wallet app and then use that to like check in at airport
security now they have made it clear that so far like restaurants aren't accepting that and
they haven't worked with them yet but it seems like their first mission is to go to like the
TSA side of things because you know they check your boarding pass they scan your id and how much
easier would it be if you had less things on you it was just your phone you had your boarding pass
on your phone your credit card to go get a drink of water or coffee or whatever before you board
the plane and then your id right there the other thing that looks really cool about it is that it
doesn't show the id so that would then imply that whatever place is verifying your ID would have to
have an NFC reader so it's not just the same as having like a photo of your driver's license on
your phone it's an authentic verified digital form of your id the information gets passed through
same type of way that Apple pay works as like you're not actually ever sharing your credit
card number so I would be really interested to see like how the TSA person receives that information
if I scan my ID at TSA do they then get a image of my id or do they just get like yep this is a
california resident verified ID her name address da da da whatever I'm very interested to see how
it's going to work but I think it's really cool that we are getting to that place and that is like
the future to me that is so futuristic to say you can put your freaking ID on your phone like that I
think that's really cool they also alluded at some point somewhere that you'll soon be able to have
vaccination cards also in the wallet app you always have your phone on you in this day and
age at least I do I always have my phone on me I might not always have my wallet on me or my id
or my vaccination record I don't know I think it's really cool it's very futuristic
and I'm very into it I'm very excited about it oh my gosh wait a second I said that was the
last thing there's one more I how did I how dare I forget the Notes app my one true love. y'all I
think I've mentioned this in my favorite apps video but I love the Apple Notes app I've used
other Notes apps before there's just something about the Apple Notes app that hits different
and now we've got some cool updates coming to it one which I don't I like I i can conceptualize why
it's cool but the presentation of in the keynote I think there's just something that's going over my
head that maybe i'll understand more when it's in front of me as well as I don't I don't know
it's quick note they have this thing called quick note where somehow I still don't get it which not
a good sign but I still don't get it but somehow you can do something to where a note comes up out
of nowhere and then you just push it out of the way and it's great fine I guess I don't know I'm
not really excited about it but I felt like I had to note it in this video come for the tech reviews
stay for the subpar comedy and that's not even comedy but I feel like I had to say something
about it if I'm talking about the Notes thing but the thing I'm actually excited about is hashtags
and mentions within Notes I use my own hashtag system is the wrong way to put it but I use my
own like system for searching things within my Notes and it's very convoluted to make sure it
works within the app but to know that now I can put hashtags in there and I use my Notes app for
like everything but primarily for all my YouTube stuff so I can put hashtag you know video ideas
outlines like tech versus whatever like I can make I can see all the subcategories that I can
make within the Notes app using hashtags I don't collaborate really ever on the Notes app but I
think it's cool to have mentions in case if that's something I do in the future but the the hashtags
the hashtags is something I'm very excited about okay so that was actually everything now iOS 15
we covered everything there's a lot of things that got announced at the keynote that also integrate
with iOS 15 but they're not specifically like iOS 15 updates like we got some iCloud updates we've
got some health app updates and some things that kind of span across all the devices so if you want
to hear me talk about that I've got another video coming out where I'm talking about iPadOS 15 watch
os 8 mac os Monterey and then all those other little general updates so if you want to hear more
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