hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and there has been a bunch of different apps that have been
updated for ios ipad and mac so i thought we'd talk about what's new as far as that goes as many
of you have asked me to bring this video back as i was doing this regularly for the past few months
now the first change has to do with twitter now twitter for mac seems to be problematic for a
lot of people where it was crashing and more i personally haven't had too many issues other
than it refreshing oddly but it does seem to be an issue so it looks like they are going to have
to fix that with a software update twitter blue which has additional features such as allowing you
to change your icon here so if i go into twitter you can see i can change my icons around and more
and it allows me to switch between whatever i want and if we go back home you'll see it's pink now we
can switch to this or different seasonal icons as well however it has some additional features
such as reader themes custom navigation labs and more but they've raised the price from 299
to 4.99 so i'm not sure it's worth that i may need to cancel it but i thought i'd share that with you
as it's something that's been changed recently microsoft teams for mac today gained
apple silicon support so as you can see on the microsoft website let's close out of that and
on the microsoft website you can see it says announcing microsoft teams optimized for apple
silicon now you could use teams on here before using rosetta and it wasn't a problem but now it's
native and works properly on apple silicon should be faster quicker to connect and much more so
that's been updated starting today also in case you haven't heard on ipad os it looks like apple
is going to be pushing back ipad os 16 to not be launching alongside ios 16. this is according to
a recent report by bloomberg apple has done this before with ios 13 and ipad os 13 and according to
bloomberg it's taking a little time to get things right and i welcome that apple can take their time
make sure it works really well and if we scroll down you'll see here it's not the first time it's
happened but they released ipad os 13 on september 24th after ios 13 which was on september 19th
so again not the first time it's happened but i'd be happy to have them get this right take
their time get everything working well let me know what you think about that in the comments below
tick tock continues to face concerns in the united states over privacy and more but has
recently filed a trademark for what could be a new music service to compete with apple and spotify
so depending on its future status of tick tock we could see maybe tick tock music or something
else like that spotify premium is getting an update soon as well so if we go into spotify
currently we have the play button but it looks like they're going to split this into a play and
shuffle button where it would have you also be able to choose between those different options
prior to this there hasn't been that option and also spotify has added a new friends mix
to blend your likes and a friend's taste in music together they've said that friends mix is based
on the blends you've created with your loved ones according to spotify and if you've already blended
with a friend you're on your way to receiving a friend's mix so expect that to be showing
up soon if you haven't created one already you can do that if you've used amazon drive they've
announced that they're going to be ending this at the end of 2023 so if you had five gigabytes
free amazon is shutting down the service and the shutdown will have no impact on amazon photos or
videos but amazon says this is more to fully focus their efforts on photo and video storage
so this is something that will be going away soon so or well within another year or so so if you
need to store your files somewhere go for icloud or maybe google drive or microsoft or others
continued proposed legislation in the usa and eu may have a major impact to ios in the future
banning default apps from being installed when you first set up your iphone the eu actually did this
some time ago with microsoft with windows and nine to five mac actually shows what this could look
like if they were to actually push these sorts of things through where apple may have to give it an
option to browsers music players maps apps and more so you may have that option when
you set up a phone in the future it depends if these legislation options go through though
google maps has been updated and it now allows you to not only share locations with others
but also get notifications when they arrive or depart a location you can do this now if you're
using find my but it's something that hasn't been built into google maps until now of course there's
privacy settings here you can turn this on or off but maybe you're at a theme park together say
disney and you want to make sure you're nearby or you want to meet up somewhere it's an easy
way to know that so that's something that's been brought to google maps along with other
features that have been introduced throughout the summer instagram recently rolled back its design
where it looked more like tic toc and was just a video sharing service such as youtube shorts
now it's rolled back to what we had before focusing more on photos at least on the
main menu so that's something that got a lot of criticism they've rolled back i'm glad to see that
i really like instagram for photos not necessarily reels or video i think that's best left to maybe
tick tock or youtube but let me know what you think about that in the comments below now if
you use nintendo switch and you have the nintendo app installed nintendo online will now allow you
to send friend requests directly from the nintendo app this is something you couldn't do before
it makes it a little bit easier and now has that access so if you use the switch online app or you
use switch online to play with friends you can now send friend requests but you will need ios 14 or
newer in order to do that now apple maps also gets an update and this is something i thought it had
but didn't for a while and if we go into maps and as you can see in hawaii if we go down to drive we
now have cycle directions prior to this it was missing and was not available in all 50 states
cycle directions are now available on apple maps all throughout the u.s and also in parts of canada
such as toronto montreal and vancouver also parts of china london and barcelona so hopefully they
bring this to more countries and more different locations but now it's in all 50 states cycle
directions with different things such as time and the actual incline and more as you can see here so
it's great to have that of course google maps has had that for a while but now it's on apple maps if
you prefer that the craft app is one of those apps that i really like a lot and is an alternative to
apple notes i use it from time to time it has a really nice layout and now has its biggest update
since 2022 and they've updated a completely reworked commenting system introduced mentions
comment mentions and notifications so you can comment here on this if maybe you're collaborating
with someone comment that you need to change it or something else so they've completely reworked this
allowed you to change this up a little bit and it just is continued to be one of my favorites
as far as its overall simplicity the way it looks and more now one of my favorite apple products
of the year despite its many criticisms is the apple studio display the mac studio display or
apple studio display is a really great display to use it's super simple one thunderbolt cable does
everything but some people are having audio issues and while this is not necessarily related to a
new app apple has acknowledged it and said they're going to fix it fairly soon via software it is not
a hardware issue with the speakers some people are having audio issues where it cuts out and other
odd issues i've personally had it cut out and the way you fix that is unplug the thunderbolt cable
wait about 10 seconds plug it back in and that fixes it if that doesn't you can unplug the
studio display it reboots like an iphone and then works again this is quite a frustration for such
an expensive display but does appear to have an update coming to fix that soon so i just wanted
to make you aware also the safari technology preview has been released again a new version
with an update that actually adds about 150 new changes and updates total you can see it here
for mac os ventura and mac os monterey so they released this on july 27th and it's release 150.
so it has a bunch of different changes and updates you can read more about it here and download it if
you want to and you can see its release notes so if you go into the release notes you can see
different things they've updated changed improved or fixed recently in the app store at the bottom
of the arcade section they had a leaving soon section with a bunch of different apps that were
leaving soon those apps have been removed now and that section is no longer here so hopefully
we don't see any other games leaving soon but they have removed that if you have those games
you can play them usually for up to two weeks and then if you buy the game from the app developer
usually the saves can carry over if they allow it through icloud if they don't unfortunately
you would have to start again hopefully they do though and hopefully we don't see more
leave the arcade also within the app store you're going to see more things advertised app developers
can now advertise their app right along in the today view and also under specific apps if you
scroll to the bottom maybe we'll just pick this one go all the way to the bottom you'll see more
here and if there's more or you might also like you could see an advertisement in this section
so that's something you may see very soon as apple has started to allow developers to do that
also newly coming to the arcade very soon is an updated version of jetpack joyride you can see it
here it says launching this august plate jetpack joyride 2. so if you're a big fan of that game i
know my family is a big fan of jetpack joyride and has been using this game for a long time i
just reinstalled it on this device but this is something that i played from the very beginning
when it first came out so if you're someone that loves it there should be a new version very very
soon now every day i have people message me about youtube with picture-in-picture
some people are starting to see it active in the united states as it's available free
and some people are complaining as they should around the world that they don't have it for free
and have to pay for premium if i go into one of my videos you'll see it's working for me not for
everyone but unfortunately it's just not available free around the world hopefully it is very soon
as it's something i find very useful specifically on the ipad though i use it all the time
let me know if it's active for you though in the comments below if we go over a few
pages here i want to share with you the focused work app it's been completely redone
and if we go into the app i just wanted to share with you what it looks like when you first open it
you can use this to actually set up focused work times based on the pomodoro technique
so you can set maybe work for 25 minutes as you can see here a break for five minutes and you
can set it up to be more productive some people really prefer this way for productivity and if we
go to next here you'll see we can create a focus session and then select from many different things
and it is a paid app at 499 monthly or you can pay for an annual or lifetime pass so we'll just
hit x for now and you can add a planning stage at a work stage at a break stage and a focus session
so if you really like to use this technique this app has been updated to look very clean and very
modern and definitely check it out if you're interested i'll leave a link in the description
now whatsapp if you're someone that uses that app for your main chat app is gaining a new
feature fairly soon for group admins this will allow group admins to delete any message for
any participant now it's currently in beta but is something that should be coming very soon
to the whatsapp app so if it's something you use regularly and you're in big groups and you need
to delete chats maybe from some people according to wa beta info that should be coming very soon
currently though it's only available on the android users beta but again they usually
bring things across platform and so that's it for all of the app updates this past week
if you found anything else that's a huge update i'd love to hear from you in the
comments below whether that be a different app i didn't mention or something else if
you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course i'll link it in the description like
i normally do and if you haven't subscribed already please subscribe and if you enjoyed
the video please give it a like as always thanks for watching this is Aaron i'll see you next time