What's up guys. My name is Brandon.
And today I'm going to be showing you more than 40 new features and changes
found in iPad at West 15, beta one. Now,
if you missed my video from yesterday,
where I showed off over 85 new features in iOS,
15 makes you go and watch that because a lot of those features are also included
here and iPad, Wes 15. And I'm not going to be repeating, you know,
many features from that video. But if you want to watch that,
I will leave it linked up with the cards and down in the description below.
But this video is all about the iPad and iPad at West 15.
So I'm going to be sharing some of the best new features and changes added with
this new really underrated software release.
And before we get into the new features and changes,
I did just want to point out that all devices that were supported with iPad at
West 14 are also supported with iPad at West 15.
And that includes the original iPad pro and the iPad air two
from 2014, which is crazy.
That is seven years of software support, which is seriously just impressive.
So now let's check out what's new here and iPad at West 15 bed a one.
And the first thing you will notice right after unlocking your device for the
very first time is that the today view is gone.
There is no today view over here on the left hand side,
like we had an iPad West 14. And if you swipe over, you can see,
we still do have some widgets right here, but it's not the today view.
And that appears to be completely gone here and iPad at West 15.
But that's because we now have widgets on the home screen. So this is huge.
Of course,
we've got widgets on the home screen for iOS and the iPhone last year.
And we were all wondering why it didn't come to the iPad.
But now with iPad West 15, you can see,
we can add widgets to the home screen by simply tapping and holding on the
screen and tapping on the plus up in the top left. And you can see,
we have this brand new UI here for the widgets, and you can see,
we have all of our suggested widgets right here and the middle.
And then over on the left-hand side,
we have a little sidebar with the widgets we can choose from.
And we also have a five new widgets. So we have the app store.
We have find my, we have game center,
we have mail and we have the contacts widget.
So all of those are new here and iPad at West 15 and they all look great on the
home screen.
And one of my favorites is actually files because this year you could see it's
actually more transparent than it was an iPad S 14,
it was more white and just more opaque in general,
but now it's more transparent here and iPad was 15 and it could also specify a
location for the files widget right here.
You could choose the location that you want it to show up. Also,
the clock is new here as well.
It's more transparent than it was and iPad of West 14. And you can see,
we have like big sizes for the calendar and things like that.
Just widgets on the home screen. Look very good here and iPad a Wes 15.
We also have a new UI for widget stacks or smart stacks.
So you can see right here, I have this smart stack.
And if I go and tap and hold on this and go to edit stack,
we have this new UI here. We can move them around or remove them.
It's just a much easier to navigate, you know, UI here for those stacks.
Now also new an iPad at West 15 is the app library.
So if you go all the way over to the right, you can see,
we have an app library with a really cool little animation there,
and you could see it's actually coming from the dock.
And that's because you can also access the app library from anywhere on the
screen.
By simply tapping on the little icon down here on the dock that indicates this
is the app library. So you can see that right there.
We have all of our applications categorized right here.
We also have the app library search bar where can see all the applications you
have installed in alphabetical order. Now you can disable this from the doc,
if you want to.
If we go into our settings here and then go to home screen and dock,
you can see right here, we have show app library and dock.
So you could turn that on or turn that off.
Here's what it looks like when it's off. Of course it just does not appear,
but at least you do have the option to enable that or disable that if you want
to. And then also I love the fact that we now can have newly downloaded apps,
just go to the app library and not to the home screen. So of course now,
since we do have the app library, that means that we can now hide pages.
So you can see here,
when we go ahead and go into wiggle mode and tap on the little page icons down
here,
you can see we can hide pages and we can also move these pages around as well.
So if you want it to reorder your pages really quickly,
you could do so just like this. And of course, if you want it to hide the pages,
you can just uncheck them right there, tap on, done and go out of this.
And you will see that you just have the one page right there and to get them
back and forth, to just go into here and check them off again,
you'll notice that you can also delete entire pages and that will send all of
those applications back to the app library. Now, if you have an Apple pencil,
you will get a new feature called quick note,
some of your head and take my Apple pencil off the top right here.
And if it go ahead and drag up from the bottom, right, you will see,
we now have this quick note interface right here.
So that used to be the screenshot. When you would pull up right here,
you will be able to screenshot. That's actually now on the left-hand side.
So we pull up on the left-hand side with our Apple pencil.
You can see that's what takes a screenshot now.
And we also have some UI changes here inside of the markup section right here.
So these are both changed right here. And also inside of here, we have, uh,
some minor UI changes as well, but nothing major, but anyways,
quick note is really cool because you're able to do, you know,
obviously you can write things down really quickly,
but you can also drag things in to these quick notes. So for example,
if I go into, let's just say Safari,
and you'll notice that when I started scrolling inside of Safari here,
that the little quick note went off to the side,
but we can just simply tap right here to get it back.
And it could see there's little prompts right here that says add links.
So if I wanted to add a link to where I'm at currently in Safari,
I can do that by just simply tapping on add link, but we can also drag photos.
And for example, if I wanted to bring this iPad into here, I can do that.
Just like so, so it says drawings will be updated, just tap on. Okay.
You can see the image is in there and you can kind of move it around as you
would like. You also have the markup right here.
So you can do things inside of this quick note and you have these three dots
right here. We can share it or delete it. You have this right here as well,
or it takes you into the full-on notes application,
but just a really cool feature that will definitely come in handy.
When you're trying to take a quick note, or if you just want to, you know,
drag images into a certain note from Safari very quickly, you can do that. Now.
I did show you guys that you screenshot now from the left-hand side,
but if you go into our settings here and then go to Apple pencil,
you could see that you actually now get pencil gestures here inside of the
setting. So this is new and it shows left corner swipe and right corner swipe.
So you see a screenshot and quick notes. Now,
unfortunately you can only either toggle that on or off.
You can not switch these two that may come in a future updates, but for now,
these are stuck on the right and the left. Now,
if we go back into settings and go to control center,
you will notice that we have a new toggle here in iPad,
iOS 15 for low power mode.
So low power mode is finally now on the iPads.
So you can access this through the control center.
You can just simply tap on it and it will turn your battery yellow to indicate
you are in low power mode.
You can also get to this by going to your settings battery,
and you will see low power mode up top. So that is now available for the iPad.
Also inside of settings,
you will notice that these sections take up more real estate than they have
before. So they're not as small.
The sections right here are just not as compact.
So it could see it side by side with iOS 14.
And it's kind of strange because at iOS 15, compared to iOS 14, it got smaller,
but an iPad, Wes, the settings, a little pains right here, got bigger.
Now going back into Safari,
we have a lot of changes in the Safari app and iPad at West 15. So first of all,
you could see that, that quick note popped back up because I did have that,
you know, active.
I did open up that quick note when I was in Safari and I could just simply swipe
over to get rid of that right there, but you could see, first of all,
that we have a new feature here in iPad, West 15, also called shelves.
So we have these different shelves down here,
which show every instance of Safari that I currently have open.
So you can switch from app to app or window to window, just like so,
and to get rid of them, of course you just start swiping on, you know,
whatever you're doing right now on this webpage right here.
And to get them back, you just simply tap on the app icon down in the dock.
But anyways, here inside of Safari,
you will notice some major differences right away with the address bar,
with the tabs, pretty much everything. So up here and the address bar,
we now have the X where we can X out of the tab by simply tapping on that.
We also have these three little dots right here, which if you tap on those,
we can get different options like reload.
This is just the share sheet for the Safari application.
If we tap on the address bar right here as well, you can see,
we have some different options in here, like shared with you.
We have the favorites, we have the privacy report right here.
And then also up in the address bar,
you can see that we have a microphone for dictation. Also over here on the left,
we have a new sidebar inside of Safari. So you could tap on that. It could see,
this is the sidebar that we get right here, which shows our bookmarks,
our history, our tabs. We can open a new window,
a new private window right here. If we want to,
we also have this button right here, but shows, create new tab groups,
which is also new in iOS and iPad at West 15.
So if I wanted to add all of these tabs to a specific group, I can do that.
So I'll just do a new tab group from five tabs.
And this looks like it's mostly related to investing.
So I'll just type in investing and tap on. Okay. And that will be over here.
So now if I wanted to go into that tab group,
anytime I could just simply tap on this over here and the sidebar,
you can also pinch in to see all of the tabs open and this view right here,
and you can add a new tab by tapping on the plus right there.
Now also we have a new way to refresh as well.
So of course you could tap on these three dots and just tap on reload if you
want to,
but an easier way here and iPad West 15 is just to simply swipe down and it can
see it refreshes the webpage, just like that. Very,
very easy to refresh now in iPad, Wes 15.
And also when we go to create a new tab,
you have this new start screen right here,
where at the bottom we have an edit button. And when we tap on that,
we have this right here where it says, you start page on all devices.
That is a new toggle and then also background image.
So you can select a custom background image to show up here inside of Safari,
just like you can do on Mac iOS. And then finally,
we also have extensions for Safari.
So if we go into our settings here and then go down to Safari and then two
extensions, and then two more extensions,
we are taken to a subsection of the app store for Safari extension.
So just like we have on Safari on the Mac, we now have that on the iPad.
And in here, you can see, you can activate these extensions, just like so,
so there are a lot of ad blockers.
I'm sure there will be a lot more useful extensions with time as well. Now,
while we have been going through these different applications,
you might have noticed these three little dots up at the top of this window
right here.
And that is actually a major part of iPad was 15 because that was going to be
the new way to multitask. So if we tap on those three dots up there,
you will see that we get three different windows. So we have a full screen,
we have a split screen, and then we have a slide overview.
So if I go to split screen, which is the one in the middle right here,
it goes over to the side because it's letting me select what application I want
to split screen with this time it's app store. So if I want to have,
let's just say Safari with app store,
I tap on that and you can see it opens them up right here and the split screen
view. Now, if I tap on these three dots right here again,
and go to the slide overview,
you can see it puts this in slide over and I can do multitasking with a,
another application here is like Safari, or like a male. For example,
I could put that in the split-screen and this will be over here.
And that slide overview.
Now we can also see this specific setup inside of the app switcher.
So if I go into the apps, which right here, you could see,
it shows this split-screen view right here with Safari and mail actually shows
right here. Exactly what tabs are open as well.
And we have these slide overview right here,
but what's cool is I can actually close out of let's just say mail just from
here. And it puts Safari back into a full screen application.
So just a lot of customizability here with this new, uh,
multitasking and iPad at West 15. I really love it.
We also have some changes inside of the mail application.
So if I go ahead and tap and hold on an email right here,
we have a new UI for marking messages.
So you can see when you want to Mark it as unread or Mark it as junk,
or just flag it. You have a new UI for doing that.
It's much more intuitive and easier than it was an iPad at West 14.
We can also open an email in a new window. So it says open in a new window.
When you tap on that, you can see it pulls up this window right here,
and we can multitask with this window as well.
That is an additional little option there inside of the multitasking pain.
And when we go into the app switcher,
you could see that it shows that we do have multiple pages open.
So that means that we can go ahead and tap on mail right here,
and it could see the shelves right here that show the different instances of the
mail application that we currently have opened.
Also inside of the male settings, inside of the settings application,
they go down, we have privacy protection,
which this is also on iOS 15,
but this is basically a must enable setting here in iPad, iOS 15.
So this will hide your IP address and loads remote content privately in the
background from your emails.
So definitely recommend having that turned on for privacy reasons.
We also have some changes inside of the files application.
So if we go ahead and open this up right here,
if I go ahead and tap on these four little squares up in the top, right,
you can see this is of course where we change the icon view to the list view or
the column view.
But now we have used groups down here at the bottom that is new.
And if we tap on that, you can see it uses groups now to group things together,
and you can change what it is grouped by right here as well.
So by time by dates or by size,
you have the option to group them by any of those. Also,
if we long press on a folder or a file,
you can see that we have rearranged settings right here,
rearranged actions that we can do with that file with get info being at the
very top. If you tap on that, you can see the info right there,
whereas before it was much further down in this section and probably the biggest
change to the files application in iPad,
iOS S 14 is the fact that we now have a progress bar when transferring
data over to the files applications.
So I'm going to go ahead and plug in my SSD right here. All right.
So we have my T five plugged in and I want to have a different instance of the
files application open. So I can just go ahead and do this very easily.
So we have on my iPad over here and we have the T five over here.
I'm going to drag a big file over.
So you guys can see the new progress bar here and iPad a West.
So we're going to drag this seven gigabyte file over right here.
So let's go ahead and drag this on over there. You can see up here,
we have this little circle. If you tap on that,
you could see a progress bar right there that shows how far along this transfer
is. So you can see exactly how long it is.
It just really looks like Mac iOS now on iPad at West 15, which is great.
We've been getting a progress bar there for a while.
I've had a West 15 also introduces universal control,
which is a great new feature that allows you to use a keyboard and mouse or a
track pad to work seamlessly across iPad and Mac iOS.
So basically you can use the same mouse on the same keyboard for both Mac iOS
and for iPad, Wes. And it can work between the two seamlessly. It works really,
really well. Also in iPad, iOS 15, we have offline series support.
So if we go ahead and put this into airplane mode and we have to turn my wifi
off, you will see the Siri works. Now,
even when offline set timer for five seconds,
you can see there, it's working stop timer
all while in airplane mode with no internet connection.
Of course it cannot look up, you know, things that rely on the internet,
but you can at least use Siri without being connected to the internet.
Also new in iPad, West 15 is a supercharged spotlight search.
So a spotlight search is now much more powerful and much smarter and iPad iOS
15.
So you can actually install and delete applications straight from this
spotlight search. So for example, if I wanted to install, let's just say Uber,
I don't think I have that. So if I go and tap on go,
you could see that we actually have the little download icon right here,
and we can download this straight from spotlight.
You could also delete applications straight from spotlight here as well.
So I go ahead and type in, let's just say prime right here. If a gun's happened,
hold on this,
you can see that we can delete the application straight from the spotlight
search, which is awesome. We can also search for things like photos,
information about celebrities. So for example,
if I just wanted to search for cats,
you can see it pulls up images of me with my cats,
or if I want to search for a car,
you can see it pulls up a bunch of images of a cars here straight inside of the
spotlight search. Also,
if you have a magic keyboard and you hold the command key,
you could see you have a new UI for the commands,
and you can actually tap on these commands as well to run that specific action
that those commands do. So there are also more commands than there were in iPad,
Wes 14, if you have that magic keyboard, also an iPad West 15,
you can now rotate iPhone applications in landscape mode.
So before like an iPad was 14,
if you had an iPhone only application installed on the iPad,
it was stuck in portrait mode. You could not rotate to landscape,
but now you can also with iPad, Wes 15,
and the Swift playgrounds application,
you can now code and publish an iPhone or iPad application from start to
finish entirely on the iPad.
So you no longer need a computer to fully write and publish an
application, which is awesome.
Especially for young kids wanting to get into app development.
And as far as other features and changes,
a lot of the headlining features are also in iOS 15.
And I already covered those in my video from yesterday where I showed off 85 new
features, but we do have the same FaceTime.
It changes as we saw an iOS 15,
along with the same focus and the same notification changes. So for example,
if we go down and the control center right here, you can see focus.
We do have a small change here to the UI of focus on iPad West.
It shows the little icons over there, whereas it doesn't show that on iOS,
but you do have all of these right here. We can choose a focus.
And if you want to learn more about that,
I did talk about that in my iOS 15 video,
we also have these same changes inside of messages and just all throughout the O
S a lot of these same changes apply over here to the iPad. However,
we still do not have a weather or a calculator application on the
iPad here in 2021, which is just crazy.
We definitely need at least one of them next year, but anyways, guys, there,
you have it.
Those are some of the brand new features and changes found in iPad at West 15
beta one.
So I'm sure I will find a lot more features and changes in the software and I
will be covering those in future videos. So if you do want to see that,
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iPad at West 15 and iOS 15. But anyways, guys, thanks again for watching.
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