Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and ipad os 15 has a bunch of new features in it that
i've covered extensively in other videos but some of those new features are not available
on older ipads now i covered this in a separate video with ios 15 and what iphones will have
different features from older iphones and many of you asked me to make the same video for an ipad
and so the first thing we need to talk about is what is an older ipad and it's not really that
old but it's based on the chipset that's inside the ipad so we'll talk about each feature and most
of these features require an a12 bionic or newer so what that means is an eighth generation ipad
a fifth generation ipad mini a 2019 ipad air 3 and newer an ipad pro 11 inch or a 2018 third
generation ipad pro and newer so on the left i have the first generation 12.9 inch ipad pro
and on the right i have the m1 ipad pro from 2021 however ipad os supports all the way back to the
ipad air 2. so most of the features are available but there's a few that aren't and the first one
has to do with facetime now facetime of course is available but there's a few new features in it
that aren't so let me go ahead and open facetime on the newer ipad and if i bring the ipad up you
can see that there's a couple new buttons here and one of them is for portrait mode and you can
see the background is blurred and there's portrait mode here also if i bring down the control center
you'll see that i have different mic modes so if i press and hold i have standard voice isolation and
wide spectrum those features specifically are not available on older ipads so let me show you what
that looks like so on the first generation ipad pro you'll see there's no button for a portrait
mode and if i go into control center there's no separate buttons at the top for different video
or audio modes so if we press on it there's just nothing there so that's the slight change
however you can still make facetime calls use shareplay for example but those two features
are not available on anything that's older than an a12 bionic so anything with an a12 bionic and
later will work just fine with the new features anything that's older will not now within ipad
os 15 there's a couple new features that have to do with photos one is called live text in photos
and the other one is visual lookup now this is something we can do with our camera on the
iphone with ios 15 but on the ipad it only works in photos and this is for a12 bionic and newer
so if i go into photos on both ipads on the newer ipad on the right you'll see that we have a little
icon in the bottom right if i tap on this it identifies different words and symbols within
the photo itself so if i press and hold on maybe the word social networking i can copy that select
it look it up translate it or share it recognizes that it's a word and then i can paste it elsewhere
i can't do that on the older devices also the same is true with maybe a landmark i took this photo
a couple years ago in new york city of one world trade center and if we tap on the i in the upper
right on the newer ipad you'll see there's a little star where there isn't on the right
or isn't on the older ipad so on the right you can see there's a little star next to the eye
if i tap on it it gives me more information and then in the bottom right we have an icon that
will identify what's in the photo tell me about it based on siri knowledge and then show me maybe
information about it that it's closed right now and give me similar images on the web
so this is part of ipad os 15 and unfortunately is only available to the newer ipads any ipad
with the a12 bionic or later so it needs that neural engine to identify what's in the photo to
give you more information about it now the next thing has to do with music and spatial audio is
a feature that's available on the airpods pro and airpods max and some other devices as well
but specifically spatial audio with dynamic head tracking is not available on some older devices
so the head tracking makes it sound as though the audio is coming directly from the device if you're
using airpods pro or airpods max for example and as you turn your head it sort of tracks where that
device is in relation to where the air pods are and makes it always sound as though it's coming
from the ipad so if you turn your head to the right and the ipad is to your left you'll hear
more sound projected through your left ear as though it's coming directly from the ipad
again if you move your head to the left and your right ear is toward the ipad it will
get stronger from that direction so that's that feature specifically is available on a12 bionic
and newer and you can see there's a settings difference here as well so if we go into settings
under settings if we go down to accessibility on both of them and then under accessibility we go
to airpods under airpods we'll just select airpods max for example you'll see on the newer ipad you
have an option for follow ipad with spatial audio so there's an option here where there isn't on
the older ipad so you won't have that option but you can still use spatial audio just not the head
tracking ability so you will have spatial audio if it's available in your country now the next thing
has to do with apple maps so if we go into maps now within maps so far everything looks basically
the same but as i zoom out you'll see that it will change on the newer ipad on the right it
turns into an interactive globe so if you have an a12 bionic or newer for example like i said before
you'll have this feature so this specific feature why they can't do this on an older ipad i'm not
sure but the globe being driven by the neural engine is probably why but as you can see here
you can't zoom out any further with the specific drawn map mode now if we go in a little bit closer
to say san francisco for example or instead apple park you'll see already on the right
it's more detailed as i zoom into apple park this is apple's campus as i zoom in even further and
further you'll start to see trees pop up you can see the solar panels on top of the apple park
so you'll see more and more information and it's just highly detailed on their new maps
now this is only available in four different cities right now and will be rolling out to other
cities eventually but right now it's in san francisco, los angeles, new york, and london
and it will give you information such as roads trees buildings landmarks and more
even underpasses and overpasses on the highway it's super detailed compared to what we had with
the older map why they're not doing this again i believe is related to the neural
engine however the globe itself you would think they could zoom out and do that but on anything
a12 bionic and newer you'll have the interactive globe and the detailed city information now the
next thing has to do with siri and siri this year can be processed completely on device
and it processes making it super fast on newer devices now some things are pretty simple such
as the weather and will pop up at the same time so let me show you that what's the weather tomorrow
and you'll see that was about the same time however certain things such as speech processing
and on-device personalization only apply to a12 bionic and later so if you go into
settings for example you can see this if we go to settings we go down to siri and search
under syrian search you'll see right here maybe you can't see it but there's some text here
on the newer ipad it says voice input is processed on ipad but transcripts of your requests are sent
to apple so you can turn some of that off and then also on the older ipad it just says
siri can help you get things done just by asking and so it's actually processing it here instead
of having to go out to apple's servers with that request and then return it that means you can do
things without being connected to the internet as far as some of those requests for example now this
is available in specific languages as well and those languages are german english spanish french
japanese mandarin chinese and cantonese so in the countries that they mention are spain mexico
us france japan the china mainland hong kong australia canada india and the uk
as well as germany so all of those countries will have the ability to process on-device information
again on an a12 bionic and later now another thing that's not available on some of the older ipads
has to do with voice dictation using the keyboard so if we go into notes for example within notes
we have the microphone for the keyboard now this option has been there for a while but
if we press the microphone with the newer ipads you'll have the a12 bionic and later for example
it has on-device speech processing so it's doing on-device dictation as i'm speaking
it's typing that on the display and it will be done directly on the processor whereas on the
older ipad it's actually done by sending some of that information to the internet if it can't
understand it it can understand more directly on the processor on newer ipads also you don't
have a continuous dictation limit so on the newer ipads there is no limit on the older ones
you have a 60 second limit for that so that's the difference between an a12 bionic and later
as far as voice dictation and siri for example now also specific to developers that are using
augmented reality there's a feature called reality kit 2. on ipads that can use augmented reality so
that's many ipads but ipads that can use that developers can choose to use built-in shaders
add post rendering effects and also apply apple's 3d rendering physics and spatial audio
built right into the os that will be available on newer ipads as well now there's an additional
feature that has to do with 2021 ipads and that's because the newer ipads have the option for 5g
so you can see this ipad pro from 2021 has the millimeter wave antenna for 5g and if you have
that you'll now have enhancements to 5g and also the option to prefer 5g over wi-fi so
that's available on the 11-inch third generation and 12.9 inch fifth generation so that's specific
to the 5g ipads just like they're enhancing on the iphone as well now within ipad os 15 there
are literally hundreds and hundreds of changes about 500 if you count all of the small little
tweaks to icons and things so there's quite a few changes and only the ones i just mentioned
are what's not updated on some of the older ipads things like quick note that you can just swipe in
work on older ipads as well moving the widgets wherever you want that's available as well so
most of the features are available but just the ones i mentioned are a12 bionic and later
and that's according to apple's website and what's supported by what device so hopefully
that helped clarify which device is supported for which feature let me know if there's any
other questions in the comments below i'd be happy to try and answer those if i can if you'd like to
get your hands on the wallpaper i'm using in this video of course i'll link that in the description
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