- I've been having so much fun
testing out the latest beta software
that we can expect to see out here very shortly.
I've been using it on my secondary laptop,
which I highly recommend.
If you do have an older device,
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on something that is not your main computer
or your main phone.
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So I have MacOS Ventura over here
and this is installed on my secondary computer.
This is on the 14 inch MacBook M1 Pro.
I do not recommend installing any beta software
on your main devices
because these are still things
that are not fully completed yet.
So you really don't know what's gonna happen.
You can't fully trust it.
So don't say that I didn't warn you.
Apple warns you.
Everyone always warns you.
With that being said,
I do have it installed and I've been using it.
And I'm so excited for this to actually be released.
Normally with Apple schedules,
these things tend to come out around the fall
when the new iPhones come out.
So we can expect this sometime around there.
So let's hop in and check out some of the features
that I've been really enjoying.
Now the number one main feature
that is kind of new that is a huge UI change
is the Stage Manager.
So to get Stage Manager started,
you can go up here into this little selection station.
It's the selection station.
That's what we're calling it now.
And you can click the Stage Manager.
So this gives you the Stage Manager option.
So you can turn it on.
So as you start opening things up,
let's see, we're gonna go to YouTube.
We've got that.
Okay, great love that.
We're gonna open up some maps
and all of these things just kind of start popping up
and going over here into the Stage Manager section.
So with Stage Manager,
it's kind of giving you a dock on the left hand side.
So you can switch between all of the things
that you have currently open.
Again, you can toggle this on and off just in here.
Stage Manager on, Stage Manager off.
And of course that works
if you have all of these things open,
which is kind of nice because with it on,
you basically just have a bunch of things
just here everywhere.
So this is with it off and it's kind of crazy
because once you start using it,
you get really used to having kind of everything
all neat and kind of compact over on the side.
So now we've got our Final Cut Pro open.
So if I have this kind of in the mix, turn it all on.
Look at that.
So nice.
So fresh.
So clean.
Another thing that's been redesigned in Ventura
is the system preferences.
And this desperately needed to be redone
because it was very hard to kind of find things,
like everything was sort of in these little icons.
But now it's all in this nice list view,
which is kind of similar to your iPhone
when you go into the preferences
and try to make any sort of changes.
So you'll see here, we've got everything listed on the side
and I kind of like this new organizational feature.
I also love being able to search.
They did have this on the previous version of MacOS.
So if I want to do some display settings,
I can just directly search
and it automatically takes me directly to it,
which is pretty exciting.
Another thing is live text.
They have these Live Captions that will pop up
when you're watching YouTube videos.
It also should work when you're on a FaceTime call.
So let's test this out.
I actually haven't tried this yet.
You can turn on the Live Captions in FaceTime
and the Live Captions here on the Mac.
So let's try to watch a YouTube video.
So let's, let's do it.
Here we go.
Yeah, we're moving and grooving now.
I'm actually pretty impressed how quickly
it was able to translate the text.
Now, normally on a lot of my YouTube videos,
I do have closed captions already,
but this is great for videos
where there aren't any closed captions
or even some FaceTime calls.
Okay, so here's the FaceTime live captions.
We're calling Jake.
Hi.
- Hey, how's it going?
- It's going good.
How are you?
- I'm doing pretty good.
I was just about to go for a run.
- Nice.
- And then I got this surprise call.
How's your day going so far.
- It's going great.
Just filming a little video.
Actually you're on camera here.
Wow, I bet you didn't know that, did you?
- I had no idea I was on the cameras I just set up.
- How's it going?
Where you running at?
- I was about to run the one trail
over by the thing that's near the place.
- Oh, that sounds fun.
I like that.
- That's cool.
- Okay, well I'm gonna hit this run
and then I'll come back in from behind the cameras
in just a moment.
- Okay, bye.
- Oh my God, what a run.
- Another feature that I've been loving on iOS 16
just on my phone is the send and unsend iMessages.
Now this is pretty exciting.
I feel like this is something that a lot of people
have been wanting for a very long time.
Now, not only will you be able to do that on your phone,
but you'll also be able to do that here on your desktop.
So I have just sent my sister some messages.
Hello.
Hi.
How are you?
How's everything?
You good?
I'm just gonna right click on this one
and I'm going to undo send.
Oh, look at that, it's gone.
Do you want to go to the mall?
And then I'm gonna now edit that
'cause I don't wanna go to the mall.
I wanna go to the movies.
Yeah, there we go.
Okay, so as you can see
this will show you where you've unsent messages.
And this will also show you where you've edited a message,
which is pretty helpful
because you don't want people to be able to abuse this.
So this gives you a clear line
of what was happening and what was edited.
Passkeys is also something that I'm very excited about.
It's not fully fleshed out yet,
but one of the other things that you are able to do now
in passwords is you're able to delete old wifi passwords
and you're able to change and edit the suggested passwords.
So when you go and sign up for something in Safari
and you need a password, it'll give you the suggestion,
but you can't ever actually edit or change that.
It's just like hey, here's your suggestion.
This is now your password.
Good luck, have fun.
But now you can actually edit and change that.
So I'm very excited about that.
They've also made some changes to mail,
which is kind of cool because this sort of
is what Gmail has been doing on the web for quite a while.
You can schedule messages to be sent later,
you can undo sends,
and you can also have follow up reminders.
So if you haven't emailed someone back,
then you know it'll give you a gentle reminder
of like you may want to write back to this email.
I also like having the focus features
being so readily accessible here
because right now I actually have it on sleep
because my sleep mode, I have notifications completely off.
So I'm filming, I know that I can have my sleep mode.
I'm not gonna have things popping up,
but a lot of times you can also customize these.
But for me, I just put it on sleep.
And I know that there's no notifications whatsoever.
There is also another little option
where you have the share across devices.
So if I set my computer to sleep,
my iPhone, my Apple Watch, everything else
that is connected to this apple ID
will also say that I'm sleeping.
It doesn't actually say you're sleeping,
but you know what I mean?
This will give you a focus status update.
So if somebody does message me, it'll say hey,
this person is not getting notifications at this time,
but you can choose to notify them anyway
if you're that type of person.
And I know you're out there, those type of people.
One of the things that I'm excited to try
is the FaceTime handoff.
Now this is one of those scenarios
where you're on a FaceTime call,
maybe outside, you get in your house
and you're at your computer,
and you want to transfer that call to your computer.
Now before you weren't able to do this,
but now this makes it super simple
to go from your phone to your computer
if you wanna do the FaceTime call on there.
So let's test it out.
I'm going to make a call here.
I'm going to call Jake here on my phone.
Hi.
- Hi.
I never got to finish my,
I never got to finish my run, but hi,
welcome back.
- That's fine.
Yeah, how's everything going?
Wow, okay.
Well I'm gonna do something now.
I'm going to transfer this call to my laptop.
So to do this, there's a little button up here
that shows that I'm on FaceTime.
So I'm now going to click that.
I'm going to switch to my computer.
So now that I've switched to my computer, I then click join.
And now this gives me the little option on my phone
that shows that it is switching to my Mac.
So it says that I can move the call to this phone.
So now I am on my phone, voila.
And then if I'm on my computer, I'm gonna go over here,
click switch, join, and now I'm on the Mac.
Dude, how was it?
Did it work?
- It was like magic.
This little square popped up and you flipped.
And now you're a square yourself.
- Wow, and also the live text is still on.
So now I'm getting the live text while you're chatting.
- Well, you know, I do enjoy utilizing gargantuan idioms
to fabricate intelligence.
So this is a good time.
- Oh my.
Oh boy.
Have a good run.
- Thank you.
Bye
- Bye.
So that was the FaceTime handoff.
Now we're gonna try something else
that has to do with FaceTime.
We're gonna be using this little disc here
to use continuity camera.
Now this allows me to mount my phone onto my MacBook.
Now they don't currently have a mount
for your desktop computer yet.
So I did try to mount that on my studio display.
And I was like wait, this is basically made
just for the laptop.
So using this little magsafe disc,
we attach this to the back of your phone
and then we just go like this, put it onto your laptop,
and now when you're in FaceTime
this is going to give you the option to choose
to use the iPhone 13 as your main camera source.
So right now I'm still using the FaceTime camera
and we go up here to video.
We're gonna switch this to iPhone 13 Pro camera.
So let's do that.
And now voila, we're now using center stage.
So let's call, let's call Jake back again.
He's never gonna get his run completed.
Oh, hi.
- I was on my run and I fell.
- Oh, you have fallen.
Okay, well since you're there,
I'm gonna show you something.
So here is the desk view.
You can also zoom out a little too
and that will kind of show you more of the area,
but let me show you what this looks like
if I have like a piece of paper and I write something.
- Hello, how are you?
I'm great.
So this is actually using the ultra wide camera
and it's using AI to then distort that image
to make it look like it's a top down camera
when this is obviously not a top down camera,
but it's pretty impressive.
Okay, I'm gonna show you something.
Tell me what you see.
Okay, do you see it?
- I'm good.
How are you?
You are great.
Wow.
Hello Jake.
Whoa, this is so cool
because I can see you and the desktop on top of you.
- No way, really?
- And I can actually move it around
so I'm still visible.
This is so cool.
- I was just writing this is so cool.
How did you know?
- There's like three squares on my FaceTime right now.
There's me in the top right, you on top,
and then on the bottom is your desk view.
- Wow.
Wow, that's so cool.
- Well, that's actually a cool function
because you can screen share
while I'm still seeing you too now.
- No way.
That's so cool.
Now, this is exciting.
So I'm screen sharing
and showing you my desk view at the same time.
Bye Jake.
Well, thank you guys so much for watching.
I hope you guys enjoyed this little look
at MacBook Ventura.
I am so looking forward to this new update.
Now, normally when these updates come out
I do tend to wait at least three to six months
just because a lot of the plugins
that I have for Final Cuts for a lot of my audio interfaces,
those don't update right away.
So I do tend to wait,
but I am very excited for the release
and it's been really fun to get a chance to test this out
on my secondary devices.
But for most people you should be perfectly fine
to update when the release is out.
Again, I just tend to wait, but that's just me.
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