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So before we start,
I wanted to remind you that I went super in depth
with the iOS 14 beta.
If you haven't seen it already,
be sure to click the link to check that out
'cause I went really in depth.
So in this video,
I'm not going to regurgitate all that information.
Instead, I'm going to focus on iPad exclusive features
for the most part.
So let's get started with app design
and when it comes to the general design of key applications,
you're definitely going to notice a difference
when compared to iPadOS 13.
For example, you'll notice these redesigned sidebars
and notice you can hide or show that sidebar
in the photos app,
but notice how much information that provides you
with at your fingertips.
So not only do you get just the basic little sections
like Library and For You, things of that nature,
but you also get all your media types
as you can see there.
You get all your shared albums, you get additional albums.
It is really dense with information,
whereas in iPad iOS 13,
you had to use the bottom toolbar to navigate
to the various sections to get to places
like media types for instance,
but now it's all accessible right from that sidebar.
So here's iPadOS 13.
So here you can see you just have four of those tabs
at the bottom Photos, For You, Albums and Search.
Notice the difference with that sidebar.
So much more information at your fingertips.
In an iPadOS 14, this enhancement
comes to more applications.
For instance, the music app gets a redesigned sidebar
as well with all your playlists, your library,
your music, your main tabs of course,
but then you have all that other stuff at your fingertips
shortcuts, as you can see there,
follow a similar pattern in design overall.
Another change you'll find in iPadOS 14 are the tool bars.
You get these handy tool bars,
and these have been streamlined in iPadOS 14
to consolidate all the buttons
and menus into a single interface,
just to make it easier to access controls for the app.
And you'll also find that consolidated toolbar
in the Files app as well.
Notice you don't have to swipe down to reveal those buttons.
They're automatically exposed from the get go,
so that's really nice to have.
Now in iPadOS 13, the pop-over windows
like the ones for a new message for instance,
would not automatically dismiss
when tapping outside of that window, as you can see there,
but now here in iPadOS 14,
notice what happens when you tap outside of the pop-over,
it will automatically dismiss and just minimize like that.
So the point is these aren't benchmark standout features.
These are quality of life enhancements
that make using your iPad more intuitive.
And you also find a handy new date picker
in the calendar app.
You'll also find a similar picker in the reminders app.
I showed you that in our iOS 14 video,
but that's nice to have as well.
And of course, you'll also find the updated time picker
to go along with that.
Now I went in depth with search
on the iOS 14 video walkthrough,
but here on the iPad
notice you get a very Mac like Spotlight experience,
which makes sense
because you have all that screen real estate,
so that allows you to launch apps,
it allows you to search the web.
You can even search within your favorite applications
and the cool thing is that you maintain context.
So it doesn't whisk you away
to some special spotlight interface,
but no, it just appears on top of the screen,
even when you're in an application
like Safari, for instance,
you can invoke Spotlight,
it just appears right on top of your content,
which makes it feel just way more Mac like,
you know, when you invoke Spotlight on the Mac,
it doesn't take you to special Spotlight screen.
No, it just appears right on top of your content
and while Spotlight is nice to use on the iPhone,
when paired with the keyboard on the iPad
it just feels so much more powerful,
seems like you can get things done so much quicker.
You can search, like I said, you can search the web.
You can launch your favorite websites.
You can search in your favorite applications.
You can launch your favorite applications.
It's a very power user friendly tool for iPad power users.
Now the compact UI also comes to the iPad and you know,
it makes a lot of sense to have this UI
that doesn't automatically take away focus
from your current tasks.
So when you receive an incoming VoIP call
or a phone call or a FaceTime call,
the interface simply appears in a little window
at the top of your screen,
not pulling focus away from your current tasks.
Of course you can maximize that if you want to do so
and minimize it, go back to it, just like that.
Super handy new functionality here in iPadOS 14
and it doesn't stop there.
You also get Siri as well, compact Siri,
so we'll go ahead and do that.
Notice it doesn't take up the full screen.
So you maintain context
as far as where you are within the interface,
you don't forget where you are.
You can ask Siri questions.
Now unfortunately, although the Siri interface
doesn't pull away focus from your current activity,
you still cannot use your iPad
while the Siri interface is on screen.
Like if you tap it, Siri just goes away, right?
So you can still like if you're reading a webpage,
still read your webpage while Siri is on screen,
but you wouldn't be able to navigate in swipe on that page
and expect Siri to maintain its presence on the screen.
Let me show you what I mean here.
So I invoke Siri, ask it a question
and I tap and you see it goes away just like that.
Let's do it again.
And there we go, so there's the answer to my question.
And if I tap the screen, Siri dismisses.
Now let's talk about one of the coolest iPadOS 14 features,
and that is Scribble.
Scribble uses the Apple Pencil to allow you to interface
with your iPad in brand new ways.
Let me show you what I mean here right now.
So with Scribble,
you can actually hand write in any text field
in iPadOS 14 and to me this really ups
the usefulness of the Apple Pencil
because people like to use this thing
to navigate around iPadOS.
Well now you can take it to the next level
and even insert text using handwriting
in various text fields around iPadOS 14.
So let me show you what I mean.
Here in the address bar of Safari,
I'm simply going to write a search term.
So I'm gonna just write in here in my chicken scratch,
Tesla Model Y.
Notice how it automatically converts that over to text.
I spelled it wrong that last time, let me do it again.
And it was able to read my chicken scratch, that's amazing.
So it converts my handwriting, as bad as it is, into text
and I can easily submit that search term in Safari
just like that.
Super simple, super easy,
but that my friends is just part of the story.
Let me show you some other cool Scribble features.
So say you want to delete a word.
Well, simply scratch on it like this with your Apple Pencil
and it's gone.
Say you wanted to highlight a word,
well you simply circle it with your Apple Pencil like that,
and it selects that word.
So if you don't already have an Apple Pencil,
you might want to go ahead and get one
in preparation for iPadOS 14, but that's about all.
Let me show you what else it can do here.
If I touch and hold with my Apple Pencil,
it puts in a space and I could actually write a word
in between that space.
And you'll notice that it closes the gap by itself.
Now you also may have noticed this Scribble shortcut palette
and this thing is actually contextual.
So it's going to change its available functionality
based on the app you're in
and what you're doing in that app.
So here you see, it's just has search,
so I could tap on that.
Invoke the search in Safari, simple and easy,
but watch what happens when I head over to the Mail app
and I tap in the body of the email.
Notice how that palette changes
to reflect email related functionality,
so I can quickly access all my format tools, etc.
And the same thing goes for the Reminder application.
And that presents me with the Scribble shortcut palette
related to the Reminders app.
So I can insert a date,
my location, whatever the case may be,
just like that.
But it doesn't stop with Scribble in iPadOS 14,
you have way better note taking capabilities
with the Apple Pencil.
Now you can highlight words, sentences, paragraphs,
just like you would normally do with the written text.
And it does a pretty good job
of recognizing your written words.
And that speaks to how well this works
because it's even recognizing alien writing by yours truly.
That is impressive.
Not just that, just like you would with typed text,
you can now drag and select handwriting just like that.
And you can be very precise with it.
You can just drag a little bit, go back a little bit,
select a letter by letter, word by word,
it's impressive stuff.
What do you guys think about that?
Let me know down below in the comments section,
thumbs up if you appreciate this new functionality,
but here's the thing.
Now, when I select handwritten text,
I can actually copy as text,
like type text.
So just tap, copy as text,
and then I can paste
and that's going to paste type text based on my handwriting.
So if you're taking notes, that can be super handy.
If you like to keep both versions
that allows you to do that.
And it's easy to make space between written texts,
so you just drag down on the little triangle to make space.
And you can also just tap and select insert space above.
And then you can drag the little triangle back up
so you can get just the right spacing for your written text
and there's even data detection support.
So for instance,
it recognizes there's an email address there,
you can see the underline, just tap on it.
I can compose a new email
and the same thing goes for the phone number.
Just tap it and I can dial that number.
And I showed you the shape recognition feature in iOS 14,
but I also wanted to show you here
because it's just so handy to have with the Apple Pencil.
It will automatically, if you just draw your shape,
hold at the end of the drawing,
it will automatically go ahead
and complete that shape for you.
Now in iOS 14,
you know you had the new emoji search functionality,
but here in iPadOS 14,
you have a new emoji pop-over menu.
So just tap emoji
and there's your emoji pop-over menu.
And you can just swipe through all your favorite emoji
and select the one that you're looking for.
Well, I'll choose that one.
And in the music app,
you get full screen lyrics now
and the cue to manage playback,
but let me show you the full screen lyrics.
Tap the lyrics button.
It gives you your time sync lyrics, and look at that.
It's no longer just relegated to a small little sidebar,
but now it's a very karaoke friendly, prominent display.
And one other thing I wanted to point out for iPadOS 14,
you now have quick toggles for the Camera app.
So you'll see a new option here under the camera settings.
If you go into Formats,
you'll see where it says video format control.
So I have that enabled, that's disabled by default,
but I've turned it on so now I can choose both my resolution
and my frame rate,
just like I can on the iPhone simply by tapping.
So I said that was the final one, but actually no, widgets.
Of course I could not allow this video to complete
without at least talking about widgets,
widgets aren't as exciting as they are on iOS 14,
let's just be honest.
They are relegated to the side area
of your iPads first screen.
So while you can go in and do everything
you can do on iOS 14 as far as editing widgets,
choosing its various functionality
on a widget by widget basis,
you can go in remove widgets, add widgets.
It's just not as cool because you can't actually put them
on the main home screen area like you can on the iPhone.
So to me that doesn't make any sense
because it's like you have all this real estate,
why can't you take advantage of it?
But that's neither here nor there.
Let's just talk about some of the functionality.
So you still have the ability to keep your widgets
firmly placed on the first page of your home screen.
So that will keep it always available
on the first page of your home screen.
You also have your little favorite section up there
and that's designated by the little square,
a little gray square, and that can house four small widgets,
two medium widgets or one large widget,
so keep that in mind.
So we're going to just drag over another widget
here into our favorite section.
We'll just take another small one.
So you can see three small ones.
Let's add another small one.
Take this one here
and then we have four small widgets in our favorite section.
So that's always going to be displayed
even when I dismiss the other widgets below,
those four widgets will always be displayed
on that first page.
So let's go back into edit mode
and we'll modify our favorite section.
So of course, you can remove a widget
just by tapping the minus sign, remove.
And you can drag a widget out of your favorite section.
So now only those two will be permanently displayed
on that first page, as you can see there.
Alrighty, so let's go ahead and add a medium
and you can see how the two smaller widgets
automatically adjust.
Let's go ahead and add another medium
and you'll see those two small widgets
jump out of the favorite spot
and go down to the general area of your widgets.
All right, so just like on the iPhone on iOS 14,
you have all your various categories.
You can go in those categories.
So in this case, we're going to add a large battery widget
and you'll see those other two medium widgets
go down to the general area.
But like I was saying,
it's just a little bit disappointing
for the iPad to have all this real estate
and yet still have the widgets relegated
to just this area on the side of the first page,
just doesn't make sense to me, but maybe in the future,
Apple will change its mind
and decide to give us widgets
on any area of the home screen on the iPad,
given how much space is available there.
So I'm interested to know
what you guys think about iPadOS 14.
Do you like it?
Do you think there's enough big changes?
Obviously there's tons of more changes,
but a lot of those are overlapping
with what you find on iOS 14.
So definitely if you haven't already,
check out our full iOS 14 video,
where we go super in depth well over an hour of coverage
of iOS 14 changes in features.
That is the companion video to this one right here.
We'll be back with even more coverage
of all the new beta releases here on 9to5Mac.
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