Apple wrapped up WWDC and there are a ton of great features
that are coming to your iPhone and your iPad in the fall.
But in today's video, we're going to focus on ten
features that are really stayed under the radar and these are
features that I think are really going to kick
up your productivity.
They're going to help you level up on your iPad and help you
become more productive.
So in today's video, we are going to talk about what those
ten features are and what my favorite feature is.
Let's get started.
Number ten.
Apple is taking concerted effort to really rebrand the
iPad as more of a personal computer.
And we see that with the features that they're bringing
to the iPad.
Now, I'm not talking about Stage Manager, this is
something a little bit more, I would say subtle,
to say the least.
The first feature is going to be the ability for you to
rename files extensions in the files app.
So if you are working with a file extension, maybe you're
working with a PNG file, a photo file, and you want to
convert to JPEG.
You can certainly do that by editing the extension and then
converting the file right inside of the files app.
Now I'm sure that existing apps will get this
functionality as well.
It won't be exclusive to the files app, but it is something
that you can do right now if you have the beta
on your device.
And let me know down the comments below if you're
running the beta and what you think of it for iPadOS 16,
I'm running it on two my devices, my iPad mini,
which I have right here as well as my iPad Pro.
And I would say it's actually going pretty smoothly,
much better than I would think it was.
Now, number nine is along the same lines where it is going to
be considered a desktop class feature inside of the existing
apps that are on iPadOS 16.
Now, you would be surprised if I told you that if you wanted
to share your calendar from your device, from your iPhone
or iPad, you could not do that up until this year.
Well, that's changing.
Apple is allowing you to share your calendar in iPadOS 16 just
by opening up the calendar app and choosing who you want to
share that with.
Which is, I think, a great feature.
If you have a family or if you have a number of people that
you share your calendar with, that could all be done via
the iPad, where today, if I wanted to share my calendar
with someone, I would need to go to my Mac, I would need to
open up a calendar, I would need to then click the link and
then share that with someone so they could subscribe to it.
This is all being done on the iPad.
Now there's another new feature where you could see the
availability of someone.
Now, I don't know about you, but my life basically lives and
dies by my calendar.
So if I want to schedule a meeting with someone as long as
they have or as long as they are publishing their
calendar availability, I can see that availability in the
meeting request, which would give me the ability to see
whether someone's available or not.
I think that's a great feature and I'm really surprised that
Apple hasn't put more effort into calendar because apps like
Fantastical have, you know, kind of risen to the top even
though they're paid apps and they're awfully expensive.
I subscribe to it.
But this helps close the gap between fantastical and where
calendar is today.
And that goes along with number eight, which is the
ability to create groups in the contact app.
Now today, if you want to create a new group, you can't
do that from your iPhone, you can't do that
from your iPad.
You have to go to your Mac and create that.
Now, I wonder if that's Apple maybe sunsetting iCloud like
that's what we're we're seeing that they have the plans to
somewhere in the future sunset iCloud so they're pulling that
feature functionality out of iCloud and out of the Mac
into your iPad.
Now I love that that on my iPhone as well because I don't
always have my iPad unless I have my iPad Mini with me.
But that's a feature that I think is great.
And it also has to do with the way that focus modes work
because as you add focus filters, you can
hide messages, alerts, notifications from people that
are not in that focus filter.
Again, it's another great feature that's coming,
but we're not going to talk about that one today.
There'll be more on that in the future.
So if you want to see that detailed video, make sure you
subscribe to the channel.
Number seven is duplicate photo detection.
Now, I don't know about you, but I have a lot of photos in
my library and quite frankly, a lot of those
photos are duplicates.
There is the ability to de-duplicate any photos that
you have in your library by basically going into the
photos app, clicking on utilities, and then
clicking on duplicate photos.
It runs a script, it finds all the photos that have similar.
Now, it's not quite sure if they're doing it by file name,
by image properties or by some other measure that we don't
know about yet.
But I'm sure we'll learn about more of that in the fall when
that software is released.
And as a bonus, there are two new features coming to iPadOS
16 and iOS 16, where you were recently deleted and your
private albums, if you have them, are locked with face
ID or touch ID if you're using a touch ID device,
which is a great feature.
Just from a privacy perspective and all that work that Apple
talked about with people who are victims of
domestic violence, these are all things that I think are
great adds where most people don't use them.
But for the people that do, they're really important and
they can be life and death.
So that's good.
Kudos to Apple.
And along those same lines, the next one,
which is copying, pasting, photo edits, which is a feature
that's coming to photos as well where I can make an edit on
a photo, whether it's color, temperature, crop, filter,
any of those things, I can copy those photo edits and then
apply them to one photo or a group of photos.
Now the group of photos is not quite working for me yet in
the beta, but I would imagine that in the future you'll be
able to do it to a batch of photos, you know, five, ten,
15, 20 as they are in your library.
And it will process that.
Now we're going to shift away from photos and we're
going to notes.
The feature that I'm using a lot in notes is the ability to
filter out notes into smart folders automatically.
Now you can set up preferences for your filters,
whether it's like date, name tag, date, capture, date,
updated, and all that information will be filtered
into your smart folder.
So for me, I'm taking a whole bunch of notes right now on
WWDC and how the iPad and the iPhone are working.
I don't even have to move the node into a certain folder.
I can just tag it with DC or iPadOS 16 and that
will automatically move.
Now this will actually be really useful when you
are taking notes.
Maybe you're using it for your job and you are taking notes
for a certain project.
You can it with the cert project and it will
automatically get filtered into that folder view,
which is a timesaver.
Number five is going to be the ability to create templates in
reminders so you can have a standard set of actions that
you're doing for sort of project.
You could be selling stuff on eBay, you could be traveling
to on vacation, packing your toiletries,
whatever the template that you want to create is that will
allow you to do that.
And I think that's great for people who are using reminders
as the app that they use for, you know, just there to do how
they manage their life.
And if you're one of those people, let me know that
in the comments below because I do have a tutorial
coming for that.
Now the next feature coming to reminders is notifications
in your list.
Now, this existed some time ago when Apple had
iCloud reminders, and it might even rolled out in 2014, 2015.
But they took that feature out and now they're implementing it
back where you can be notified if you want to share
this with someone.
When someone makes an action, when someone makes an update,
when someone deletes a list so you can get notified of that.
And you can also provide, if you are the owner of
that list, certain explicit permissions for adding or
removing content from that list.
So if I make you a member of a list that I own, I can get
notified when you add things.
When you delete things, I can give you permissions, maybe not
even just add or delete.
I can give you permissions to add other members,
things like that.
And these are again, these are time saving tips that really
help push the platform forward and make it more useful and
allow people to use, you know, their iPhone or iPad as their
primary computing device, which benefits you and I
and everyone else.
Now, the next feature that we talk about, really,
I'm surprised it took Apple this long to implement this
feature and that is the ability to see transfer progress when
transferring a file from maybe an external drive to
your iPad.
It shows you how much data you transferred, how much data
is remaining, and how much time is remaining for
that file transfer.
It's amazing.
Like, how did you bring the ability to import and export
files from your iPad and not have that functionality?
It's kind of like a no brainer for me.
Now number two is going to be Driver Kit.
Now, driver kit might sound kind of boring in a service,
but driver Kit is really the ability for you to plug in
devices into your iPad, even into your iPhone.
Now, let's hoping for a usb-c iPhone and have those devices
automatically registered and recognized through
the operating system.
So it's really a discovery process that the device in your
iPad go through negotiating, hey, this is what I am.
This is the features that I offer and it going
through that process.
that is really exciting because that means that you'll be able
to more reliably use usb-c interfaces,
audio interfaces, video interfaces with your iPad
that you couldn't do today.
Big, big win for people who are using their iPad maybe to
record podcast app, using their iPad to record video.
That is going to help a lot of people out.
Now, the number one feature coming to the iPad in iPad OS
16 is virtual swap memory.
Now, virtual swap memory doesn't sound very elegant or
very sexy, but virtual swap memory is the ability for
your iPad, not just to rely on how much ram that you have in
your iPad, because you maybe you have an older iPad that has
two gigs of RAM, four gigs of RAM, but it's also
going to use any available storage space that you have as
part of your iPad storage and will allow those apps to update
and run much more smoothly.
Like if you have a newer iPad, some of those newer iPads
have six, eight, even 16 gigs around like the 2021 iPad Pro,
apps that are maybe a little bit more heavy, that require a
bit more ram, a little bit more processor intensive to
use that.
Now that's a feature that they have with the M1 and they
brought to the iPad as well.
I'm very excited about that.
Now I do have a bonus for you.
My favorite feature that is coming to the iPad
is display scaling.
So if you have an M1, iPad, iPad Air, iPad pro, 11 inch
iPad pro, 12.9 inch, who knows that?
Maybe even introducing a 14 inch iPad.
That's what the rumors are saying right now.
But the new iPads have the ability to scale the display
and change the resolution and UI elements right on
the screen.
And that applies when you're using stage manager.
So if you have one of those iPads, you're using
stage manager, you can scale up or scale down the display
elements in between small, medium, large, more or less,
as well as the text.
Now it's a little bit tougher than text scaling where the UI
elements stay the same.
But that is a great feature because you'll get more
on the screen.
You can actually start to use your iPad as
your primary device.
I have my text turn down real low and I have my display
element real small so I can get more on the screen.
That is a great feature.
Now I want to know what your favorite feature is.
Let me know down the comments below.
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