Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com. Today
let's take a look at ten new features coming to iPad OS 15.
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So there are a lot of new and exciting things coming to the iPad with the iPad OS
15 update which will come out this Fall. In the meantime here
are ten new features I think are important using the first beta.
You can see right away the Home Screen looks different and that is because
widgets are now allowed on the Home Screen as an integrated part of the grid here with all
the other icons. You can easily add new widgets by tapping and holding anywhere on the screen where
there's not another icon. Then tap the Plus button there. It looks a lot like doing it in
iOS 14 on the iPhone. Of course we have more room here for things. So let's add
a Stock widget right here and you can see I can flip through various different versions of it.
Add the widget and now you can see how the widget's mix in with the icons. I can
drag the widget around and put it somewhere else, like here at the bottom right hand corner. Tap
the Done button and I've added the widget. This allows for some extreme customization
of your iPad's Home Screen adding information to them as well as just ways to launch apps.
Now there's also new Multitasking functionality. You actually can do the same things as you
did before but it's much easier just by adding one tiny little interface element.
For instance let's go into Safari here and let's say I want to multitask. Instead of
having to do complicated gestures that are hard to get right I can just use this little
button here at the top. Just tap that and it gives me a control here. You could see
I'm already in the regular full screen mode but I can go to Split View or Slide Over.
So Split View will just move it off to the side and allow me to choose another app. I'll
choose Clock here and you could see now I'm in Split View and I have the multitasking control
at the top of each one of these windows. So, for instance, if I wanted to take Safari
back to the regular view I can do that right here without having to use any gestures at all.
There's also something called Center Window. So let me go into Split View and I will choose Mail
and let's say I want to view this email message. Now I can tap it and view it right here. But let's
say I wanted to keep the list open. I could tap and hold here and then select Open A New Window.
I get Center View. So now I can see my email message here without making either one of these
two go away. I can tap here to do various things. Here you could see I'm in Center View with this
but I could put this message in Slide Over, Split View, or something else.
Another thing you could do is use Shelf which is kind of like switching between
documents inside of the same app. Here you could see the Shelf here at the bottom,
my current app, a button for a new window,
and you could keep adding new windows here. So it's like having multiple windows in the same app.
Another way to use multitasking is to use the App Switcher. So you swipe up from the bottom
to get to the App Switcher just like before. But say I wanted to create a Split View between two
apps that I see here. I can tap and drag one app to another just like that. Put it on either side
and drop it there and you could see it creates this Split View there.
I don't even have to go directly to that screen right now.
I can create it and now that it is there I could tap it to go to that Split View.
We also now have the App Library which is something that was added to the iPhone from last
year. Now we can have it on the iPad as well. Just go to your last screen and swipe one more over
and the App Library is your last screen there. So this groups everything together by the categories
that they are in the App Store. Then you could either tap on the last item there to go into it
or you could tap on one of the three most frequently used apps in that category.
You could also tap here to search. But this also give you an alphabetical list.
You have an additional way to get to the App Library on the iPad. Instead of having
to swipe over to the last screen it's always there in the Dock. Just tap it there and it
comes right up. The cool thing about the App Library is it means you don't have to have
all of your apps on a Home Screen. You can select an app and then remove the app and it gives you
the choice to Delete the app like before or just Remove it from the Home Screen. So you
still have the app but now you access it through the App Library instead of on the Home Screen.
A feature that's common between the iPhone, the Mac, and the iPadOS 15 is Quick Notes. This
allows you to add a note that links to content in an app like Safari. So for instance you could
be at a Safari page here and you could add a Quick Note. This will be in the Notes app but
it's tied to this page here. So one way to do it would be, for instance, to select some text
and you could see new Quick Note there. But you could also use your Apple Pencil to do this.
Strike up from the bottom right corner to add a Quick Note. The great thing about Quick Notes is
they are linked to that page. So if I were to add some text here and then dismiss the
Quick Note the Quick Note for this page will remain there. If I return to this page later on
I see the Quick Note there at the bottom right hand corner. I could tap it to bring it up.
So it's remembering context here. This note is associated with this webpage and I can
continue to make notes on different webpages and they will be associated with those pages.
Another great new feature that's across all platforms is the Focus feature. If you bring up
Control Center here you see that Do Not Disturb is now focused. So you have your
regular Do Not Disturb mode but you could create your own Do Not Disturb mode. So like
I created one for filming here and it gives you ones for personal and work already to go
or you could add your own. That takes you into the Settings app. You can create something based
on the certain presets or you can create a custom one. You could give it a name,
assign an icon to it, select which people are allowed to contact you when you are in this mode.
Also decide which apps are allowed to send Notifications when you're in this mode.
Decide whether or not time sensitive things are allowed through. Then when you're done here it
gives you a summary of everything. You can go back in and add or remove people, apps, change
the settings for this particular mode, go to other options like say which Home Screens are allowed
when you're in this mode. So, for instance, you have a Home Screen that has all games on it
that can be hidden when you're in this mode. You can have it activate certain specific times. So
here I can have it start at a specific time or when I'm in a location like work or maybe when
I'm working in a specific app it automatically goes to this mode.
So in Safari you've got the same changes to the top here as you have on the Mac.
Tabs are now integrated in with the Address Bar. So you could see Tabs and the Address Bar are one
and the same. You could add many of those. Then, also, you've got the new Tab Groups here so you
could add a new Tab Group or a Tab Group from the tabs that you already are viewing right now.
Another new feature in Safari is you can now add extensions just like you can on the Mac.
So when you go to Safari Settings you can go to Extensions here and see what extensions you've got
and also add more extensions. It seems like most extensions right now are involved with
content blocking but I'm sure there will be some others that developers will create as well.
So those are ten new features but I want to show you a bonus one.
The Translate App is now on the iPad and it's really cool. You can, of course,
type some text or paste text in and have it translate to another language. But you could also
speak and have it hear your text and then automatically translate to that language.
What I really like though is the conversation mode. You switch to that and now you can have a
conversation with somebody else with your iPad translating back and forth between you. You
even have this Face-to Face mode which allows you to hold your iPad between you and another person
and then you see things in your language and they see things in their language.
So there are a few things that are coming to iPadOS 15 in the Fall. Here's a list of
which iPads will be compatible with iPadOS 15 from the Apple Site. Thank you for watching.