hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and this week we've got a lot to talk about as far as
iOS 17 there's more news about supported devices as well as some new apps that may be available we
have more news about the Apple AR VR headset and much more this is your news update for the week
of April 24th 2023. now Apple has had tap to pay to be able to receive payments with your
iPhone in the United States for a little while now they've officially launched it in Taiwan now as
well and you can see the press release here I'll link this in the description but it's available
for different retailers if they want to use their iPhone without buying a separate terminal to take
payments so that's available now if you use apple Fitness plus there's some new challenges this week
for the international dance day that's on the 29th and to earn the dance award you'll need to
complete a Dance Workout that's 20 minutes or more on the 29th there's also new workouts here with
pure dance you'll see get into the groove with dance there's 12 episodes and more so lots of
different updates as far as workouts and more when it comes to the international dance day now if
you're a student at Purdue University you can now use your Apple wallet as your digital ID that's an
option and if you want to access this and you're at that University go into your wallet and then
within the wallet app you'll be able to use your ID similar to what we have with driver licenses or
state IDs in a few different states these are not available everywhere yet but that's up to
the state to implement that now rivien who makes electric trucks I actually have one is working on
an Apple Watch as a key as well as implementing Apple music like Tesla has now this is a bit of
a pain since they won't implement carplay but you will be able to use your watch as a key
probably using Bluetooth and more they recently talked about this in a software update where they
actually had the head of software engineering in a video taking questions in an interview so
that was really nice to see them actually work towards maybe improving their software maybe one
day they'll implement carplay but I don't think so Tesla and rivien don't currently do that a couple
weeks ago I mentioned that there was an auction for an iPhone with a lucky you sticker on it it
actually went for forty thousand three hundred and twenty dollars and it turns out that Marquez
Brownlee or MKBHD on YouTube actually purchased it and then unboxed it on YouTube so if you want to
see what an original iphone looks like when you unbox it you'll be able to watch it here and I
don't think we'll see this again someone buying such an expensive device that's sealed and then
actually taking a look at what it was like to originally unbox it so it's a great video be sure
to check it out if you've never seen an iPhone unbox the original iPhone as they used to include
a lot more docs and more with their iPhones or iPods and it was great when I unboxed that first
iPhone as well Lots included and you felt like you got a lot for your money back then even though it
was much less expensive than what we currently pay now that the Apple new home architecture is
available in the home app if you've upgraded your devices there's now support for matter accessories
so there's full matter support and now Google is announced last week that Nest thermostats
released in 2020 and later will be home compatible very soon so they'll be able to use homekit and
you can use them in this app finally instead of having to use apple or Google's own app you can
use Apple's App instead now Apple continues to increase overall market share and has increased
from 18 to 21 according to data by Canalis however Samsung has taken back the number one spot with 22
percent market share so this keeps going back and forth Apple continues to grow so does Samsung and
they go back and forth but that's still a huge amount considering that more people use Android
than iPhone so iPhone has a big market share especially in the United States but it looks
like they're growing and going back and forth for number one there seems to be increasing concern
about people being able to access your phone maybe taking it from your hands while you're
using it in a public place whether that's a Subway you're sitting on a park bench someone grabs your
phone runs off with it before you have a chance to lock it they can then go into your settings go
into your iCloud settings and just reset your ID overall then you lose access to all of your photos
and more now I showed how to actually secure this in a separate video using a screen time
password but that's not the perfect solution it's just sort of a workaround for now to slow
them down apple is is finally actually responded to this and said that they're looking into ways to
better protect the user so I would like to see the option for them to actually prompt you verify with
you maybe over the phone whether or not it's you trying to reset the phone that's something that I
think would be great have more Security even more so than two factor maybe three-factor security
where it really locks down your account and makes it difficult for anyone to change that that way
you get to keep your photos and everything else that you have on your phone with contacts and
more so hopefully we'll see this remedied in the future with different updates but at this point
Apple's still looking into it Now WhatsApp keeps having new updates and one of them is quite good
that I thought I'd share and it has to do with a new feature called keep in chat keep in chat will
allow for disappearing messages to be kept within a conversation if the sender approves it now they
actually introduce this it's not available yet but we'll be rolling out within the next few weeks
also WhatsApp and signal and others have written a letter to government in the UK expressing concerns
about their surveillance bill which would actually force a way around the end-to-end encryption and
that would allow them to implement scanning features similar to csam and others this could
allow for further dangers to the users if there was ability to monitor messages or just have a
sort of a back door into those particular apps so hopefully the UK reconsiders and this gets
shut down either way if that happens in the UK you may see WhatsApp leave we're not really sure
what will happen there but I don't think we'll see apps put in back doors to end and encrypted things
because it makes them less secure let me know your thoughts in the comments below did want to
mention deals this week as there's a couple nice ones of course airpods Pro 2 always seem to be on
discount from Apple sold on Amazon they're selling them directly but there's also still that deal I
mentioned last week with Beats Studio buds they're 99 and there's also a deal on 14-inch MacBook Pros
so this is the MacBook Air but there's a great deal on that I'll link all of the deals this
week in the description below so be sure to check those out if you're interested now iOS 16.5 beta
3 is expected this week as soon as tomorrow so if we go into the calendar I don't have it on my main
screen there go into the calendar we should have it tomorrow or Wednesday definitely this week I
would expect beta 3 it could be the RC but it's probably going to be beta 3 and then we'll have
hopefully some new features it's been pretty sparse at this point but we should see that we
should also see a final release probably within may maybe mid-may some people have said June but
Apple's working on iOS 16.6 so I wouldn't really expect that since they have another version and
we're going to see iOS 17 beta 1 typically on the fifth if Apple continues to release it the
day they show it off so that seems to make the most sense we'll have to wait and see what they
actually release but I would expect at least iOS 16.5 beta 3 as soon as tomorrow now as far as iOS
17 there's been some news about iPad support iPad OS 17 is still rumored to lose support for some
devices this time according to iPhone soft who was accurate last time I've had 5th generation
iPad Pro first generation 9.7 and 12.9 would lose support if that's the case maybe iPhone 10 would
lose support but I don't expect that I do expect full support from iPhone 8 a 10s that we have here
10s Max all the way up to the 14 pro and 14 pro Max it doesn't seem to be something that they're
going to lose support for this year although we'll have to wait and see what Apple does now Mark
German has mentioned a few things coming to iOS 17 and one of those has to do with improvements
to Apple wallet so what that means maybe it's just overall design improvements we don't know he
wasn't specific but said to expect improvements to wallet as well as the find my app find my has been
pretty good in general but could use some updating especially for things like air tags where they no
longer show the actual battery level they just tell you whether or not you need to replace them
so hopefully we see some really good Updates this year maybe there's going to be a slight redesign
in the overall interface that could be the design but he's just said to expect some updates there
also I've talked about how iOS 17 should have the ability to sideload apps according to Mark German
that would mean for third-party app stores or just side load apps similar to what you can do on a Mac
but this time around he says to expect it to be in Europe only to comply with those local laws
this seems like a very Apple move and if they have to comply in the EU maybe not in the U.S they'll
just keep that as an EU only feature so we'll have to wait and see if they do that hopefully if they
open it up in Europe they open it up here and then we can just install apps from Safari or some other
browser like we can on a Mac it would mean you don't have to do it but you'd have the option
to also according to a recent article by The Wall Street Journal apple is planning to release its
own journaling app similar to day one on iPhone so not just notes but its own separate journaling app
the code name of the app is Jurassic according to the article so I'm not sure why they would do this
but Apple tends to take good ideas and then do what they call Sherlock them since they took that
particular idea and implemented spotlight many years ago so that's something that they could
do with iOS 17 and it looks like we can have a new app there now as far as iPhone 15 standard models
this time around it's said that they're going to have frosted glass on the back like we have with
the current Pro Models so with the iPhone 14 that we have here we have this glossy finish
on the back that's sort of just glass with color behind it instead it would be more of a frosted
look like we have on the Pro Models as well I would definitely welcome that and maybe we'll just
have frosted glass on all of them I would also like to see maybe anodized sides that are matte
on the Pro Models as well these glossy sides tend to pick up a lot of fingerprints it would be great
to have sort of the anodized matte finish as well now iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max are expected to
get a periscope zoom camera this year that would take the place or add on to the zoom camera we
have now but at this point they're saying it will only go up to five or six times optical zoom this
is much lower than initially expected or compared to what we get with Samsung up to 10 times optical
zoom so we'll have to see what the quality is just because it's five to six times doesn't
mean it's not as good as the competitors but it is expected to be lower than the others Apple's
been working on iPhone 15 for many years and they typically work on them about three years ahead
of time to get ready originally every iPhone 15 apparently had a lightning Port early on according
to unknowns 21 on Twitter they've been a reliable leaker and this isn't really surprising as the EU
had not passed the law mandating USBC three years ago so it seems that USBC is definitely something
we're going to get but early on versions had lightning which makes sense as far as prototypes
now when it comes to the AR and VR headset or reliable leaker said he is familiar with someone
who's recently tried the upcoming headset and was blown away this is sort of the first positive news
as many have been skeptical if the headset will be revolutionary or off or anything other than
maybe an Oculus does so it's great to hear some positive news about it and according to Bloomberg
apple is focusing on Fitness games communication and with FaceTime in sports so it will kind of
have a lot of things in this according to Mark German when they first launch it similar to what
we had with Apple watch let's throw everything at it and see what sticks and see what works best
also according to Mark German the headset will feature an external battery pack this is similar
to the magsafe battery pack that Apple currently already offers and will provide only about two
hours of battery life so we'll see a lot of different people making battery packs I'm sure
but it's said to have a proprietary connector and of course it would Apple will make it proprietary
want you to buy the battery pack from them however it should just be USBC and allow you to use other
battery packs as well additionally there will be a USBC data port on the headset as well according
to Mark German so maybe you'll be able to charge it there also we'll have to wait and see what they
actually do now Nicholas Alvarez on Twitter and confirmed by Aaron p613 found new desktop Macs
added in code from this past week now this could be the upcoming refresh of the Mac Studio or could
be something completely different either way it looks like we're finally going to get some new
desktop Mac updates also the upcoming MacBook Air 15-inch will offer just two variants of chipsets
according to Ming Chi kuo will have the m two chipsets maybe with different core counts but
either way there will only be M2 not M2 Pro or M2 Max and that's probably due to The Thermals the
thinness of the MacBook Air it makes sense in the clientele for the people that are buying MacBook
Air probably don't care about the pro level anyway so we'll we should have more than enough power for
most people I can edit 4K video on here no problem with the regular MacBook Air so I don't expect any
different on the MacBook Air 15-inch he also said the Apple's next chips the M3 are months away but
will start production this year whether or not they're ready for different Max later this year
or for early next year we don't know but it seems like they're in production very soon now we've
been waiting a long time for the Mac Pro refresh with apple silicon and it seems we could wait
even longer according to Mark German who says he does not believe Apple will show this off at WWDC
in June or release it then he does expect it this year but doesn't think it will be at WWDC which to
me is a bit disappointing we've been waiting for that couples passed their two-year Mark that they
said it would take to push all of the different Macs to Apple silicon but so far we're not seeing
anything also some exciting news if you're into the displays from Apple according to Omdia Apple
is eventually going to switch almost all of its displays to OLED however this will take until
2027 and one note is that the iMac or external displays could have 32 and even 42 inch variants
so we could have huge Apple displays or something different that we're not expecting either way the
pro display xdr at 32 inches is one of my favorite displays ever if not my favorite display ever I
just wish it had 120 hertz options other than that it's pretty perfect in my opinion but either way
that is a ton of news this past week lots to go over lots of things to expect iOS 17 and More in
just about a month or so so at this point I'm looking forward to that a month and a couple
weeks at this point and we should have betas let me know what you're looking most forward to
in the comments below and of course I'll link this wallpaper in the description like I know
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