hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and these are the major app updates for the first week
of may 2022 now the first app that was updated is apple's support app if you use apple support
app this can be super helpful if maybe you have a problem with your device and this is now updated
to support applecare plus for business essentials apple rolled out business essentials not long ago
and they've now added it if you have a device that uses that also they've enhanced performance
and added some bug fixes as well gmail gets an update and this is helpful if you use focus modes
so if you have the latest version of gmail you can now tell it what important emails actually
come through in your focus modes so under settings in focus you now have the option
to add gmail and then you can customize this to allow those notifications to come through
depending on the focus mode that you have active so that's something you can do with
the latest version of gmail so not a huge update there but at least it's super helpful if you're
using gmail as your default email so that's something that i think has been lacking for
a while that they finally updated now if you're using google maps they've updated this as well
there's a couple things to note the first thing is ios 13.3 is no longer supported with google maps
so if you're using google maps which i actually have here we'll go down to maps and if we're using
google maps they're no longer supporting ios 13.3 so you would need 13.4 or later so that's kind of
an odd change but something that they've updated it with photos can now be displayed on the map
you can turn this off under your personal content so if we go into google maps within your timeline
you'll actually see different photos and you can actually turn this off if you don't want
it displayed in maps or also when you're using apple carplay you can see this also so if you
go into your profile and tap on settings under settings and under personal content you now have
google photos so you can turn this off if you don't want it showing up in your timeline
whether that be here or in carplay small update but something that's a little bit different the
xbox app gets an update so if we go into xbox and if you have an xbox account or microsoft account
you can go into the xbox app tap on your library and there you'll see all of your different game
captures and things maybe you took a screenshot or maybe just a clip of a game you saved while
you were playing on xbox tap on that clip or screenshot now you can share it out now this
is available in australia also now and you'll have the option to share that directly from your phone
so you can share that to other people on xbox or also copy a link and send it to a friend so that's
something they've updated recently now you may have already heard the big news that fortnite is
now available to play on iphone and ipad using ios or ipad os however it's not a direct app rather
it's through microsoft's xbox cloud gaming service now the nice thing is they announced this is free
you don't need an xbox live subscription you just need a microsoft account so if you sign up for a
microsoft account then an epic account to play fortnite you can do that now i've created an app
link just using the actual website from safari and i'll share that in the description so you can just
jump right to it but if you tap on this icon here just go to the website you'll see the same thing
i'm seeing here once you're signed in you'll see the option for fortnite this will actually stream
so you don't need to install the app or anything like that you can just play it directly through
here so if i tap on this you'll see it says cloud gaming beta tap on fortnite it takes a moment to
load it connects through the internet and now it's loading on my phone so we'll give it just a moment
to connect now you'll see it's loaded and this is really dependent on your internet connection so
as long as you have a good internet connection you'll be able to play it so you'll see i'm on
the main screen here it's running we can switch between different things just like we had the app
native on the device itself so now you'll be able to use that and anyone can use it as long as you
sign up for that account so that's great let me know if you play fortnite in the comments below
now if you use a password manager one password got a major update at least on the mac side so if you
use one password this is a password management app that's really nice they've actually updated it to
version 8 for mac it has a redesigned interface and improved watchtower so what they actually
say about it is that it features a sleeker and more intuitive design the next generation of one
password for mac helps users manage and protect their most sensitive information new and enhanced
functionalities including improved performance security and speed reinforces users productivity
to help them get more done faster whether at work or at home so that's updated now you can download
that if you want to try it out it is a paid app but it's a great app if you're trying to manage
passwords now spotify gets a minor update as well and this actually improves performance issues on
ios so i mentioned it just because i know some people were having performance issues with it so
if you're not using apple music spotify actually should perform much better than it was before
now twitter gets an update for some users now first of all many people are asking how do i
have a black twitter icon well that's because i actually subscribed to twitter blue if you do
that you get additional features but you also have the option to change through different icons so
you can change this between multiple things so let me show you that so if you have twitter blue
just go to app icon and then there's some app icons so i can change them to any of these they
have limited edition icons that change throughout the month sometimes so you'll see this one's
available until may 31st so if i change it to this one you'll see that it's changed and also they're
updating a new feature called twitter circle this is very similar to what reminds me of google plus
and it allows you to add people in your circle that are close friends up to 150 of them this
is rolling out slowly i personally don't have it yet but it's something you'll be able to see in
the future so maybe we'll see it for everyone soon or maybe they'll just get rid of it all together
if it doesn't work out for them and not a lot of people use it with the latest tick tock update
they've actually added a feature where you can actually share your effects with friends so if
you create a video with your effects in it you can share those effects directly with friends
according to tic tac you can see here you can use your video as a way to announce and publicize your
effect demonstrate to viewers how your effect can be used prompt viewers to create their own videos
using your effect and start a trend by showing how your effect can be used so that's something
that they've updated within tiktok if you have the latest version now there's an app called camo you
may or may not be familiar with this app allows you to connect your iphone to a mac and use it
as a webcam so maybe you have an older mac with a bad webcam or maybe you have a newer mac but the
the actual webcam isn't that great on some of them you can use your iphone's webcam directly for that
they've updated this now to support and use your iphone as a webcam in facetime safari and
quicktime apps officially so you'll see you just connect this to your mac and you'll be able to do
that so this is a great application if you have an older mac specifically or just maybe even one of
the latest ones where the camera isn't good enough for you so the app was free there are paid options
within it but the app itself is free if you use ulysses for writing it's been updated to version
26 so if you go into ulysses they've updated this on mac to add a permanently visible counter in the
corner but on ios and ipad os they've optimized the flow for publishing blog posts they've also
added a dedicated publishing menu and publishing preview so if you want to publish directly from
here you can do that and then also they've modernized it with the wordpress integration
using wordpress rest api so if you want to use ulysses to manage maybe a post you're putting on
your website you can do that more easily now so that's been updated and the update's free if you
already subscribed to it you may need to subscribe to have some of those publishing features though
in addition to that we're still waiting for an ios update to come out to the public
for quite some time i thought that apple was going to release ios 15.4.2 to the public
so far we haven't seen them release that so along with all those app updates i expect a public
update fairly soon to address bug fixes and maybe security concerns however apple is still working
on ios 15.5 betas at the time of this video and we can expect a few more of those with probably
a public release toward the end of the month so that's what we're waiting for with ios updates
hopefully we'll see more about that very very soon as far as any additional app updates well those
are the major ones this week but if there's any apps that you use regularly that you'd love for
me to cover weekly in these app updates i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
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