oh we feel like somebody's watching me
what is going on everyone it is Mike
welcome back to sex 24/7 TV it is good
to be back in home in Chicago at least
for the time being or to come on that
soon now we are talking about iPad OS 14
which was just released just a few days
ago WWDC 20 really it's kind of a
different world that we're living in as
many of us are watching these WWDC
events from home for the very first time
not to this point we have whole list of
features coming to the iPad and what
we're gonna do today is we're gonna walk
through all those features so let's get
started what is going on everyone it is
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the overarching themes in iPad OS and
even iOS as well is going to be greater
context so no matter what you're doing
inside of you know that iPad the iPhone
it's all gonna be about showing you
greater context to the items that you
have there the first thing we're going
to talk through is gonna be widgets now
us as iPad owners we are not unfamiliar
with widgets we had this last year in
iPad OS 13 so listen iPhone owners you
can have your mom in the Sun but you're
not first to the party like many of you
I'm probably a little bit disappointed
here that widgets do not run or only run
within the sidebar oh and the today view
app that you see on the home screen of
your iPad they still don't run in
portrait mode it which is a little bit
disappointing I really wish that Apple
would have allowed us the ability to go
ahead and have widgets on the home
screen in portrait mode but that is
neither here nor there so if you want to
go ahead and edit the widget sidebar go
ahead and get in Julie mode now in the
top left hand corner there is going to
be the plus button which if you want to
go ahead and add a widget into the
sidebar now here in beta one it works I
would say pretty well it's been a solid
build for me but I definitely wouldn't
have recommend anyone updating their
primary use device to the iPad OS 14 if
you are not I guess you're not
comfortable bugs right that's the cool
thing so here now once I go in and click
on the plus button and that brings up
the widget picker maybe the lack of a
better term that's not what Apple is
calling it but that's what I'm calling
it for the sake of this conversation now
the widget picker here you see that
there are number of different widgets
that are pre-installed and it comes with
I've had OS as part of the default apps
now you see there's a couple different
sizes depending on what you are choosing
to put into the widget space they could
either be a square rectangle or even a
larger rectangle in size now if you look
here there are a number different
widgets including the smart stack which
is something that automatically updates
throughout the day it has four or five
different widgets built into it and what
you can go ahead and do is if you wanted
to you can add another widget on top of
that by simply just dragging a widget of
the same size onto that widget and it
will go ahead and update so now right
here I'm gonna go ahead and pick on I'm
gonna add the square widget now that
Square widget is right here I'm gonna go
ahead and add another square widget to
my screen let's just say I'm gonna do
I'm gonna do add a widget now if I just
take one and drag it on top of the other
now all those wedges are combined and
you scroll through them I either
flicking your finger up or down or by go
ahead and using the you know no arrow
keys don't work on the magic keyboard
but the mouse does work so flip up or
down I would actually like to see the
widget scroll side to side left to right
that would actually be kinda nice I
think just the up and down is maybe not
necessarily always needed now in the
widget even in this smart stack what you
can go and do is you can the ordering of
the the widgets in the smart set in
addition to being able to turn on or
turn off the smart update and that's
really what sets apart the smart stack
from all of the other widgets that are
in there is that the ability to pull
that Siri proactive intelligence in
there and show you the right widget at
the right time at least that's the
expectation so and that was an
underlying theme of WWDC where Apple is
really touting the ability to give you
the right contextual information in that
moment more so than they did I think at
least in the previous years so I guess
we'll see let me know what you think
about that in comments below but I
really think that Apple is planning to
deliver something very very unique here
in the fall now once you have the widget
picked out unfortunately you cannot take
those widgets and drag them on to the
main screen here that's just not what
they do I wish Apple would change that
and allow us some type of ability to run
widgets inside of the app window I guess
maybe I call you know the the grid
that's not there and neither is the app
library unfortunately it's not something
that they're bringing to this version of
iPad OS or beta 1 of iPad OS I really
think that they should I don't know
about you but I have over a hundred apps
on my iPad I bet you're the probably the
same way at least and it would be great
just to have a condensed number of pages
speaking of pages there are those
indicators that show what page you're on
if you are to go ahead and take your
mouse and click down that bar changes
from clear or from translucent into like
an opaque gray and you can quickly go
from page to page just by dragging
across them it's a very kind of like a
shortcut way of going from page one to
page five let's just say very quickly
it's actually kind of cool I didn't
expect that so now that we just talked
about widgets app library and the
homescreen let's talk about how the
compact UI is really making its way into
the iPad and what is being changed with
that compact UI so apples talking a lot
about compact UI which is really about
the minimization of UI elements that are
a little bit too extra that's how I
would think about it so it's you know
the Siri takeover of when you you know
when you invoke Siri it's the abilities
to have the full screen call manager
when you get an incoming voice or
incoming video call how you can't see
the context of the file when you are
renaming a file in files app all those
things are being minimized to give you
further clarity into what you are doing
and not distract you or not remove you
from the operating system and the
experience now if you think about how
Apple is you know where they're at today
and how they brought this to you know
the iPhone the iPad the Apple watch this
compact UI elements also would translate
into another small form factor device
say like glasses I don't know why I put
my hands there like you don't know what
glasses are without me kind of making
that shape with my hands but regardless
yeah and so I think it's very
interesting to see how this is and it
could be one of the bits that as they're
integrating different you know kind of
homegrown applications into say you know
Apple glasses they see this need for you
know compact UI elements and that's why
we are seeing it today and you know
I pad OS and all the rest of the
different versions so it is very
interesting so now when you get an
incoming call it is shown as long as
your iPad it's in life you're gonna get
a banner notification on your iPad
showing that you have an incoming call
now you have two choices at that point
you can either swipe up to dismiss or
you swipe down now depending on if it's
a voice call or a video call you kind of
got two different things here so you're
gonna have to answer the call first of
all but once you answer the call you
have the ability to go ahead and press
down on the speaker location button and
instead of taking again over the whole
entire screen it gives you this little
compact UI element to say where you want
to have the audio source or the auto
destination plane which is actually very
nice so the next thing is going to be
about scribble scribble is a feature
that when demonstrate it's really kind
of hard to believe that works to the
accuracy or the way that it does so
scribble will go ahead and take your
handwriting and convert your handwriting
into text using OCR optical character
recognition but also what's very very
neat is the way that they're doing the
shapes so if you were to go and take a
pencil and draw a circle a square or
triangle whatever the cases and at that
very last point in the shape if you were
to hold your pencil there it then takes
it from you know your handwritten text
into a shape made by the operating
system ipad OS now works at the point
where it will has data detectors for a
phone number but using handwritten text
inside of ipad OS is that if you were to
write something and based on the
formatting the operating system will
recognize what it is and what it means
contextually so writing you know three
one two five five five one two one two
you know in the context of how you're
writing it that might be a phone number
because it's the you know it's a series
of ten digits especially if you format
the same way that we do here in the
United States but then it's gonna allow
you to take action on that you can make
a phone call to it you can add it to
your phone book you can go ahead and
send a message to it same thing with an
email address a physical address dates
all those things are now readable or sre
recognizable by the operating system and
it is you're able to go ahead and take
action which is huge meaning that like
in a future write you could go ahead and
use you know your iPad to go ahead and
take handwritten notes and say capture
action items
trying to square what you can go ahead
and do is you know maybe fill it out
with a checkmark once you're done and
there's the possibility where the
operating system could pull that
information into a you know a test
management application like reminders
maybe like OmniFocus or you know
remember the milk whatever the case is
any of those apps as long as that is
something that they offer I'm hopeful
that they bring this together in the
fall let me know what you think about
that because I am a big productivity
nerd big but I tell you that I would
love to see this because I'm really
about organizing and minimizing the
different places where I put things that
I need to remember and this would help
very much so in addition to now you can
actually go ahead and have that
universal search so if I were to write
something in the notes field now that
text is translated by the operating
system and it's searchable using
Universal searches so there's a again
this is very very cool especially if you
are someone who uses your iPad as an
adjunct computing platform or a primary
computing platform a lot of possibility
here and good reason to be excited so
I'm hopeful that it comes out in the
fall now another example of Apple
removing the distractions in the
operating system is going to be files so
a few things that are notable in my
opinion coming to files so first anytime
that you want to hook up an EP FS drive
to files it's now readable by the iPad
which before it was not so that's good
that this is now supported second files
has got a redesign where it's one it's
more flat right in terms of UI second it
has a sidebar where it's kind of
bringing the sidebar aspect from the Mac
which you know sidebars been there
forever to the iPad and it's gotten rid
of a lot of the buttons along the top
where you know you'd use to interact
with that depending on which view you
wanted and how you want to sort things
so all that's been redone also the
number of icons that you see on the
screen have been greatly increased where
I think it was four or five different
icons that you saw before and I think
now you're seeing six or seven so that's
great as well
additionally when you go ahead to rename
a file you're no longer brought out of
that context of what was around you and
you can now rename files in line with
seeing everything else which is this is
just again it's helpful because you've
context of what's going on in it's
really just better that you probably
won't forget what you were doing in that
moment so I like that
now I don't know about you but how many
times I've went to rename a file and
think about what am i kind of name this
file again what was I doing and I have
to go out and then redo it again
trust me it can't be just me you've got
to do it too another example where
apples kind of flattening the UI making
it more space for you to interact with
the content is inside of photos that's
it where you see also the sidebar being
added and it's collapsible as well
another thing that Apple is bringing
into iPad OS 14 is dynamic inline
translations in Safari in addition to an
ability for more language cars being
supported for when speaking with Siri so
the inline translations actually works
for a handful of languages I'll put them
on the screen what happens is that you
can go ahead and type in or tap on the
address bar and do dynamic translations
it works really well I've been able to
use it several times now I currently use
this feature on Chrome a lot it's really
one of the features that have kept me
coming back to Chrome I think over the
years and I'm glad to see that I can go
ahead and peel that usage out of Chrome
now that in addition to there is this
privacy checker on certain websites
it'll tell you what the website is
basically kind of tracking form from you
and I think who they're calling out to
as well that in addition to you see a
list of the biggest offenders based on
how many trackers that they're using
that is also in there as well so one of
my favorite apps and I hope it's
probably yours as well is gonna be the
messages app and messages get messages
messages is getting a lot of clean up
features that I think are long overdue
so first it's the ability to pin
conversations so I can take my favorite
conversations that I lose you know
somewhere in the you know the
conversations of hundred that I have on
my device and always pin that to the top
like my wife I always want to see her
messages first also I can have group
messages in there as well and I can have
those pins so it's just kind of a mix of
who's messages that you want to see at
the very top now there's inline replies
for group messages so when you have
three four five people in a conversation
you can easily reply to you know
someone's message someone's comment in
the thread and not have that kind of you
know again further context and not have
that reply lost also you have the
ability to at people write by typing the
the @ symbol with their name the data
detector will work with will identify
who that person is
and then it will alert them separately
from that that is very cool because I
mean know how many times someone says
something in a group chat and I'm like
is this person talking to me I have no
idea like what do you do it's not really
clear and then it just becomes kind of
something that gets lost in the
conversation so that is really cool that
is coming to the Mac as well and that is
gonna be a catalyst app so I'm very
excited for the the love that Apple is
showing messages this year additionally
there is a new photo picker net photo
picker is prominent in messages because
I think a lot of us send messages or
send photos in messages but that photo
picker is now brand-new you can go ahead
and to search for photos search for
albums you can do objects cuz as photos
kind of characterizes objects you can
search for objects in there and that is
very much needed I think at this point
so glad to see that coming into messages
I don't know I am a big messages person
I'm here in the US so I think my opinion
might be a little bit slighted or biased
based on everyone I know using messages
but if you're anywhere else let me know
what messaging app you use or what's
your app of choice because I don't know
I've used messages not many people I
think here in the US use anything other
than messages if you are on iOS the last
app that we are going to talk about
today is gonna be the home app now the
whole map got a new coat of paint in
terms of how the information is
displayed in you know on that very first
page it does still have the sidebar but
it doesn't have the collapsible sidebar
I'm not sure if that's just not here in
this first beta but I would think that
all the other apps are getting it why
not this app it does look nice now
unfortunately the face recognition nor
the activity zones are working for in
this first beta or if they're not if
they are working they're not working for
me on the camera that I have which is
the logitech circle - and pointing over
here because that's where it is that's
not working yet or hopefully it does
work very soon because I'd like to test
that right I want to see that now that
in addition to you know I'm a little bit
disappointed with that at this point the
iPad to support full screen output via
either Thunderbolt or HDMI is
disappointing in the least now that you
are doing this work you're using your
iPad as maybe is your full time device
or it may be as a majority of your
Timon and I still don't have the ability
to go ahead and output my iPad pro to my
my Thunderbolt Display it's just a pain
like and I really think that Apple would
have you know address this by now I
don't know what it is maybe they're
waiting for the fall to kind of like
sneak in there or maybe I'll be
something like a dot for update like
we've got this year with the trackpad
support who knows but it's very much
needed
I want it let me know are you are you
using a display with your iPad and if
you are let me know what display you're
using it would be nice I wish it would
go ahead and use it because those black
bars are absolutely ugly I don't know I
don't like them at all either way I went
through a whole bunch of other features
for iOS which are going to be cops
coming to the iPad as well but these are
my most favorite features for the iPad
now let me know what you think about
that below are you running the beta
right now and if you are how stable is
it for you for me it's been I think very
stable I'm using it on my primary device
unfortunately I can I can always roll
back that's not very hard at all but I'm
also tolerant to bugs and defects I like
kind of finding them it's like like
digging for gold now let me know what
you think about that in the comments
below what feature are you looking
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