Hi guys, David David here from payetteforward.com, and in this video, we're going to review iOS 12, and frankly,
we believe that it kind of sucks. It sucks.
And why?
The only things that it's adding are features that Apple has appropriated from other apps
that were successful.
So they say that the sincerest form of flattery is imitation.
But Apple we gotta introduce some new features. They're usually the industry leader and seems like
they're kind of following in this update. Industry follower now. So let's first talk about that
Measure app.
We actually just did a review of the Measure app, you can check that in a card above and the description
section below, right, but it's pretty inaccurate like measurements need to be precise.
It's been consistently off by
one or two inches any time we try to measure anything. So that's really no good.
Another thing that we kind of don't like about it is that it is fixing problems,
that just should be fixed.
I mean, it's not an update saying okay.
We're launching the camera faster.
We're launching apps faster, but is that really something to brag about with an update of
this proportion. Right. And one
thing like camera opening faster, you're not gonna notice that. It's 70% faster, but
70% of half a second is
not that much. So another new feature in the Settings that you'll see is Screen Time.
And I just want to open it up for you real quick.
Now it's actually really well organized my opinion, but it's kind of confusing.
First of all Restrictions are gone. It used to be Settings -> General -> Restrictions.
Yeah, that's kind of like the parental controls. Now it's here in the Screen Time under "Content
& Privacy Restrictions."
So if you use Restrictions have fun learning a whole new system.
Yep, and furthermore,
if you didn't already use Guided Access, the Screen Time information probably isn't going
to be very valuable to you and I don't know anyone who uses Guided Access. Nor do I except
for some very tech-savvy parents.
So they've also introduced the new battery section, but it really isn't that helpful.
Again,
they're showing you what the problem is without giving you any sort of hints as to how to
solve it, and fortunately we do have a really cool iPhone battery video that I guarantee
will help you to save iPhone battery life. We'll link to that in a card above and in the
comments section down below actually not in the comments, but the description section.
Yeah now to be fair of this new battery section gives you a lot of new information, which
is it's fun to look at but it really doesn't help you address battery issues. And furthermore,
how are you going to identify if there's a problem with your battery
by looking at this? You see right from 9:00 to 12:00 p.m.
Their your usage is going way up.
Well, that's the cool part about it you can tap in here and it will show you okay like
during this problem period I was using a whole bunch of safari.
So theoretically if there was an app that wasn't Safari, I mean Safari is going to use what
Safari uses, but and that's not 100% true because they can go in and clear the cache
and help but theoretically this could help to identify a problem app.
But yeah, this is the type of information that was going to show up anyway.
It was already showing you which apps were using the most amount of battery within the
last 24 hours and the last 7 days so it's really not any new information.
Yeah, and one thing that really still bothers a lot of people about Apple is there's no dark
mode.
I want dark mode.
Sometimes I go dark.
They're Smart Invert colors, which is kind of like dark mode, but most apps don't support that.
You know, it's another great new feature contactless student ID cards.
Thank you Apple.
Security code autofill.
Yeah.
They also introduced with FaceTime —
you can now FaceTime with 32 people.
I don't even know 32 people!
I just I don't see why that's something...who's gonna try to FaceTime with 32 people at once? The problem
is the most people can't even figure out a FaceTime with one person.
Right.
So let alone 32 and they kind of ripped off of 32 people from Google.
Yep, and they also say okay we're going to focus on whoever's speaking at a current time
also ripped off from Google.
Again so then if we're going into the Messages app, speaking of ripping off apps, let me go
into the Messages app and I'm gonna try to take a photo and it has some cool annotations.
So if I hit this little star there we are David if and what we can do is say like I
can add some text to this.
That's great.
I'm not really seeing how this is all that useful.
It's kind of like a clunkier version of Snapchat.
Yep, and if you wanted to do it in the Camera app, which could be you know, helpful can't
do it. Only in the Messages app.
I'm sure you can go edit the picture after the fact but you know, that's a whole extra
step. And if you can go back to the Messages app real quick,
They did actually change something in here about sending photos directly from iMessage.
You used to be able to tap that camera and a whole bunch of photos and show you can just tap
the one you want to send but now you can tap on the photo app icon down here.
So there it is.
It's a smaller version of what you had before I can send David picture of our sponsorship.
Now another thing to keep in mind here.
If you go back to the Messages one more time, if this app button isn't tapped, it's
gone.
It's gone.
Where'd it go?
Where'd you go?
I tap it again gotta tap it again.
Anyway, David's point is that there's a few extra steps where something that you do all
the time which is send photos that used to be really easy to do now requires, you know
more work.
It just got more complicated for sure.
Siri also has this shortcut feature, I can't figure out how to use that.
Additionally, it has this, "Hey Siri, what's my password for Google.com?"
Your HomePod just went off, bringing me to another point.
It's that Siri is still really mediocre. It still falls way behind Alexa and Google Assistant.
A couple things we do like about iOS 12
is that the iPhone X app switcher...you no longer need
to press and hold the app preview and then swipe it off.
It's actually pretty cool.
We just swipe it off the top of the screen.
Yeah.
So again, this is a fix that it should have been introduced right with iOS 11 and if you
have an iPhone 8 or earlier,
This doesn't affect you at all.
Right, which so we're making the iPhone faster, which is something that should have
just been done.
Anyway, it sounds like they're cleaning up code making it more efficient.
Thanks.
Not really a new feature though.
Right one big thing people really happy about is grouped Notifications.
Now, if you receive like six messages from one person in a row, they used to show up
individually on your Home screen now, it's just one right which is where are you?
Where are you David?
Are you coming for dinner, David?
I miss you.
Where are you?
Sorry Mom.
Now, you're just one notification.
That's pretty cool.
Another thing we like is that Do Not Disturb got a little bit better.
There's no do not disturb during bedtime.
So if you go to sleep Notifications are going to wake you up but regular Do Not Disturb, you
can just schedule anyway.There's also do not disturb...
it can now track a location. So you go to the library, if it sees you're in that location, Do Not Disturb turns on.
It's gonna absolutely destroy your battery life
for the record. Don't use that. And instead of you know, just turning on Do Not Disturb
when you walk to the library,
you can have it automatically set up. Right, and your iPhone will run on battery.
Anyways, I just said so yeah, you do not get Disturbed when you got no battery life left,
right.
So that's iOS 12 in a nutshell.
Yes.
And I mean, what about this update is actually revolutionary or what...nothing changes.
My favorite feature, to be honest, is the iPhone app switcher.
Yeah.
Well, that's just it was a pain in the butt to do that.
Right.
And we used to explain that every single time in a YouTube video now, we just got to fix
all those YouTube videos.
So now all you have to do is swipe them off the top of the screen.
Yeah, pretty cool.
So that is iOS 12.
That's our iOS 12 review.
We're not super excited about. Kind of sucks. It's like iOS 11 plus right?
Who cares?
I don't care about any of this stuff. iOS 11s.
Yeah.
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