hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and it's been a little while since we covered the major
app updates and this is the first major app update video of the year for the week of January 9th 2023
and so the first thing has to do with Twitter Twitter right now if you're using third-party
Twitter apps they're not working now as Twitter seems to have disabled the API that allows those
apps to view and send messages on Twitter so if you're having that issue you're not alone there
hasn't been any confirmation at least at the time of this video whether or not they plan to fix it
also they recently forced a sort of algorithmic for you timeline which is really not that great
so I prefer to see the one I want to see and it changed recently with this latest update
so that's something that I'm not really a fan of but maybe they'll change that in the future
now you may have already noticed there's sort of an odd Dynamic Island here on this iPhone 11 Pro
Max and that's because there's a new app you can use without actually jailbreaking your phone to
get the dynamic Island on phones still running iOS 16.1.2 all the way back to iOS 16. now this is not
a jailbreak like I said but it does use the alt store with an app called Dynamic cow that allows
you to configure the dynamic Island as it was on the iPhone 14 pro and 14 pro Max so you can
see it here although it's sort of blocked by the notch press and hold it brings open either the
timer or your music you can cancel that swipe home it goes away it acts just like the dynamic Island
on any iPhone so it sort of works well but it's not something that I would use regularly as it's
blocked by the notch you can see it's reacting to what I'm doing if I go back into music wait for it
to load here and cancel that hit play and swipe home it goes up into the dynamic Island so it's
kind of neat that it's there but it's something that I probably wouldn't use regularly but you
can use without jailbreaking you just have to use a Mac or Windows computer and sort of push this to
the alt store so I thought I'd just share that Now WhatsApp will now allow you to use a proxy server
in order to connect WhatsApp is something that most people use around the world although it's
not heavily used in the United States it will now allow you to use a proxy server so you can
bypass internet censorship WhatsApp announced this right after Iran blocked access to WhatsApp and
Instagram they actually said connecting via proxy maintains the high level of privacy and security
that WhatsApp provides your personal messages will still be end-to-end encrypted ensuring they stay
between you and the person you're communicating with and are not visible to anyone in between
and not the proxy server's WhatsApp or meta so that's a nice feature they've added so if you're
using that you can now use a proxy server with it now over a month or so ago I shared a new app
called facades it catalogs all of the different Apple Stores and lets you see all the information
about it but now it will allow you to actually add it as a visited list that syncs across iCloud so
if I find my local store here one of them Apple South Park in Charlotte you'll see here that if
we tap on the visit button we can say the date we visited maybe put in any notes about what we
purchased and then hit save you'll now have that in our list of visited stores so that's a really
nice way to catalog maybe where you visited if you wanted to do that or just learn more information
about it this is a really great Simple app that tells you about all the Apple stores around the
world so pretty much anything here so if we look for Singapore I haven't been to that one yet but
you can see it here Apple Marina Bay Sands and it gives more information about it so it's great
tells when it's open and more so if you've visited any of those I'd love to hear from you in the
comments below Instagram is removing its shopping tab as it changes its strategy so this shopping
button will go away and apparently they'll change it to something else they haven't really gone into
detail about that yet but they are going to be changing it now if you're someone that watches
a lot of media on your iPhone or iPad and maybe you're using HBO Max HBO is going up in price from
15 a month to 16.00 month it seems more and more companies are doing this such as Apple TV plus and
others so as they're raising prices unfortunately if you're using those you'll see some price
increases there as well also if you use Xfinity's stream on your phone maybe you have Xfinity
you're sorry subscribe to Comcast you can now use airplay to send it to your local TV or if you have
a compatible TV or an Apple TV or computers that accept it so that's something they've updated if
you use XFinity stream now if you try out all of the different beta updates or some of the previews
that Apple has Apple released Safari technology preview version 161 and you can see that here
if you want to try it out for Mac OS Ventura or Mac OS Monterey it gives more information about
it and shows the latest technology you'll see it's version 161 that released on January 12th
so if that's something that interests you it's available now with bug fixes and more
now also we had iOS 16.3 beta 2 this week I'll have a follow-up about that probably tomorrow or
in a couple days at this point talking about any remaining bugs how it is compared to iOS
16.2 and when to expect the final releases and more so be sure to check that out like I said
that video will probably be tomorrow at this point now Apple has updated a couple different
apps Fitness Plus is one of them they updated this this past week with some new updates with artist
spotlights with Beyonce they have some new time to walk they have a new kickboxing section and
new sleep meditations as well so all of those things have been added you'll see time to walk
and sleep meditations here also so if you want to use any of those those are now available if
you subscribe to Fitness Plus Apple Books gets an update this week with AI digital narration and if
we go into Safari Apple talks more about this and you can hear what it actually sounds like
so you'll see they have some book options here with different sounds as far as what it sounds
like and it sounds surprisingly real so if I press play movement in the greenhouse drew his
eye to find a wall of trees had materialized ahead of us so there's annunciations and it's not just a
digital voice you'd think it's a real person so those should be available they're available if
you publish books you can just check an option to have that available and so you'll see that
more and more in the books app very very soon if you're not seeing it already also this week
if we go over to their website you'll see they introduced Apple business connect it's a free
tool that allows businesses of all sizes to customize the way their information appears
across Apple Maps whether you're searching for it on Spotlight search using Siri or just using
it within Maps itself so you can customize how you want your business to look how it's presented what
information is there whether it's open or closed and much more so it's really nice they're giving
more information about that I'll link that in the description if you have a business and want
to check it out yourself now if you're a Creator and you use the Facebook app the Creator Studio
from Facebook this is changing very soon this will now be updated to a new meta business Suite that
they're coming out with so this app should change giving more information but also be called meta
business Suite so they're just making that full shift over to meta I'm not sure I like that idea
it looks fine here but it is available and I have a Facebook page if you don't follow me there it's
available there also with all the most recent posts and video shows and much more now Apple
has been promising some new apps for Windows and some of them are starting to be previewed
so you can see on nine to five Mac here's a first look at Apple music there's also Apple
TV and Apple devices apps coming to Windows 11. however they're showing up in the App Store but
they don't seem to be downloadable yet so they'll have a very familiar look and will be eventually
downloadable where you'll have Apple TV your Apple music and basically the same thing we have on on
a Mac and then you'll be able to use it for sync and backup and more like we have on Mac for quite
some time so if you're already installing these I'd love to hear from you in the comments below
if you've tried these out some people have asked me to actually cover these but I haven't been able
to install them yet let me know if you are in the comments below now as we're seeing more and more
Pro apps launch on the iPad with DaVinci Resolve to fully edit video I'm expecting some updates
fairly soon hopefully maybe by WWDC where we have updates to not only Pages numbers and keynote but
all also Final Cut Pro maybe logic pro that are coming to iPad I would love to see those updates
as we're seeing more and more usable Pro apps launch on iPad but Apple hasn't launched their
own yet so hopefully we see those soon and I did want to share one more thing and that is some new
wallpapers by basic apple guy so of course I'll link this wallpaper in the description but basic
apple guy also lists different wallpapers every so often and this is called Salter
and study and it says it's a collection of Cubist wallpapers paying homage to an incredible Canadian
photographer and one of my favorite images Apple used marketing the iPad Pro in 2016. so there's
a bunch of those there I'll link that in the description as well so if you want to check
those out they'll be available be sure to check back probably in a day or so for that follow-up
where we talk about maybe new features the good and bad about the latest versions of iOS and much
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please give it a like as always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time