So Apple released Iowa's 13th to the public last week. And if you are anything
like me you're probably extremely curious and how the upcoming version
is gonna change your iPhone and really that curiosity is in me well justified
because that iPhone is your constant companion and you really use it to
manage everything in your life. Well you're in the right place because
I've been using Iowa's 13 as my daily driver. And in today's video I'm
going to outline the Iaw 13 features. They're going to supercharge your iPhone.
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Apple showcase a boatload of new features during last month's w WDC with
the intent of galvanizing the iPhone as one of if not the most critical
element in your life. Now that's because for most people myself included
probably even you. That is because their iPhones have been by their side
from the moment that they wake up to the time that they go to bed. I mean
there is a really good chance that you're watching this video while being
in the bathroom. Hey no judgment. Hashtag infinite loo hashtag Apple pun.
Now beta testing is really not for the faint of heart. And if you are thinking
about taking the plunge into the beta make sure that you have a local backup
of your device prior to perform the upgrade.
Now I have a full review coming for Iowa 13 so if you are interested in
that type of content make sure that you subscribe with notifications so
that you can be alerted when that drops in the fall
Apple's putting the pedal to the metal in Iowa 13 and introducing several
great features into safari. Now first if you are someone like me and you
probably have all 500 safari tabs open and you use Safari as a notepad
of sorts you can now configure safari to auto close those tabs based on
the length of time that they've been open. Second similar to Safari on
the Mac. You can now establish a default in one off preferences for websites
that need to access your location your microphone or even the camera. That's right.
You can stop that constant annoying pop up from Google asking to use your
location every time you wont perform a search.
It is such a pain. You can find the default preferences in settings under
safari and the one off settings are located in the address bar. And even
better yet if you're using a pop up blocker like I am. I was 13 streamlines
assailing it with one click because it's now going to be in that same menu bar.
Knew when I was 13 is the ability to stream audio from your iPhone to multiple
pairs of air pods. Regardless of those other air pods are going to be paired
with your iPhone. Now most of us really want to share audio from our phone
with a friend or loved one before but there's been almost impossible unless
you're going to share one of your earbuds with me or one of us is carrying
around a headphone splitter and wired headphones but really who's got time
for that and I'm not about to put your earbuds in my ear and I am certainly
not letting you put my air pies in your ear because that's just gross.
No fence while Apple has us covered in Iowa's 13 providing that you already
own your own pair of Air pods or power beats because it's 100 percent easier
for two people to share an audio stream listen to a movie from a single device.
Now to enable this feature your airports need to be in your ears.
You're gonna go ahead navigate over the settings and go to Bluetooth pop the top
on the other pair airports and then hit the pairing button. Now within
a moment or two though second pair of Air paths are going to appear in
this section at the bottom says other devices. Now there is another way
to go ahead and pair your airplanes it uses proximity between two devices.
I have not been able to get that to work for me during the battles.
If you have let me know in the comments below. Now it's all about the details
and in Iowa was 13 it's going to smooth out the rough edges that really
been existing for a long period of time. Now it's whether it's the animations
while you're scrolling through the animal edges and the emojis in messages
or is the redefined volume display that no longer takes up the home screen
like an unwelcome relative. There are a lot of improvements in UI and usability
coming Iowa's 13. But my absolute favorite update coming to the UI is going
to be that all devices running Iowa is 13 now get contextual menus including
the iPad and even the iPhone 10 are.
Now that means that you'll be able to set your Wi-Fi network preference
or even your Bluetooth accessory right from control center or see the suggested
actions just by pushing on the app. Now this was previously limited devices
that support a 3D Touch but now it's being expanded outside of that to
any device that runs. I
I was 13. Siri gets better with every software release and this year doesn't disappoint.
That is unless you're using Google assistant but that is a topic for another
video Siri is more deeply integrated into IAW than ever before. First there
seems like serious suggestions where it will go ahead and suggest websites
to you that is found inside of your messages app or presumably other messaging apps.
Second Series suggestions would remind you while you're texting someone
that has a reminder associated to their name. But my absolute favorite
Siri enhancement in I was 13 is really give you a noun messages with Siri
Siri can whisper your incoming messages as they arrive without the need
for you to go ahead and prompt her.
Now if you are anything like me you probably have a dozen or so message
threads that you don't want Siri to read. No it's not because of that.
It seems like two factor authentication messages it's receipts from people
who aren't even your contacts and I don't need to have Siri read them to me.
That problem is easily solved because you can tell Siri that you only want
certain messages read from ones like from your people that are your favorites
people that are in your contacts or even recent the message threads and
if you're someone who only wants this feature enabled part of the time
you great you can go to the control center and there is a toggle to enable
disable it very quickly.
Now I don't wanna speak for you but I'm eagerly waiting the day for when
my phone is self-aware and it can perform tasks without the need for some
type of prompt or input for me. Now we got a small taste of that future
when Apple acquired the popular shortcuts app in 2016 maybe 2017 and then
making it a first party app in 2018. While this year's shortcut is fully
integrated into the operating system and it's a default app in Iaw 13 now
I can't blame you if you didn't take the plunge last year because the process
of writing and automation was kind of daunting and really I'm calling it
a process so that should kind of say that.
How daunting it was this year writing a shortcut is largely simplified.
Now you might be thinking yourself hey what does this even mean. How can
I even use this. Well if you've ever connected your phone to a bluetooth
speaker in your car. I also will auto play the ferry for song your library
which is completely annoying. I wrote a shortcut that says every time I
connect my phone to car play it's going to open a specific app. Now that
app could be overcast it could be DRM it could be BBC radio. You can actually
read it to be any app that you want to. Frustration is solved and we are
one step closer to cyber 9 systems.
But seriously if you are interested in learning how iPhone automation can
simplify your life. Make sure you subscribe because that video is me coming
in the future. It's all about moving the small annoyances and distractions
that really build up over time and for me. I was 13 is taking care of many
of those nuisances but I would love to hear from you whether or not you've
already upgraded to the public beta or if you're waiting out the fall.
I want to know what your favorite feature is in the comments below.
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