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iPadOS & iOS 14 public beta: all the overdue features - YouTube
Channel: The Verge
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- The public betas for
IOS 14 on the iPhone
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and iPadOS 14 on the iPad
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are available to download today.
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Now, I have been using the
developer betas up to now,
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so I wanted to go over
some of the big features
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that you can expect and also
some of the little things
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that you might have missed, but first,
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should you install it?
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I would wait.
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I would wait to see what people are saying
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about its stability.
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Some years, those betas,
they feel basically done
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and other years they're kind of a mess.
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Based on the developer beta so far,
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this seems like a good year, but honestly,
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you should never put a
beta on your main phone
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if you can help it.
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So, each platform, IOS and iPadOS,
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are gonna get a flagship feature
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and then there's all those little tweaks
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and changes that I mentioned.
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Regardless of whether
you're being responsible
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and waiting for the official release
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or if you're being irresponsible
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and you're installing it today,
here's what you can expect.
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Now, on the iPhone, the big
flagship feature on IOS 14
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is the new home screen.
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You are now able to take widgets
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and put them on your home screen
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on any screen that you want interspersed
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with your other icons.
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Apple has also made a new
section called the App Library
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that has all of your apps,
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it's just like an app drawer on Android
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and Apple categorizes them for you,
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that means you don't have to
have like a junk folder anymore
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which is really great.
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Last but not least, you can
also hide entire app pages,
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which means you can
have a page that's there
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for the weekends if you wanna
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and then it's gone when you're
just going to work everyday.
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Now, I've already made a full video
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about all of the features on
the new home screen in IOS 14,
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so I'll have a link down
there in the show notes,
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tell you everything I think about it,
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but I wanna focus right
now on the flagship feature
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on iPadOS, and weirdly,
it's not the home screen,
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because then iPhone gets it and the iPad
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has to stay with the old home
screen for a dumb reason.
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I don't know, whatever.
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The main new flagship feature on iPadOS 14
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is this Apple Pencil, and
specifically it's that you're
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gonna have to put this
thing down a lot less often.
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Now, the first major new
feature for the Apple Pencil
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on iPadOS is called Scribble.
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This let's you write text
with your handwriting
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in any arbitrary text field,
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so you just go to a text
field and start writing
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in that text field.
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And the nice thing about
this is you can sort of
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let your handwriting roam
all over the entire iPad
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and it'll still work, as long as you start
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inside that text field.
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Now, you'll also notice here
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that it didn't get my
handwriting exactly right,
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which is a little bit annoying,
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but you can do a couple
of other things with that.
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You can circle some text
and that will select it.
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You can also just scratch some text out
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and it will delete it.
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That all seems great,
but this isn't really
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a full-featured, write however
you want sort of system,
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because it does take that
second for it to resolve
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into some sort of text that
you can actually work with
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and you won't see right away
whether or not it was accurate.
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So Scribble is great for short notes,
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but it is not great for taking
a lot of notes long form
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if you're sitting in a class or something,
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but there is something that is very good
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for taking a lot of notes
if you're sitting in class
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or something and that
is Apple's Notes app.
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So I've got Apple Notes here open
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and you've been able to do handwriting
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in Apple Notes for quite a while now,
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but what's new is you can
actually long-press that word
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and then you get these
little selector bars here
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and then you can copy as text.
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You could also paste it then as text,
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so you can get the plain text out of
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your handwritten notes,
which makes Apple Notes
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a much more convenient
way to do note taking,
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because you can actually search for stuff
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and then copy it out and paste it into,
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you know, something that you
can actually share around.
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The other thing you can do in Apple Notes
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is if you draw a shape and hold
the pencil down at the end,
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you get a mice clean
version of that shape,
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which is really nice.
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Basically, the combination of Scribble
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plus the ability to get plain
text out of your handwriting
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in Apple Notes means that
you can leave this pencil
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in your hand instead of
constantly setting it down
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to like pull up the keyboard
or use the, you know,
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the Apple keyboard or whatever,
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you could just use this.
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Now, it's not perfect.
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Like I said, I think that
Scribble has a little bit
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too much of a delay, so it's too slow,
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but on the whole, the
new features on iPadOS 14
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make me feel like I actually
wanna use the Apple Pencil
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instead of feeling bad that
I bought it and never use it,
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'cause I'm not an artist.
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Actually, I wanna sneak in
one more flagship feature
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and that is the Translate
app that Apple has made.
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Unfortunately it's not
available on the iPad,
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I don't know why, but I
wanna compare it real quick
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to Google Translate,
because I think Apple's done
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a pretty good job for a first effort.
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They both do the same thing by tapping
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the microphone button here.
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I'm speaking in English, please
translate this into Spanish.
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They both are successfully
able to do that,
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but they're supposed to
be able to understand
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when someone speaks back to you in Spanish
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and then translate it
into English in auto mode.
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We're gonna give that a shot.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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So you can see they both
successfully translated
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from Spanish into English.
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So those are the main flagship features,
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but there's a bunch of little stuff,
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actually, some of it's not that little.
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That's really hard to categorize.
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There are just 1,000 tiny changes,
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way too many for me to
get through all of them.
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I sort of feel like
Apple told its engineers,
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"Hey, you know all those
half finished projects
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"that you love but we made
you put in the back burner?
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"Yeah, it's time to ship all of that."
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Like default apps, you
know that some engineer
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built the ability like five years ago
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for you to set Gmail or Chrome or whatever
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as your main email app or browser,
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but now it's finally here.
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Only it only works for email and browsers,
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it doesn't work for maps.
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I don't know, there's always next year.
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So the first big group of small changes
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is it seems like Apple finally figured out
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that you can show stuff
on top of other stuff
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without switching the
whole damn screen over
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to the stuff that you wanna show
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and it lets you keep your contacts,
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that's just a little bit more elegant.
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Apple calls this Compact UI
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and there's a few examples of it.
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First, when someone calls
you it doesn't take up
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the whole screen.
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When you invoke Siri, it's just
this cute little bubble now
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that you can see pulsing
with the sound of your voice.
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You can get picture in picture
with a few different apps
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on the iPhone or of course on the iPad.
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You get much nicer search on the iPad.
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It pops up over what you're doing
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by just hitting Command +
Space, it's less intrusive
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and it let's you get to Siri Shortcuts
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so you can get way faster
access to your Siri Shortcuts
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from anywhere.
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There's just a few other
little design tweaks
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I wanna talk about.
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They've changed up the way
sidebars look in iPadOS
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and I thinks it's because they know
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that there's gonna be a lot
more iPad apps coming to the Mac
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and so they wanted the sidebars
to be a little bit more
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consistent between the iPad and the Mac.
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There's also a new time picker
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so you no longer have
those weird little dials,
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but you gotta be careful though,
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'cause sometimes the little
number paddle gets stuck
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just on the hour or just on the minute.
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So that's the big system wide stuff,
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but there are a lot, and
I mean a lot of changes
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inside all of Apple's core apps.
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So for example, in Messages
you can pin conversations,
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you can have inline reply threads
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and you can have mentions,
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I'm not gonna show any of this to you,
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'cause I don't wanna show
you my messages, whatever.
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In the Home app there is now suggestions
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and there's also new buttons
inside the control center
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from the Home app.
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The Weather app will show
you next hour precipitation,
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RIP Dark Sky for Android.
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Apple Maps actually got
the biggest changes,
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because I think Apple had the most work
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that it had to do there.
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So I've got Apple Maps open here
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and you can see I've got
some directions set up,
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but I have them set up via bike,
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which is the new feature inside Apple Maps
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and one of the nice
things you can see here
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is that in addition to showing
you how long it's gonna take,
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there's also what the
elevation's gonna look like,
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'cause riding up to Sutro
Tower is a lot of work.
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It gives you a little bit of information
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about what the path is gonna look like,
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where you're gonna be on main roads
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or are you gonna have your own bike lane?
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This is all pretty nice,
but it's a little bit
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of a catch up to Google Maps.
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I actually prefer the way
Google Maps handles bike routes,
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because you can see here
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that it actually just has
a straight up map overlay
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on top of your map, showing you
where all the bike lanes are
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which is a lot nicer, a lot
easier to plan your stuff out
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before you get out on the road.
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If you go in search here,
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there's now this area called Guides,
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which they've got some editorial content
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from a bunch of other websites,
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showing you, you know, trails
from AllTrail or what not.
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There's also enhanced maps
coming to the UK, Canada,
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Ireland, and there's also
electrical vehicle routing
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so you can find where to charge your car
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and they also support congestion zones
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so you know whether or not
you're gonna have to pay a toll
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to go into a city.
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There's just a thousand other features
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that we can get into and
I just don't have time.
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There's privacy enhancements.
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Apps have to ask your
permission for tracking.
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There's on-device dictation,
there's app clips,
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there's enhancement
emoji, there's Car Keys,
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there's wallpapers and CarPlay now,
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there's spacial audio for AirPods.
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The camera app is able to
shoot faster between photos.
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You can get exposure lock.
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There's a bedtime feature.
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There's a redesigned image picker
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and way, way more.
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One that I wanna actually
take a closer look at
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is VoiceOver recognition.
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There's a new feature
called Screen Recognition.
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So we go into Settings,
Accessibility, VoiceOver,
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there's a setting here
called VoiceOver Recognition,
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so it can read image descriptions to you,
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but it also has screen recognition.
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So just like on Android,
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the iPhone will try and
identify elements on the screen
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so you can say them out loud.
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So instead of saying 47 to
hit that spot on the grid,
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you can just say Tweet and
it will read the Tweet button
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and hit the Tweet button for you.
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Now, usually with these big
operating system previews,
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I try to give you the theme,
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the overarching idea that
ties it all together,
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and that's actually not
that easy to do this time.
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I mean, I can try, so for the iPhone
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the overarching theme
is that they're finally
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letting it get complicated.
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The home screen starts simple,
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but it can be complex if you want it to
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and Apple's also finally
putting different elements
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on top of other elements,
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so you can see Siri on
top of your current screen
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instead of it taking
over the whole screen.
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For the iPad, I guess
it's that it's getting
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just a little bit more Mac-like,
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like on those sidebars,
because we know that these apps
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are gonna be on the Mac eventually,
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but it's not getting fully Mac-like,
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because you can't do multi-user
on the iPad, because...
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But the truth is that
most of these updates
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are a thousand little
improvements in a thousand places
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and that's great, but I
sort of think it's time
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for Apple to stop bundling
all of these improvements
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into a yearly thing.
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For big system level
stuff, like the home screen
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and the Compact UI, that
does belong in an OS update,
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but for all of Apple's app features,
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why not just release
them when they're ready
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throughout the year?
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That's how Android does it and Windows,
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like basically that's how
everybody else does it.
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Just release the updates
via the App Store.
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It'll be okay, Apple, I promise.
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Like for example, one feature
in IOS 14 that's awesome
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is you can add captions to photos now
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so they're easier to search for later.
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If Apple had released that two
moths ago as an app update,
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you might actually know
about it and use it.
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Instead, it's just feature 637 on IOS 14.
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I mean look, if my biggest
complain about IOS 14
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is that there's too many
new good things in it,
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that's really not a huge complaint,
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but it is just a little bit overwhelming.
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Hey, thanks so much for watching.
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Like I said earlier, we
have a full deep dive
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on the home screen on
the iPhone on IOS 14,
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so click on the box to watch that.
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And if I'm pointing in
the wrong direction,
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just pretend I'm not.
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