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00:00Hey what's up, MKBHD here. This is an iPhone 12 Pro Max, and it's running the software
00:09that's going to be on the next iPhone, the 12S or 13 or whatever it's called. It was
00:15unveiled about a month ago at WWDC and it's iOS 15. In this video, I'm going to show you
00:20all of the stuff that I think makes the biggest difference, the new stuff, in this new software.
00:25Now I'm going to do a separate video on iPadOS 15 because I've been using that for a while
00:31too and that's a whole separate set of features and hopes and thoughts and expectations. But
00:39again, that's coming in a later video, so definitely make sure to subscribe if you haven't
00:42already to be among the first to see that. But in this video, let's focus on what's coming
00:47to the iPhone. And I'm going to go in order of least exciting to most exciting to me.
00:55Also, how about that new wallpaper eh? I kind of dig the new iOS wallpapers. I'll link
00:59some sort of collection of them below if someone's hosting it somewhere.
01:03Okay, so number 5, the redesigned stock apps. Yeah, I said it, the weather app is kind of
01:09nice now. Now I still can't forgive Apple for buying Dark Sky and then just stealing
01:13it from Android. I literally hate that every day, that was the best Android weather app.
01:18But they've been building all of that information into the Apple weather app now and it's got
01:23a fresh coat of paint over everything. There's these big full screen animations. Sometimes
01:27it's sunny here and you can see that. If it's rainy, you can see the rainy animation. I
01:31imagine snow and hail would look pretty cool too. So that is nice.
01:34The iPhone's new clock app also looks mostly the same, but one subtle thing is it lets
01:39you type the time for your alarm instead of having to deal with the sliders all the time.
01:44So it's small, but I see that as a small win.
01:47Safari is a little more controversial, but it's redesigned as well and it includes an
01:52address bar down here now at the bottom, which yes, means it is by definition more
01:58reachable, but now it kind of moves around a bit more fluidly. Like it disappears when
02:02you scroll, it's looking pretty full screen all the time, but then you can swipe across
02:06it to switch between your open tabs and when you want to type in it, it moves back up to
02:11the top. So it's a little more fluid. I think it's going to take some getting used to.
02:14But then last but not least, I want to highlight Apple Maps. Now it's been the butt of jokes
02:20for many years. I still don't use it, but they have been relentlessly improving it,
02:25catching up to things like Google Maps and adding features that are pretty unique and
02:29interesting. So this new version has much more detail and has a lot more 3D models of
02:35various buildings and landmarks. Now, certain cities will get it much earlier than others.
02:39If you look through San Francisco, for example, way more details, way more trees and buildings
02:44are modeled here. If you look through New York City, there's a couple skyscrapers mapped
02:48out, but they don't show up at every zoom level. So it's still being built. And if
02:53you live in a smaller city, well, you may never see this stuff, but it is cool that
02:56they're adding it. So, all right, then number four, FaceTime. I'm separating this out from
03:01the other apps because it's pretty important. And let's face it, a lot of iPhone users are
03:05about that FaceTime life and they've added a bunch of tweaks and improvements and new
03:09features here too. So there's spatial audio in FaceTime now. So in group FaceTimes, people's
03:14voices come from the direction they're oriented on the screen. There's a new grid view too.
03:19So it's neat. You can see everybody. There's portrait mode added so you can blur your background
03:25and different microphone modes. So you can choose standard, isolating voices or wide
03:30spectrum microphone modes, depending on if you have a lot of background noise you want
03:33to cancel, or if you want to keep the vibe, keep the coffee shop environmental noise.
03:37But there's two really big new FaceTime features here, SharePlay and FaceTime Events. Okay.
03:43So SharePlay, this is maybe something we're doing more in pandemic times than ever, but
03:49you know how if you're FaceTiming someone and you want to watch something at the same
03:53time as someone on FaceTime. Now that's built into FaceTime. So as a feature, you can listen
04:00to Apple music together with someone or watch TV shows or movies on Apple TV with synced
04:06playback controls. So one person pauses, it pauses at the same time for everyone. One
04:12person fast forwards or scrubs around to show you something. It'll fast forward for
04:16you too. Way better than trying to keep this in sync manually. And SharePlay has a new
04:19API as well. So obviously apps will be able to build in and plug into this. We currently
04:24have the Disney app and HBO and ESPN. I'm hoping for other stuff, maybe like Spotify,
04:29maybe Netflix, YouTube would be nice. So these will be added hopefully in the future, but
04:35then also FaceTime calls can now be events, meaning you can add them to your calendar.
04:41You can also share a link to them, which might sound like a certain other couple apps
04:46we've been using a lot lately like Zoom, which means people on Windows desktops and people
04:52on Android phones can click the link and join a FaceTime call. So you can technically say
04:58you have FaceTime on Android now.
05:11All right. Feature number three is called Live Text. And this, I think, is really smart,
05:38really cool. So this is all done on device. And basically now, any image you have with
05:42text in it from your camera or just anything in your gallery, you can long press the text
05:47in that image and it'll recognize it and let you do anything you can normally do with any
05:52other text. You can select all, copy it, paste it somewhere. You can translate it. And I've
05:58been messing around with this in various images of all kinds, text, printed, even written
06:02text. And it's been pretty good at working really well. Plus, you can use that lookup
06:07feature to get some Siri suggestions that are sometimes useful, especially if the name
06:12of the place or company is somewhere in the text, then Siri can find it. Siri's still
06:17not that smart yet, so it's got to be something pretty obvious. It does not work for videos.
06:21I've tried, but it's pretty great on a lot of photos. And it also works with photos of
06:26animals. So I took a picture of this cat and long pressed it and it tries to tell me the
06:31breed. I have no idea if that is the actual breed of this cat, but that's pretty cool
06:35that it tried. And it's kind of approaching what Google Lens has been doing for a while
06:40now, but even more intuitive since you can just literally long press straight on a photo
06:44without a separate app. It just kind of works. This specific feature works with devices with
06:48A12, Bionic or later. So not every older iPhone will get this, but it's pretty good. I just
06:54like that it's catching up to Google Lens. Now Google Lens will identify more things.
06:57Like it'll just try to ID anything, the shoes you're wearing, the type of car that drives
07:02by. And this is a bit more limited now, but maybe someday in the future, this will do
07:07all that stuff too. Okay. So number two, notifications. Now I'm still saying this with a caveat, which
07:13is that they still have a long way to go. Android's notifications have forever been
07:19way better than iOS's notifications, but they've made some key improvements here and some stuff
07:24that I'm happy to see. First of all, again, a fresh new coat of paint. You can see this
07:27new design with bigger photo icons, app icons to the left. I love that. That right away
07:33makes a pretty big visual difference. And then there's a new feature called notification
07:37summary. So if you don't use your phone for a while, basically if you've gone to sleep
07:41and wake up or you haven't used it for a bit, it'll round up all your low priority notifications
07:47and put them in one place. So that seems nicer than having to go through the whole list and
07:52deal with them all. I just don't know what exactly qualifies as the low priority stuff
07:57that shows up here. Is it just messaging apps that get through? Is it everything gets rounded
08:03up into this? I'm not exactly sure yet, but then you have extra control over what notifications
08:07show up because you can turn on focus mode and the person you're messaging will actually
08:11see that you have notifications silenced. And that actually brings me to my number one
08:15feature by far, focus modes. So, and this actually works universally across all your
08:21stuff. So if you have an iPhone, also your Apple watch and your iPad and your Mac. And
08:26as someone who likes customization, who uses an Android phone most of the time for customization,
08:31this is the best like version of that I've seen on the iPhone in a while. It kind of
08:36feels almost like separate profiles, even though it's not quite that. Just check it
08:40out. You can go into your quick settings and long press here, and you've got a couple
08:44focus modes. There's do not disturb, there's sleep mode, but also a personal and a work
08:50by default. And each of these settings at a basic level lets different notifications
08:55in from different apps and different people. So do not disturb mode silences pretty much
09:00everything. Work mode doesn't let your fun apps notify you. Personal mode doesn't let
09:06your work apps notify you. And so you can customize what those apps are and who can
09:10talk to you in each mode. But then you can choose a bunch of other settings about each
09:14focus mode too. So you can have them automatically turn on or off depending on location or time
09:20of day. And you can literally choose only certain home screens to show up when you
09:26have a focus mode activated. So you can have a home screen set up for when you're at work
09:31that doesn't show you're distracting social media apps. And then when you switch focus
09:35modes or you get home for the day, you can have a separate home screen that shows up
09:40with all that stuff or whatever other focus mode you want to create. Seems like you can
09:43just make as many as you want. A gym one, a driving one, a reading, a gaming one, whatever.
09:48It's pretty sick. And on top of all that customization, like I said, they sync across all your devices.
09:53So if you enable work focus mode on your phone, all of your stuff is in work focus mode and
09:58then you get home and home mode gets triggered automatically for location. Everything starts
10:04getting your personal notifications again. So that's pretty sweet. I made a video about
10:08why some of Apple's features take longer to build and implement. I'll link below the like
10:12button if you haven't already seen it, but it's a great video. I recommend it, but that's it.
10:17Now, of course, there's way more than just five new things with iOS 15. They had a whole two hour
10:21keynote. So of course, there's lots of small stuff that didn't make the cut for me. Things
10:25like improved spotlight with way more Siri suggestions, things like the improved offline
10:32speech to text recognition, which is sweet and just various performance tweaks and improvements.
10:36But generally I'm liking iOS 15. It's looking and feeling a lot better. And you can let me know
10:42if you agree with the order of my top five or not, but it looks nice. Almost as nice
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10:52Skillshare class all about like the way that I create videos. Some of the review videos you've
10:58seen, some of the latest videos on the channel and how I go about that whole process from end
11:02to end. So Skillshare for those who don't already know is an online learning community for creatives
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11:20mostly. Like I didn't go to school for most of the things that I do here now making these tech
11:25videos, but I always wish there could have been something that I could have followed along
11:30that could help lay this sort of steps and fundamentals out. So that's kind of what I've
11:35made is what I wish I had back at that time. And I've also gone through other Skillshare courses
11:40to learn other people's perspective on doing things. Like there's one specifically on
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11:49do things and the way they think about things. And so just to get a variety of perspectives,
11:53you can just have one Skillshare account and then just watch a bunch of different stuff.
11:56There's no ads on Skillshare and they're always constantly just launching new premium
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12:08at all, I'll have a link below. With my link, early signups will get a free trial of a premium
12:13membership, which is pretty sweet. And I'll see you over there. Thanks for watching. Catch you in
12:18the next one. Peace.