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00:00Hey what's up, MKBHD here. So, this is the iPad Pro. This is the M1 iPad, it's the top
00:08of the food chain, best iPad there is, and I've been using this thing a lot for the
00:13last month or so, and I really like it. And like a lot of other iPad users, it's just
00:18really enjoyable to use this iPad, but I still wanted more from it. Because as you probably
00:23remember from this review, this thing is way more powerful than any software that's taken
00:29advantage of it. Like, the M1 chip in here benchmarks higher than the 16-inch MacBook
00:33Pro, there's 16 gigs of RAM in this tablet, it's crazy. And so, it felt like it was finally
00:41time for some big updates to iPadOS. And I wasn't the only one who said this on camera.
00:47The iPadOS 15 update that's coming up has got to be a pretty significant change to what
00:54we have now in iPadOS 14.5. Like, it's got to be, right?
00:59Maybe, hopefully, this is the year that we see Apple put real apps in this thing, like
01:07Final Cut.
01:08And this is honestly super exciting, because that's going to make this thing so incredibly
01:13powerful that it really is setting this iPad up to be able to do some really amazing things.
01:18Maybe even run Final Cut Pro. That is me crossing my fingers.
01:23Now, we're currently filming this video two days before WWDC 2021, where Apple is expected
01:28to announce some new features for the iPadOS.
01:30I think, I just, I hope that the extra RAM is indicative of something brewing for WWDC.
01:37Well, you know what else was also once said on video? Expectations are the thief of joy.
01:46Meaning, we got our hopes up pretty high for all these big changes we want to see in the
01:49software, but there was almost no way that whatever they announced could live up to
01:53what we wanted to see.
01:55And so, iPadOS 15, it's nice. It's a nice update with some tweaks and UI things, refreshes
02:01that make sense on the iPad.
02:04But it didn't change the way I use the iPad, and it didn't really even get it much closer
02:09at all to actually replacing a computer the way I kind of wanted it to.
02:15And I feel like that's kind of just where the iPad is destined to live for the foreseeable future.
02:20But let's not let the expectations be the thief of joy, because I've been using this
02:23beta, iPadOS 15, for a little bit.
02:26Like I said, there's been a developer beta, now there's a public beta.
02:29It's really good.
02:30There's a lot of good stuff.
02:31I'm going to show you the stuff that's made the most difference to me, that I like the
02:35most about the iPad, and then I have some thoughts on iPads as a whole.
02:39So the biggest change we've all seen by now is you can finally, finally put widgets anywhere
02:44on the iPad's home screen.
02:46You know, like you could with Android tablets for the last decade.
02:50It really shouldn't feel like that big of an upgrade, but it does for the iPad since
02:54they were confined over to the slide over area before, where you can still put them
02:58by the way.
02:59But now you just have all this huge canvas to lay them out, and it's so much better.
03:03Plus there's also a new bigger widget size, so you can really use some massive widgets.
03:07You can have a whole home screen that's just 100% widgets if you want to.
03:11But then the other home screen upgrade that the iPad gets is the app library now too,
03:16which just shows all of your apps in one place.
03:19So of course you can now hide apps from your home screen that you don't want, and it actually
03:22feels really natural that it just pops up after your last home screen.
03:25So this is a long time coming.
03:27I really like this new essentially app drawer for the iPad.
03:30The big thing that always comes up the most with the iPad though, is multitasking, or
03:36at least having more than one thing open on the screen at once.
03:40It's a huge canvas, but you might not necessarily be multitasking.
03:44Sometimes you just need two windows to do one task, like you're taking notes on something
03:49or copying and pasting between apps, things like that.
03:52So yeah, it's not necessarily multitasking, but it is going to need window management.
03:58So iPads running iPadOS 15 technically handle multiple windows exactly the same as before,
04:05but the upgrade here is it's more visible and it's way easier to remember.
04:09So they surfaced it by just constantly showing you these three dots up here.
04:13Anytime you open an app, there's a three dots up top.
04:16And when you tap the three dots, it shows you three simple options, full screen with
04:20one app, split screen, or slide over.
04:24So if you split screen, you can pick another app to go split screen with, and right away
04:27you're half and half.
04:28So you can just copy and paste, or go back and forth, multitask, or whatever you want
04:33to call it, the way you could before.
04:35And if you pick slide over, all the same slide over app support still exists as well.
04:40I don't use slide over as much as I've seen some other people, but the functionality and
04:45the support is still the same.
04:46There's a bunch of small, tall, vertical apps in their own carousel.
04:51In multitasking view though, you can also now drag one window right on top of another
04:55to create a split screen with them, and then just dive straight into that, which is pretty
05:00cool.
05:01And if you ever have two apps open and you just want to replace one of them with something
05:04different, you just swipe down from the top of that one, and you can replace it and get
05:08your substitute in.
05:09Now, you're not crazy.
05:10A lot of this stuff is the same as before.
05:12It's the same function as before, but it's just presented more obviously now.
05:17And I like that.
05:18I really like the dots actually.
05:19That's just, it's made everything easier to remember.
05:21Now, there are also apps like Safari, where you can have multiple instances of the same
05:25app open.
05:26And so when you open Safari, at the bottom on the new shelf, it shows all of the windows
05:31you've got open.
05:32Each with their own tabs, you know, got their own things happening.
05:35And so that to me was the part that felt the most like a computer.
05:39Like all the time I have multiple Safari windows open next to each other, taking notes, especially
05:43when I'm writing.
05:45But on the iPad, if you want to split screen any one of these Safari apps, you can.
05:50So you can tap the Safari icon, and now it's like, oh, did you want to use this one Safari
05:54window here, or a split screen of this different Safari window with photos next to it, or
06:01whatever other app you have going on next to it.
06:03No problem.
06:04Now, the other biggest UI change to iPadOS 15 is definitely the Notes app.
06:09Now, you might be like me and never really use the Notes app very much because there's
06:14other better to-do list apps, there's other better Notes apps.
06:18But Notes on this new iPad software is so good that it is honestly tempting for me to
06:23use it over some other stuff like Pocket that I use all the time to just jot stuff down
06:28or just remember something I need to come back to later.
06:32This is really good.
06:33So there's a new Quick Notes feature where you drag up from the corner with your finger
06:37or the pencil, and straight away you can start writing something down or typing a quick note.
06:42And then that gets added to a dedicated Quick Notes section of Apple Notes.
06:47But it's a bit deeper than that because you can drag whatever you're doing right into
06:51that quick note.
06:53So Sam in Twitter, for example, and I want to remember this tweet.
06:57I can literally just drag this tweet right into a note and save it there for later.
07:02Write something down about it, whatever you want to do.
07:04You can drag a photo from your gallery into a note.
07:08It'll just add that photo to the note.
07:10Or if I'm on a website, you can swipe up a quick note and immediately add the link you're
07:15at and with the Apple Pencil, you can quickly highlight something on that page.
07:20So later in Quick Notes, when you click on that link, it returns you to the page with
07:25that same thing highlighted.
07:27How cool is that?
07:28How cool is that?
07:29So all of that, plus the really good handwriting recognition, and obviously it's syncing between
07:34this and the Mac and the iPhone and all the stuff that has the Notes app.
07:37It's really tempting.
07:39I'm going to keep using Pocket, I think, for all this same stuff, just because it also
07:44syncs to my Android phone and I'll be damned if I have one more plug-in into the ecosystem.
07:50But yeah, the Notes app now is really good.
07:52But then there's some other smaller stuff.
07:54Safari for the iPad gets web extensions like the desktop version.
07:57So if you go into Safari settings and scroll down to extensions, you can just go load
08:02up the section of the store specifically for Safari extensions.
08:05I'm sure many more will be added here too when it's out of beta, probably including
08:09a dedicated save to Pocket button.
08:12And there's also all the other stuff that's coming to iOS 15 on the iPhone too.
08:16Stuff like SharePlay and FaceTime, live text on photos in the gallery, Apple Maps updates,
08:23et cetera.
08:24So if you want to look at all that stuff, I'll link my video right below the like button.
08:27Love focus modes, of course.
08:29Spoiler alert, that's my favorite number one feature, but there's a bunch of good stuff
08:33in iOS 15.
08:34And they're also going to be adding that universal control feature that was a super
08:38cool demo to control your iPad with a mouse seamlessly from a Mac running macOS Monterey.
08:44Oh, and also, I want to show you guys this better because I failed you guys in the last
08:48video.
08:49I thought notification summary wasn't in the last beta, but it is.
08:53You just have to turn it on.
08:54So to enable it, you go into settings and notifications and then scheduled summary.
08:59And then from here, when you turn it on, you can literally choose which apps you want
09:04to be looped into notification summaries.
09:06So maybe instead of a random Google News notification in the middle of the day buzzing you, you
09:11can have that and some others literally just collect and then show up in the summary at
09:16the end of the day.
09:17Nice.
09:18So with that, iPadOS is still just how you remember it, which is really fun to use a
09:25lot of times, just slightly frustratingly limited sometimes.
09:31Also there's still no weather app, by the way.
09:34So there's this huge weather widget, but when you click on it, it just opens Safari
09:39and goes to weather.com.
09:42You bought dark sky, just make a weather app.
09:45Also there's still no calculator app officially on the iPad.
09:48You can have a little widget from the quick settings or the control panel, but yeah, there's
09:53no full screen weather app or calculator app on the iPad.
09:58But generally, this is the update that we're all talking about and waiting for.
10:02And for those of us who were teetering on being able to use our iPad Pro full time and
10:09get rid of any laptop, I don't think iPadOS 15 is the thing that pushes us over the edge.
10:17It doesn't really change that.
10:18I keep doing this iPad only challenge for myself, even though I've done it on video
10:23before where I just won't use my laptop for a while and I'll just try to use the iPad
10:26for everything.
10:27And this update didn't really lengthen the amount of time it took before I got frustrated
10:32and had to bring my laptop again.
10:35But it did make the time I was using the iPad that much better.
10:39So I think the thing to keep in mind here, just the background to all of this is the
10:44iPad is great.
10:46It comes from a company that also makes laptops, right?
10:49So even though they've got all this big talk in this marketing campaign, what is a computer,
10:55all that fun stuff, at the end of the day, this company also makes computers.
11:00So if they're gonna keep selling those computers, the iPad basically has to stay firmly in between
11:06the iPhone and the Mac.
11:09And it's until they prove us wrong, basically, that I feel like that's still gonna be true.
11:14They didn't become a $2 trillion company by being bad at business.
11:18They're not gonna cannibalize their own products.
11:20This is just where the iPad lives.
11:22The one thing I will say that's on the other side of this is I'm reviewing all of this
11:26new software on the perspective of someone who really wants to use this full-time on
11:30a $1,000 iPad Pro.
11:33But this software will also be on everyone else's iPads, on all the $329 iPads in people's
11:41homes, in schools, all the iPad Airs, people who aren't replacing their entire computer.
11:47Or maybe they don't need all that much functionality and they can do everything they want already
11:51with a normal iPad.
11:53And all those iPads will just get better for this.
11:55So that's the iPadOS 15 update.
11:57So there you have it.
11:59More visible multitasking is my big takeaway, but also just like, here's the iPad, here's
12:03what it'll do.
12:04It's not really touching this or this.
12:06And I enjoy using the iPad and that's what it comes down to.
12:10But let me know what your thoughts are in the comments section below.
12:12We can talk about it.
12:13Either way, I'll see you guys in the next one.
12:16Thanks for watching.
12:17Peace.