Apple Music Isn't Getting All the Attention Though Fitness Plus Gets Some Improvements with Custom Workout Plans and Stacks

While Apple Music might not be getting all the attention, Fitness Plus has some exciting improvements. With custom workout plans and stacks, users can now queue up their videos for a more personalized fitness experience. This feature is essentially a playlist that caters to individual needs and goals. While this update may not have been as highly anticipated as other features, it's a great step forward for the fitness app.

Crosswords in Apple News Plus Now Available Digitally

A new addition to Apple News Plus is the ability to do crosswords digitally. This feature has long been a favorite among crossword enthusiasts, and now users can enjoy this pastime without having to physically use paper or pens. The app's digital interface makes it easy to access and solve crosswords on the go.

Apple Maps Now Shows EV Charger Availability in the US

One of the notable updates to Apple Maps is the ability to show electric vehicle (EV) charger availability across the United States. This feature has been requested by many users, particularly those who travel frequently. The addition of this information aims to make traveling more convenient and sustainable for all.

The Lookup Feature Allows Pausing Videos and Searching

Apple's latest update introduces a new feature called "lookup" which allows users to pause videos, hold an object, and then search it in their phone using the built-in camera. This functionality can be incredibly handy when trying to identify objects or brands that appear in videos. While this feature may seem simple, its practical applications make it a valuable addition to Apple's suite of tools.

Sharing Activity History with Home

Apple has made it easier for users to share their activity history with home devices using AirTags and other accessories. This feature is particularly useful for those who have shared devices with family members or friends, allowing them to keep track of each other's belongings.

Discovering the Magic Orb in Apple Home

The Magic Orb is a new device introduced by Apple that makes it easier to sign into an already set-up device. The orb serves as a convenient way to access and manage connected devices, making it an excellent addition to any smart home setup.

Sharing AirTags with Friends and Family

With the Magic Orb, users can now share AirTags with up to five other people, providing a new level of convenience and organization for those who share their belongings or have family members who misplace items. This feature is especially useful for traveling, as it helps ensure that items are always accounted for.

The Not-So-Proud Moment: Notification Interactions

Unfortunately, the iOS 17 update has introduced some frustrating changes when it comes to notification interactions. Instead of a simple tap, users now have to perform extra taps to get to their notifications. This minor annoyance highlights the importance of carefully testing updates before releasing them to the public.

iOS 17 Won't Run on Older Devices

One of the notable omissions in iOS 17 is its compatibility with older devices, including iPhone 8, 8 Plus, and 10. Apple has also dropped support for many 2017 Mac releases, leaving some users without access to the latest features. This decision may limit the functionality of older devices, but it's clear that Apple is pushing forward with new technologies.

Mac OS Sonoma Ditches Many 2017 Features

As part of its updates, Mac OS Sonoma has dropped support for many features from 2017 and earlier models. While this might seem like a minor setback, it highlights the importance of constantly updating software to ensure compatibility and security.

Apple Silicon Devices Get Exclusive Features

Despite some older devices being left behind, those that are compatible with Apple silicon get exclusive features like USB webcam support. This may be a welcome addition for content creators or anyone who needs high-quality video recording capabilities.

Watch OS 10 Brings Changes to the Apple Watch

The latest update to watchOS 10 brings several notable changes, including a new grid view that scrolls smoothly. One of the most exciting features is the ability to summon Control Center from any app on the Apple Watch by hitting the side button. This update makes it easier for users to access frequently used settings and shortcuts.

Summoning Your Apple Watch from Your Phone

As part of watchOS 10, users can now summon their Apple Watch from their iPhone, providing a convenient way to switch between devices without needing to physically pick up the watch. This feature adds a new layer of flexibility and convenience for those who use both their iPhone and Apple Watch.

The Snoopy Watch Face is a Surprise Addition

One of the most unexpected features in watchOS 10 is the introduction of the Snoopy watch face, which has become an instant hit among users. The iconic design from Peanuts adds a touch of whimsy to the Apple Watch, making it stand out as a unique and collectible feature.

Apple TV Gets Upgrades with Enhanced Dialogue and Dolby Vision Support

The latest update to Apple TV brings several improvements, including enhanced dialogue options for those who use second-generation HomePods. This feature aims to provide more natural-sounding audio in smart home settings, making it easier to enjoy conversations and music.

Dolby Vision Support Adds a New Level of Visual Quality

In addition to improved dialogue support, Apple TV's latest update also includes Dolby Vision support. This feature enhances the overall visual quality of videos, providing brighter colors, deeper blacks, and more vivid details. Whether watching movies or streaming content, Dolby Vision adds an immersive experience that sets it apart from standard HD resolution.

Discovering the Value in Updates

While not every feature might seem exciting at first glance, Apple's updates often contain hidden gems and convenience features that enhance our daily lives. By embracing change and investing in new technologies, users can enjoy a more streamlined and efficient experience across all of their devices.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI hope you don't mind me being a little forward here but have you ever received an unsolicited nude um yes really yeah oh my goodness doesn't that happen to everybody no why am I asking people about this what has to do with something Apple just revealed but you're probably not aware of look at this these are all the features that are going to be coming in Apple's upcoming OS releases and many weren't even announced in their latest keynote and so what I did is I had Steven take a look through the whole list find some of the most interesting features and I'm gonna see what people think about them are we shooting yes I guess that was not great well it was unsolicited that's for sure I'm sorry you had to deal with that but you won't anymore with iOS 17. if somebody sends you a nude you can set it up to blur them and block them before you accidentally open them that sounds smart sending somebody unsolicited nude is this form of sexual assault and I think it's great that they're trying to make people safer from doing that wait that's only on iOS though it's not all of Apple's devices across the board will be safe adults can set the system to blur photos with nudity requiring confirmation to reveal it meanwhile parents can set their child's phone to require a confirmation three times with tons of warnings and explanations including a prompt to talk to a grown-up it seems like apple has fixed unsolicited nudes then and the major quality of life improvements don't stop there you deal with lots of two-factor codes don't you a lot yes what you're going to be able to do now is all the two factors that are in your messages or email you can just Auto clear them out that would be nice yeah yeah that would be useful there have been days where there's like half of the messages are two-factor out there and then you like and then you forget get to delete them and they get kind of get like thrown down the list it's ever to be seen again until you get one more if you get a code in your email app it'll also now do an auto populate fill code option biggest issue with two-factor authentication okay you need to go switch to my Gmail app oh I'm in the wrong Gmail now I need to find the email because for some reason that's not in priority when is a two-factor authentication email not priority we hit a nerve live speech allows users to type what they want to say to have it spoken out loud during phone and FaceTime calls as well as in-person conversations is this gonna let me talk to less people because that's what I want this is better than talking certainly it's for if you tragically lose your voice that's actually probably quite useful it is his personal voice based on 15 minutes of reciting phrases to imitate your voice in terms of machine learning that's a very impressively small amount of time it's like slightly creepy but it's pretty good yeah writers here aren't gonna have to host videos anymore that sounds just like you thank you oh you me I'm creating a personal voice with my iPhone are we combining a voice we'll see what happens partly as a result most presidents enjoy vacations outside of the White House this is the common name of a group of plants with large handsome flowers would you mind if I picked you up a little earlier handsome it's one of several accessibility focused features in iOS 17 which were detailed last month it means that those with cognitive Vision or motor impairments can now more easily do many things most of us take for granted clock what's going on in apple music though collaborative playlists oh so you can make a playlist with your friends do you know you can Crossfade your tunes on iPad OS and iOS you couldn't do that before no but you could on iTunes yes just didn't get to that you know box on the list it's tough yeah so they're finally adding the features that Spotify has had for years foreign did you know that only one out of 100 people get their daily recommended nutrients what yeah that's what ritual tells me and they're sponsoring this video with their multivitamin supplement capsule it's got 10 essential nutrients for your day they're vegan and they use clean naturally extracted ingredients in these easy to swallow capsules you can take it in the morning before you go to bed or right now right now don't mind if I do get 20 off your first month with ritual using the code Mac address20 at ritual.com Mac address20. thank you now Apple music isn't getting all the attention though Fitness Plus gets some improvements with custom workout plans and stacks which are essentially playlists to queue up your videos did you do crosswords I love crosswords in Apple news plus now do them digitally wow my grandmother was a crosswords person well your grandmother and maybe you can now do crosswords on Apple news plus I actually might use that app now Apple Maps now shows EV charger availability in the US please come to Canada thank you we wanted that so much on the way down and back from Texas so there's a feature just called the lookup and you can pause the video hold an object and then search it just in your phone for clothing or shopping I can see that being handy I hope I can figure out like what brand an outfit is yeah which shirts from Apple home has activity history you can more easily sign into an already set up device with this Magic Orb and find mine that lets you share air tags and any other accessories with up to five other people excellent my wife has an ember travel mug and we were traveling with it and do you want to know what kept happening every every time we stopped we've discovered that this device is traveling with you it could see your location yeah of course because she's in my family she's right there and you find my Avenue one thing I'm particularly concerned about is this notification interaction before simply tapping would take you straight to the app now look this is so much worse I have to do extra Taps not everyone will be getting these updates iOS 17 will not run on the iPhone 8 8 plus 10 and older Mac OS Sonoma drops almost all 2017 Mac releases and even if your Matt gets to know my many of the coolest features are exclusive to Apple silicon the A9 powered iPad Pro and 5th generation are left out to dry but those that do get updated will enjoy USB webcam support now I guess that would be useful if I were like uh doing a field recording or something like that that's handy cool that's how it always should have worked mercifully all currently supported Apple watches will get watch OS 10 and they get some notable changes you know the grid view yeah it's different it's now like it's a scroll so it Scrolls a little in Scrolls yeah control center but by the way you can summon it from any app on Apple watch now just by hitting the side button it is no longer the app switcher before you had to swipe from the bottom right but you could only do it when you're in the watch face I've never noticed that because I've never done it and now what do you think now that I've made you notice that I hate it and they're fixing so yes you can also summon your watch from your phone so now you can beep your phone from your watch you can't do the reverse Vice University if you lose your watch and look there's even a new Snoopy watch face everyone loves do you have an Apple Watch No but that might make me buy one this Snoopy watch face that's all I care about that's all my mom cares about it's a very iconic watch face even horologists love Snoopy every time you look at it it's like doing something different he's like catching a frisbee or he's surfing this is the best Apple TV also gets a couple of nice updates with an enhanced dialogue option for those who use the second gen home pods there's better Dolby Vision support VPN support remote finder on your iPhone yay and video recording for karaoke would you try it I mean maybe once to have fun with friends like if you have friends over then you can all kind of do it together okay so you have to use your iPhone as the camera yeah but it's hooked up to your Apple TV through continuity camera oh okay and let's not forget all the stickers you can literally take a live photo which is a video just hold on a sub object in the video it'll take that off the background in its animated State and turn that into a sticker that's life-changing indeed I wish I had that and that's it that is until people start discovering weird obscured changes as they play with the beta over the next few months you wonder what surprises The Vision Pro has like that head strap what's up with that looks looks like everyone had something to say about Apple's unannounced features but I can't get them to say more we tried very hard to get everyone's text-to-speech to work but the phone couldn't handle it and failed to process so now you will have to hear my robotic voice forevermore thanks for voicing this Mac address iPhone if you think that I should continue to talk through this give this video a like and if you prefer my actual voice then you should subscribe in the comments let me know what new OS feature you're most looking forI hope you don't mind me being a little forward here but have you ever received an unsolicited nude um yes really yeah oh my goodness doesn't that happen to everybody no why am I asking people about this what has to do with something Apple just revealed but you're probably not aware of look at this these are all the features that are going to be coming in Apple's upcoming OS releases and many weren't even announced in their latest keynote and so what I did is I had Steven take a look through the whole list find some of the most interesting features and I'm gonna see what people think about them are we shooting yes I guess that was not great well it was unsolicited that's for sure I'm sorry you had to deal with that but you won't anymore with iOS 17. if somebody sends you a nude you can set it up to blur them and block them before you accidentally open them that sounds smart sending somebody unsolicited nude is this form of sexual assault and I think it's great that they're trying to make people safer from doing that wait that's only on iOS though it's not all of Apple's devices across the board will be safe adults can set the system to blur photos with nudity requiring confirmation to reveal it meanwhile parents can set their child's phone to require a confirmation three times with tons of warnings and explanations including a prompt to talk to a grown-up it seems like apple has fixed unsolicited nudes then and the major quality of life improvements don't stop there you deal with lots of two-factor codes don't you a lot yes what you're going to be able to do now is all the two factors that are in your messages or email you can just Auto clear them out that would be nice yeah yeah that would be useful there have been days where there's like half of the messages are two-factor out there and then you like and then you forget get to delete them and they get kind of get like thrown down the list it's ever to be seen again until you get one more if you get a code in your email app it'll also now do an auto populate fill code option biggest issue with two-factor authentication okay you need to go switch to my Gmail app oh I'm in the wrong Gmail now I need to find the email because for some reason that's not in priority when is a two-factor authentication email not priority we hit a nerve live speech allows users to type what they want to say to have it spoken out loud during phone and FaceTime calls as well as in-person conversations is this gonna let me talk to less people because that's what I want this is better than talking certainly it's for if you tragically lose your voice that's actually probably quite useful it is his personal voice based on 15 minutes of reciting phrases to imitate your voice in terms of machine learning that's a very impressively small amount of time it's like slightly creepy but it's pretty good yeah writers here aren't gonna have to host videos anymore that sounds just like you thank you oh you me I'm creating a personal voice with my iPhone are we combining a voice we'll see what happens partly as a result most presidents enjoy vacations outside of the White House this is the common name of a group of plants with large handsome flowers would you mind if I picked you up a little earlier handsome it's one of several accessibility focused features in iOS 17 which were detailed last month it means that those with cognitive Vision or motor impairments can now more easily do many things most of us take for granted clock what's going on in apple music though collaborative playlists oh so you can make a playlist with your friends do you know you can Crossfade your tunes on iPad OS and iOS you couldn't do that before no but you could on iTunes yes just didn't get to that you know box on the list it's tough yeah so they're finally adding the features that Spotify has had for years foreign did you know that only one out of 100 people get their daily recommended nutrients what yeah that's what ritual tells me and they're sponsoring this video with their multivitamin supplement capsule it's got 10 essential nutrients for your day they're vegan and they use clean naturally extracted ingredients in these easy to swallow capsules you can take it in the morning before you go to bed or right now right now don't mind if I do get 20 off your first month with ritual using the code Mac address20 at ritual.com Mac address20. thank you now Apple music isn't getting all the attention though Fitness Plus gets some improvements with custom workout plans and stacks which are essentially playlists to queue up your videos did you do crosswords I love crosswords in Apple news plus now do them digitally wow my grandmother was a crosswords person well your grandmother and maybe you can now do crosswords on Apple news plus I actually might use that app now Apple Maps now shows EV charger availability in the US please come to Canada thank you we wanted that so much on the way down and back from Texas so there's a feature just called the lookup and you can pause the video hold an object and then search it just in your phone for clothing or shopping I can see that being handy I hope I can figure out like what brand an outfit is yeah which shirts from Apple home has activity history you can more easily sign into an already set up device with this Magic Orb and find mine that lets you share air tags and any other accessories with up to five other people excellent my wife has an ember travel mug and we were traveling with it and do you want to know what kept happening every every time we stopped we've discovered that this device is traveling with you it could see your location yeah of course because she's in my family she's right there and you find my Avenue one thing I'm particularly concerned about is this notification interaction before simply tapping would take you straight to the app now look this is so much worse I have to do extra Taps not everyone will be getting these updates iOS 17 will not run on the iPhone 8 8 plus 10 and older Mac OS Sonoma drops almost all 2017 Mac releases and even if your Matt gets to know my many of the coolest features are exclusive to Apple silicon the A9 powered iPad Pro and 5th generation are left out to dry but those that do get updated will enjoy USB webcam support now I guess that would be useful if I were like uh doing a field recording or something like that that's handy cool that's how it always should have worked mercifully all currently supported Apple watches will get watch OS 10 and they get some notable changes you know the grid view yeah it's different it's now like it's a scroll so it Scrolls a little in Scrolls yeah control center but by the way you can summon it from any app on Apple watch now just by hitting the side button it is no longer the app switcher before you had to swipe from the bottom right but you could only do it when you're in the watch face I've never noticed that because I've never done it and now what do you think now that I've made you notice that I hate it and they're fixing so yes you can also summon your watch from your phone so now you can beep your phone from your watch you can't do the reverse Vice University if you lose your watch and look there's even a new Snoopy watch face everyone loves do you have an Apple Watch No but that might make me buy one this Snoopy watch face that's all I care about that's all my mom cares about it's a very iconic watch face even horologists love Snoopy every time you look at it it's like doing something different he's like catching a frisbee or he's surfing this is the best Apple TV also gets a couple of nice updates with an enhanced dialogue option for those who use the second gen home pods there's better Dolby Vision support VPN support remote finder on your iPhone yay and video recording for karaoke would you try it I mean maybe once to have fun with friends like if you have friends over then you can all kind of do it together okay so you have to use your iPhone as the camera yeah but it's hooked up to your Apple TV through continuity camera oh okay and let's not forget all the stickers you can literally take a live photo which is a video just hold on a sub object in the video it'll take that off the background in its animated State and turn that into a sticker that's life-changing indeed I wish I had that and that's it that is until people start discovering weird obscured changes as they play with the beta over the next few months you wonder what surprises The Vision Pro has like that head strap what's up with that looks looks like everyone had something to say about Apple's unannounced features but I can't get them to say more we tried very hard to get everyone's text-to-speech to work but the phone couldn't handle it and failed to process so now you will have to hear my robotic voice forevermore thanks for voicing this Mac address iPhone if you think that I should continue to talk through this give this video a like and if you prefer my actual voice then you should subscribe in the comments let me know what new OS feature you're most looking for\n"