iPad OS 17: A Game-Changing Update for Productivity and Creativity

I recently had the opportunity to try out iPad OS 17, and I must say, it feels like a whole new device. The interface is more responsive, and the overall experience is much more polished than previous versions. One of the standout features of iPad OS 17 is its ability to connect to external displays via Thunderbolt cables, which allows for seamless multitasking and a much larger workspace.

For those who may not know, I'm connected to my BenQ monitor via a Thunderbolt cable, which is an awesome setup that makes me feel like I'm using a proper computer. The TS4, which is the part of the Hub, is connected to the iPad via another Thunderbolt cable, and this combination allows for a full 4K resolution with a beautiful aspect ratio. This means that I can work with applications like Lumafusion in a full-screen mode without any issues or distractions.

Another feature that I'm loving is the ability to use an external webcam, which is only available through FaceTime for now, but it's still a fantastic addition. No longer do I have to rely on the selfie camera; instead, I can use whatever device I want as my primary camera. This opens up a world of possibilities for content creators and anyone who wants to record high-quality video or take stunning photos.

Unfortunately, there are still some minor issues that need to be addressed. The audio output still has some limitations, particularly when it comes to external speakers or headphones. If the monitor doesn't have built-in speakers, I won't be able to hear any audio coming from my iPad. This can be a bit frustrating at times, but Apple is aware of this issue and may address it in future updates.

Another question that many users have is whether the new iPad OS 17 supports clamshell mode when the device is closed. The answer is yes, but with some caveats. While it doesn't support traditional clamshell mode, I can still go into a sort of "clamshell" state by closing the lid and using an external mouse to navigate. This workaround may not be ideal for everyone, but it's better than nothing.

Overall, iPad OS 17 has brought about some significant changes that make me feel like I'm using a proper computer. The ability to connect to external displays, use external webcams, and work in full-screen mode with Stage Manager all contribute to an experience that feels much more free-flowing and flexible. Apple's approach to multitasking on the iPad is innovative, but it may take some getting used to. Nevertheless, I'm excited to see where this technology takes us and how it will continue to evolve in the future.

Journaling Applications: A Missing Piece of the Puzzle

One area that iPad OS 17 doesn't quite fill is the lack of a native journaling application. While there are many third-party options available, it's still disappointing that Apple hasn't included one of its own. Journaling has become an increasingly popular practice among creatives and productivity enthusiasts, and having a built-in app would make a huge difference.

In conclusion, iPad OS 17 is an impressive update that has brought about some significant changes to the way we interact with our devices. The addition of Stage Manager, external display support, and webcam integration are just a few examples of how Apple is pushing the boundaries of what's possible on the iPad. While there are still some minor issues to address, I'm excited to see where this technology takes us in the future.

iPad Pro Workstation Setup

As an aside, I've been experimenting with using my iPad as a workstation for more creative tasks, and it's been an amazing experience. Using Stage Manager, I can easily switch between multiple apps and windows, making it feel like a proper computer. The extended monitor support has also allowed me to set up a seamless workflow that feels incredibly smooth.

In this setup, I've connected my iPad Pro to a BenQ display via Thunderbolt cable, which provides a beautiful 4K resolution with an aspect ratio that's perfect for creative work. I use Lumafusion as my primary app, and the ability to work in full-screen mode without any distractions has been incredibly liberating.

While this setup may not be for everyone, it's clear that Apple is committed to making the iPad a viable option for productivity and creativity. With continued improvements like Stage Manager and extended monitor support, I'm confident that we'll see even more innovative features down the line.

Stay Tuned

Finally, if you want to watch more content about iPad OS, Mac OS, or iOS, be sure to check out Jeff's upcoming videos. He's been working on some fantastic content, and I think you'll really enjoy it. Thanks for watching, and don't forget to leave a comment below with your thoughts on iPad OS 17!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso everybody Apple find released iPad OS 17 to the entire public and even those might not have the biggest visual changes or feature sets this is a very great quality of life Improvement when it comes to the usability of the iPad Pro especially as a computer replacement you guys might know at this point that I love my iPad Pro I use it as my main form of computing and this iPad OS 17 update has just solidified how I feel about the iPad even more before we Deep dive into every single new feature that we found with iPad OS 17 I do want to give you guys a list of the supported devices because this here is a little bit different so from a holistic standpoint iPad OS 17 is supported by a few different iPads so from an iPad Pro standpoint the first iPad that is supported is iPad Pro second generation so long gone is the support from the 2015 12.9 inch iPad Pro that was the original iPad Pro that came out and gave us that larger form factor but everything after that is supported by iPad OS 17. for the iPad areas you have the iPad Air 3rd gen and newer for the regular iPad is iPad 6 gen in New newer and then for the iPad Mini it is the iPad Mini 5th gen and newer so that is the iPads that are supported by iPad OS 17 but there is some segregation and feature sets which we'll touch on in a little bit but for things like stage manager you need to have an iPad Pro or an M powered enabled iPad and then for something like extended monitor support your iPad needs to be powered by an M series chip so iPad Pro M1 and M2 and iPad Air M1 but now we've got all that housekeeping out of the way let's go with iPad OS 17 and go through all of its features let's get into it okay everyone so let's get right into this video and talk about iPad OS 17 and everything that you get now I did mention that there is some segregation in terms of the types of features we get but we are starting with everything that comes with any single iPad that goes iPad OS 17. so the first thing that Apple brought over to iPad is the lock screen and lock screen widget so if you hold down on your actual lock screen you get the same animation that was brought over with iOS 16 and apple likes to repackage what they do with iOS and bring it over to iPad Oso we got the hand-me-down version of a new lock screen so if you press on this plus button right here we get a bunch of new stuff here so new to the iPad so for instance we get some featured wallpapers over here like the unity astronomy hello and some of my favorite ones are these Dynamic wallpapers and dynamic kind of customizable lock screen so for instance the weather wallpaper shows you the actual Dynamic weather on your lock screen so it'll show you that it's actually raining in my area it has been raining all day so if it's a sunny day it'll show you sunny when it's night time it'll show the moon it'll show that it is kind of night time and things like that so if we press cancel we can actually go into and see the astronomy ones now the astronomy ones are also very very cool for instance if you click on the earth one it will pinpoint where you are if you actually share your location you're able to slide in between and get a little closer with a little extra detail you have this beautiful moon one that's here you do get a nice variety of astrology type wallpapers and lock screen wallpapers which are great and again these are Dynamic so it shows you like what time of day it is even at different planets in different parts of the Moon and lunar calendar once you've decided what you actually want to use I'm going to go back to the actual weather one because that's probably my favorite one and then of course the other photo Shuffle but if you want to get into the weather one like I mentioned that is a perfect segue into this lock screen so Apple again with iOS 16 they're just bringing over this stuff to iPad OS 17 but you have the ability to add now widgets on the lock screen on the left hand side as well as above the clock and you're gonna see customize a clock as well so if I want to actually click on here you have the ability to customize a clock the same way that you were able to with iOS 16 very self-explanatory you pick what you want you you can change the Bold of it how thin it is change the font style change the color and all that good stuff and then you can also go up here and actually change what it's showing here so here you have a couple of options now it's a small area of what you can actually show but you can show the weather in different formats you can show your calendar you can show the clock you have your health which we'll get into in a little bit which is new also the iPad OS 17 but these are all different things you can add in terms of a widget above the clock but you also have the ability to change up the widgets on the left hand side here so if you click on this left hand side this is kind of like a watered down version of The Today view now for those people that don't know what the today view is look up images of iPad OS 13 in the today view one of my favorite things that was unbelievably removed on iPad OS 14 it pretty much gave you this widget kind of style look at your actual iPad at a glance so this gives you a similar idea but something about the today view just made you feel like you were using something a little bit different but the idea is relatively the same you can add different widgets on here just by tapping them you can add shortcuts you can add a little timing to see exactly how much screen time you've been using and there's a bunch of other ones on here that you can use too so you can click on the health one you get some State of Mind ones and medications home if you guys want to see a big home summary so for instance if I want to do something like you know my summary right here I can just add that I can add it twice if you want and then same thing goes if I want to remove it I can just start to remove them and kind of modify them however I see fit these actual widgets will show in landscape and in portrait mode as well so if I actually grab this and rotate it to actual portrait mode you can now see that it tries to fit everything only in this little section right here and it changes so it's different so depending on how you set it up in portrait versus landscape mode that's what it's going to decide on so you we set up the landscape now let's set up the actual portrait mode Let's remove these you know leave it a little bit more clean I only want to see what my calendar is doing so click on that and we're done and then that's what it's showing and again it does the same thing for the clock and same thing for that top widget as well but you know me I like to use my iPad in landscape mode for 99 of my tasks and by all means that's what I like to do so between the dynamic wallpapers the new lock screen widgets apple is again trying to take a little bit more advantage of the lock screen because again this is a 12.9 inch iPad and apple was kind of forgetting that you could use it with the lock screen and trying to get some visible data I'm glad that apple is bringing that over and that is how we're using new lock screen widgets and what's nice about this is that the dynamic wallpaper also works on the actual wallpaper down here in your home screen so for instance if I lock it tap on there it does give you a nice animation but as you can see it does stop and then again it doesn't animate itself on the home screen like it does on the lock screen so now let's get into the actual home screen itself and with the home screen very similar so if you long press on here you know we had the ability to add widgets before but now we have interactive widgets and a great example of this is the new music widget so the music widget especially if you do one of the larger ones which I like which is over here so if you press on this and we press the add widget this is actually interactable so I can press on something like Taylor Swift press play well first I got to let it happen but I can press play on the Taylor Swift song and it will start playing which is nice to see I'm gonna turn that off so we don't get copyrighted but they are live and interactive widgets widgets will now be interactive and now there's a lot of third-party applications that can take advantage of this so the things like again things three flighty the Notes application or notability these are all different apps so we'll be able to take advantage of that new interactive ability if that's even a word you can see that Apple from a native standpoint has been able to have things like the music app been able to add things like the home application in terms of widgets so you can actually interact with this in real time so if I press on this it'll turn off the light if I press on this it will turn off the light or vice versa so that's always great to see adding a little bit more customization at a glance but as you can see on here there are some new widgets overall like for instance a new cleaner widget so you can see the grid forecast let you know when cleaner energy is being used you do have the new app store widget you have the reminders which you can interact with so if I add this scroll up then you can just tack that off so reminders allows you to interact with it so again play around with the widgets play around with third-party applications in those widgets and you'll see that there are some new updates with the widgets on iPad OS 17. now one of my favorite new updates is that Apple finally brought the health app over to iPad OS 17 and I don't know why Apple didn't do this sooner because again look at the canvas that you have to play with there's so much information so much data that you can see at a glance and I'm a big you know I'm a big user of the actual Health app I love having all this data at a glance you can see 12 000 steps and it's not anything crazy that it's doing it's just giving you all the information but on your iPad and it syncs directly you know whatever happens on your Apple watch will now be shown on your your iPad so you got your Trends you have your show all Health Data if you want to see and look at all this information you can see at a glance which is awesome so again you can see your VO2 max your resting heart rate your total activity for the day and it finally syncs so well with the Apple fitness app so if I click on activity you get to see exactly what's going on here so now the last thing I want Apple to add is a fitness widget to kind of complete that ecosystem so now the next thing I want to touch on is the actual Notes application so if I go into notes Apple added a couple of new actual Tools in their actual toolkit first off highly recommend getting yourself a little pencil grip right here not sponsored but paper like makes some good ones but you can see down here that we got a couple of new pencil grips so the first one is or pencil tools the first one is the watercolor so watercolor and what I love about it is how realistic it is so you can see that I'm kind of just slightly working on it and then but if I press harder it really starts to show up and even if you guys have ever used watercolors back in the day if you just like I remember like pressing on here it would just kind of show up a little bit more and more and more and more and more and more and more so I don't know I like the the actual usability and just how realistic it is Apple does such a good job of being able to show us exactly how realistic it could be and obviously you can change the sizes of it so if I click on here I can make it really thin and it does the same effect I can sign my name which is great to see and we also got the calligraphy pen so this makes any pen look really really nice you can see that I'm kind of writing on there and again you can change it to different sizes so if I make it medium this is my signature which is very cool so if you are into calligraphy writing this is now a great digital way of doing that Kudo sample for bringing that over and again it's just part of the toolkit in the Arsenal that you can now play with so another kind of new feature not really a feature just a different um I guess way that you can do this so if you go into your tools and you press on this little a tool right here that a tool is so whenever you hand write something it'll turn into text automatically so now before you want to be able to just write anywhere with that handwriting tool and then convert it to text you'd have to kind of scroll down go to an empty section but now let's say if I'm on here and I just want to spell out hello it now shows up pretty much anywhere that I write it which I think is awesome so if you do want to like combine actual watercolor or handwriting with actual text and stuff like that it you can now do so directly on the notes app another thing apple is great at doing is pretty much cannibalizing other third-party applications so you know that we have PDF editors everywhere Apple decided to kind of put that into the notes app and have that option and feature be there natively so here you can see that we have a PDF so now we have a new view of seeing this PDF you can now edit in real time so if I want to like sign something I just click on the the tool set right there go here and then just start to sign you know I can do whatever I want I can annotate I can do it in real time you know I can move with two fingers I can start to sign my name everywhere you can actually share it and show all these changes in real time you also have some options over here with this drop down so I can view as small I can view as medium which gives you a different View and then obviously you can view as large which we saw in a second so that is what the large one looks like and then you also have a quick look that lets you even see it more as a PDF editor you also have the autofill tool over here so if there are situations where you do have to autofill it'll help you autofill and write directly on there which is great to see so being able to have a PDF editor that works easily and works natively now again you can add signature add text form box very self-explanatory very easy to use now it's not super robust and there's probably some other features that PDF editors have already but this one if you just need to sign something or fill out like a W9 or fill out some you know parent permission slip this is now so much easier to do than it used to be with a PDF editor built directly into the actual application itself and then some another small thing that we did notice is that the actual magnifier so if you hold on and press here the magnifier animation just looks a little bit different it gives you kind of A Wider Circle to look at and it's a little bit more accurate so I like this being there as a new feature and I don't know if you guys remember the app freeform but freeform came out last year with iPad OS 16 and people seem to really like it it was supposed to be this kind of endless canvas like more so than the Notes application is collaboration whiteboard tool you can use with as many people as you want so you do have some improved drawing you can follow along with others faster diagramming and much more as it says on here but some of the main things that I really noticed is the ability to now use perfect shape so if I want to press on this and let's say I want to create something like an org chart so if I want to make a square here I can make a perfect square which is nice so let's make something a little bit darker actually stop using that pencil so I make a square here to kind of indicate that that's the boss scroll down then do one of these and that's perfect circle and then a perfect circle and I can even do like I said a star before so now bringing this over which I really really like there's even a new one which is a cloud so if I do a cloud it'll give you a nice kind of perfect looking Cloud so that is now coming over to freeform where it's now over at freeform which is great to see now another big quality of life Improvement that I've been talking about is Spotlight so Spotlight got a lot smarter so if I type in something like dog or better yet if I type in something like Shiba Inu which is the type of dog that I have it's now of course going to give you some Search terms you can go on Safari but then it's going to give you the actual Siri knowledge which is on here then it's going to look into my photos and show me all the pictures of a Sheba but then it's also going to go into Google and find all the other pictures of a Sheba so it's a little bit more kind of intuitive it's a little bit smarter it goes deeper into giving the information that you need and then of course you can go down here insert in your notes search in the App Store and search in maps and then kind of in a similar vein of Spotlight I'm not going to show you but Siri got a little bit more conversational so you're able to kind of speak to Siri and then also kind of give it context so for instance you can be like what's the weather in California it's currently clear and 84 degrees in Sacramento California is it going to rain tomorrow it doesn't look like so you can see that I'm able to speak to Siri and then have her kind of contextualize that I'm talking about California with that second question so I no longer have to reiterate the question over and over again I kind of have a more of a normal conversation with Siri again still not amazing but quality of life improvements with Siri as well so now I want to get into Safari a little bit so if you go into Safari Safari got a few actual new settings so if we go into settings scroll down to Safari we actually have a few new things something called profile so profile is exactly what it sounds like for instance if you have a personal profile you can create a work profile so basically you can save bookmarks and different web pages certain profiles and I can see this being used so let's say you have an iPad Pro that gets shared around the house and you have multiple people using it you know what's to stop you from doing a you know a profile for yourself a profile for somebody else in the household and keep those sign-ins for those people for easy access so being able to use those profiles is great and then again if I go into Safari and I go here you can actually select your profiles by going here so personal you have a private then you have all the different profiles which are down here and you can again name them and change them however you see fit and again you can kind of click on the profiles click on the work one for instance and it's going to open a new page and you can see that it is a work profile another interesting one that was added is if I go into this button right here let's say I want to go to a private tab by default you actually have to lock private browsing so turn on log private browsing and now the browsing or the private browsing will be locked behind your face ID which wasn't the case before so if I want to get out of there get out of here go back to the work Tab and then I'm good to go and now I'm going with whatever the work tab was before and now lastly before we get into some of the other features that are more exclusive to the iPad Pro let's get into the actual multitasking so multitasking got a new settings menu so you do have the ability to now go into different modes and again it depends on which iPad you have to see which modes will show up I'm using the M1 iPad Pro so I get all of the features which is nice but you can have it off you can go split view or you can go into Stage manager as some of your different variations the new multitasking menu is great so with iOS and iPad OS 17 we actually got some new FaceTime editions or some new FaceTime features and it kind of reacts to some hand movements that you do so if I do a heart it shows little hearts if I do two thumbs up I'll do fireworks you can also do a peace sign and it should show up some balloons behind me and in front of me which is kind of cool so it kind of knows exactly where I am positionally if that's even a word also two P signs you should get confetti so it's a nice little add-on you also have two thumbs down for rain ah because you're sad obviously and then if you do the rocking sign or whatever you get lasers so some new things that came to FaceTime and it's for iOS iPad OS and Mac OS so now let's get into Stage manager stage manager did get much improved and now stage manager is going to be exclusive to the 2018 iPad Pro and newer so it's got to have the a12x the a12z the M1 or the M2 and then obviously the iPad Air with M1 can also use stage manager so there aren't too many that can use it and unless you have a 12.9 inch iPad Pro I don't see it like with an 11 inch or even the 10.9 inch iPad Air it's not productive enough but all you do is you go down here click on the stage manager icon in your Control Center and now you have the ability to use something like stage manager so if I go into Safari it now opens in a windowed view and the biggest quality of life Improvement that I saw with this is the amount of variability that you have with these window sizes so if I grab this right here and make it a second window you can see that now I can actually move it a little bit bigger and into smaller increments before you only had like six or seven increments so Safari cannot be in a small tiny little size and you can see that you have all this variable ability so what's nice is that if I drag in another app it does open up in the center so it's no longer kind of taking up space and kind of moving everything around but it's a little bit more intuitive of how it actually works and you can click on stuff on the side as well click over here move this over if I want to so it seems very easy to use but again the biggest thing and you're not really going to notice it until you actually play with it yourself is the ability to move stuff around and the ability to have all that variability which we didn't have before before it was very stringent it was very clunky it didn't work too well it wasn't that intuitive but now it seems to be very easy to use at least in my opinion which is great to have and then when it comes to that side view of applications everything else has stayed relatively the same so if I open up another Safari tab I could just press the plus sign here open up that Safari Tab and then pull this over you can see that all this has stayed relatively the same you can still only have four applications at once and they kind of move over as you see fit and you can have technically up to 20 apps open at the same time because you can go four four four four four and then four on the screen itself and then technically you can have a YouTube picture and picture open or any other picture in picture so you can have up to 21 apps working in real time which is great so now that we're done with this let's move on and actually plug this into an external Monitor and finish up this video and talk to you guys about external monitor support so the first thing I do want to mention is that if you do have an iPad that supports external monitor support you still need to have a peripheral plugged in so I'm going to plug in this iPad without any peripherals and show you what happens on that second screen so I am plugged in and it should just mirror the screen so you can see that external monitor support is showing up and it is just mirroring the screen like it used to which is very very annoying but you can see that it still works in this fashion it's just you need to have either a Bluetooth mouse or a Bluetooth keyboard or which I'm going to show you in a second the magic keyboard to kind of put you into that mode of external monitor support which I'm going to show you right now so now you can see that I plugged back in and it should show me external display and Stage managers on and then now I have a true extended monitor support because I've connected to a magic keyboard so the iPad kind of recognizes that I'm on a magic keyboard and it knows to kind of spit up that a real external display and treat it as its own OS so if I click on Safari here it's going to open the same apps I had opened before but now you have it up here and again this is where stage manager really shines because it feels way better it kind of immediately goes to the correct resolution I am connected via a thunderbolt cable to a cal digit Hub which is awesome the ts4 I believe it is and then that's connected with another Thunderbolt cable to this BenQ monitor so it's treated in the full 4K the aspect ratio and the resolution is exactly what it needs to be and this is where things get really awesome because then I can just full screen actual things like lumafusion and be able to work with lumafusion in a full screen Manner and then still use my iPad down here as an iPad so I think that's great and being able to use it that way is amazing and then you still have your three dots up here to navigate everything so to enter full screen add another window minimize move to iPad so Venture full screen you can see that it gets nice and big and very easy to use now a few more things to mention first so Apple added the ability to use an external webcam now for now it only works with FaceTime and I'm sure third-party applications will be able to kind of hopefully adopt this at some point but if you have a DSLR or if you just have a USB camera or whatever the case may be you no longer have to use a selfie camera you can just use whatever you see fit and actually use it as a FaceTime camera one thing that hasn't been fixed is the audio issue so if you want to have audio playing you have to make sure that your monitor has an audio source so if there's no built-in speakers to your monitor you will not be able to hear anything coming out of the iPad because for some reason even though these speakers are amazing these quad speakers on the iPad Apple doesn't allow you to default to the iPad speakers when you're plugged in so you either have to have a monitor with built-in speakers or have yourself a hub with an auxiliary Jack to allow you to use external speakers or just use your airpods pro or any other Bluetooth speaker or Bluetooth headphones in order to kind of work around that but it is very very sad that that isn't possible and then another question a lot of people usually have is does it work in clamshell mode if I close this up unfortunately it does not go into clamshell mode but when I open it up it does give you a nice lock screen so the lock screen is down here and it does give you kind of like a wallpaper screen but there is a little bit of a workaround so if you go into your display and brightness settings and turn off lock and unlock and then close it then technically if you have an external Mouse you can go into clamshell mode but it's not really clamshell mode or a native clamshell mode but it still works if that's something that you want to get into and I have a separate video kind of going into an iPad Pro kind of workstation setup which is amazing but overall iPad OS 17 quality of life improvements make it feel more like a computer I'm curious to see what Apple does moving forward and something that we're still missing is a journaling applications which is something to take into consideration but that's going to do it let's finish up this video so that's going to wrap up this video leave a comment down below of some of the new things that you liked about iPad OS 17 maybe some things that are still missing from your iPad OS experience overall leave a comment down below of which iPad you updated iPad OS 17. I'm always very curious to know how you guys use your iPad on a day-to-day basis but my favorite feature or I guess again it's not really a feature it's just how the iPad is now acting is the amount of variability you have with the window sizing with Stage manager and then also with extended monitor support it makes you feel like it's a lot more free-flowing makes you feel like you're using a computer instead of an iPad and I think the way that apple is kind of attacking multitasking on the iPad they had to do it differently the Mac OS because they had to do with the iPad way but I like how they're actually bringing it and making it a little bit more familiar overall but that has to be my absolute favorite update or upgrade to Stage manager and to iPad OS but that is going to do it for this video Everybody if you made it to the end of this video leave a dolphin in the comments below because that means that you made it all the way to the end and you I didn't bore you with all these features but if you guys want to watch more iPad OS Mac OS or iOS content I know that Jeff is cooking up some nice iOS tvos Mac OS content so definitely go watch that right after this video and until next time I'm Fernando and Maddie everybody peace stay tuned for some iPhone content coming real soonso everybody Apple find released iPad OS 17 to the entire public and even those might not have the biggest visual changes or feature sets this is a very great quality of life Improvement when it comes to the usability of the iPad Pro especially as a computer replacement you guys might know at this point that I love my iPad Pro I use it as my main form of computing and this iPad OS 17 update has just solidified how I feel about the iPad even more before we Deep dive into every single new feature that we found with iPad OS 17 I do want to give you guys a list of the supported devices because this here is a little bit different so from a holistic standpoint iPad OS 17 is supported by a few different iPads so from an iPad Pro standpoint the first iPad that is supported is iPad Pro second generation so long gone is the support from the 2015 12.9 inch iPad Pro that was the original iPad Pro that came out and gave us that larger form factor but everything after that is supported by iPad OS 17. for the iPad areas you have the iPad Air 3rd gen and newer for the regular iPad is iPad 6 gen in New newer and then for the iPad Mini it is the iPad Mini 5th gen and newer so that is the iPads that are supported by iPad OS 17 but there is some segregation and feature sets which we'll touch on in a little bit but for things like stage manager you need to have an iPad Pro or an M powered enabled iPad and then for something like extended monitor support your iPad needs to be powered by an M series chip so iPad Pro M1 and M2 and iPad Air M1 but now we've got all that housekeeping out of the way let's go with iPad OS 17 and go through all of its features let's get into it okay everyone so let's get right into this video and talk about iPad OS 17 and everything that you get now I did mention that there is some segregation in terms of the types of features we get but we are starting with everything that comes with any single iPad that goes iPad OS 17. so the first thing that Apple brought over to iPad is the lock screen and lock screen widget so if you hold down on your actual lock screen you get the same animation that was brought over with iOS 16 and apple likes to repackage what they do with iOS and bring it over to iPad Oso we got the hand-me-down version of a new lock screen so if you press on this plus button right here we get a bunch of new stuff here so new to the iPad so for instance we get some featured wallpapers over here like the unity astronomy hello and some of my favorite ones are these Dynamic wallpapers and dynamic kind of customizable lock screen so for instance the weather wallpaper shows you the actual Dynamic weather on your lock screen so it'll show you that it's actually raining in my area it has been raining all day so if it's a sunny day it'll show you sunny when it's night time it'll show the moon it'll show that it is kind of night time and things like that so if we press cancel we can actually go into and see the astronomy ones now the astronomy ones are also very very cool for instance if you click on the earth one it will pinpoint where you are if you actually share your location you're able to slide in between and get a little closer with a little extra detail you have this beautiful moon one that's here you do get a nice variety of astrology type wallpapers and lock screen wallpapers which are great and again these are Dynamic so it shows you like what time of day it is even at different planets in different parts of the Moon and lunar calendar once you've decided what you actually want to use I'm going to go back to the actual weather one because that's probably my favorite one and then of course the other photo Shuffle but if you want to get into the weather one like I mentioned that is a perfect segue into this lock screen so Apple again with iOS 16 they're just bringing over this stuff to iPad OS 17 but you have the ability to add now widgets on the lock screen on the left hand side as well as above the clock and you're gonna see customize a clock as well so if I want to actually click on here you have the ability to customize a clock the same way that you were able to with iOS 16 very self-explanatory you pick what you want you you can change the Bold of it how thin it is change the font style change the color and all that good stuff and then you can also go up here and actually change what it's showing here so here you have a couple of options now it's a small area of what you can actually show but you can show the weather in different formats you can show your calendar you can show the clock you have your health which we'll get into in a little bit which is new also the iPad OS 17 but these are all different things you can add in terms of a widget above the clock but you also have the ability to change up the widgets on the left hand side here so if you click on this left hand side this is kind of like a watered down version of The Today view now for those people that don't know what the today view is look up images of iPad OS 13 in the today view one of my favorite things that was unbelievably removed on iPad OS 14 it pretty much gave you this widget kind of style look at your actual iPad at a glance so this gives you a similar idea but something about the today view just made you feel like you were using something a little bit different but the idea is relatively the same you can add different widgets on here just by tapping them you can add shortcuts you can add a little timing to see exactly how much screen time you've been using and there's a bunch of other ones on here that you can use too so you can click on the health one you get some State of Mind ones and medications home if you guys want to see a big home summary so for instance if I want to do something like you know my summary right here I can just add that I can add it twice if you want and then same thing goes if I want to remove it I can just start to remove them and kind of modify them however I see fit these actual widgets will show in landscape and in portrait mode as well so if I actually grab this and rotate it to actual portrait mode you can now see that it tries to fit everything only in this little section right here and it changes so it's different so depending on how you set it up in portrait versus landscape mode that's what it's going to decide on so you we set up the landscape now let's set up the actual portrait mode Let's remove these you know leave it a little bit more clean I only want to see what my calendar is doing so click on that and we're done and then that's what it's showing and again it does the same thing for the clock and same thing for that top widget as well but you know me I like to use my iPad in landscape mode for 99 of my tasks and by all means that's what I like to do so between the dynamic wallpapers the new lock screen widgets apple is again trying to take a little bit more advantage of the lock screen because again this is a 12.9 inch iPad and apple was kind of forgetting that you could use it with the lock screen and trying to get some visible data I'm glad that apple is bringing that over and that is how we're using new lock screen widgets and what's nice about this is that the dynamic wallpaper also works on the actual wallpaper down here in your home screen so for instance if I lock it tap on there it does give you a nice animation but as you can see it does stop and then again it doesn't animate itself on the home screen like it does on the lock screen so now let's get into the actual home screen itself and with the home screen very similar so if you long press on here you know we had the ability to add widgets before but now we have interactive widgets and a great example of this is the new music widget so the music widget especially if you do one of the larger ones which I like which is over here so if you press on this and we press the add widget this is actually interactable so I can press on something like Taylor Swift press play well first I got to let it happen but I can press play on the Taylor Swift song and it will start playing which is nice to see I'm gonna turn that off so we don't get copyrighted but they are live and interactive widgets widgets will now be interactive and now there's a lot of third-party applications that can take advantage of this so the things like again things three flighty the Notes application or notability these are all different apps so we'll be able to take advantage of that new interactive ability if that's even a word you can see that Apple from a native standpoint has been able to have things like the music app been able to add things like the home application in terms of widgets so you can actually interact with this in real time so if I press on this it'll turn off the light if I press on this it will turn off the light or vice versa so that's always great to see adding a little bit more customization at a glance but as you can see on here there are some new widgets overall like for instance a new cleaner widget so you can see the grid forecast let you know when cleaner energy is being used you do have the new app store widget you have the reminders which you can interact with so if I add this scroll up then you can just tack that off so reminders allows you to interact with it so again play around with the widgets play around with third-party applications in those widgets and you'll see that there are some new updates with the widgets on iPad OS 17. now one of my favorite new updates is that Apple finally brought the health app over to iPad OS 17 and I don't know why Apple didn't do this sooner because again look at the canvas that you have to play with there's so much information so much data that you can see at a glance and I'm a big you know I'm a big user of the actual Health app I love having all this data at a glance you can see 12 000 steps and it's not anything crazy that it's doing it's just giving you all the information but on your iPad and it syncs directly you know whatever happens on your Apple watch will now be shown on your your iPad so you got your Trends you have your show all Health Data if you want to see and look at all this information you can see at a glance which is awesome so again you can see your VO2 max your resting heart rate your total activity for the day and it finally syncs so well with the Apple fitness app so if I click on activity you get to see exactly what's going on here so now the last thing I want Apple to add is a fitness widget to kind of complete that ecosystem so now the next thing I want to touch on is the actual Notes application so if I go into notes Apple added a couple of new actual Tools in their actual toolkit first off highly recommend getting yourself a little pencil grip right here not sponsored but paper like makes some good ones but you can see down here that we got a couple of new pencil grips so the first one is or pencil tools the first one is the watercolor so watercolor and what I love about it is how realistic it is so you can see that I'm kind of just slightly working on it and then but if I press harder it really starts to show up and even if you guys have ever used watercolors back in the day if you just like I remember like pressing on here it would just kind of show up a little bit more and more and more and more and more and more and more so I don't know I like the the actual usability and just how realistic it is Apple does such a good job of being able to show us exactly how realistic it could be and obviously you can change the sizes of it so if I click on here I can make it really thin and it does the same effect I can sign my name which is great to see and we also got the calligraphy pen so this makes any pen look really really nice you can see that I'm kind of writing on there and again you can change it to different sizes so if I make it medium this is my signature which is very cool so if you are into calligraphy writing this is now a great digital way of doing that Kudo sample for bringing that over and again it's just part of the toolkit in the Arsenal that you can now play with so another kind of new feature not really a feature just a different um I guess way that you can do this so if you go into your tools and you press on this little a tool right here that a tool is so whenever you hand write something it'll turn into text automatically so now before you want to be able to just write anywhere with that handwriting tool and then convert it to text you'd have to kind of scroll down go to an empty section but now let's say if I'm on here and I just want to spell out hello it now shows up pretty much anywhere that I write it which I think is awesome so if you do want to like combine actual watercolor or handwriting with actual text and stuff like that it you can now do so directly on the notes app another thing apple is great at doing is pretty much cannibalizing other third-party applications so you know that we have PDF editors everywhere Apple decided to kind of put that into the notes app and have that option and feature be there natively so here you can see that we have a PDF so now we have a new view of seeing this PDF you can now edit in real time so if I want to like sign something I just click on the the tool set right there go here and then just start to sign you know I can do whatever I want I can annotate I can do it in real time you know I can move with two fingers I can start to sign my name everywhere you can actually share it and show all these changes in real time you also have some options over here with this drop down so I can view as small I can view as medium which gives you a different View and then obviously you can view as large which we saw in a second so that is what the large one looks like and then you also have a quick look that lets you even see it more as a PDF editor you also have the autofill tool over here so if there are situations where you do have to autofill it'll help you autofill and write directly on there which is great to see so being able to have a PDF editor that works easily and works natively now again you can add signature add text form box very self-explanatory very easy to use now it's not super robust and there's probably some other features that PDF editors have already but this one if you just need to sign something or fill out like a W9 or fill out some you know parent permission slip this is now so much easier to do than it used to be with a PDF editor built directly into the actual application itself and then some another small thing that we did notice is that the actual magnifier so if you hold on and press here the magnifier animation just looks a little bit different it gives you kind of A Wider Circle to look at and it's a little bit more accurate so I like this being there as a new feature and I don't know if you guys remember the app freeform but freeform came out last year with iPad OS 16 and people seem to really like it it was supposed to be this kind of endless canvas like more so than the Notes application is collaboration whiteboard tool you can use with as many people as you want so you do have some improved drawing you can follow along with others faster diagramming and much more as it says on here but some of the main things that I really noticed is the ability to now use perfect shape so if I want to press on this and let's say I want to create something like an org chart so if I want to make a square here I can make a perfect square which is nice so let's make something a little bit darker actually stop using that pencil so I make a square here to kind of indicate that that's the boss scroll down then do one of these and that's perfect circle and then a perfect circle and I can even do like I said a star before so now bringing this over which I really really like there's even a new one which is a cloud so if I do a cloud it'll give you a nice kind of perfect looking Cloud so that is now coming over to freeform where it's now over at freeform which is great to see now another big quality of life Improvement that I've been talking about is Spotlight so Spotlight got a lot smarter so if I type in something like dog or better yet if I type in something like Shiba Inu which is the type of dog that I have it's now of course going to give you some Search terms you can go on Safari but then it's going to give you the actual Siri knowledge which is on here then it's going to look into my photos and show me all the pictures of a Sheba but then it's also going to go into Google and find all the other pictures of a Sheba so it's a little bit more kind of intuitive it's a little bit smarter it goes deeper into giving the information that you need and then of course you can go down here insert in your notes search in the App Store and search in maps and then kind of in a similar vein of Spotlight I'm not going to show you but Siri got a little bit more conversational so you're able to kind of speak to Siri and then also kind of give it context so for instance you can be like what's the weather in California it's currently clear and 84 degrees in Sacramento California is it going to rain tomorrow it doesn't look like so you can see that I'm able to speak to Siri and then have her kind of contextualize that I'm talking about California with that second question so I no longer have to reiterate the question over and over again I kind of have a more of a normal conversation with Siri again still not amazing but quality of life improvements with Siri as well so now I want to get into Safari a little bit so if you go into Safari Safari got a few actual new settings so if we go into settings scroll down to Safari we actually have a few new things something called profile so profile is exactly what it sounds like for instance if you have a personal profile you can create a work profile so basically you can save bookmarks and different web pages certain profiles and I can see this being used so let's say you have an iPad Pro that gets shared around the house and you have multiple people using it you know what's to stop you from doing a you know a profile for yourself a profile for somebody else in the household and keep those sign-ins for those people for easy access so being able to use those profiles is great and then again if I go into Safari and I go here you can actually select your profiles by going here so personal you have a private then you have all the different profiles which are down here and you can again name them and change them however you see fit and again you can kind of click on the profiles click on the work one for instance and it's going to open a new page and you can see that it is a work profile another interesting one that was added is if I go into this button right here let's say I want to go to a private tab by default you actually have to lock private browsing so turn on log private browsing and now the browsing or the private browsing will be locked behind your face ID which wasn't the case before so if I want to get out of there get out of here go back to the work Tab and then I'm good to go and now I'm going with whatever the work tab was before and now lastly before we get into some of the other features that are more exclusive to the iPad Pro let's get into the actual multitasking so multitasking got a new settings menu so you do have the ability to now go into different modes and again it depends on which iPad you have to see which modes will show up I'm using the M1 iPad Pro so I get all of the features which is nice but you can have it off you can go split view or you can go into Stage manager as some of your different variations the new multitasking menu is great so with iOS and iPad OS 17 we actually got some new FaceTime editions or some new FaceTime features and it kind of reacts to some hand movements that you do so if I do a heart it shows little hearts if I do two thumbs up I'll do fireworks you can also do a peace sign and it should show up some balloons behind me and in front of me which is kind of cool so it kind of knows exactly where I am positionally if that's even a word also two P signs you should get confetti so it's a nice little add-on you also have two thumbs down for rain ah because you're sad obviously and then if you do the rocking sign or whatever you get lasers so some new things that came to FaceTime and it's for iOS iPad OS and Mac OS so now let's get into Stage manager stage manager did get much improved and now stage manager is going to be exclusive to the 2018 iPad Pro and newer so it's got to have the a12x the a12z the M1 or the M2 and then obviously the iPad Air with M1 can also use stage manager so there aren't too many that can use it and unless you have a 12.9 inch iPad Pro I don't see it like with an 11 inch or even the 10.9 inch iPad Air it's not productive enough but all you do is you go down here click on the stage manager icon in your Control Center and now you have the ability to use something like stage manager so if I go into Safari it now opens in a windowed view and the biggest quality of life Improvement that I saw with this is the amount of variability that you have with these window sizes so if I grab this right here and make it a second window you can see that now I can actually move it a little bit bigger and into smaller increments before you only had like six or seven increments so Safari cannot be in a small tiny little size and you can see that you have all this variable ability so what's nice is that if I drag in another app it does open up in the center so it's no longer kind of taking up space and kind of moving everything around but it's a little bit more intuitive of how it actually works and you can click on stuff on the side as well click over here move this over if I want to so it seems very easy to use but again the biggest thing and you're not really going to notice it until you actually play with it yourself is the ability to move stuff around and the ability to have all that variability which we didn't have before before it was very stringent it was very clunky it didn't work too well it wasn't that intuitive but now it seems to be very easy to use at least in my opinion which is great to have and then when it comes to that side view of applications everything else has stayed relatively the same so if I open up another Safari tab I could just press the plus sign here open up that Safari Tab and then pull this over you can see that all this has stayed relatively the same you can still only have four applications at once and they kind of move over as you see fit and you can have technically up to 20 apps open at the same time because you can go four four four four four and then four on the screen itself and then technically you can have a YouTube picture and picture open or any other picture in picture so you can have up to 21 apps working in real time which is great so now that we're done with this let's move on and actually plug this into an external Monitor and finish up this video and talk to you guys about external monitor support so the first thing I do want to mention is that if you do have an iPad that supports external monitor support you still need to have a peripheral plugged in so I'm going to plug in this iPad without any peripherals and show you what happens on that second screen so I am plugged in and it should just mirror the screen so you can see that external monitor support is showing up and it is just mirroring the screen like it used to which is very very annoying but you can see that it still works in this fashion it's just you need to have either a Bluetooth mouse or a Bluetooth keyboard or which I'm going to show you in a second the magic keyboard to kind of put you into that mode of external monitor support which I'm going to show you right now so now you can see that I plugged back in and it should show me external display and Stage managers on and then now I have a true extended monitor support because I've connected to a magic keyboard so the iPad kind of recognizes that I'm on a magic keyboard and it knows to kind of spit up that a real external display and treat it as its own OS so if I click on Safari here it's going to open the same apps I had opened before but now you have it up here and again this is where stage manager really shines because it feels way better it kind of immediately goes to the correct resolution I am connected via a thunderbolt cable to a cal digit Hub which is awesome the ts4 I believe it is and then that's connected with another Thunderbolt cable to this BenQ monitor so it's treated in the full 4K the aspect ratio and the resolution is exactly what it needs to be and this is where things get really awesome because then I can just full screen actual things like lumafusion and be able to work with lumafusion in a full screen Manner and then still use my iPad down here as an iPad so I think that's great and being able to use it that way is amazing and then you still have your three dots up here to navigate everything so to enter full screen add another window minimize move to iPad so Venture full screen you can see that it gets nice and big and very easy to use now a few more things to mention first so Apple added the ability to use an external webcam now for now it only works with FaceTime and I'm sure third-party applications will be able to kind of hopefully adopt this at some point but if you have a DSLR or if you just have a USB camera or whatever the case may be you no longer have to use a selfie camera you can just use whatever you see fit and actually use it as a FaceTime camera one thing that hasn't been fixed is the audio issue so if you want to have audio playing you have to make sure that your monitor has an audio source so if there's no built-in speakers to your monitor you will not be able to hear anything coming out of the iPad because for some reason even though these speakers are amazing these quad speakers on the iPad Apple doesn't allow you to default to the iPad speakers when you're plugged in so you either have to have a monitor with built-in speakers or have yourself a hub with an auxiliary Jack to allow you to use external speakers or just use your airpods pro or any other Bluetooth speaker or Bluetooth headphones in order to kind of work around that but it is very very sad that that isn't possible and then another question a lot of people usually have is does it work in clamshell mode if I close this up unfortunately it does not go into clamshell mode but when I open it up it does give you a nice lock screen so the lock screen is down here and it does give you kind of like a wallpaper screen but there is a little bit of a workaround so if you go into your display and brightness settings and turn off lock and unlock and then close it then technically if you have an external Mouse you can go into clamshell mode but it's not really clamshell mode or a native clamshell mode but it still works if that's something that you want to get into and I have a separate video kind of going into an iPad Pro kind of workstation setup which is amazing but overall iPad OS 17 quality of life improvements make it feel more like a computer I'm curious to see what Apple does moving forward and something that we're still missing is a journaling applications which is something to take into consideration but that's going to do it let's finish up this video so that's going to wrap up this video leave a comment down below of some of the new things that you liked about iPad OS 17 maybe some things that are still missing from your iPad OS experience overall leave a comment down below of which iPad you updated iPad OS 17. I'm always very curious to know how you guys use your iPad on a day-to-day basis but my favorite feature or I guess again it's not really a feature it's just how the iPad is now acting is the amount of variability you have with the window sizing with Stage manager and then also with extended monitor support it makes you feel like it's a lot more free-flowing makes you feel like you're using a computer instead of an iPad and I think the way that apple is kind of attacking multitasking on the iPad they had to do it differently the Mac OS because they had to do with the iPad way but I like how they're actually bringing it and making it a little bit more familiar overall but that has to be my absolute favorite update or upgrade to Stage manager and to iPad OS but that is going to do it for this video Everybody if you made it to the end of this video leave a dolphin in the comments below because that means that you made it all the way to the end and you I didn't bore you with all these features but if you guys want to watch more iPad OS Mac OS or iOS content I know that Jeff is cooking up some nice iOS tvos Mac OS content so definitely go watch that right after this video and until next time I'm Fernando and Maddie everybody peace stay tuned for some iPhone content coming real soon\n"