Shadowing Practice: iOS and iPadOS 27: What Actually Matters - Learn English Speaking with Video
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iOS and iPadOS 27 is here, and I've been using it all summer long, taking notes on it, running it through its paces, and just testing everything out.
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Between the new Siri AI, a bunch of performance improvements, and tweaks to the system, there's a lot to unpack here.
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This video is sponsored by Paperlike.
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The big headlining new feature throughout iOS and iPadOS 27 is Siri AI, and how it's more deeply integrated throughout all of Apple's OSes.
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Siri is now using LLM technology.
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Apple partnered with Google to build the Apple Foundation models.
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These are the LLM models that Siri is now running on.
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And this isn't just for Siri as well, this is for all of the Apple intelligence features.
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So the stuff that was announced a few years ago that's been in iOS and iPadOS for a while
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is now getting essentially a new engine put into it.
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Apple's models are a combination of on-device and cloud models.
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There is a local orchestrator that decides where a request goes.
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If it's something an on-device model can handle, it stays there.
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If not, and it's something a bit more complex and needs a cloud model, it will go to Apple's private cloud compute.
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Siri AI is a big upgrade over old Siri.
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It's smarter.
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The world knowledge it has access to is much more robust and thorough than the previous Siri.
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When asking it a question, you won't get the annoying answer of, unlock your iPhone so I could do a web search.
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It also has better control over your device for stuff like smart home, recalling and adding information to apps and commands.
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Plus, you can now chain multiple commands together.
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The big thing is Siri is more conversational now.
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You can follow up on a request, you can tell it got something wrong, or do research without having to give that command over again.
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This makes it a lot less frustrating to use when it does get something wrong.
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Not all devices that are getting iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 are getting the new Siri AI.
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If you have an iPhone 15 Pro or Pro Max or any iPhone from the 16 line or newer, you are going to get Siri AI.
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And as far as iPads go, any iPad with the M1 chip or newer or the iPad mini with the A17 Pro will get Siri AI.
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Older devices that support iOS 27
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or iPadOS 27 will still be able to run all the iOS 27 stuff
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that I talk about in this video but they won't be getting Siri AI.
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I spent the summer asking Siri AI just about any question I could come up with.
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I was using it to help me cook, helping me when I was stuck in a game, answering business questions, brainstorming ideas, using it to work out technical problems,
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help planning our wedding, even a list of the top 50 transformers, which I could debate the results of for a long time.
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Like, I can make a whole video about that.
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Siri AI is good for the most part.
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But over the summer, every time I would ask Siri AI a question, I would also ask either Claude or ChatGPT that same question as well.
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Most of the time I got similar-ish answers, which is good.
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That's what you want.
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You don't want it making up a completely different answer.
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You want it to give you the correct answer.
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That being said, if it was something the AI needed to do more research in, it needed to go deeper because it was a deep topic,
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Claude or ChatGPT would always give me a more detailed answer than Siri AI.
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Siri AI would give me the correct answer but Claude
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or ChatGPT would give me more in
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which case I would have more of a rabbit hole to go down
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or more of a path to go down to get more
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information this is not me saying Siri AI is bad Apple does this thing where the apps
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that they make or the system features
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that they make are good for about 80 to 90 percent of people like
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that for most people out there this is going to be perfect for them
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and siri ai is going to fall into this category
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but there are going to be people
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that want more detailed answers more robust answers more deeper researched answers that's where something like clod
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or chap gpt is going to come into play siri ai is going to be really nice
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because it's just baked right into the os and you can just hit
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that side button say the trigger phrase
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or a bunch of other ways you can trigger siri
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that we'll talk about in a minute
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but siri does hook into your apps via something called app
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intense now siri ai does need apps to update to a
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new version of app intense in order to work with it
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once they do siri ai will be able to pull information
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or add information to the app a whole bunch of stuff
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that we'll cover in just a minute
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when an app updates to support app intense or
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if you're using one of the system apps which will be updated
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and ready to go day one of ios or ipad os 27
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that experience of using Siri AI with a supported app, it's magical.
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It works great.
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For me, it all clicked one day when I was walking the dog
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and I had the leash in one hand and well, a full poop bag in another.
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But I had my AirPods in at the time and I had an idea for a project.
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What I did is I had it create a note
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and just kind of gave a couple of lines summary of my idea
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and then reminded me when I got home from walking the dog to kind of look into this a little bit more.
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It went off, it created the note, and it created the reminder for when I got home to take a look at that.
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That was all in one command.
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I didn't have to do multiple commands.
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I didn't have to fight with Siri about, no, I needed to go into this app, or no, I said this thing, or I meant this, or no, you did this wrong.
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It understood me, and it went off and did it, and it was great.
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Now, Siri AI can do a lot with system apps.
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It can search for the contents inside of an app in apps like mail, messages, notes, calendar, reminders, a few more,
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plus any third-party apps that update to support it.
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It can also handle creation or drafting of notes or messages or tasks or events, whatever you want.
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It can handle the creation of that if the app supports it.
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Now, there's nothing world-bending here about any of that stuff.
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In fact, this is all stuff technically the old Siri should have been able to do.
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It just didn't do it very well.
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Old Siri was very frustrating to work with, and it was a flip of a coin if it ever did work.
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With the new Siri AI, it can do everything the old Siri was supposed to do, and it can do it accurately.
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You just have to give it a chance.
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Like I said, I've been trying to use it every chance I get over the summer, and I have found it to be useful for quite a few things.
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You can have it draft messages or emails for you.
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Again, this was something old Siri was supposed to be able to do, but for a lack of a better word, it's now trustworthy.
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I've been using it to dictate emails while I'm walking the dog.
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You know, I'm just walking down the street dictating emails to Siri like a crazy person.
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Once I get back home, I can then go through my drafts and verify everything, make sure it was accurate.
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You know, it didn't go off and make it say something that I didn't say.
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The one frustrating thing that I did find is
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that it cuts you off about a minute into dictating so you kind of have to talk fast.
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But the real power of Siri AI isn't about creating or adding information, it's about the ability to pull information from any app that supports it.
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This means it can search your emails for that receipt you need that was sent to you years ago.
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It can look through your notes for
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that thing you can't quite remember what it's called
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but you know it has information about a specific type of car washing soap that you use.
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Or search for that document that you thought was in your downloads but you have no idea where you moved it to.
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One of my favorite tests I did was regarding a trip
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that my fiance and I took to San Diego over a year ago.
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We went to a restaurant that we absolutely loved.
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So all I said was, hey Siri, what was that steakhouse Danielle mentioned in San Diego?
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And it found it.
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I asked it to pull up the website, it did that, and I looked at the menu and my mouth started drooling.
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Siri AI works great for going through your calendar to find something you did
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or for pulling up an address where an event happened.
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Siri is just overall more useful on your device going through system apps and third-party apps that will update to support it.
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It's the virtual assistant it's always should have been, finally.
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Now, before you start using Siri AI, there will be some on-device processing and indexing that needs to happen on your device.
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If you go into the Settings app, right towards the top, it'll tell you that it's indexing your device.
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Now, if you don't see
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that there good news is it's done indexing what this is
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doing is creating well an index of all the information it needs to go through
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and this can take a really long time on the beta
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for me it could take up to a week there's a few times it would reset throughout the beta
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and every single time it would take a week to go
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through all my information now i have a lot of data on my device So for other people, it may vary.
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But during the time that it's doing the indexing, Siri AI isn't going to be the most reliable.
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So if you're wondering why it's not finding this piece of information in messages or an email, just give it time.
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Let it do its index.
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Once it's done, that's when you should run it through its paces.
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Now, that being said, Apple did bake in a feature in iOS and iPadOS 26.6.
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So that way the on-device indexing should happen before you even install iOS and iPadOS 27.
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So hopefully when this ships to everyone, you won't have to do a week of indexing.
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It'll just be ready to go for you.
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On-screen awareness has been a feature of iOS and iPadOS and Siri for a while now.
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But outside of Safari, I never really had much luck getting it to work.
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It's been updated to work with the new Siri AI and it's a lot more flexible now.
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Based on the type of content that is on screen, you can ask it questions, summarize, and my personal favorite, spell and grammar check, along with a lot more.
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I've used this to create a reminder about a website I was looking at, get more context about an image I had on screen,
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or make a list in notes based on some options on a webpage.
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The on-screen awareness stuff is actually really interesting and really powerful.
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The trick is you have to remember it exists.
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There's no real button for it.
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You talk to Siri about it and it will then do things based on what is on your screen.
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We're going to dive a little more into this throughout this whole video
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and when we get to some of the system app stuff.
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But basically anything that's on the screen, you can ask it to give you more context about or, you know, recommend something based on what's on screen.
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whatever you can kind of think of, it's your way of kind of getting more information now.
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Visual intelligence got a big update and is no longer tucked behind the camera control button.
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There is now a Siri button right in the camera app, and this can be used to trigger visual intelligence.
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Now, visual intelligence isn't just for looking up what kind of dog somebody is walking.
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It's also action-based.
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You can scan a receipt and split a bill via Apple Cash.
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You can get nutritional insights.
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scan a barcode to create a wallet pass, or have it look at a business card and import that information into a new contact.
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Visual intelligence isn't just about what your camera can see, it's also about what's on your screen.
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It's a part of the on-screen awareness as well.
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For example, if you get an email with a bunch of conference information, times talks are going to be happening, dinners, a bunch of events, that kind of thing.
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You can take a screenshot of that
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and Visual Intelligence will give you a button to add all of that to your calendar.
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You can also take a screenshot and highlight or circle something to get more information about that item or take an action.
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This also works with the Apple Pencil if you're on an iPad.
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There is a little bit of file management that Siri AI can do, but for the most part, Apple will be pointing you towards shortcuts for moving things around.
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Now, it can do the very typical AI stuff like summarizing a document.
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Siri AI can handle that no problem it can search the contents of the document
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so you don't need to know the exact file name of something
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which has actually been really handy
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because we've been getting a bunch of PDF from wedding vendors
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and stuff like that so I can just search for the kind of services
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that they offer and don't have to remember which one does what
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and it'll do handy system level stuff in the files app
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so say you're saving a document
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and based on the content in the document it'll suggest a file name for
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that document that's pretty cool okay let's let's get let's get
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into some fun stuff Siri AI isn't just about system stuff
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like I mentioned it third-party apps can update to support it
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as well for example the third-party note-taking app drafts has updated to support creating new notes
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and searching content inside the app with Siri AI the Bulletin
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RSS Reader app has added the ability to summarize an article
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just by asking Siri about it you know what's on screen again
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and for my own app parchment i added the ability to
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write to the daily notes section to have the daily notes section summarize back to you
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and to have your agenda view shown to you now asking siri to save
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or recall information isn't the only way third-party apps can take
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advantage of the apple foundation models some apps can integrate the cloud
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and improve local models right inside their app for example drafts
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added the ability to write to the ai in the app
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so you You can ask it to do things without ever needing to go to Siri or leave the app.
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SQL used this to add natural language search for categories and groups, for example, PS5 games I haven't started or my 5 star movies.
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In Parchment I added the ability to summarize your day and week, provided reflection prompts, and my personal favorite feature of this update,
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extract action items based on your daily note.
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This will turn any to-dos in your daily note into actual reminders for you to check off in the Reminders app.
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There's quite a bit third-party apps can do with Siri AI and the Apple Foundation models.
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I'm going to make a whole dedicated video about the best apps out there
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that have taken advantage of these features because there's quite a bit
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and I just don't have time to cover it in this video.
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As you've seen throughout this video already, there are a few different ways to work with Siri.
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One of the big improvements is to the new Siri voice.
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This feature requires an iPhone 17 Pro line, iPhone Air or any newer device,
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or an iPad with an M4 chip or newer with more than 12GB of RAM.
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In settings, Siri, you can set up the new voice, there are different accents to pick from, plus you can adjust the pace and expressivity.
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I like British 2 personally, but mostly because I want a fancy British butler.
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You have three reminders on your list for today.
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weekly report iOS and iPad OS 27 walkthrough and finish b-roll for iOS
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and iPad OS 27 walkthrough overall I really like these voices
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I like what Apple's done with them they feel really natural
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and now that you can go back and forth
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and have a conversation with Siri
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and follow up it feels a lot more natural conversation like
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with these voices Siri also has a new look on the iPhone
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and iPad the return of the ball actually quite like this
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quite a bit another Another way to work with Siri AI is through its new dedicated app.
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I'm still a bit shocked Apple made a chatbot.
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In here you can chat back and forth with Siri, set up threads for specific projects, and of course revisit old conversations.
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This isn't limited to stuff you did in the app
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but also includes voice chats and spotlight which we will talk more about in a minute.
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Something I appreciate
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that they tweaked over the summer was the threshold a conversation needed to match to show up in the app.
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This way you're not getting stuff like smart home commands
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or asking it to play a certain playlist from the music app showing up here.
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Everything in this app is relevant.
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Spotlight has been my favorite way of working with Siri AI over the summer, and it has been completely rebuilt from the ground up.
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From what I understand, the only thing that's pretty much recycled from the old Spotlight is the name.
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The best way to think about this is Apple took the old Spotlight and the old Type to the Siri feature, put on some Marvin Gaye, turn down the lights, and new Spotlight was born.
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In the Spotlight box, you can pull up an app, search for a document, ask Siri a question, and even turn on a smart home lamp.
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Anything you could do with the old Spotlight is in here, and anything you could do with the new Siri is in here as well.
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This bar is now the superpower of all of the Apple OS's.
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It even has the same access to the on-screen awareness stuff.
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But the best part is on the iPhone and iPad you can finally access Spotlight when an app is open.
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And there's this fun little animation as well on the iPad that you can just drag it around.
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No more having to go back to the home screen or lock screen to get to Spotlight.
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This is something I've asked for years ago.
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I'm so happy this is here.
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Search is also really good in Spotlight.
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I had to rewire my brain over the summer of using spotlight to open an app
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and then browse to the file or document
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that I wanted I now I've been bringing up spotlight
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and just typing in the specific document note reminder playlist whatever
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whatever content I want to pull up I've been thinking about
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it as searching for content not the app search overall feels much faster compared to the older spotlight
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and even more important it feels more accurate it usually knows what I'm looking for and makes that the top result.
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But even if that specific thing I'm looking for isn't the top result, what I want is usually on the list somewhere.
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Plus shortcuts index faster and run faster from Spotlight, this is a huge win for me.
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I run most of my shortcuts from Spotlight.
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On the iPad you can still use Spotlight to put apps in the multitasking view, including split view and of course slide over.
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Now, every device gets the new rebuilt Spotlight, but only those that support the new Siri get the Siri AI features in Spotlight.
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So even if you don't have the new Siri on a device, you will still get the new look of Spotlight along with the new backend features of Spotlight.
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You just don't get the Siri part.
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In the context menu, you are gonna see an option that says, Ask Siri everywhere.
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You can use this for anything in the OS and just about any app.
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It's baked in and developers don't even have to update to support it.
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This gives you the option to highlight something and ask Siri about it directly without having to talk to Siri verbally.
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Write with Siri has replaced the writing tools feature in the 27 releases.
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You will see this above the keyboard in apps like Mail, Messages, Notes, among other places as well.
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When you tap this it'll bring up the spotlight bar.
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You can ask it to write a draft, rewrite or edit the content you have already written, personalize the style or tone based on the context, or do spell and grammar checking.
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I'm very hesitant to let AI do any kind of writing for me.
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Every word you're hearing me say right now, I wrote myself.
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But I do really like this feature for spell and grammar checking.
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It does a pretty good job for the most part, and it caught some big stuff.
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Speaking of, the Spell and Grammar Checking System has been upgraded this year, and it's now called Automatic Proofreading.
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This is a little confusing.
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If you make a spelling mistake, you will still see a red line under it.
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But what the automatic system does is it looks at what you are typing
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and then make suggestions based on what is written.
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You'll see a blue line when this is triggered.
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This will happen for common things like using the wrong there or to, leaving a word out, or using the wrong punctuation.
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What this doesn't seem to do is fix major issues with structure of a paragraph or fix a run on sentence.
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Just tap on any of these blue lines to see the suggested fix.
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Last year Apple introduced Liquid Glass, their new design language across all their OS's and apps.
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Fair to say it was a mix bagged on how it was received.
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But this year it's been updated and I'm a big fan.
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The thing that surprised me the most is Apple added a slider in Settings Appearance.
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In here you can adjust how liquidy or solid the glass is.
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Personally, I don't mind the liquid side of the slider, but I keep it on the more tinted side because it helps legibility when making these videos.
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A big focus of the liquid glass update though is readability.
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So even if you go full clear on the slider, text is still legible.
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Content behind the glass is more diffused, making the stuff on top stand out.
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You'll notice a bunch of different changes throughout the OS, like sidebars being more distinct and system app icons being overhauled.
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There are a few changes to the home screen and lock screen this year.
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First there is a new extended wallpaper option.
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If you are setting an image as your background, you want the subject to be in a specific spot but the image isn't big enough to do it,
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the system will now allow you to generate up to about 20% more of the image
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so that you can get it to fit just right.
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It mostly focuses on adding a background, so you're not gonna add Aunt Edna, but you know, it'll give you a little wiggle room to play around with.
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I have a lot of issues with generative AI, so basically photo and video AI stuff.
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This I can kind of get on board with
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because I know there are people out there
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that have like pictures of their kids or grandkids or something like
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that that they want to use as their wallpaper
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but it wasn't framed right for that kind of thing and this will help with that.
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It's going to help people enjoy their devices more and I'm not going to be somebody that poo-poos on that.
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When editing the iPhone's lock screen there is now an option to shrink the clock
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so it's right next to the date line.
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Personally I like the big clock but this is an option if you want it.
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If you have the timer set up in control center Launching
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it now gives you the controls in the dynamic island instead of launching the full app.
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I love this UI for quick interaction.
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On the iPhone, there is now an extra large widget size.
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This will take up the whole home screen on the iPhone.
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There are versions of this extra large widget for the system apps for reminders, calendar, music, photos, and more.
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Third-party apps will be able to update to support this, like the app Cheat Sheet.
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It lets you put a note right on your home screen.
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And Parchment will have an extra large widget as well.
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On the iPad, the iPhone's extra large widgets can be added into the Today View.
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Also on the iPad, when making changes to the home screen, there is now an Undo and Redo button for making changes.
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There are a few features that are exclusive to iPadOS 27 this year.
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It's no iPadOS 26 year, but there are some really nice quality of life improvements.
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First off, the menu bar got a bit of a rethink.
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The active app name is now persistent in the top left corner of the screen.
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I love this.
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Before, there was no visual way of knowing what the active app was, and now there always is.
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If you tap on the name of the app or hover over it with the cursor, the menu bar will be revealed.
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I think this is a good balance between the people
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that want to use their iPads as a tablet and the people
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that want to use their iPads with a keyboard and mouse.
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But you can go into Settings, Multitasking, and turn on Automatically Show and Hide Menu Bar.
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This will make it so that the menu bar is always there like macOS.
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To me, I really like having the menu bar in this position always available.
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It just reminds me that it's there, it's more usable.
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I can go and check out what keyboard shortcuts I can use or features in an app.
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The iPad for a long time has been able to run iPhone versions of apps.
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Now with iOS 27, iPhone apps are able to be a bit more flexible when scaling.
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This means on the iPad, iPhone updates that update to support this feature can be resized when running in the multitasking or stage manager mode.
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When an iPad is now plugged into an external monitor, you can access Control Center from the external display.
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You can do this by hitting the Globe C shortcut on the keyboard.
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I'm not sure if it's a bug or intentional, but I can't seem to click the top right corner
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or push into that corner to get Control Center like I can on the iPad's display.
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Either way, this is one more thing off the checklist to get clamshell mode on the iPad, which I desperately want.
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Using external monitor support also feels a lot better with the iPad.
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We'll get into it in just a second, but Apple spent a lot of time focused on improving performance this year and this is one place I really notice it.
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Windowing on the external monitor feels less fragile and in general everything feels more stable.
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Plus, windows consistently stay in place when the iPad is plugged in and unplugged from the external display.
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I spend a long time with my iPad plugged into an external monitor
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so this is something I am really happy to see.
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Like I was saying, Apple spent a bunch of time this year focused on performance improvements on iOS and iPadOS, and it's really felt throughout the whole update.
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There's a lot of really technical stuff, like the new CPU scheduler that's really technically impressive, but I'm going to just focus on some more user-facing stuff in this update.
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On the iPad, if you use one of the windowing modes, apps open, close, and scale faster and more smoothly now.
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This isn't just a change to the animation, but the way these actions are actually handled.
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Some other changes include faster airdrop transfers, faster launch of the emoji keyboard, capturing photos and videos load into the Photos app faster,
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camera works better in low power mode, a smoother transition between a device when switching from Wi-Fi to cellular,
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transferring files on iPadOS to an external drive can be up to five times faster, and faster network browsing through the Files app.
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And there's a bunch more changes Apple has made to improve performance throughout iOS and iPadOS.
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And you may not notice some of these changes.
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They're not gonna be big headline grabbing features, But know that they are there and that somebody worked really hard to make the OS perform better.
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Okay, iOS and iPadOS 27 isn't all about Siri AI and system stuff.
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The system apps got updated as well and there's a lot of really cool changes throughout these.
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So let's dive into them.
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Let's start with the one I'm the most excited about and that's shortcuts.
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Shortcuts has always had some kind of barrier to get started.
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You had to know how its block-based coding structure worked.
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You kind of had to know what an if action was or a dictionary.
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There was a little bit of a barrier to it.
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With Apple Intelligence, you can describe the shortcut you want and the system will build it for you.
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The best way to use this is to describe the results you want to get.
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If you try and tell it how to do it or what path to go down, that's when it tends to fail a bit.
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If you describe the outcome you want, it is free to go about it and come up with the results that you want.
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Shortcuts may not get exactly what you want the first time, but you can keep chatting with it and refined to get exactly what you want.
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There is one big limitation.
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Third-party apps are not supported, and that is a bummer to me.
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I don't know how Apple would do this in the future without indexing every third-party app that has a shortcuts action, but yeah, that is a little bit of a bummer.
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Now, if you're like me and you prefer the old style of editor, don't worry, that's still there.
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And you can go into Settings, Apps, Shortcuts, and change the default option for creating a shortcut so that the old style editor opens by default.
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The use model actions have been updated to use the new Apple Foundation models.
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These actions were introduced last year as a way to use the local and private cloud compute models
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along with ChatGPT right inside shortcuts.
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Now there are two cloud models, Cloud and Cloud Pro.
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Cloud is the faster but has less reasoning, and Cloud Pro increases the reasoning but is slower.
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There's also options now to use the broad world knowledge that is a part of the Apple Foundation models
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And to follow up on the request already so you can go back
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and forth refining what it's showing you Depending on what you are building you may prefer speed over reasoning
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or vice versa So take this into account when using these models
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A change to shortcuts I'm really excited about is automations are
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no longer their own siloed thing Automations are now actions so these shortcuts live with the rest of your shortcuts
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There's still a tab in the app so you can see what is active, running, and turned off.
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This makes sharing shortcuts with automations finally possible.
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Inside the automation action, you can control when it runs, turn it on, or turn it off altogether.
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Automations are also part of the describe a shortcut feature.
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So when you explain the shortcut, you just tell the system that you want it to run at a specific time every day, or run when you get to a location, any of the triggers.
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There's also a handful of new automation triggers as well, including leaving a specific location, taking a screenshot, receiving a notification from a specific app,
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or connecting a keyboard.
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You can also use multiple automations as well, and each will act as their own trigger.
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If you have calendar notifications set up, you can make a shortcut that looks at the name of the event.
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If it sees that it has a meeting in the name, you could have it automatically create a new note based on that meeting's name.
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But I've been really enjoying using the automation trigger connecting a keyboard with my iPad.
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See, I set up two different shortcuts.
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One, when a keyboard is connected, it turns on the windowed most multitasking mode.
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The second is when a keyboard disconnects, it turns off the window multitasking mode.
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There's also some new regular actions with shortcuts as well.
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Record audio and notes, send messages to group threads in messages, a new store data action.
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This allows you to save information for that shortcut to recall later.
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And if you want this information to be accessible across different shortcuts, you can turn on the global variable toggle.
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There is also an else if action.
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You add a normal if action, tap on the icon, and select the otherwise if.
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This will add a separate path for the if statement.
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The get what's on screen action has been updated to support
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all the same options Siri AI supports with the on-screen awareness feature.
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This is a huge update for shortcuts, and I'm really excited for it.
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I'm going to make a whole separate video about the shortcuts I've been building with this update, so be sure to subscribe for that.
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Safari also got some really nice changes this year.
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First off, Safari can now organize your tabs by topic.
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Tap the Tab button, then select the Tab Groups menu, select Organize Tabs, then select the option Automatically Create Topic.
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This will start categorizing your tabs for you automatically.
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So if you have three tabs open about watches
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that you're interested in It will group them together in a watch category
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Or if you're putting together a trip for New York
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and have a few tabs open of things you want to
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do It'll start to put those tabs together in a group
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And as you open new tabs to websites
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that make sense for a specific category It will add those tabs to
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that category These tab groups will start to show up when you have three or more tabs in a matched category
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You can also close whole tab groups at once from the category header.
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And on the start page, you can see previous tab groups as well.
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I turned this feature on at the start of the betas and haven't looked back.
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It makes way more sense for tabs to be grouped like this.
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Another really cool feature Apple added to Safari is Notify Me.
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You can set up Safari to check in on a web page every hour, day, weekly, or monthly.
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It will then send you a notification if anything changes on that page.
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You can use this to check availability for a product, a price drop, a change in information.
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This all happens in the background too, so you don't have to leave that tab open.
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You'll just get the notification, you tap on it, and it'll open that webpage.
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A feature I honestly didn't see coming is describe an extension.
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This will let any user describe a browser extension that they want.
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You use natural language to describe the extension you want, and then it goes off and build it.
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What I do appreciate about this is it makes suggestions for extensions in the App Store
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if there is something that already does what you're kind of describing.
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Proper app extensions will be able to go further than what the Describe extension does on its own.
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You're not going to be able to tell it, make me an ad blocker, and it goes off and builds an ad blocker.
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Like, that's a really complex extension that needs a bunch of back-end work.
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But what you can do is you can build use this
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to build an extension to extract a specific piece of information
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and then add it to your clipboard There are limitations to this feature.
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It doesn't seem to work with other apps I even tried to make one
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that would save specific pieces of information from a page to an Apple note
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But all it would do is just take that text and add it to my clipboard
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There's also suggestions to get started with this feature
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if you just want to kind of play around with it
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One thing I want to point out is the iPhone's share sheet button has been moved in Safari.
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There is now one button for page controls, extensions, and the share sheet.
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I don't know why, but this is the thing I've had the hardest time getting used to in this update.
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There's also a ton of changes to WebKit.
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This is the engine in Safari and every browser on iOS and iPadOS.
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I'm not going to go into all the nerdy details of this.
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Hopefully you see a bunch of changes or feel a bunch of changes.
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If you use web apps, the performance should be significantly better.
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But the one thing I really wanted to call on, it's been so nice over the beta, is audio from a website no longer interrupts system audio.
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So you're browsing the web, reading an article, starts auto-playing a really crappy ad with audio.
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It doesn't pause your music or it doesn't pause your podcast or anything like that anymore.
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Thank you.
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Calendar finally got proper natural language input for creating events.
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It detects details such as time, location, invitees, and of course the title.
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It doesn't detect the calendar though.
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So that's kind of a bummer
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because I use this feature quite a bit in other apps like Fantastical or even my app Parchment
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in order to change the calendar that an event will be a part of.
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Existing events can be modified using natural language, and you'll also be able to modify multiple events with natural language as well.
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It's really nice that they finally have brought this to the calendar app.
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It's kind of, sort of was there for a little bit, but it was really janky.
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It's there, it's solid, it works great.
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Notes got some great quality of life improvements.
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First, you can now copy and paste as Markdown.
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There are two new options in the edit menu.
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copy as Markdown, which will take rich text of the note and turn it into Markdown.
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Then paste as Markdown, which will take any Markdown from any place and paste it as rich text in Notes.
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No more needing to use a shortcut to convert either to rich text or from rich text and paste it into Notes.
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In Notes for a while now, you've been able to link to other notes.
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Now you can actually link to a specific section of a different note.
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What you do is highlight the text you want to turn into a link, select add link, search for the note that you want to link to, then select the specific section from that note you want to link to it.
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This is really handy for linking to big research documents.
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I love this.
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Inside a note, you can now add a divider line, long press and select this option.
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This is good for breaking up a document.
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Freeform got some small but handy updates.
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First up, you can set up folders to be collaborative.
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This way you can set up a group project and don't have to keep sharing individual boards.
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There's also adaptive dark mode canvases as well.
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And board previews now load faster along with being smoother.
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Apple's Mail app got a bunch of performance improvements.
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The filtering tools are faster and search is really good now.
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This has always been the Achilles heel of Mail.
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But now Mail has this new ranking system and does a great job at finding what you want.
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There's also a new smart reply system.
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These are the auto responses above your keyboard.
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If you go into Settings, App, Mail, you can turn on this setting that allows smart replies to imitate your writing style.
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I get a lot of email, and most of the email I'm replying to needs a very simple response.
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So this has actually been really helpful in just kind of blasting through a lot of email.
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Photos got a ton of changes.
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You can use Apple Intelligence to clean up objects or people in your photos.
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There are two different versions of this to pick from, a fast mode for small stuff and a high quality version for bigger objects.
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It does a really good job at this.
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There's also an option to extend an image to make it a bit bigger.
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This will generate content on the edge of a photo.
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In my opinion, this is when a photo stop becomes a photo, when you're generating content for it.
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I struggle with this.
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Same with this next feature, spatial reframing.
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This literally allows you to change how the photo was framed, which can be handy if the person that took the photo didn't do a good job framing it.
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Maybe you're trying to match up the eyeline with the camera.
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There are a lot of photos I've taken in the past
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that I would love to be able to go back and reshoot.
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But they're the photo.
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That's what was in the moment.
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Reframing the photo isn't the photo.
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I struggle with this from multiple points, but if you want to use it, it's there.
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I'm not going to tell anyone they can't use it, but it's there if you want to use it.
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The Photos app did get some stuff I am excited about, though.
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Shared albums now support full resolution photos, but this does count against everyone's iCloud library that is a part of the shared album.
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You can save all photos from a shared album to your personal library with one tap.
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Hallelujah.
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You can save any frame from a video as a photo now.
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The Captured by Me collection shows everything that you've taken with your iPhone's camera, kind of like the old camera roll.
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You can add keywords to photos or videos for search, plus a ton of other small changes throughout the app, like the Photos team cooked this year.
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In Settings, Sounds, and Haptics, you can now set the volume independently for alarms and timers and alarms and system sounds from the ringtone.
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No more missing alarms because you turned down the ringer volume.
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So that's it.
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That is iOS and iPadOS 27.
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I wanna know what is your favorite feature in this update.
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Let me know in the comments below.
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My thanks to Paperlike for sponsoring this video.
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If you liked the video, hit the thumbs up button, subscribe if you haven't already, and have a great day.
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Thank you.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “iOS and iPadOS 27: What Actually Matters”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: app, siri, ipad, apple. This video has 544 sentences and 7812 words to shadow. The speech runs for 39:55. The speaker talks fast, about 196 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 82% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| shortcut noun | /ˈʃɔːtkʌt/ | A path between two points that is faster than the commonly used paths. |
| spotlight noun | /ˈspɒtˌlaɪt/ | A bright, directional light or lamp, especially one used to illuminate the focus or center of attention on a stage. |
| tab noun | /tæb/ | A small flap or strip of material attached to or inserted into something, for holding, manipulation, identification, opening etc. |
| keyboard noun | /ˈki.bɔɹd/ | A set of keys laid out in a gridlike pattern, used for typing on a typewriter, computer, etc. |
| pencil noun | /ˈpɛnsəl/ | A writing utensil with a graphite (commonly referred to as lead) shaft, usually blended with clay, clad in wood, and sharpened to a taper. |
| automation noun | /ˌɔ.təˈmeɪ.ʃən/ | The act or process of converting the controlling of a machine or device to a more automatic system, such as computer or electronic controls. |
| reminder noun | /ɹɪˈmaɪndə(ɹ)/ | Someone or something that reminds. |
| multitasking noun | The simultaneous execution of multiple tasks (programs) under the control of an interrupt-driven operating system. | |
| parchment noun | /ˈpʰɑɹt͡ʃmənt/ | Material, made from the polished skin of a calf, sheep, goat or other animal, used like paper for writing. |
| summarize verb | /ˈsʌməˌɹaɪz/ | To prepare a summary of (something). |
| pasta noun | /ˈpɑ.stə/ | Dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating. |
| sponsor noun | /ˈspɒn.səː/ | A person or organization with some sort of responsibility for another person or organization, especially where the responsibility has a religious, legal, or… |
| grammar noun | /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/ | A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general. |
| frustrate verb | /ˈfɹʌsˌtɹeɪt/ | To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired. |
| slider noun | /ˈslaɪdɚ/ | A potentiometer with a linearly sliding control. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| set up verb | /ˌsɛt ˈʌp/ | To make ready for use. |
| go off verb | To explode. | |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. | |
| pull up verb | /ˌpʊl ˈʌp/ | To lift upwards or vertically. |
| check out verb | To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.). | |
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. | |
| bring up verb | To mention. | |
| come up with verb | To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I didn't have to do multiple commands.
- It's almost therapeutic for me at this point.
- It'll just be ready to go for you.
- This is something I've asked for years ago.
- I'm so happy this is here.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | I've been using · I've been trying · we've been getting |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have found · has been · has actually been |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is sponsored · was announced · was stuck |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | answers, which is · apps which will · Markdown, which will |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 128 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shortcut /ˈʃɔːtkʌt/, automation /ˌɔ.təˈmeɪ.ʃən/, screenshot /ˈskriːn.ʃɑt/, notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/, friction /ˈfɹɪkʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: automation /ˌɔ.təˈmeɪ.ʃən/, notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/, accessory /əkˈsɛs.(ə.)ɹi/, automobile /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/, technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like shortcut, spotlight, tab.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.