iPadOS 15 Review: Dropped Expectations!

 So this is the ipad pro this is the m1 best ipad there is and i've been using this thing a lot for the last month or and i really like it and like a lot of other ipad users it's just really to use this ipad but i still wanted more from it because as you probably remember this thing is way more powerful than any.

Software that's taken advantage of it like the m1 chip in here benchmarks higher than the 16 inch macbook pro there's 16 gigs of ram in this tablet and so it felt like it's finally time to ipad os and i wasn't the only one who that's coming up has got to be a pretty to what we have now in ipad os 14.5 like right maybe hopefully this is the year in this thing like final cut and this is.

Super exciting because that's going to make this thing so incredibly powerful that it really is setting this ipad up some really amazing things maybe even that is me crossing my fingers now we're two days before wwdc 2021 where apple is.

Expected to announce some new features i think i just i hope that the extra ram is indicative of something brewing for wwdc well uh you know what else was.

Also once said on video expectations are the thief of joy meaning we got our hopes up pretty high for all these big changes we wanted to see in the software that whatever they announced could live and so ipad os 15 it's nice it's a nice.

Some tweaks and ui things refreshes that on the ipad but it didn't change the way and it didn't really even get it much actually replacing a computer the way i and i feel like that's kind of just.

Where the ipad is destined to live for their for soba future but let's not let the thief of joy because i've been using a little bit like i said there's been a developer beta now there's a public beta. it's really good there's a lot of good tuff i'm going to show you the stuff that's made the most difference to me that i like the most about the ipad and then i have some thoughts on ipads as a whole so the biggest change we've all finally put widgets anywhere on the you know like you could with android tablets for the last decade it really.

Shouldn't feel like that big of an upgrade but it does for the ipads since they were confined over to the slide where you can still put them by the way but now you just have all this huge canvas to lay them out and it's so much better plus there's also a new bigger.

Widget size so you can really use some you can have a whole home screen that's just 100 widgets if you want to but then the other home screen upgrade that the is the app library now too which just in one place so of course you can now hide apps from your home screen that you don't want and it actually feels really natural that it just pops up after your.

So this is a long time coming i really essentially app drawer for the ipad the big thing that always comes up the most having more than one thing open on the screen at once it's a huge canvas, but you might not necessarily be multitasking sometimes you just need two one task like you're taking notes on something or copying and pasting between things like that so yeah it's not multitasking but it is going to need window management so ipads running ipad.

Technically handle multiple windows but the upgrade here is it's more visible and it's way easier to remember just constantly showing you these three anytime you open an app there's a three dots up top and when you tap the three it shows you three simple options full split screen or slide over so if you split screen you can pick another app to go split screen with and right away you're half and half so you can just copy and paste or go back and forth multitask or whatever you want to call.

The way you could before and if you pick all the same slide over app support i don't use slide over as much as i've and the support is still the same tall vertical apps and their own carousel in multitasking view though.

You can also now drag one window right a split screen with them and then just dive straight into that which is pretty and if you ever have two apps open and you just want to replace one of them with something different you just swipe and you can replace it and get your substitute in now you're not crazy a lot.

Is the same as before it's the same function as before but it's just presented more obviously now and i like i really like the dots actually that's just it's made everything easier to remember now there are also apps like safari where you can have multiple.

Instances of the same app open and so at the bottom on the new shelf it shows all of the windows you've got open each with their own tabs you know got their own things happening and so that to me was the part that felt the most.

Computer like i all the time i have multiple safari windows open next to each other taking notes especially when but on the ipad if you want to split screen any one of these safari apps you can so you can tap the safari icon and now it's like oh did you want to use or a split screen of this different photos next to it or whatever other app no problem now the other biggest ui is definitely the notes app now you never really use the notes app very much because there's other better to-do list apps there's other better notes apps.

But notes on this new ipad software is so good that it is honestly tempting for to use it over some other stuff like, like pocket that i use all the time to just jot stuff down or just remember something i need to come back to later.

This is really good so there's a new where you drag up from the corner with and straight away you can start writing a quick note and then that gets added to a dedicated quick note section of apple notes but it's a bit deeper you can drag whatever you're doing right.

So sam in twitter for example and i want i can literally just drag this tweet and save it there for later write something down about it whatever you you can drag a photo from your gallery it'll just add that photo to the note or you can swipe up a quick note and immediately add the link you're at and with the apple pencil you can quickly highlight something on that page.

So later in quick notes when you click on that link it returns you to the page with that same thing highlighted how how cool is that so all of that plus the really good handwriting recognition and obviously it's syncing between this and the mac and the iphone and all the it's really tempting i'm gonna keep pocket i think for all this same stuff syncs to my android phone and i'd i'll, be damned if i have one more plugin into.

But yeah the notes app now is really good but then there's some there's some safari for the ipad gets web extensions like the desktop version so if you go into safari settings and scroll down to extensions you can just go load up the section of the store specifically for safari extensions i'm sure many more will be added here too when it's out of probably including a dedicated save to and there's also all the other stuff.

On the iphone too stuff like share play live text on photos in the gallery apple maps updates etc so if you want to look at all that stuff i'll link my video love focus modes of course spoiler alert number one feature but there's a bunch and they're also going to be adding that.

Universal control feature that was a to control your ipad with a mouse running mac os monterey oh and also i want to show you guys this better didn't i failed you guys in the last video i thought notification summary wasn't in the last beta but it is you just have to turn it on so to enable it.

Notifications and then scheduled summary and then from here when you turn it on which apps you want to be looped into so maybe instead of a random google news.

Notification in the middle of the day buzzing you you can have that and some literally just collect and then show up in the summary at the end of the day nice but aside from that ipad os is still just how you remember it which is frustratingly limited sometimes also this there's still no weather app by the way so there's this huge weather widget.

But when you click on it it just opens you bought dark sky just make a weather also there's still no calculator uh app officially on the ipad you can have a little widget from the quick settings or the control panel but.

Yeah there's no uh there's no full or calculator app in the ipad but that we're all talking about and waiting of us who were teetering on being ableour ipad pro full time and get rid of any laptop i don't think ipad os 15 is the thing that pushes us over the edge it doesn't really change that.

I keep doing this this ipad only even though i've done it on video before where i just won't use my laptop for a while and i'll just try to use the ipad and this update didn't really lengthen.

The amount of time it took before i got frustrated and had to bring my laptop but it did make the time i was using the that much better so i think the thing to the background to all of this is the um it comes from a company that also right so even though they've got all this big talk in this marketing campaign.

What is a computer all that fun stuff at the end of the day this company also, so if they're gonna keep selling those.

Basically has to stay firmly in between the iphone and the mac and it's it's until they prove us wrong basically that i feel like that's still gonna be uh they didn't become a two trillion bad at business they're not going to cannibalize their own products this is this is just where the ipad lives the one thing i will say that's on the other.

i'm reviewing all this new software on the perspective of someone who really on a thousand dollar ipad pro but this will also be on everyone else's ipads on ipads you know in people's homes in all the ipad airs people who aren't replacing their entire computer or maybe they don't need all that much.

Functionality and they can do everything with a normal ipad and all those ipads just get better for this so that's the ipad os 15 update so there you have it.

More visible multitasking is my big here's the ipad here's what it'll do it's not really touching this or this and i i enjoy using the ipad and that's that's what it comes down to but let me in the comments section below we can talk to you guys in the next one thanks.