iOS and iPadOS 18 First Look

Let's talk about iOS and iPadOS 18. The new public beta is out and I want to cover some of the high level features.

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Intro 00:00
Home Screen 00:24
Control Center 2:27
Lock Screen 4:14
Sponsor Sofa 5:07
Calculator 6:40
Notes 7:44
Files 10:35

[ChrisLawley]

What is your favorite change in iOS or iPadOS 18?

[CaffeineByTwilight]

Love love love the calculator app. I too am testing out iPadOs 18 and it’s got so many cool features. Thank you for adding to my OS 18 knowledge.

[Ded-Ede]

7:53 Math notes in Notes app special folder feature is nice & convenient. I want for any contact, calendar or reminder that have notes in their note field, that note should also reside in the Notes app and whatever change is made to the Notes field it updates and sync with the note in the Notes app. This will remove the multiple iteration of information because my contacts have a note and then when I create a reminder or event, I have to make a note also in those apps in relation to the contact, and then the Notes app have a more detail note covering the same thing that the Calendar reminder and Contacts note fields may have.
One note to rule them all. In Contact, Reminders, Calendar in the editor notes field can have "Show in Notes" link to open in Notes apps for more detail editing then the changes will update with a round trip.

[uniquesoul]

Being able to change the backgrounds from light to dark for various apps is awesome.

[sarahbrown]

The calculator and notes app improvements look helpful, especially if you're a science/maths student, but I wish they'd fix the wallpaper top blurring issue. Even if I make a picture that's screen sized, it still blurs at the top, and nothing sorts it except losing some of the perfectly screen sized image. I hate that!

[Chaotic_Voyd]

I look forward to the notes and calculator updates!

[jeffhale]

Thanks for sharing. I look forward to Notes, Calculators, and File Management. Blessings on your day.

[TonyTylerDraws]

watchOS 11 looks like it’ll be inline with these updates as well

[chev]

Cool features!... but the thing about formating external drives is that you're using just the iPad as a main computer, and you do that because most of the tasks you do are mainly basic stuff... notes, media and thats it... do you actually edit ALL of of your videos on the iPad? Do you use photoshop? Illustrator?... Don't think so.... thats why, driving to your brother's house just to format a external drive was a bummer for you and only you. Keep a Laptop and stop forcing people to believe that iPad is "like" a full computer todya when it actually's not!

[kczaban]

can ipad play music from spotify and twitch livestream at the same time?

[DACC]

Is it my impression or the keyboard layout changed ?

[esqalibur]

incredible! in 2024, placing an icon in anywhere on the screen is more complex than rocket science.

[sulthansyafiq]

10:41 how to install finder apps on ipad?

[borjalpze]

Hi Chris! I love your videos, always keeping me up to date, thanks! I was wondering… can you rotate an external monitor now when extending your desktop? Or must it still be landscape mode the only way? My MB pro just died and I am thinking on switching to iPad for good and I cannot find an answer for this. Thanks!

[vierajade]

Does downloading beta a good thing? Or iPad can the ipad get some glitches?

[samuelbock]

I'm sure other people have asked as well -- but what's the deal with those huge watermarks on the control center? Is that a bug or are you doing that?

[pilotmariov]

Quick question: why do you have a Finder icon on your iPad? Been wondering for a long time.

[budgetaudiophilelife-long]

🙋‍♂️ THANKS CHRIS, FOR SHARING THIS 😎💚💚💚

[enseaay]

“First Look”. Not a full rundown every new update

[Jaxplode]

LOL. Why the hell the Ipad got an M4 chip? With such „Updates“ created by designers you will never get the most out of these chips. It still has this awful „file-management“, no support of desktop like apps and so on. Poor Apple