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hi everyone I've just put the iOS 12 Developer Preview on an iPhone 10 and I want to run you through some of my first impressions what it's like to use the new interface and a couple of new features now bear in mind this is a developer version and things are likely to change between now and the final release so let's unlock the phone and get started so if I'm up the phone the first thing I'm not gonna do is start a quick screen recording just so you can see a nice clean view of what I'm doing hence the red icon up here so you'll see that iOS 12 has a brand new wallpaper this is the default wallpaper if you decide to choose to put it on your phone it's going to look like this with the gradients of the red to the blue this is the first time that I have open iOS 12 so bear with me here you're going to go through this just as I'm experiencing it first thing I want to try is the app switcher so I've been using the iPhone 10 with iOS 11 and previously when I wanted to actually close an app from the app switcher I'd have to press and hold on the actual app in the switcher and then hit the little X to actually toggle out of the app now you'll notice that that doesn't work when I do that so if I'm going through the app switcher and I want to switch atom and app all I'll need to do just to close it is to swipe up like that which is a feature that anyone who is not using an iPhone 10 will be we're well aware of so now I'm gonna try something fun and make my own emoji so let's get started okay that doesn't look like I think I look but that's okay I can totally go customize things let's see oh we have something with bangs there we go my nice little hairstyle there but there are a lot of different options here there are a couple of highlights oh that's kind of neat you can add a little bit of a highlight option eyes green just gonna speed through this and do a really quick one there we go I'm gonna come back and refine this browse nose and lips he is facial hair so you can get really granular here there are a lot of different customization options okay so there we go I've completed it and now I'm talking to you you know iOS 12 with my brand new emoji so I'm gonna start recording and now it looks like I can choose around 30 seconds whereas the previous and emojis I believe were around 10 seconds so there we go hi there's the tongue detection at work that's quite fun all right speaking of all things face there is now the option to actually add a second face to your face ID so I've just opened up the Settings app and we're gonna go and try and find this face ID and passcode okay let's see if I can find where we do the second base setup an alternate appearance here so in addition to continuously learning about how you look face ID can recognize an alternate appearance this is pretty good because sometimes when I have my head tied up or have sunglasses on doesn't necessarily recognize me so being able to set up a second appearance for face ID it's pretty useful or alternatively adding a second face altogether if you want someone else to be able to unlock your phone also in the settings let's take a look at some of the big new features in iOS 12 including Do Not Disturb and screen time so let's start with screen time first this is the first time that I've opened this app so I don't really think that it's gonna give me any data on how much I've used my phone yet oh actually I was incorrect here we go it's giving me an idea of how long I've used my phone so I've spent six minutes and settings three minutes and messages two minutes in Chrome in four minutes elsewhere and I've been using it for one hour over 32 minutes today approximately 31 minutes above my average time which is kind of scary given it's still early in the morning I can also set some app limits so obviously if I'm using an app like Instagram Twitter so on and so forth far too much I can go through and I can choose that so let's say social networking apps so it looks like it's categorizing them all in one so if I'm using social networking apps for more than an hour it's going to me a little notification there we go so I've set that up for one hour let's see how I les stick to that and then I can always do the always allowed so these are the apps that I want to be able to use at all times so in this example it's by default setup messages and FaceTime to come through during downtime but for example if I wanted to add another thing like a notification from a third-party messaging app perhaps I could also add that into so you can just drag it or remove it in as you like now let's try the iOS 12 notifications grouping I want to see what that looks like so in iOS 12 one of the big changes is group notifications on the home screen rather than getting a huge stream of notifications you now get them all bunched up together by sender and type so for example you get emails and text messages like so like before you could swipe across and open them if you like or you can also swipe this way instead of just clear all and view you now get this option called manage so it opens a dialog like this and it gives me the option to either deliver them quietly or I can turn them off altogether and that essentially shows it just switched off let's open that again so quiet notifications will appear in the Notification Center and badge the app icon but will not appear on the lockscreen present banners or play a sound so I can turn that to deliver quietly and see what that does is that essentially it delivers it but it doesn't put it on the actual lockscreen itself so that's a nice feature to kind of clear up that mess on your lockscreen so now I'm going to take a look at some of the new apps in iOS 12 including the measure app here so I have a MacBook Pros sitting in front of me I'm just gonna calibrate the phone like so it says move iPhone just start okay here we go so it looks like it's ready to go I have a plus icon here and a point on the screen I'm guessing that's where I'm gonna have to start placing the point by pressing the plus icon moving it across like so pressing it again and that line and it's giving me the measurement of one of the sides of the MacBook there you go now for something fun I really want to try is making a FaceTime call with me emoji first times had a couple of different updates including 32 person FaceTime calls which I'm not gonna try now but I'm gonna try them emoji so it looks like there's this new icon here hi what's up I'm gonna try and be merging you okay let's try this I'm gonna tap into the an emoji tab tap into my me emoji oh yeah what do you think you like you like and they got my tongue sticking out to you alright alright that's a lot of fun that is active in the iOS 12 developer beta right now so you can have fun with that finally let's go to Siri shortcuts now this is kind of to make Siri do a little bit more than just your stock standard weather directions and all of that so I'm gonna try and find that within the settings so I'm going to go to settings Siri and search and then this new tab called shortcuts pops up so it's kind of looking at the things that I've recently done which is like starting a video call for example so if I want to try and do that as a shortcut it looks like I can just tap that plus icon and then if I want to start a video call I can then basically record a personalized phrase and it will do that so hmm let's think of something fun to say make lunch for Nick okay so when I say that that's gonna start a face time cool alright let's let's try it now make lunch for Nick and there we go it's cooling face time and then I can add my emergy again like so that's pretty fun hi I just got to make lunch in the series shortcut and it calls you because it's lunch tired alright later so that's the first run through iOS 12 that I've taken if you have any questions about what is in iOS 12 please leave me a comment below there are lots of different features that I didn't get a chance to touch on including some of the photo stuff so stay tuned to seen it we'll have lots more coverage on iOS 12 coming up soon if you liked the video please give it a thumbs up subscribe and ring the bell you