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another WWDC has come and gone and with it we got a new release of a new version of iOS and every year we hope for a couple of things maybe a fresh coat of paint some speed improvements under the hood and maybe some better things coming to Siri and though we didn't get all of those things as iOS 12 there's a lot actually to unpack and a lot of cool features that you're probably gonna be interested in so let's talk about all the interesting cool and new features coming in iOS 12 so the first thing I will talk about with iOS 12 is kind of doubling down on performance especially with older devices so iOS 12 will work on devices from the 5s generation of Apple devices from 2013 up on and it's gonna bring improvements to devices that are usually are running slow on iOS 11 so things like taking a photo searching on your phone and Siri bringing up the keyboard launching apps are all gonna get much faster on older devices in some cases even doubling the speed making it almost 2 times faster to do things on these older devices hopefully eliminating that sluggishness that we're seeing now of course it wouldn't be an iOS in Apple Keynote without talking about AR and they did talk a lot about it in this keynote they talked about a new file type they developed with Pixar this you SDC file type which are basically make it easier for developers to create these immersive new AR experiences that you can enjoy on your phone there's a couple of new features in AR the biggest being this new shared experiences thing would you basically allow two or more people to jump into a virtual world in AR interact together and see the same thing but control different components the stock Photos app on iOS also got some updates kind of mirroring what Google has done on Google Photos and now has smarter search suggestions where you can search on place person and event type a little bit better and also this new for you tab which basically shows you recent photos you've taken and suggest people you can share them with with just one tap we'll see how well this actually works but it looks pretty cool of course every year with WWDC we hope with a new version of iOS that Siri gets better and though we didn't get a lot of under the hood details on improvements we did get one cool thing coming to Siri and that's the ability to do shortcuts it basically lets you the user creation or cuts in a very simple drag-and-drop editor so for example let's say I'm going home from work now my way home from work I want Siri to do a couple of things for me I want to get the fastest travel time I want to be able to turn on/off lights at my house so when I get home my lights are on I want to set my thermostat I want to get my favorite podcasts playing in my car all that can be done in this shortcuts app and I can just say one thing to Siri like hey Siri I'm heading home and it'll trigger all those commands in order do everything I want and I can get in the car and go with the Apple Maps running my podcasts playing and everything good to go look sure the cool looks super customizable and it should be kind of a cool addition to Siri that gives you a little bit more control we talked a lot at Google i/o about this whole digital health well-being lifestyle monitoring kind of thing and Apple is kind of mirroring that with this new kind of similar digital health initiative in iOS 12 and it starts with do not disturb one of the things we've been long waiting for is group notifications and that is here in iOS so those notifications will look a lot better but also you have a little bit more control over how you see those notifications and do not disturb so you actually have the ability to turn off notifications from apps for a certain time period or altogether if you choose and also toggle do not disturb on and off by location by time or just trying it off together at night and when you wake up you're not gonna buy notifications but do not disturb kind of eases you into the day gives you a little glance of the day ahead and then gives you the rest of the notification it's just a little more control there for Do Not Disturb like I said that whole digital well-being thing is a big part of iOS 12 and in iOS 12 you're not going to get these weekly reports and also daily reports that show you how you're using your phone what apps you're spending your time in how often you're checking notifications what apps are actually sending you the most notifications and based off those reports you can do a couple of things you can set time allotments for how long do you want to spend in certain apps and the phone will kind of nudge you out of those apps and the timers up you can tell an app to stop sending you notifications for a certain time or altogether and if you're a parent you can have even more control over your children's iOS apps basically using this report to see how your child is using their device what apps are using where they're spending their time and you can even limit what app they're using at certain times if you want to right from this whole new dashboard let's move on from that to a new version of messages for iOS 12 and there's a couple of cool features in this new messaging app the first bing if you're a big fan of an emojis there's now tongue detection so when you stick out your tongue your an emoji will mirror that character which is kind of cool and also this new thing called emoji which basically is kind of like a 3d version of a bitmoji you can use your facial characteristics to build your virtual and emoji basically your hair style glasses skin tone so you can use this meme og in a variety of ways you can send it like you would an ant emoji you can use it as a sticker you're able to send it to friends you're also able to use it in a new feature of this message of gap which is group FaceTime call so you can use your MIMO G to talk to your friends 32 friends if you wanted to all at once and it should work pretty well assuming that your friends are using an iOS device or Mac some smaller miscellaneous iOS updates also came updates to the news app are here there's stocks now on the iPhone and iPad that have been redesigned with Apple News integrated there's a new voice memos app that is now on the iPad hey carplay now supports third-party maps app so if you want to use Google Maps or ways you can natively so that was kind of it for iOS 12 we saw the big things like serious shortcuts and me emojis and this whole digital well being dashboard but besides that that was kind of the biggest stuff coming from iOS stuff of course there should be improvements under the hood your phone should feel faster but that was it so what do you guys think is this new iOS 12 update a big deal for you are you gonna jump on the bandwagon download the beta or get on it as soon as it is released or you're gonna kind of weight off or are you a little bit disappointed leave your comment down below and let us know thanks so much for watching I am Roberts and 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