iOS 16 Overview

Not everyone has updated to the latest iOS on their iPhones and iPadOS 16 will be released later in October. Tom will give us a preview of what he has discovered and found by reading online articles and reviews. 

Hoping to do Pop_up settings in Nov-Dec. Will send email to participants and include details in the Wednesday Blast. 

Not a follow along session - DEMO only 

Years back iPhone and iPad separated operating systems > iPadOS & iOS 

iPadOS moving towards laptop-esse uses, iOS camera heavy 

iOS 16 on iPhone - Home Screen custom designs, add widgets; tap to cycle through my photos. Spotlight Search is now a button. Battery percentage 

iPadOS - no widgets, font choices; shows same Notifications as in iPadOS 15. 

Stage Manager - added to operating system - Control Center has new button to invoke SM, open Safari, to see left thumbnails for other apps; prior iPadOS used Split Screen instead; drag and drop to reposition two windows; shrink size to show two and sidebar options. 

Universal iPhone & iPad 16 OS features - 

• Email - Undo Send > lasts 10 seconds … bottom left corner has Unsend. Check Settings > Mail > Unsend > for timeframe options 
• Email - Touch and HOLD blue send button to SCHEDULE when to send email. 
• Messages - After sending message - Touch and HOLD blue bubble to see options - Undo Send or Edit. Recipient must be on iOS16/iPadOS16 (not previous iOS or Android). 
• Contacts - Under All Contacts > Duplicates Found > View Duplicates > view individually or Merge All/Ignore All. 
• Contacts - Groups have been renamed Lists. Create email distribution lists in Contacts. 
• Photos - Library > Utilities > Find Duplicates > Merge. Small text shows size of each image. What is under the ( … ) ? 
• Photos - open a photo with a definite subject; Touch and HOLD on subject to see mask around subject. Move subject to a Note, or other app. Also > Share Sheet to Save Copy or Send Email … 
• Gestures to practice - (moving a photo subject to an email message) touch and hold > drag across to new window > pause while holding on screen > lift screen 
• Turn on Stage Manager as needed from Control Center. 

Add a dash of Notes and Control Center

Carol gave us a quick review of the Notes app and the Control Center. 

Notes 

Settings Recommend

- iCloud

- most recent first

Create new Note page  - use box with pen to open a new Note

Add title

Start typing note.

For example: Places to travel

Three Dots …

- scan, Pin, Lock, Delete

- share or send a copy

Markup…

-pen, highlighter, pencil, lasso, ruler

-Create Note and use pen icon to draw freehand

Camera

-Create note and Scan/take photo (PDF VS. JPEG)

Create note with checklist

For example: Packing for travel 

Pin a note-swipe right or Lock a note swipe left

Quick notes…right bottom corner swipe up to center screen 

Control Center- quick access to features 

Swipe down from upper right corner (face ID iPads) 

or center of bottom screen (Home button iPads) 

Press and hold button icons for options

WiFi 

Airplane Mode

Screen Mirroring to Apple TV or Zoom

Focus - be careful accidentally turn on or LEAVE on

Brightness of the screen (lower saves  battery)

Audio Volume 

Paddlelock - Screen orientation will stick in portrait or landscape 

SETTINGS > Control Center 

- add or remove Control Center buttons 

- edit list to move buttons up or down 

Questions from Chat

Questions from Chat

Recover Space on your iPad - Are you sure? Open Settings > General > iPad Storage > look at this list for big storage hogs. Scroll to Messages > Videos > then tap to view a video. Tap Edit > tap circle to select any videos you do not want! Then tap the Trash icon to delete. Continue clean up of Messages > Photos > Edit. You want to save photos and videos to your Photo Library if they are important. Once saved, you can delete from Messages in the original conversation. 

Notes

Notes on my phone sometimes migrate to my email. How can I stop that?  I'd like to keep the stuff in notes/" I've never experienced this issue. Are you using Gmail by chance? Or another email service. Read about organizing Notes in the online guide. I wonder if you have multiple "accounts" where Notes are enabled in Settings > Notes > Accounts ... If so, you can move individual notes from one account to your iCloud designated account (then turn off the other accounts in Settings . Notes > Accounts). 

Create a Quick Note on iPad from bottom right corner of the screen, swipe towards the center of the screen. Read about Quick Notes on iPad.

Markup Tool in Notes, Email, Photos and Files or PDF documents to draw in colors with pen, pencil and highlighter, add circles, rectangles and lines, add text and add your signature. Read about Markup in the online user guide. 

Email 

Be kind to others when sending several photos by sending photos at a reduced size. This is obvious on iPhone as there is a prompt before the mail message is sent. On the iPad there is a HIDDEN button! Experiment by creating a new mail message and add three photos. On the Cc/Bcc, From line you will see "Images: 50 KB" - this is the hidden button. Tap the word Images to expand all the fields and show the Image Size options: Small, Medium, Large and Actual Size. Each size option is shown with the amount of storage/data required to send the photos. Small is recommended. If the recipient wants to print a larger version of the photo, send just one photo per message and set the size to Large or Actual Size. This is not a feature mentioned in the online user guide! 

Deleting mail messages might be easier if you use a computer rather than your iPad or iPhone. Read about deleting mail in the iPad online user guide. 

iCloud / Apple ID 

Read about iCloud in the online user guide. 

Read about how to Share Your Location with other Apple users. 

If your Notes, Mail and Photos are NOT available to all your devices, make sure all devices are logged in to the same Apple ID account in the Settings app. 

Photos can take up lots of room in your iCloud and on your device. Consider turning on Optimized Storage. Open the Settings > Apple ID > iCloud > Photos > Optimize iPad Storage. Same for iPhone. Subscription to iCloud+ includes documents, videos and photos - on my 200GB subscription ($3/mo) easily allows me to have 21,800 photos using 130GB with room for other documents and more. 

Sending Photos to iCloud will be automatic if your enable it - Settings > Apple ID > iCloud > Photos > iCloud Photos > ON. 

Android users and Find My Friends ??? Really? Try Googling this question. 

Read about Shared Photo Albums in the online user guide. 

Control Center 

Read about Control Center in the online user guide. Lower screen brightness to save battery power. Raise brightness as needed throughout the day. Organize features of Control Center using Red and Green circles. 

Focus is the new "do not disturb" feature. Read about Focus in the online user guide. 

Love to Learn!

Over the years this class and the team have taught me so much about my iPhone and iPad! Thanks team! And thanks to all the participants who ask questions and force me (this is a good thing) to look closely at details and ... touch every button! 

There are features hiding behind every corner of our devices. On a computer you might have held down the Option or Control keys while doing something but on our touch devices it is often touch+hold and a menu of options will pop up. 

Thanks, again, for opening my eyes! 

Markup - Pencil, Highlighter, Text & Signature

The Markup tool working in Notes, Mail, Messages, Photos, Books and other apps to annotate or draw or add text. It is also how you create a signature for use in adding to documents without printing signing and scanning. 

• Draw in apps with Markup on iPad 
• Add typed text, shapes, and signatures with Markup on iPad 

Make a screenshot and look for the Markup tool to draw attention to a setting you are about to change. Save the screenshot to your Photos Library. Look for the list of Photos > Media Types > Screenshots to find past references. 

Open Notes app and create a new Note page. Add a title as the first line and then some text below. Add Markup drawing under the text. Use the Highlighter tool to highlight something in your drawing. (The Highlight tool cannot interact with "live text" that can be edited, only something from the Markup tool.)

I am struggling to add Text from the Markup ( ... ) menu on a Notes page!  

More info on Markup 

Mac Monterey OS Mark up attachments in your notes on Mac 

... more to come, distracted for a day or three 

Practice Making Contacts

Use this image as a reference to add new Contact cards for incoming Renaissance Society emails. This will help you organize emails or use Search. 

Click on the image to see it larger. (To close the large image, look for X in the top right corner.) 

iCloud and Apple ID

Maybe you don't know what you don't know. Are these features familiar?: 

• Use Continuity to connect your Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple Watch 

References

• iCloud User Guide - online guide from Apple 
• What is iCloud, and How Do You Use It? Reader’s Digest 
• Apple iCloud Support 
• Apple ID Support 
• Apple What is Family Sharing? 
• Family Sharing Share your favorite things with your favorite people 
• Check iCloud System Status all Apple Services 

Each person needs their own Apple ID. Even if you share a device. Your Apple ID should be protected with a secure password and two-factor authentication, 2FA, where your other device approves changes. "Family Sharing lets you and up to five other family members share access to Apple services (Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple News+, Apple Arcade...) as well as iTunes, Apple Books, and App Store purchases. You can even help locate each other’s missing devices." 

Search your iPad for the Support app. Or get the Apple Support app and enter your Apple ID to see all your devices listed and support articles for each one. Also search for the Apple Tips app, and get it if you don't find it on your iPad. 

"iCloud" is Apple's trademark for Services, Syncing data and Online Storage. Storage space is scalable, from 5 GB to 50 GB to 200 GB to 2 TB up or down per month. Through your individual Apple ID, your Calendar, Contacts, Files, Keychain, Notes, Notifications, Photos, Safari bookmarks and Wallet appear on all your devices. Through iCloud you can share Photos and documents and collaborate with others in Notes, Pages, Keynote and Numbers apps. 

Other online storage options are available from Dropbox, Amazon Prime, Microsoft OneDrive, Adobe Creative Cloud, among many other subscription options. The Internet is often referred to as "a cloud" as the design of the world-wide information superhighway uses multiple servers in multiple locations for multiple services. 

Some iCloud services are available by logging into iCloud.com - a handy tips for Windows and Android users. Services include Mail, Contracts, Calendar, Photos, iCloud Drive, Notes, Reminders, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and Find iPhone (all devices). (If you are using iPadOS 15 or earlier, you can create Groups in Mail that will sync to your devices. iPadOS 16 will call groups "lists" instead.) Start collaborating on a Note or document in Pages, Numbers and Keynote after logging in. 

Review iCloud data in Settings > Apple ID > iCloud > 

iCloud Syncing visual - create a document on iPad and with a wifi connection the document is uploaded to iCloud account. When you unlock your iPhone and connect to wifi or cellular, the document will be available to your device. When you unlock your computer ... the document is available. Create or edit a document on any of your devices and iCloud will make the document available to your other Apple ID devices. Syncing works with Notes, Calendar, Contacts, Mail, Reminders and Messages. If information does not sync to your other device, make sure you have logged into both devices with the same Apple ID and review the enabled items on each device in Settings > Apple ID > iCloud. 

iCloud Photos includes Shared Albums and ways to share photos and videos. On iPhone and iPad consider Settings > Apple ID > iCloud > Photos > Optimize device Storage. Full size images are in iCloud and thumbnails are on your device depending on available storage. When you edit a photo, it downloads to your device for full detail. Shared Albums are how you can invite any Apple user to subscribe to the album, upload photos, write comments and mark Like. If you add a Caption to a photo before Sharing to a Shared Album, the text in the Caption becomes a draft comment before you Post. Captions are synced to your other devices. In Photos, look at a photograph full screen then tap the Share button. At the top of the screen is Options >. This is easy to miss! You can send an iCloud Link instead of attaching the photo to email or messages. An iCloud Link disappears in 30 days. You might also have friends or family that use Windows or Android devices. Shared Photo Albums can be made “public” and you can share the randomized link with them

Questions asked last week in class about iCloud and Apple ID: 

• iCloud:  would it be possible to share some sort of VISUAL with iCloud ? Like what its connected to etc? 
• How do you know what of your data is in the cloud?
• Do the Photos captions change in all devices?
• I have notes on my phone but they didn’t transfer to my iPad. Why?