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My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019

2019-06-05 · Tech review, setup or bag tour · Ali · recording, 5:45 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Tools, apps and tech · mode: Review and recommendation · tags: His medical past

Ali picks seven iPadOS features announced at WWDC 2019 (split screen, external storage, text editing, keyboard shortcuts, desktop Safari, Sidecar and AirPods sharing) and says they all push the iPad towards replacing a MacBook, which he hopes it will become once iPadOS ships in autumn 2019.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Introduction: iPadOS at WWDC 2019 and the aim of replacing the MacBook

  • ★★★ Ali says the changes Apple announced for the iPad with iPadOS at WWDC 2019 all seem aimed at making the iPad more of a replacement for the MacBook. (hedged) — 00:00:00 · Apple, iPad, MacBook
  • ★ Ali admits the main reason he uses split screen on the iPad is pretending to take notes in a lecture in one window while browsing Reddit in the other. (playful) — 00:00:29 · iPad

00:00:38 — Split screen

  • ★★ With iPadOS, Ali says, users will finally be able to plug external drives into the iPad. — 00:01:08 · iPad
  • ★★ Ali says he cannot use his iPad for photo or video editing because, being cheap, he bought the 64 GB version, on which he cannot edit raw photos or video at all. — 00:01:08 · iPad

00:01:14 — External storage and importing into Lightroom

  • ★★★ Ali calls importing camera photos straight into Lightroom on iPadOS game changing and thinks it will mean the iPad replaces his laptop for a lot of his photo editing. (hedged) — 00:01:44 · Adobe Lightroom, iPad
  • ★★ Ali says iPadOS is apparently going to completely revamp text editing on the iPad. (hedged) — 00:01:44 · iPad
  • ★★ Ali finds text editing on the iPad a pain in 2019: moving the cursor around to select text is fiddly. — 00:01:44 · iPad

00:01:54 — Improved text editing

  • ★ Ali says the revamped text editing in iPadOS makes the iPad more legitimate for actually writing, without frustration every time. — 00:02:13 · iPad
  • ★★ Ali says iPadOS will introduce more keyboard shortcuts in autumn 2019. — 00:02:13 · keyboard navigation, iPad
  • ★★★ Keyboard shortcuts are one of the main parts of Ali's personal productivity system: productivity, he says, is partly the right mindsets and principles, but also the right tactics to do things efficiently and save time. — 00:02:13 · keyboard navigation

00:02:21 — Keyboard shortcuts and efficiency against the MacBook

  • ★★★ Ali says he has never quite switched to the iPad for everything because almost everything he does on an iPad is a bit less efficient than on a MacBook. — 00:02:42 · iPad, MacBook
  • ★★ Ali hopes the new keyboard shortcuts in iPadOS will bring the iPad closer to a MacBook Pro in efficiency of action and economy of motion. (hedged) — 00:02:42 · MacBook, keyboard navigation, iPad
  • ★★★ Ali is a big fan of keyboard shortcuts and thinks more people should use them more often. — 00:02:42 · keyboard navigation

00:03:04 — Full desktop Safari and editing a website

  • ★★ Ali says full desktop web browsing is coming to Safari on the iPad with iPadOS. — 00:03:04 · Safari, iPad
  • ★★ Safari on the iPad counts as a mobile browser in 2019, which Ali says mostly makes no difference unless you are editing a website with a tool such as Ghost, WordPress or Squarespace. — 00:03:04 · Safari, Squarespace, iPad
  • ★★ Ali uses Ghost for his website in 2019 and cannot edit his posts on the iPad as fully as on a desktop; with iPadOS he expects to make website changes on the fly. — 00:03:04 · aliabdaal.com, iPad
  • ★★ Ali says the new Sidecar feature is coming to iPadOS and macOS Catalina in autumn 2019. — 00:03:33 · iPad
  • ★★ Ali has tried earlier ways of using an iPad as a second display for a Mac, such as Duet, but they never worked perfectly and he never stuck with them. — 00:03:33 · iPad
  • ★ Ali hopes Sidecar will let him set the MacBook and iPad down in a library or coffee shop and feel more of a boss working on two displays. (hedged) — 00:03:33 · MacBook, iPad

00:03:34 — Sidecar: the iPad as a second display for a Mac

00:04:12 — AirPods sharing

  • ★★ Ali says iPadOS and the new iOS will apparently let two pairs of AirPods connect to one device to watch the same thing. (hedged) — 00:04:12 · AirPods, iPad
  • ★ Ali jokes that AirPods sharing is no use to him yet, but perhaps one day, once married, he and his future wife will have date nights watching an iPad on the sofa. (playful, hedged) — 00:04:42 · AirPods, iPad
  • ★★ Ali says he uses his iPad for almost everything in 2019, except video editing and photo editing. — 00:04:42 · iPad

00:05:00 — Wrap-up: hoping the iPad becomes a laptop replacement; sign-off

  • ★★ Ali hopes the iPad will become more of a laptop replacement once iPadOS comes out. (hedged) — 00:05:11 · iPad
  • ★★ Ali promises that as soon as iPadOS comes out and he has tinkered with it, he will give his thoughts on how the iPad fits into his life. — 00:05:11 · iPad

In the description and comments

  • ★★ Ali Abdaal (channel): The video continues the WWDC 2019 series with a deeper look at the new iPadOS features coming in autumn 2019. — video description · iPad

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Central: iPad · iPadOS · keyboard navigation · WWDC 2019

Also: Projects: aliabdaal.com

Organizations: Apple · Reddit

Products: Adobe Lightroom · AirPods · Duet · Ghost · iOS · MacBook · macOS Catalina · Safari · Sidecar · Squarespace · WordPress

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