 Hey guys I've been playing with iOS 9 a couple more days now since my last broadcast and I have some cool tips Actually, I think iOS 9 has more things in it than I even initially thought that that are new So I thought I'd share a few things and hopefully you will share some of your favorite iOS 9 tips as well I Wrote a blog post about what I think the best new feature is the very best new feature and Hello to everybody joining. Thanks. Thanks for coming in Hopefully you got a what iOS 9 you're using it. Maybe there's something that you didn't know it could do that you'll share Learning in hand calm. Oh, hey Chris. I I wrote this article I think it's the very very best new feature and I didn't even know that it was even happening in iOS 9 It I hadn't kept up like I had iOS 8. I had the developer build here. I just got it All on my own Alexandra. Hello. Hello to you in Miami Alexandra, do you have iOS 9? I see Felix is here. He's a tech director for a school that has one-to-one iPads How long will you wait before you update your school iPads to iOS 9 is what I'm wondering It doesn't seem like there's Too many things that have gone terribly wrong for people I know sometimes it's a good idea to to wait several days or several weeks or wait until 9.01 comes out because there's there's bound to be some problems But the the the the number one thing that I found was that After the guinea pigs, so Felix says I'll wait a few weeks. Oh, so well, it's well, Ray. Yeah That's a great idea. You play with it yourself figure it out But this feature that I'm about to show you I think is the number one thing for schools It it's super great news And it brings the iPad closer to being a real computer Oh Chris just said that updating her card of 20 it only took 25 minutes That's nice that the upgrades take take shorter and shorter time. I remember with iOS 6 We had to maybe it started with with five or six it ended But we had to sync through iTunes and it was a huge mess. This is a lot better so my number one tip is when you have a A Button to upload files online whether it's in Edmodo or schoology through the web through Safari Google Classroom or Padlet or in this case This is drop it to me. This is this is so cool I was so happy when I saw this when I click the button to select to upload not only do I get a Place for my photos and videos are you know where you can take your photo library? But now they include update or uploading from your iCloud drive Google Drive drop box one drop one drive And you can even customize this list I know Insta share is in there and I'm assuming other apps will be able to do that this too So that means that students can turn in PDFs and other files. They can turn in stick-around puzzles through through forms and this the same file picker is available in the mail app as well And Well, you know, this doesn't seem like a glamorous feature like a new app switcher Which if we wanted to take a look at that, you know, or we can I don't even know if I like this or not slide through my apps Like that. It's not as glamorous, but it just means so much for schools that have You know things that you want students and teachers to be able to exchange files more than what are just You know videos and pictures so so this is this is a big deal It reminds me and when Ios 6 came out I was so excited that we could actually upload pictures and photos or And and movies because before that we couldn't even do that. It was kind of the dark days So so that's my number one best feature What are some things that that you guys have? discovered in Ios 9 that you really like or or things you've read about maybe you're still still upgrading that you think are Noteworthy in Ios 9 bigger folders. Yes, so On an iPad, I think there's so much more on an iPad than then then We know so here's my my toddler folder for for my kids They're out growing these apps now that I look at them But now we have four by four on each page in a folder instead of three by three Which just makes sense on on our iPads So so that's a neat thing to see I'll figure out how to turn off Siri suggest right because when I when I move over Siri suggesting some apps. I don't want to sign into the iTunes store right now So and putting in news so I'm guessing you can turn this off somewhere And if you if you don't know where something is this is a neat feature in Ios 9 is in the settings app If you scroll to the top you can actually search settings So if you're not sure where the series Settings are just type it in and you have some in your list. So that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool I saw another tip go by and I was trying to read it. So if I miss yours, don't don't feel bad about Replaying it so ruler on the notes and then we'll get to a trackpad finger. So ruler and those I actually don't think I knew about this. So let's check this out so I'll go to my notes and So here's a sample note. I had and you can have a ruler like when you're drawing Okay. Oh, here's a ruler and I can just okay I move it around at whatever degree angle and then can I just draw along it over a perfectly straight line and Then I can just move it over with my fingers again. That is that is cool. I did not know that was in here Cool. Thanks for that. Now. We just need a protractor And it tells us the degrees that's pretty cool Right there in notes. So so notes has been updated so that you can add drawings images. You can even add checklists I love checklists in my notes and this is probably the number one reason I went to ever note For my notes besides being able to organize and you can organize your notes into folders now, too, which is nice Yeah, it feel like I agree I was the thing I was probably looking forward to the most is when you're on lower case now These buttons are actually shown as lower case and then when the shift is on their uppercase We had this technology back in the palm pilot days and now we have it again Oh, somebody's periscope is not working in iOS 9. I'm running Off my phone here Periscope on iOS 9. So maybe it's affecting certain devices I know there's some goofiness happening with the new update to periscope and the keyboard and horizontal video, but isn't Horizontal video pretty cool because I tried doing this in front of my TV Before we could do horizontal video very well in periscope and it just it didn't look great So I love being able to be a weatherman now and stand in front of stuff You taught somebody new all the way from Australia, yeah, thanks So here's the cursor thing is pretty neat when I put down Two fingers on my keyboard Then it the keyboard blanks out because it becomes a trackpad and I can move my cursor around You see where my my cursor. Well my big cursor there. Let's go. I don't know what just happened there Because it's part of an image. Maybe so now I can move this around my screen So a lot easier. I mean you can still touch and hold exactly where you want and get the loop But two fingers. This is an iPad only feature Try as you might on your iPhone unless you have an iPhone 6s or 6s plus the new ones will let you do that with a force touch so That's something to know you might see on the keyboard here we have some formatting options that appear and Where you can add a picture or video right to your notes. So Notes got kind of a makeover Here's something that that whenever I work with people who are new to iOS and they're from Android They always want the back button So the the back button here Let's say I have this email and I sent myself a link, you know I email myself more than anybody else ever I'm always emailing myself But it opens up the page and then up here it actually has a back arrow and it says back to mail So I can click that and it goes me takes me right back to that previous app So if one app sends you to another you have a quick way to jump back So that's pretty handy. It's to me. It seems kind of awkward because I'm used to like it You know just saying having in you know, no buttons there That's usually not a button, but but it's a handy feature and if they have to put a back button somewhere I guess that's a good spot What what else do you got? What other tips have you have you discovered through iOS 9? Yeah, then you can't see your Wi-Fi signal. So I have no idea. Am I on Wi-Fi? Am I on I have I have 4g on this one. Oh, and there is there's a setting in there, too Where you can have if the Wi-Fi is really bad and you do have 4g whether it's a cellular iPad or iPhone It will then switch back over to your 4g if you're if your Wi-Fi is really bad That's something that I manually have to do like at my gym a lot They have bad Wi-Fi there. Sometimes it's good, but then I have to turn it on and off myself I guess my device will will manage that. So you're seeing photos scroll Let's let's explore the photos app here and see what what's new. Here's a so how they do they scroll differently There's there's a tower that my son Connor built this morning Of photos quit on you. Yeah, I there's there there might be some Some problems with with quitting well one thing I do know that's new in photos is when you select photos You know you used to have to tap tap tap if you want to select a lot you just start at one and Drag your finger that let me select one and then drag your finger Oh, there we go all the way across and now they all have check marks on them instead of having to do one at A time this will help you delete mass delete photos All right, and I know many of you have to do that because you're out of room or you work with others who have a full iPad and They just need to delete all those extra photos now. You can just Touch and drag to select multiple photos Yeah, searching within the settings just pull down in the settings app that is one of my very favorites And I think probably Siri can can search in settings too. So let's see If let's let's ask her Open Siri settings. All right, and she took me there. So that was really nice of her Something else in Safari I just discovered was I don't know if you use reading list much or not I do Are the reading view? So if you click up here on certain websites mostly blogs it will then give you this reader view Which is strips out all that extra junk and just gives you the pictures and the text And that that's handy in itself has been in there for the last couple of versions of iOS But now I have up here A way to change the font size And I can change the color if you're reading in bed at night and You know, you're reading my blog in bed at night You can go through and you can change change it. So it's dark And you can even now in reader view change which font so I'm actually coming to you from Iowa. So the island is a font So I'm just going to choose that. I don't even know if I like the font, but the name is super cool So so that's improved reader view. That's pretty neat Um something else on here that I don't it's kind of hard hard to show but Apple has opened up iOS 9 to have ad blockers and ad blockers will block out Ads I guess they're really actually called content blockers. So you could block Videos from loading in web pages and and ads from loading Some people is kind of controversial because a lot of websites make money off their ads So stripping them out might might be a problem But in schools where we just can't trust what ads are going to be there It takes a few steps to set up these content blockers But once you do your web pages look great because the ads are all gone So I had this article up here. I was reading reading it and it has quite a few things I moved to having my calendar all on google calendar because of google now and how it adds things automatically to my calendar But now if I want to I guess I could switch back to my apple mail And do that because now in iOS 9 calendar will go and take things from your mail and put it into into a calendar Let's see you can get sport scores in in siri The weather forecast you can use siri Or your spotlight search as a calculator. There's all these little things that they've added And then of course we haven't talked about the multitasking the split view on an iPad And I've had this for a couple days and I was this is what I was most excited about initially But I haven't used it a ton yet But if I'm on a web page I can pull over and here are eligible apps to be Uh To go on the side here so that note. I was just working on I can have my note And I can have my web page all in one and if I want I can slide this over and work on both so Oh, tell me to photos at a place. I took some. All right. How about Miami so Siri show me photos. I took in Miami and uh-huh It's a lot of photos at felix's school And I don't know why that it's coming up very blurry there and split view is not Because it's probably in photos split view is not mirroring to my apple tv the same way that I see on my screen here, so But that that tends to happen So that's fun to see photos and then if I have labeled people's faces On my mac then I think siri lets me search through those too, but I haven't I haven't visited that in a long time on my mac Any more tips before we wrap this up And whoever pink giving tons of hearts. Thank you. I'm if I could give you all those hearts back right now I would i'm sending sending hearts your way Ah, thank you. Thank you for for all those hearts. So, um, how did I start split view? Yeah, I'd be happy to show you so in in an app that that supports that you just pull over from the side And uh, then whatever app you'd last had in split view would be there I can pull down from the top and choose a different app So if I wanted to go and then let's see go into my twitter I can have twitter there And then twitter happens to be an app that will support the uh besides the slide over it'll support the split view So I can have twitter and the web page going at the same time Oh man, so your periscopes are freezing when you uh when you do them. Hopefully I don't know this one I so far from what I can tell has gone pretty well. I haven't cut out too much. Nobody's complained yet And I I I'll just I'll just end with a with how I have my my setup here because I'm standing in front of a tv I have my microphone today. I'm sporting an orange Uh microphone cover. I got a set of uh rainbow colored microphone covers. So I use different ones Uh, yet you are right split view is only compatible with newer ipads So I know there's a lot of ipad twos out there. It won't do split view or uh or uh the slide over Um ipad mini um should the newer ipad minis you gotta look The apple's made so many devices now. It's hard to keep track of what's going where You know, they should do split view on the the six plus feel like I ordered the the six plus this time I ordered it last time and it was too big and I exchanged it Um, but I think I'm ready for the for the bigger phone now Yeah, I'm sure the mini four the mini four for sure will do the split view Um, I'm just gonna open up my camera here just just for fun to show you what I have going on here. So I have my phone on a tripod and so that I can actually see what you're saying Like I shouldn't how do I do this? Okay I have my phone mirrored to my ipad and then my microphone is down there. Um Here maybe if I if I do it this way it makes more sense there All right, just pull it pulling pulling back the the ipad and it does mean Tom that I am ready for a bigger ipad I'm I'm kind of excited for the ipad pro and and for the pencil and and all that stuff. So Yeah, I'm always trying to experiment with how I set up My broadcast so that's how I chose to do this one It's kind of a pain to bring all this stuff out because in my office I tried the other day just sitting in front of a computer screen, but the screen was too blurry So so I'm trying it this way today I'm playing my my weatherman role Well, um happy saturday to you. I I've got to get going because uh my family we're going to a play tonight We're gonna see Pete the cat. So Connor and LA are super excited We've been reading all the Pete the cat books we can uh to get ready for tonight. So, um Thanks. Thanks so much and uh, we'll see you later