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00:00Hey, what's up guys, MKBHD here and welcome back to your continued coverage of the world's
00:09most densely packed keynote, WWDC 2019.
00:12And I'm going to say that low-key, my favorite announcement from that entire keynote was
00:18iPadOS 13.
00:19You see, if you remember, there were a lot of complaints and feelings in my iPad Pro
00:24review and many others about how this is clearly the best iPad ever.
00:28It's incredible hardware, great screen, great battery, great chip, but it's still sort of
00:34held back by the software, by iOS, and it still felt like just an iPad.
00:39Well, fast forward a couple of weeks till now, till that crazy keynote happened, and
00:43now we have an update alongside iOS 13 specifically for the iPads.
00:48It's iPadOS.
00:49Now, it's not an entirely new operating system.
00:50It's still iOS 13 for iPad.
00:54But this iPadOS directly addresses so many of the complaints and those features that
00:59it was lacking that sort of bring it up to speed of a much more impressive computer.
01:05So in a way, this software update kind of feels like it saves the iPad Pro for me.
01:10So let's break this down.
01:11First of all, the widgets on your home screen.
01:14So I never thought I would say that about iOS, but technically you do have these here,
01:18so at least on the left-hand side in a vertically scrolling list.
01:21But these are the ones that were over to the side of your home screen on your iPhone,
01:24but you can pin them right alongside the rest of your smaller icons, and they go a
01:27long way towards making it feel a bit more like a real computer already, you know?
01:32And I actually think a lot of possibilities open up with the widgets that you can put
01:35over there.
01:36They're always available.
01:37There's a lot of glanceable information and a lot of one-touch functions if you have
01:40some important apps up there.
01:41So I'm a big fan of that.
01:43And then there is the multitasking improvements.
01:46So again, a lot of this is learning gestures and things like that, and there's sort of
01:49a learning curve to them.
01:51But you can have apps side-by-side like you always have, but now you can have two instances
01:56of the same app side-by-side next to each other, so Notes next to Notes, or Safari
02:02next to Safari.
02:03It's one of those things I didn't know I would like, but it turns out to be pretty useful.
02:07And then, of course, there's also the slide-over apps and the whole gesture system that goes
02:11with that.
02:12So there's multitasking between slide-over windows and quick switching between them.
02:16And all this stuff stays in memory and it's always remembered, so if you have multiple
02:19apps and spaces next to each other, you can switch between those pairs of apps.
02:23It's pretty impressive.
02:25So I feel like this is one of those features that you could not use at all to start, but
02:28slowly start introducing them into your workflow until you get really good at them, and then
02:33they feel irreplaceable.
02:35And then, okay, remember when I said in the original iPad review, having a USB-C port
02:39makes the workflow dream seem like, you know, just plug your camera directly into that port
02:44or plug a card reader straight in, import, and then start editing your photos or whatever
02:49you're doing.
02:50You couldn't do that on the iPad, and it was a bummer that that wasn't supported.
02:54Until now, in iPadOS 13, you now can plug in a flash drive or plug memory in directly
03:00into the iPad and import into your apps and start working.
03:04This obviously feels like one of the features they should have had from the beginning, but
03:07now that it's here, thank you, finally, that's originally what I was expecting when I saw
03:12a USB-C on the iPad Pro.
03:14So now that's taking advantage of that, there's also this column view in the files app that's
03:18starting to behave a lot more like Finder with the ability to quickly copy and paste
03:22files and compress files and folders into zip files.
03:26I feel like also a lot of signing documents will be a lot easier now that you can do this.
03:30So file management is much better.
03:32And then also desktop class browsing.
03:34So that was another one of my big complaints about the iPad was the inability to use several
03:39important desktop sites because they all treated Safari on the iPad like Safari on
03:45the iPhone, just like another mobile browser.
03:47So I was pretty impressed and happy to see full desktop class browsing now.
03:51So first thing I had to try was Google Drive.
03:54That all now fully works.
03:56It's not perfectly smooth, but it works, which is great.
03:59And then desktop YouTube and the Creator Studio also works.
04:03So things like adding end cards and updating descriptions and a lot of the stuff I would
04:08do on the desktop.
04:09It now all works perfectly in the web browser.
04:11This is literally one of the things I would carry around a MacBook Pro to be able to do
04:15because I don't trust doing that stuff on my phone.
04:17There's also now a download manager in Safari, so you can use it for sites like Dropbox and
04:22Box.com and Google Drive for natively downloading files.
04:26That's awesome for me because the ultimate team I play for in New York Empire, we put
04:30game footage all in the shared folder in Google Drive, but I couldn't download from Google
04:35Drive to the iPad to watch it offline.
04:38I could only stream.
04:39So now I can just straight up download it to the iPad and just watch it like a normal
04:43file.
04:44It's great.
04:45And then there's a bunch of other little improvements.
04:46So things like the keyboard, anytime you're typing anything, you can pinch it down and
04:51it becomes this iPhone size keyboard and you can move it anywhere you want and then type
04:55with one hand or do swipe typing.
04:58It's not the prettiest thing in the world, but the fact that you can do that in one quick
05:01gesture is pretty nice.
05:02And also if you use the Apple Pencil for markup a lot, another feature that's super useful
05:07is you can now use the pencil to take a screenshot by swiping up from the corner.
05:11Then you immediately are in markup mode and you can start drawing on whatever screenshot
05:15you just took.
05:16That is clean.
05:17And then the icing on the cake is another new feature called Sidecar.
05:21So if you have a Mac and an iPad, as the name suggests, it will let you use the iPad as
05:26a second display for the Mac.
05:28So I saw this demo at WWDC, it was literally two clicks away in the display settings and
05:33then suddenly this MacBook Pro has a second display that's Apple Pencil compatible and
05:38with the super low latency of the pencil, you can just start drawing and editing.
05:42I imagine this to be useful for artists and people that do a lot of Photoshop work and
05:46things with the stylus.
05:47I don't know about replacing those Wacom tablets that are so specialized that a lot of workflows
05:52use right now, but as responsive as this is and as good as it looked in beta, this looked
05:56really promising.
05:57Oh, and let me just say that the improved latency of the stylus, they said on stage
06:01that it went from 20 milliseconds to nine milliseconds.
06:05I didn't know if I would notice that, but trying it, it is incredibly fast now.
06:09It looks and feels like you're actually writing directly onto the iPad screen.
06:14I don't know if they could even make the latency any shorter than this.
06:17And if I would notice it at all, it is super fast.
06:19So does all this stuff take the iPad Pro from being just another iPad to being a sort of
06:26a computer replacement for more people?
06:29As you might imagine, the answer depends on what you do on your computer.
06:32But for me, if I'm not video editing on my laptop, the answer is actually yes.
06:38Pretty much everything I do in between desktops as far as mobile work, I can now actually
06:43do on the iPad Pro.
06:45And that mobile web browser being treated like a desktop class web browser is a major
06:50part of that.
06:51I also really like the widgets on the more compact home screen and the multitasking improvements
06:55and all this stuff to me legitimately saves the iPad.
06:58So today, like I said, since I don't edit videos on the go anymore, I do it in between
07:04at desktops.
07:06Today I'm taking my laptop out of my backpack and I'm going to be just carrying iPad Pro.
07:14We'll see how long this lasts, but I really feel like I can do everything I used to do.
07:17I don't know whether to be mad at Apple for like holding these features back and then
07:21finally delivering them later to blow our minds, or if I should be super happy for Apple
07:27for listening to our feedback and actually updating the iPad with all these features
07:31for what we asked.
07:32But what I do know is the improvements that they've made to iPad OS are stellar.
07:37I think when they do hit the iPad in their final form, because this is still early beta
07:40and it'll be a public beta soon, but when these finally start hitting people's iPad
07:44Pros, they're going to notice, they're going to be major improvements, and I think they'll
07:47really like them.
07:48I really like it.
07:49Either way, that's been it.
07:51Thanks for watching this video.
07:52Catch you guys in the next one.
07:53Peace.
07:54Peace.