In this podcast from his series looking at some of what's new and notable in iOS 15, Thomas Domville introduces us toHide My Email.

Available to iCloud+ subscribers, Hide My Email builds on the idea of Sign in With Apple by providing you with unique, random email addresses that forward to your personal inbox and can be deleted at any time. This can be particularly useful if you need to give a company an email address, but are concerned that they will share the address with others who will use it for advertising purposes.

In this podcast from his series looking at some of what's new and notable in iOS 15, Thomas Domville introduces us to iCloud Private Relay.

iCloud Private Relay ensures the Safari traffic leaving your device is encrypted - so no one can intercept and read it - and it puts all your requests through two separate internet relays. The result is that no one, including Apple, can see who you are or what sites you are visiting.

In this podcast from his series looking at some of what's new and notable in iOS 15, Thomas Domville Shows us how to setup and use Focus modes.

Focus is essentially a supercharged upgrade of Do Not Disturb. This is how Apple describes Focus:

Focus helps you stay in the moment when you need to concentrate or step away. Choose a Focus that allows only the notifications you want — you can get work done while you’re in the zone or enjoy a distraction‑free dinner. Pick from a list of suggested Focus options or create your own.

What do you want to focus on? Choose a focus area to set up: Custom. Driving. Exercising. Gaming. Reading.

Stepping away is easier if others know you’re busy. So when you’re using Focus, your status will be automatically displayed in Messages. And for truly urgent messages, there’s still a way for people to notify you.

Key feature highlights of Focus are:

• Allow notifications only from certain people and apps.
• Time-sensitive notifications.
• Presets: There are presets for different parts of your day: work, personal time, workouts, and more.
• Dynamic home screen allows you to only show particular home screen pages when a Focus mode is enabled.
• Cross-device sync.

In this podcast from his series looking at some of what's new and notable in iOS 15, Thomas Domville Shows us how you can now configure a number of accessibility settings on a per-app basis.

This feature allows you to enable or disable certain accessibility settings for a specific app or set of apps, including the Home screen. All you need to do is choose an app, toggle on the accessibility settings you want, and you'll then get options like larger text, reduced transparency, and smart invert in only the places you want them.

In this podcast from his series looking at some of what's new and notable in iOS 15, Thomas Domville Shows us VoiceOver's new Quick Settings feature.

Activated with a 2-finger quadruple tap, the Quick Settings panel offers fast and easy access to a number of VoiceOver's settings and options, allowing you to streamline the VoiceOver rotor.

In this podcast from his series looking at some of what's new and notable in iOS 15, Thomas Domville Shows us Background Sounds.

Apple says that “everyday sounds can be distracting, discomforting, or overwhelming,” so in support of neurodiversity it is introducing new background sounds in iOS 15.

According to Apple this is how background sounds will help minimize distractions and help users focus, stay calm, or rest:

Balanced, bright, or dark noise, as well as ocean, rain, or stream sounds continuously play in the background to mask unwanted environmental or external noise, and the sounds mix into or duck under other audio and system sounds.

In this podcast from his series looking at some of what's new and notable in iOS 15, Thomas Domville Shows us the improved image description capabilities for VoiceOver users.

Here’s how Apple describes this feature:

Building on recent updates that brought Image Descriptions to VoiceOver, users can now explore even more details about the people, text, table data, and other objects within images. Users can navigate a photo of a receipt like a table: by row and column, complete with table headers. VoiceOver can also describe a person’s position along with other objects within images — so people can relive memories in detail, and with Markup, users can add their own image descriptions to personalize family photos.

In this podcast from his series looking at some of what's new and notable in iOS 15, Thomas Domville Shows us Live Text, a feature that allows you to quickly recognize text and select, copy, paste, and lookup in both the Camera and Photos app.

Here’s how Apple describes Live Text:

Live Text uses on-device intelligence to recognize text in a photo and allow users to take action. For example, users can search for and locate the picture of a handwritten family recipe, or capture a phone number from a storefront with the option to place a call. With the power of the Apple Neural Engine, the Camera app can also quickly recognize and copy text in the moment, such as the Wi-Fi password displayed at a local coffee shop. With Visual Look Up, users can learn more about popular art and landmarks around the world, plants and flowers found in nature, breeds of pets, and even find books.

Live Text is only available on devices which have an A12 Bionic chip or better. These are:

• iPhone XS
• iPhone XS Max
• iPhone XR
• iPhone 11
• iPhone 11 Pro
• iPhone 11 Pro Max
• iPhone 12 mini
• iPhone 12
• iPhone 12 Pro
• iPhone 12 Pro Max
• iPhone SE (2020)
• iPad Air 3rd generation
• iPad mini 5th generation
• 11-inch iPad Pro (2018 and later)
• 12.9-inch iPad Pro (2018 and later)
• iPad 8th generation
• iPad Air 4th generation
• iPad Pro (2021)

In this edition of the AppleVis Extra, Dave Nason, Alex Hall, Tyler Stephen, and Scott Davert get together to discuss Apple's 'California Streaming' September 14, 2021 Keynote.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville gives us short looks at some of what's new and notable in iOS 15.

Topics covered include:

• Live Text
• Exploring images with VoiceOver
• Voice image descriptions with markup
• New navigation method for VoiceOver - Grouped
• VoiceOver Quick Settings
• Sound Actions for Switch Control
• Background Sounds
• Per-app settings
• Audiograms
• Standalone Magnifier app
• Accessibility Memoji
• New Voice Control languages
• Siri on-device speech processing
• Neural text-to-speech voice in more languages for Siri
• Maintaining context with Siri
• Refer to contacts onscreen with Siri
• Siri Offline support
• Sharing with Siri
• Home screen page management
• Focus modes
• Add Recovery Account for iCloud
• Legacy Contacts (coming in a later release)
• iCloud Private Relay and Hide My Email
• Redesigned start page for Safari
• Safari tab bar
• Safari tab groups
• Support for extensions in Safari
• New pull to refresh VoiceOver gesture
• Secure browsing for Safari
• Temporary iCloud storage
• Notification summary
• Notification options
• New and improved Weather details
• Rain and snow alerts
• Live Locations
• Find My separation alerts
• Find My network
• Request a refund for in-app purchases
• Improvements to AirPrint
• New widgets
• Health sharing
• Walking steadiness
• Photo stacks, collages, and pinned content in Messages
• 'Spatialize Stereo
• built-in password authenticator
• Skip gaps in Voice Memos
• FaceTime links and Join FaceTime calls from the web on Android and Windows
• Portrait mode for videos in FaceTime
• Mute alerts in FaceTime
• Voice Isolation and Wide Spectrum modes in FaceTime