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Unmute Presents - Ios 16.2

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Marty Sobo: [0:13] Hey all, we are back today with another Unmute podcast. Update of 16.2 has been released. This has been released to all of the things. So it's on your computer, it's on your phone, iPad, watch, all across the board. It is everywhere. And there's some great new features that have come out and we're going to discuss those today. With me, I've got Michael Babcock, say hello Michael.

Michael Babcock: [0:42] Hello, Michael.

Marty Sobo: [0:44] And I've got Michael Dois with me as well, say hello Michael.

Michael Doise: [0:47] Hello everyone.

Marty Sobo: [0:49] So we're going to start out with an app that they actually have on all of the devices. So you have it on the Mac computer as well as iPhone and iPad. And this is called the Freeform. This is an infinite place that you can jot down your ideas. You can either type, you can use a pencil or pen, all of the things. So to get more in detail and really talk to us about what you can do with Freeform, today we're going to have Michael discuss with us what Freeform is, what you can do with it, how it works. So Michael, why don't you give us a primer on it?

Michael Doise: [1:26] Sure. So Freeform is a new app in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. It's a collaboration tool. And what it lets you do is it's an infinite canvas where you can add shapes and lines and arrows and, visual elements to create like flow diagrams and things like that to this canvas. And you You can add text boxes or sticky notes or things like that, to this canvas, change colors and all those things. And the neat thing is it's all accessible with voiceover. So I can drag and drop an item onto the canvas. I can even grab the handles of that box to resize it with voiceover, double tap and hold and drag, or use rotor actions. That works as well to do all these things. So it's a really neat app. And I feel like it was delayed. It was originally supposed to be out in 16, but I'm glad they took some more time on it and really filled that out. So Freeform is pretty neat to play with. I haven't found a general purpose for actually using it, but I know a lot of business folks and people will be able to share accessibly with that. So at least check it out, figure out if you like it or not, and go from there.

Marty Sobo: [2:47] Yeah, it's a great way to share if you're having a meeting and you want to jot stuff down and you want everyone in the meeting to be able to see, you know, notes or diagrams, you can import all kinds of documents, PDFs, markup, all that kind of stuff. So it's good in that sense. One thing I will say, which I feel is a little bit of a bummer, but it just all depends on your preference. It does not have dark mode. So you're always going to have that bright white background unless you drag a black shape onto the work area. But as a default, there is no dark mode. Anything else that you can think of that you want to say about it? It does work with voiceover and the other accessibility features, so that's good.

Michael Doise: [3:38] It works with zooming and all those things, so it's worth checking out for sure.

Marty Sobo: [3:43] All right, so the next thing that we have is Apple Music Sing. So this is where Apple Music is now showing the lyrics so that you can do karaoke. So anyone want to chime in and d