No. All we got after 14 years was a bog standard calculator app with less functionality that a dozen App Store calculators. Can’t believe Apple took 14 years to give us this.
I’m just glad we can actually see the equation as we enter it instead of just seeing a number changing constantly and having to keep track of everything in your head
Probably the best video about the new Calculator app so far. Just wanted to see something like this. Saw everything I was interested in, including my speculations, like whether you can delete everything on the calculator screen if you hold down the backspace key. No one talked about it or showed it. And didn't even answer my question in the comments about it.
Absolute garbage for people doing complex math imo. I’m trying to use it to study more efficiently for an upcoming math test but it can’t even do simple equations like 3x+5=11 don’t even get me started on systems of equations. As of now I’m just using my ti 84 along with using notes
Fantastic new upgrade and addition to the iPad. You didn’t mention it but was wondering if there are functions for fractions? Thanks for all your great videos, I always learn so much 👍🏻
Man, the only thing I want to know is if this thing can do systems of equations, higher degree equations or work with complex numbers. As a student it’d be a game changer if it did.
The calculator app upgrades and addition to iPad are the best things about 18 so far and hardly anyone is talking about it. I’m glad I’m not the only one geeking out on it 😂
This is the kind of innovation we want from technology. Whoever Apple team that was in charge of the math notes/calculator needs HUGE probs for their work. Definitely have them in charge of the Airpods Max future projects because just getting a Type-C port was unbelievable.
i'm so happy someone finally mentioned the scientific calculator in landscape on ios 17. I didn't have a use for it, but everyone talking about the new ios 18 calculator updates was like "We finally have a scientific calculator built in to the default calculator app" and I was just sitting here going how does nobody know this? I found out about it by mistake when using my phone at a weird angle while reading something and I was sure others had to have done something similar
I tried to use it to draw a circle, but i had to separate (x-a)^2+(y-b)^2=r^2 into two ‘y=‘ functions. Using handwriting, it worked, but using typing, only the positive part of y= worked. Could you please give some demo in this area? Also is it possible to achieve this circle graph in one function? Thanks
I’m old school and like doing maths using pen and paper, the result being I have lots of little bits of paper with lots of little scribbles laying around. I lose track of what was what and why. This might just replace all those little bit of paper…but apparently,for now, iPadOS18 likes to brick the newest M4 tablets so has been delayed whilst Apple tries to figure that out.
The notes calc freature is really good. Im in an ios fan, never owned an iPhone, mostly stuck to stock google phoens. But have a secnd gen ipad pro and smart case. Never took to it for thr forst few years, but since ipad os come about ive all but shelved my windows laptop. Ill have to give apple credit here, that notes feature is excellent, id of killed for this in highschool and uni. Though it would mean youd never learn anything. So not really great for students, but great for everyone above schooling age.
This is the type of real world change that most people will actually use. Will be a nice addition to the iPad and the phone. Can you do a review of the new Calendar/reminders linkages and features?
Just wow, I saw this release in the keynote at WWDC and it was insanely cool, but seeing it in this video really shows how well thought out this is and how much potential this has - Really amazing Brandon, Can’t wait to try this out when it releases in September!!
Telling you 1st hand as a Civil Engineer and Maths notes is useless. As it crashed and stopped working at all when I was doing my work. I was doing basic maths only nothing too complex complicated I mean cause complex means the imaginary part with i in it yeah you get the point 😢😢
@@nabinpoudelnp That’s correct, x wasn’t a free variable, but a constant x = 12. It showed the value 924 when he clicked on the equal sign. I wondered why he didn’t notice that the graph wasn’t a 3rd degree polynomial.
As a physics student who's tried the app with some not too difficult but still decent equations it's still lacking. In my opinion it still finds it difficult to work with multiple variables simultaneously and its still worse than a normal scientific calculator. For example I did a calculation like g / (1 + √h/R)² and it struggled with that surprisingly. I'm not sure if it's just my calculator or if other people are having issues like this too. For basic calculations it's great but the way they advertised it in the keynote where they found projectile velocities I expected it to do more PS: the graph feature also donesnt with powers above 2 like x³ + 7y² + 4x + 9
It can do graphs but it can't actually solve equations or expressions. For all the hype from mathematically illiterate sois it's actually just a basic arithmetic calculator with some graphical features. Potentially useful for lists and stuff, but this is not Wolfram Alpha. It is completely and utterly useless for helping with anything beyond arithmetic.
Im doing something wrong because my pencill just dont write good and always the ipad gets the numbers or the letter wrong I cant get the equations either
Its a shame they can’t perform operations on a table like multiply 2 columns and then sum the results of the 3rd column, these are the basic features we want , not equation graph plotting.
Hello @BrandonButch is iOS 18 Distraction Control only available for iPhone 15 Pro and above or for other iPhone devices also? Also will other iPhone devices be getting the Apple Intelligence features later on or will they just be left out? Thank you
Thanks for the review. I don’t think the wait was worth it. It’s a mess and I don’t think it even looks good. The interface is confused because Apple has not thought things out properly. On the iPad there is a lot of screen yet most is wasted. It looks better if the history is displayed. Things that could have been done better: 1. They could have added memory register(s) to the basic calculator and displayed the contents on the screen. You could have even had a touch to save or paste on the registers adding a bit of innovation to both the scientific calculator and the basic one. You have a big touch screen, use it! 2. The scientific calculator is a mess of functions, why the cube root of X when you have the yth root of X? Display the register values! 3. No financial calculator. 4. The math notes graphing popup is unreliable. Try y=sin(x)/x It correctly interpreted my writing, however, rarely, it will offer the plot popup. 5. The default graph scaling is awful often creating scales that don’t contain the graph or at the other extreme are too big. 6. I could not figure out how to adjust the axis scale. You can two finger expand and shrink but that adjusts both axes scales. 7. You cannot set the background to white until you write something. You cannot set it to white by default. 8. Math notes should also have included a while loop. It would add quite a bit to functionality. I agree that working from notes, math notes is better. It seems to me that this app has been released before it was ready. Trying to emulate an early dumb simple calculator on a large tough screen shows a complete lack of innovation by Apple. I would like to see both the simple and scientific calculator redesigned to properly use the touch screen display. I would like to see a financial calculator added. I would prefer a separate currency converter or include in a financial calculator. Having used old HP RPN calculators I would like to see an RPN option for all calculators. Having said all that Apple would have done better to have just added math notes to note pad and forgotten the dodgy calculator they produced. Finally, one positive thing about the calculator is that it seems to offer the ability to retain at least 20 digits of precision?
Was the 14-year wait for a Calculator app on the iPad worth it!?
Yes, I wish Steve could have seen it too.
@@petilee1he did, from above
No. All we got after 14 years was a bog standard calculator app with less functionality that a dozen App Store calculators. Can’t believe Apple took 14 years to give us this.
I swear I thought I had a calculator app on my iPad 2 (?) I think it was a 2. I think I got it in 2012 (?).
@@RyanBischoffPercussion My first was a 2. I don’t remember a calculator. You must have downloaded it.
I’m just glad we can actually see the equation as we enter it instead of just seeing a number changing constantly and having to keep track of everything in your head
Same! Such a small change but makes a big difference
Same here!
Where was this when I was in school!!!
Probably the best video about the new Calculator app so far. Just wanted to see something like this. Saw everything I was interested in, including my speculations, like whether you can delete everything on the calculator screen if you hold down the backspace key. No one talked about it or showed it. And didn't even answer my question in the comments about it.
Math notes blows my mind. I wish I had that when I was in school!!
12:04 £ is the British pound, € is the euro
ah, I always mix the two up lol
@@BrandonButch bro what
Have you used Math Notes yet? What do you think of it?
Too small of a display for handwritten notes on iPhones
@@liviomakesmusicyeah the math notes is naturally more designed for the iPad.
yeah, definitely not the best experience on iOS but at least Apple made it possible instead of limiting it to just iPadOS
Absolute garbage for people doing complex math imo. I’m trying to use it to study more efficiently for an upcoming math test but it can’t even do simple equations like 3x+5=11 don’t even get me started on systems of equations.
As of now I’m just using my ti 84 along with using notes
@@hazadoor Interesting. That's the first I've heard anyone having issues. Maybe it's your handwriting? That's the only time it has struggled for me
Never thought I would see the day where a 16 minute video can be made about a calculator app. 😂
@@crophics it’s really that sophisticated! Only Apple 🤣
Fantastic new upgrade and addition to the iPad. You didn’t mention it but was wondering if there are functions for fractions? Thanks for all your great videos, I always learn so much 👍🏻
Yes, fractions work just as well as everything else! Appreciate the support
Man, the only thing I want to know is if this thing can do systems of equations, higher degree equations or work with complex numbers. As a student it’d be a game changer if it did.
It doesn’t
@@junk_techie😭😭😭
nope, it can only do very basic math that you could already do on a calculator lol. basically useless imo
Pretty useless except for the graph function. It can barely pass as a replacement for desmos or your graphing calculator
Not useless that can be added in future. The important thing is how accurately it reads your handwriting
I upgraded to ios18 on my iPad and there is no new Calculator app like you show on my Home Screen. Where is it then?
The calculator app upgrades and addition to iPad are the best things about 18 so far and hardly anyone is talking about it. I’m glad I’m not the only one geeking out on it 😂
This is the kind of innovation we want from technology. Whoever Apple team that was in charge of the math notes/calculator needs HUGE probs for their work. Definitely have them in charge of the Airpods Max future projects because just getting a Type-C port was unbelievable.
How do we add a new currency to the list of currencies?
i'm so happy someone finally mentioned the scientific calculator in landscape on ios 17. I didn't have a use for it, but everyone talking about the new ios 18 calculator updates was like "We finally have a scientific calculator built in to the default calculator app" and I was just sitting here going how does nobody know this? I found out about it by mistake when using my phone at a weird angle while reading something and I was sure others had to have done something similar
great commentary ;)
Dominican here. Just wanted to say how crazy it is that I thought "what if he picks dominican peso? Nah...too much coincid-" Hahaha. Good video man!
@@pedrodpadua haha thanks!
I tried to use it to draw a circle, but i had to separate (x-a)^2+(y-b)^2=r^2 into two ‘y=‘ functions. Using handwriting, it worked, but using typing, only the positive part of y= worked. Could you please give some demo in this area? Also is it possible to achieve this circle graph in one function?
Thanks
14 years for a calculator app is crazy!!
if apple gonna do something they gonna be perfect in that thing
I do wish they would have just released a basic calculator app on the ipad. Then they could have updated the app to add the pencil features.
I’m old school and like doing maths using pen and paper, the result being I have lots of little bits of paper with lots of little scribbles laying around.
I lose track of what was what and why.
This might just replace all those little bit of paper…but apparently,for now, iPadOS18 likes to brick the newest M4 tablets so has been delayed whilst Apple tries to figure that out.
How can we add "Barrels" to the list of volume units?
The notes calc freature is really good. Im in an ios fan, never owned an iPhone, mostly stuck to stock google phoens. But have a secnd gen ipad pro and smart case.
Never took to it for thr forst few years, but since ipad os come about ive all but shelved my windows laptop.
Ill have to give apple credit here, that notes feature is excellent, id of killed for this in highschool and uni. Though it would mean youd never learn anything. So not really great for students, but great for everyone above schooling age.
This is the type of real world change that most people will actually use. Will be a nice addition to the iPad and the phone.
Can you do a review of the new Calendar/reminders linkages and features?
Exactly. And yep, planning that video!
I CANT WAIT TO DOWNLOAD IT! IT LOOKS SO COOL 😭
6:01 I’m noticing that the first example, 10-15x1000 doesn’t follow the PEMDAS priority in solving the equation…
awesome
Just wow, I saw this release in the keynote at WWDC and it was insanely cool, but seeing it in this video really shows how well thought out this is and how much potential this has - Really amazing Brandon, Can’t wait to try this out when it releases in September!!
What’s cool is this all works on my iPhone 12. Even though I don’t get Apple Intelligence this works. It is a bit slow to calculate but it does work.
Thank You Brandon for your valuable and excellent explanation of the calculator! Cosmic blessings to you and your loved ones!❤
Great vid. Will def be using these new features in Notes!
I'm always impressed by the quality of your videos. Very detailed review of the new maths features.
Handy video Brandon! These calculator changes/updates will be very useful for me. So much more I'll be able to do, unlike these past many years.
And in addition, they added a second "L" to the "Caculator" app, now calling it the CaLculator app. 😀. Just kidding. I love the content
Yo Brandon, u heard the about glitch? If u type "": and then any 4th character in spotlight search, ur phone will respring without any problems
I tried it thats so weird lol
excellent content, thanks
I can’t wait to use the Math Notes feature on iOS 18. It’s going to be so exciting and fun 😊
I have the previous iPad Pro and pen, and it doesn’t function the same way with the hand writing. Is that a feature for the most recent iPads?
Very long overdue, but at the end: in german I would say the "Geilomat".😎This is really cool, especially the math notes. Made with brain.
Does it use PEMDAS?
Thanks for sharing. Blessings on your day.
I can't seem to show more than one expression on the graph
Thanks for the video but I think you should check out what real-time really means.
Barrel is not in the list of Volume units. Do you know how/if it can be added?
If apple had put in this much effort in some serious app, would have been worth it..seriously, how many of us use calc for such things?
That slider also appears if you tap on the number directly. Don’t need the hover feature to use it
We don’t need school anymore
Nice video Brandon😃 good to know your tips, can't wait to have officially iOS 18 😍👌🏼, greetings from Europe - Austria 😃
I can’t wait for OS 18 since I am in grade eight and I use my own ipad for school😗
Telling you 1st hand as a Civil Engineer and Maths notes is useless. As it crashed and stopped working at all when I was doing my work. I was doing basic maths only nothing too complex complicated I mean cause complex means the imaginary part with i in it yeah you get the point 😢😢
try drawing in e^2.71 = using proper notation. It screws it up!
Imagine they just release the math notes and when it gives you answer it will also show you how you can get the answer
I can see why Apple didn’t have the full expression of an equation in earlier iOS versions…
9:30, a Polynomial n = 3 graph is a straight line?
Exactly. Its a super buggy software
I think it’s picking up on his previous values of y=5.5 and x=12 and plugging it in.
@@nabinpoudelnp That’s correct, x wasn’t a free variable, but a constant x = 12. It showed the value 924 when he clicked on the equal sign. I wondered why he didn’t notice that the graph wasn’t a 3rd degree polynomial.
i needed that
assuming you meant 30 degrees, you need to add the degree symbol to get the right tangent value. Otherwise the assumption is radians.
Can you do the math notes n work on iPhone instead of ipad
This will change maths teaching in schools. Wow
Is it possible to zoom in and out in the notes app again?
Is the math notes & smart script are available on iPad 9 gen ??
Still crossing my fingers for RPN support 🤞
Brandon does the calculator app support split screen? And by chance in iPadOS 18 have they made the settings app support split screen?
Can we write sentences in math notes to explain what we are calculating? Also, will math notes handle fractions?
1) Yeah, I'd recommend using Math notes on the Notes app for that.
2) It does.
@@zutamy thank you
Please make a video on the iOS 18 photos app
Yes
As a physics student who's tried the app with some not too difficult but still decent equations it's still lacking. In my opinion it still finds it difficult to work with multiple variables simultaneously and its still worse than a normal scientific calculator.
For example I did a calculation like g / (1 + √h/R)² and it struggled with that surprisingly. I'm not sure if it's just my calculator or if other people are having issues like this too. For basic calculations it's great but the way they advertised it in the keynote where they found projectile velocities I expected it to do more
PS: the graph feature also donesnt with powers above 2 like x³ + 7y² + 4x + 9
It can do graphs but it can't actually solve equations or expressions. For all the hype from mathematically illiterate sois it's actually just a basic arithmetic calculator with some graphical features. Potentially useful for lists and stuff, but this is not Wolfram Alpha. It is completely and utterly useless for helping with anything beyond arithmetic.
Though it sucks how the equals and then press equals and so on is gone
can this do word problems or is it just ltd to expressions?
Honestly wouldn’t have minded standby on ipad too but can’t wait for all the main sw updates for the next iOS version is almost here:)
Im doing something wrong because my pencill just dont write good and always the ipad gets the numbers or the letter wrong
I cant get the equations either
AYYYE SANTO DOMINGO 🇩🇴
I wish I had this back in school. TI 84 plus gang.
Same! Them calculators always ran $100+ too 💀
HP RPN is still king
Where do i find the calculator?
It's basically just windows 11 calculator on the iPad
Im doing something wrong because my pencill just dont write good and always the ipad gets the numbers or the letter wrong
Love the vid but hate the way you say “calculator”. Are you Canadian by chance?
🤔 Finally, I can delete my 3rd party app 🎉 👏🏻💕🙏🏻
They were all so bad on the iPad too 🤣 thank goodness they can be removed permanently now 🥳
is the battery good on the ipad?
Remember the “Scribble” option on the Apple pen must be turned OFF
What calculator should I use on my ipad? What is the app's name to download? Thank you very much
It’s just like the iPhone's one
Don't download anything. Update your os when you get the notification in settings
It does not do RPN 😢
Will it do calculus?
If only I had an iPad or Apple Pencil 😢
No other AI for iPad.
Is it available for the iPad mini or newer models exclusive?
It’s available on all iPads that run iPadOS 18
Schools are going to have to disallow iPads as calculators. Lol
Its a shame they can’t perform operations on a table like multiply 2 columns and then sum the results of the 3rd column, these are the basic features we want , not equation graph plotting.
1:48 this is kinda like history in safari
yep! Very handy
@@BrandonButch it looks exactly the same like safari history just noticed
On the 18.1 beta 2 version, it’s extremely buggy for me
Running smooth on the 18.0 Betas
My math notes isn’t working like this
Hello @BrandonButch is iOS 18 Distraction Control only available for iPhone 15 Pro and above or for other iPhone devices also? Also will other iPhone devices be getting the Apple Intelligence features later on or will they just be left out? Thank you
Distraction control is available for all. Apple Intelligence is only the 15 Pro's and iPhone 16's
@BrandonButch Thank you
Distraction control is available on every iOS 18 device
@@FireFoxDestroyer Thank you for letting me know, I had not known if it was for every ios device or just iPhone 15 Pro and above
Can't wait for samsung to make something similar lmfao (it'd be cool if suddenly all tablet manufacturers would just make calculator apps fun)
It does not work as well shown here.
Calculator app it self I don’t care but the calculations in notes is a game changer.
Unusable on iOS 18 beta 7 sooooo laggy!!!!!
Try 52,000 x 1,000,000 in the IPhone calculator app and watch it come up with an error. I have reported it. Still not fixed.
But it shows 5.2e10 on iOS 17
And 52,000,000,000 in iOS 18
iPad ios scrapped from iPad Pro 2024 this year,m4 chips crashes,my iPad just died from iOS 18
Restart your iPhone or iPad multiple times until your system data (cache) is less than 6GB; this will improve your device's performance and smoothness
Thanks for the review. I don’t think the wait was worth it. It’s a mess and I don’t think it even looks good. The interface is confused because Apple has not thought things out properly. On the iPad there is a lot of screen yet most is wasted. It looks better if the history is displayed. Things that could have been done better:
1. They could have added memory register(s) to the basic calculator and displayed the contents on the screen. You could have even had a touch to save or paste on the registers adding a bit of innovation to both the scientific calculator and the basic one. You have a big touch screen, use it!
2. The scientific calculator is a mess of functions, why the cube root of X when you have the yth root of X? Display the register values!
3. No financial calculator.
4. The math notes graphing popup is unreliable. Try y=sin(x)/x It correctly interpreted my writing, however, rarely, it will offer the plot popup.
5. The default graph scaling is awful often creating scales that don’t contain the graph or at the other extreme are too big.
6. I could not figure out how to adjust the axis scale. You can two finger expand and shrink but that adjusts both axes scales.
7. You cannot set the background to white until you write something. You cannot set it to white by default.
8. Math notes should also have included a while loop. It would add quite a bit to functionality.
I agree that working from notes, math notes is better.
It seems to me that this app has been released before it was ready. Trying to emulate an early dumb simple calculator on a large tough screen shows a complete lack of innovation by Apple. I would like to see both the simple and scientific calculator redesigned to properly use the touch screen display. I would like to see a financial calculator added. I would prefer a separate currency converter or include in a financial calculator. Having used old HP RPN calculators I would like to see an RPN option for all calculators.
Having said all that Apple would have done better to have just added math notes to note pad and forgotten the dodgy calculator they produced.
Finally, one positive thing about the calculator is that it seems to offer the ability to retain at least 20 digits of precision?