Apple’s iOS 14 is here and definitely brings forth plenty of things many iOS users have been waiting for. Not to say iOS has been stale but thee hasn’t been a huge UI overhaul in a very long time – unless you count what they did for the iPhone X which I do not.
Let’s dive into all that’s new shall we:
- New home screen w/ widget support -finally. You can make Smart Stack of widgets that uses AI to pull up specific ones based on time, location, & activity.
- You finally have the option to make other apps outside of the native ones default for email & browser.
- The new App Library acts like Android’s App Drawer that sits on the last homescreen. So no longer will you have to hid apps in a junk folder anymore.
- Phone & FaceTime calls now take up less of the screen as iOS 14 brings forth picture-in-picture to watch videos while on calls or doing some other form of multitasking.
- App Clips allow you to preview or discover apps via Safari or other apps.
- Favorites section appear within Messages.
- Guides brings directions for cycling, electric vehicle routing, & curated navigation into Apple Maps.
- New Translate app built-in natively that works w/ 11 languages including English, Mandarin Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese,Korean, Arabic, Portuguese, and Russian.
- Also new are digital car keys gives you a secure way to use your iPhone or Apple Watch to unlock/start your car via NFC and their U1 chip. Similar to how Tesla does w/ their cars on their app.
- Siri gets updated w/ a new view that only takes over the bottom of the display and can send audio messages along w/ dictated messages.
- Also, brings forth a host of new updates to privacy & accessibility settings.
The developer version of it is live now and the public beta kicks off next month. It will be available for iPhones going back to the 6S.
So who’s looking forward to giving iOS 14 a spin?
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