Apple reimagines the iPhone experience with iOS 14

Cupertino, California - Apple today previewed iOS 14, offering the largest ever home page update with beautifully redesigned widgets and an app library, a new way to take advantage of the app store using app clips, powerful message reviews, and more.

The new tools provide timely information at a glance and can be installed in various sizes on any home screen page. Users can create a smart toolkit, which uses intelligence on the device to show the right tool based on time, location and activity.

Home screen pages can display custom widgets for work, travel, sports, entertainment and other areas of interest. The application library is located at the end of the home screen pages, and it is a new space to automatically organize for all user applications in one easy-to-navigate view, and intelligently displays applications that may be useful at the moment. Users can choose the number of home screen pages to easily display and hide them for faster access to the application library.

FaceTime calls, phone calls, and incoming Siri interactions take on a whole new small design that enables users to stay in the context of what they do. By supporting an image inside, iPhone users can now watch a video or make a FaceTime call while using another app.

"IOS 14 converts the most well-known elements of the iPhone experience, and uses it from the biggest update you have ever had on the home screen," said Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering. "With beautifully designed tools on the home screen and the library of apps that organize all of your apps and fast-detecting application clips, the iPhone becomes more powerful and easier to use.

A new way to discover apps using app sections

The app clip is a small part of the app experience designed to be discovered at the right moment. The app clips territory with a specific product or business, and loads within seconds to complete a specific task, such as renting a scooter, buying coffee, or filling out a parking meter. It can be easily detected and painted by scanning the new app clip code designed by Apple, 1 or by NFC tags and QR codes, or shared in messages or from Safari, all with its own security expected from apps.

Messages are essential to communicate with friends and family, and now it is easy to stay in touch and paint quickly to important messages. Users can pin conversations to the top of their message list, live thread threads easily with embedded bookmarks and replies, and further customize conversations by setting a group photo with an image or emoji. New Memoji options in messages are more comprehensive and varied with additional hairstyles, headwear, face covers and more.

Greener ways to explore and new guides on maps

Makes maps for navigation and exploration easier than ever with new biking directions, electric vehicle guidance, and guides. Biking directions take into account elevation, street busy, and whether there are stairs along the road. Vehicle electrical orientation adds charging stops along a planned path based on the current vehicle's charging and charger types. Guides are a great way to discover new restaurants, find popular attractions, and explore new reviews from reputable brands, including AllTrails, Complex, The Infatuation, Time Out Group, The Washington Post and more.

Improved privacy features for more transparency and control

All applications will now be required to obtain user permission before tracks. 3 Later this year, the App Store product pages will display summaries of self-reported privacy practices for developers that are displayed, simplified, and easy to understand. In addition, users can upgrade their existing login accounts with Apple, to choose to share their approximate location with app developers from their exact location when granting access to the app site, with more transparency in the app's use of the microphone and camera.

IOS 14 additional features

• Translate is designed to be the best and easiest application to translate conversations, providing fast and natural translation of voice and text between 11 different languages. 4 The on-device mode allows users to try out the app's features offline for private voice and text translation.

• Siri expands his knowledge and helps find answers online, and can now send voice messages. Device keyboard dictation works when dictating messages, notes, e-mail, and more

• Home makes smart home control easier with new automation suggestions and extended controls in Control Center for quick access to accessories and scenes. Adaptive lighting for HomeKit-compatible lights automatically adjusts the color temperature throughout the day, and with face recognition on the device, video bells and compatible cameras can identify friends and family. 6 The Home and HomeKit app is designed to be private and secure. So all information about the user's home accessories is end-to-end encrypted.

• AirPods have the ability to seamlessly switch between Apple devices through automatic device switching. 7 Spatial audio with dynamic head tracking delivers a theater-like experience to AirPods Pro. By applying directional sound filters and adjusting the frequencies each ear receives, sounds can be positioned virtually anywhere in space to provide an immersive listening experience.

• Digital car keys give users a safe way to use the iPhone or Apple Watch to open and start their car. Digital car keys can be easily shared using messages, or disabled via iCloud in case of device loss, available from this year through NFC.8 Apple has also unveiled the next generation of digital car keys based on Ultra Wideband technology for spatial awareness delivered With the U1 chip, which will allow users to unlock future car models without removing the iPhone from their pocket or bag, it will be available next year.
• Find My will add support to find third-party products and accessories with the new Find My network accessory program. This will allow customers to use Find My to locate other important items in their lives, as well as their Apple devices. User privacy remains essential for Find My with comprehensive encryption included. Draft specifications for accessory manufacturers and product manufacturers are available today.

• Safari offers a privacy report so that users can easily see which trackers have been blocked across sites, monitor secure password to help users discover saved passwords that might be involved in data breach, and integrated translation of entire web pages. 9

• Health has completely new sleep management experiences, a better understanding of sound levels that may affect hearing health, and a new health checklist - a central place to manage health and safety features - includes SOS emergencies, medical knowledge, ECG, fall detection, and more. 10 Health also adds Support for new data types for navigation, health records, symptoms and ECG.

• The weather app and widget keeps users informed of severe weather events and the new precipitation graph appears for the next hour. Precipitation occurs every minute when the rain is in the forecast. 11

• Accessibility features include headphones, which amplify soft sounds and adjusts sound to help music, movies, phone calls, and podcasts get clearer, clearer sound, and discover the sign language of Group FaceTime, making the person who signs the most prominent in a video call.12 VoiceOver recognizes, the flagship screen reader In the field for the blind, it automatically has what is visually displayed on the screen so more applications and web experiences can be accessed for more people.

Availability

The developer preview of iOS 14 is available to Apple Developer Program members at developer.apple.com starting today, and a public beta will be available to iOS users next month at beta.apple.com. New software features will be available this fall as a free software update for iPhone 6s and later. For more information, visit apple.com/ios/ios-14-preview. Features are subject to change. Some features may not be available in all regions or all languages.