iOS 14 was released just a few minutes ago by the Apple company for all iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch users in Romania, the new version of the operating system coming with many news for everyone, as some of you already knew, for a while.
iOS 14 is distributed by Apple in separate versions for the iPhone and iPod Touch, plus one for the iPad, the American company trying to offer the best possible experience for all types of users with the news it brings now.
iOS 14 was released, in an unusual way, somewhere around 23:00, Romanian time, on September 16, 3 hours away from the time when these updates were usually offered, those from Apple changing and the launch strategy.
"iOS 14 fundamentally updates the iPhone experience, includes important app updates and other new features.
Brand new widgets
- The redesigned widgets can be placed directly on the home screen
- Widgets can be small, medium, or large in size to allow you to choose the amount of information to display
- Widget stacks make the most of your home screen space, and Smart Stack uses on-device AI technologies to present the right widget at the right time
- The widget gallery includes all available widgets for you to explore and select
- Redesigned Apple widgets for Weather, Clock, Calendar, News, Maps, Fitness, Photos, Reminders, Stock, Music, TV, Tips, Notes, Shortcuts, Battery, Usage Time, Files, Podcasts and Siri Suggestions
Application library
- The app library automatically organizes all your apps into categories
- The Suggestions category uses artificial intelligence technologies on your device to show you the apps you're more likely to search for, based on factors like your current time or location
- The Recently Added category displays apps that have been recently downloaded from the App Store, as well as recently released App Clips
- There is an option to hide home screen pages to access the app library even faster by tapping the dots at the bottom of the screen in shake mode
Compact design
- Incoming phone and FaceTime calls appear as a banner at the top of the screen
- Siri has a compact design that allows you to consult information on the screen and move seamlessly to the next activity
- Picture-in-picture mode lets you watch a video clip or take a FaceTime call while using another app
Posts
- Pinned conversations keep up to nine of your favorite threads at the top of the list
- Mentions allow you to direct a message to a person in a group conversation
- Inline replies allow you to reply to a specific message and see all associated messages in their own view
- Group photos can be customized for a shared group look
Memoji
- 11 new hairstyles and 19 new head accessory styles to customize your Memoji
- New Memoji stickers to send a fist bump, hug or blush greeting
- Six age options added
- Face mask options
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- Bike itineraries provide routes that include bike lanes, cycle paths and roads suitable for cycling, taking into account differences in grade or the degree of congestion of a street
- Guides offer recommendations for places to eat, meet friends or explore, curated by a selection of reputable brands
- EV routes help you plan trips with compatible EVs and automatically add charging stops along the way
- Congested areas help you move past or through busy areas in cities like London or Paris
- Speed limit cameras let you know when you're approaching speed and red light cameras
- Pinpointing provides high accuracy for locating and orienting in urban areas with weak GPS signal
App Clips
- An App Clip is a small part of an app that developers can create to be discoverable at the right time and dedicated to a specific task
- Being small in size, App Clips can be used in seconds
- Discover App Clips by tapping NFC tags or scanning QR codes, from Messages, Maps and Safari
- Recently used App Clips appear in the "Recently Added" category in the app library, and you can download the full version of the app if you want to keep it handy
Translation
- The new Translate app is designed for conversations and can work completely offline to keep your conversations private
- The split-screen design in conversation mode has a single microphone button, which automatically detects which of the selected languages is being spoken and transcribes the original text to the translated text in the corresponding parts of the screen
- Attention mode displays translations in a larger font, so you can catch someone's attention
- Voice and text translations are possible for any combination of the 11 supported languages
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- The new compact design allows you to consult the information on the screen and move seamlessly to the next activity
- Expanded knowledge provides 20 times more information than three years ago
- Web Answers makes it easy to find answers to a wider range of questions using information from anywhere on the Internet
- Audio messages can be sent with Siri on iOS and CarPlay
- Expanded language support for the new Siri voice and Siri translation
Căutare
- One place to find anything: search for apps, contacts, files, quick information (like weather or stock markets), answers to general culture questions about people or places, and you can even quickly start a web search
- First results now show the most relevant information, including apps, contacts, knowledge, points of interest and websites
- Quick Launcher lets you launch an app or website by typing a few characters
- Search suggestions as you type display more relevant results as soon as you start typing
- Web search suggestions to open Safari and get the most relevant results from the web
- Start a search in apps like Mail, Messages, and Files
House
- Suggested Automations help you set up one-tap automations
- A visual status overview at the top of the Home app gives you a summary of the accessories that need your attention.
- Dynamic suggestions for the most relevant accessories and scenarios appear in the Home controls in the control center
- Adaptive lighting automatically adjusts the color of bulbs throughout the day to enhance comfort and productivity
- Facial recognition for cameras and video doorbells use on-device AI technologies to let you know who's arrived based on people you've tagged in the Photos app and recent visitors you identify in the Home app
- Activity zones for cameras and video doorbells record a clip or send you a notification only when motion is detected in the areas you define.
Safari
- Improved performance with an even faster JavaScript engine
- A privacy report shows trackers across multiple sites that are blocked by Smart Tracking Blocking
- Password monitoring securely checks if any of your saved passwords have been involved in a data breach
The weather
- The next hour precipitation chart shows a minute-by-minute forecast of how much rain or snow will fall over the next hour (for the US)
- Severe weather information displays government alerts issued for specific severe weather events, including tornadoes, snowstorms, floods, and more (for the US, Europe, Japan, Canada, and Australia)
AirPods
- Spatial audio mode with dynamic head tracking on AirPods Pro places sounds anywhere in space, creating an immersive surround sound experience
- Automatic device switching transfers the audio source between iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Mac
- Battery notifications let you know when your AirPods need to be charged
Privacy
- A recording indicator is displayed every time an app has access to the microphone or camera
- Instead of sharing your precise location, you can now share an approximate location with an app
- Limited access to your photo library gives you the option to share only selected photos with an app, whenever the app requests access
- App and web developers can now offer the option to upgrade your existing accounts to Sign in with Apple
Accessibility
- "Back Tap" is a simple way to trigger timely tasks for your accessibility needs by tapping the back of your iPhone
- "Headphone adaptations" amplify weak sounds and adjust certain frequencies, customized for the user's hearing
- Sign Language Highlighting in FaceTime detects when a participant is using sign language and highlights that person in a Group FaceTime call
- "Recognize Sounds" uses artificial intelligence technologies on your device to notify you of audible alerts in your environment
- "VoiceOver Recognition" uses on-device artificial intelligence technologies to recognize on-screen elements to improve VoiceOver compatibility for apps and web experiences
- "Image Description" provides complete sentence descriptions of images and photos within apps and on the web
- "Text recognition" pronounces the text identified in the images and pictures
- "Screen recognition" automatically detects interface commands to help navigate apps
This version also includes other features and improvements.
App Store
- Important details about each app are displayed in an easy-to-read, scrollable view, including the ability to see what games your friends are playing.
Apple Arcade
- The "Coming Soon" section gives you a preview of the next Apple Arcade games and you can choose to automatically download them as soon as they're released
- The "Show all games" section is improved with the ability to sort and filter according to release date, updates, category, controller compatibility, etc.
- Achievements can be explored directly from within the Apple Arcade tab
- The “Continue playing” option allows you to continue recently played games on any of your devices.
- The Game Center dashboard shows your profile, friends, achievements, leaderboards and more, all from within your game.
Augmented reality
- Location anchors in ARKit 4 allow apps to place AR experiences at a specific set of geographic coordinates
- Expanded support for facial tracking is extended to the new iPhone SE
- Video textures in RealityKit allow applications to apply video to any portion of a scene or virtual object
The room
- Increased frame-to-frame performance reduces the time it takes to take the first shot and makes shooting faster than ever
- You can now also capture QuickTake video on iPhone XS and iPhone XR models, from Photo mode
- Quick toggles in Video mode to change video resolution and frame rate directly from the Camera app
- The updated Night mode experience on iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro offers guidance to limit movement while recording, as well as the option to cancel shooting while recording
- Exposure compensation allows you to lock the exposure value for an entire session of using the camera
- Front camera mirroring allows you to capture selfies that match the front camera preview
- Improved QR code reading makes it easier to scan codes, even if they are small or embedded between objects
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- New compatible app categories for parking, electric vehicle charging and quick food ordering
- Background options
- Share your estimated time of arrival and send audio messages with Siri
- Horizontal status bar support for machines with portrait orientation screens
- Support for Chinese and Japanese keyboards gives users an additional option to search for points of interest
FaceTime
- Enhanced video quality with up to 1080p resolution on iPhone X and later
- The new "Eye Contact" option uses machine learning techniques to subtly adjust the position of your eyes and face to make video calls more natural, even when you're looking at the screen
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- Support for APFS encryption for external drives
Health
- Relax helps you create a bedtime routine with apps and shortcuts, like listening to a relaxing playlist
- Personalized sleep schedules help you meet your sleep goals with bedtime reminders and wake-up alarms
- Sleep Mode avoids distractions during relaxation and bedtime by enabling Do Not Disturb and simplifying the lock screen
- The Health Checklist helps you track and manage health and safety functionality in one place
- The new Mobility category in the Health app includes parameters such as gait speed, bilateral support time, stride length and gait asymmetry
International keyboard and features
- Device dictation helps protect your privacy by doing all processing completely offline; dictation to search uses server-based functionality to recognize terms you might search for on the Internet.
- Search within the Emoji keyboard using a word or phrase
- The keyboard displays contacts autocomplete suggestions for email addresses, phone numbers, and other information in apps
- New dictionaries for French-German, Indonesian-English, Japanese-Simplified Chinese and Polish-English
- Wubi input method for Simplified Chinese
- Autocorrect compatibility with Irish Gaelic and Norwegian Nynorsk
- Redesigned Japanese kana keyboard with easier number input
- The Mail app supports email addresses that use non-Latin languages
The music
- A new “Listen Now” tab for playing and discovering your favorite music, including artists, playlists and mixes
- "Autoplay" continues to play music after the end of a song or playlist by finding similar songs
- Search now features the best music for your favorite genres and activities and shows you helpful suggestions as you type
- Library filtering helps you find artists, albums, playlists and other items in your library even faster
Notes
- The improved actions menu provides easy access to lock, scan, pin and delete
- The first search results display the most relevant search results
- The list of pinned notes can be narrowed or expanded
- Shape recognition lets you draw perfect lines, arcs, and other geometric shapes
- Enhanced scanning captures sharper scanned images and performs more accurate automatic cropping
Poze
- Filter and sort your collection to make it easier to locate and organize your photos and videos
- Zoom in to quickly find photos and videos in multiple places, like Favorites and Shared Albums
- Picture and video compatibility for captions
- Live Photos taken using iOS 14 or iPadOS 14 will autoplay with improved stabilization in Years, Months, and Days views
- Memories enhancements provide a more relevant selection of photos and videos and a more extensive music selection for Memories movies
- The redesigned in-app image picker uses the same smart search from the Photos app to help you find content to share
Podcasts
- The "Listen Now" section is smarter and includes episodes currently playing and new episodes picked for you.
REMINDERS
- Distribute reminders to people you share lists with
- New reminders can be created from the lists screen without having to enter a specific list
- Smart suggestions let you add dates, times, and locations with a tap
- Custom lists with newly added emoji and symbols
- Rearrange or hide smart lists
settings
- Option to set default app for email and web browser
QUICK
- Starter Shortcuts lets you get started with a built-in folder of shortcuts, tailored for you.
- Automations involving shortcuts are suggested based on your usage habits
- Folders allow you to easily organize shortcuts and can be added as widgets to your home screen
- The new compact design for running shortcuts preserves your context while you're using another app
- New automation triggers execute shortcuts based on receiving an email or message, battery level, closing an app, and more
- Relaxation Shortcuts provides a collection of relaxation shortcuts to help prepare you for restful sleep
Recorder
- Folders help organize your Recorder recordings
- Favorites allow you to bookmark your best recordings and quickly access them later
- Smart Folders automatically groups together Apple Watch recordings, recently deleted recordings, and recordings marked as Favorites
- Enhancing recordings reduces background noise and room reverberations”
