So today's exciting day. Apple released a plethora of updates
at WWDC and in today's video we're going to go through all
the new updates for iOS 14 and the iPhone.
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First up, device support is very broad. iOS 14 is
supporting devices as far back as the iPhone 6S which was
released in September 2015.
So it's somewhat amazing that after five years Apple still
showing love for older devices delivering new features and
security updates for at least the next 12 months. Again
pretty amazing if you ask me.
Now first up, the home screen is getting a facelift and it's
really significant here at this point I think maybe since 2010
is the last time that there was a significant update to the
iPhone.
Apple is introducing three key features for the home screen.
First it's widgets. iOS widgets can be placed anywhere on the
home screen to give you glanceable information from any
stock or third party iOS app.
You can create a stack of app widgets by going in dragging
one widget on top of the other. There's also suggestions
including all the stock apps including Siri Suggestion and
the app stack.
Once you enter that "jiggly" mode, let's press the
"plus" key in the top right hand corner, here are the
different widgets that are available.
Of course, as app developers update more their apps you'll
see more widgets appear in here.
but these are the widgets that are available here.
Let's say I want to put maps on there, I'd go and take maps
and drag it over the screen and you see there that widget that
was on the home screen just kind of moved over to the next
screen.
If you go back here. Here it is. And then here even on
another one I have this smart widget.
Now what is cool about the widget is that I can go into
let's say this app stack here. I can hold down I can say OK
you know what. Let's go ahead and you'll see less suggestions
like this because it's doing this is a Siri suggestion one.
Here's the one where the stack where you can go in and rotate
through all the locations all the different apps suggestions.
The second thing that they're adding is going to be app
library. The app library resembles a hybrid between
combining the best parts of the app drawer which is found on
Android and the list view from the Apple Watch.
To get the app library,
you'll need to click on here the "pages" if I want to go out
and remove any one of these pages and have the apps kind of
fold into app library. I just uncheck market click done and
you see here there is last page.
Then there's the app library.
The app library is sorted into folders including suggestions,
recently added, and then all these different categories
there are auto categorize by iOS.
And if you tap on here you see an 'A-Z' alphabetical listing
of all the apps that you have on your phone.
Third, Apple is doing picture in picture.
Unfortunately Picture in Picture only works (right now)
with with Apple apps. Let's go to open up TV app/. Now let's
watch John Oliver. If you're not watching John Oliver, he's
awesome.
Let's skip intro and go to the home screen. See there he is.
He's up in the corner. I can go head noodle around over here I
could swipe over the right.
I can pull him back out. It doesn't really matter where
he's at. I can go ahead and put John Oliver I can put him in a
corner. I want to go and expand that back. I'm gonna go ahead
tap on there and click that button.
Also new this year are the redesigned incoming call
notifications for phone calls and video calls when the phone
is unlocked.
As you see here, my phone is unlocked and here's the
incoming call notification which I can swipe up to dismiss
the call. But if I call back here I go and swipe down and
that brings up the call notification UI. Also new this
year I can click on this button where that used to take over
the whole screen.
I can go out and just send a quick message. And this is
going to work for voice calls is going to work for video
calls and any other third party app like any VoIP app that uses
these new API.
Additionally, let's just say I
place a call to '611'. I can hold on on the speaker button
and I get this pop up where it shows all the different audio
destination locations that I can go send the audio to.
What we also have here is that we have when you're using Siri
there's gonna be a compact UI where Siri is here at the
bottom there's no longer than entire modal takeover of the
screen that we had in iOS 13 and below.
And you see this how this text here is going to be at the
bottom. You can actually turn that on and off it's actually a
really cool feature.
Moving on, let's go to messages.
There are a lot of cool features in here you can go
ahead and take conversations and I pin so this always shows
at the top So I always see her out front.
I can make notifications and inline notifications in group
messages unfortunately I don't have any to show here.
In addition to reorganized contact info. I can click on
'info' and iOS shows me all this information and it's
reorganized in such a way where it looks it's more visually
appealing.
There's a new photo picker here is is new for iOS 14 as well
with the ability to go and flip between albums. I can go ahead
and search "CARS" and all the cars are going to show up.
Look at that cars! That's actually from an an album. And
in addition you can send messages via '@" replies.
Next is going to be settings so there's a lot of updates a lot
of little nuggets here in settings. Let's go and find
some of them. So now here we have Bluetooth. We have
Bluetooth. Air pods and the device specific details have
been put into the Bluetooth menu were they used to be in
'Settings>General>About menu.
Also new in settings, we have
'MENU>SETTINGS>GENERAL>ABOUT' and then we have about we see
whether the device is Carrier Locked where before that wasn't
available.
Next we have 'REDUCED SOUNDS' and that is located in
SETTINGS> SOUNDS AND HAPTICS> REDUCED SOUNDS hereas says
reduce headphone sounds.
"IPhone can analyze your headphone audio to reduce any
sounds that it has set over a certain decibel level."
Now we have 'SHOW HOME CONTROLS' in Control Center.
Let's go down, we will go SETTINGS>CONTROL CENTER and
here you can turn this on. So you have some of your favorite
accessories shown inside of control center.
I don't want that because I don't want it crowded. But
let's take that off.
you can go ahead and turn on sleep mode which obviously is a
new feature this year. You also have app library. So if you go
in here you go to home screen.
You have the ability when you add a new app you wanted to go
to home screen or the app library only I went through an
app library and notification badges show an app library
that's actually a little bit too much for me I don't need to
see that.
Next here when you go where to go to wallpaper and there's new
Live Wallpaper.
I've actually never seen these wallpapers before and I don't
have them on any of my devices, but let me know if you've seen
these before because these are definitely different to me.
Now let's go down 'SETTINGS>SIRI & SEARCH' and
we're going to go to Siri feedback. Now there's a couple
of options here where you can turn on SILENT MODE which you
could before and you could but you could also turn it off when
you say.
And then also when you only say those two words. You can also
show the captions which I showed you in the beginning and
then always show speech feedback.
Now to set default browser and e-mail client I'll be honest
with you. They had that on the screen. I cannot find that
anywhere but you can go ahead and do it. Siri recommendations
in Safari.
So here safari we'll see if there's any scary
recommendations based on information that it's he's in
your safari password list I can tell you here I know for a fact
I don't have duplicate passwords but I have subdomains
like for example you have Nike dot com and then shop that Nike
dot com safari it identifies that as having the duplicate
password on two different domains even really one is
technically a subdomain. I think that's kind of annoying
but either way that is something nice which I think
most people aren't even using here.
Also new here in iOS 14 in FaceT ime and then we have detection
eye contact. Eye contact this was introduced I think last
year I was 13 beta 3 but now we see here it's actually turned
on well it's in beta still but hopefully I'll come out in iOS
14 this year.
Now in Memoji, there are a number of different
customizations that you can go and do
Hairstyles and being able to age yourself but who wants the
age themself, seriously?
Inside of maps, there are new ways to get around. Now in here
I have the option of riding a bike in addition that you have
EV routing of cars and then you have the ability to go ahead
and see speed cameras inside of iOS.
Send an audio message to Michael Caputo. Hey you what's
going on. I came they call me. What is going on buddy. Hey how
you been.
Can we see you again. You can share your ETA if you're
driving somewhere with series Hey hey share my ETA can also
their support for more languages so now I can say
translate I want to go home into Japanese go.
In addition to language pairing there's also support for more
localization now on the lock screen here it's going like
this there are some new sounds whenever you turn on the
flashlight or the camera.
You see here that there is a notification at the very top
where it says "The System Recenetly Used the Microphone"
that is something also new in iOS 14.
Let's go to the HOME app.
Here we see an overall status of what the houses is.
I have ten lights on, there's motion in the studio, the
temperature in the house and then also that the TV
is unavailable. Let's drill down here I'm going to go out
and drill down See there I am here. But if I go into more
information about this camera I can actually do some kind of an
automatic automation. Camera
Boom boom. So in addition to adding recommendations for
suggested accessories, you can also do that for any new
accessory or existing accessory which is kind of
cool. If I go here in the studio bookcase here we have it
so we can turn on adaptive lighting which is another new
feature.
Let's see here. So here the automation suggestions here the
automation suggestions for the different apps the different
recommendations that we have here.
What it is doing here and I can't get it to work on my side
is that they're doing face recognition on the cameras
which I think there might be an update for the camera that is
needed is not working for me. But let me know in the comments
below if you're able to get that I am using - what camera
am I using? I'm using a logic circle too.
So that wraps it up for all the different features inside of
home. Now let's go to safari where you're getting real time
dynamic web translation privacy reporting which I showed you a
moment ago in the password monitoring
Talked about picture in picture how is being supported. That
also applies to FaceTime and there's improved video quality
with devices that support up to 1080p video.
Inside of files, it supports APFS.
In the camera. You can go ahead and do exposure *compensation
what's going on. Here. So here's exposure compensation
that I was talking about and you can click on that.
I can go ahead and do a quick toggle now this quick toggle
features. These are now available on all devices where
before they were just the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone
11 Pro Max.
We also have the ability go ahead and hit the "UP volume
button" to take a quick burst of photos.
There's a better UI inside a night mode.
You have QuickTake video for the iPhone XR and the iPhone XS
and iPhone XS Max and you have the ability to turn on
"MIRRORED SELFIES."
And last but not least you have spatial audio forAirPods Pro,
headphone combinations automatic device switching and
battery notifications coming to AirPods.
Now those are all the features I found in iOS 14 using the
iPhone 11 Pro Max that I have here but let me know if you
found any other features whether it's up to the iPhone
Pro or any other devices in the comments below.
If you want to see another video like this for the iPad I
got something coming in it should arrive soon.
I am Mike, this is tech 24/7 TV. I'll talk to you in the
next one.