- A hands on, look at what's new in iOS 14, Beta six.
Check it out.
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So this is probably one of my most wanted features,
with regard to Siri on the iPad.
There's so much real estate here,
I never understood why you couldn't interact
with the background, while Siri was on screen.
But now in iOS 14, Beta six, as you can see,
you can invoke Siri in the UI will stay there,
complete your request, while you do whatever you need to do,
with the app that you're using.
So in this case, I'm browsing around Safari,
while Siri completes the request,
but just keep in mind,
you have to stay in the app you're in,
if you try to switch apps,
Siri will be dismissed.
Now, although the AirPods Spatial Audio features
is not yet alive in iOS 14,
you're starting to see some signs, that it's coming to life.
For instance, you have a new toggle
in Accessibility Settings for Spatial Audio,
but once this feature really goes live,
you're gonna see it advertised in more locations,
for instance, in Control Center.
And in the Photos app Album section,
what used to be called Other Albums
for all of your other stuff
like Hidden Folders and stuff like that,
has now been renamed "Utility".
So that's where you'll find things like "Recently Deleted",
Imports, et cetera.
And in Beta six, you'll find a new Maps app splash screen
that helps introduce you to new features found in iOS 14.
Things we've covered before, like Cycling Navigation,
Curated Guides and Speed Cameras.
But here's what's really interesting about the Maps app,
Apple is introducing In-house Ratings
and Photos for points of interest in the Maps app.
So it looks like Apple's looking to replace
the Yelp Integration that's already present in the Maps app,
with their own solution.
And in Beta six, there's an updated Time Picker UI.
So it's basically the same,
but there are some subtle changes here with the Time Picker.
The most obvious change,
is the color that outlines the actual time.
So you can of course still scroll,
individually the hour and the minutes,
and you can also directly type in,
the hour and minutes as well, if you want to do that.
But notice that the outline
and the actual time, is themed according to the app.
So for Reminders, it's blue for the Calendar, it was red,
and for here, the Clock app, no big surprise,
you have an orange outline with orange numbers.
And in the middle app, you'll notice a subtle change,
the text of cinder names is now blue.
Now this is probably not new,
but I just installed iOS 14
on my touch ID enabled iPhone S.E two,
and you get this really cool looking splash screen
to introduce touch ID.
Now when making phone calls in Beta six,
the Control Center Indicator that tells you
that the microphone was recently used,
actually shows phone now, instead of system like it used to.
You can see it shows phone was recently used there.
Subtle change, but nonetheless useful.
And here's a cool one, the Siri UI
is now positioned correctly
while in Landscape Mode on the iPhone.
So here in Portrait Mode,
you can see Siri, at the bottom of the display
like you would expect,
but here, Landscape Mode, it also now appears at the bottom
instead of, as if you invoked it in Portrait Mode.
So that's been fixed in Beta six.
You'll also notice an Updated Shortcuts Widgets,
so now you get a one by one shortcut,
that allows you to invoke a single shortcut with just a tap,
and you have your multiple shortcuts,
now they call it "Shortcuts Folder" instead of "Favorites".
And you also have the larger folder as well.
So we're gonna go ahead
and add that one by one to the home screen,
and we're actually going to use that here
in the next feature that I'm going to show you.
You can now create shortcuts to switch accounts,
on the Apple TV, which is really cool.
Now you have to be running the latest Beta version
of TV iOS 14, own your Apple TV.
So keep that in mind, but you can go through it,
create a shortcut, link to your Apple TV,
link to the user you wish to switch to,
and now I have a switch account shortcut just like that,
right here within the Shortcuts app.
So, I'm gonna go ahead and modify that one by one
that we set up earlier, to invoke that Switch Control.
When I tap it like that,
guess what, it does its thing,
and switches accounts on my Apple TV.
So ladies and gentlemen, boys, and girls,
thank you for watching.
That has been a look at several new features
for iOS 14, Beta six,
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This is Jeff with nine to five Mac.