Hello everyone and welcome back! this is Paul from TechLink
and as you probably know by now Apple has recently released a new version of
software and that is the iOS 14. now this is one
of their major updates and it comes with a lot of new features but
I will only go through the ones which I retain more important.
please note that this is available for all the devices that support
iOS 13 from the iphone 6s all the way to the 11 pro max and the
latest SE model. but before we get into that I would
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I post new videos which might turn useful for you! the first and
the most obvious update is the new home
screen that allows you to add widgets on it, so if
you swipe from left to right you will see that today's
center has a whole new look with completely redesigned widgets that
offer more data for better functionality. if you long press
the screen you will see this plus button that
allows you to add other widgets. so let's say I want to add the maps
widget. when you do that, you get another option
to choose in between different sizes that obviously offer
different previews or functionality so you can choose the one that works best
for you. and
every widget can be dragged from the today's view onto the home screen
where it can be positioned alongside other app icons.
another interesting option is the widget stacks
which allow you to stack up to 10 widgets on top of one another so you get
a better space usage. to do that you can just
long press the screen and drag a widget on top of another widget and you will
create a new stack. and you can do that both on home screen
and today's view. also once you do that you
can swap between them by swiping up and down.
another thing worth mentioning is the smart stack. long press the screen
tap the plus button and you will see it at the top of the list
this is basically the same as a widget stack with the difference that
your iphone will swipe in between them and
bring to the top the most relevant one for you to look at
based on the time of the day or your location.
and it doesn't end here you can hide some of your home screen pages
from view, if you like to have a clean interface.
so if you long press the screen and select the dots at the bottom that
represent the home screen pages you have set up you will see the option to
uncheck different pages you don't want to see.
also you now have the option to hide individual apps which means that if you
press the minus button, you can remove the icon from the home
screen and send it to the app library, which I will take you through now. if you
swipe on your last page from right to left you will
access the app library which is a new feature that
shows you all the apps you have installed divided
into different categories, like utilities, creativity and so on.
what i don't like about this is that some apps might be
mismatched with the category and at the moment you don't have the option to move
them over to a new one. A thing worth mentioning is the fact
that each folder shows the three apps in the category that
you use most often and on the fourth spot
there are some mini icons from some of the remaining apps
and if you tap there you will see the whole list
of apps in that category. also if you swipe down in here you will
see another list with all your installed apps organized by
letters, and all this kind of reminds me of
one of my favorite smartphones that i used to possess.
now I know that for some of you all this might seem brand new and maybe
innovative but most of the features I talked about like
the home screen with live widgets on different sizes
and the app library were all brought to the public years ago on the windows mobile smartphones
but I'm happy they offer these options
since I used to be a huge fan of those smartphones
moving on incoming calls no longer take up the whole screen
but they show up as a small banner at the top of your display so you can swipe
up to dismiss it, swipe down to see other options
or you can tap these two buttons to accept or reject the call
another great feature is the picture in picture
where you can watch videos or use facetime while doing something else
this is fairly limited at the moment since third-party app developers still
need to implement this feature however you can use this on safari so
when you play a video you will see this picture in picture
button, which if you tap,
will detach the video from the main page so you can go
elsewhere, and you can also pinch the window to expand it
or make it smaller, move it all over the screen
or you can drag it off the screen, so the video
won't be visible but you will continue to hear the
audio. siri was redesigned so when activated
the interface won't take over the entire display
instead you will see a small animated logo at the bottom of the screen.
also apple claims that siri can now answer a larger number of questions than
before, so some requests that might have
previously directed you to the web will now receive direct answers.
beside this you can send audio messages through this feature and the number of
languages that siri understands for translation purposes
was now increased. third-party browsers and
mail apps can now be set as default instead of using safari and mail
so some might use easily their favorite apps.
so let's say you would like to set chrome as your default browser
you can do that by going to settings, scroll down
and select chrome. tap default browser app and select the one you want
so chrome in this case. after that any app that tries to open a web page
will uh launch chrome instead of safari moving on you might have seen there is a
new translate app. this supports arabic, chinese, english,
french, german, italian, japanese, korean, portuguese, russian and spanish
and as you can see at the top you can select the languages to translate
between and it supports both voice and
text entry. also the translated content can be played out loud
so you can hear how it's pronounced. another cool feature is the conversation
mode. if you turn your iphone in landscape
mode the app listens for the two languages
and translates whichever is spoken. so let's say
hi my name is paul
or the other way: ciao come stai?
see, it translates to hello how are you uh
this allows you to have a conversation with someone in a different language
using your iphone as a translation tool. the languages can also be downloaded so
you can use the app without an internet connection
speaking about languages there is another feature which I believe is
limited to usa and canada. don't know why but hey
if you live in there, lucky you. when you open safari and access a foreign
language website you should have the option to translate it if you press this
icon here however this feature is not only region
locked but also limited to only seven languages
another important update is regarding privacy with some big improvements by
making it clearer what info apps collect, requiring more user permission and
providing ways to use location features without
providing specific location data. apple claims we are going to see soon on each
product page for apps on the app store, uh a label
regarding the app and their privacy practices. so for example
if we open the app store and an app, we are going to see here somewhere
a privacy label telling you what's going on with that
app, like what type of data they are collecting or
how they can track you. also for apps that need your location to function
you can now choose to share an approximate location rather than your
precise location. so if you go to settings, scroll down to
privacy and select location services
and select let's say accuweather, you can have it share your precise
location or a general location. that allows you to
get the info you need but it keeps the app from knowing
exactly where you are. and there's a similar feature for your
photo, so if you go back to privacy
and select photos, you will see all the apps that require access to your
photo library so you can choose to block them. let's say
gmail and you can allow them access to all of the photos, none of them
or just specific photos. still under the privacy matter if an app is
using either the microphone or the camera for
recording purposes, a small light is visible at the top of
the display. this is activated whether the app is in
active use or is being used in the background so
you can make sure that apps are not secretly recording without your
knowledge. so for example when you are using
your camera you will see a small green light at the top of the screen and
when an app, let's say a voice recorder
is using your microphone, you will see an orange light
last but not least I would like to take you through some new features regarding
the camera. you now have an option called quick take
for shooting quick video straight from the
photo tab by long pressing the shutter and if you drag it to your right you can
release it without stopping the video from recording.
also in the video tab you can now change the resolution
and frame frame rate straight from the camera app
and if you go to your camera settings you will see a few different options
like prioritize faster shooting, which adapts
the image quality when the shutter is rapidly
pressed and you also get a selfie mirroring
option, which allows you to capture the image seen in the front camera preview
unlike the standard selfie where the picture flips.
as I mentioned at the beginning of the video, ios 14
comes with loads of small new features that would be impossible for me to cover
in a single video and I'm sure we will get new updates
pretty soon so if you would like to see more videos on
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