Let me start by saying that I think Apple has done a good job picking up requests from developers and users and seeing what works (and what doesn't) from third-party apps and Android, in an attempt to modernize the platform but taking it to a new level of functionality, privacy, and security. To that, he adds some new ones, that we have not seen before and a couple of Wows! they can be revolutionary.
Something Borrowed: What iOS 14 collects from other platforms/applications
From the deceased Windows, Phone widgets arrive at the iPhone home screen. Widgets that come in different sizes to offer different amounts of information depending on the needs of each user, without losing the essence and look-and-feel of iOS. Widgets that will personalize each iPhone more to the taste and needs of its owners.
Widgets that can become as valuable and useful as watchOS “hassles” to deliver contextual information more quickly and expeditiously based on time, activity, or user routines.
From WhatsApp, we see that Messages incorporate photos for group chats, online responses, and mentions, to facilitate communication between users. Improvements that those of us who use both messaging platforms will surely appreciate. Unfortunately, for now, there is no news of the arrival of Messages to other platforms such as Android or Web, which would be great.
From iPad OS, iOS adopts the option of watching picture-in-picture videos, something that companies like Samsung have been offering their users on Android for years.
And just like Google has an application to translate conversations (the app that is champion, if you ask me my opinion), now iOS 14 will incorporate a very similar functionality with a couple of interesting and useful variations, especially for travelers.
The first is that all processing is done on the iPhone, giving it a higher level of user privacy (no server or service will know what it translated) and allowing users to use it even in scenarios where they don't have internet access.
Additionally, the new translation application can understand who is speaking and in what language is speaking it and carry a dual full-screen model in which what everyone says is translated in real-time.
Ah! And Safari (both on iOS, iPad, and macOS) can translate the content of any web page that the user visits.
Finally, iOS 14 allows - for the first time - to define non-Apple applications such as the default applications for mail, the web browser, and music.
Something New: iOS at its best
I do not know if it happens to them, but I have several relatives who never find the applications that they already have installed but that they do not use frequently. Those that are not on the first page but are buried over there on another page or in some application folder. For example, I have 166 applications installed on my iPhone, of which I will use a maximum of 20 daily. With iOS14 comes App Library, an application management model that makes it easy to find that specific application either by searching for it or finding it in an alphabetically organized list or smart folders.
I've always thought (and maybe you've seen me write or say it) that the great success of the iPhone, and what set it apart from the competition at the time, was how it dematerialized the phone and how it was converted by another app on the device. However, when you receive a call, the phone application takes over the entire screen and blocks what you were doing.
Why? It is a lag behind thinking that the iPhone is a smartphone, when in fact it is a laptop that allows you to make calls. In iOS 14 (and iPadOS 14) that changes and adopts a model more similar to what macOS offers when you receive a call on your iPhone: a call notification similar to that of other applications; a notification similar to the one you receive when a WhatsApp or email arrives, or notification from some other application. Something like that:
Something similar happens with Siri. When activated it takes the entire screen and obstructs the vision of what one has on the screen. The Siri interface is also simplified and minimalized allowing the user to use it for what it is: a wizard, a way to interact with the device, and not a specific application.
But it is not just an aesthetic change. Inside, Siri continues to add information sources, task capabilities, and integration with sources and servers, enhancing the experience it offers and the functionality it can have.
Returning to Messages, it is now possible to have some conversations "glued" to the top, allowing them not to be lost in the sea of conversations that one has.
Something Revolutionary - Apple being Apple
And, of course, iOS 14 would not be iOS if it did not innovate and propose functionalities that can change the way we do many things.
Let me start by taking up the issue of dematerialization and I will tell you about a new CarPlay functionality called Car Key. If you have tried or seen a smart lock (like August) you will know how easy it is to not have to carry keys and how useful it is to be able to "give keys" to a third party, either permanently or temporarily.
Car Key does the same, but now for your car. You no longer need a key or FOB to open and turn it on. You only need your iPhone (or your Apple Watch) and a compatible vehicle. You just need to put the phone close to the door lock and then put it near the reader to turn it on. And if you want to loan someone's car, you can assign keys (permanent or temporary) and you can assign driving profiles, for example, to limit the speed and volume of the radio.
The first of the Car Key-compatible cars is the BMW 5 Series 2021 model, due out in July, and Apple is working with the CarConnectivity Consortium to bring this technology to more cars starting in 2021.
Now let's talk about another way of interacting with the real world, but in this case, as a way to find specific applications and to be able to use bits of that application quickly and easily. App Clips is new functionality in iOS 14 that allows users to read a QR code (or a new App Clip Code) or touch an NFC sensor to get a limited version of an app with which you can complete a transaction.
With this "mini-application" you can pay, ask for a shift, or make another transaction without having to complete all the steps that registration in an app requires today (open the App Store> search for it> download it> register> enter your information> enter credit card> validate email> login) but instead uses the integration with Sign With Apple and Apple Pay to make the operation quick.
If you have not read my article on Apple Glass, I think it is a good time to do it because I bet that this functionality of App Clips will be an essential part of the experience that the glasses will offer.
And let me finish with a topic that is very important to me and that gives me peace of mind when I see my children and my wife and my parents and in-laws browsing the internet using Safari or downloading a new app on their iPhone: the topic of privacy and the security of your information. This, for me, is the great differential between Android and iOS.
Apple continues to build on its 4 pillars of privacy and with iOS 14 it brings the issue to a level of transparency that no one has offered (or offers) in the market.
On the one hand, all the applications in the App Store will have a "privacy card" that summarizes the information that they request and to which they will have access, but it will also include what information they will use to track it and what data or sources of information may be used to identify it.
On the other hand, iOS 14 brings a new recording indicator that shows when an App (to which you already gave access to your camera and/or microphone) has turned them on.
Also, with iOS 14 you can share your approximate location, limiting the scope of a specific application or web page to know where it is.
In Safari (on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS) you will be able to see the attempts to crawl any page you visit (and that Safari has prevented) and information about each one of them.
And finally, your iPhone can inform you when you are using a password that has been compromised (for example, by leaking it in an attack on a third party).
The system will compare your passwords anonymously and secretly with a database of leaked passwords so that you can take preventive actions for your security. All this without Apple having access to its keys.
Compatibility
If you have one of these devices, you can update it to iOS 14 in September when it officially comes out or in July when the Public Beta comes out (if you dare).
- iPhone 11 / Pro / Pro Max
- iPhone XS / XS Max
- iPhone XR
- iPhone X
- iPhone 8 / Plus
- iPhone 7 / Plus
- iPhone 6s / Plus
- iPhone SE (1st and 2nd generation)
- iPod touch (7th generation)
iOS 14: Something borrowed, something new, something revolutionary || Tech Review Pro
Reviewed by shuhel shab
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6/23/2020
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