The much-touted Apple’s new OS for iPhone is out and live now. iOS 14 has been the much expected update since Apple announced the features earlier this year. A lot has been talked about the level of innovation and upheavals Apple is bringing in lately. Yet, Apple is Apple and the world does dance to its rhythm and its inevitable.
The list of iOS 14 supported devices is listed below:
- iPhone 11
- iPhone 11 Pro
- iPhone 11 Pro Max
- iPhone XS
- iPhone XS Max
- iPhone XR
- iPhone X
- iPhone 8
- iPhone 8 Plus
- iPhone 7
- iPhone 7 Plus
- iPhone 6s
- iPhone 6s Plus
- iPhone SE (1st and 2nd generation)
- iPod touch (7th generation)
The WWDC20 did share us enough light on the new and the strikingly new(?) features that the new iOS 14 is bringing to the Apple community. The two staples of Android community which has been a long due for iOS, App library and Widgets are finally available. Adding to the catch-up game is the Picture-in-picture (PiP) mode which is another big highlight of the new iOS 14. But the fun doesn’t end there.
A lot of pretty useful updates which are available to iPhone users are not discussed enough to reach all of us. That’s why we bring in you the curated list of top 5 most useful and unpopular updates in the new iOS 14.
- Changing the default Browser, Email client
As an Apple user, the options to customize your devices has always been an area of pain. However, the tech giant has come down a bit to hear the user’s cry for customization and tweaked its ecosystem a bit. With the new iOS 14, you can set your preferred app as your default for mobile browser, and email clients. Click Here to Read How
- Enhanced Privacy indicators
The new age is here and almost any and every apps requires access to your camera and microphone for various reasons. And it is also imperative for almost all cases that the access be granted considering the use of the app. On the other hand, aren’t we all worried about the breach of privacy that comes along with this conundrum? Here’s how Apple has struck gold! The new recording indicator on iOS 14 brings a simple and a powerful answer to the woes.
Whenever an app accesses your camera or the microphone, an indication of it with a small Green or Orange dot is displayed at the top-right corner of your iPhone. The Orange dot is used to indicate the usage of your microphone and Green dot for camera.
Also, you can swipe down to Control center to see which app is using it.
- Enhanced iMessages
The exclusive iMessage, Apple’s messaging engine is boosted up to compete with global DM giants like WhatsApp and Facebook Messengers. With the rising concern on Privacy, the netizens have started looking beyond the dominant players. The new and now what we can call a complete Messenger platform can safely be the first preference of Apple users. The new update brings in a set of exciting features such as inline replies (again, a late to party feature from Apple), groups (seriously Apple?), mentions (more colloquially known as ‘tag’ people), options to pin your preferred chats at the top of your screen constantly, flexibility to search for emojis.
Most importantly, you can now customize the view of your messages by selecting if you want to see all the messages at once, messages from your contacts alone, or from your unknown senders alone. This new filter view is aimed at classifying the promotional and junk messages from your private conversations.
Apart from the aforementioned, there is a good set of Memoji additions to make your conversations interesting and more importantly, private and safe.
