This year’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2020) was affected by the epidemic. Keynote on the first day was changed to a pre-recorded online broadcast, and engineering and design lectures and one-on-one technical guidance were provided online. Apple this time brings system previews including iOS 14 and iPadOS 14, adding new designs and functions for iPhone and iPad respectively.
iOS 14
Redesigned Home Screen elements
Starting with the Home Screen update, iOS 14 changes core elements of the iPhone experience. The redesigned widget is more beautiful and richer in information. In iOS 14, it can be moved to the home screen and arranged with apps according to personal habits.
The newly added App Library automatically categorizes apps with different characteristics and displays them on the last page of the main screen.
Caller ID, awakening Siri, etc. no longer occupy the entire screen, but appear above or below the screen; in addition, when conducting FaceTime videos or watching videos, you can reduce the image through Picture-in-Picture (PiP, picture-in-picture) mode Chengzi screen.
Added AppClip
The newly added AppClip is designed to enhance the App experience. By scanning the AppClip Code, QR Code or NFC sensor, you can display the Apps and services suitable for current use.
Improve the messaging function
During the process of sending messages to others, users can pin the message conversation to the top, or reply to a certain conversation and add emoticons. Memoji will have more shapes, actions, and even different age groups.
map function upgrade
When users riding bicycles use the map, it will display altitude, street congestion, whether there are stairs on the route, etc. As for the navigation route of electric vehicles, charging station information will be displayed along the planned route based on the type of charger.
Enhanced privacy features
iOS will require all apps to obtain user permission before accessing data or tracking, and by the second half of this year, the App Store's App page will summarize the content of each app's access to user data.
Other new features
The new translation app is for 11 languages and can quickly translate voice and text. When using offline mode, private voice and text translation is available.
Furthermore, in addition to searching for your own Apple device and the location of your friends, the Search App will also be able to search for third-party products in the future.
digital car key uses NFC technology to allow users to use iPhone or Apple Watch to unlock and start the car, and even share car key permissions with family members. Apple even uses the spatial awareness capabilities of the U1 chip and ultra-wideband technology to allow users to unlock their cars without taking out their iPhones from their pockets or bags. This feature is expected to be launched next year, and is currently known to be applicable to some BMW models.
iPadOS 14
iPadOS 14 is not only built on iOS 14, but also designed specifically for iPad, upgrading the operating experience. Many features of iOS 14 also appear in iPadOS 14, and I would like to highlight its new features in universal search and using Apple Pencil.
Universal search to quickly find content
iPadOS 14 has rebuilt the search function on the iPad in the same way as macOS's Spotlight. It can quickly find any content on the entire machine and on the Internet, whether it is looking for apps, contacts, files, messages, or about Frequently asked questions about people, places, etc. can all be answered through universal searches.
Apple Pencil’s handwriting functionality evolves
iPadOS 14’s Scribble feature makes Apple Pencil play a more important role. In the future, after users write text by hand, it can be automatically converted into commonly input text fonts, and hand-drawn patterns can also be converted into computer drawing patterns. At the same time, users can directly handwrite text in the universal search box or web search bar to conduct web searches. They can even copy an entire paragraph of handwritten text and paste the content in other documents.
