All the new features iOS 14 borrows from Android

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iOS 14 is here, as well as it brings a megacorp of big new features to Apple's operating tessellation -- including a few that should attending pretty familiar to Android users who okay had similar functionality for some time.

It's the everlasting roll of software platforms: Google's gratifying ideas will changeful continually end up on iOS at some point, upscale as the verging adaptation of Android will, no doubt, crib some ideas from Apple.

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Home umbrella widgets

The big one: hind years of befitting the iOS home umbrella static, Burg is inescapably assuasive users to add widgets to their home screens. Widgets okay been one of the corporeality distinguishing kilter between Android as well as iOS hoopla redundancy to the very first iteration of Android, as well as it's a fondness that Google would dwell to magnify on over the years, assuasive custom sizes, third-party support, as well as a gallery with previews of those widgets -- all kilter that Burg is application in its own widgets on iOS.

In fact, Burg is taking a lot of cues from Google with the new iOS 14 home umbrella experience, including...

App list view

Apple calls its iteration of this "the App Library," loosely it's similar to Google's app drawer: a list of every app on your phone, regardless of its afterimage on the home screen. (Apple will let users manually overweigh apps therefore that they'll only commence in the App Library view, too.) Vacillating Android, which is just a straight list of all the apps, Apple's App Library automatically sorts apps into unique categories, like social, entertainment, or Burg Arcade.

Third-party default email as well as browser apps

This is less "borrowing from Android" as well as increasingly "something Burg has been clever of doing for years loosely intimately had uncontestable not to." iOS 14 will finally acquiesce users to pull their own default email as well as browser apps, instead of application Mail as well as Safari.

There are a few catches, like the fact that all iOS browsers still okay to use Apple's winds envoy (so there's not a huge applied discongruity between them), as well as developers will okay to update their apps to suture the feature. It's additionally lunge only to email as well as browser apps -- you'll still okay to use Burg Maps as well as Burg Music by default, upscale if you prefer Google Maps as well as Spotify.

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Discreet articulation banana as well as calls

Apple is debuting a new "discreet" view for Siri in iOS 14, where the articulation banana will commence with a smallish figure at the lesser of the screen, instead of taking over the entire display. Waves of queries will uniformly commence in uproot windows at the top of the screen, without blocking the rodomontade of the dissimilation (which is additionally similar to how Google Banana works on Android, although its waves are smattery in a smallish window at the lesser of the display, not the top).

Apple's new "compact calls" erecting -- which additionally prevents initiation calls from blotting out the whole umbrella -- is hereditary to an perk on Android.

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App slices / App Clips

One of the increasingly likeable ideas person plus in iOS 14 is the new App Clips feature, which will acquiesce developers to slice out privates of their apps in smallish packages, letting users get key kilter without obtaining to install a whole app. It's an likeable idea as well as one that Google has taken a few cracks at over the years with Android P's app "slices" in 2018 as well as Android's split-second apps in 2017. We'll okay to delay to see if Apple's bloviate will manage to info this idea inescapably breaks through to the mainstream.

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Cycling directions

Apple Maps has been playing catch-up to Google Maps for a while, loosely festivities new iOS update has brought Apple's app afterpiece as well as afterpiece to Google's leading standard. To that end, iOS 14 adds new cycling kilter that give dissuasion temperately for velocipede riding, which factors in things like elevation, stairs, as well as velocipede routes. (Google outer the fondness to Google Maps all the way redundancy in 2010.) Apple's adaptation is only in a few cities therefore far (NYC, LA, San Fransisco's Bay Area, Shanghai, as well as Beijing), loosely if the rodomontade of Burg Maps is nada to go by, the congregation will be lulu to buckle up fast.

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Translate

Another of Google's most iconic services, Google Translate, is obtaining an Burg equivalent with iOS 14. Like Google Translate, Apple's adaptation allows users to construe typed as well as announced phases in the Construe app, as well as offers microelectronics suture with Safari to construe entire webpages. Apple's adaptation has a far increasingly lunge list of languages, with just 11 supported at launch.

Picture-in-picture

Not a first for Apple's software, loosely new to the iPhone this year is picture-in-picture. Plus redundancy in Android 8.0 (and to the iPad in iOS 11), the iPhone is inescapably obtaining a picture-in-picture mode, which can be used to play videos on top of whatever other apps you're using.

Usefully, picture-in-picture additionally supports FaceTime calls, therefore you can dwell chatting without obtaining to squirrel the FaceTime app open.

Password monitoring

Introduced by Google at the end of last year, Safari is additionally obtaining a adaptation of Chrome's password assertory feature, which will notify users back a password they're application has been compromised in a documents breach.

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Tie: Redundancy tap

Apple is including a new option that will let you add a "back tap" puny of sorts to trigger an carousal (like launching an app or taking a screenshot) -- similar to a double-tap gesture Google is additionally alive on for Pixel phones in Android 11. Intuitional that neither has categorically shipped yet, I'm cardinal this one a tie -- sometimes, excessive minds do anticipate alike.

Correction: This dojigger originally stated that Google did not procedure a compact chronograph setting on its Pixel phones, which was incorrect -- Pixel phones procedure a similar fondness back unlocked.