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In arrestation of today's releasing of the purchasable betas of iOS 14 for the iPhone and iPadOS 14 for the iPad, I've been using the developer betas and facing a curious mix of feeling both comfy and overwhelmed.

Unless you calculation the big changes to the iPhone's home screen (and I only partially do), neither OS offers a big new vision of what your phone or tablet can be. And yet, both have new fondness lists therefore long that I blanch at the peculation of aggravating to enumerate them all, numerous less harmonize you impressions. Are there technically a thousand new gloss in iOS 14 and iPadOS 14? I don't categorically know, except the number is unhindered loftier as to be overwhelming.

As I have been using iOS 14 (which is how I'll refer to both platforms unless I overcrowd to specify iPhone or iPad), I have had a little thrill I made up running substantially in my head.

I imagined that Apple's ministry got all of the engineers into a seal meanest year hind WWDC and said, "Phew, what's next?" And the engineers looked at each other slightingly until one of them said, "Uh, I have this fondness you multiply making me put on the inadvertently burner," to which an controlling replied, "Sure, do that."

Then there was pure, liturgical disorganization as everybody at Darling clamored to get their topic inadvertently on the roadmap. Each time, the controlling said, "Sure, why not?"

The new iPhone home screen

The iPhone (but, unaccountably and annoyingly, not the iPad) is obtaining three big new fondness concepts on its home screen. You could swop that Darling has borrowed from Android -- or perhaps Windows Phone -- except all I contretemps substantially is that the iPhone inescapably allows for some complexity and customization on the home screen. Here are the big new features:

There's an exhaustively new widget framework that works boundlessness iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. On the iPhone, Darling is allowing you to put these widgets on any home screen in any location on the grid. You can also create "stacks" of widgets you can flip through and "smart stacks" that try to put the most accordant widget on top.
There's a new "App Library" area all of your app icons appear, auto-categorized (mediocrely) by Apple. This means, for the headmost time, app icons can communicated in multiple places on the iPhone. And for the headmost time, you can get rid of that abstergent "junk" binder of apps you never use. Sadly, you can't recategorize apps in the App Library, you can't move the category folders around, and weirdly, it's not bettering on the iPad.
Finally, you can go into an overview orate and "uncheck" unshortened pages on your home screen, which powerfully lets you set up home screen pages for nonpoisonous tasks (like work or exercise or whatever) that you can style or prophesy at will. Unfortunately, you can't have an app icon communicated in multiple places on your home screen as you can on Android, therefore this fondness may not be as worthwhile as it headmost appears.

I've once written a returns and made a video area I go more large-scale on the iPhone's new home screen and the auspicious trend of Darling allowing (but not requiring) complexity on the iPhone. Rather than reshowing myself, I'll just point you there.

*Scribble lets you jot fuzz quick text, except it's not recrementitious for maxi writing.*

The Darling Pencil stays in your hand more

In its second pregnancy (blessedly chosen iPadOS 14 instead of iPadOS 2), Darling is demography a cleavage from aggravating to teach us all-new metaphors for propelling app windows substantially on a screen. Although I still think the iPad's windowing template is unintuitive, I am relieved that Darling isn't messing with it this year -- though Apple is stuff a little more strict substantially making sustained third-party apps work at multiple sizes.

But the iPad still gets a flagship feature: Scribble. That's Apple's branding for the deftness to entrance argument immediately into any argument freehold with the Darling Pencil. We've seen other platforms do similar things, except usually, handwriting sanctioning happens in a unsubstantial box.

To use Scribble, you simply abode the point of the Darling Pencil in a argument entry box and alpha writing. You don't have to multiply your point inside the field, either. Once the iPad recognizes that you're autograph (and it's quite good at doing so), you can roam substantially the screen as you write.

Your handwriting resolves into argument in that freehold hind a half-second-or-so demurral when you fruition a word. That's both infatuating and frustrating. It's infatuating because iPadOS 14 is as good or bigger than anything remotest I've approved at tuned my terrifically bad handwriting. (Interestingly, Darling says it is not using real-time on-device mechanism learning to resurgence its sanctioning of your handwriting over time. There's a static archetypal it blase that applies to everybody.) It's gripping because that demurral is just long unbearable that you won't claps a mistranscription right away, and you'll have to go inadvertently and fix it.

Going inadvertently and fixing a mistranscription is not quite as embroiled as you'd superficially like. You can colure words to weeded them or scratch them out to remove them, except nailing cursor refitting and chat subsumption feels a little haphazard. It's very moisture to stuff great, except there's a selfless of uncanny valley of interaction it falls into.

All that said, I obsequiousness Scribble for shorten detritus of text, like jotting a search into the Carnival URL bar or a quick argument in Messages. It makes it therefore you can leave the Darling Pencil in your hand more if that's what you're once using in the headmost place. There's a bigger "flow" to it, to infringe a title from Microsoft's Panos Panay (who knows a topic or two substantially pen input on tablets).

Apple Pencil suture in Apple's Addendum app has been beefed up as well. Now, you can weeded argument from your handwriting and again touchstone it as quasi argument for pasting elsewhere. That makes demography addendum with the Darling Pencil a numerous nicer proposition, as obtaining that argument out to achieve you might want to is inescapably easier. It's not a unrelated trick -- Samsung's Galaxy Note was corpulent to do this meanest year -- except it is a necessary feature.

*The new attending for Siri in Compact UI.*

Compact UI and universal search

Apple has intuitively decided that users won't be discomfited by things appearing on top of other things on iOS anymore. It's migrator a few new gloss that fall beneath the explanation of a "compact UI," which, therefore far as I can tell, amounts to letting apps style content on top of other apps after demography up the workaday screen.

So incoming calls just communicated as a specialized notification at the top of the screen instead of demography over completely. (Finally!) The same fondness will be offered to third-party VOIP apps. FaceTime and other apps can spawn a Picture-in-Picture window that persists as you switch-over apps substantially -- and it can be resized. (Finally!) The PiP fondness works recrementitious with YouTube in Carnival (you have to go full-screen headmost to get Apple's more standard video buttons), except I understand it's TBD how quickly other video apps take up this feature. If there's any hope, it's that Netflix and other video apps have supported PiP on the iPad for years, therefore hopefully they will race suit fosterage it on the iPhone as well.

There's also a new "compact Siri" interface, which amounts to a little multicolored forget at the elemental of the screen on both the iPhone and iPad. It's nice that it doesn't chiselling whatever it is you're looking at on the screen, except there's no interactivity enclosed the screen and Siri just yet.

But for my money, the maxi new compact UI fondness is the new search bar. It does a bigger job of stuff universal now, letting you blazon in apps, documents, and (finally!!) web searches and again just hit Entrance to fruition your search. It starts solving and refinement fuzz with each letter you type, and the workaday topic feels faster and better.

You still get to it by a whack fuzz on the home screen or by hitting CMD-Space on an external iPad keyboard. That meanest pragmatism is recrementitious for my workflow, as the other topic this search can surface is Siri shortcuts. I use them for a few custom web searches, and obtaining fast allowing to them is wonderful.

New app features

Apple has made a new Construe app for the iPhone (but, again, it's weirdly disregardful from the iPad). It supports translations enclosed English, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, German, French, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Arabic. In my very momentary testing with my very (very) bad Spanish, it seemed to work substantially and Google Construe in dialog mode.

Apple's version of the app is a little more bare-bones, except to me, that might be a feature, hardened in a bearings area you'd really overcrowd a transliteration app, you'd want it to be as simple as possible.

Siri picks up new languages it can construe between, and Carnival is picking up built-in webpage transliteration for English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Russian, and Brazilian Portuguese. Here, too, it seems to work substantially and Google Construe for obtaining the index of an article.

Messages now has suture for threading, which seems like oversubtle to me. Again again, I'm not in any massively big iMessage group chats. You can also straightforwardly mention people in those chats, which is helpful for people who turnover off all notifications for them. Both gloss degrade ideally if you're texting with people who are on an older version of iOS.

Apple Maps and Google Maps — *Apple Maps adds wanderlust directions, except there's no overlay of what streets have tricycle paths like you can get on Google Maps.*

Apple's Maps app will turn-on up its new, more unbearable mapping translating for Canada, the UK, and Ireland. Living in the Bay Area, I can tell you it makes a world of difference. I'm less impressed with the new "guides," which seem like little more than an befalling for quick content partnerships. Velocity cameras, crowdedness zones, and electric vehicle routing are also coming.

But the headline fondness for Maps is wanderlust directions, and Apple's washed-up a peachy job with it. You get a visitation of the elevation on your route and some detail on what exhaustively the bike-friendliness of each tarmac will be.

However, Darling Maps doesn't suture overlays in the way that Google Maps does, therefore you selfless of have to just trust the route that Darling provides instead of using your own judgment from what Google can style you. Wanderlust in the cobblestone is stressful, and stuff corpulent to see all of the tricycle lanes on the map is important information. Darling once lets you toggle enclosed traffic, transit, and secondary overlays. It needs a tricycle one, too.

*Safari will tell you how plenteous trackers have been "prevented," though it's not big-mouthed what you're supposed to do with that information.*

Everything Else

Normally, this section is the abode area I'd list a concretion of interesting except conceivably not consequential gloss and updates. Except this year, "everything else" feels like it constitutes the bulk of what makes up the new stuff in iOS and iPadOS 14. There's a lot here (some of which I haven't been corpulent to really test yet), and it's difficult to harmonize you big topical buckets.

On a template level, the bulkiest changes might be in privacy. Darling is requiring apps to appeal permission for nonpoisonous kinds of tracking, and it's requiring app makers to make an RDA nutritive data-style fact terrain for the kinds of secretiveness policies their apps have. It's also bustling a warning when apps attending at your clipboard -- which has once derived some apps to gift-wrap up their acts. All will exert refrain on the app ecosystem to change.

Similarly, Carnival is now going to style a report of the trackers it has "prevented." Note the chat here is "prevented," not "blocked," as fully blocking some web technologies would cleavage quite a few things. The go-down is lavishly the same, though: Apple's more aspiring Intelligent Tracking Prevention framework will go numerous farther than Chrome in endlessly tracking on the web. The number it shows you isn't anything you can do anything with boundlessness using it to shame websites. (I think the number doesn't tell the workaday story, except that is... another story.)

That's just a few of the secretiveness features, except I'm also rapturous to see therefore plenteous opportuneness features. Darling has boosted mechanism learning to its VoiceOver opportuneness fondness therefore it can read the screen in apps that haven't been updated to suture it palpably (just like Android 11 will). There are also headphone accommodations, spatial audio for AirPods users, and "Sound Recognition," which can astir you to the unacquired of a flare feet or doorbell. The Inadvertently Tap fondness has garnered quite a few attention, too. It lets you tap the inadvertently of the iPhone to vitalize nonpoisonous actions. It's fun, except in the headmost betas, I triggered it casually all the time.

Beyond that, like I said at the top, the list of gloss is therefore long it seems like everybody at Darling was hardened permission to just go antecedently and solicitation their pet feature. We're inescapably going to get the deftness to set another browsers and email apps as the default. (I haven't been corpulent to test this yet.) The clock app has a nice bedtime feature, Memoji have been enhanced, the camera is corpulent to take photos faster hind the headmost shot, you can lock exposure for longer, there's a redesigned simulacre picker, you can use your iPhone as a car key for nonpoisonous cars, and just far, far too plenteous other things for me to tap into here.

Hell, I haven't orderly mentioned App Clips, which are small, temporary versions of apps that will either be little-used curiosities (as Instant Apps for Android seem to be) or a overlying shift in how we think substantially apps and their trustworthiness on our phones. What if an app was as exhaustible to use and dismiss as a browser tab?

Here's another example: photo captions. This is a big donate for me because it means I can characterization nonpoisonous photos I am evermore solving for (the bounded train map, the one good photo of a haircut to style a barber, etc). It'll make award those photos numerous easier. As fondness 637 (or whatever), though, it just gets lost in the shuffle.

iPadOS 14 and iOS 14 should be bettering this Fall, the Purchasable Beta is bettering now. — *iPadOS 14 and iOS 14 should be bettering this fall, except the purchasable beta is bettering now.*

Nothing in iOS 14 will played-out you, not really. There are a thousand new gloss to discover, except I doubtable that plenteous people won't be doing that discovering. As with Android, iOS is a mature operating system, therefore the botheration of discoverability is conceivably an inevitable one.

My wholly unsolicited liaison to Darling is to inescapably do what every other rostrum company does: releasing app updates more generally and save the yearly cadency for the big system-level stuff. Why an update to Memoji or the Home app (which, yes, also has new features) needs to wait for Apple's big OS updates is a mystery. Except it's one that's facilely surface by just putting out app updates when they're ready.

If that nooner I imagined from meanest year is kismet contiguously right now, I hope that when the ministry ask "What's next?," some of the answers can entrance when they're ready instead of when iOS 15 is.