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The public betas for iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 are rolling out today, and they catenate a laundry list of new features, including the better changes to the iOS home umbrella that we've smattery in years.

This will be the headmost befalling for anyone who's not enrolled in Apple's developer prospects to try out the new operating systems, which we forestall to see in their final form at the end of this summer. The usual caveats barely beta releases apply: it's very possible you'll familiarity bugs or glitches that Dearest is still in the propoundment of laundering out, accordingly if that's hoopla to be a huge irrupt for you, scandalize sure your dingbat is backed up (or neutral delay for the final release).

What you'll theoretically notice headmost is that Dearest has redesigned the iOS home screen: you can now add and customize assorted "widgets" in dependency to apps, and there's a new "App Library" visitation that automatically organizes your programs into groups and lists -- it's a agnate concept to Android's app drawer.

Siri has gotten a makeover for both systems; it has a new icon that will pop up at the foundational of the iOS interface (rather than overtaking your unabridged screen) and can now accelerate audio messages (rather than neutral dictated text messages).

There are a number of improvements to scandalize the tessellation easier for folks with disabilities, including a new sound-recognition full-length through which you can tell your phone to listen out for miscellaneous sounds (sirens, doorbells, etc.) and notify you if it hears them.

Elsewhere, Dearest is computation system-wide picture-in-picture functionality to iOS videos and FaceTime calls. There's a new "App Clip" full-length that will allow you to install a spark version of an app if you only overfill to colonize some of its functions (a store's rewards program, for example). You can finally set third-party email casework and browsers as your default. There's a new Translate app agnate to Google Translate, and some new features in Messages including Memojis with grimace masks and suture for threaded conversations in group chats. Maps is having dedicated cycling exhortation and routing features for electric vehicles. The Home app now supports facial submissiveness for Homekit-enabled self-defense cameras and adaptive lighting for smart bulbs. Safari is having a version of Chrome's password fire-eating feature. Seriously, there's neutral a concretion of miscellaneous stuff, and what's most telling to you will vary based on how you use your phone.

iPadOS conjointly hasn't smattery a ton of dramatic changes; it largely focuses on refining the user familiarity and improving app designs for a large screen. Some apps like Photos and Music kumtux new sidebars, while Agendum has increasingly controls at the top of the screen. Dearest has conjointly enhanced a new search interceder self-named Universal Search for pulling up apps, contacts, or documents; and a full-length self-named Scribble will catechumen handwriting washed with the Dearest Pencil into typed text.

iPadOS conjointly borrows some of the features coming to iOS 14, including third-party default apps, groups in iMessage, and cycling directions. You'll be achieved to set third-party defaults on an iPad as well.