But I'm sure many of you already watched the video or the WWDC live stream. Let's go ahead and download and install this and I will be back. I am doing this on the iPhone 11 Pro Max if you were wondering. So we're now in the iOS 14 developer beta 1.
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| ios 14 beta in 11 pro max |
So we go over to software update and you will see iOS 14 is now installed. And taking a look at the software version. You can see it's iOS 14 beta. Now, this software did take about 40 minutes to download, so don't expect this one to download fast.
Quickly, let's take a first look at the widgets in iOS 14 beta, you can see there are a lot different than before, a lot larger, more legible, I would say. And of course, you can just kind of grab one of these widgets right here and bring it over to the homescreen, something you couldn't do before. Now you can actually have bigger widgets. Not a lot of people can say Android had this forever. That might be true, but at least it's here.
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| New home screen edit feature in iOS 14 beta |
Now for your iPhone. If you want more, you're just going to go ahead, click, and Edit homescreen. Here, you see that plus up in the left icon, you can go ahead and add more things within here. Like how about batteries, for example, add the battery widget in the homescreen. And you can see more information on any homescreen at a glance.
We have an app library now which will definitely put all your apps in a clean folder over. And you can kind of find everything really easily see our productivity entertainment reference reading and it's smart enough to know what to categorize.
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| Advanced Widgets in iOS 14 beta |
You can place widgets on the homescreen. and kind of see essentially things that you would most often look at throughout the day like the news or you know what's going on in your calendar or messages, stuff like that.
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| Pop-up call mode in iOS 14 beta |
So another new thing with iOS 14 beta is call. So let's say you're reading a news article, for example, in Apple news, and somebody does want to call you. Usually, that call will just kind of get in your way and just mess up the entire phone. But that's not going to be the case anymore. Check this one out right here. You're going to kind of see what happens with the call. So you can see there's a call coming in at the top of the screen. And I could just choose to answer that or ended and it's not really getting in the way too much. So that's a nice new feature with iOS 14 beta.
Another quick mention in the app library I forgot to talk about is that you can go ahead and search A through Z all your applications right here as well. And then you can kind of tap inside of these as well. So it's probably gonna be pretty neat either way, but you can still swipe down and get to Universal Search like you're used to.
And now within iOS 14 beta, there is Picture Mode. So if you do are watching videos and stuff like that, then you can just minimize the screen and overlay into any apps. Hopefully, we'll see support coming soon to like the YouTube app and stuff like that.
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| Updated Siri in iOS 14 beta |
Whereas before it would take up the whole screen. But then I message there are a few new features, including pin conversations, inline replies, as well as mentions where like if somebody is talking within a conversation, their name will highlight when you're trying to talk to that person, it's going to be very useful in groups, very good at during these Coronavirus times, where we're going to definitely need to, you know, do a little more group chat and stuff on that on our phones. So definitely good there.
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| New editable emojis in iOS 14 beta |
Now, we also do have a lot of improvements to emojis in terms of how you could kind of like, you know, tweak them, and customize them. So, for example, if we go over here, and then we go to the emoji and I want to edit it out, for example, let me edit it. We can go over here to headwear. And you can see there's now a mask here.
Within the emoji, so just a lot more styling you can do to your face as well as just making it look more realistic and more like your personality here with emoji. So lots of updates here to the iMessage. We'll cover this more in depth as it does get more feature-packed as the betas do go along within Apple Maps, there are going to be quite a few new updates here. And they come in the way of EV routing cycling directions, as also the and also there's going to be more guides for like when you're traveling places.
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| New Updated map in iOS 14 beta |
So right now though, the cycling directions are only going to be available in certain cities. As time goes on, it will expand as well as the guys are going to be working on that throughout the beta. So you'll see more things popping up. But the map is looking promising. I can't wait to see how this improves going forward.
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| New apple translate app in iOS 14 beta |
Here is Apple's new translate application right here for iOS 14. This has been a long time coming. And now you have the ability to translate even offline with this app. But, not all languages, of course, are going to be supported. You can also share audio recordings as well. But not all languages are going to be supported right away. But still, there's plenty of them to get you going. But this is nice that we're just gonna have a built-in translation app very useful. We don't have to go download a third-party application to do this. Now, it's not like we couldn't already do this with certain apps. But still, it's nice that we have our own built-in translation app for the iPhone in iOS 14 beta. It also does work in landscape mode as well.
Apple mentioned that CarPlay will be getting updates to the wallpapers if you're using the Apple CarPlay as well as car keys coming to certain cars starting soon, but that's more for the future. More cars should be able to be able to unlock it from your iPhone, but that's going to be some time. Let's go ahead and take a look at the wallpapers that come with iOS 14 beta right here.
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| Sleep Tracker in iOS 14 beta |
Okay, guys, so sleep tracking in iOS 14 is going to be amazing. For the iPhone and the Apple Watch combined. I don't have no data right now, but it will be definitely something you want to
look into especially if you do have the Apple Watch because you're gonna be able to use sleep mode wind down and set up your own sleep schedules and really kind of let those two devices work in sync to really nail down and get your sleep right.So on iOS 14 beta, thumbs up sleep tracking come to the Apple Watch in a better way than ever before and it will combine with your iPhone for a much better and more in depth experience with sleep here. So keep this in mind this is going to be a crucial to good health especially if you do like to track your sleep.
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| Automatic Airpod Detector in iOS 14 beta |
So if you guys use air pods, automatic switching between you know, different devices is going to be very easy. On iOS 14 beta it's automatically going to detect the air pods on the phone and you switch to the Mac and automatically detect them there as well as the iPad. So just the experience with using the air pods with your iPhone is going to be much better here for it was.
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| New Video Feature in iOS 14 beta |
Okay, so far iOS 14 beta camera is supposed to be faster to take photos. That's pretty nice. And also if we go in the video, I'm noticing that the iPhone Xs Max, even the older phones seem like they're going to be getting updates to allow you to switch between video modes here. That's pretty nice. And another thing you'll notice in the camera app is that little indicator at the top does indicate that you're recording using the mic, or the camera, pretty nice little feature. You can see it up there at the top, this little green dot right here will let you know that you are recording are using the microphone on your iPhone, just a neat little touch to kind of indicate that to you.
And in terms of location services, you are going to have the ability to share your location definitely in a little bit of a different way. So you'll be able to have an approximate location on iOS 14 beta which will allow you to get more specific closer data like better weather for example. And also you'll have this little feature right here in iOS 14 beta tracks where you can allow apps to request to track on here.
Of course, every time a new iOS comes out, Apple does step it up when it comes to privacy, that's one of the ways we are doing it here in iOS 14 beta. And when it comes to Apple homekit, especially if you use the Automation features, you're going to love iOS 14 beta because iOS 14 beta will allow you to kind of just automate everything a lot more simple.
You can see they got face detection as well with smart cameras that work with your phone, you know, home camera, stuff like that security camera or doorbell cameras, and you have smart color as well. So the lights can automatically adjust to the time of the day. So if you need a warmer color, this is automatically going to know.
Yeah, Apple home is getting a lot better here. You can add different accessories very easily here. If you care a lot about automation, home automation, and stuff like that. You got to get this update. Not right now not this current one, you can wait till the fall but I'm just saying this year is going to be a good year. If you're using a lot of home automation tools, and we covered so much but there's more like the mail application.
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| New mail app gallery in iOS 14 beta |
You could set third party applications like Gmail in the future that's going to be able to you know just be your default email. So you don't have to use the Apple Mail as default email that's going to be pretty nice as well. So that's a quick look at iOS 14 beta for the iPhone 11 Pro Max here developer beta 1 definitely a lot of major tweaks to organizing your home screens, and a lot of things happening with Siri here the new translate app, there's a lot of overhauls here, maps are gonna get better especially for cyclists. I mean, there is a ton coming to iOS 14 as you've seen in this post, let me know your favorite feature with iOS 14 down below if you're downloading it or not. And let me know if you encounter any bugs that will help out the community as they can see up too many bugs.
But for now, it feels pretty smooth, at least for a developer beta one. I'm shocked there's really not a lot of lag right now at all. The phone is getting pretty darn hot though.
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