Apple has introduced its new iOS 15 at the WWDC 2021. With on-device intelligence, iOS 15 introduces new ways to remain connected as well as powerful capabilities that help users focus, explore, and do more. Here below are the new features of the latest iOS version.
SharePlay
The new iOS 15 enables users to have more natural conversations with friends and family on FaceTime. Voices in a FaceTime conversation sound like they’re coming from where the person is on the screen with spatial audio. Besides, it also has a new microphone mode that isolates the user’s voice from the background noise.
Portrait mode is now available for FaceTime, allowing users to obscure their surroundings and focus on themselves. In addition, there is a new grid view in Group FaceTime that allows members to see more faces at the same time.
Users may now use SharePlay to share their experiences while connecting with friends on FaceTime. They can listen to songs together with Apple Music as well as watching TV shows or movies in sync.
Moreover, FaceTime calls also extend outside Apple devices, with the ability to build a connection from an iPhone, iPad, or Mac. It allows anybody on Android and Windows devices to join a FaceTime call from their web browser. Also, you can share it via Messages, Calendar, Mail, or third-party apps. FaceTime calls over the web are still end-to-end encrypted, so your privacy is not affected.
Find Focus
Furthermore, iOS 15 has strong capabilities that assist users in focusing and reducing distractions. The new Focus feature filters notifications and apps based on what the user wants to focus on during work hours. And users may also customize Home Screen pages with applications and widgets that only show essential apps and limit temptation.
New Notification Experience
Apple also redesigned the Notifications, adding contact images for people and bigger app icons to make them simpler to recognize. The new notification summary aggregates non-time-sensitive notifications for delivery at a more convenient time, such as in the morning or evening.
Live Text
Live Text recognizes text in photos using on-device intelligence and allows users to take action. With the Apple Neural Engine, the Camera app can also instantly detect and copy text at the moment. It even has a Visual Look Up feature, which allows users to learn more about popular art, landmarks, plants, pets, and even books.
Spotlight
Spotlight now uses artificial intelligence to search photographs by location, people, sceneries, or objects, as well as utilizing Live Text. Also, it can detect text and handwriting in images. Besides, it now includes web image search as well as brand-new rich results for actors, musicians, TV series, and movies.
Safari
Safari gets redesigned that makes it simpler to grasp controls with one hand and puts content front and center. Moreover, the new tab bar is small and light, floating at the bottom of the screen, allowing users to swiftly switch between tabs. Besides, Tab Groups enable users to keep tabs and conveniently retrieve them across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Apple Maps
iOS 15 pushes Maps even farther with exciting new ways to travel and explore. Users will notice greatly improved features in cities for neighborhoods, commercial districts, elevation, buildings, road colors, and many more.
New Keys and State IDs Come to Apple Wallet
Apple Wallet now supports more sorts of keys, allowing you to reach common locations with a single tap. This year, digital car keys get an upgrade with support for Ultra Wideband technology. This allows users to safely unlock and start their compatible vehicle without having to remove their iPhone from a pocket or bag.
New Privacy Features
iOS 15 adds even more privacy features to help secure user data. With on-device voice recognition, audio from Siri queries is now handled fully on the iPhone by default, and speed has considerably improved. Besides, App Privacy Report provides a summary of how applications utilize the access provided to location, photographs, camera, microphone, and contacts in the previous seven days, as well as which other domains are accessed.
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Redesigned Weather and Notes Apps
The Weather now offers richer graphical representations of weather data, full-screen maps, and dynamic layouts that alter dependent on circumstances. While Notes provides user-created tags for simple note categorization and mentions allow users of shared notes to alert one another of noteworthy modifications.
The following devices will support iOS 15:
- iPhone 12
- iPhone 12 mini
- iPhone 12 Pro
- iPhone 12 Pro Max
- iPhone 11
- iPhone 11 Pro
- iPhone 11 Pro Max
- iPhone XS
- iPhone XS Max
- iPhone XR
- iPhone X
- iPhone 8
- iPhone 8 Plus
- iPhone 7
- iPhone 7 Plus
- iPhone 6s
- iPhone 6s Plus
- iPhone SE (1st generation)
- iPhone SE (2nd generation)
- iPod touch (7th generation)
Availability
The iOS 15 developer beta is now available at developer.apple.com. Next month, iOS users will be able to access the public beta at beta.apple.com.
Source: Apple Newsroom
