Apple Unveils iOS 14 & iPadOS 14 With Revamped Design & New Features
Apple Unveils iOS 14 & iPadOS 14 With Revamped Design & New Features
Yesterday (22nd June 2020) at the 2020 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple unveiled iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 with what it calls the “biggest update ever to Home Screen pages”. The new operating systems came with redesigned and repurposed widgets, better on-device intelligence, and revamped FaceTime calls.
According to Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering,
iOS 14 transforms the most iconic elements of the iPhone experience, starting with the biggest update we’ve ever made to the Home Screen. With beautifully redesigned widgets on the Home Screen, the App Library that automatically organizes all of your apps, and App Clips that are fast and easy to discover, iPhone becomes even more powerful and easier to use.
Although it is clear that Apple has borrowed quite a few features from its main competitor, Android, all these new features only add to the practicality. Let’s take a look:
Revamped Home Screen
The new home screen brings support for Android-like widgets for the first time. Users can now drag widgets from Today’s view to the home screen, pin in different sizes and create a smart stack that uses the on-device intelligence to surface the right widget based on time, location, and activity.
Swiping all the way to the end of the app pages on an iPhone opens the new “App Library” similar to Android’s App drawer. This new space will organize all the applications on the device into one simple, easy-to-navigate view. It will also intelligently surface the applications using Apple-created folders like Suggestions and Apple Arcade. Like Android, users can now choose the number of home screen pages they want to display and easily hide pages for quick access to the App Library.
Application Clips
An App Clip is basically a small part or partial view of an application that lets users take advantage of some app features without needing to download the full app, which functions exactly like Android Instant Apps introduced years ago. These clips are associated with a particular product or business, and unlike the complete application, they can load within a few seconds to complete a specific task.
According to Apple, app clips can be easily discovered and accessed by scanning a new Apple-designed App Clip code as well as via NFC tags and QR codes.
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