Pavel Jelic The iOS 14 operating system, as well as iPadOS 14, watchOS 7, macOS 11 Big Sur and tvOS 14, have been available for download by developers and beta testers for several months. The full versions of new operating systems for the public are traditionally released a few days after the Apple conference in September. This year, however, it is a little different, as Apple decided to release all new operating systems, except for macOS 11 Big Sur, one day after the aforementioned Apple Event. So if you couldn't wait for the public release of iOS 14, I have good news for you. Apple made this system available to the public a few minutes ago.
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You're probably wondering what's new in iOS 14. Apple attaches so-called version notes to each new version of the operating systems, which contain absolutely all the changes that you can look forward to after updating to iOS 14. These release notes that apply to iOS 14 can be found below.
What's new in iOS 14?
iOS 14 updates the iPhone's core functionality and brings major app updates and new features.
Brand new widgets
- You can place reprogrammed widgets directly on the desktop
- Widgets come in three sizes – small, medium and large, so you can choose the amount of information presented to you
- Widget sets save desktop space and Smart Set always displays the right widget at the right time thanks to the device's artificial intelligence
- The widget gallery contains all available widgets, you can view and select them here
- We reprogrammed Apple widgets for Weather, Clock, Calendar, News, Maps, Fitness, Photos, Reminders, Stocks, Music, TV, Tips, Notes, Shortcuts, Battery, Screen Time, Files, Podcasts, and Siri Suggestions apps and features
Application library
- In the application library, you will find all your applications, organized by category
- The Suggestions category uses your device's artificial intelligence to evaluate factors such as time of day or location and suggest apps that might just be right for you
- The Recently Added category shows recently downloaded apps from the App Store and clips of apps you've launched recently
- By tapping the dots at the bottom of the screen in icon shake mode, you can hide individual pages of the desktop and get to the app library even faster
Compact appearance
- Incoming phone calls and FaceTime calls appear as banners at the top of the screen
- The new compact display of Siri allows you to follow the information on the screen and continue with other tasks straight away
- Picture-in-picture allows you to watch videos and use FaceTim while working in other applications
News
- When you pin conversations, you'll have up to nine favorite message threads at the top of your list all the time
- Mentions offers the ability to send direct messages to individual users in group conversations
- With inline replies, you can easily reply to a specific message and see all related messages in a separate view
- You can edit group photos and share them with the whole group
Memoji
- 11 new hairstyles and 19 headgear styles to customize your memoji
- Memoji stickers with three new gestures - fist bump, hug and embarrassment
- Six additional age categories
- Option to add different masks
Maps
- Cyclist navigation offers routes using dedicated cycle lanes, cycle paths and cycleable roads, taking into account elevation and traffic density
- Guides recommend places to eat, meet friends or explore, carefully selected from trusted companies and businesses
- Navigation for electric cars helps you plan trips supported by electric vehicles and adds charging stops along the route
- Traffic congestion zones help you plan routes around or through busy areas of cities like London or Paris
- The Speed Camera feature lets you know when you're approaching speed and red light cameras on your route
- Pinpoint location helps you pinpoint your exact location and orientation in urban areas with weak GPS signal
Application Clips
- App clips are small parts of apps that developers can create for you; they offer themselves when you need them and help you complete specific tasks
- Application clips are generally small and ready to use in seconds
- You can discover app clips by tapping an NFC tag or scanning a QR code in Messages, Maps, and Safari
- Recently used app clips appear in the app library under the Recently Added category, and you can download the full versions of the apps when you want to keep them handy
Translate application
- The new Translate app helps you with your conversations, and when you want to keep your conversations private, it can also work in autonomous offline mode
- The split screen in conversation mode shows a microphone button that automatically detects the language being spoken, and a transcript of the original and translated speech is displayed on the corresponding sides of the screen
- Attention mode displays translations in a larger font to better grab someone's attention
- You can use both voice and text translation for any combination of two of the 11 supported languages
Crab
- The new compact display allows you to follow the information on the screen and continue with other tasks straight away
- Thanks to the deepening of knowledge, you now have 20 times more facts than three years ago
- Web Answers helps you find answers to a wider range of questions using information from around the Internet
- It is possible to use Siri to send audio messages on both iOS and CarPlay
- We've added expanded language support for the new Siri voice and Siri translations
Search
- One place to find everything you need - apps, contacts, files, up-to-date weather and stocks, or general knowledge about people and places, plus you can quickly start searching the web
- Top search results now show the most relevant information including apps, contacts, knowledge, points of interest and websites
- Quick Launch allows you to open an application or web page by typing a few letters from the name
- Suggestions as you type now start offering you more relevant results as soon as you start typing
- From the web search suggestions, you can launch Safari and get the best results from the internet
- You can also search within individual applications, such as Mail, Messages or Files
Household
- With automation designs, you can set up your automations with one click
- The status view at the top of the Home app shows an overview of accessories and scenes that need your attention
- The home control panel in the Control Center displays dynamic designs of the most important devices and scenes
- Adaptive lighting automatically adjusts the color of smart bulbs throughout the day for your comfort and productivity
- Face Recognition for Cameras and Doorbells will use people tagging in the Photos app and recent visit identification in the Home app to let you know who's at the door using the device's artificial intelligence
- The Activity Zones feature on cameras and doorbells will record video or send you notifications when motion is detected in selected locations
Safari
- Improved performance with an even faster JavaScript engine
- The privacy report lists trackers blocked by Smart Tracking Prevention
- Password Monitoring securely checks your saved passwords for the presence of cracked password lists
Weather
- The next-hour precipitation chart shows a minute-by-minute forecast of how much rain or snow will fall in the United States
- Extreme weather information includes government warnings for certain extreme weather events, such as tornadoes, blizzards, and floods in the United States, Europe, Japan, Canada, and Australia
AirPods
- Surround sound with dynamic head tracking on AirPods Pro creates an immersive audio experience by placing sounds anywhere in space
- Automatic device switching seamlessly switches between audio playback on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Mac
- Battery notifications let you know when your AirPods need to be charged
Privacy
- If an app has access to the microphone or camera, a recording indicator will appear
- We only share your approximate location with apps now, we don't share your exact location
- Whenever an app asks for access to your photo library, you can choose to share only selected photos
- App and website developers can now offer you to upgrade existing accounts to Sign in with Apple
Disclosure
- Tap the back of your iPhone to easily launch accessibility tasks with a tap on the back of your iPhone
- Headphone customization amplifies quiet sounds and adjusts some frequencies based on your hearing condition
- FaceTime detects participants using sign language in group calls and highlights the participant using sign language
- Sound recognition uses your device's artificial intelligence to detect and identify important sounds, such as alarms and alerts, and let you know about them with notifications
- Smart VoiceOver uses your device's artificial intelligence to recognize elements on the screen and give you better support in apps and on websites
- The Image Descriptions feature informs you about the content of images and photos in apps and on the web using full-sentence descriptions
- Text recognition reads text identified in images and photos
- Screen content recognition automatically detects interface elements and helps you navigate apps
This release also includes additional features and improvements.
App Store
- Important information about each app is available in a clear scrolling view, where you'll also find information about the games your friends are playing
Apple Arcade
- In the Upcoming Games section, you can see what's coming to Apple Arcade and automatically download a game as soon as it's released
- In the All Games section, you can sort and filter by release date, updates, categories, driver support, and other criteria
- You can view game achievements right in the Apple Arcade panel
- With the Continue Playing feature, you can easily continue playing recently played games on another device
- In the Game Center panel, you can find your profile, friends, achievements, leaderboards and other information, and you can access everything directly from the game you are playing
Augmented reality
- Location anchoring in ARKit 4 allows applications to place augmented reality at selected geographic coordinates
- Support for face tracking now includes the new iPhone SE
- Video textures in RealityKit allow applications to add video to arbitrary parts of scenes or virtual objects
Camera
- Improved image capture performance reduces the time it takes to take the first shot and makes shooting even faster
- QuickTake video can now be recorded on iPhone XS and iPhone XR in Photo mode
- Quick toggle in Video mode allows resolution and frame rate changes in the Camera app
- Updated Night Mode on iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro guides you to take steady shots and lets you stop shooting at any time
- The exposure compensation control allows you to lock the exposure value for as long as you want
- With front camera mirroring, you can take selfies as you see them in the front camera preview
- Improved QR code scanning makes it easier to scan small codes and codes on uneven surfaces
C
- New categories of supported applications for parking, electric car charging and quick food ordering
- Wallpaper choices
- Siri supports sharing estimated arrival times and sending audio messages
- Added horizontal status bar support for cars with portrait screens
- Support for Japanese and Chinese keyboards allows you to search for additional points of interest
FaceTime
- On iPhone X and later models, the video quality has been increased up to 1080p resolution
- The new Eye Contact feature uses machine learning to gently position your eyes and face, making video calls feel more natural, even when you're looking at the screen instead of the camera
Files
- APFS encryption is supported on external drives
Health
- The Quiet Night feature offers you apps and shortcuts for the time before you go to bed, for example, you can relax with a soothing playlist
- Custom sleep schedules with sleep reminders and set alarms help you meet your sleep goals
- Sleep Mode will reduce distractions at nighttime and bedtime by turning on Do Not Disturb and simplifying the lock screen
- The Health To-Do List helps you track and manage health and safety features in one place
- The new Mobility category will offer you information about walking speed, two-support walking phase, step length and walking asymmetry
Keyboard and international support
- Autonomous dictation helps protect your privacy by doing all processing offline; dictation in search uses server-side processing to recognize terms you might want to search for on the Internet
- The emoticon keyboard supports searching using words and phrases
- The keyboard displays suggestions for automatically filling in contact data, such as email addresses and phone numbers
- New French-German, Indonesian-English, Japanese-Simplified Chinese and Polish-English bilingual dictionaries are available
- Added support for the wu‑pi input method for Simplified Chinese
- The spell checker now supports Irish and Nynorsk
- The new Japanese keyboard for the kana input method makes entering numbers easier
- Mail supports email addresses written in non-Latin languages
Hudba
- Play and discover your favorite music, artists, playlists and mixes in the new "Play" panel
- Autoplay finds similar music to play after a song or playlist has finished playing
- Search now offers music in your favorite genres and activities, and shows helpful suggestions as you type
- Library filtering helps you find artists, albums, playlists and other items in your library faster than ever before
Notes
- An expanded action menu provides easy access to locking, searching, pinning, and deleting notes
- The most relevant results appear in the most frequent search results
- Pinned notes can be collapsed and expanded
- Shape recognition allows you to draw perfect straight lines, arcs and other shapes
- Enhanced scanning provides sharper scans and more accurate automatic cropping
Fotky
- You can filter and sort your collection to make it easier to find and organize your photos and videos
- Pinch to zoom out or pinch to zoom in lets you quickly find photos and videos in multiple places, such as Favorites or Shared albums
- It is possible to add contextual captions to photos and videos
- Live Photos taken on iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 play back with improved image stabilization in Years, Months, and Days view
- Improvements to the Memories feature provide a better selection of photos and videos and a wider selection of music for memory movies
- The new image selection in apps uses smart search from the Photos app to easily find media to share
Podcasts
- Play 'Em Now is smarter with your personal podcast queue and new episodes we've picked for you
Reminders
- You can assign reminders to people you share lists with
- New reminders can be created on the lists screen without having to open a list
- Tap to add dates, times, and locations to smart suggestions
- You have customized lists with emoticons and newly added symbols
- Smart lists can be rearranged or hidden
Settings
- You can set your own default mail and web browser
Abbreviations
- Shortcuts to get started - a folder of shortcuts preset just for you to help you get started with shortcuts
- Based on your user habits, you will receive shortcuts automation suggestions
- You can organize shortcuts into folders and add them as desktop widgets
- New automation triggers can trigger shortcuts based on receiving an email or message, battery status, closing an app, and other actions
- A new streamlined interface for launching shortcuts gives you the context you need while working in another app
- Sleep Shortcuts contains a collection of shortcuts to help you calm down before bed and get a good night's sleep
Dictaphone
- You can organize your voice recordings into folders
- You can mark the best recordings as favorites and quickly return to them at any time
- Dynamic folders automatically group Apple Watch recordings, recently deleted recordings, and recordings marked as favorites
- Enhancing recordings reduces background noise and room echoes
Some features may only be available in select regions or only on certain Apple devices. For detailed information about the security features included in Apple software updates, visit the following website:
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201222
What devices will you install iOS 14 on?
In addition to the changes, you are probably interested in what devices the new iOS 14 operating system is available for - just take a look at the list we have attached below:
- iPhone SE 2nd generation
- 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
- iPod touch (7th generation)
How to update to iOS 14?
If your device is on the list above, you can update to iOS 14 simply by going to Settings -> General -> Software Update. Here, then you just have to wait until the update to iOS 14 appears, then download and install it. If you have automatic updates enabled, iOS 14 will be downloaded and installed automatically overnight when you connect your device to power. Be aware that the download speed of a new iOS can be really miserable for the first few minutes to hours. At the same time, the update is gradually reaching all users - so some may get it earlier, others later - so be patient.
That's probably hard!!! ipad pro 12.9 and iphone se and nothing.
Did you read the last sentence?
I read the file and expressed my opinion in the wrong way, and it was not meant in any bad way, it's just that once upon a time everyone had it and at a certain time - now it reminds me of Android - alas (as for the update)
Yes, back in the day…when there weren't that many active iOS devices on the planet. Logically, it is quite understandable.
Yes, that is also possible, but I think there is a problem, but these are minor things - let's enjoy - it's just a consumer product.
XS AND NO UPDATE?
JJ, not even here... iPad and not a single iPhone (6s and 8)...
I wonder if anyone has already installed it, in my opinion it is not yet available for the Czech Republic! So the article sucks
tvOS 14 installed. iOS & watchOS still nothing.
Article written in suplik and automatically published to be the first and ios 14 nowhere (see twitter)
Before you say anything again, take a look at the comments on our Facebook page. Several users have already installed the new iOS 14. Unfortunately, I will not affect the fact that the update is not available for you.
Just a small question. If I use beta 8 (not the new GM), does the update window also appear?
iOS 14 installed…iP11 Pro, thanks for the heads up! :)
It's okay now
It shows me a download time of 1 hour. That's OK for me.
Otherwise Xs Zlínsko
Thanks for a great summary of the news, good job. I'm in Azerbaijan and here the update has already arrived :) Xs Max updated to iOS14.
Hello Mr. Jelič, the list of news is great, thanks for that? and don't pay attention to those factually dissatisfied Czech blafals, it's a poor Czech sport, people who haven't achieved anything and I'm constantly annoying. Thanks for your work
Where do I change the default mail in ios14? Thanks
I use Spark:
Settings/Spark/Default Mail App…
Where can I find the convenience store after the update please?
Do we still not get siri in the road? Will it ever happen? Thanks for the info and otherwise great article and information (then SE 1 gen. Casem upgrade to SE 2 gen.)
Never
The alarm clock is no longer displayed in the upcoming events. Shame
May I ask if you can use carplay in ios 14?? It disappeared for me after the update.. even on the apple site the support for CZ and Sk disappeared.. am I making a mistake somewhere, or did they withdraw it??
Well, my mistake.. turned off siri.. carplay doesn't work with that pad..
Car play just stopped working for me too. What specifically did you have turned off in siri that he was carrying?
Thanks
Hm…
Hello, can someone please help? after updating my iPhone SE the volume keeps going to maximum, what can I do to keep it muted at the desired volume level? thank you very much for the advice!