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Unless you’ve been by force avoiding the news, you know iOS 14 is now a thing Apple apparently felt extremely influenced by Android in the last year, and iOS 14 has an entire bunch of “world-first” innovations to show you that– very coincidentally!
Replace e-mail and browser default apps
This is one of the biggest modifications to arrive at iOS in years, and it’s extraordinary that Apple didn’t even talk about at the occasion– most likely because it could not find a method to mention it as a benefit without facing the obvious “what took you so long?” criticism. You can finally, lastly replace the email and internet browser apps with your own third-party choices for actions like opening a link or composing a message directly from another app. (Do note that all iOS web browsers are still just Safari with a skin, like they’ve always been, though.)
The days of passing off Safari and Mail on Google service-using consumers will be over on iOS14 It’s the end of an overly-restrictive, borderline anti-competitive era.
Widgets on the house screen
iOS joins the ranks of almost every Android launcher released because 2008 by lastly supporting widgets on the home screen. That’s right, the boxed-up interactive components from various apps and services that Android users have actually been utilizing for almost twelve years are finally coming to the iPhone’s house screen.
iOS users can likewise now take pleasure in forgetting Widgets are a thing.
Apple has actually made widgets for most of its own apps, and it has actually even revamped many of them for this release. (Note that you could formerly have widgets on a odd Today View shelf to the left of your home screen, accessible by swiping over to it.) As on Android, widgets come in various sizes (simply 3 for iOS: little, medium, and large), and you can stack them together to swipe between them. There’s likewise a “Smart Stack” widget that declares to instantly offer the widgets you need at the right times and areas that you ‘d require them.
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