iOS 14 best features | You might know now.

iOS 14 best features | You might know now. 

About the iOS 14

Some great new features in it and in fact there's hundreds of new features. But i want to share with you iOS 14 that you may not know that are sort-of hidden and. So the first ones have to do with safari and mail or rather not using safari and mail so. If you've ever wanted to maybe email someone on a web page.

So you tap on that link and you want it to open up in say gmail you can. Now do that you can now. Set default browsers and mail clients as long as the app has been updated to support that. So gmail and chrome have been updated as well as some others. But let's take a look at how to do that and. If you want to change. The default you go to settings scroll down to the application. You want to make as default so in this case. It would be chrome under chrome you'll.

SO in iOS 14. It says default browser app tap on that and under default browser app you've got chrome or safari. If you have others they'll be listed here tap on the one you want to switch to and. Now it's changed now the same is true for mail clients as well. So if we scroll down to say gmail as long as. It's been updated to adhere to the standards that apple is set. You go to gmail and. You'll see default mail app tap on that and you can change it. Whichever one shows so as they're updated whether. You're using spark or edison or spike or any other new email client that comes out.

It will show up here you'll be able to select the default and it will stay that way. So may be you want to open a link and you want it to open in chrome. It will do that or you want to email someone it will go to your default app finally.

So it's great to see in iOS 14 that now the next one hasto do with phone calls. And apple has finally updated phone calls that they no longer take up the entire screen. They don't occupy it but maybe you're working and. You want to dismiss this and don't want it on your display swipe it off and. It will just go to voicemail the person won't know that they're going into voicemail. It won't disconnect the call it will just ring until they eventually get to voicemail. So it's a nice little feature just swipe it off your screen and. It gets out of your way now the next one has to do with photos.

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So if we go into photos and then tap one albums scroll. All the way to the bottom at the very bottom. You have hidden and hidden albums or hidden photos. You could put there for quite some time. But now you can actually hide the hidden folders well. So maybe you don't want prying eyes to see what's in there so in order to do that. We'll go back to settings and under settings scroll up or down depending. Where you're at and go to photos go into photos once you're in photos roll down and. You'll see it says hidden album we can turn that off and. If we go back to our photo app it's own gone. It disappears if we turn it back on it will come back.

So you'll see in iOS 14. We can see it we'll know to turn it on and off. But you would have to know to do that now. It's not password protected but. You can hide that folder now now speaking of photos. You can now limit what apps have access to your photo library. So for example maybe you want to post on instagram but. You don't want Instagram having access to thousands and thousands thousands of photos. And only want a set amount of photos available to instagram well. And you can do that now again go into settings and under settings. You want to find privacy under privacy go into privacy and then.

And You want to go to photos under photos find what app. And want to change for example Instagram tap on the app and. You can see it says selected photos all photos or none. So if we change it to selected photos. We can now pick the photos that we want it to have access to. So we can change it to photos or albums maybe just these three hit done and now. It only has access to those photos so for example.

If i go into instagram in iOS 14 and. I tap on the plus button at the bottom and go to library. You'll see it says there's only three photos. There it did give me the option to select more. But there's only those three available that. I chose so it's a way to secure your photoset. You are it to a specific album or a set number of photos. That you allow some you can change that however. You'd like and it keeps things a little bit more secure based on app

So it's app to app and you can select any app that you'd like to only. Allow some or none or a few of them now the last thing to do with photos is. If we go into our camera and maybe we want to take a burst photo normally what. We would do is press and hold the shutter button and continuously hold. It well this has been changed to now record video. So if we press and hold it's recording video.

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We can slide up and you'll see. It's locked but if you had that unlocked it would record burst photos now. We can change the burst photo mode to use the volume button. So again if we go into settings and then. We're going to scroll down to camera under camera. You'll see that we have the option for a few different things. But we can use volume for burst and as long as we have that on now. We can just use the volume for burst mode. You'll see it's taking a bunch of photos now. i hold the volume button or. We can press and hold for video. So maybe we were taking a photo but we wanted to record that video. We press and hold and it records a video it's a couple new features that. I think are really nice and quick ways to access.

Those settings now within iOS 14. You're probably already aware of widgets and you either love them or maybe you don't like them at all. But there's one thing that a lot of people aren't aware of that. You can do with them and that's that you can stack them. So i actually have two widgets here that. I can scroll between my notes and the current weather now. If i want to add a third one. I can do that now apple already makes what's called a smart stack.

Where it can rotate throughout the day based on what. You want to . See but. If you want to create your own slide over to your widgets press and. Hold and of course you could add a new one. But maybe we want to take this existing battery widget. We'll bring it over and. Let's drag it on top of the other one. Let go slide up and now we can rotate between three things. We can stack up to five different things here and. Just rotate through whatever. We want so now.

I can see my battery status of myphone and my apple watch and. Then if you have air pods. They'll show up here if. I don't want to see that. I justs witch it over to weather. So a nice little update that . You can do with widgets that a lot of people didn't know. Now for years and years we've had pages and pages of applications. But you're probably already familiar with the new app library and.

This is designed to actually sort everything group and organize it by itself. So maybe you want to clean. Up your pages. But you don't want to deal with deleting them or moving them around well. You can now hide your pages now press on an empty space or go into jiggle mode. That's what apple officially calls it tap the dots at the bottom. You may have more or less depending on how many pages. You have tap on that and now you can select pages you want to either show or hide.

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So let's go ahead and hide every page in iOS 14. Our main page you can even have a blank home page. If you have just one with no app widgets on. It so let's go ahead and hit done and now you'll see if we slide up we'll lock. Everything I we've only got the home screen and the app library. Now there is no way to hide the la the app library but. You can make apps gonot onto a different home page. But you can have it go directly into the applibrary or have it go on to a new page. When you download and install apps so not only can we hide the pages. We can hide the apps we install so they're easily accessible either via the app library or via search.

So if we want to hide those specific apps we go into settings in der settings go to home screen. Under home screen you can see. It says newly downloaded apps add to home screen or add to app library only. You can change this based on your preference and. Again you can show notifications in the app library as well. If you don't want to you don't have to so you can have all your newly downloaded apps. Go directly into the app library or to the home screen. So they will auto hide themselves keeping everything nice and clean. How you' already organized or maybe customized the home screen now there's an new feature in music that.

I really like and i've wanted for years and now we've got it. So if we go into the music app and maybe we're playing a song. But we want this to continue after the album is over maybe we're working hard. And we just want similar songs to continue. Well if you hit this down this little menu down in the bottom right in the upper right. You now have a little infinity symbol and if. We scroll down you'll see that it's auto played selections that are similar to what we're already listening to.

So you can see in iOS 14 that they're already there. If i turn off the little infinity. It will stop at the end of the album turn it back on and. Will picked similar songs and continue to play.AndIt won't stop until you stop playing . So it's a nice little option maybe. You're just listening to some soothing music some music to do work byor maybe. You're working out and listening to some other music. You can continue to play things that are similar. So it's really nice that they've added it and it's simple to use now.

If you're done one that uses voice memos maybe in a classroom or during an interview and. You're recording a conversation. So you can listen back to it later on. But it's a noisy environment apple has updated voice memos with a really interesting new feature. So for example we're in voice memos. I'll hit record and now we're talking about voice memos and the application. Itself now if we were in a noisy environmental can actually clean this audio up. So if we stop the voice recording and.

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You'll see the voice recording here If we tap on the three buttons to the left. We have a couple different options one is edit. The recording tap on edit the recording and. Edit the recording has a little magic wand in the upper left now. If we tap on that magic and. It will clean up the audio recording and remove background noise. So maybe we're in a very loud or noisy environment whether. That be a city or maybe in a large cafeteria something like that and. You really want to be able to hear that conversation instead of hearing. All that noise too this will actually fix that. So you can see you can replace it hit done you can listen back to. It will fix the audio and it's a great option especially. If you're having a hard time hearing what they're saying now another.

New great feature that you may not know about iOS 14. Has to do with passwords. So if you store a lot of passwords on your phone using apple's keychain. You can now get notifications when that password may be compromised and to. See that you can go to settings now it may just tell you about it. If you're on safari and you're putting in a password. But go to settings scroll down to passwords once you get into passwords. You now have security recommendations and security's commendations. You'll see a little exclamation point with a red circle around it and. If you have that it means one or more of your passwords.

Has been compromised on a database or a data reach and. You probably should change it. So you can go into that and. Then change your password it will even help you do it so it's a great new security feature that. I think more people should implement across everything. So if you're using an i pad. You'll see this as well as an iPhone and upcoming with mac os big sur. You'll see it there as well now again going along with security and privacy. There's a new feature that really limits location tracking within iOS 14.

So for example maybe. You have an application in iOS 14. That wants your location. But you don't want to give it your precise location. You can now do. That and you do that by going to settings then you scroll down to privacy the location services and. Let's just pick an app. Maybe let's go to google maps. For example google maps has precise location turned on now. If i turn this off iphone. Will give it a general location it will not give me an exact location again.

You can also select. Whether you want it to ask you to use your location every single time with ask next time. While using an app always or nevermore that. It's only got a little bit of the location let's go ahead and take a look at it. So we'll go into google maps so within maps. It's saying it's giving me a general location.

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It is not giving a precise location and. As you can see here with the little arrow. It's got a little question mark on it saying. I don't have your precise location but. It has a general idea. And so this can be modified on a per app basis so maybe. You don't want every single app knowing where. You're at at all times you can give it a general location. I think that's a great feature ascertain applications don't need to know exactly where IAM. All the time now another feature that's really great is. When you're deep in menus and you want to see exactly. Where you are in those menus in the top left. You can tap and hold where it says back and. It will actually give you in the actual location area you're at.

So you can see we're in settings privacy location services and. You can go back to either one of those. So it shows us exactly where we're stand that works anywhere within ios14. So for example maybe. We'll go back from privacy and instead. And We'll go to let's real then maybe. We'll go to i phone storage tap and hold and. You'll see it says we're in general and settings. And it works all throughout the os so maybe you forgot exactly where you went to get an application setting. You can now figure that out just by pressing and. Holding it's a nice little update that they've done.

Now finally the last feature in iOS 14. Which i think is really helpful has todo with sound recognition. So if you're someone that's a little hard of hearing of maybe. You're just waiting for the doorbell to ring and. You don't want to miss. It but you want to get a notification. If you can now have your phone listen for that and. To do that you want to go to settings go down to accessibility. Then you want to scroll down to where. It says sound recognition and under sound recognition tap on it. We'll turn it on turn on sound recognition and.

Now we have a bunch of different options. If we tap on sounds. So if we tap on sounds. We can have our phone listen for different alarms animals cats and dogs household. Appliances car horns doorbell door knock watering or a baby crying and. If any of those things happen. It will notify you on your device. So let me show you what that looks like so using my mac. I'll just play the sound of a doorbell. So let's go ahead and play the doorbell sound and. You'll see immediately it comes in on my phone and.

Says a sound has been recognised that may be a doorbell and. So it will let you know on your device on your phone that. It's heard a doorbell. So it works for any one of those sounds that. I showed you cats dogs fire alarms sirens smoke alarms and. I think it's really helpful and it only takes up a little bit of space 5.1 megabytes. In my case so you can have that turned on and. I think it's a great help especially. If you can't hear very well. That will let you know when a very critical thing happens as a final tip or bit of information. I want to share with you one thing because. I've been getting a lot of questions about this.

If you've ever noticed with iOS 14 a little dot appearing in the upper right. Whether that be green or orange that is a security feature to let you know. That an application using either your video cameras your rear-facing camera forward camera or the microphone of the phone. Itself and so it will change colors depending on what it's doing so for example. If i go into the camera app you'll see that it turns green and. If i swipe homemade bring down the control centers you'll see it says camera comma recently and. It's green it's showing you that it's using the camerates same is true if maybe. We're in a voice memo recording our voice you'll see that the dot is now orange. So if i stop that swipe up to go home and then pull down the control centers. It says voice memos comma recently and.

So those are just security features now that are built into iOS 14 to. Let you know that an application is using either your microphone or your cameras and. You are now in control of that you can change that in the settings of course. What uses your cameras like you always could and so that's there just to let you know. If an application is doing the right thing where he or not you allowed it to record. Your voice or video and then. It just gives you a heads up there's. No way to disable .It it's just there for your safety to kind of. Let you know what's going on with the operating system and. If an app is using something it shouldn't be and so those are 14 different iOS 14 tips.