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Apple today previewed iOS 14, which features an all-new home screen design with widgets and a new App Library view, plus much more.

Widgets

Widgets can be pinned in different sizes on any home screen page, providing useful information at a glance. Users can also create a Smart Stack of widgets, which uses machine learning to surface the right widget based on time, location, and activity. Widgets can be customized for work, travel, sports, entertainment, and other areas of interest.

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App Library

After the final home page screen is the App Library, an all-new section that automatically organizes all of a user's apps into one, easy-to-navigate view, and intelligently surfaces apps that may be helpful at a given time. Users can choose to limit how many home screen pages are displayed in order to gain quicker access to the App Library.

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Incoming Calls Are Less Obtrusive

When you receive an incoming phone or which is a far less disruptive experience.

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Apple outlines additional iOS 14 features:
  • Translate is designed to be the best and easiest app for translating conversations, offering quick and natural translation of voice and text among 11 different languages. On-device mode allows users to experience the features of the app offline for private voice and text translation.
    Siri expands its knowledge, helps find answers from across the internet, and can now send audio messages. Keyboard dictation runs on device when dictating messages, notes, email, and more.
  • The Home app makes smart home control even easier with new automation suggestions and expanded controls in Control Center for quicker access to accessories and scenes. Adaptive Lighting for compatible HomeKit-enabled lights automatically adjusts the color temperature throughout the day, and with on-device Face Recognition, compatible video doorbells and cameras can identify friends and family. The Home app and HomeKit are built to be private and secure, so all information about a user’s home accessories is end-to-end encrypted.
  • AirPods gain the ability to seamlessly switch between Apple devices with automatic device switching. Spatial audio with dynamic head tracking brings a theater-like experience to AirPods Pro. By applying directional audio filters, and subtly adjusting the frequencies each ear receives, sounds can be placed virtually anywhere in a space to provide an immersive listening experience.
  • Digital car keys give users a secure way to use iPhone or Apple Watch to unlock and start their car. Digital car keys can be easily shared using Messages, or disabled through iCloud if a device is lost, and are available starting this year through NFC. Apple also unveiled the next generation of digital car keys based on Ultra Wideband technology for spatial awareness delivered through the U1 chip, which will allow users to unlock future car models without removing their iPhone from their pocket or bag, and will become available next year.
  • Find My will add support for finding third-party products and accessories with the new Find My network accessory program. This will allow customers to use the Find My app to locate other important items in their lives, in addition to their Apple devices. User privacy remains central to the Find My network with end-to-end encryption built in. A draft specification is available for accessory makers and product manufacturers starting today.
    Safari offers a Privacy Report so users can easily see which cross-site trackers have been blocked, secure password monitoring to help users detect saved passwords that may have been involved in a data breach, and built-in translation for entire webpages.
  • Health has all-new experiences to manage sleep, better understand audio levels that may affect hearing health, and a new Health Checklist — a centralized place to manage health and safety features — includes Emergency SOS, Medical ID, ECG, Fall Detection, and more. Health also adds support for new data types for mobility, Health Records, symptoms, and ECG.
  • The Weather app and widget keep users up to date on severe weather events and a new next-hour precipitation chart shows minute-by-minute precipitation when rain is in the forecast.
  • Accessibility features include Headphone Accommodations, which amplifies soft sounds and tunes audio to help music, movies, phone calls, and podcasts sound crisper and clearer, and sign language detection in Group FaceTime, which makes the person signing more prominent in a video call. VoiceOver, the industry’s leading screen reader for the blind community, now automatically recognizes what is displayed visually onscreen so more apps and web experiences are accessible to more people.
iOS 14 is available in beta for registered Apple developers today, with a public beta to follow next month. The free software update will be released in the fall for the iPhone 6s and newer.

Article Link: iOS 14 Announced With All-New Home Screen Design Featuring Widgets, App Library, and More
App Library = Nope. I already have my apps organized in folders the way I want. I don’t need Apple’s curated mess thanks.

This is a huge disappointment. Copy and pasting androids app drawer would be more useful.
Would have liked an app drawer. Ios cant get app organization right. It already suggests folder names when you make a manual folder and half the suggestions are terrible.
But I am really excited about the 20 other features we’ve been waiting since the beginning of time for so there’s at least that
 
I've heard, read "Oh...it's Android, Windows tiles, it's 'Jailbreak' from years ago, etc."
Ok..I get it. I would jailbreak my XS Max, but I did that to my old iPhone 4 and it became a sluggish unstable mess. Don't feel like messing with that again.

So I'm excited, personally welcome this new look & feel of the new OS!
 
I'll probably use the home screen widgets for weather but IDK. I'm kinda used to how everything is on my first screen. Nice to have, though. May find more use for it over time. The Apple Watch makes widgets a lot less necessary.

Two of my favorite features are the automatic switching for AirPods and the automatic garage door opening when I arrive for HomeKit. I had hacked together something to do this with some WeMo outlets but one day it didn't work right and I could see my garage door open from down the street way outside the geofence so I turned it off after that. Hopefully this thing is good because that's kind of a big problem if not.
 
I wish you could have some apps right on the home screen, like weather... I can't believe this still isn't an option...

Not sure what you mean, unless you are saying you want them to accept inputs and be interactive? They can update their own display and can take SOME input, but, yeah, you can;’t just embed a full app on the home screen - the battery implications of that would be horrible.
 
From a GUI point of view IOS6 remains Apple's finest hour and they've been on a declining slope ever since.
Apple just seem to exaggerate the parts I dislike in their OS and drop the things I do! :(
Hopefully when I use it my opinion will be changed, but from the screen shots posted so far it looks like it was designed by and aimed at children. :(
I don’t know. The swipe to go back, control center, and multitasking gestures are way better that iOS6 era. They are the fundamental features that people step over and haven’t given them enough credit.
 
This update looks so awesome. And timely as I was just thinking the other day what a mess my phone was and trying to figure out how to sort it better. This will help immensely!

Being able to put widgets on other screens and have them be different sizes is something I have wanted for many years. So happy to finally have this coming.

And PiP is nice too. Never understood why it was only on the ipad.

And finally better UI for Siri and incoming phone calls that don’t interrupt the screen. 😍 this.
 
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uhm...there's a one handed keyboard.
also iOS has been supporting 3rd party and custom keyboards for a while.

Yep and I have to reach all the way to the left with my thumb while holding on with only my right hand, it's actually a farther reach than the number key! I don't use custom keyboards, too many privacy issues. There were some severe privacy issues when iOS13 came out, although they have been patched I'm still weary of giving a 3rd market company access to all my keystrokes.
 
A friend caught some of today’s headlines and asked “Will all these widgets and home screen changes mean it will use more data and/or drain the battery?”

He’s got an iPhone 8 - I said I’d toss his inquiry out to you folks and see if anyone can shed some light.
 
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A friend caught some of today’s headlines and asked “Will all these widegets and home screen changes mean it will use more data and/or drain the battery?”

He’s got an iPhone 8 - I said I’d toss his inquiry out to you folks and see if anyone can shed some light.
Nope. The widgets use a “timeline” component that controls how often they update. Shouldn’t be any more of a power draw than before.
 
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It is surprising they don’t have a Clock widget to try out right now.
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Not a bad thing at all. WP‘s UI and design language is still superior to iOS and Android.

Windows Phone UI was a step forward for the time. It truly was an interactive, dynamic (live) experience. Personally, I didn’t appreciate the obscenely large font sizes.
 
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Wonder if widgets that’s available now will work on home screen like sports alerts or will developers need to create it to work
 
Wonder if widgets that’s available now will work on home screen like sports alerts or will developers need to create it to work
It’s a completely different sdk. Old widgets are relegated to the widget screen, and look different. Can’t be put on the desktop.

That means interactive widgets are no longer going to be a thing. (No calculators on the home screen)
 
Oh sweet lord THANK YOU, this is what Android used to be like, how ironic. Now widgets on Android suck and Apple gets real widgets. Along with last year's dark mode support I'm in heaven.

My only other wishlist item would be to be able to have blank spaces between icons. I currently use the shortcut trick to get blank icons, but they still trigger a shortcut if accidentally pressed.

Now widgets on Android suck? So they didn't suck before? because they aren't any different now than how they were before.
Also I don't see anything special about the way apple designed widgets on ios. Widgets on android are still more flexible in therms of functionality(you can interact with them) and design(a multitude of sizes, shapes, some are even transparent all for the same app).
 
My favorite parts of this thread are, "But for the love of God, Apple...you suck...when will you let me do 'this'?"

Response: "They've had that since iOS12...just do 'this'."
 
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Apple today previewed iOS 14, which features an all-new home screen design with widgets and a new App Library view, plus much more.

Widgets

Widgets can be pinned in different sizes on any home screen page, providing useful information at a glance. Users can also create a Smart Stack of widgets, which uses machine learning to surface the right widget based on time, location, and activity. Widgets can be customized for work, travel, sports, entertainment, and other areas of interest.

Apple_ios14-widgets-redesigned_06222020_inline.jpg.large_2x.jpg

App Library

After the final home page screen is the App Library, an all-new section that automatically organizes all of a user's apps into one, easy-to-navigate view, and intelligently surfaces apps that may be helpful at a given time. Users can choose to limit how many home screen pages are displayed in order to gain quicker access to the App Library.

ios-14-app-library-view.jpg

Incoming Calls Are Less Obtrusive

When you receive an incoming phone or FaceTime call on your iPhone or iPad, it is now presented with a compact banner rather than taking up the entire screen, which is a far less disruptive experience.

ios-14-incoming-phone-call.jpg

More Coverage of iOS 14


Apple outlines additional iOS 14 features:
  • Translate is designed to be the best and easiest app for translating conversations, offering quick and natural translation of voice and text among 11 different languages. On-device mode allows users to experience the features of the app offline for private voice and text translation.
    Siri expands its knowledge, helps find answers from across the internet, and can now send audio messages. Keyboard dictation runs on device when dictating messages, notes, email, and more.
  • The Home app makes smart home control even easier with new automation suggestions and expanded controls in Control Center for quicker access to accessories and scenes. Adaptive Lighting for compatible HomeKit-enabled lights automatically adjusts the color temperature throughout the day, and with on-device Face Recognition, compatible video doorbells and cameras can identify friends and family. The Home app and HomeKit are built to be private and secure, so all information about a user’s home accessories is end-to-end encrypted.
  • AirPods gain the ability to seamlessly switch between Apple devices with automatic device switching. Spatial audio with dynamic head tracking brings a theater-like experience to AirPods Pro. By applying directional audio filters, and subtly adjusting the frequencies each ear receives, sounds can be placed virtually anywhere in a space to provide an immersive listening experience.
  • Digital car keys give users a secure way to use iPhone or Apple Watch to unlock and start their car. Digital car keys can be easily shared using Messages, or disabled through iCloud if a device is lost, and are available starting this year through NFC. Apple also unveiled the next generation of digital car keys based on Ultra Wideband technology for spatial awareness delivered through the U1 chip, which will allow users to unlock future car models without removing their iPhone from their pocket or bag, and will become available next year.
  • Find My will add support for finding third-party products and accessories with the new Find My network accessory program. This will allow customers to use the Find My app to locate other important items in their lives, in addition to their Apple devices. User privacy remains central to the Find My network with end-to-end encryption built in. A draft specification is available for accessory makers and product manufacturers starting today.
    Safari offers a Privacy Report so users can easily see which cross-site trackers have been blocked, secure password monitoring to help users detect saved passwords that may have been involved in a data breach, and built-in translation for entire webpages.
  • Health has all-new experiences to manage sleep, better understand audio levels that may affect hearing health, and a new Health Checklist — a centralized place to manage health and safety features — includes Emergency SOS, Medical ID, ECG, Fall Detection, and more. Health also adds support for new data types for mobility, Health Records, symptoms, and ECG.
  • The Weather app and widget keep users up to date on severe weather events and a new next-hour precipitation chart shows minute-by-minute precipitation when rain is in the forecast.
  • Accessibility features include Headphone Accommodations, which amplifies soft sounds and tunes audio to help music, movies, phone calls, and podcasts sound crisper and clearer, and sign language detection in Group FaceTime, which makes the person signing more prominent in a video call. VoiceOver, the industry’s leading screen reader for the blind community, now automatically recognizes what is displayed visually onscreen so more apps and web experiences are accessible to more people.
iOS 14 is available in beta for registered Apple developers today, with a public beta to follow next month. The free software update will be released in the fall for the iPhone 6s and newer.

Article Link: iOS 14 Announced With All-New Home Screen Design Featuring Widgets, App Library, and More
the way Apple make us wait for simple things...
 
Now widgets on Android suck? So they didn't suck before? because they aren't any different now than how they were before.
Also I don't see anything special about the way apple designed widgets on ios. Widgets on android are still more flexible in therms of functionality(you can interact with them) and design(a multitude of sizes, shapes, some are even transparent all for the same app).

Yeah they didn't suck before, they actually used to be quite awesome. I did a brief stint back with a Pixel last year and I could not believe how badly Android widgets went downhill. Most of the old ones I used weren't even available anymore, and the ones that did work were so completely horrible looking in terms of UI and Android doesn't impose any sort of over arching UI or any way to help match them up a bit. I do agree that Android widgets are more functional in terms of interaction, but the widgets I used to use in that fashion aren't around anymore so it's a moot point anyway, at least for myself. I've grown to like the way widgets are organized and presented in iOS, much cleaner looking and in many cases more functional in providing information.
 
Yeah they didn't suck before, they actually used to be quite awesome. I did a brief stint back with a Pixel last year and I could not believe how badly Android widgets went downhill. Most of the old ones I used weren't even available anymore, and the ones that did work were so completely horrible looking in terms of UI and Android doesn't impose any sort of over arching UI or any way to help match them up a bit. I do agree that Android widgets are more functional in terms of interaction, but the widgets I used to use in that fashion aren't around anymore so it's a moot point anyway, at least for myself. I've grown to like the way widgets are organized and presented in iOS, much cleaner looking and in many cases more functional in providing information.
What you say doesn't make sense. Widgets haven't changed on Android.
 
I like the way widgets look on IOS than android. Simply looks more refined while on android look cheap and the quality isn’t quite there for me...
 
It is surprising they don’t have a Clock widget to try out right now.
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Windows Phone UI was a step forward for the time. It truly was an interactive, dynamic (live) experience. Personally, I didn’t appreciate the obscenely large font sizes.

I’m sure a developer will make one
 
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What you say doesn't make sense. Widgets haven't changed on Android.

I think he was referring to the fact that Android does not control the way developers have to make them look/interact as much as Apple does. They are still there and function...just sporadic from one developer to the next.

Apple's iron fist over what developers can do within their ecosystem may limit some stuff, but at the end of the day, provides a much more consistent experience from a UI standpoint.
 
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