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Apple didn't tell us about everything that's coming to iOS 14 later this year. From a secret gesture to new app features, there's plenty to look forward to this fall.
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makers of CleanMyMac X. What's going on everybody? Ian here for Cult of Mac
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And now that WWDC is coming to a close and we've had a chance to get our hands on iOS 14
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and iPadOS 14, I thought I'd share with you guys some of the things that Apple added to the OSs
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at least in these early beta stages, that they didn't tell us about on stage
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Now, first up on the list is one that I've seen a lot of people really excited about on Twitter
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And it's the back tap feature. This is an accessibility setting under accessibility
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and then touch, and then all the way down at the bottom, you have this back tap option. And basically what it does is allows you to tap
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on the back of your device two times or three times to enable different features
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You can do things like make it quicker to get to notification center or control center
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activate reachability, or even execute a shortcut, which means you could actually run different types
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of automation or different types of processes by simply tapping on the back of your device
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And the way it works is absolutely fascinating. Basically, it's using the accelerometers
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in your device to sense when you've tapped on the back of your device two times or three times
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to then activate whatever feature you've selected. It's super cool and definitely adds a layer
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of convenience for things like getting to notification center or control center
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or even activating reachability to bring the top edge of the screen down without having to try to fiddle with swiping right
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on the edge or stretching your thumb all the way to the top corner. Another thing I found absolutely fascinating
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in iOS 14 is the ability to use the hearing control center widget
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to actually see the level of the audio playing in your AirPods or Beats headphones
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Now, this is something that kind of plays into Apple's whole hearing protection, hearing health, much like the noise app
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on the Apple Watch. Now you can actually have it tell you how loud the music is playing in your headphones
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to help keep your ears safe. Now, next up is a feature
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that we actually saw previewed last year in iOS 13's betas, and it disappeared before the final release
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but it's now back again in iOS 14's betas. So who knows if it'll make it to the final release
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but it's the FaceTime eye contact feature. Now, unfortunately, this feature is only
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on the iPhones, not on the iPads, and not on iPadOS, which means if you're using your iPad
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for FaceTime calls, you're definitely still gonna be looking at the center of the screen with the camera way off to the side
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which makes it look like you're completely ignoring the conversation that's happening. Whereas on the phone, it will work
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because it'd be right at the top, and it's just adjusting your eyes a slight bit
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The next feature of iOS that Apple didn't really make clear, I guess, in the keynote
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but it's something that I found absolutely fascinating, is the ability to create stacked widgets
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other than their SmartStack, which basically means if you have widgets either in the widget screen or on your home screen
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you can pile a bunch of different widgets up together so they're all in one space
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but you can quickly cycle through them just with a quick flick of your thumb, allowing you to have several different
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quick action things in one spot. Then you can turn on whether or not you want it to be a SmartStack
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or just a standard stack that allows you to scroll through it manually. With the SmartStack, it'll automatically try
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to surface the relevant thing for the time of day, but a lot of times for something like
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a stack of shortcuts or a stack of notes, what you really just want is a bunch of shortcut buttons
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to the things you might need depending on the situation. Another feature of iOS 14
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that'll be really great for the photography nerds is the ability to set a manual exposure override
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which basically means that if you want a picture to always be a little bit underexposed or a little bit overexposed
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you can actually set that in the camera app on your device, meaning that you don't have to manually readjust the exposure
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after you take each picture. Instead, if you want every picture you take to be a little bit underexposed
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you set that overall exposure override down, you know, one or two stops
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And then when you take your picture, they'll all be a little underexposed. So it'll actually adjust the auto exposure
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so it'll still set its level correctly, but then compensate with the negative number of stops
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or positive number of stops you need in your photo to make it easier to get slightly darker
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or slightly brighter photos. Another feature I'm absolutely excited about in iOS 14 is music autoplay
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And the idea here is pretty simple, pretty straightforward. If you've used Spotify before, it's had autoplay for a long time
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And the idea is that when you finish listening to the album, the playlist, the song, whatever it is
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that you've chosen to listen to, it will automatically play things similar to that
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so that you never end up in a situation where you were listening to something and then find yourself listening to nothing
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With autoplay in iOS 14 and the music app, you get a little infinite sign
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which basically you tap that and whatever you're listening to, once that music is done
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it will play things like the music you were just listening to so you can continue to enjoy music all day long
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But the final feature that I want to touch on in this is the changes to the weather app in iOS 14
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Terms and conditions apply. My thanks to MacPaw for sponsoring this video
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and Cult of Mac's WWDC coverage. And the final feature that I want to touch on
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and this is by no means the only other feature Apple did announce, but the final one that I thought was worth highlighting
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is the new weather app and weather widgets. Apple didn't spend a lot of time talking about the weather app
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but it's seen a lot of changes with iOS 14. With Apple purchasing dark sky earlier this year
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weather app is getting a huge revamp in iOS 14 with a bunch of more useful information
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Now, on top of having, you know, your daily forecast, your UV levels, your air quality
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you'll also get minute-by-minute hyper-localized precipitation information, meaning that if it's starting to rain
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you'll know when it's going to be raining lightly versus raining really hard. This is the kind of stuff that's really useful
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if you're out traveling or going out to exercise, knowing when it's going to be super heavy rain
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versus lighter rain or no rain at all, or maybe that there's rain coming in a little bit
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is really handy so you don't get stuck out in a rainstorm. So seeing Apple take the dark sky acquisition
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and roll those features directly into the OS has me really excited about the future of the weather app
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because I would hate to lose that functionality when dark sky inevitably goes away
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So that pretty much wraps it up. A couple of the really big things that I'm excited about in iOS 14
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that Apple didn't tell us about on stage, things that I'm really looking forward to
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coming later this year. Let me know if you guys have other things you want me to check out down in the comments
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And until next time, I'm Ian for Cult of Mac. See you in the next one
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