

Cycling will give you ideas of elevation and suggested routes, while a new dedicated EV mode will track routes from EV recharging station to recharging station.Ĭarplay has some upgrades too, including new backgrounds and, in select vehicles, allowing users to use their phones in place of car key fobs.

Maps has been upgraded to offer cycling directions, which will be added to a handful of big cities at first. And another inherited-from-Android feature: iOS 14 will get picture-in-picture video viewing.
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Siri will no longer take up the full screen, opting instead for a small popup at the bottom of the display, and can now send audio messages. iMessages has improved, too, adding some work chat-inspired features like inline replies and pinned conversations. You can also insert mini-apps called Widgets into your Home Screen pages – think of them as the abbreviated apps you’d see on your Apple Watches, which you can customize in the Widget Gallery. Yes, it feels a little Android-ish to us, too. Most importantly, Apple has generously noticed how terrible we all are at organizing our pages and pages of apps – now, your final page on the Home Screen will be auto-generated app collections, and if you want, you can hide pages of apps you don’t really use. IOS 14 has gotten the lion’s share of improvements at WWDC 2020. (Image credit: Apple) iOS 14: quality of life, media watching, and getting around Like its other system-on-chips, Apple is focusing on performance and power management with a neural engine for machine learning and scalable architecture. The new Mac chipsets will be a family of SoCs for the entire Mac line. Why change silicon? Apple credited its own chipsets as crucial to the success of its device line, starting with the A4 Bionic chipset in the iPhone 4 and onward with the Apple Watches and iPads released over the years.
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The company is still pledging to support Intel-powered machines with new software upgrades for years.Īpple didn’t undersell the importance of the moment, and compared this transition to three prior Mac turning points in the device’s history: when it shifted to PowerPC chipsets, then when it introduced MacOS X, and finally when it adopted Intel chipsets. The first Mac to use an Apple chipset will be released before the end of 2020, while the transition for the full device lineup will take two years, Apple CEO Tim Cook said. The big announcement of the day was saved for the Mac family, which is officially shifting away from Intel chips to use Apple-designed silicon in future Apple desktop machines. (Image credit: Apple) Mac’s Apple chipset: one for the whole Mac family, eventually
