There was the ability to choose your music service, new voices for Siri, a fresh look for Podcasts and the ability to use PS5 and Xbox Series X controllers for gaming on your iPad and iPhone. There’s a benefit for iPhone 11 series models to recalibrate battery health reporting and dual sim 5G was introduced. These include the capability to unlock iPhone with Apple Watch If you’re wearing a mask, more than 200 new emoji and App Tracking Transparency This means that when you launch an app that collects your activity data or tracks you, you can turn off that option. IOS 14.5 was released on Monday, April 26 with a slew of new features. Oh, and a bunch of what Apple describes as important security updates. That, according to Apple is what’s been addressed in this update. Some users who had disabled the setting Allow Apps to Request to Track and then re-enabled it found that they weren’t getting the prompts they were expecting, where each app would individually ask permission to track. That fix was for App Tracking Transparency. This was a small, bug-fix update, which was released on Monday, May 3. MORE FROM FORBES Apple iOS 14.6 Is Almost Here: 5 Of The Coolest New Features By David Phelan Read on for details of what was released in earlier updates. Security fixes Vulnerabilities in iOS which have been the focus of iOS 14.6 include malicious audio files, problems in WebKit, and a bug that affected Apple’s recent, and brilliant Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch feature.

Voice Control If this is something you use, you can unlock your iPhone after a restart with just your voice.

Though neither is front-and-center today, this update lays the foundations and an update on Apple’s servers will make it so.Īpple Podcasts Subscription Support With subscriptions, more content can be unlocked and you’re now able to subscribe to channels as well as individual shows.Īpple AirTag and Find My You can now add an email to your Find My account so that if someone finds your AirTag in Lost Mode, they can contact you by email-previously it was phone number only. Apple Card family With this, you can share an Apple card between family members, with up to five people sharing an Apple Card.Īpple Music Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio.

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