Aside from supporting Tai Chi and Pilates in your workouts, there’s a new Mindfulness app that merges the Breathe and Reflect (phrases that will boost your mental well-being) functionalities, plus the ability to track your respiratory rate when you sleep or the ability to view portrait-mode faces on your wrist. Slimmer pickings on your wrist, with a small set of improvements reserved for the Apple Watch’s platform. The feature supports using the trackpad and keyboard across all three devices, and even allows users to drag-and-drop files right over to their iPad or the other Mac. In a demo that was packed with classic Apple magic, we saw two Macs (one iMac, one MacBook Pro) placed side by side with an iPad, and the mouse on the MacBook Pro moved freely between the Macs and the iPad, without the need for any additional software. It will let you use one keyboard/mouse to control multiple iPads and Macs, automatically detecting when a new compatible device is placed nearby. Speaking of, if you own an iPad and a Mac (or multiple combinations thereof), Apple showed off a new Universal Control feature which really drives home the ecosystem benefits of buying Apple products. Macs are even getting AirPlay support, which lets you play content from an iPad or iPhone directly on the Mac’s screen or through the built-in speakers. In a long overdue move, Safari is finally getting support for Extensions across devise, so users can access the Extensions that you love on the Mac on your iPhone/iPad too. Safari got a big update as well, bringing in tab groups which synchronize across Safari on the iPad and iPhone. Finally, while it isn’t the Xcode code development environment that some of us would have hoped, you can finally use Swift Playgrounds 4 to build an app right on your iPad.Īside from sharing all the Focus, SharePlay and Quick Notes features, macOS Monterey brings in iOS’ Shortcuts capabilities, allowing you to automate tasks on your Mac. If you’re a Pencil-toting iPad user on iPadOS 15, you can create “ Quick Notes”, quickly from any app or window, and Notes add tagging other collaborators and smart folders. Starting with iPadOS 15, iPads will gain a new multitasking menu that will simplify the way you handle multiple windows, moving away the gesture based system currently in place – with iPadOS 15, you can easily switch to Split View or Slideover mode with a new three-dot menu at the top of any app window.Įlsewhere, a bunch of features bring iPadOS in line with iOS, such as the ability to add larger widgets anywhere on the iPad home screen and the App Library available on tap from the dock. ![]() And for whenever we venture out again, Maps has a bunch of new interactive and augmented reality features (albeit limited in use in Indian cities), the Weather app is all manners of gorgeous and information rich, and the Translate app now comes with auto translate capabilities to auto detect the spoken language.Ĭlose on the heels of the announcements of the M1-powered iPad Pros, Apple announced a slew of new features that make the iPad more productive and adept at everyday tasks. The notifications themselves are fresher looking, and they all fit into the Notification Summary which gives you an overview of what your notifications for the day have been (handily clubbed into batches for easier consumption).Įlsewhere, revamps abound, whether it’s better sharing features for shared photos over Messages, optical character recognition in photos for better searching and selection directly from your photos, or intelligently surface shared content from Messages for you to peruse when time permits. Notifications have gotten a bit more ‘focused’ with a new Focus mode, that lets you set profiles based on which you’ll see certain notifications (and drown out the non-essential ones), such as when you’re at the gym or at work. And one feature we didn’t see coming – you can now schedule FaceTime calls and generate shareable FaceTime links that.get this, let desktop and Android users join your FaceTime calls directly from their browser! ![]() There’s portrait mode for that pleasing background blurring, a new Grid view and support for the new SharePlay API, which allows you to share video, audio and even your screen over a FaceTime call. FaceTime got the maximum…facetime, with a bunch of new features, such as support for spatial audio that makes it seem your friends’ voices are coming from their on-screen position, or the voice isolation feature to focus on your voice when you’re speaking in a noisy environment. With iOS 14 serving up a visual overhaul for Apple’s iPhones, it was the turn of the core apps that really bring home the ecosystem advantage.
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