We working hard on iOS 14 and all its news in beta so that you can get to know it in depth long before its launch, which is scheduled to take place in just over a month. This time we want to bring you curiosities that perhaps have not been given so much "hype" since the launch and that we find especially interesting to tell about.
Discover with us the nine most interesting hidden tricks of iOS 14 that perhaps you did not know, some features will leave you speechless. As we usually do, we have accompanied this post with an illustrative video in which you will be able to appreciate all the features in motion.
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Share your Memoji with the Apple Store tag
Apple continues to work on the Memoji, its peculiar way of customizing our stickers and which is certainly interesting and popular. With the arrival of the latest beta of iOS 14 some new ones have been added, but today We are going to focus on a trick that is not new to iOS 14 but that you can easily do.
It is very easy to do it:
- Add this shortcut: LINK
- Head to the Messages app and open the Memoji tab
- Long press on the pasted Memoji
- Select Apple Store Memoji Badge from the Share menu
Now it will ask you for the color and customization of the photograph and it will be stored in your Photos reel, easier impossible.
Limit the photos an app can access
Privacy continues to be one of the main strengths of the Cupertino company, and in iOS 14 the reality is that numerous functionalities have been included focused on this aspect. A novelty is the possibility of limiting which photos each application accesses, nothing to grant access to all or none, and this seems to me sincerely spectacular given its complexity.
We can configure it that easy:
- We open the Settings application
- We go to the specific application that we want to limit if it is already installed
- In the «Photos» section, click and access
- We choose «Selected photos» and we choose the photos to which you have access
Selfies with mirror mode
Finally iOS 14 has included "mirror mode" in the selfie camera, something that Android devices bring almost entirely by default. This helps to look more natural in selfies since we see the photographs as if we saw ourselves in a mirror and not the other way around. Like the rest of the configurations we are talking about today, it is sovereignly easy to activate it:
- Go to the Settings section
- Search for «Camera» and enter
- In the «Composition» section, the mirror mode will appear
Just activate it, but I remind you that in some devices with the third beta this functionality may have disappeared.
Emoji Finder on Keyboard
The Emoji They are already a very important part of our communication, in fact there is already so much that it is almost a nuisance to use them, thank goodness we have the recently used tab so as not to make a real mess. Now Apple makes it much easier for you, allows you to search for Emoji like this:
- Open the text box of any application
- Press the Emoji button
- Where it says «search Emoji» click
- Write what you want and it will provide you with results
Sound recognition in the Control Center
The Control Center has also undergone a major redesign with iOS 14, at least in the offer section, not so much in terms of the raw design of the buttons, despite the questionable integration that the HomeKit shortcuts are having . You can take advantage of the sound recognition function also in the Control Center:
- Open Settings
- Select «Control Center»
- Add "Sound Recognition"
- So you can quickly activate and deactivate the functionality
Do not forget that you must go to Accessibility> Sound recognition to adjust the parameters of the alerts.
New alerts in the Weather app
The Weather app wants to gain prominence with the arrival of the Widgets, and one of the novelties is the personalized alerts within the application thanks to the latest acquisitions of other companies dedicated to climatology by the Cupertino company.
While in some localities it even shows a UV indicator, for now in places like Madrid we only receive alerts regarding temperatures, torrential rains and some other news that we have been able to verify. In principle, it is not necessary to carry out any specific configuration to activate them.
Touch the iPhone from behind and configure actions
The first thing we have to do is access: Settings> Accessibility> Touch> Touch back and right in this menu we find the possibility of configuring an action by pressing on the back of the iPhone with your finger. Once inside we will be able to customize a good handful of capabilities.
This will depend on whether we prefer a double tap or a triple tap. The reality is that it is extremely sensitive and it amazes you even how well it works, definitely It can be a "new button" for our iPhone and it also works even with cases.
Place the NFC Tag reader icon
Apple has talked at length about how opening up the iPhone's NFC can take its capabilities to a new level. One of them is to read NFC «tags» that, for example, businesses could include in the future. For now we have not found any NFC «tag» that works correctly, but in case we can add a button to the Control Center.
Use Picture in Picture on Youtube
We can use PiP on YouTube, we just have to keep in mind that it is necessary enter YouTube through Safari.
When we are playing a video compatible with the Picture-in-Picture (PiP) system, a button will appear indicating it in the upper left, this icon is between the button to expand the video and the button to close the video. If we press it, we will automatically go to Picture-In-Picture.