Apple has one of the bigger updates within iOS 14. It is about iOS 14.5 that is in beta state in which developers test and test the news to debug errors. However, to this day we do not know the date on which the final version will see the light and neither if the Cupertino team have an ace up their sleeve. Some users who have the beta of iOS 14.5 installed and other users with iOS 14.4.2 are starting to see Tag searches within the App Store. This would allow the user add more specific items to search and further refine your search. Will Apple be testing this feature to launch in iOS 14.5?
Profiling searches in the App Store with the new tags
The news jumped to the light of the hand of the community forums of MacRumors and some Twitter users. They warned that when searching the App Store it allowed them add tags to search. That is, if we are looking for a video editor, when we put "editor", we could add that tag and to further refine the search we would add another tag called "video". Thus, the App Store would cross the tags to find all the apps that contain those descriptions.
Some of these users have iOS 14.4.2 installed on their devices while others have been released with the latest beta of iOS 14.5. This suggests that these tags embedded in the App Store search engine are changes from the central servers from Cupertino and could deploy the function regardless of the version we had as long as it was enabled in the code. In this way, Apple could add the tags to all iOS 14 users regardless of whether they installed iOS 14.5 after its release or not.
🚨Major App Store Update from Apple: Introducing search “tags” for filtering results:
A search tag is a search term used by people when searching in the App Store to filter the search results, so the more specific a user is the fewer tags there are for them to use for filtering. pic.twitter.com/jc4JbtHixd
- Nick (@nickjsheriff) March 21, 2021
This new way to search allows users to further filter their searches and find applications more precisely. When we add more tags, we narrow the search to those applications that actually do what we want. Of course, the developers will have to update your applications to clarify which are the labels that define the application so that when push comes to shove, the user's search is profitable.
Image - @Nickjsheriff