A few hours ago Apple released the third Beta of iOS 13.4, a new version that includes some important new features hidden in the system such as CarKey, to open your car using your iPhone as a key, and We just discovered another one that could eliminate the cables from our lives once and for all: OS Recovery.
Those who are Mac users surely know the recovery mode that the system has. In case your computer crashes, you can boot into that mode (Command + R) which allows you to restore your computer, either by downloading the system from the internet to make it like new, or by recovering a backup that you have stored in Time Machine. Well, Apple seems to be preparing something similar for our iPhone and iPad, as they have found in the third Beta of iOS 13.4.
It is a tool that is currently hidden, and that would allow you to restore your device in the event of a major failure, without having to connect it to a computer. It could be done in two ways, "Over the air", that is, making use of the internet, and connecting your iPhone through a cable to another iPhone or iPad. How is it different from the current "Delete settings and content" that we have within the device Settings? In that it would be a special boot mode, a "recovery mode" that we could use even if our iPhone did not respond as it should.
Would be an indispensable step for something that we have already talked about previously: an iPhone without any type of connector. It would not be the only step that would have to be taken, there would still be other problems to solve for this to be possible, but this is one of the most important and the only reason why some still connect the Lightning cable to their iPhone. So much debate between Lightning and USB-C and perhaps Apple's plans are different.