Just 24 hours after Apple released iOS 12 for all its users we have found the first beta of iOS 12.1. Due to the numbering of the version, it is expected that it will be a "major" update with important news, and it seems that little by little we are discovering them.
This first Beta finally includes group FaceTime calls, a feature that Apple already introduced in the last WWDC and that was not included in the final version of iOS 12. But it also seems that there are signs that indicate the possible support for using Face ID horizontally, a sign that the new iPad Pro could come soon.
Group calls through FaceTime are a feature that Apple announced with great fanfare at WWDC 2018, when it first introduced us to iOS 12. In fact, if we visit the web where all the information on this new operating system is, we will see numerous images showing this function, in which multiple people video conference via FaceTime with all of them on screen, something very reminiscent of the famous Modern Family episode.
Face ID has support for landscape orientation (presumably for iPad only), and iOS 12.1 seems to care a lot more about whether an external display is connected (perhaps due to iPad USB-C rumors; it won't have the Lighting HDMI adapter as an intermediary for video-out)
- Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) September 18, 2018
This is the most obvious novelty, but if we dig a little we find more, as has happened to Steve Troughton-Smith, who has already revealed many new functions hidden within the iOS code. Thus he has revealed that this first Beta of iOS 12.1 includes the possibility of using Face ID in landscape mode, something that has been talked about a lot in relation to the new iPad. It seems that this function would be limited to the iPad Pro that Apple could present in the coming weeks.. Yes, in the coming weeks, I have not been wrong, because everything seems to indicate that in October we could have a Keynote focused on the new iPad and Mac, devices that were conspicuous by their absence in the last Keynote on September 12.
