Apple could introduce another novelty in iOS 14 that would allow us to use light versions of the applications available in the App Store without having them installed on our devices, as revealed by the code of a preliminary version of iOS 14 to which 9to5Mac has had access.
Surely on many occasions you have clicked on a link, or scanned a QR code and the web version of an application has been opened (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube…) if you did not have that application installed. Thanks to the "deep links" that Apple introduced a few versions of iOS ago, if the app is installed, it opens directly bypassing the web version. Well, in Apple's plans now there is the possibility of going a little further, allowing that, even if you do not have the app installed, the content is shown to you in a "light" version of the same with which the user can interact, although at a much more limited level than that offered by the full application.
It will be up to the developers to decide which part of the application should be downloaded to that card that will appear when we scan a QR code or click on a link. The trail of this new API for developers, called "Clip" also indicates that that floating card will appear even if you have the app installed, offering you the option to fully open it, or if you don't have it installed, download it. In this way we would not have to leave the application where we are to see the content we have chosen unless we want to.
This feature that appears to be coming in iOS 14 very reminiscent of Slices (Sections) on Android, which allows you to search from the Google bar and from other applications to use functions of other apps without leaving the first one. At the moment the data we have is scarce but we hope that they will continue to give us details of this new functionality that adds to a long list of leaks on iOS 14.