iPadOS 14: Everything you need to know

iPadOS 14

The most anticipated day of the year for many users has arrived. WWDC 2020 was held yesterday via a pre-recorded broadcast where the Apple team announced many (not all) of the News coming from the next version of iOS 14, iPadOS 14, tvOS 14, watchOS 7 and macOS Big Sur.

In this article, we are going to focus on showing all the news that will come from the hand of iPadOS 14, a version that, like the one for the iPhone, iOS 14, does not offer us many new features, but some of them are very interesting . If you want to know all what's new in iPadOS 14, I invite you to keep reading.

New and improved widgets

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The widgets that are currently on the iPad are just that, some simple widgets that they barely offer us information valuable of the system, of the applications or of what really interests us. With iOS 14, widgets arrive on the iPhone, widgets that we can configure in a different way, size and that each developer will offer different models to be able to get the most out of our iPad. For now, the widgets on the iPad will still be on the right side of the screen.

Photos and Files app redesign

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Every year, the Photos application receives important news, something logical considering that it is one of the applications most used by users, when using the iPhone as the main device for taking photos and videos. The Photos application that will come from the hand of iPadOS 14 offers us a new mosaic mode where our captures are shown.

To this mosaic mode, we have to add the new user interface, an interface that offers us practically the same design that we can currently find in the Photos application available on macOS. As the new version of macOS, baptized as Big Sur, has been aesthetically renewed, we could say that today, the Photos application of iPadOS and macOS Big Sur is practically the same.

It should be remembered that the design that macOS Big Sur launches is very similar to that found in iPadOS, a design that supposes the first step to launching ARM processors in the Mac range.

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Another of the applications that has also received important news is Files, the application with which we can manage the files of the storage units in the cloud, on our device or the one that contains the external units that we connect. with iPadOS 14, the Files app will allow us to select the type of file view what we want (list, grid or columns) and how we want to organize the files (name, date, size, type or by labels).

MacOS Spotlight comes to iPad

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Spotlight on macOS is not a simple search engine. With Spotlight we can find from applications and / or files to information on the internet of the terms that we enter. This fantastic tool also works for iPadOS. Thanks to the new Spotlight we will be able to focus on finding files, applications or any other type of data quickly (with a single touch) showing as we write the results most relevant and chords.

Call interface

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If you are one of the users who uses the iPad to answer calls, with iPadOS 14 you will not scream in the sky when they call you because the screen you were working on has gone for a walk. Finally, after many years of waiting for her, upon receiving a call, a banner will be displayed at the top of the screen, banner that will allow us to answer the call or hang up directly. This applies both to calls we receive on the iPhone that are transferred to the iPad and to calls through Facetime.

Get more out of Apple Pencil with Scribble

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Scribble is the new feature that comes from the hand of iPadOS 14 that allows us to get more out of the Apple Pencil. This function automatically takes care of transcribing what we write into text recognizable by the system, which allows us to use the Apple Pencil to write in the search box, write the address of the web page we want to visit ...

But also, with Scribble, the system will automatically take care of recognize the shapes we draw, to allow us to select them and show a well-defined drawing, with straight lines. This function allows us to draw polygons, arrows as well as other perfect figures when we are taking notes.

Groups for the Messages app

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Apple continues to expand the number of functions that it offers us through the Messages application. On this occasion, the possibility of create message groups, groups that we can also personalize with an image.

It also allows us reply directly to an interlocutor by quoting him in response, as we can currently do both on Telegram and WhatsApp. We can also mention the members of the group when we want to send them a message within the same group.

I could not miss the new Memojis, new Memojis that will allow us to add new hats, the famous mask in the post-coronavirus era that we live, new age traits, types of hair, ranges, hats ...

What's new in Apple Maps

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Although the iPad is not the ideal device to use the Maps application, this device receives the same functions that we can find in iOS 14: cycling routes and routes with charging stations. The bike routes, allows us to find the best routes to travel around the city, taking advantage of the bike lanes of the different cities with this function available, a function that for the moment will not be available at the time of its launch in Spain .

Another interesting function is the one that allows us to establish a travel route taking into account the charging stations so that we can travel with complete peace of mind when we go on a trip and that we can never get stranded. Apple Maps also includes a number of new features in guide format, city ​​guides that will help us to know the areas that we cannot miss and that add information about that area.

Home App

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The home application adds new suggestions for automations based on the use we usually make of the application, to make it much easier adopt home automation to us and that users do not have to waste so much time configuring it.

This application has been slightly redesigned to show in the upper left, a summary of states of our devices, such as the number of lights on, if the door of the house is without passing the lock, the temperature and humidity ... It also adds a function that allows us to change the color of the light depending on the time of day in which we are.

Security cameras received a major boost last year with iOS 13, allowing users to store their recordings in the cloud for free. This year, Apple expands its functionality by adding a system of face recognition, which allows us to receive notifications based on the people you recognize and the ability to activate activity zones, in order to reduce the number of notifications to the maximum and focus on what is important.

Safari

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Safari receives a built-in translator that allows us to automatically translate the web pages that we visit into the language in which our device is configured, a function that is available within the options of the web page and that only requires a click to carry out its work.

It also adds a new function that will allow us quickly know the type of trackers that use the web pages that we visit, so that we know at all times what happens to our privacy when we access that page. It will also inform us if we are using a weak password when accessing a web service.

AirPods

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When we have the AirPods connected to our iPad, it will inform us of the battery level when these are reduced to 10%, so that we can proceed to load them and that we are warned that if we continue to use them, they will soon stop working. If we are using the iPhone with the AirPods and we start using the iPad, we will not need to access the configuration options, since iPadOS 14 will automatically take care of changing the audio source to the iPad.

Siri changes position

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Invoking Siri and having the entire screen occupied by this function has never made sense. As with iOS 14, with iPadOS 14, Siri will appear on the elower right corner of screen, allowing us to continue working with the iPad as up to the moment in which we have called it.

According to Apple, Siri is now 20 times faster than three years ago, both to respond and to find information related to our requests. Hopefully "this is what I found on the internet" is no longer the usual response from Apple's virtual assistant.

Other of the best that come from the hand of Siri, we find it in that will allow us to send audio messages Through the messages application, a function that cannot be performed through Siri with iOS 13 but directly from the Messages application.

Other new features in iPadOS 14

  • Clips App. With App Clip it is a small part of an application that we can use whenever we need and that only does a specific task.
  • App Store. Application developers allow subscriptions to be made available to all members of a family.
  • Apple Arcade and Game Center. With iPadOS 14 we will be able to see which are the most popular games among our friends and be able to invite them to enjoy some games.
  • Apple Music. Enjoying the songs of our favorite music in full screen is one of the important new features of iPadOS.
  • Mail At last we will be able to establish a native mail client different from the Mail application as well as the browser.

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