Yesterday Apple released the fourth betas of all versions of its new firmwares this year that it presented at the WWDC 2020 last June. They are likely to be the last in developer-only beta by now, already waiting for the final versions for all users to be released in September or October.
Being already the fourth versions, less and less new features are included, and they are limited to polishing defects found in their preliminary versions. But instead in this new installment of iOS 14 some interesting new features have been detected.
Yesterday afternoon, Spanish time, Apple released a new beta, the fourth of iOS 14, to adjust and refine possible bugs found in previous betas, but adding some new features not previously detected.
The first one that jumps out is the new Apple TV widget +. Now we can access the video platform directly from here. One more to add to the collection of widgets offered by iOS 14.
The second is a improved search. When searching for content in the app, the best hits are now displayed below the web suggestions. The app displays apps, Siri tips, news, and more above, with an option to get more results. In-app search remains available at the bottom of the interface.
The third novelty is that the Touch 3D. This function that had disappeared in the third beta of iOS 14, is operational again if your device is compatible with it.
And the fourth and last is compatibility with the COVID-19 exposure notification API. It was definitely necessary. If you have iOS 14 in beta, you can now install the contact exposure application in your area, if there is one (Covid Radar in Spain). Until now it was only compatible with iOS 13.
These are the four "visible" news for developers that the fourth beta version of iOS 14 brings us. We continue to recommend not installing it if you are not a developer, since it is still a test firmware.
If you can't hold it and want to try it, install the public version, which is not as advanced, but is more stable. Here we explain how to do it. It's very probable that this afternoon its second version is released.
