ONE THING THAT characterizes iOS 14, Apple’s latest OS for the iPhone, more than anything else is that it enables you to accomplish your tasks more easily. It does this both by better organizing apps and features and displaying them in ways that better fit with how most of us use our phones.
So, we have redesigned Widgets, Smart Stacks, and Apps Clips. This last one is particularly intriguing as it allows you to access some of the functionality of an app without actually installing it.
Incoming call notifications now only take up part of the screen, which means they no longer feel like such an intrusion if you’re working in another app when they come in.
Siri has gained more smarts and can now suggest apps when you first pick up your phone, and there are lots of improvements to the Camera app, Maps and, as you’d expect, to privacy in Safari and elsewhere.
Which devices will work with iOS 14?
MOST TIMES WHEN a new version of iOS is released, there are casualties in terms of the devices that can run it. However, this time around there are none. If your iPhone or iPod touch can run iOS 13, it will be able to run iOS 14. Here’s the full list of supported devices:
• iPhone 11
• iPhone 11 Pro
• iPhone 11 Pro Max
• iPhone XS
• iPhone XS Max
• iPhone XR
• iPhone X
• iPhone 8
• iPhone 8 Plus
• iPhone 7
• iPhone 7 Plus
• iPhone 6s
• iPhone 6s Plus
• iPhone SE (1st generation)
• iPhone SE (2nd generation)
• iPod touch (7th generation)
Introducing iOS 14
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