iPadOS also gets an update being called as the iPadOS 14 and Craig Federighi mentioning the fact that the new OS is “Unique, made-for-iPad designs that take advantage of iPad’s large multitouch display.”
Craig also went on to mention that iPad apps were called as iPhone apps using a bigger screen. But he specifies that now they’ll be making apps more streamlined and more powerful.
Home Screen & Widgets
Josh Shaffer talked about the iPadOS 14 and clarified the fact that same widgets from new iOS 14 will be also coming to iPadOS 14 as well. The home screen does not get any major upgrade but yes gets the handy addition of a wide variety of widgets.
Photos
Managing photos can be tiresome, not anymore, the photos app on iPad gets updated with a new sidebar that lets you easily manage your photos. You can easily toggle between albums and drag any photo to any album you want to or get to see your photos sorted out according to people, places, albums and much more.
Sidebar & Drop-down Menus
Apart from being in the Photos app, the new Sidebar will be available with almost all apps which will easily let you organize things. Also, there are drop-down menus that easily lets you sort things and do a lot of management stuff in apps like Calendar.
Music
The Music app has been re-designed to take benefit of the huge screen of the iPad, now featuring rich alburm art, song details and a huge part of it showing the lyrics. The sidebar is here as well, letting you manage your music much more efficiently.
Siri
Apple has managed to trim the space used by Siri, with the Siri bubble overlay that is smart enough to suggest you things that you might forget or in reference to the app you are using.
Calls
This is an approach taken with inspiration to the Android as when you receive calls, no longer the huge screen will be used for just a call. The calls will now come in as a compact notification, you can tap to answer or just flick away to dismiss. Now, the call can be from your iPhone, Skype or any app, this feature will be coming to iOS 14 as well.
Universal Search
The search will no longer be using the full screen, rather it will be more compact and is re-designed. You can use universal search anywhere in the home screen or over any app, just write a few letters and the app that you searched for opens. You can easily find contacts, messages or call as well or about any document as well.
You can easily search any query, places and can search anything, based on that suggestions will be shown. Also, you can now hover the web through the universal search, just type few letters of the website and boom, Safari opens the site for you.
Apple Pencil
Improvements have been done to give a better experience with the Apple pencil as well. As Craig pointed, “Make handwriting just as easy and just as powerful as the text.” A new feature called Scribble will let you handwrite into any text field and it will turn into text automatically.
Use the Apple Pencil to draw a simple shape and pause at the end, and it’ll be made up for you, like if you cannot draw a perfect square, AI will detect it and make it a square in your drawing.
There are also huge improvements to handwriting recognition as you can select text the same way as typed text. Easily make space to write, just slide it down, the Apple Pencil can do a lot of things with the new sidebar
You can just directly write into a text field in any app like Safari, and it automatically gets recognized and the app uses the info quickly. Scribble can also recognize multiple languages in the same line, it can even detect important data like phone numbers and email addresses in the handwriting only. You can also copy handwriting and paste it as a standard text.
via The Verge
So here were the core changes to the iPadOS 14 and there will be more additions seen from the iOS 14 as well. So which is your favourite feature? Do let us know in the comments below… 😉
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