{"id":4572,"date":"2020-06-27T12:45:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T12:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviancetechnologies.com\/blog\/blog\/first-take-with-ios-14-apple-changes-the-very-idea-of-an-app\/"},"modified":"2020-06-27T12:45:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T12:45:02","slug":"first-take-with-ios-14-apple-changes-the-very-idea-of-an-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviancetechnologies.com\/blog\/first-take-with-ios-14-apple-changes-the-very-idea-of-an-app\/","title":{"rendered":"First take: With iOS 14, Apple changes the very idea of an app"},"content":{"rendered":"

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First take: With iOS 14, Apple changes the very idea of an app<\/h2>\n

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During a keynote at WWDC, Apple announced the next iPhone operating system: iOS 14.<\/p>\n

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During an online-only keynote for Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference<\/span> Monday, the company launched iOS 14. The new iPhone OS is a follow-up to last year’s iOS 13, which initially had a rocky start with numerous software updates at its launch. The preview of iOS 14 includes a major redesign of the iPhone home screen<\/span>, picture-in-picture video<\/span>, better widgets, a new way to automatically organize your apps called App Library and a new Siri interface. These features come alongside a new Translation app, the ability to unlock your car with your iPhone and an accessibility feature called Back Tap<\/span>\u00a0that lets you tap the back of your iPhone to take a screenshot, scroll and more.<\/p>\n

The main new features of iOS 14 are largely focused on the home screen, the Today View and notifications. The very idea of an app is changing. Prior to iOS 14, there were apps and widgets, which are based on your installed apps and available on the Today View page. Now, there is a third form called App Clips for when you need the functionality of an app that you don’t have.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A developer version of iOS 14<\/span> is currently available to download, with a public beta launching in July. A final version of iOS 14 will be released in the fall, likely alongside with the rumored iPhone 12, which will be the first new iPhone since the iPhone SE launched in April. iOS 14 runs on the same iPhones that are supported in iOS 13 — specifically, the iPhone 6S and newer.<\/p>\n

iOS 14 App Library makes your iPhone’s home screen more manageable<\/h2>\n

Since it launched in 2007, the iPhone’s home screen has largely remained the same aside from aesthetic changes. In iOS 13, organizing and moving apps around can be quite tedious with the way the iPhone forces apps to fill in from the top-left side of the screen.<\/p>\n

The App Library in iOS 14 is a new page on the home screen<\/span> that automatically organizes all of your apps into one view. This is perhaps my personal favorite iOS 14 feature because it gives you several different ways to group and navigate your apps beyond the current magnetic app layout.<\/p>\n

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