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In iOS 14, Apple has greatly expanded the number of direct answers Siri can give you. The majority of these answers are thanks to enhanced web-based information, but some of it is also down to ‌Siri‌'s tighter integration with other Apple apps. For example, Maps in iOS 14 has been updated to include cycling directions, and you can now ask ‌Siri‌ to provide you with cycling directions to a...

In ‌iOS 14, Apple's Siri voice assistant got a major update that introduced a more compact interface, with ‌Siri‌ appearing as an animating orb at the bottom of the screen instead of taking over the whole display. To keep the new interface as small as possible, ‌‌Siri‌‌ by default no longer displays the text of what you've spoken. If you found real-time transcription useful (to check that ...

In iOS 14, Apple pared down the Siri interface so that it no longer takes over the whole of your iPhone's screen when you issue a voice command or query. Instead, a small ‌Siri‌ orb pops up at the bottom of the screen without obscuring what you're looking at. It's not just the interface that's been improved, though. ‌Siri‌ also picked up several new features, one of which is the ability to...

Last year in iOS 13, Apple introduced new hearing features in the Health app that are designed to help users avoid being exposed to high levels of sound when wearing headphones for an extended period of time. In iOS 14, Apple is advancing its hearing features by adding the ability to measure the volume level of what you're listening to in real time. With the new feature, Apple is putting...

In recent versions of iOS, Apple has made some dramatic changes to the Home Screen of iPhone. In particular, it has introduced the concept of ‌Home Screen‌ widgets, which are similar to the widgets available on Android phones. Previously, use of widgets was limited to the Today View, which can be accessed by swiping from left to right on the ‌Home Screen‌. In ‌‌iOS 14‌‌, however, widgets ...

Apple has seeded the first beta of an upcoming tvOS 14 software update to its public beta testing group, giving non-developers a chance to try out the new Apple TV software ahead of its official release in the fall. tvOS 14 brings several new features to ‌Apple TV‌, including a Picture in Picture mode and 4K YouTube playback. It also introduces multi-user gaming support, new AirPods features,...

iOS 14 brings Picture in Picture mode to the iPhone, allowing movies, TV shows, and videos to be watched in a small window while you do other things on your ‌iPhone‌. Picture in Picture Mode won't be compatible with the YouTube app until YouTube updates it with support, but for now, you can watch YouTube videos in Picture in Picture Mode through Safari. Activating Picture in Picture Mode ...

In Messages on iPhone and iPad, you can participate in group chats of up to 32 people, which is great for organizing something between friends, working with colleagues, or just joining in a conversation around a particular topic or theme. Of course, you may find yourself in a group chat that eventually you want to leave, and that's fine. You can leave a group chat if you no longer want to...

In iOS 14, Apple made some dramatic changes to the Home Screen of iPhone and iPad. In particular, it introduced the concept of ‌Home Screen‌ widgets. Previously, use of widgets was limited to the Today View, which can be accessed by swiping from left to right on the ‌Home Screen‌. In ‌iOS 14‌, however, widgets got a design and functionality overhaul. One new widget function is the...

When you download an app from the App Store, the app usually appears either on your Home screen or a subsequent screen of apps. In iOS 14 and later, new downloads also show up in the Recently Added section of the App Library. When you download a new app on your iPhone, you can actually have it moved straight to the App Library and the relevant app category, instead of it appearing on the...

In iOS 14, Apple introduced some big changes to the Home Screen, including new widgets and an App Library. The latter feature is designed to organize large collections of apps and make them easier to access. Keep reading to learn how it works. The App Library offers a new way to manage your apps by using automatically generated app categories and a new searchable alphabetical list view. It...

With so many apps available for iPhone on the App Store, it doesn't take long before you download so many that managing them can start to get a bit tiresome and unwieldy. Having multiple pages of apps extending off the initial Home Screen can be a burden, especially if you like to organize what you can see on the screen into any sort of meaningful order. Fortunately, in iOS 14 and later,...

The Shortcuts app, introduced in iOS 12, is designed to allow iOS users to create multi-step shortcuts and automations using both first and third-party apps, with the shortcuts able to be activated using Siri commands. ‌Siri‌ isn't the only way to launch shortcuts outside of the Shortcuts app. In addition, Apple provides a Shortcuts widget for quickly launching actions, but you can also put them ...

In iOS 14 and iPadOS, Apple introduced many new headline features, but it also made several small improvements that make a big impact to the way you do things on iPhone. One of those improvements is to the way emoji works: Apple added a much-requested search feature. Users have been able to search emoji on Mac for years now, so it's good to see Apple listen to feedback and finally bring...

Messages don't always arrive on your iPhone or iPad at the most convenient time. Fortunately, iOS allows you to mute conversations conducted over the stock Messages app, so you don't have to silence your device or turn it off completely to press pause on those constant message alerts. Using the mute feature in Apple's Messages app, you can silence group conversations and conversations with...

In iOS 14, Apple has added several new features to its native Messages app, including the ability to set a group photo for a multi-person chat. Setting a photo for a group conversation brings a neat bit of customization to the Messages app and it lets you identify the chat in your conversations list more easily. You can also give group chats a custom name, which combined with a group...

In iOS 14, Apple has added several new features to its native Messages app, including the ability to mention people in a group conversation. When that person is mentioned, their name gets highlighted in the message text, and they'll be notified that someone mentioned them. The neat thing about Mentions is that you can get alerted to them even if they appear in a group chat that you’ve...

In iOS 14, Apple has added several new features to its native Messages app, including the ability to send inline replies to specific messages that appear in the conversation thread of a group chat. The neat thing about inline replies is that it allows you to respond to a particular person's message in the thread, and then view all the responses to the message in either the full group...

In iOS 14, Apple has added several new features to its native Messages app, including the an improved interface for filtering incoming messages. Message filtering sorts messages from people who are not in your contacts into a separate list, which makes it easier to view messages from friends, family, or colleagues in their own special Known Senders list. All other messages, from OTP codes ...

In iOS 14, Apple has made it easier to keep track of conversation threads in Messages by allowing users to pin threads in the app. Pinned conversations live at the top of the main messages list and appear as large contact circles. You can have a maximum of nine pinned threads. You can pin both one-on-one conversations and group chats in Messages, and threads can include both SMS texts...