New and Upcoming Features of iOS 15

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Explore the entire list of what’s new in iOS 15!

Every time Apple Inc. stood up for an ideal, to progress to the next level. They improved a lot, striking out all odds, sending a tiny ripple of hope, crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples to build a current that has the potential to sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Established on 1st April 1976, Los Altos, California, the United States by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, it traversed throughout when in 2011, it was overtaken by Tim Cook. He had big shoes to fill. But their vision, and the concerned critics, left no inches unturned. The journey wasn’t speedy but yet very fulfilling. Apple Inc. reached its ultimate milestone, becoming a trillion-dollar company.

Apple inc., distributes the bulk of its free cash through stock repurchases via capital return and stock buyback programs. For perspective, the U.S. government has US$ 274.515 billion cash on hand. Apple inc. crushes the compensation in every way, with its iPhone being the single most successful product of all time. It’s a juggernaut. By selling more than 1.5 billion iPhones, in the past ten years, Apple’s cumulative sales are reaching $1 trillion in revenue. While Android sells more handsets, owing to its reasonable price, Apple is the revenue leader and taking 80 percent of all the profit in the mobile industry.

To date, we have iOS 15, and it’s been killing it.  iOS 15 revolves around patching the need to connect with others, be more present at the moment, use powerful intelligence to perform as many functions with an iPhone as ever before.

It resolves every challenge as if it’s an opportunity. It assimilates your needs by making you stay in touch with the people who are most important to them. (1) SharePlay lets you watch together, (2) listen together, (3) share your screen right inside FaceTime. It makes communication more natural. Messages make it even easier to find and enjoy the great content shared by your best people.

Pronounced Features that are Making iOS Peak Out

FaceTime:

SharePlay: Regular FaceTime brings extra with SharePlay to let you listen to music or share your screen as you watch videos. It enables the entire gang to watch it out together.

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Watch Together: Now FaceTime lets you watch your favourite TV shows, movies while on call. It lets you have your fun time by sharing laughs, quirks and excitement with your friends and family. The volume adjusts ‘automatically’ so that you can keep talking while you watch.

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Listen Together: FaceTime now lets you listen to your favourite playlists or albums together. You can add songs, synchronize playlists, and access easy-to-use controls, like random music streaming applications.

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Share your screen: FaceTime now lets you share the screen with people connected in your call. Plan your next vacation, explore new recipes, watch a movie together, study, all while seeing and talking to one another.

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Spatial audio: FaceTime enables spatial audio wherein individual voices are crystal clear, helping the natural flow of conversation.

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Grid view: The grid view displays the ‘same-size tiles’, for better conversations, with larger groups. The speaker gets highlighted, so you always know who is talking.

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Portrait mode: It focuses on what’s in front of the camera.

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Mic modes: Isolating voice minimizes background noise and puts your voice front and centre. FaceTime extends Wide Spectrum with ambient sounds unfiltered when the music or sounds around you are as important as what you have to say.

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Invite anyone to FaceTime: It now enables you to connect with friends and family through web links. It is end-to-end encrypted, so your call is as private and secure as any other FaceTime call.

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Messages and Memoji:

Shared with You: It’s now easier to share emoticons, moving images, and share content in the app without going back to the messages.

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Shared with you in apps: Apple messages and emojis lets you build into photos, Safari, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, Apple TV App.

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New Memoji: It allows you to create your emojis and express yourself with new stickers. You have options to represent your look and style with multi-coloured headwear. There are accessibility customizations to include cochlear implants, oxygen tubes, and soft helmets.

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Photo collections: Multiple photos appear as a collage, and you can click and view each one in an enlarged view. Also, you may save them back to the library.

Be in the Moment:

Match your devices to your mindset: You may choose to enable notifications of your choice. It helps you prioritize your time and attention. It lets you find balance and concentrate your energies on what you’re doing at the moment. Your focus can be –  (1) Custom, (2) Driving, (3) Fitness, (4) Gaming, (5) Mindfulness, and (6) Reading or any other.

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Signal your status: When you select ‘Focus’ – your status automatically displays in messages and other communication apps that you allow. There are ways in which you get notified of truly urgent messages.

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Notifications: Notification messages pop up according to the schedule you set. You can also order them according to priority.

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Maps:

Maps come with accurate details that help you track beyond source and destination. Apple Safari offers even more ways for you to explore online. The wallet provides a single, secure place to store your keys.

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Safari:

Bottom tab bar: It lets you swipe in between the left and right tabs.

Tab Groups: It lets you organize your tabs, switch in between them. Tab groups synchronize across devices, so you have access to your ‘tabs’ from anywhere.

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Extensions: It lets you install Safari extensions on your iPhone. You can choose when your ‘extensions’ are active.

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Voice search: It lets you search the web by your voice.

Wallet:

It lets you unlock your garage or home with your wallet.

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Intelligence:

iOS 15 lets you relish and secure your memories as your photos, so that you may relive your special moments.

Live Text:

Live Text in Photos: It lets you unlock rich information in images, enabling you to make calls, send emails, look up directions with a click on the highlighted text in a photo.

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Live Text Translation: iOS 15 understands 15 different languages – English, Chinese, French, Italian, German, Portuguese and Spanish. You have an option to click and translate with system-wide translation.

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Spotlight:

It displays more information at a glance with new search results for your contacts. You may use Live Text to search photos.

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Photos:

It saves photo memories, makes it immersive and interactive for a more personalized feel.

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Health:

iOS 15 updates the health app to assess potential risks and risks of falling out.

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Privacy:

iOS 15 lets you chose how you store and share your data. It even protects you from unwanted data collection.

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Siri:

You may request Siri to read your emails, know the items in your shopping cart, check your notifications, sing a song, alarm, or play a lullaby.

iCloud+:

iCloud+ is an extension of iCloud that secures your information like photos, documents, notes updated and accessible across all devices.

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Hide My Email:

iOS 15 brings an exciting feature of generating instant random emails so that you can save time and do not have to share your original email address when filling out a form on the web or signing up for a newsletter. This feature is inbuilt with Mail, Safari, iCloud settings.

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Accessibility:

iOS 15 provides the flexibility of playing around with the text – bold, enlarge, italicize, contrast, invert colours and more that you want. Also, explore people, objects, text, tables within images, access VoiceOver, navigate receipts, nutrition label values in logical order.

Weather:

iOS 15 contains redesigned animated backgrounds to display air quality and temperature maps.

Notes:

Updates in the notes section assist in organizing with tags and collaborate in Activity view.

Translate:

You may translate the select text, even in third-party apps. It improves conversation flow and makes the process flow smoother.

Widgets:

iOS 15 brings all the ‘widgets’ for Find My, Game Center, Sleep, App Store, Mail and Contacts

Find My:

Find the location of your friends and family with continuous updates. Locate your devices via ‘find my network’ in absence of data or up to 24 hours, while the device is turned off.

Apple ID:

Accounts Recovery Contacts eases account recovery, maintaining the account, resetting the password, and regaining access. 

Conclusive: What’s More in Apple iOS 15 Features Update in 2021?

Apple comes with a pep in its step with iOS 15 in place. Users without Apple devices can join in the latest version of Chrome or Edge.  You require H.264 video encoding support to send video. It also supports CarPlay, A12 Bionic, Live text (with (1) English, (2) Chinese, (3) French, (4) Italian, (5) German, (6) Portuguese and (7) Spanish as supported languages). iOS 15 requires a subscription to Apple Music.

Also, iCloud + plans start at 50GB with one HomeKit Secure Video camera at ₹75 per month, 2TB with an unlimited number of HomeKit Secure Video cameras at ₹749 per month, and 200GB with up to five HomeKit Secure Video cameras at ₹219 per month.

This update is available with iOS 15, iPadOS 15 and macOS Monterey.

New animated backgrounds with iOS 15 are available on iPhone with A12 Bionic and later. Air quality maps are available in Canada, Germany, China mainland, India, France, Italy, Mexico, South Korea, Netherlands, Spain, US, and United Kingdom.

All ‘features’ in iOS 15 are subject to change, and every ‘feature’, application or service might not be available in all the ‘regions’ or languages.

We hope you find it insightful. To know more about where we are in our iOS app development journey, how far we’ve reached with the iOS 15 features, reach out to our iOS experts for iOS app development!

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Neeti Kotia

Neeti Kotia

Neeti Kotia is a technology journalist who seeks to analyze the advancements and developments in technology that affect our everyday lives. Her articles primarily focus upon the business, social, cultural, and entertainment side of the technology sector.

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