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On Monday, Apple (AAPL) unveiled an extended list of updates coming to its newest iPhone OS , iOS 14, at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, a number of which borrowed from features previously introduced by other tech companies, including Slack (WORK), Facebook's WhatsApp and, of course, Android, which is owned by Google.
As a part of the changes in iOS 14, the iPhone home screen will look quite bit more like an Android device. iPhone users will soon be ready to pin widgets, or shortcuts to features found inside an app, to their home screens. they will now be stacked or customized supported work, activity or travel. Widgets have long been a neighborhood of Android devices, also as on Windows phones.
Beyond that, Apple's new App Library automatically organizes the apps on your home screen so you do not need to scroll through several pages, almost like Android's app drawer.
Apple also unveiled a big new feature called App Clips, which offers alittle a part of an app to be used at the instant it's needed, like ordering food from a restaurant or paying for parking. it is a similar concept to Google's instant app feature, which was first announced in 2016. With Google's tool, apps and games can run without being installed, allowing users to undertake them out first.
Apple also appears to possess taken some inspiration from a rival product to deal with a pain point for a few iPhone users: videos (and FaceTime calls) taking up the whole screen when you're performing another function. Now, users are going to be ready to multi-task and switch to other applications while still watching a video with a feature called Picture in Picture. Samsung Galaxy phones are ready to do that for years.
Android is not the only place where Apple appears to be taking inspiration. Its new updates to group chats, like mentioning people directly, are popular features on WhatsApp and workplace messaging app Slack. Apple also will allow you to pin conversations to the highest of your inbox. Pinning individual messages may be a widely-used function on Slack.
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