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If you happen to simply forget your password and need someone else to get into your account, you can set a recovery contact to request access. Good news for those worried about what will happen to their Apple accounts in the event of their death – Apple has created a legacy contact feature to request access to your iCloud data. A new range of more diverse, coloquial voices will also be available. Virtual helper Siri has been updated with on-device speech recognition, which processes all audio clips directly on the device and will not requrie an active internet to work. Similarly, Safari Intelligent Tracking Prevention now also hides IP addresses. Pixels in marketing emails used to track your activity across the web can now be blocked through the Mail app via what Apple’s calling Mail Privacy Protection, which hides an IP address from tracking pixels and won’t alert marketers when you’ve opened a message.

Privacy enhancements – blocking tracking across the web Quick Note is a new way to open a note to jot down something quickly using an Apple Pencil, by pressing on the bottom right-hand corner of the screen and pulling diagonally.
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Other enterprise-friendly updates include multitasking changes, including the ability to open documents or emails on top of open split-view apps running in the background – essentially tweaks to ensure the iPad rivals cheaper Windows laptops even more successfully. The App Library allows switching between vast folders of apps more swiftly (Photo: Bloomberg/Getty) Similarly, App Library is also available, allowing you to hide and reorder app pages just as you already can over on iOS. Over on the iPad, Apple has finally brought over the ability to place widgets anywhere you please on the iPad homescreen – just like it announced for iPhone last year. The company also promised significant updates to how AirPods are located using the Find My system, and announced it was adding spatial audio to TVOS and macOS on the most recent MacBooks with the M1 chip. AirPods – boosting audioĪirPods, Apple’s true wireless headphones, will benefit from a new feature called Conversation Boost when connected to an iPhone running iOS 15 for the hard of hearing, while digital assistant Sir can read out important messages as and when you need to hear them. Spotlight, Apple’s search system, has been updated to include photos for the first time, and shared information and pictures with contacts, while Apple Music has been integrated into the Memories section. The iPhone’s camera is now capable of reading Live Text – analysing images of text such as street signs or menus in photos and translating them into written text thanks to deep neural network technology.

New Visual Look Up allows the iPhone to extract more information from images (Photo: Bloomberg/Getty)

It can also suggest turning on a customised Focus setting based on your GPS location, such as prompting a Gym Focus once you arrive at a known exercise location. New feature Focus uses on-device intelligence to create certain settings to activate during your day – such as allowing emails and calls during the working day but muting them later in the evening. When Do Not Disturb has been activated on a phone, users will be alerted that they’ve switched the status on and are unlikely to respond immediately.įocus on new settings based on your needs Notifications have been refreshed with new, larger images and a notification summary setting that allows you to receive a load of notifications from various apps at points of day most convenient to you.
