The summer around Apple is always considered as a period full of rumors of its new iPhone and with certainty of what we will see in its next operating systems, since that is when the first betas are released. Yesterday we were able to witness the third versions for developers of iOS 14 and company, so it is time to recap the changes that have occurred. It is not usual to find great news as the betas pass, unless they were already announced at WWDC. However, it is possible to find some other surprise that, however minor, is always interesting to know.
The news of the third beta of iOS 14
The main and most fundamental thing about this beta is its stability and good performance . Already in the previous two we were surprised by the tremendous fluidity of the entire system despite being a beta, being even more stable than very catastrophic final versions such as those of iOS 11 or some of iOS 13. However, it is still possible to find some bug like apps that don’t work at all well, some lag at times and even unexpected reboots. Therefore, it is usually not recommended to install these versions, although those who decide should know how to install a beta on the iPhone. In any case, as a general rule, this version continues to improve performance and the overall user experience with at least two months to go until they are officially released.
The most notable of this new beta has been the change of the Apple Music icon leaving behind its white color for the red color. It really has been a return to the past, as it powerfully reminds us of the icon we had in this app several years ago. Also within the application, other icons have been redesigned in order to make everything go more in line, something normal coming from Apple and its obsession with design and agreement between the elements. This is also reinforced after a second beta in which we already saw some subtle changes in icons such as Clock or Calendar.
As for widgets, we find some new features such as the fact of finding a pop-up window announcing the possibility of adding new widgets all over the screen. Those of us who have tried previous betas are not surprised, but it is understood that this will be added so that all users can know it in the final version. As for aesthetic innovations in this section, we find that Clock releases several widgets in which it allows to have an enlarged view of the analog clock or to have several clocks with hours from all over the world in view. In this aspect we also have to highlight a bug with the Weather widget , which either appears in black or cannot be added directly. The solution to the latter is to reboot the device.
Another aesthetic novelty is that now we will have the possibility to edit full app pages , being able to hide and show them at any time. To get here you need to be in the function of editing the main screen and press the points at the bottom. For this, a pop-up window has been added in which everything is explained.
On the iPhone 6s and later, except for the iPhone XR, 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max, 3D Touch has been disabled. Not really the functions of this but the way to access them, since in these devices certain gestures are recognized by the force exerted when pressing the screen and now they have replaced it by detection depending on the time the screen is pressed. This is a way of comparing them to those new company phones that no longer have the Taptic Engine among its components and therefore do not detect the pressure level.
Those who also have the beta of watchOS 7 will be able to verify that, finally, reminders have been added to wash your hands when the device detects that we have entered the house and we have not washed our hands. This was previously announced, but was not enabled until now, despite the fact that the watch did recognize when we washed our hands. We also find news in the popular Memoji , which have added a new form of mask that is very reminiscent of the washable that are now so fashionable in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In another order of things, the storage problem that caused the system to occupy an excessive space, something quite annoying for those phones with smaller capacities, has finally been solved. In fact it would have been really devastating not to have fixed this before launch, as older phones like the 16GB iPhone 6s couldn’t even upgrade to this version despite being compatible.
At the moment these are the most important news of this version, although we will continue to pay special attention to its code, since it may be key to knowing possible future news and even on devices. On other occasions, it has been possible to find references to products that will later be launched on the market, so this iOS 14 code could hide a good handful of information related to the iPhone 12.