IOS 14

On June 22, 2020, Apple announced iOS 14 to developers at their special WWDC20 keynote. Registered developers can obtain iOS 14 Beta right now, while Public Beta Testers can get their hands on iOS 14 Beta in July, with a full release late September.

Home Screen
iOS 14 includes a major Home Screen revamp. App Library was introduced, which is an organized way to keep track of applications. Widgets were revamped as a whole with a new Today View, and for the first time ever, widgets can be placed on the Home Screen in different sizes.

'Jiggle Mode' includes a new user interface that supports adding widgets to the Home Screen, and apps can be removed from the Home Screen with a (-) button than the (x) button.

Users can also hide pages of apps, which can be found in the new App Library, and also choose new apps to land in the App Library and not take up space on the Home Screen.

Picture in Picture
iOS now supports Picture in Picture, meaning users can watch videos in a small view while using the rest of their device. This is mostly supported for Safari Videos and streaming services.

Compact Interfaces
Ever since iPhone OS 1, receiving a call would take up the entire display. Introduced in iOS 14, receiving new calls will be a small notification that can be turned into the full screen using a sliding down gesture, which will expose more information.

Siri is now compact to not take up the full display. Things like searching on the web and accessing the weather will now display like a notification, continuing to be a compact and simpel design.

Accessibility
Users can enable Sound Management, where their iPhone alerts them if there is an emergency sound or an animal nearby. There is also now a Back Tap feature, where users can tap the back of their iPhone twice or thrice to do certain actions.

Weather
Earlier this year, Apple purchased Dark Sky, which is credited for being one of the most accurate weather applications, with multiple other weather apps relying on Dark Sky's API. With iOS 14, the native weather application gets a massive improvement, using lots of similarities from Dark Sky.

There now displays the high and low underneath the city location, as well as an in-depth weather look for the upcoming hour. There will also display possible chances for weather next to the weather icons in the ten-day forecast, as well as a new bar displaying air quality.

Weather also supports the new widgets on the home screen.

Maps
Apple Maps now fully supports Canada and regions of Europe, and cycling directions have been added.

iMessage
In iOS 14, users can pin certain people to the top of iMessage, with a nine-person limit. Users can also see when they are typing or sent you a message.

Group chats now include inline replying, group profile pictures, and mentions. Inline replying will make it easier to have conversations one-to-one with people and making the chat clean. Users can mention people in a group chat and get notifications for them. Group profile pictures now display all the users in the chat, with their icon being bigger with how active they are, they can also be customized to a photo or emoji.

Apple Translate
Apple will be including their own translate application in iOS 14, which are designed to be more accurate and more reliable than Google Translate, their competitor. This will carry on throughout the OS for translations.

Safari
Safari now includes support for instant translation and better privacy features, including exposing applications that are sending your information to be tracked.

Privacy
Apple focused heavily with privacy in iOS 14. New pop-ups will show up to ensure privacy is private, as well as warnings before users purchase an app about privacy breaches and information. There is now a small dot in the status bar indiciating that your camera or microphone is being used, and specifying which application is. Sign In with Apple will continue to be improved with these new privacy features.

Stability
The primary focus of this update is to make iOS more stable than iOS 13, which had a buggy release. Developers have said the update is pretty stable for a beta version.

Unsupported Devices
The following devices will not be able to operate iOS 14 or iOS 14 Beta, and will be running an older version of iOS for the rest of the device's life.
 * iPhone 2G (iPhone OS 3.1.3)
 * iPhone 3G (iOS 4.2.1)
 * iPhone 3GS (iOS 6.1.6)
 * iPhone 4 (iOS 7.1.2)
 * iPhone 4S (iOS 9.3.6)
 * iPhone 5 (iOS 10.3.4)
 * iPhone 5S (iOS 12.4.7
 * iPhone 5C (iOS 10.3.4)
 * iPhone 6 (iOS 12.4.7)
 * iPhone 6 Plus (iOS 12.4.7)
 * iPod Touch 1st Generation (iPhone OS 3.1.3)
 * iPod Touch 2nd Generation (iOS 4.2.1)
 * iPod Touch 3rd Generation (iOS 5.1.1)
 * iPod Touch 4th Generation (iOS 6.1.6)
 * iPod Touch 5th Generation (iOS 9.3.5)
 * iPod Touch 6th Generation (iOS 12.4.7)

Supported Devices
The following devices will be able to operate iOS 14 this Fall and run iOS 14 Betas.
 * iPhone 6s
 * iPhone 6s Plus
 * iPhone SE (1st Generation)
 * iPhone 7
 * iPhone 7 Plus
 * iPhone 8
 * iPhone 8 Plus
 * iPhone X
 * iPhone XS
 * iPhone XS Max
 * iPhone XR
 * iPhone 11
 * iPhone 11 Pro
 * iPhone 11 Pro Max
 * iPhone SE (2nd Generation)
 * iPod Touch (7th Generation)