iOS 14.5 brings exciting new features to iPhone, including new privacy controls, the ability to unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, more diverse Siri voices, skin tone options to better represent couples in emoji, and much more. iOS 14.5 builds on the reimagined iPhone experience introduced in iOS 14, and is available today as a free software update.
More Privacy Controls
App Tracking Transparency requires apps to get the user’s permission before tracking their data across apps or websites owned by other companies for advertising, or sharing their data with data brokers. Apps can prompt users for permission, and in Settings, users will be able to see which apps have requested permission to track so they can make changes to their choice at any time.
Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch
Starting today, customers can use their Apple Watch to securely unlock iPhone when attempting to use Face ID whenever their face is covered. With Apple Watch on the wrist, unlocked, and in close proximity to iPhone, users can simply glance at their iPhone and they will receive haptic feedback from Apple Watch, indicating their iPhone has been unlocked. The new feature works with iPhone X and later and Apple Watch Series 3 and later.
Siri Enhancements
With iOS 14.5, Siri no longer has a default voice, allowing users to choose the voice that speaks to them when they first set up their device, and in English, users can now select more diverse voice options. These new Siri voices use Neural Text to Speech technology for an incredibly natural sound. These updates further Apple’s long-standing commitment to diversity and inclusion, with products and services that are designed to better reflect our customers and the world.
Siri also gains new capabilities with support for Group FaceTime, making it easier to initiate calls with multiple contacts or ask Siri to FaceTime the name of any group in Messages. In addition to incoming messages, Siri can now announce incoming calls through AirPods or compatible Beats headphones, and supports calling emergency contacts if the iPhone owner needs assistance and is unable to make a call.
Report an Incident in Apple Maps
Maps users in the US and China can now safely and easily report an accident, hazard, or speed check along their route by telling Siri on iPhone or CarPlay. During navigation, users can let Siri know “There’s a crash up ahead” or “There’s something on the road,” or even report that incidents displayed on the map have been cleared. This feature is designed to keep drivers hands-free and focused on the road. Incidents can also be reported or cleared by passengers using “Report an Issue” in Maps. In addition, Maps users can now share their ETA when walking or cycling to let friends and family know what time they might arrive. CarPlay users can initiate the Share ETA feature using new Siri or keyboard controls.
New Emoji
iOS 14.5 introduces updates for the couple kissing emoji and couple with heart emoji with the ability to select different skin tones. Additional emoji include characters for face exhaling, face with spiral eyes, face in clouds, hearts on fire, mending heart, and woman with a beard, among others.
Additional iOS 14.5 Features
• Apple Podcasts gets redesigned show pages to make it easier to start listening, as well as an option to save and download episodes so they are automatically added to Library for quick access. Top Charts, categories, and curated collections on the Search tab help listeners discover new shows.
• AirTag support allows users to keep track of and find important items, such as keys, a wallet, backpack, or more, privately and securely in the Find My app.
• Apple News features a redesigned News+ tab, making it easier for subscribers to quickly find, download, and manage magazine and newspaper issues, and an all-new
Search experience helps all Apple News users find relevant topics, channels, and stories.
• Apple Fitness+ users can now stream audio and video to AirPlay 2-enabled TVs and devices.
• Reminders adds the ability to sort by title, priority, due date, or creation date, and offers the option to print reminder lists.
• 5G improvements for iPhone 12 models include Dual SIM support for 5G connectivity and Smart Data Mode enhancements to further optimize the experience on the network, including better battery life and data usage.
• Voice Control for Accessibility gives users comprehensive navigation with just their voice, and is now expanding English support to Australia and Canada and adding support for Spanish in Mexico, Spain, and the United States.
If we “Ask App not to track”, does that mean the app is blocked from tracking us? Or can it simply ignore our request and track us anyway?
If an app tracks or even attempts to track, Apple has cause to, and has stated they will, ban such apps from the App Store.
Thanks to you and Barks for actually offering a comment on the article rather than raising an unrelated political issue.
That “woman with beard” emoji is great…
…for 1930s circus workers.
As for the unfortunate present:
That’s right, that female is still a female. She just had her tits lopped off and was pumped full of cancer-causing male hormones so she could grow a wispy half-assed beard. She still has girl hands because she’s still a female. She’ll always have girl hands. Check her chromosomes: Unchanged.
That male is still a male, too. He just had his cock and balls lopped off and was pumped full of cancer-causing female hormones so he could grow smallish half-assed tits. His hands are still man hands. They’ll always be man hands because he’s still a man. Check his chromosomes: Unchanged.
What you have just read above are actual facts. You will not hear these facts on leftist coastal mass media or at leftist coastal cocktail parties where they are afraid to explicitly offend a handful of mentally ill morons while implicitly offending the rest of the normal world.
https://twitter.com/urtruthdetector/status/1365420432313233412
Spot on about the genetics. There is however from that genetic soup creatures that exhibit mimicry of the opposite sex, some to the point of actually changing their sex.
Check your chromosomes: you need help. Can you spell DELUSIONAL BIGOTED FLAT-EARTHER?You were brainwashed even Before Fox!
How messed up is it for Brucey to run for Cali Governor ???? That pathetic human does not know what day it is or whether or not he wants to live with a women …ya know he’s supposedly one too, or a man …let’s see….take off all your man junk, get fake female junk sewn on, call yourself a women???….and run the largest populace state in the US????
Let the voters decide. Four years ago, we sent a guy to the White House who actually lost money running a casino. I don’t know how one can be more mentally challenged than that. But the people spoke. If he can run America for four years without the government collapsing, I don’t see how Caitlyn Jenner can do any worse running a state.
“I don’t know how one can be more mentally challenged than that.”
You don’t know because you have a government-run school education.
How ironic that an anonymous MAGAt with a pretend russian name thinks that paying a huge premium for private tutoring or restraining yourself to a 2000 year old textbook must somehow automatically make him smarter.
By all means, if sharing overhead expenses results in worst outcome, then abandon the military immediately!!!!!!! Let the rich hire their own private armies, like the good old days. Aka, the Dark Ages.
Vlad didn’t claim to have a private education. He just stated that he didn’t have a public education.
Good point! Vlad, Goeb, Kent, George, First, Truth(broken)detector, TowerToneDeaf and all the other alter egos of the bitter Drumph Fan Club reject doesn’t show any education at all.
He/she/it is just a dogmatic troll parroting the brainless propaganda the Mercers and Murdochs have been feeding them for decades.
Keep the privacy aspect solid and strong Apple. The internet is a quagmire of intrusive marketing trash. Nice stock price by the way and the direction is good.
Woman with a beard? I though it was a Jesus emoji – about time! Thanks, Tim. (needs black hair variant though).
The big ones is app tracking and unlocking with your Apple Watch.