# What are the iOS 14 features? What are the iOS 14 features? ##### Post Metadata - Posted at: over 3 years ago - Author title: Pinned by G2 as a common question - Net upvotes: 1 ## Comments ### Comment 1 📱 Home Screen & Interface Improvements Home Screen Widgets Widgets can be placed directly on the Home Screen. Multiple sizes (small, medium, large). Support for third‑party widgets. Smart Stack A stack of widgets that automatically rotates based on usage, location, and time. App Library Automatically organizes apps into categories. Reduces the need for multiple Home Screen pages. 📞 Compact UI for Calls & Siri Compact Call Interface Incoming calls no longer take over the entire screen. Redesigned Siri Siri appears as a small floating animation instead of full‑screen. Compact Picture‑in‑Picture controls for smoother multitasking. 🎥 Picture‑in‑Picture (PiP) Watch videos or FaceTime calls while using other apps. Supports streaming apps and Safari video playback. 🗺️ Maps Enhancements Cycling directions with elevation and busy road data. EV routing with charging stop planning. Curated Guides for travel, dining, and attractions. 💬 Messages Updates Pinned conversations at the top of chats. Group enhancements: Inline replies Mentions (@name) Group photos and emojis 🔒 Privacy & Security (Major Focus) App Tracking Transparency (ATT) Apps must ask permission before tracking users across apps/websites Privacy indicators Orange dot: microphone in use Green dot: camera in use Approximate location sharing Apps can be given less precise location data. Clipboard access notifications Alerts users when an app reads copied content. Privacy labels on App Store Clear view of how apps use personal data. 🌐 Safari Improvements Built‑in translation for websites. Performance boost (Safari claimed to be fastest mobile browser). Improved tab design optimized for large screens. ##### Comment Metadata - Posted at: 23 days ago - Author title: VP – Intelligent Automation | Driving Platform Enablement & Project Delivery | Expertise in Automation Anywhere, AutomationEdge, Power Automate, Fireflink, SimplyFI | Leading On-Prem & Cloud Upgrades (DR/HA) | AgenticAI ### Comment 2 Sattelite Texting from Iphone 14 - IOS 14 is very old and no longer used. ##### Comment Metadata - Posted at: 7 months ago - Author title: Senior Software Engineer / Major Grocery Companies ### Comment 3 iOS 14 was perhaps of Apple's greatest Io updates to date, presenting Home screen configuration changes, major new elements, refreshes for existing applications, Siri upgrades, and numerous different changes that smooth out the iOS interface. iOS 14 brings an overhauled Home Screen that, first and foremost, incorporates support for gadgets interestingly. Gadgets can be hauled from the Today view right onto the Home Screen, and can be stuck in various sizes. With a Shrewd Stack highlight, the iPhone can use on-gadget knowledge to surface the right gadget in view of time, area, and action. Each Home Screen page can show gadgets tweaked for work, travel, sports, and that's just the beginning. The Today segment where gadgets are housed has likewise been upgraded, and there's a gadgets exhibition where clients can pick new gadgets from applications and modify those gadgets. Swiping the entire way to the furthest limit of the application pages on an iPhone opens the new Application Library, which is a connection point that shows all of the applications on your iPhone to see everything initially. Applications are coordinated into your envelope framework, yet there are additionally Apple-made organizers like Ideas and Apple Arcade that cleverly surface applications. New application downloads can be added to your Home Screen or kept in the Application Library to keep your Home Screen more clean. New space-saving estimates mean approaching calls and Siri demands never again assume control over the whole screen. Calls (and FaceTime/VoIP calls) appear in a little pennant on the iPhone's showcase, while enacting Siri shows a little vivified Siri symbol at the lower part of the screen. With an Image in Picture mode, clients can watch recordings or chat on FaceTime while likewise utilizing other applications simultaneously, with FaceTime or a video playing in a little window that can be resized and migrated to any side of the iPhone's screen. Siri is more brilliant in iOS 14 and can answer a more noteworthy scope of inquiries with data pulled from across the web, and Siri can likewise send sound messages. Console transcription runs on gadget, adding an extra layer of protection for directed messages. Apple added Application Clasps to iOS 14, allowing clients to exploit some application highlights without expecting to download the full application. Application Clasps can allow you to do things like lease a bike, buy an espresso, make a café reservation, or fill a stopping meter by simply examining a code, with compelling reason need to download a full application. Apple depicts Application Clasps as only a "little piece of an application experience" intended to be found at the time it is required. Application Clasps work through Apple-planned Application Clasp codes, NFC labels, or QR codes, and can likewise be partaken in Messages or from Safari. ##### Comment Metadata - Posted at: over 3 years ago - Author title: Student at Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal Univeristy, Srinagar, Garhwal ## Related Product [Apple iOS](https://www.g2.com/products/apple-ios/reviews) ## Related Category [Operating System](https://www.g2.com/categories/operating-system) ## Related discussions - [How well does Trello scale into a larger team?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/1-how-well-does-trello-scale-into-a-larger-team) - Posted at: about 13 years ago - Comments: 6 - [Can we please add a new section](https://www.g2.com/discussions/2-can-we-please-add-a-new-section) - Posted at: about 13 years ago - Comments: 0 - [Quantifiable benefits from implementing your CRM](https://www.g2.com/discussions/quantifiable-benefits-from-implementing-your-crm) - Posted at: almost 13 years ago - Comments: 4