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She has, Apple reckons, 20 times more facts at her fingertips than three years ago, and in iOS 14 is able to tackle more complex questions than ever before.

We already mentioned that Siri doesn’t take up the entire screen any more, but she gets some more upgrades in iOS 14. It sounds like they will disappear after a while, too, although it’s not yet quite clear how this will work. There will also be links in the real world: signs that combine a QR-style code with an NFC chip that takes you to the App Clip.Īpp Clips are designed to let you do one single thing that an app offers, without having to download the rest of the app. Companies will be able to put Clips on their website, with a link to download it when you want to pay for your shopping or rent a room or whatever. Ever had that experience where you try to park somewhere, but the company running the carpark insists that you pay using their own dedicated app, which is ten times bigger than it needs to be and takes forever to download? Now you’ll be able to download a much smaller version, called an App Clip.Īpp Clips won’t be accessed via the App Store – or not only from there. There are also other types of app where changing the default would be handy, such as mapping, and we’ll have to wait longer until Apps will have to go through an additional vetting process to make it on to the list of options, so don’t depend on this happening overnight. Surprisingly quietly – Apple has allowed us to make third-part browser and email apps the default in iOS 14. We feel that it wouldn’t be fair to run tests on a beta version, since that’s not finished – although that hasn’t stopped plenty of sites doing precisely that, and discovering that performance on the first developer beta of iOS 14 is roughly the same as on iOS 13.5.1.

When the finished version of iOS 14 rolls out we’ll run some speed tests and report back on both benchmarks and subjective feel. But don’t expect a speed boost either – if that was on offer, we’re sure Apple would have mentioned it before now.

We’re fairly sure we’re not about to go back to the bad old days when installing an iOS update on a phone that was more than, say, three years old was a recipe for slowdown. Most of us expected this year’s update to focus on stability, which generally means ‘not so many bugs’ (we hope that will still be the case) but in some interpretations also encompasses minor tweaks to performance, particularly on older devices. Speed up your iPhone, like iOS 13 did, or slow it down like a number of previous updates? It looks like the answer is… neither.

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