As scheduled, the Cupertino guys have officially presented what will be some of the main news that will come from the hand of the next version of both iOS and tvOS, watchOS and macOS. In this article we are going to focus on the news that comes with iOS 13.
iPadOS, as Apple has called the version of iOS thate will arrive in its final version from September, presents us with a large number of novelties, many of which had been demanded by the community. If you want to know all the what's new in iOS 13 that Apple has presented at the inaugural WWDC conference, I invite you to continue reading.
What's new in iOS 13
Dark mode
For many years, this has been another of the demands of users, especially since Apple released the first iPhone with an OLED screen. This type of screen only lights the LEDs that show a color other than black, so it saves a large amount of energy when the applications we use are compatible with this mode, as long as the background is completely black, not dark gray like some Applications.
Dark mode will be available in all native iOS applications such as Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Reminders, Messages, Apple Music, Podcast ... Many are the developers who for a little over a year have offered this mode in their applications, a mode that will be activated automatically in the application when activated throughout the system .
Swipe to type on the keyboard
Many are iPhone users who use the Google Gboard keyboard, or other third parties, which allows them slide your finger on the screen to write. With the release of iOS 13, it will not be necessary to install a third-party keyboard to be able to do so, if that is the main reason we have installed it.
Performance improvements
With the release of iOS 12, Apple dramatically improved the performance of all devices, especially the ancients. With iOS 13 it seems that Apple has continued to focus on improving this performance and applications will open in half the time.
However, this performance improvement applies only to devices that will be supported, where both the iPhone 5s and the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus are left out of the update, as well as the iPad mini 2 and the first generation iPad Air.
Mail write with format
One of the shortcomings that we have always found in Mail when writing emails, was that we could not format the text. That will change with the release of the next version of iOS 13, a move that is geared towards users get used to using the native iOS email manager
Apple Maps
The Apple Maps application, with which Apple continues to try to be an alternative to Google Maps, continues to improve every year. With the arrival of iOS 13, the plans of the cities we visit offers us more detail, which so far, thus improving the possibility of recognizing where we are and where we want to go.
Google Street View comes to Apple Maps
Other novelties of Apple maps, we find in the possibility of see cities from a pedestrian view where we are, just like Google's Street View feature. That if, for now, like the largest number of details of this service will be available in the United States, reaching the rest of the world from 2019.
Sign in with Apple
Apple wants us to use the Apple ID to sign up for application services. Through this method, we will prevent the developer and / or service from obtaining data from us, as if it happens when we use a service using Google or Facebook.
When using this service, Apple will assign us a special email account for the developer or service to contact us. In this way, if we stop using the service we will not continue to receive advertising or information related to it.
HomeKit
HomeKit is the Apple platform with which we can manage our devices remotely, either through Siri commands or through the Home application. Of all supported devices, the one that gets the least benefit are the security cameras.
With the arrival of iOS 13, Apple it will allow us to record everything that happens behind the cameras for 10 days and with a limit of 200 GB, space that will not be subtracted from our storage space if the one we have contracted is higher.
Camera & Photos
With iOS 13, Apple will allow us to modify any value of the photographs that we take as the brightness, saturation, focus, contrast ... as if we had captured it in RAW and were editing it in a Photoshop-like application.
The photo library hWill use of machine learning to show us the best photographs of each day, month, year or even of a special event. In addition, it will allow us to modify the view we have of the album, as we can currently do in the Google Photos application.
In addition, it will also allow us add filters and rotate videos directly when editing, without having to use applications designed for this such as iMovie, for example.
Memojis
The customization options of the memojis that came from the hand of the iPhone X they are practically infinite, since not only can we add any lipstick or eye shadow color, but we can also customize the image of our teeth, even if we have a gold tooth or are missing one.
It also allows us to personalize our face if we have a ring in the nose, tongue, ear… The number of options to customize the type of sunglasses we wear are also very high. Anyone who does not want to create an emoji package to share through any application is because he does not want to.
C
Since CarPlay was officially introduced, the guys in Cupertino had paid little attention to it. With iOS 13, CarPlay gets a major facelift that will show much more information on the screen that until now, where only the information of a single application was shown.
AirPods
Thanks to bluetooth 5.x technology, we will be able to connect multiple headphones to the same device to listen to the same music, the same podcast ... Also, if we are using the AirPods, when we receive a text message, iOS 13 will automatically read it.
IOS 13 Compatible Devices
As planned, and because they are the oldest devices, Apple has left out of the iOS 13 update to the iPhone 5s and iPhone 6, devices that do not reach 2 GB of RAM than if you have both the iPhone 6s and the iPhone SE, older devices that are still upgradeable to iOS 13.
- iPhone Xs
- iPhone Xs Max
- iPhone Xr
- iPhone X
- iPhone 8
- 8 iPhone Plus
- iPhone 7
- 7 iPhone Plus
- iPhone 6s
- 6s iPhone Plus
- iPhone SE
- iPod touch 7th generation
- iPad Air 2
- iPad Air 3rd generation 2019
- iPad Mini 4
- iPad Mini 5
- iPad 2017
- iPad 2018
- 9.7-inch iPad Pro
- 10.5-inch iPad Pro
- 11-inch iPad Pro
- 12.9-inch iPad Pro (all generations)
When the iOS 13 public beta launches
The public beta of iOS 13 will be available from the month of July, probably at the end, just like last year. Developers can install the first beta of iOS 13 from now, as well as the beta of watchOS, tvOS and macOS.