Like the smart home screen Widget in iOS 14, the most important pings will be shown first with more information. Essentially you can choose to get a big group notification at a specific time that uses AI to prioritize which is most important. What’s new here, along with the redesign, is Notification Summary. You’ll still be able to pull down from the top and see a list - which will be ordered by most recent. The new visual interface focuses on cleaner App icons and a smaller amount of text. For example, the Shared With You section in the News app will highlight articles that were previously sent to you, and that same section in Apple Music will point you toward that song recommendation that you promised you were going to listen to a few days ago.Ĭleaning up Notifications and prioritizing pingsĪpple decluttered the home screen last year, and now they’re cleaning up Notifications. The new Shared With You section in supported iOS 15 apps is designed to help you fetch anything that your friends have sent over in the past via the Messages app. SharePlay will work with first-party apps like Music and Apple TV+ but will also support services such as Disney+, TikTok, Hulu, Twitch and HBO Max when iOS 15 launches this fall so that you can binge along with loved ones from a distance. For example, you can send a friend a link to your favorite song in Apple Music via Messages, and once they open it, you’ll both be listening together in real time. Plus, with wider platform support and the ability to schedule and share calls, FaceTime could end up becoming more of a legitimate competitor with video conferencing apps like Zoom and Google Meet.Īpple’s iOS 15 is also introducing SharePlay, which allows you to watch and listen to a variety of content in sync with any friends or family members that you share it with. This is a huge upgrade, since it’s the first time people outside of the Apple bubble can participate in FaceTime calls, and means that you no longer have to leave your Android friends out of your nightly video chats. So, if you have a team meeting or a family catch-up planned for 7 p.m., you can send a FaceTime link out to everyone involved so that it’s on their calendars ahead of time.Īnd here’s the real kicker - you don’t even need to be on iOS to join these calls, as folks on Android and Windows can jump into FaceTime links via a web browser. While we haven’t had much of an issue with the audio quality of FaceTime calls as is, we’re eager to see what (if any) difference these upgrades make once we get to try them out.įaceTime is also getting a grid view to make it easier to see everyone on a call at once, as well as the ability to generate and share links to FaceTime calls for more organized planning. You’ll also have two options for sounding better on FaceTime calls - voice isolation, which uses machine learning to block out unwanted background noise, and wide spectrum mode, which can pick up an entire room of sound for important conference calls. Apple’s video calling app is getting spatial audio to better spread out multiple voices and make your friends and family members sound like they’re coming from different directions. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN accountįaceTime is getting some huge upgrades to make iOS video calls feel more “natural, comfortable and lifelike,” according to Apple.
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