Apple last week launched the first public beta of its upcoming iOS 14.5 update, allowing iPhone users to try out new features before an official launch.<\/p>\n
A major talking point of this update has been Apple’s App Tracking Transparency capability, which will require apps like Facebook to request permission from users before tracking their activity across other apps and websites.<\/p>\n
While this will certainly provide more peace of mind for users concerned about how their privacy is protected, there are also a number of other features aimed at enhancing the everyday user experience.<\/p>\n
One noteworthy change is the ability to set third-party apps as the default option for opening certain files or links.<\/p>\n
iPhone users will now able to choose their preferred app for music playback, accessing emails, and browsing the web, among other actions.<\/p>\n
As several Reddit users<\/strong><\/a> have noted, the feature appears to be integrated with Apple’s digital assistant Siri, at least for music playback.<\/p>\n These users have found that Siri will now play music on their preferred service without them having to specify the name of the app to be used each time.<\/p>\n Another handy new feature is the ability to unlock your iPhone while wearing a mask by using a connected Apple Watch.<\/p>\n This comes after users complained about having to remove their mask every time they wanted Face ID to recognise them.<\/p>\n 9to5Mac<\/strong><\/a> listed several of the new features and changes they were able to identify in the beta thus far, including:<\/p>\n Those who want to try out the public beta will have to enrol for Apple’s beta software programme first.<\/p>\n Be warned, however, beta updates can still be very buggy and cause issues, so it is not recommended that you do this on your primary device.<\/p>\n If you are willing to risk it, you can follow the steps below:<\/p>\n You will now be able to see the iOS 14.5 beta update available to download and install under Settings > General > Software Update.<\/p>\n If you prefer to tread on the safe side, the final version of iOS 14.5 is expected to roll out to iPhone users later in February.<\/p>\n Apple last week launched the first public beta of its upcoming iOS 14.5 update, allowing iPhone users to try out new features before an official launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":385760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[605,68600,1125,7927],"class_list":["post-385754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-apple","tag-ios-14-5","tag-iphone","tag-spotify"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385778,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385754\/revisions\/385778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Face unlock with mask<\/h3>\n
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How to install the beta<\/h3>\n
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