All the Apparent and Hidden Features Coming to iOS 13

Part 1: 13 Fascinating Highlights of iOS 13

1. System-wide Dark Mode

The Dark mode is a long-expected function by its iPhone users, which become more expectant since Apple implemented Dark Theme in the last version of its desktop OS, MacOS Mojave. This eye-friendly mode replaces the usual light screen with a dark screen, which is perfect for low-light environments to reduce eye strain, as well as extend your phone’s battery time.

Moreover, it is seamlessly integrated throughout the system and available for almost all apps in iOS 13, from built-in apps to third-party apps. It will be simple to turn on from Control Center or set to automatically turn on at night.

2. Sign in with Apple

The new privacy feature called Sign in with Apple launched by Apple in this update to make it conveniently log into various accounts and apps without giving away your email address, better protecting your privacy.

Apple will never track or profile you when you sign in with Apple; meanwhile, it also blocks all other third-party software that tries to track your info by generating a unique, random email address when apps request one, making it easy to cut off communication later when you’re tired of all those marketing emails.

Above all, this feature works everywhere, applying for not just all your iOS devices, but also for web, apps on Android, and Windows.

3. Revamped Photos App

From the official page of Apple’s iOS 13, Apple lists out 29 features of Photos app that designed to make your photos and videos look better than ever. We’re not going to talk about all these features one by one, in a nutshell, all the features make a pretty significant overhaul of Photos app.

However, there are 3 outstanding points we have to focus on, they are:

1. It enables you to better browse, find, relive and organize all your photos by offering the all-new Photos tab.

2. It gives you the total control over how your pics look by providing photo editing tools to help you adjust everything you care most about a picture including the brightness, clarity, sharpen, white balance, filter, noise, etc.

3. It makes it possible to use the entire picture editing tools on videos in the Photos app. What you can do with a picture, now you can do with a video, from trimming a clip to adjust everything like brightness, filter and so on.

4. Camera: Adjust Portrait Lighting & High-Key Mono

Almost every iOS upgrade, Apple makes significant and obvious changes to the Camera since it’s one of the key point people would take into consideration when deciding whether to buy a mobile phone or not. iOS 13 is no exception.

iOS 13 is going to bring important changes to camera features, starting with enabling you to change the intensity of light in Portrait Mode, which is something we've wanted for a while. Moving the light closer to your subject digitally enhances the effect to smooth skin, sharpen eyes, and brighten facial features.

iOS 13 also adds a new High-Key Mono Portrait Lighting effect that features a monochromatic subject on a white background.

5. Privacy and Security

iOS 13 beefs up security from third-party offenders by limiting the location data shared with apps. Starting with iOS 13, you can allow apps to access your location one time only or elect to have apps ask you every time. Apple will provide a notification when an app is using your location in the background so that you can decide whether to update your permission.

6. Revamped Maps App

In iOS 13, Maps is getting a much bigger update that offers more practical features such as Junction View for vehicle drivers, look around feature to show you 3D visual street view, updated Favorites option for better collecting and sharing, and a mode for sending your estimated time of arrival to family, friends or coworkers when you’re commuting.

7. New Reminders App

To competitive with various third-party to-do apps, this time Apple overhauled the Reminders app to make it more useful and better organized. The redesigned Reminders app features with four organized categories, a new quick toolbar, smart lists, enhanced Siri assistant and customized appearance preference.

iOS 13 brings these large refreshes of Reminders app, which makes it not only a reminding app to better keep a record of the important things of your life, but more like an intelligent assistant to better manage and organize various items for you.

8. New Siri Voice

Apple extends the support for Siri on its other devices like the AirPod to enable Siri to read incoming messages through Bluetooth earbuds, play music, podcasts and more with third-party apps, offers personalized suggestions in Maps and so on.

Besides these perks, the most notable feature of Siri in this iOS update is the improved and more natural voice. Siri gets its new voice that sounds less robotic and more like a real person, natural than ever, particularly while speaking longer phrases. Best of all, Siri adapts local conditions such as offering a new Indian English voice.

9. New ‘Find My’ App

As an iOS user, you must be very familiar with Find My iPhone and Find My Friends. In iOS 13, Apple combines these two applications as one called ‘Find My’ to help you locate people and devices that mean a lot to you.

What's really neat is that it'll use a crowd-sourced encrypted Bluetooth signal to help you locate a missing device that isn’t connected to Wi-Fi or cellular. That will be a big help when you losing your iPhone and have another Apple device at hand.

10. Quicker Wi-Fi Network Selection

Another long overdue feature iOS users have been begging Apple to change is the Wi-Fi connection. You know, that it’s not really convenient to turn off or change Wi-Fi network road in iOS 12, while Android does a great job of making it easier for users. That’s why iPhone users expect it for years which finally come around in iOS 13.

As long as you install iOS 13, you'll be able to select Wi-Fi networks right from the Control Center, without having to navigate away from your current app and dive into Settings app to finish more operations like before.

11. Smarter Bluetooth Switch

This new feature about Bluetooth switch is similar to the Wi-Fi change. With iOS 13 running on your iPhone or iPad, you can easily set the Bluetooth accessories right from Control Center.

To completely turn off Bluetooth, you need to tap on your iPhone with at least 3 times in iOS 12. Now, you can just swipe your iPhone up from the control center then with one click to make it hassle-free.

12. Quick Path Keyboard

Android users and iPhone users who used one of the Google keyboards on their iPhone know clearly that it is indeed so smooth and quick to just glide your finger across the keyboard to type out a word, whereas laborious to tap on each individual key. While Apple supports installing third-party keyboard apps like SwiftKey to make it quicker, it is certainly better to make its own keyboard capable of this functionality in it. iOS 13 brings it to come true, the new keyboard added this time called Quick Path Typing by Apple, which will be enabled by default after iOS 13 update.

Starting with iOS 13, you can enjoy a quicker typing by just place a finger on the keyboard and swipe, plus, you’ll be offering spelling suggestions as you go along. The more you use Quick Path, the better iOS 13 will be at determining what you're planning to say.

13. The iPad Gets Its Own OS

At long last, users’ expectations for making big changes on the iPad are finally coming in the update called iPadOS. Apple recognizes that the iPad needs its own platform and spinning off iOS into its separate operating system for iPads.

That means big improvements to your iPad workflow, starting with the home screen redesign. Pinned Widgets lets you add widgets from the Today View screen that left-mode screen on your iPad. So far, it's iPad-exclusive, and not coming to iOS13 for the iPhone. And, Slide Over lets you have multiple apps open and cycle through them like rolodex, which makes multi-tasking easier.

Frankly, we haven't listed all the features that iOS 13 covers, what we talked about from the above are features we think are the most notable in this major update. In addition to these features, there are many hidden features that will be gradually discovered as using iOS 13 on iPhone iPad.

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