New features of Apple's ios 14.0

1. Home screen widget: make the desktop more personalized.

How to make the mobile phone desktop more personalized? The normal operation is to change wallpaper and arrange app icons. Now you can create widgets after updating to iOS 14.

Widgets can be placed anywhere on the desktop, which helps to view information at a glance and is suitable for tracking commuting, fitness records, calendar events or news reports.

The addition method is simple. Press and hold the main screen, and click the+in the upper left corner to select different types of widgets, which are still mostly system applications, such as photos, weather, clocks, memos, to-do items, screen usage time, etc.

Compared with the old Android desktop widget, Apple obviously limited the size of the iOS widget. The system is available in three sizes: 2×2 (small), 2×4 (medium) and 4×4 (large). The greater the ratio, the richer the information displayed. And because the widget is added, the extruded app rounded icon will automatically move to the next screen.

If you think there are too many widgets on the desktop, but you don't use them often, try dragging one widget onto another to create a stack and browse up and down to make full use of the space on the home screen.

It is worth mentioning that the smart stacked widgets will judge according to time, place, activity and other factors, and display the corresponding interface at the appropriate time.

In addition, in addition to the main screen, you can also place widgets in the "Today" view (that is, the negative screen we often say).

When it comes to "Today" view, people will inevitably want to compare the differences between the new widget and the original widget (notification center widget). In fact, compared with "practical" widgets, widgets are more like an information display window or an app launcher. Zhong Ying, the developer of JSBox, pointed out three "hard injuries" in his view:

Weak interactive ability. Clicking the Widget will jump directly to the app, so it is impossible to click continuously, such as calculator widget.

Unable to actively update data. Widgets prefer "static" information display;

Page dynamics are weaker. Because the size style has been fixed, it is not as flexible as Widget.

Even so, the advantages of widgets are still obvious, not only occupying a more critical and eye-catching position on the home screen, but also ranking higher than widgets in the "Today" view.

As mentioned above, at present, widgets are mostly provided for system applications, and we expect the majority of third parties to play tricks.

2.app resource library: the system automatically organizes the app for you.

Slide the home screen to the last page, and you will see a brand-new space "application resource library" launched by iOS 14, which is displayed in the form of a folder, and can automatically and intelligently sort out all applications, with a simple and beautiful view.

Wechat is classified as social, Taobao as shopping and food, and only a few apps such as Alipay are not classified as efficiency and finance, and most of them are within the scope of understanding, which is convenient for quick search and access.

In addition to classifying products according to their own characteristics, the two folders in the first line of the App library will also be updated in real time:

The "suggestions" folder will recommend the app. You may want to open it according to signals such as time, place or activity.

The "Recently Added" folder will display your recently downloaded applications or recently used application clips (Apple applet, discussed below).

I have to mention the search function at the top of the "Application Library", which not only supports the search of application names, but also displays all applications in alphabetical order, which helps to find them quickly.

Knowing about the Application Library and widgets, you can make major changes to your desktop. As you can see, the following three home screen shots have two similarities: the number of apps displayed is small, and the number of pages is small (the small white dot above the Dock bar corresponds to the page).