(right next to the Night Shift and True Tone
toggle), according to Apple, or you can set it
automatically to turn on at night through a
schedule or custom time.
The yellow-tinting Night Shift mode finally
gets a bright-light dimming companion, and a
lotof people couldn’t be happier.
‘FACETIME ATTENTION CORRECTION’
This is an interesting one. There’s now an
option for FaceTime Attention Correction,
according to registered iOS 13 beta testing
developers, and it’s wild.
What does it do exactly? It makes it so that it
appears as if you’re looking straight into the
front-facing camera during a FaceTime video
call, when you’re actually looking at the
adjacent screen. That distracted look could be
a thing of the past!
iOS 13 ON iPAD IS iPADOS, AND IT’S A
BIG CHANGE
Some of the biggest changes we expected for
iOS 13 on the iPad are actually coming in an
update called iPadOS. Apple is signalling that
theiPad needs its own platform.
That means big improvements to your iPad
workflow, starting with the home screen
redesign. Pinned Widgets, as we predicted in
our iOS 13 rumors roundup, lets you add
widgets from the Today View screen (that
left-mode screen on your iPhone and iPad). So
far, it’s iPad-exclusive, and not coming to
iOS13 for the iPhone.
SLIDE OVER lets you have multiple apps open
and cycle through them like rolodex. You can
also fan to preview them all at once with a
swipe gesture, kind of like the recents menu on
many phones and tablets. It’s multi-tasking
made easier.
SPLIT VIEW has been enhanced to let you
open one app on both sides of the screen (it
wasn’t possible before), and Apple demoed this
by showing Notes side-by-side with Notes. You
can also pair an app with more than one app- so now Safari can be paired with Pages in
one space and Safari can be paired with Mail
in another.
APP EXPOSE is new to the iPad software,
letting you see all of the space you have open.
There’s an App Expose icon on the Dock,
requiring only a single press to get into the
convenient overview mode.
NEW COPY, PASTE AND UNDO GESTURES are
coming to iPadOS. Three fingers scrunched
down was shown to copy text, three fingers
expanding (in the opposite direction) dropped
the text on the page, and sliding three fingers
across the screen undid the last action. We’ll
have to see how this performs when the
software lands.
APPLE’S KEYBOARD can float around the
screen in a smaller form, and it’s debuting a
swiping gesture keyboard, which it calls
QuickPath Typing. There are also more
keyboard shortcuts (a lack of shortcuts was a
complaint we had about previous iOS versions).
There are actually too many iPadOS
changes to detail here in the iOS 13 explainer,
so we’ve spun the full rundown off into a
separate iPadOS release date, news and
features article.
QUICKPATH KEYBOARD
With iOS 13, Apple’s default QuickType
keyboard will be incorporating swipe-to-
type, a popular way of sliding across the
keyboard to form words. We’ve used this in
prior iOS keyboard extensions like Google’s
Gboard and SwiftKey.
You can use the QuickType and QuickPath
methods of typing interchangeably, and so far
supported languages include English,
Simplified Chinese, Spanish, German,
French, Italian, and Portuguese is
now included.iOS 13 DEBUTS NEW ‘FIND MY’ APP
Apple is combining Find My Friends and
Find My iPhone in iOS 13, and the union lets
you locate your friends and missing gadgets
with a faster, easier-to-use interface.
What’s really neat is that it’ll use a
crowd-sourced encrypted Bluetooth signal to
help you track down devices that aren’t
connected to Wi-Fi or cellular. That’s mostly
a big help for Macs, but it could also help with
an iPhone in rare cases, too.
Best of all, while Find My Friends didn’t
always work for us, Apple may be making a
bigger push to get location tracking
right with this new iOS 13 app now in
the limelight.APPLE TAG PRODUCT HINTS
The theory that Apple is taking on the Tile
tracker is backed up in the iOS 13 beta,
according to a new leak regarding what’s been
dubbed the ‘Apple Tag’.