TechLife Australia – September 2019

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iOS 13 MAKES YOUR OLD IPHONE FASTER,
LAST LONGER
More people are holding onto their iPhones
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upiOS 13 to accommodate them.
The most important iOS 13 stats: app
launch speed is up to twice as fast according
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faster than before. Apple also found a way to
make app downloads smaller, up to 60% on
average; iOS 12 gave us a faster update, and
iOS 13 looks to build upon that.
Battery life is also something Apple is
tackling this year. Its aim is to slow the rate of
battery aging by reducing the time your
iPhone spends fully charged. iOS 13 is
supposed to learn from your daily charging
routine so it can wait to finish charging past
80% until you need to use it.

REMINDERS GETS A BIG OVERHAUL
Ofall the built-in apps, Reminders is getting
the biggest revamp in iOS 13. It appears to be
better organised, and includes shortcuts that
make it easier to add reminders.
Big, color-coded buttons for Today,
Scheduled, All and Flagged categories offer
you a better oversight of your pressing tasks,
while the keyboard when you’re in this app
has a top-line Quick Toolbar that acts as a
shortcut to easily add times, dates, locations,
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CAMERAAND PORTRAIT MODE CHANGES

iOS 13 is going to offer 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. Portrait mode is also getting a

new monochromatic effect called High-

Key Mono.

The Photos gallery is becoming what Apple

called “a diary of your life”, with a new tab

designed to document your best photos by

day, month and year. You’ll also have more

pinch controls to zoom in and out of the

Photos gallery.

Photo editing is refined with iOS 13,

adding adjustment controls and filters, while

the video editing portion mirrors this almost

entirely: nearly every photo tool and effect –

including filters, rotating and cropping – will

make it over to video. If you’re not good at

tinkering with video, there’ll even be an

‘Auto’ adjustment button.

NEW SIRI VOICE SOUNDS MORE NATURAL

There’s a new Siri voice debuting with iOS 13,

and it sounds more natural than before –

we’ve heard a sample and the tone is the

same, but it sounds less robotic.

It uses advanced neural text-to-speech

technology, according to Apple, and you’ll

particularly notice this when Siri says longer

phrases, like reading the Apple News aloud

or answering knowledge questions.

The timing is good, because Siri can also

do a lot more talking if you wear AirPods –

Siri can read incoming messages and pipe

them through the buds, which is convenient.

One more new Siri perk: your voice

assistant on HomePod will understand the

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GETS INFO SHARING

Apple is putting more of ‘Me’ in Memoji,

allowing one trillion configurations: new

hairstyles, headwear, makeup, and piercings

to name a few categories. Examples on the

WWDC stage showed that these personalized

Animoji masks allow for such granular

accessory detail as eyeshadow, braces and

even AirPods.

Memoji Stickers are something entirely

new – iOS 13 will bring more iPhone and

iPad users into the Memoji fold, TrueDepth

camera or not. You can customise a Memoji

and iOS 13 will automatically create a

fun-looking sticker pack that lives in a

sub-menu on the keyboard, which you can

use in Messages, Mail, and third-party apps.

You’ll be able to share your personalized

Memoji with contacts through iMessages, but

only when you grant them access. The same

applies to sharing your name and photo with

contacts, so you can chose how people see

your name, for example. According to Apple,

you can decide whether you want your profile

shared with everyone, with only your

contacts, or just once.

NEW HOMEPOD FEATURES

You might not know this, but the HomePod is

part of the iOS family, and it’s getting

updates too.

First, you’ll be able to transfer songs from

your iPhone by simply holding your phone

closer to the HomePod speaker. Previously,

you had to tell Siri to do this, but now this

hand-off feature is a bit easier, and you don’t

have to talk to do it.

The HomePod will also introduce Live

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