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iOSCENTRAL i PADOS 15allowed to pop up notifications and which
will be silenced. You can even set a status
and autoreply so people in Messages (and
other apps that support it) will know you’re
not available.
Focus mode syncs across all your
devices, so if you enable your “work”
focus mode on iPhone, your iPad and Mac
will also be set to that mode.
NOTIFICATIONS
The iPad gets the same changes to
notifications that the iPhone gets in iOS 15.
Namely, app icons and people’s faces are
bigger so you can more easily parse them
at a glance. You can enable a notification
summary to appear a few times a day, and
choose to delay notifications for certain
apps so they appear in the summary
instead of constantly interrupting you.
You can mute a notification or a
Message thread for just an hour or a day,
and your iPad will
suggest you do so if a
thread is really active
but you aren’t
engaging with it. Time
Sensitive notifications
can be delivered
immediately,
regardless of your
Focus mode or
notification summary
settings, so you don’t
miss the alert about your house alarm
going off, for example.MAPS
The new Maps app includes an interactive
globe and lots of details in a handful of
major cities, all rendered in a new soft,
almost cartoony art style. You’ll see
landmarks, elevation, trees, important
buildings, and more in striking detail.
If you take transit, you’ll notice that the
transit map has been overhauled and
shows major transit lines, and you can pin
your most important transit routes to
always see information about it. Drivers will
get a lot more road detail, including
crosswalks, medians, turn lanes, and even
3D interchanges.SAFARI
Safari is getting its most significant design
update in years. There’s a new moreSafari has a new tab bar, tab groups, and support for extensions.