{"id":32282,"date":"2021-04-27T16:13:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T20:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=32282"},"modified":"2021-05-24T16:47:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T20:47:23","slug":"ios-14-5-and-ipados-14-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/27\/ios-14-5-and-ipados-14-5\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple<\/a> (MacRumors<\/a>, ArsTechnica<\/a>, Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

iOS 14.5 brings exciting new features to iPhone, including the ability to unlock iPhone with Apple Watch while wearing a face mask, more diverse Siri voices, new privacy controls, skin tone options to better represent couples in emoji, and much more.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

App Tracking Transparency requires apps to get the user’s permission before tracking their data across apps or websites owned by other companies for advertising, or sharing their data with data brokers. Apps can prompt users for permission, and in Settings, users will be able to see which apps have requested permission to track so they can make changes to their choice at any time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Apple<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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This document describes the security content of iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Federico Viticci<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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In the following months, I used Siri to play a variety of music and podcast content in Spotify without ever appending the “in Spotify” qualifier to my requests, and Siri never asked me to pick a different audio player again. By all intents and purposes, this option had the effect of setting a default audio player for Siri on my device.<\/p>\n

Apple, however, recently stressed how this new Siri feature in iOS 14.5 shouldn’t be seen as “changing a default app”, for a variety of reasons.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Apple is continuing to expand Shortcuts with new actions and system integrations in iOS 14.5.<\/p>\n

First, there’s ‘Take Screenshot’. As the name implies, you can use this action to programmatically capture a screenshot of whatever is in the foreground when the shortcut runs without having to press the Power + Volume Up buttons.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

You can now also control your device’s orientation lock settings via the ‘Set Orientation Lock’ action. With this action, you can either toggle orientation lock, or you can use parameters to specifically set it to ‘on’ or ‘off’.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Perhaps more importantly though, this action is the perfect candidate for an automation that disables orientation lock whenever you open video apps like YouTube and Netflix.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I keep orientation lock on at all times but now, when I launch Halide, orientation lock toggles off, and then switches itself back on when I leave the app. This does seem like something Apple could provide an API to developers for — the Camera app is able to rotate its UI and the photos it takes without toggling orientation lock — but it is an excellent workaround.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

I wish this were a standard per-app preference, like with notifications, cellular, and location access.<\/p>\n\n

Someone1234<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In regard to unlock w\/Apple Watch:<\/p>