INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
iOS 13 is here, and right now you don't have time to pore through each and every new feature you just want to grab it and you can do that
with our easy how to download iOS 13 guide (unless you're buying an iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro, in which case it's pre-installed).There
are loads of new features in this iOS 13 release, so here's a quick summary of the things you should really care about (and then come back
when you've got time to go through the new upgrades in detail as we've been using the new OS for a while, and on the new iPhone 11 Pro
Max).Everthing you need to know about iOS 13 in two minutesDark Mode: Made to help improve the battery life, this mode darkens nearly all of
your phone (apart from some third-party apps)
It's more impactful and saves your eyesight at night - even the wallpapers get dimmed to match
have the iPhone 6S or iPhone SE or newer
iPadOS begins at iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 4
That means owners of the iPhone 5S and iPhone 6 are plumb out of luck this time around
Time to upgrade.Dark mode makes everything, well, darker
In a good way.(Image credit: TheIndianSubcontinent)FaceTime correction: You know that thing in a FaceTime call where you look at your screen
and therefore aren't looking at the camera? Apple will use AI to move the direction of your gaze
A bit creepy in principle, but hugely useful.Face ID is much better: We love this feature - the field of view for unlocking your phone with
your face is wider, so looking at the phone on the desk will open your iPhone up without needing to lift the handset.iOS 13 is not coming to
iOS 13 is strictly for the iPhone (and iPod Touch)
iPadOS is debuting for iPad with exclusive productivity features for the bigger tablet screen on September 30.A new QuickPath keyboard: Want
to swipe on the keyboard rather than tap? It's now in there
There's no line that follows your finger's movement, and it's a little tricky to get used to at first, but persevere and we think
you'll enjoy it.Photo editing tools are more advanced: Now you can change things like the highlights, contrast and shadows, make these
adjustments to video too, and not destroy your Live Photo video all right from the native Photos app.The QuickPath keyboard is slick to use
in our testing.(Image credit: TheIndianSubcontinent)'Find my iPhone' and 'Find my Friends' are fused: The two apps are now in one 'Find My'
app, and Apple's added in functionality that can find offline devices from other iPhones or iPads.iOS 13 improves battery life: By that we
mean 'lifetime of the battery' not 'time between charges' - the new iOS 13 platform is smarter at charging and will curtail the power input
at the right times.Reminders gets a huge (and useful) overhaul: A clear new design, Reminders now allows for attachments and better sorting
Might not sound massive, but a big jump for those that use it.The camera is getting a big upgrade: Portrait mode (if your phone supports it)
will offer more customizable lighting and a new 'High Key Mono' mode for when you want to look like you're in a Calvin Klein advert.Siri
sounds better: A refined voice with more natural diction, Siri is much nicer to talk to now.All new Memoji to play with: You can add
make-up, throw in Memoji stickers from the keyboard - if you're into your own cartoon face there's a lot to try here.Look for this logo to
get a secret email address.(Image credit: TheIndianSubcontinent)Sign in with Apple makes the internet safer: When you see this icon, you can
sign in with your Apple ID and have your user details hidden from third parties.Maps gets revamped: Easier to look around at street level?
More accurate maps? Check
Real time transit updates (in some cities)?: Check.Control Wi-Fi and Bluetooth more simply: We love this: long-press (or 3D Touch for
certain iPhone models) on the Wi-Fi / Bluetooth buttons in the Control Center and you can access all your connections in one simple
place.Use your PS4 or Xbox One controller on your phone: Does what it says now you can pair your console controller to play games in a more
Perfect for Apple Arcade, right?OK,that's the key stuff out of the way - but if you want to know more about the smaller features, or just
a bit more depth on what your iPhone or iPad can do, read on:Video: How to download iOS 13 right now (without having to wait):iOS 13 release
date and timeiOS 13 release date: It's here!iPadOS comes out later: Monday, September 30Well, you've probably already noticed, but the iOS
Simply head into your settings menu to see if there's an upgrade option, connect to power and off you go.However, iOS 13 has been
available in various beta (and buggy) forms since June - here's how it played out.1
iOS 13 developer beta: First launched at WWDC 2019, this a version restricted to paid Apple developers and, simply put, was not meant for
average consumers but for serious app developers.2
iOS 13 public beta: Apple's larger-scale features test began on June 24, and has gone through 8 versions, culminating, oddly, with a beta
iOS 13 golden master: The final version of the iOS 13 software for beta testers that's more stable and launched early in September to give
app developers time to tweak.4
iOS 13 lands for all: On Thursday September 19, the new software landed globally
It's always a bit of jam to get through the servers, but if you're desperate for it - keep trying.Video: The best iOS 13 features we've
tested so far:iOS 13 compatibility listiOS 13 requires iPhone 6S or later, iPad Air 2 or later, the new iPad mini 4 and iPhone SEIt won't
come to older devices that support up to iOS 12: iPhone 5S, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad Air, iPad mini 2 and mini 3iOS 13 compatibility
requires an iPhone or iPad from the last four years (depending on the device category)
sheds several old devices (Image credit: Apple)(Image credit: TheIndianSubcontinent)You'll need an iPhone 6S or later, the iPad Air 2 or
later, and the new iPad mini 4 or later, or the iPod touch 7th generation
No surprise, the new iPod Touch 7th gen is the only devices of its class that gets iOS 13 support.The iPhone SE fits into an odd category,
as it has iPhone 6 era specs, but came out after the iPhone 6S
Don't worry, everyone's favorite little iPhone will get iOS 13.iOS 13 Dark ModeOverdue Dark Mode is coming to iOS 13 and iPadOSWe saw
macOS get a system-wide Dark Mode in 2018Shortcut to black-and-dark-gray UI lives in Control CenterDark Mode in iOS 13 a system-wide,
meaning it changes the hues from bright white and light grey to black and dark gray on all supported apps.It's a nice feature when you're
using your iPhone at night and want to avoid bright white hues shining in your face
It may also save battery life on the OLED-equipped iPhones, from the iPhone X onward
Apple didn't talk about this at all, but we know that OLED displays essentially 'turn off' pixels when rendering blacks.Turning on iOS 13
Dark Mode can be done in Control Center inside the Display slider (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 lot of people couldn't be happier.iOS 13 offers 'FaceTime attention correction'This is an interesting
There's now an option for FaceTime Attention Correction, and it's as wild as it sounds.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
That distracted look could be a thing of the past soon.iOS 13 on iPad is iPadOS, and it's a big changeSome of the biggest changes for iOS
13 on the iPad are actually coming in an update called iPadOS
Apple is signaling that the iPad needs its own platform.That means big improvements to your iPad workflow, starting with the home screen
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
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
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.iOS 13 features a QuickPath keyboardWith 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.Here's QuickPath keyboard in action (Image credit:
Apple)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' appApple combined 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.Find My
iPhone and Find My Friends come together in one app (Image credit: Apple)What's really neat is that it 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 seems to be making a bigger push to get location tracking right with this new iOS 13 app now in the limelight.iOS
13 makes your old iPhone faster, last longerMore people are holding onto their iPhones for longer, and that's something Apple seems to
fast according to Apple, and Face ID unlocking will be 30% 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
It's better organized, and includes shortcuts that make it easier to add reminders.Reminders has gotten the freshest reimagining among iOS
13 apps (Image credit: Apple)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, flags, photos and scanned documents.Making plans in Messages? Siri will step in to suggest reminders that can be created, like a
personal assistant who chimes in at all the right times.Camera and Portrait Mode changesThe iOS 13 offers 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
becoming your photo diary (Image credit: Apple)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.You can now do something that most people have been crying out
for on an iPhone - change the aspect ratio of the picture you take in the camera app
That means square options, or 16:9 even, are there in the settings - although when you export the pictures off the phone the files are still
in the original 4:3 format.Photo editing is refined with iOS 13, adding adjustment controls and filters, while the video editing portion
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
on HomePod will understand the voices of the various family members in your home
This should mean, for example, that asking "What's on my Calendar?" won't bring up someone else's irrelevant information.Memoji gets
makeup, Messages gets info sharingApple has put 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
iPad users into the Memoji fold, TrueDepth camera or not
You can customize 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 can share your personalized Memoji with contacts through iMessages, but only when
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
featuresYou might not know this, but the HomePod is part of the iOS family, and it has gotten iOS 13 updates too.First, you can 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
selections will be based on your taste and history
feature, and there are some perks for user privacy, too (Image credit: Apple)Apple is taking on Facebook Connect, Google and other platforms
that allow you to conveniently sign in to third-party accounts
Sign-in with Apple is poised to protect your privacy more than Facebook and Google do.What's neat is that if you don't want to fork over
your email to an app developer or website, Apple will create a unique random email for you, and the email will be unique to that site or
app.We're still waiting for this to roll out through developers, but over time you'll start seeing it more regularly.Maps get revampediOS 13
Maps looks a lot better, even if everyone likes to hate on it
Will it ever be better than Google Maps? No, probably not
But for people who want Apple's pre-loaded maps app on iOS 13, it's much better.360-degree city tours are coming to Apple Maps (Image
credit: Apple)There's way more detail here by way of Apple rebuilding maps from the ground up
There's more realistic detail for roads, beaches, parks, and buildings, and you can now explore cities with a 3D 360-degree
the very top of a search menu
Sometimes Google Maps on iOS doesn't get this right (but does better on Android)
That's one reason to keep Apple Maps installed, even if you're a Google Maps person.Text formatting in MailMail is getting some changes
when it comes to writing out properly formatted email
You'll have more control over font style, size, color, alignment, indenting and outdenting text, and numbered and bulleted lists.What we're
really hoping to see one day in iOS 13.1 or iOS 14 is the ability to insert a hyperlink into some text in an email
and we've been asking for it for several years
You can now select Wi?Fi networks and Bluetooth accessories right from Control Center.Android has had this for years, and it was always
convenient to connect to new Wi-Fi networks or Bluetooth earbuds without having to navigate away from your current app and dive into five
Apple is finally coming around in iOS 13.Xbox One and PS4 game controller supportIf you're going to play games on your phone, you might as
well do it with one of the two best controllers available (and maybe something you already own).Enter PS4 and Xbox One game controller
Apple didn't say if all games will support this or if it'll be limited to Apple Arcade, but whatever the case may be, we're happy to be able
to put our PS4 controller to use everywhere we roam.Silence Unknown CallsNuisance spam calls drive us crazy every day, and iOS 13 wants to
fix the issue with the help of Siri, which scans your Contacts, Mail and Messages to see if you've previously been in contact with the
caller.Silence Unknown Calls sounds fairly smart, if you're not expecting business numbers cold-calling you for work
Those that do call you and aren't on your personal 'VIP list' will go straight to voicemail.iOS 13 features exclusive to iPhone 11
phonesCamera UI buttons / wheel toggle between ultra-wide and telephotoHolding photo shutter button captures video (no longer for burst
photos)Front camera takes wide-angle selfies in landscape, 4K60fps video and 'Slofies'We thought we knew all about iOS 13 in June, but it
iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max are almost all about the new cameras, the iOS 13 software lends itself to the new ultra-wide lens and
special night mode.Switching between the cameras lenses (two lenses on the iPhone 11 and three on the iPhone 11 Pro series) is supposed to
button in iOS 13 start recording video, akin to the Snapchat and Instagram UI
Apple claims it's new handsets offer the highest-quality video ever in a smartphone, so it's putting a big emphasis on how easy it is to
On any other iPhone running iOS 13, holding down the same shutter button captures burst photos.The front TrueDepth camera on a iPhone 11
phones can capture wide-angle selfies when held in the landscape orientation, and record up to 4K60fps video
Before, we were all deprived with 1080p60fps selfie videos.Sure to be the ire of everyone older than millennial age, you're going to
starting to see 'Slofies'
Love it or hate it (because of the name), this iPhone 11-exclusive iOS 13 feature captures epic-looking slo-mo video from the front camera
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