A few days ago a news of 9to5mac where there were some of the new features we will see in iOS 14. I’m not going to go into that much since there are a thousand pages of comments, but I do want to comment on the new Apple HomeKit in iOS 14 because there’s some interesting sea.
The 9to5mac boys have had access to the code of a super beta version of iOS 14 and have been set to analyze it to tell us what improvements it brings with respect to the iOS 13.x version we currently have, I tell you some of the best news of Apple HomeKit in iOS 14 that we seem to have:
News: Night Shift for the lights
If you have a relatively moderate Apple device you’ll be used to night shift. Through this functionality, the brightness and the ‘warmth’ of the color of the screen gradually change at night so that it bothers less in sight and does not tire. This is what makes the screen a little more ‘yellow’ at night than it does at day.
It seems that we will have this same functionality in the lights, which at night will win in ‘warmth’ and become a little more yellow than during the day. I hope it can be configured or deactivated because for the rooms I could use phenomenal and probably be more pleasant, but for example the kitchen light I want it to remain as white as possible. We’ll see.
New: Facial recognition in cameras
It gives me that this functionality is going to bring more than a confidentiality problem and cannot be activated in all countries. It seems we will have easy recognition on HomeKit-compatible cameras so that we can associate a camera image to a person and we can set up a notice. This is cool, we can do for example that if a roommate enters the house he will not send us any notification but that if an unidentified person does so we will get that notification on our mobile phone… and then associate it to more things, for example if an identified person approaches the entrance because the door is unlocked or lights are turned on or anything like that. E
It’s cool.
Improvement: Default speakers
This functionality has upset me sometimes. The idea is to be able to define an external speaker by default, that is, as long as we play something on one of the devices, the audio comes out on that speaker, for example if you’re at home and you play music, as you go to the HomePod or any Air Play 2 compatible speaker you have at home, rather than have to be selecting it every time. It doesn’t give us much, but we won a little point in comfort.
In any case we have time ahead of us to read leaks and rumors about iOS 14 as new versions of iOS usually come out in September shortly after the presentation of new products, so I’m sure they’re going to polish and we get more information about all this. When I get out we’ll write another entry with the changes just like I did. with HomeKit’s functionalities on iOS 13.
