The release date for iOS 13 will be next week. This is Apple's way of updating the software on your existing iPhone, even if you don't plan on updating to a new device.
When it launches on Thursday, September 19, one day before the official release date of the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro series, your old iPhone will change for the better.
Of course, the iOS 13 update played a minor role on the new hardware during Apple's launch - the official release date wasn't even mentioned on stage. But it will be big news soon.
In fact, the new features of iOS 13 are arriving on many new iPhones, especially all the iPhones since the iPhone 6S. Many people will benefit.
You don't have to wait to get iOS 13 because the public beta, released in late June, is still available for download. We have the instructions to download and install it with a detailed video below.
Video: How to download iOS 13 now (without waiting):
What are the new features of iOS 13? Is it worth jumping into the hoop to get iOS 13 sooner? It really depends on your desire to experience the new dark mode.
Dark mode, the standout feature of iOS 13 in 2019: it inverts bright white backgrounds with more shades of black and dark gray, making it easier to read the screen at night. This is an element that makes a difference in your use of the iPhone daily or at night.
The new QuickPath Scan Keyboard is a big plus too, and new photo editing methods have made it much easier for us to open Lightroom. It is very powerful compared to native iOS 12.4 photo and video editing tools.
Note: iOS 13 is strictly for iPhone (and iPod Touch). iPadOS debuts on iPad with exclusive productivity features for the tablet's biggest screen on September 30.
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IOS 13 release date and time
- IOS 13 release date: Thursday, September 19 (usually after 10am)
- IOS 13 Gold Master Version - Beta Testers Are Available
- iPadOS is later coming out: Monday, September 30
- You can still download the beta version of iOS 13 now
The official release date for iOS 13 is Thursday, September 19, just over three months after the first beta version of the first software test.
The release date for iOS 13 is later than usual. Apple already released its mobile operation update on Monday or Tuesday after its new iPhone launch event.
But you don't have to wait until then, technically: the public beta for iOS 13 is still out and has gone through several iterations after it launched on June 24. Technically it corresponds to iOS 13.1... iOS 13 has already been through a lot, actually.
Here's the iOS 13 timeline as we saw it:
1. iOS 13 Developer beta: First released at WWDC 2019, it was a version reserved for paid Apple developers. It initially required the installation of Xcode or macOS 10.15. The second beta from the developer fixed the problem with an over-the-air (OTA) update. In simple terms, it was not intended for average consumers, but for serious application developers.
2. Public Beta for iOS 13 - Apple's full-scale feature testing started on June 24 and went through 8 versions, interestingly in a beta for iOS 13.1 (before iOS 13 was released yet). If you're curious, the public beta is the version to download. It is often a more refined version of the iOS developer beta, although it can be rudimentary and never includes all of the features implemented in the final version of the software.
3. iOS 13 golden master - now the final version of iOS 13 software for beta testers. It was released a week earlier and is very stable. It gives application makers nine days to adapt before the final release of consumer software.
4. Official iOS 13 Release Date and Time: Apple will release iOS 13 software in final and stable form on Thursday, September 19. There are only 24 hours before the iPhone 11 delivery date.
5. What time will iOS 13 be released? Apple likes to schedule its new software updates for 10am PST (Cupertino local time), but this is sometimes delayed a bit (see last year in 90 minutes), and it can stream slowly because everyone tries to download it from one time. Apple's servers are stuck.
IOS 13 compatibility list
- iOS 13 requires iPhone 6S or later, iPad Air 2 or later, the new iPad mini 4 and iPhone SE
- Older devices that support up to iOS 12 won't come: iPhone 5S, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad Air, iPad mini 2, and mini 3
IOS 13 compatibility requires an iPhone or iPad for the past four years (depending on device category). This means that phones like the iPhone 6 won't get iOS 13 - if you have one of these devices, you'll be stuck with iOS 12 forever.
iOS 13 releases several old devices (Image credit: Apple)
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You will need an iPhone 6S or later, an iPad Air 2 or later, and a new iPad mini 4 or later or a 7th-generation iPod touch. Not surprisingly, the new 13th gen iPod Touch is the only device in its class that supports iOS XNUMX.
The iPhone SE belongs to a strange category because it has the specs of the iPhone 6 era, but it came out after the iPhone 6S. Don't worry, everyone's favorite little iPhone will have iOS 13.
IOS 13 Introduces Exclusive Features for iPhone 11 Phones
- Buttons / dials on the camera's user interface allow you to switch between ultra-wide and telephoto
- Holding photo shutter button saves video (more for burst photos)
- Front camera takes wide-angle selfies in landscapes, 4K60fps videos and 'Slofies'
We thought we knew all about iOS 13 in June, but it turned out that some new features were intended for the recently announced iPhone 11 phones.
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Since the iPhone 11, 11 Pro, and 11 Pro Max are almost entirely dedicated to the new cameras, the iOS 13 software lends itself to the new ultra-wide lens and special night mode.
The change between camera lenses (two lenses on the iPhone 11 and three on the iPhone 11 Pro) is supposed to be transparent, with quick taps or a dial to transition between the lenses. broadened and narrowed perspectives.
By holding down the familiar shutter button in iOS 13, start recording a video, similar to the user interface of Snapchat and Instagram. Apple claims that its new phones offer the highest quality video ever seen on a smartphone, placing a strong emphasis on ease of recording. On any other iPhone with iOS 13, press and hold the same shutter button to take continuous photos.
The TrueDepth front camera on iPhone 11 phones can capture wide-angle selfies when held in landscape orientation and record up to 4K60 frames per second. Before, we were all deprived of 1080p60fps selfie videos.
It will surely be the anger of all those who have passed the millennium, they will begin to see "bastards". Love it or hate it (for its name), this exclusive iOS 13 feature of the iPhone 11 captures epic slow-motion videos with the front camera. It works best when you have long hair to capture in motion.
iOS 13 Dark Mode
- Late Dark Mode Comes to iOS 13 and iPadOS
- We saw macOS get a system-wide dark mode in 2018.
- Shortcut to black and dark gray user interface in Control Center
Dark mode in iOS 13 is system-wide, which means that shades range from bright white and light gray to black and dark gray in all supported apps.
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This is a nice feature when you use your iPhone at night and want to avoid bright white reflections on your face. This could also save battery life on OLED-equipped iPhones, since the iPhone X. Apple hasn't talked about that at all, but we know that OLED displays essentially show "off" pixels when rendered black.
Enabling iOS 13 Dark Mode can be enabled in Control Center using the View slider (right next to the Night Shift and True Tone switches), according to Apple, or you can automatically set it to turn on at night based on a schedule. or a custom time. .
The yellow-tinged Night Shift mode finally gets a dimming companion, and many people couldn't be happier.
iOS 13 offers the "FaceTime attention fix"
This is interesting. Now there's an option to fix FaceTime attention, and it's as wild as it sounds.
What exactly are you doing? This gives the impression that you are looking directly at the front camera during a FaceTime video call while looking at the adjacent screen. This distracted gaze may soon be a thing of the past.
iOS 13 on iPad is iPadOS, and it's a big change
Some of the biggest changes for iOS 13 on iPad are included in an update called iPadOS. Apple advises that the iPad needs its own platform.
This means big improvements to your iPad workflow, starting with the redesign of the home screen. Pinned widgets, as we predicted in our iOS 13 rumor horizon tour, allow you to add widgets from the Today screen (this screen in left mode on your iPhone and iPad). So far, it is exclusive to iPad and does not fit into iOS13 for iPhone.
Dragging allows you to open multiple applications and explore them as a rolodex. You can also try to preview at the same time in the blink of an eye, just like the recent menu on many phones and tablets. Multitasking is easy.
Split view has been improved to allow you to open an app on both sides of the screen (this wasn't possible before), and Apple demonstrated this by displaying Notes alongside Notes. You can also link an application to multiple applications. So now you can link Safari to Pages in one place and link Safari to Mail in another.
App Expose is a novelty in iPad software, which allows you to see all the space you have open. There's an App Showcase icon in the Dock, requiring just one press to enter the convenient preview mode.
New copy, collage, and cancel gestures arrive on iPadOS. Three wrinkled fingers were supposed to copy the text, three dilated fingers (in the opposite direction) dropped the text on the page, and three fingers slid across the screen canceled the last action. We will have to see how it will work when the software arrives.
Apple's keyboard can float around the screen in a smaller form, and it debuts with a gesture keyboard it calls QuickPath Typing. There are more keyboard shortcuts too (the lack of shortcuts was a complaint we had about older versions of iOS).
Actually, there are too many detail changes to iPadOS here in the iOS 13 Explorer. So we've broken down the full roundup into a release date, a separate news story, and a separate article for iPadOS.
iOS 13 has a QuickPath keyboard
With iOS 13, Apple's default QuickType keyboard will incorporate swipe to type, a popular way of swiping on the keyboard to form words. We have used it in previous iOS keyboard extensions such as Google's Gboard and SwiftKey.
Here's the QuickPath keyboard in action (Image credit: Apple)
You can use the QuickType and QuickPath writing methods interchangeably. Languages supported so far include English, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, German, French, Italian, and Portuguese.
iOS 13 launches the new application "Find My"
Apple has combined Find My Friends and Find My iPhone in iOS 13 and Union allows you to locate your friends and lost devices with a faster and easier-to-use interface.
Find My iPhone and Find My Friends are in a single app (Image credit: Apple)
What's really cool is that it uses an encrypted Bluetooth signal from the crowd to help you locate devices that aren't connected to Wi-Fi or cellular. This is especially useful for Mac, but it could also help with an iPhone in rare cases.
Better yet, while Find My Friends hasn't always worked for us, Apple seems to be going the extra mile to ensure location tracking is correct with this new iOS 13 app now in the spotlight.
iOS 13 makes your old iPhone faster, lasts longer
More and more people are keeping their iPhone longer, and Apple seems to recognize it, and the company is speeding up development of iOS 13 to accommodate them.
The most important statistics for iOS 13: the launch speed of the application is up to two times faster, according to Apple, and the unlocking of face IDs will be 30% faster than before. Apple has also found a way to reduce app downloads, up to 60% on average; iOS 12 has allowed us a faster update, and iOS 13 is looking to take advantage of that.
Battery life is also an issue that Apple is tackling this year. Its goal is to delay battery aging by reducing the time your iPhone spends on a full charge. IOS 13 is supposed to learn from your daily charging routine so that you can wait for the charge to be over 80% complete until you need to use it.
Reminders gets a great review
Among all the built-in apps, Reminders has the biggest iOS redesign. It's better organized and includes shortcuts that make it easy to add reminders.
Reminders got the latest reinvention among iOS 13 apps (Image credit: Apple)
Large colored buttons for Today, Planned, All, and Flagged categories give you better monitoring of your urgent tasks, while the keyboard, when in this app, has a bar. 39; Quick leading tools that serve as a shortcut to add it easily. times, dates, places, flags, photos and scanned documents.
Make plans in messages? Siri will come to suggest reminders that can be created, like a personal assistant that rings at the right time.
Camera and portrait mode changes
IOS 13 makes major changes to camera functions, including allowing you to change the light intensity in portrait mode, which we've been looking for for a long time. Portrait mode also gets a new monochrome effect called High Key Key Mono.
The new Photos tab of the iOS 13 Photos app - Apple sees it becoming your journal (Image credit: Apple)
The Photo Gallery becomes what Apple calls "a diary of your life," with a new tab designed to document your best photos by day, month, and year. You will also have more pinch controls for zooming in and out in the photo gallery.
Photo editing is refined with iOS 13, with the addition of settings controls and filters, while the video editing part reflects almost all of this: almost all the photo tools and effects (filters, rotation and cropping, for example). ) switch to video. If you're not good at playing video games, there will even be an "Auto" setting button.
Siri's new voice seems more natural.
A new Siri voice debuts with iOS 13 and the sound is more natural than before: we listen to a sample and the tone is the same, but the sound is less robotic.
According to Apple, it uses advanced neural speech synthesis technology, which you will especially notice when Siri speaks longer sentences, such as reading Apple News aloud or answering knowledge questions.
The timing is good because Siri can also talk much more often if you use AirPods - Siri can read incoming messages and relay them to buds, which is convenient.
Another advantage of Siri: Your voice assistant on HomePod will include the voices of different family members in your home. This should mean, for example, asking "What's on my calendar?" it will not bring irrelevant information from anyone else.
Memoji is putting on makeup, Messages is sharing information
Apple has put more "me" in Memoji, allowing a trillion settings: new hairstyles, hairdos, makeup, and piercings, to name a few categories. Examples in the WWDC scene have shown that these custom Animoji skins allow for granular accessory details like eye shadows, corsets, and even AirPods.
Memoji gets better in year two (Image credit: Apple)
Memoji stickers are something quite new: iOS 13 brings more iPhone and iPad users to the lap of Memoji, TrueDepth camera or not. You can customize a Memoji and iOS 13 will automatically create a fun sticker pack found in a keyboard submenu, which you can use in Messages, Mail, and third-party apps.
You can share your personalized Memoji with contacts through iMessages, but only when you grant them access. The same goes for sharing your name and photo with contacts so you can choose how people see your name, for example. According to Apple, you can decide whether you want your profile to be shared with everyone, just your contacts, or just once.
New HomePod Features
You may not know it, but the HomePod is part of the iOS family and it also offers updates for iOS 13.
First, you can transfer songs from your iPhone by simply holding your phone closer to your HomePod's speaker. Previously, you had to tell Siri to do that, but now this transfer feature is a bit easier and you don't have to talk to do it.
The HomePod also features Live Radio - you can ask Siri to stream 100,000 stations around the world. And HomePod will allow you to recognize the callers in your family and personalize the response. Excellent with Apple Music, where selections will be based on your tastes and your story. It goes beyond music, messages, notes, reminders, etc.
Connect with Apple
Apple wants app and site developers to use its sign-in feature. Additionally, there are some benefits to protecting user privacy (Image credit: Apple)
Apple uses Facebook Connect, Google, and other platforms that allow you to easily connect to third-party accounts. The connection with Apple is ready to protect your privacy more than Facebook and Google.
The good thing is, if you don't want to send 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 This app.
The cards are rebuilt
iOS 13 Maps looks much better, although everyone likes to hate it. Will it be a better day than Google Maps? No, probably not. But for those who want Apple's preloaded cards app in iOS 13, it's so much better.
360-degree city tours come to Apple Maps (Image credit: Apple)
There are a lot more details here, like Apple rebuilding maps from scratch. There are more realistic details for roads, beaches, parks and buildings. Now you can explore cities with a 3-degree 360D experience.
Favorites were already part of Google Maps, but iOS 13 makes it easy to navigate these saved locations with a single click - they appear at the top of the search menu. Sometimes Google Maps on iOS doesn't do well (but it does better on Android). This is one of the reasons to keep Apple Maps installed, even if you are a Google Maps user.
Text format in mail
The mail has changes regarding the writing of emails with the correct format. You have more control over the style, size, color, alignment, indentation, and indentation of text, as well as bulleted and numbered lists.
What we really hope to see one day in iOS 13.1 or iOS 14 is the ability to insert a hyperlink into the text contained in an email. On iOS and Android devices, it is just not possible in your default email clients (which we have seen) - you have to paste long URLs and it is not a computer, it does not matter What is your operating system called?
Connect to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth from Control Center
It's huge, and we've been asking for it for several years. You can now select Wi-Fi networks and Bluetooth accessories directly from the Control Center.
It's been years since Android made it, and it was always convenient to connect to new Wi-Fi networks or Bluetooth headsets without having to step away from your current app and dive into five setup menus. Apple is finally coming to iOS 13.
Support for Xbox One and PS4 game controllers
If you want to play games on your phone, you can also do so with one of the two best controllers available (and maybe something you already have).
Enter support for PS4 and Xbox One game controllers for iOS 13. Apple hasn't specified whether all games would support it or be limited to Apple Arcade, but whatever 39, we are, we're happy to put our PS4 controller for use all over the world.
Silence Unknown call
Harmful SPAM calls are driving us crazy every day, and iOS 13 wants to solve the problem with the help of Siri, who analyzes his contacts, his mail and his messages to see if he has ever been in contact with # 39, the caller.
Unknown mute calls seem smart enough if you don't expect business numbers to call you for work. Callers who do not appear on your personal "VIP list" will go directly to voicemail.