iOS 15 was officially announced at WWDC this year, and the final version was pushed in the early morning of September 22, Beijing time. Counting the beta, iOS 15 has been unveiled in public for nearly half a year.
As of the latest version, Apple has brought many new features to users in iOS 15, including "live text", "simultaneous sharing", "custom privacy mode" and so on.
These new features have been described in detail in WWDC21, but due to the limitation of time, there are many new features that have not been introduced at WWDC every year and are "not so important". Therefore, even if more users are complaining about iOS 15 this year, there is no big update, but in fact, if you dig carefully into the introduction of iOS 15 on Apple's official website, it is not difficult to find that there are still many functions that have not been introduced.
Most of these features are very small, and if there is no description on the official website, some features may not even be discovered. But it is these small features that have finally led to the continuous evolution of the basic experience of iOS, and in iOS 15, A Jun found several interesting points, most of which are about photo albums and camera improvements, as well as new features related to your health.
Smarter "people" albums
As early as iOS 10, Apple added the "people" function to the album. This feature allows users to add names to them by scanning photo albums in the local background, identifying and categorizing people's faces, and so on.
▲ On WWDC 16, Apple introduced the "People" feature for the first time
It sounds like a very practical function, but before Apple paid more attention to the accuracy of recognition, coupled with the limitation of algorithm capabilities, the final photos that can be recognized are usually the faces of the people, and the number is far from complete, plus the user can not add pictures independently, and finally a variety of reasons are superimposed to make this function a "chicken rib".
At present, some album backup apps also provide similar services, although the recognition efficiency of these apps is higher than apple, but most of these services are provided on the server side, and the user's personal privacy cannot be well guaranteed.
▲ The Album app is nothing new
In iOS 15, Apple finally put this feature on the agenda. They changed their previous thinking, they cared more about the recognition rate than accuracy, and the strategy of "preferring to kill a thousand by mistake rather than let go of one" was obviously very useful for this function.
For example, for people with boyfriends/girlfriends, whether your other half is wearing a mask, tilting your head, or making Halloween grimace makeup, making grimaces, or even just a screenshot of the side face of the lower half of the face, you can now accurately identify it in the iOS photo album app to help you classify with one click, worry and effort.
And if you feel that iOS has not checked out all the photos, you can also use its "check more photos" function for further retrieval, although there will be some recognition errors that need to be manually removed by the user, but these small problems are completely flawed for the recognition rate to improve.
▲ Ambiguous photos for iOS, users can manually check
And the above whole process, according to Apple's official commitment, is all done locally.
With iCloud storage, it can be said that Apple has raised the experience of the ecological chain of photo album backup to an unprecedented height. Users can save their saved pictures to iCloud Album, keep only some thumbnails locally, and enjoy really useful locally scanned people albums, album induction, and so on.
However, compared with other album backup apps, users do need to pay a higher cost of capital.
Shooting has also become much easier
Starting with iOS 13, Apple has given the ability to "give way" to the quick recording video function from the function of long pressing the shutter button, allowing users to start shooting at a faster speed, so as not to miss some beautiful moments in life. In this year's iOS 15, this feature has once again been optimized in detail.
Previously, if you needed to record video with one hand and perform digital zoom operations at the same time, you needed to swipe to the right to release the shutter button-holding finger before manipulating the zoom. In this process, the degree of trouble in operation is not mentioned, and the wasted time in the middle will also lead to a decrease in the perception of the entire video, and even let the user miss some beautiful moments.
▲ Gif has done acceleration processing, but the complexity of the operation can still be felt
Now, after the user presses the shutter button to enter the video mode, only need to slide the finger up and down (left and right in the horizontal screen), you can quickly zoom the operation, this small function optimization, indeed makes the video shooting experience has been further improved.
▲ To achieve the same goal, it only takes one step now
In addition, for users of the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro series, Apple has also improved the shooting effect of panoramic photos on these models. According to Apple's official website, panoramic photos now "can better capture moving subjects while reducing image noise and color ramp phenomenon."
Although panorama photos still look like a "toy-level" app after the update, and more people use this feature just to make a new picture, we may expect that Apple will have some bigger moves in this regard in the future.
Other features are also improving a little bit
As early as the time when the "Wallet" app was still called Passport, Apple added a function to add card coupons. You can store some coupons, vouchers, etc. in the app, and for users who have a favorite, the card coupons in it have a certain collection effect even if they are placed in the Passport after expiration.
▲ Remember this nostalgic interface?
But as the number of cards and coupons in the wallet continues to increase, users who like to collect will fall into a dilemma. If you don't delete these expired card coupons, the wallet will be messy overall, but it will be a little reluctant to delete.
In iOS 15, the "Expired Credential Storage" feature is finally late. No need for the user to manually operate, just need to update to the latest version of the system, open the wallet to see the words "view * expired vouchers", click into it to view the content of their previously accumulated cards, and will not interfere with the existing cards.
▲ In the past, these expired vouchers were arranged with other vouchers, which was very affecting the perception
In addition, iOS 15's Health has added a feature called "Walking Stability". Users only need to put the iPhone in their pockets to automatically record the stability of the walk. If the walking stability is low, you will also receive an alert.
In fact, previously, iPhone has been able to automatically record data including asymmetrical pace, stride length, walking speed, bipedal support time, etc., and the "walking stability" function added this time is more like a summary of these data. For the vast majority of iPhone users, in fact, such a function may not be used once in a lifetime, but once it is used, it may be of great help to users.
▲ I hope that everyone's walking stability is "normal"
If there are elderly people at home, you may wish to give them an iPhone to record the walking stability data, perhaps some of our naked eyes will not notice, but through the analysis of the situation can be analyzed, this can also effectively prevent the elderly from falling flat, resulting in greater consequences.
A small amount of updated content is not necessarily a bad thing
Including A Jun, every user actually hopes that the system in their mobile phone can have a big stride update every year, and constantly launch some very "cool" new features, so almost everyone, including A Jun, can't help but be a little disappointed when they see that iOS 15 has less updated content.
▲ Slogan image for iOS 15 from: Apple
But like the tagline for this year's iOS 15, it wants you to be "more talkative and focused" and "allow you to greatly expand the capabilities of your iPhone when you connect with people, stay focused, explore the world, and use highly intelligent technology." This sentence sounds like two dry empty words, but in the process of A Jun's continuous in-depth experience of iOS 15, with the help of "notification summary", the new Do Not Disturb mode, "Share with you" and other seemingly ineffective small innovations, it allows A Jun to invest more energy in more "serious things" at the same time, but also in his desired time to receive those less "serious" messages.
Compared with the previous "refactoring" update on many core functions, iOS 15 is more like the completion of the basic functions that should be used by mobile phones in this epidemic period, so that when you use mobile phones, you can be more "handy" and "more chatty and more focused". Although the functions introduced by A Jun are more in photo albums and cameras, in fact, iOS 15 has subtle and even difficult to say in many other places, and even small innovations that are difficult to say are pushing mobile phones to continuously improve efficiency and reduce dependence.