On January 28, Apple pushed the iOS/iPadOS 15.4 Developer Preview Beta Update, bringing a number of very important features, including a new emoticon, Apple Card widget and global 120Hz high brush. But the heaviest thing must be that I finally supported wearing a mask to unlock.
After iPhone users upgrade to iOS 15.4 beta, they can unlock their faces without taking off their masks, and Face ID identifies them by analyzing unique features around the human eye. Therefore, when the user wears a mask to unlock the iPhone, he must look directly at Liu Haihai's sensor with both eyes and cannot wear sunglasses.
At present, this function only supports iPhone 12 series and iPhone 13 series models, and older models may be supported in the future. After Xiaolei tested, he found that scenarios such as Apple Store and WeChat Pay also support face recognition payments with masks.
For the iPhone 13 Pro/Max models, although 120Hz ProMotion is supported, most third-party application animations are limited to 60Hz, and the user experience is strongly divided. Apple is improving this issue in a new system, introducing a feature that automatically provides 120Hz high brushes for all animations on the iPhone for a smoother experience.
iOS 15.4 also supports Universal Control global control, users can control multiple computers and iPads logged into the same Apple account through a set of mouse keyboards on Mac computers, improving the cross-platform office experience. The new version also supports Emoji 14, adding 37 new emoticons and 75 skin color variants, for a total of 112. Including melted little yellow faces, peeking, sneaking laughs, salutations, running out of battery, etc.
In addition, apple card widgets can be added to the home screen to view the balance; keychain keychain can add annotations for easy subsequent management; new iPad magnetic keyboard backlight brightness adjustment; new support for the PS5 handle adaptive trigger function.
Apple iOS 15.4 Beta has many improved features and is also quite practical, especially wearing a mask face unlock, global 120Hz, etc., which has a qualitative improvement on the user's experience. Now that the global epidemic is not over, wearing masks has become the norm for everyone, and with the arrival of this function, Apple users no longer need to press the digital password every time they unlock.
However, apple previously supported Apple Watch to unlock iPhone, and many people also bought Apple Watch watches for this purpose. Now that the wearing mask unlock function has arrived, these users have complained that the watch was bought in white. I have to say that Apple's marketing methods are absolutely perfect.