In the early morning of Beijing on the 9th, that is, tonight, Apple will hold a spring new product conference. According to rumors that Apple will release a purple version of the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone SE 3, the iPad product line will release a new iPad Air, and at the same time, in the Mac product line, or will release a new Mac mini, MacBook Pro. It seems that there are a lot of new products, but what I am looking forward to the most is the official version of iOS 15.4 tomorrow morning.
The iOS 15.4 beta has undergone 5 beta releases, and the latest beta 5 version (build number: 19E5241a) was pushed last week. According to the current beta version, the following new features will appear on the official version of iOS 15.4:
AirTag anti-tracking function;
Apple Card widgets;
37 new emojis;
SharePlay options for sharing tables;
Turn off Shortcuts' ability to quickly automate notifications;
The iPhone 13 Pro will support 120Hz ProMotion;
Support for adding custom email domains to iCloud Mail on devices;
Keyboard brightness control in Control Center on iPad; iCloud Keychain notes;
Add digital ID, driver's license, EU vaccine certificate to the wallet (it has nothing to do with China);
Allow NFC-compatible iPhones to accept payments through Apple Pay and other digital wallets;
At the same time, the most important and most anticipated point is that iPhone 12 and above models will support the use of Face ID while wearing a mask. This will be different from the Apple Watch-assisted unlocking method, but like normal Face ID, while wearing a mask, the user's identity is confirmed by scanning the area around the eyes. Therefore, unlike the previous way of using Apple Watch assistance, iPhone 12 and above models can unlock, pay and other forms of Face ID authentication after upgrading while wearing a mask.
Since the outbreak of the epidemic worldwide, Apple's Face ID has been a problem criticized by users. In this era of full screen, Android manufacturers by seeking to use fingerprints under the screen to solve the problems caused by masks, it seems to be the best solution at present; and Apple can only wear Apple Watch to assist users in identity authentication, in addition to the need to purchase an additional expensive watch, through the Apple Watch to assist the way to intelligently unlock the iPhone operation, and can not carry out further payment, view password and other higher security level operations.
In fact, just weeks before the release of the iPhone 13 series last year, Apple tested a new Face ID technology internally. According to sources Jon Prosser, Apple has internally asked Apple employees to "wear masks and glasses to test new hardware." "Some of the tests are performed with/without a mask. Others do so while wearing a mask + wearing glasses/taking off their glasses." By wearing a protective case, bypass the Face ID system built into the iPhone and use the Face ID system of the protective case instead. At that time, it was thought that the iPhone 13 series would support wearing a mask to unlock Face ID for the first time, but after the official release of the iPhone 13 series, there was no related function.
So why is this upgrade only the iPhone 12, iPhone 13 series of models support wearing masks to unlock? Is Apple forcing users to buy a new iPhone?
In fact, although the iPhone X to iPhone 13 series all support Face ID, and there is no difference in use, in fact, Apple has upgraded the TrueDepth camera in the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 series models, so that these two generations of models support the new "deep integration technology", and the iOS 15.4 is through the "deep integration technology" in the TrueDepth camera module, developing a new algorithm to make the iPhone 12, The iPhone13 series models support identifying the characteristics of the area around the eyes for identity authentication, so the iPhone 11 series and previous full-screen models cannot theoretically make up for the lack of hardware through software upgrades, and can only assist in authenticating identity by wearing Apple Watch.
For users of iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 series, iOS 15.4 is very worth upgrading, and even some users jokingly call iOS 15.4 "iOS 16". For users of other models, iOS 15.4 is also recommended to upgrade, according to the measured fluency and battery life performance, iOS 15.4 is likely to become the next generation of nail household version.
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