iPadOS 14.5

How to set your preferred Siri voice in iOS 14.5

Christian Zibreg ∙ April 15, 2021

For the sake of inclusion and diversity, Apple's Siri virtual assistant no longer defaults to a female voice in the United States. Instead, you can now set your preferred Siri voice as part of the setup process (or after the fact, like before). In addition, you can switch to one of the two new Siri voices available with iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5. Follow along with our tutorial to learn how to change Siri's default voice on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and HomePod.

Apple seeds eighth betas of iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, and macOS Big Sur 11.3 to developers

Evan Selleck ∙ April 13, 2021

Tim Cook recently confirmed that the public launch of iOS 14.5 is happening soon. However, there's still time for more betas so the company can keep working out the kinks.

Apple seeds seventh betas of iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, tvOS 14.5 and watchOS 7.4 to developers

Evan Selleck ∙ April 7, 2021

Tim Cook recently confirmed that the public launch of iOS 14.5 is "a couple of weeks" away. As such, there's still time for more beta seeds to keep ironing things out before that happens.

Apple Maps is gaining crowd-sourced live status data for points of interest

Christian Zibreg ∙ March 15, 2021

Aside from bringing out Waze-like reporting and hazard features, Apple Maps is getting another feature similar to Google Maps: real-time crowdsourced information for points of interest, such as whether a business is currently open and how busy it is at the moment.

Apple launches the fourth betas of iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5 and more

Christian Zibreg ∙ March 15, 2021

Apple has released the fourth betas of the upcoming iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, tvOS 14.5, watchOS 7.4, macOS Big Sur 11.3 and HomePod 14.5 software updates.

Apple seeds third betas of iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5 to developers [Updated: public betas now available]

Evan Selleck ∙ March 3, 2021

Apple continues to march ahead with the next software updates for iOS and iPadOS. The company today seeded yet another beta of the upcoming software.

New Shortcuts actions in iOS 14.5: Take Screenshot, Orientation Lock and more

Christian Zibreg ∙ February 26, 2021

Aside from unlocking your iPhone with an Apple Watch, changing the default music player for Siri requests and other perks, iOS 14.5 adds several handy new actions to the Shortcuts app.

Airplay is now available for Fitness+

Christian Zibreg ∙ February 18, 2021

Apple has made good on its promise to bring proper AirPlay 2 support to the Fitness+ service.

iPadOS 14.5 improves iPad microphone privacy when using smart folio cases

Christian Zibreg ∙ February 17, 2021

Apple's iPadOS 14.5 software disables onboard microphones when you close your iPad smart folio case, another way the company continues to boost user privacy across its platforms.

You can now share Apple Music lyrics over iMessage or as Instagram Stories

Christian Zibreg ∙ February 17, 2021

As of iOS 14.5, you can share lyrics from Apple Music via iMessage and Instagram Stories, as first discovered by MacStories editor-in-chief Federico Viticci.

Apple Music now lets you swipe to quickly add songs to your listening queue

Christian Zibreg ∙ February 17, 2021

If you use the stock Music app on your iPhone, iPad or Mac, you'll be glad to know that Apple now makes it much easier to quickly add the current song to your listening queue or library.

How Safari in iOS 14.5 limits which personal data Google sees about you

Christian Zibreg ∙ February 11, 2021

Safari in iOS and iPadOS 14.5 further limits the risk of information leak by proxying safe-browsing services via Apple servers to prevents user data from being returned to Google.