The curious thing about these updatesiOS 14.6, WatchOS 75, and macOS 11.4is how similar they all are.
In fact, outside of bug fixes, the main features are the same across all devices.
Lets get straight into it.
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There are two kinds of accounts: Co-owners, and participants.
Participants have fewer privileges, so you could use it for your kids.
Youll find all these new features inside the Apple Wallet app.
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Podcast Subscriptions
Also new is support forpodcast subscriptions in the Podcasts app.
Worse, Apple takes a 30% cut, just like it does in the App Store.
Lossless Apple Music
Also new in iOS 14.6 and macOS 11.4 is lossless music and Spatial Audio.
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Lossless is simply higher-quality streamed audio.
It requires extra data to stream, but it also gives better soundin theory.
you oughta connect a separate digital-analog converter (DAC) just to play it.
And needless to say, it will hammer your internet data plan.
One other note: none of these lossless options will work over AirPods.None of them.
Lossless music requires these latest OS updates, but wont be available until June.
The other half of this is Spatial Audio, which brings surround sound to music.
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For a short shortcut, this makes little difference.
Especially as the whole idea of Shortcuts is to streamline oft-performed tasks, and speed them up.
In iOS 14.6, I have already noticed this speed increase, and it’s very welcome.
In fact, iOS 14.7 is already in beta.
This is a great new trend from Apple.
And with all this still going on, one wonders whats in store for iOS 15.
