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New CarKey interface, you can unlock your car with iPhone

The folders in iCloud can be shared directly

New Memoji Emoji

The built-in mail application has become more useful

Quick commands can call “listen to music”

iOS / macOS apps will soon support cross-platform purchases

New CarKey interface, you can unlock the car with iPhone

According to media reports such as 9to5Mac, iOS 13.4 beta has added a “CarKey” interface, which can directly use iPhone as a car key.

Specifically, this API mainly calls the iPhone’s NFC chip. After pairing, the virtual car key will appear in your “Wallet” application.

At this point, users can use their iPhones near the car like Apple Pay or a virtual transit card to realize the function of automatically opening and locking the doors, provided that the car is also compatible with NFC.

The function of using a mobile phone as a car key is not new. Now some car manufacturers have implemented this feature with the help of third-party applications, and CarKey can directly integrate the function into the bottom of the system.

Theoretically, because the binding process is based on the NFC chip, even if the iPhone automatically shuts down when it is powerless, it can also be activated using the “backup power” without Face ID verification.

Also, users can share this virtual car key with other iOS users, such as members of your family group.

Apple also updated CarPlay in the iOS 13.4 beta, adding new call control and third-party navigation features, such as Google Maps.

The folders in iCloud can be shared directly

The iCloud folder sharing function appeared once in the beta phase of iOS 13 but was cut off by Apple before its official release and is now re-added to the iOS 13.4 beta.

Folders in iCloud can be shared directly

Literally, just click the “File” app to enter the iCloud file interface, long press any folder icon, and you will see the “Share” option in the popup list.

The subsequent steps are exactly the same as the steps we usually use to share pictures and documents, but the sharing of an entire folder is still very helpful for transferring multiple files.

New Memoji Emoji

As long as you can use Face ID, you can make your own Memoji avatar expressions. imageFrom: Rene Ritchie

Every iOS system upgrade, we will see some new emojis added, and this time iOS 13.4 is no exception.

The new system brings 9 animated faces Memoji, including shocked faces, rolled eyes, prayers and celebrations, etc. You can directly call these emoticons in iMessage.

The built-in mail application has become more useful

Compared with various third-party applications, the “Mail” that comes with iOS system has always been relatively crude. Needless to say, some designs are very anti-human.

The bottom toolbar is an example. In the old version of the iOS mail app, because the “Delete / Archive” and “Reply” buttons were too close, many users often encountered the “deleted delete button” situation, leaving a lot of white space at the bottom left.

The old version on the left and the new version on the right

Now, Apple has finally made adjustments to the mail application. The “Delete / Archive” and “Reply” buttons in the new system have been placed on the left and right ends of the bottom bar, and “Move to other folders” has been added in the middle. And “tag” two shortcuts, I tried it myself, the efficiency of organizing mail is indeed much higher than before.

Quick commands can call “listen to songs”

The old-fashioned listening and song recognition service Shazam has been completely acquired by Apple in the past few years. When you use “Hey, Siri”, you can call Shazam to find the song name through instructions.

On the iOS 13.4 beta, Apple integrated Shazam services into “Quick Instructions”, which means that users can create scripts themselves and interact with other applications to achieve more levels and more complex operations.

I try it myselfCreated a simple instruction to let Shazam automatically pop up the song and artist name after recognizing the song, and then automatically jump to the corresponding song page of Apple Music.

The actual running effect of this shortcut is like this:

On Twitter, someone came up with this idea:

Participate in the party-put your phone on the table-open a looping Shazam shortcut-automatically save the results of the songs you hear in local text-so you can get a bunch Good song

Interested friends can wait for the official version to be pushed out, and design more fun instructions for listening to songs and understanding songs according to requirements.

iOS / macOS applications will soon support cross-platform purchases

The last feature is not an iOS-level update, but it will have a great impact on the entire Apple app ecosystem.

According to Apple ’s official announcement, Apple will launch a general-purpose application purchase service for iOS / macOS dual platforms in March. This service is related to Apple ’s “Project Catalyst” plan last year. You can read Aifaner Previous reports.

The connection between the iPhone and Mac ecosystem is also to encourage developers to port iOS applications to macOS systems

Simply put, in the future, users only need to pay once on a single platform, and they can download and use it on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and even Mac platforms at the same time, without having to buy the same app repeatedly.

This is still valuable for applications such as Ulysses and MoneyWiz that have both iOS and macOS versions. Apple ’s new migration tool is also designed to reduce developer time and allow multiple platforms to be implemented ecologically. Better integration.

Of course, the key question is whether the “pay once, multi-platform use” strategy has commercial prospects, and the final decision is still in the hands of developers. After the service goes live, we may also see some new payment or profit models.

The above are the new features introduced by Apple in the iOS 13.4 beta. If you find other details changes, you can tell us in the message area.