[MUSIC PLAYING] Our new release is iOS 14. This year we spent time rethinking some of the most iconic elements of the experience on iPhone. Now it all started here, with a carefully considered home screen that has truly stood the test of time. Of course, over the years, we kept the fundamentals largely the same but carefully added features, like folders for organizing your apps, widgets for quick information, and personalized experiences powered by on-device intelligence that serve up just the right thing at just the right moment. It's hard to imagine iPhone without these features now. Well that brings us to this year. Let's dig in starting with the Home screen. Today's Home screen works great. But as we get more and more apps, we can end up with this, lots and lots of pages. And we tend to forget what's beyond the first couple. Wouldn't it be great if there were a way to organize all of those apps without doing a thing? Well this year we're doing just that with something called the App Library. It's a new space at the end of your Home screen pages that automatically organizes all your apps in one simple and easy to navigate view. You can see that all of my apps are automatically organized here. In fact, now with the App Library, I actually don't need all those pages for all my apps. So we created an easy way to hide app pages. I just go into jiggle mode, tap the dots at the bottom, and check this out, I get a zoomed out view of all my app pages. I can simply tap to hide the pages I no longer need. Just like that. And now with those pages hidden, App Library is always just a swipe or two away. So here in App Library getting to the app I'm looking for is really easy. Up at the top, I have the search field and I get all my apps organized from A to Z. Now over here on the upper left, I have Suggestions. It uses on-device intelligence to show me the apps that I'm likely to need next. And on the right is Recently Added, giving me access to the apps that I've recently downloaded from the App Store. And below are intelligently curated categories. So I can tap into a category, like Apple Arcade, and see all of my apps in that category. We're also bringing Picture in Picture to iPhone. So you can access apps on your iPhone while watching video or talking on a FaceTime call. Let me show you. So here in my Home screen, the Smart Stack is showing me the TV widget. So I can just tap to start playing a show. Now check this out, when I swipe to go Home, the video automatically goes into picture and picture right over the Home screen. And when I launch another app, like Note, I can keep watching. Now I can drag the picture to another part of the screen if I want to make it bigger. I can even pinch to zoom. And as I move between applications, it stays with me. And what's cool is I can also swipe it to the side and the audio keeps playing when it's off screen. Now here on the Home screen, I can bring it back out if I want. And I have controls to get back to full screen playback or I can just tap the X to close it. SPEAKER 2: Siri helps you in a ton of little ways every day, playing the morning news, ordering a coffee, getting directions, setting the alarm before going to bed, and so much more. In fact, Siri is helping so many of you with a staggering 25 billion requests each month. And Siri's getting more helpful every day. Siri's always been great for getting information, and now has over 20 times more facts than just three years ago. For more complex questions like how do hybrid cars work or what causes seasons, we recently introduced answers from websites across the internet, enabling Siri to help you find even more answers. Another way Siri helps is with communication, like sending messages. This year you can now ask Siri to send an audio message and Siri will start recording. This is great when you really want to have the emotion of your voice come through. Another popular way to send messages with your voice is using dictation. Keyboard dictation uses the same speech recognition as Siri. And leveraging the power of the Neural Engine, we are now able to run dictation on device. This provides great accuracy and privacy. STACEY LYSIK: From the beginning, Messages was designed to make it really easy to get to your newest messages. But with so many active conversations, sometimes it can be tough to get to the ones that are most important to you. So we are introducing a new way to let you stay connected to your most important conversations, by letting you pin them at the top of your list so you can always get to them. And you can see messages as they come in with a beautiful animation on the pin. Next, let's talk about expressing yourself with Memoji. There are over one trillion ways to customize your identity with Memoji. In iOS 14, we're adding even more ways to create your look, over 20 new hair and headwear styles to let you reflect your hobby, profession, and personality. We've also added something that's even more relevant today, face coverings. And we're adding more age options, too. My favorite way of using Memoji is with Memoji stickers. And now we have three brand new Memoji stickers that let you send a hug, a fist bump, or even a blush to your friends. Last, let's chat about groups. When you're talking to a group, sometimes there's so much going on it can be hard to keep track of the conversation. So this year we're going to help you bring order to the chaos. First we're adding inline replies that let you reply directly to a specific message. You can view replies in the full conversation or you can view them as their own thread so you can focus in on the specific topic. To make it even more clear who a message was meant for, we're introducing Mentions. With Mentions you can just type someone's name to direct a message to them. And now you have the ability to only be notified when you're mentioned in the group conversation. And check out the top of this conversation. We have an all new design for how groups appear. It lets you see all the members of your group, where the most recently active people are shown largest. And for the first time ever, you can create a unique visual identity for your group by setting a group photo or customizing your group's look with an emoji. Inside the conversation, you see group members photos around the image. Of course it looks great as a pin. You know who's most recently commented in the group because their photo will appear around the outside of the pin. And that's what's coming to Messages in iOS 14. 

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From a new home screen to easier group messaging.
