iOS 14

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! class="ios-lab" | Developer
| class="ios-val" | [[Apple]]
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! class="ios-lab" | Announced
| class="ios-val" | June 22, 2020 (WWDC, online)
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! class="ios-lab" | Initial release
| class="ios-val" | September 16, 2020
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! class="ios-lab" | Final release
| class="ios-val" | 14.8.1 (October 26, 2021)
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! class="ios-lab" | Launch devices
| class="ios-val" | [[iPhone 12]] generation (October 2020)
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! class="ios-lab" | Preceded by
| class="ios-val" | [[iOS 13]]
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! class="ios-lab" | Succeeded by
| class="ios-val" | [[iOS 15]]
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iOS 14 is the fourteenth major release of [[iOS]], released on September 16, 2020 — announced at the first online-only WWDC of the pandemic, and shipped with barely a day's notice to developers, a scheduling stunt the [[iPhone 12]] generation's October delay produced. It changed the home screen more than any release since 2007: widgets left their sidebar ghetto and landed on the grid in three sizes, the App Library auto-organized the overflow, and whole pages could be hidden — kicking off a viral home-screen customization wave (and, via Shortcuts icon aliasing, the custom-icon aesthetic economy).

Its second act shipped in the spring: App Tracking Transparency (14.5, April 2021) required user permission for cross-app tracking, at a stroke rewriting mobile advertising economics — Meta alone attributed a ten-billion-dollar revenue hit to it — and making iOS 14 the most industry-shaking privacy release in the platform's history.

= Features =

Home-screen widgets and App Library; App Clips (sub-10 MB app slices launched from codes and links); compact UI for calls and Siri (ending the full-screen takeover); Picture in Picture on iPhone; default browser and mail app choice; Back Tap accessibility gestures; Translate; cycling and EV routing in Maps; and privacy "nutrition labels" in the App Store. The 14.5 update added ATT, Apple Watch unlocking for masked faces, and AirTag support.

= Supported devices =

Every iOS 13 device — the [[iPhone 12]] and [[iPhone 11]] generations back through [[iPhone 6s]] and the first [[iPhone SE]], plus the seventh-generation iPod touch. The second consecutive zero-drop year.

= Legacy =

Widgets and the App Library ended the static-grid era for good — the current customizable home screen builds directly on this release — and App Clips previewed the instant-software model. But ATT is the legacy history will file it under: the single OS switch that forced the advertising industry off individualized cross-app tracking, redrew the fortunes of ad-funded platforms, and established Apple's privacy agenda as a market force with a body count measured in billions of dollars.