

There are also updated couple kissing emoji and couple with heart emoji along with new skin tones. The iOS 14.5 update also carries new emoji characters, including face exhaling, face with spiral eyes, face in clouds, hearts on fire, mending heart, and woman with a beard. IOS 14.5 brings the anticipated App Tracking Transparency You can also apply the new privacy setting universally across all your apps by going to Settings > Privacy Tracking and turning off Allow Apps to Request to Track. You will have the ability to disallow app companies from tracking your activity across other companies' apps and websites by tapping the Ask App Not to Track on the pop-up message you will get across most of the apps after installing iOS 14.5. It also prompts when an app shares data with data brokers. The feature prompts users for a permission through a pop-up message when an app requires tracking of their data for advertising across apps or websites owned by other companies. The iOS 14.5 update also brings App Tracking Transparency (ATT) that Apple announced last year and faced some hindrances ahead of its introduction.

The new feature essentially disables Face ID on the iPhone X and later models when they detect the user is wearing a face mask and has a compatible Apple Watch on their wrist.

A haptic feedback will arrive on the Apple Watch, indicating unlocking of their iPhone. Users just need to glance at their iPhone, with the Apple Watch on their wrist, unlocked, and in close proximity to the iPhone. This is an advancement that has come almost a year after Apple brought a faster passcode prompt to ease unlocking of a Face ID-equipped iPhone while wearing a face mask. One of the much-awaited features that iOS 14.5 carries is the ability to use your Apple Watch to unlock your iPhone when wearing a face mask. The iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5 also introduce the anticipated - the controversial - App Tracking Transparency that lets users control which apps should be allowed to track their activity across other apps and websites for offering personalised ads and sharing data with third parties. The update also carries the option to let users decide whether they want Siri to speak in a female voice or a male one when the phone is first set up. The latest iOS update brings the ability to unlock your iPhone using an Apple Watch while wearing a face mask.

Although all these new updates bring a list of features to offer advancements to compatible Apple devices, the most notable and prominent in the series is iOS 14.5. Apple has released iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, macOS Big Sur 11.3, watchOS 7.4, and tvOS 14.5 as the series of new software updates for its devices.
