These Are iOS 15 ’s Coolest New Features

Your iPhone’s probably gonna like this

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Apple’s iOS 15 could be the iPhone operating system’s most subtle update in years. It’s also potentially the most impactful, making significant and much-needed changes to web browsing, mapping, notifications, and intelligence-aided search.

Here’s the stuff I’m jazzed about.

New Maps

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Let’s start from the outside in. On the current Apple Maps, the furthest you can zoom out is to a grade school wall map view of the world. With iOS 15 you’ll be able to pinch and zoom until you’re looking at a fully rotatable globe view of the earth. It’s not the same look as Google Earth — maybe a little less realistic — but has the potential to be no less useful and maybe a little more fun (“Look at me, I’m a god who can rotate the Earth with his fingertips!”).