Apple has released iOS 14.5 beta number 6 to developers.
Among the novelties, the disappearance of the female voice as the default for Siri, the voice assistant of the iPhone.
It will be necessary, during the first start-up, to manually choose whether the AI of the house will have to speak with a woman's or a man's tone, so as to favor a greater balance in personal preferences.
In addition, some countries, such as Italy, will finally receive Siri's switch to the neural text-to-speech (NTTS) engine, which uses machine learning technologies to generate a response closer to a human voice, including particular accents and cadences. .
Another highly anticipated feature is the one that allows you to have a more precise monitoring of battery health, especially on smartphones of the iPhone 11 family. On these, a software bug could indicate a lower level percentage in the autonomy optimization state, such as to suggest an unexpected deterioration of the module.
The recalibration will take effect after a few weeks of use.
In addition to these, we know that iOS 14.5 will introduce the possibility of unlocking the iPhone with biometrics, even if you wear a mask, using an Apple Watch on your wrist.
We will also see new emojis, including the bloodless syringe that represents a vaccine, and the launch of the App Tracking Transparency, with which users can choose whether to activate the monitoring of their activities for individual applications, for the purpose of advertising profiling.
The launch of iOS 14.5, together with updates for iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, TV was expected by the end of March but the arrival of the beta 6, originally not expected, has postponed its availability probably for the end of April.