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How to make Gmail the default email app on iPhone and iPad
Do you prefer Gmail on your iDevice? Than this trick will help you make it your default mail app on you iPhone and iPad.
So Apple finally cave in and let us use other browsers and email app as default. After showing you how to choose your default web browser, we’ll tell you how you can do the same thing for mail.
How to change the default web browser on iOS 14 to Chrome, Firefox or other
So iOS 14 is upon us and it finally let us to change the default web browser. We can now setup Chrome, Firefox or any other browser as default.
The default browser is the one that will be used to open links when you tap them in other apps.
The option is now really intuitively placed so can locate it easily, but once you know where to find it, it only takes 2 seconds.
So here’s hot to change your default web browser on iPhone or iPad.
iOS 14: Best New Features
There are plenty of new features packed in iOS 14. some of them, as you’ll recognize, are inspired, at least partly, from Android.
App Library
iOS 14 has a new home screen, called App Library. It’s a lot like Android’s App Drawer but with a twist: apps are automatically organized in groups.
With the added App Library, users can now show only some of their apps on the main screen.
Widgets on main screen
In iOS 14 users will be able to place widgets on the main screen, right beside apps. The new widgets will take different sizes and shapes.
A smaller Siri
Siri won’t take over the whole screen anymore, when you summon it. It will be just a small symbol at the bottom of the screen. Most of the answers will now be shown as rich notifications at the top of the screen.
Picture-in-picture
It was about time, iPhone had a Picture-in-picture mode like Android or iPads. You can move and resize the video box that will appear even for FaceTime calls.
Use Apps without installing them
App Clips is a new feature that lets you test an app before installing it. That is if the developers make these Clips for their apps, that must be under 100MB.
Messages improvements
Apple’s Messages allow you now to pin conversations and can reply inline, like WhatsApp and Telegram do for some years now.
Maps focus on bikes
Apple Maps will offer cycling directions with elevation changes, bike lanes, and stairs warning.
A new app
Apple have a news app, called Translate. It supports just 11 languages but it even works offline.
Other things
And there are many other small changes and new features like page translations and passwords breach warning in Safari or Car Keys, a feature that lets you unlock and start your car with your iPhone. That is if you own a compatible car like a BMW of a Ford.
How to modify Netflix subtitles on iPhone and iPad
The appearance of Netflix subtitles can’t be modified on the Netflix app or website, as one might expect. Instead they obey the local configuration of your device.
So, instead of searching the answer on Netflix, try your device’s settings.
On the Settings app, go to Accessibility and then head to Subtitles & Captioning.
There you can select one of the predefined styles or you can create your own style fol subtitles. You can play around with a few options, like the color and size of text or the background.
This way you can customize the subtitles appearance for Netflix and other video apps on iPhone and iPad.