#392 - iOS 13’s best hidden features plus our favorite gadgets 🤖🔥

Jun 14, 2019

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This week: the super useful iOS 13 features you haven’t heard about! Plus: we discuss the best new features in iPadOS. And we’ll tell you about our favorite new gadgets in an all-new Under Review.

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This week's stories

iOS 13 now shows a map of where apps have been tracking you when requesting permission

iOS 13 now presents a popup notification when an app is using your location in the background, and the notification shows a map of the location data a specific app has tracked.

iOS 13 Apple Maps: Share your live route ETA with a friend

In iOS 13, integrated right into Apple Maps, you can share your journey status with your contacts in a feature called Share ETA.

NFC gets a lot more powerful in iOS 13

NFC — the technology that helps power Apple Pay as well other clever features for iOS apps like Launch Center Pro’s tappable stickers — is getting a big upgrade with the launch of iOS 13

iOS 13’s NFC triggers bring Shortcuts to the real world

The iOS 13 Shortcuts app has been updated to support automatic scheduled and location-based shortcuts
But it also includes NFC triggers. So if you have a compatible iPhone, you can combine NFC tags with Shortcuts.
That is, you can run any shortcut just by tapping your iPhone onto an NFC sticker.

Under Review!

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Choetech Dual Wireless Fast Charger https://www.cultofmac.com/630664/choetech-dual-wireless-fast-charger-review/