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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