Apple Seemingly Takes Steps Toward Acknowledging Diversity with Two New Siri Options Many Say Are Black Voices
Apple’s latest update has introduced a unique feature that is taking a significant step towards diversity.
On Monday, April 26, the tech giant released its iOS 14.5 updates for iPhones and iPads, which featured new emojis, the power to unlock your phone with ease while you wear a mask, gaming, and personal setting update.
Aside from the latest software, which Apple described as an update built “on the reimagined iPhone experience introduced in iOS14,” Siri, Apple’s virtual assistant, has also gotten an upgrade. Siri now has two new English accents, one male and one female, which appear as “Voice 2” and “Voice 3” in iPhone settings.
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iOS 14.5 has been released.
The update brings a ton of new features across the iPhone.
iOS 14.5 is finally here and it has brought with it a ton of new features.
Today, Apple released iOS 14.5, and with it came a host of new features for iPhone users. The new update includes the ability to unlock iPhone with Apple Watch while wearing a face mask, more diverse Siri voices, new privacy controls, skin tone options to better represent couples in emoji, and more.
The biggest feature is the ability to unlock your iPhone with Face ID while wearing a mask as long as you have an Apple Watch Series 3 or later.