Following the rapid public releases of iOS 13.0 and 13.1 in late September, Apple today released a developer beta of iOS 13.2, most notably adding support for a new computational photography feature. The company also released new developer betas of iPadOS 13.2, tvOS 13.2, and watchOS 6.1 with unspecified “bug fixes and improvements.”
The key addition to iOS 13.2 is an option for the Camera application, which Apple announced last month under the name Deep Fusion. Similar to its previously-released HDR and Night Mode features, the new machine learning-backed feature composites the best details from multiple photos into a single image. Deep Fusion is exclusive to iPhone 11-series phones, requiring the A13 Bionic processor for rapid computation.
iOS 13.2 is also believed to include support for a new Siri feature that will enable certain third-party applications to serve as defaults over Apple’s own iOS alternatives. As discussed in greater detail here, Siri will be able to route messages and phone calls to apps such as WhatsApp and Skype rather than iOS’s integrated Messages and Phone apps.
Apple’s iOS 13.2 developer beta is a 3.76GB download and available as an over-the-air update for iPhones. The iPadOS 13.2 beta update is available now for iPads, with tvOS 13.2 for Apple TVs, and watchOS 6.1 beta 2 for Apple Watches. All of the updates except for watchOS 6.1 should become available for public beta testing in the very near future.
Author: Jeremy Horwitz
Source: Venturebeat
