Apple App clips in iOS 14

Apple "App Clips"might be the next big thing that Android needs to copy

Apple recently introduced their new feature called at clips in WWDC special event keynotes 2020. The event was held live online on YouTube where they introduced us to the some of the great features of iOS 14. Here we have our thoughts on new iOS 14 feature called "App Clips".

Basically App clips is a popup widget feature of apps displaying a notification on the basis of user activity or the place user is in. For example you could go to a coffee shop and a specific NFC enabled iPhone app for coffee or payments may show up as a pop-up notification. Unlike the traditional notifications this feature will enable users to see breif information on what's available. Moreover this eases the task where user need s to unlock their phone open up the specific app and perform its task. 

This feature will surely help users' confusions on if some app is available for the task or any action they are going to perform. This might be a big point of advantage for iPhones considering that one cannot customize widgets in the home page like they can on Android devices. Also these pop-ups as shown in WWDC can show on your lock screen and over apps that you might be using at the time.

Apple is planning to add this feature in iOS 13

too through updates and they also showed a special QR code like code which could be used by service providers and scanned by iPhones incase your iPhone has no NFC support. 

Now as we all have witnessed in earlier years Android always comes up with their own version of feature incase Apple launches a new feature. App clips may be the perfect feature for Android to implement in their OS with some more inhancements. 

The App Clips really is an example of innovation and Apple deserves a huge round of applause for it. For more updates on WWDC stay tuned to us.