13 small but cool new iOS features, from fast scrolling to permanent hotspot

It took Apple nearly two and a half hours to go through all the new developments in its walled software garden during the WWDC 2019 keynote, and for a good reason. This is one of the biggest new iOS releases in recent memory, complete with both user-facing aesthetics like the systemwide dark mode, as well as under-the-hood improvements like 2x faster app loading and much improved app update speeds.

Most of the newly-announced major features were long overdue, like the stock swipe-type keyboard introduction, or the machine learning algorithms that tidy up the tons of imagery that ...