Several “new” iOS 14 features take inspiration from Samsung’s One UI

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then Apple’s iOS 14 is certainly flattering both Samsung’s One UI and Google’s Android OS. Apple recently took the veil off its latest mobile OS version at WWDC 2020, and interestingly enough, iOS 14 has a lot of features that Android and Galaxy smartphone users have been taking for granted for years.This is only natural, as rival companies will always try to stay ahead of each other even at the cost of originality. Besides, the three tech giants including Apple, Google, and Samsung have been tinkering with mobile software for the past decade, and some ideas were bound to overlap over this long period of constant optimization.We recently discussed what we think Samsung and the One UI team could learn from Apple’s WWDC 2020 and iOS 14, but now we decided to have a bit of fun and take a closer look at the latest iOS 14 features that have undoubtedly been inspired by Samsung’s One UI and Google’s mobile operating system.Home screen widgets and an app drawerHome screen widgets and the app drawer have been a part of Samsung’s proprietary software since forever, but were you aware that these simple features we take for granted have been missing from iOS all this time?Apple’s new iOS 14 took a page straight from Google’s book with the addition of home screen widgets and the so-called App Library. Granted, Apple’s widgets and app drawer are not exactly identical to Google’s, but they serve the same purpose.Emoji search and the ability to change the default email/browser appsUp until iOS 14, iPhone users have been unable to search for emojis through the default keyboard, believe it or not. This function that had already existed on Samsung Keyboard for some time has now finally been added to iPhones.More so, it’s been roughly a decade since the first version of iOS was introduced, but it’s only now in the year 2020 when iPhone users can finally change their default mailing and internet browser apps. Before iOS 14, iPhone owners were forced to use Apple’s first-party browser and mailing apps as the default choice.More compact UI elements, inspired by One UI