You’ll definitely want to upgrade your iPhone and iPad as soon as possible, because with this update comes a whole host of tweaks and improvements.

Among the most talked about improvement is CarPlay, previously known as iOS in the Car. With iOS 7.1 your iPhone will support in-car calling, music, maps and messaging through Siri. Apple’s digital assistant also will get more natural sounding voices for U.K. English, Australian English, Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. Other new features include:

• iTunes Radio now gets the ability to buy albums from the Now Playing list
• TouchID gets a better biometric reader for improved fingerprint recognition
• Camera will now include a setting that enables HDR mode for iPhone 5s owners
• FaceTime call notifications are now automatically cleared when you answer a call on a different device
• Calendar gets back list view in the month view, and adds country specific holidays for various locations
• Better accessibility options that allow the use of a bolder font, darker keyboard and app icons, plus reduce motion options for the parallax motion feature now applies to weather, messages and multitasking user interface animations

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