Top 10 New Features of iOS 8 – download and Update
Recently on June 2nd, the biggest Tech Giant Apple officially announced iOS the next generation Operating System for iPhone and iPad. Apple has done some major changes in terms of design and User Experience which makes iOS 8 better than its older version iOS 7. Apple has also stated that iOS 8 is one of the biggest release in iOS. All the Apple devices running on iOS 7 can be upgraded to iOS 8. Let’s have a deeper look to new features of iOS 8.
Features of iOS 8
The new iOS 8 has a number of new features and great Improvements from the last version iOS 7. Apple is going allow both the users and developers to use iOS 8 platform more flexibly from any other version of iOS. Below we have listed all new features and hidden secrets of iOS 8 Platform.
Messaging Feature
Apple has made some great changes in their built messaging app. Now you will Share audio and video messages with your friends rather than old boring text messages. Also you can set a self-distruct timer for the messages after that the message will be unavailable. The iOS 8 has some Changes in Group Messaging also like, you can leave conversations or set do-not-disturb mode to stop getting notifications. Not only this you will able to share you location through these messages.
Continuity
One of the best new feature introduced in iOS 8 is Handoff , which is the part of its “Continuity” concept. If you have an iPhone and a Mac, you’ll be able to start a task on one device and finish on the other. Since the devices are aware of each other, all you have to do is click one button, and it works on iPad, too.
Photo Library
With the new iOS 8, user will able to access all there Photos and videos in an organized manner by using the new Photos app and iCloud Photo Library. You can simply access this app through a thumb gesture and use the smart editing tools which will let you give a greater look to your Photos then ever.
Keyboard enhancement and extension
Apple has done a major change with its keyboard experience in iOS 8. According to apple the iOS 8 keyboard is its “smartest keyboard ever”. As apple now supports Quick type and predictive type feature, which give the user several predictive text for the next word as the user types.
Not only this, Apple at the same time allowing developers to offer their own designed keyboards. Which means now the user you can use Third party keyboard apps on their iPhone or iPad. This feature is the same as Android users were using Swype Keyboard in their devices.
Camera
The Camera of iPhone’s are best thing which is used by everyone in the world. And this Apple has added some new features to their Camera App like three-second timer and Time Lapse which will let the user to capture extended moments and automatically speed up the video with a higher frame rate. Also with the updates of camera app in iOS 8 will allow third-party apps to access the camera hardware in depth.
Health App
The new Health app will Combine all the health information stored in various fitness app in your iPhone and will allow you to access to piece of information at Central place. The developers are using the HealthKit API, to develop these apps.
Updated Siri
With the new iOS 8, the Siri also has got an update. Now the user need to say only “Hey Siri” and it will awake the Siri in the iPhone. Not only this Siri has been integrated with Shazam which will allow the user to identify any Playing Song without opening the app.
Notifications
The Apple has made the Notifications interactive, which will allow the user to respond to the notification without changing the app. Also if the screen is locked, you can anwser the notification without unlocking the screen also.
TouchID for apps
Last year with the iPhone 5S Apple introduced the bio-metric finger print scan using the TouchID, but it was limited to only screen lock and buying apps from iTunes. But with the iOS 8 TouchID has been extended for all sorts of app as well as e-commerce transactions.
iCloud Drive
The iCloud Drive will let you save documents and pdf to your iPhone. Also it will provide Cloud Storage service same as the Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.
So we listed all the new features and updates done in the new iOS 8. If you able to find any hidden secret feature don’t forget to share with us in below comments. Thanks for Reading !!