Apple has officially unveiled its next major update ios 8 at the Apples
worldwide developers conference earlier in june.ios 8 includes many
noticeable changes in the User Interface & also many new features
have been included.
Availability Of ios8 :
This next version of ios, is set to be released to public in the
fall.The beta version is now available for all the registered
developers.
Compatible Devices for ios 8 :
- IPhone : Iphone 4s, 5 , 5C & 5S.
- iPad : iPad Air, iPad 2 and iPad 4th Generation.
- iPad Mini : iPad mini & iPad mini 2 with retina display.
- iPod : 5th Generation iPod Touch.
What’s new for your iphones and other apple devices in this update?
Apple says ios 8 is the biggest ios release ever. This Major update
includes many new features like Health kit, Family Sharing,
Extensibility, Continuity, iCloud Drive & Quick type for Text
messaging along with the improvements for photos, messaging, design and
many more.
Photos :
iCloud Photo Library is the new big feature in photos that every
iphone lover is gonna love.Any photo or video that you take with your
iphone or iPad gets stored in the icloud which you can access it from
any Apple device and also windows PC anytime you want.
And also if you make any changes to a photo or video on one device,
those changes are synced to all the devices logged into the same Apple
ID.You can search your entire gallery of photos by album name , location
and the date or time the photo was taken.
CAMERA :
Even if the composition isn’t perfect when you click a photo you have
smart composition tools with which you can quickly crop and straighten
photos.This Update also includes smart Adjustments option with which we
can automatically fix a photo or manually tweak brightness, colors,
contrast, shadows, exposure and highlights.It also comes with a new time
lapse mode ,which allows us to capture what we want and the results in a
video showing the accelerated sequence of the photos over time.
Messaging:
With the ios 8 update, it has surprising new features which makes you
change the opinion about messaging. Now.Now you can add voice to the
conversation , share your location & take charge of group messages.
Smartest Keyboard from ios ever :
As you type you will see the suggestions of words and phrases based
on your previous writing style and conversations, so You can now type
entire sentences with in just a few taps .
And also third party experiences like swipe keyboard are added now to
the new keyboard which allows you to swipe rather than type.
Mail:
The new mail app includes swipe gestures that’s lets you swipe to
mark an email as read, flag or trash. It recognizes the information like
dining reservations and phone numbers allows to add them to calendar,
contacts and other relevant apps
Health App:
The new Health kit Application aggregates data from various fitness
and health apps which include sections of nutrition, sleep, medication,
fitness, lab results, diagnostics , along with the medical conditions
,allergies and other personal health data.
Spotlights:
Now spotlight in addition to the on-device results also goes beyond
your device and provides you the results from Wikipedia, News, Nearby
places ,ibooks store, App store as well.It also includes the movie show
times and also gives us the relevant iTunes links.
Family Sharing :
Ios 8 introduces a new feature called “Family Sharing”, which lets up
to six people in your family to share purchases from iTunes, iBooks and
App store without sharing accounts.It also helps you to keep connected,
It lets the families share photos, videos, a remainder and many more.