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There is a lot more to iOS 8 than meets the iPhone. Sure, it does not lead in a dramatic new look like last year mobile operating system makeover from Apple. Instead, it encircling out that flat iOS 7 redesign with little obvious, but equally essential extra features.

Apple is removing out the older basis of iOS and replaces it with a newest and friendly platform. With the latest update of this OS Apple has open the doors of iOS 8 to the developers. iOS 8 is very powerful than any of its previous versions and also it is very friendly and easy to use. The most important changes done in the iOS 8 is that Apple has open some parts of the stage that has regularly been unavailable for the third party developers.

Now you can mix up third party apps into Apple’s native sharing system, put them exact into Photos app of Apple and can also replace the keyboard of iPhone. So, here is the Complete Review and Features of iOS 8.

Pros

  • Now Apps are interacting with other apps

  • It supports the third party keyboards

  • User can control camera manually and taking perfect selfies.

  • Permanence permits you to move easily between other devices

  • Family Sharing

  • Quick action to any notifications

 

Cons

  • Command “Hey Siri” only executes when phone is plugged in

  • iCloud Drive files should be much easier to contact

  • Control center of this OS is not opena for Developers

  • Few more improvements are need to Apple Maps

 

Compatibility of iOS 8

 

To update your iOS to iOS 8 Apple you needs an iPhone 4S or latest version and iPad 2 or latest version. Only the iPhone 4 and the and above version is on the list. Apart from iPad mini and iPad mini 2 tablets and the iPod touch 5th generation device will also work with this new iOS.

1 - Interactive Notifications

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

iOS 8 has interactive notifications features which is one of the best part of this update. You can directly reply to texts messages, calendar invitations, reminders and messages inside apps like Facebook from the notification banner that prompt-up at the top of the display. Through this features you can reply to incoming messages without opening apps.

 

2 - Battery Monitoring

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This feature will help you to find out which applications are sucking away device’s battery life. To find out which apps is using how much battery, go to General > Usage > Battery Usage. Through, this way you can increase the battery life of your device for a more hours by shutting down the apps when not in use.

 

3 - Keyboards

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the first time happenings in this iOS operating system, With this iOS you are no longer restricted for the keyboard. Now you can select better options of keyboard with the use of third party developer’s apps. Here, are some other alternatives is available for keyboard, but if you don’t want to install any external app then you can make use of the feature added by Apple to its own keyboard. This built-in keyboard now offer prognostic text, giving you word proposals even before type anything.

 

4 - Camera Timer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In iOS 8 taking selfies become much easier. There is a timer added to its Camera apps that allows you to get ready in 3 or 10 seconds to capture the shot perfectly. Now you can set your device earlier than setting the timer, so that you don’t even require fingers to take any images.

 

5 - Landscaped Homescreen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now you can easily read the content and use the main screen of your device in the landscape mode. Earlier in iOS 7 landscape mode was not working on the main screen of the device. But currently , iPhone 6 Plus owners can presently rotate the device at 90 degree and view the apps displayed on the home screen in any format.

 

6 - Enhanced Photo/Video Sharing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sharing of photos and other media files has been improved in iOS 8, you can now send multiple photos to your family friends at the same time through Messages apps. You can also send the videos directly within the text messages conversation.

 

7 - Swipe to Delete

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deleting content from your iDevices has now become easier, in this latest OS instead of clicking the small trash icon for every e-mail, but now you can remove them by easily swiping left and save time. But be careful when the testing of this feature.

 

8 - Multitasking Email

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now e-mails will get displayed in Windows, so user doesn’t have to shut down one e-mail to open another. You have to just simply swipe it downward to minimize the e-mail and so that you can open up other e-mails at once.

 

9 - Smarter Spotlight

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spotlight can be still accessed by just dragging the top of the screen downward, spotlight is an absolutely a perfect search tool. You can now search stuff on your own device and it can now able to search Wikipedia, acknowledge you what topics are currently in news, show yu the nearby restaurant and also notify you the show time of movie.

 

10 - Share Location

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can now share exact location and invites your friend to meet. iOS 8 allow you to set up a Window for when you want to show your location, for example, if you are at the office from noon to 6 p.m., you can share your location  with your friends until you are ready to go home.

 

Conclusion

 

iOS 8 isn’t a facelift like last year’s update, but new messaging features and third-party apps for keyboard and Touch ID make iPhone and iPad simpler to use than ever. However the best is yet to come.

 

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