Apple Unveils iOS 8 With iCloud Photo Library, New Messages Features, Health App and More
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Posted June 2, 2014 at 7:28pm by iClarified
Apple has officially unveiled iOS 8 with the new iCloud photo library, Messages Features, Health App and More
Apple today unveiled iOS 8, the biggest release since the launch of the App Store, giving users incredible new features and developers the tools to create amazing new apps. iOS 8 delivers a simpler, faster and more intuitive user experience, including iCloud Photo Library, allowing you to enjoy your photos and videos more easily across your devices; new Messages features to easily share voice, video or photos with just a swipe; and an entirely new Health app that gives you a clear overview of your health and fitness data all in one place. iOS 8 also includes predictive typing for Apple’s QuickType keyboard; Family Sharing, the easiest way to share purchases, photos and calendars within the same household; and iCloud Drive, so you can store files and access them from anywhere.
“iOS 8 offers simpler, faster and more intuitive ways to use your device with incredible new features like iCloud Photo Library, a new Messages app, the QuickType keyboard and an entirely new Health app,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “We’re also giving developers amazing new tools to make managing your health and your home from your devices an integrated, simple and secure experience.”
iCloud Photo Library In iOS 8, the Photos app and iCloud Photo Library give you access to all of your photos and videos anytime, anywhere. Your photos are easy to find and are organized consistently across your enabled devices. The Photos app can automatically straighten horizons and with smart editing tools, you can quickly adjust light and color or access individual tools for deeper fine-tuning. With iCloud Photo Library, every adjustment and effect is automatically updated across your devices.
Messages Conversations in Messages become more immersive with the ability to communicate with just a swipe. Tap to Talk allows you to share your voice and the same simple gesture also works for sharing videos and photos within Messages. Group messaging now gives you the ability to add and remove contacts, leave a conversation and the option to not be disturbed. Users can easily browse through all of the photos and videos within a conversation and share multiple photos and videos at once. You can choose to share your current location from within Messages for an hour, a day or longer.
Health The new Health app gathers the information you choose from your various health apps and fitness devices, and provides you with a clear and current overview in one place. iOS 8 offers developers the ability for health and fitness apps to communicate with each other. With your permission, each app can use specific information from other apps to provide a more comprehensive way to manage your health and fitness. For example, the Nike+ apps using NikeFuel will be able to pull in other key HealthKit metrics such as sleep and nutrition to build a custom user profile and improve athletic performance.
QuickType New predictive typing for Apple’s QuickType keyboard is smarter and more personalized, and intelligently takes context into account, such as who the recipient is and in which app you’re typing. QuickType understands the way you communicate, suggesting favorite phrases, so you can write entire sentences with just a few taps. What the keyboard learns is encrypted on your device and never sent to the cloud.
Family Sharing iOS 8 introduces Family Sharing, making it easier than ever to communicate and share purchases, photos and calendars within the same household. Family members can browse and download each other’s iTunes, iBooks or App Store purchases. Up to six members can participate, each with their own Apple ID. Parents can create Apple IDs for children, which includes Ask to Buy, requiring parental permission for purchases. Family Sharing automatically keeps everyone connected by creating a shared family photo stream, shared calendar and provides an option for locating family members and their devices.
iCloud Drive With iCloud Drive, documents of any type can be safely stored, accessed and edited across your devices. Make edits on one device and the most up-to-date version of your documents will be available across all devices, whether an iOS device, Mac, Windows PC or on www.icloud.com. iCloud Drive brings a whole new level of collaboration between apps, providing seamless access and the ability to work on the same file across multiple apps.
Enterprise For Enterprise, iOS 8 builds on the new IT model for a mobilized workforce by improving the way users are informed of how their devices are configured, managed or restricted. iOS 8 offers expanded security and management improvements as well as new productivity features, including an expanded level of data protection for key built-in apps, the ability to set your out of office response, see your colleague’s availability when scheduling a meeting and support for configurable Thread Notifications in Mail.
Additional iOS 8 features include: • design enhancements that build off the stunning interface of iOS 7, bringing interactive notifications, quick access to key contacts, the ability to quickly switch back and forth between the inbox and drafts in Mail, as well as intelligent suggestions; • extended Spotlight capabilities that give you results beyond what’s on your device, including articles from Wikipedia, findings from the news and results from places nearby; and • greater continuity between iPhone, iPad and Mac, including Handoff to start an activity on one device and finish on another, along with Instant Hotspot and the ability to make and receive calls and send SMS and MMS messages from your Mac or iPad.
iOS 8 is available to all developers starting today. It will be available to the public starting in the fall. Supported devices include iPhone 4s, iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5s, iPod touch 5th generation, iPad 2, iPad with Retina display, iPad Air, iPad mini and iPad mini with Retina display.
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That's exactly why you can change what you don't want or ignore it, but anyway we have jailbreak but as for osx maybe apple can keep the old style or add the dock and icons to the list of things you can customize with like the current one, mavericks.
I don't like that people have to bash others for what they like or what their opinion is. Let's be more civilized. I totally agree with Troll Hater. U have to look at the big picture for everything. In Apple's case, they can careless about market share but care only about profit margins. That is why their products are more expensive. Plus, it is not about whether a feature or product is the first to launch, but QUALITY. Apple doesn't normally want to rush things and come out with bad quality in their product. Plus, most most of the stuff that they copy aren't patented or they would be sued for everything.
All this features have been on Windows Phone and Android OS for about two years now. Sorry Apple but your market share will go down faster than expected.
If it is true that kitkat take up rate is only at 9%, then I think android will implode soon. It appears that most of the take up is only due to sale of new phones that have it pre-installed! That means manufacturers are treating their own hardware as throw-aways. They don't care if you don't upgrade. They can't be bothered to push out android updates quickly and smoothly. They just want you to buy the next hardware upgrade. That's why having and OS and hardware created and supported by separate companies with different agendas won't give you the best of both worlds.
You do realize that Google Services handles most of the updates for Android anyways, so which version of the OS doesn't really matter because everything is done through Google Services.
So only 9% of android phone users want to upgrade to kit kat? Or are you saying Google Services isn't working properly? Or maybe you're wrong? Or maybe 9% of devices is all kit kat can run on?
I still vote on playing catch up. Slowly losing the feeling that I need to jb my phone. In other words I have had almost all of this stuff already. Someone else already figured it out 2 yrs ago and Apple is just now adding it in. Hoping the new iPhone announcement has something exciting because this one was a letdown.
I still vote on playing catch up. Slowly losing the feeling that I need to jb my phone. In other words I have had almost all of this stuff already. Someone else already figured it out 2 yrs ago and Apple is just now adding it in. Hoping the new iPhone announcement has something exciting because this one was a letdown.
Oh wow so basically what you are saying is that Apple is copying developers from the jailbreak community and not giving them credit. Isn't that just a kick in the pants.
Same thing goes for google and all pirated spyware/malware apps and games in the play store wox. At least apple gives developers a chance to actually do something with their apps in the App Store.
Yes I want apple to work closer with what users prefer. If these mods had been popular in the jb community for quite some time why wait so long? Pretty much saying either come up with your own stuff fast or copy the jb community faster.
It just seems silly half the time when I am like sweet new features and then damn.... If apple does a good job at the change then I don't have to install x mod. For people that don't mod I'm sure there lists are awesome though.
Did you watch the keynote? The developer part? The various new things they've added for developers in the SDK will change iOS astronomically. I think it was the highlight of the keynote. It's only the beginning in my opinion. Look at the overall big picture and what the future holds. Not just the little things. Like most people do. They're finally opening up the OS and letting developers add features/access to various apps and hardware that nobody ever thought apple would allow. They're actually listening to what developers and customers are asking for. It's not just about the new iOS 8 apps they announced or showed off yesterday. They are amazing in there own right, but there's so much more they didn't talk about or show on stage. Think about the possibilities now with the new developer features for coding, the new metal coding advancements for gaming, cross app integration and adding third party features to work with the hardware and iOS. These new features plus the integration with the M7 or future M8 processor, and the new Advanced 64 bit A8 they'll release soon. Among other things they'll integrate into the iPhone 6 hardware. It's only going to get better. The possibilities are endless. The way I look at it, android has some catching up to do when it comes to real development and working with developers like apple does. Not just throwing features in for features sake and to be first. Google rushes a lot of the features they add to android, among other things they've developed, announced and then eventually canceled or products that flopped. Remember the amazing Chrome pixel? All just to say they did it first. I agree some iOS features could have come sooner but why rush stuff, just to be first like the others do. Ya apples announced features first and some after others, but the difference is they work and people actually use them daily. How many features released by google or the others really take off, become big and are actually used by people on a daily basis like apples apps and hardware features are? Samsung's rushed fingerprint scanner for example. They rushed it and put it in the S5 just to say they had that feature too. Look how that's worked for them! They say their products are so much better and superior but if they are why did they just fire the guy that Was the head of developing and designing them? Again, How many people actually know about certain features these companies release, or will ever actually be able to use them because of the horrible fragmentation and lack of device updates by carriers and manufactures. Most of the apps on google play can't be used because the majority of devices people own don't support them. That's one reason I personally switched to the iPhone and other apple products. I was sick of the false promises google and the others have made. That's why I love what apple does. They actually take their time with useable features and their products, along with free supported updates. It's what makes them different. They actually care about the products they create and their customers. I never in my wildest dreams thought I'd switch, but I did and I'm never looking back. In the end It's not all about just what features apple adds. The developers are a big part of it too.
On the dev side it is sweet.... But on the Apple side it's still the same stuff to me. They made the platform and the devs might give it some more life. So second year in a row let down for me and we will see where the devs take this. Maybe this time next year my opinion will have changed. Almost everything apple introduced I have had working cross platform for quite some time. It was not spoon fed to me and many might not even be able to figure out how to get it working... So for them this is nice. For me there is always next year if someone else doesn't beat them to my next want first.
Really about all I would add is ways to start taking back android users. I don't need my phone to do anything else for me. Until their hardware is seriously upgraded on the health front I have other devices that work flawless already. What I would really love is if more enterprise situations would fully support apple products. Have a windows 7 computer just so I can work from home and get tech support. Total turn off and let's it sit in my mind that for me this can't be the end all be all brand despite how well it usually works. So add that to the list of iOS... Promoting enterprise support... I would he excited about this.
Really about all I would add is ways to start taking back android users. I don't need my phone to do anything else for me. Until their hardware is seriously upgraded on the health front I have other devices that work flawless already. What I would really love is if more enterprise situations would fully support apple products. Have a windows 7 computer just so I can work from home and get tech support. Total turn off and let's it sit in my mind that for me this can't be the end all be all brand despite how well it usually works. So add that to the list of iOS... Promoting enterprise support... I would be excited about this.
This has to be the best update to date for iOS period. Messages, mail, extensions, keyboards (finally) it's going to become harder and harder for jailbreak developers to give a reason to jailbreak.
Didn't they already have all that stuff on Android years ago? Just another example of Apple copying everybody else. Swiftkey should sue apple for predictive texting. And my that I mean actually predictive texting not the crap Apple has been using.
And whats the marketshare that Apple has over Android? Oh that is right. Android phones outsell Apple phones all over the world.
The android operating system is fantastic. Its very stable and fast. I have the HTC ONE and it beats the pants off of any iPhone. You want to know why? Because the screen is actually big enough to see on it. Oh and because I have an HD screen. Do you? Exactly.
You're wrong Woz. Like I said before ¾ of the android phones sold are outdated junk hardware and software. There's proof to back that up. Look it up. And the numbers Samsung and others releases are shipped numbers not sold? They actually come nowhere close to the numbers you think. Yes they do sell more but, apples making twice as much as all of them combined.
Some of y'all don't have a clue of new, the mail part is really useful with text and getting pictures without exiting a message, but gestures can come in handy, metal for 3d graphics performance beefs up the chips' performance, continuity for keeping things going across ANY device for on the go, all the health parts that will soon run on the phone that normally run on seperate parts, extensions, family cloud, photo filters that balance part of the picture for perfect looks. OMFG all these blew me off the universe.
The only reason that Apple makes so much profit is because they are selling old technology at a premium. That is why they and Beats Audio make such a great fit. They are both companies that are experts in getting people like you to believe everything they say without actually trying something that really works.
And by the way I've tried them all. Windows before Mac. Windows phone, android and even webOS before switching to iOS and the iPhone/iPad. I never thought I'd buy a Mac or iPhone. I'm glad I did. I've never been less stressed. Unlike the many years of headaches with viruses and malware on windows. And the same with android. And not getting the software updates on brand new android phones was the last straw. And you say apples using outdated technology.
Seriously, I think there may be a lot more new features to ios 8 that they might not have announced. It has happened in the last few major software updates and that could be the case again
I agree T Hui. They're probably saving a few things for the iPhones 6 keynote. Features that will take advantage of the bigger screen. They always hold a few things features back for the new iPhone released after WWDC.
I know most people aren't really impressed with this new iOS update, but if u look at the big picture, it does bring in some features that are very useful for loyal Apple customers and that they never had before. It makes it easier to use as well.
Because they make new ones to add, once you have done so much success with the last, why stop there, but having every last feature on one os would make apple run out of ideas like that.
Playing catch up? Really? You gotta be joking. Did you even watch the keynote? Did you not see the advancements made for developing? People like you fail too see the big picture. And how many android phones are running kit kat again? Exactly! Enough said!
So many people like you overlook the big picture of it all. It boggles my mind. Let me guess you just scanned over this article and didn't watch the entire keynote? There's so much more involved with it than what you see here. The advancements for developers will open up iOS more than you can realize. And androids kit kat is running on what percentage of phones again? Exactly!
Exactly meeee. They're failing to see the big picture of it all. The advancements for developers will change everything. It's only the beginning. What they announced will change iOS forever.
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