As we know Apple unveiling iOS 8 at its WWDC, the new operating system comes with a range of new features, like a Health app, Handoff, Family Sharing, and improvements to several apps like Messages, Siri, Mail, Safari. it is also opened many capabilities to developers.
Apple usually highlights to what could be consider as main features, while many features and changes have being discovered and noticed by users, iOS 8 contains a huge number of changes, but we will concentrate on the more interesting changes, this will include the first and the second beta of iOS 8.
Share sheet customizations
If you want to share an image, website, or other type of media, in iOS 8 you can now customize these sharing options, so you can add others elements or rearrange the sharing list, this also applies on the media options like Copy, Print, and AirPlay.
Request Desktop Site
DuckDuckGo
One of the search engines that is known for its anti-tracking stance, DuckDuckGo, in iOS 8 you can choose it as default search on Safari.iBooks
iBooks now built in iOS 8 instead to download it from the App Store. There's also a new automatic night mode in iBooks, and an organization option to group books from a series together.Photos App
Recover deleted photos
Photos app has known a number of improvements, like iCloud Photo Library, smart adjustments. in addition to that, the Photos app in iOS 8 has also received some organizational options, so is include two albums for "Recently Added" and "Recently Deleted." The Recently Deleted section gives you the ability to recover the recent deleted photos in case you’ve deleted them accidentally.
Other tiny addition, the date and time a photo was taken is also displayed.
Hide Photos
You can now in iOS 8 to hide images in the Photos app from the Moments, Collections, and Years view, that happen when you hold a finger on a photo, to appear a pop-up, select "Hide" and confirm, will keep it from being visible in those sections, while still visible in the albums view.
Insert your photos in the Notes app
You can now insert the photos that be existing in the Photos app in Notes app.
Wi-Fi Calling
iOS 8 will include an option that will let you to make calls from Wi-Fi networks instead of cellular, these lead to saving minutes and battery performance would be better. T-Mobile has already promised to support iOS 8's Wi-Fi calling feature when it rolls out later this year.
Accessibility
Grayscale mode
You can now in iOS 8 to shift at once the entire operating system appearance into shades of black and white, that through Grayscale mode, under Accessibility.
There are others new Accessibility options:
Each device connects to the web has a unique MAC address, -iPhones among these devices,- In addition to its technical role many companies and individuals, exploit MAC addresses for their own purposes, such as to track and locate those devices, now iOS devices with iOS 8 will creat the MAC addresses randomly and locally administered, "may not always be the device's real (universal) address."
- Improved zoom
- Braille keyboard
- Alex voice
- Multi-device support for MFi hearing aids
- Guided Access improved with option for time limits, countdown timer and Touch ID support
Randomized MAC addresses
Preventing background location informations
There are many apps' processes were done in the background, these processes might deplete the device's capabilities, and users might don't wish to services that are provided from those processes, especially if this service will fatigue the battery. location information included in what we have being mentioned, and many apps required that. Now in iOS 8 you will get a pop-up notify you of apps that access Location information while running in the background. Thus you can allow or prevent them, as well giving users more information on apps that could potentially be using a lot of battery life. There are also more Location Services options per app and from iPhone's Settings.
Indoor positioning
In iOS 8, Apple will still be using Cellular, GPS, and WiFi to get you to the venue, but once you’re approaching a location that is enabled for indoor positioning, it will scan over wifi, tap into the device’s sensors like the M7 chip and provide accurate data of exactly where you are and how fast you’re moving through the floor plan.
New "Buy" button on Control Center
iOS 8 beta 2
As has been mentioned iOS 8 beta 2 also contains several tweaks.
Podcasts: After iBook now Podcasts app in beta 2 comes pre-installed, that means you don't need to download it from the App Store, and also it can no longer be deleted.
Podcasts has also bring a new welcome screen detailing new features in the app
Safari: The ads that redirecting users to the App Store without user interaction, Safari will now block them.
Safari now will offer a new introduction screen for Private Browsing.
App Store Purchases: Apps in the App Store's purchased tab in iOS 8 beta 1 were stored alphabetically, but now again sorted by purchase date. It's also possible to leave reviews in the App Store, in beta 1 the feature was unavailable, might due to a bug. The App Store now shown Family Purchases.
Messages: Camera and Microphone icons have changed from blue to grey, and there's a new setting to mark all messages read.
Settings: There's a new "Raise to Listen" option for Messages.
Home Data: There’s a new Home Data section within the Privacy from the Setting menu, that'll list apps that access your Home Data.
iCloud Photos: A new "iCloud Photos" welcome screen will pop when you entering the Photos app. The new iCloud Photos feature will replacing the existing Photo Stream.
Photos app: The Photos app in iOS 8 beta has brought two new albums, Bursts photos and Slo-Mo videos, this will make browsing of those albums' contents very easy.
Assistive Touch: In iOS 8 beta 2 Assistive Touch menu has new options for Control Center and Notification Center.
Assistive Touch: In iOS 8 beta 2 Assistive Touch menu has new options for Control Center and Notification Center.
Allow Notifications: Now you can mute all notifications from a specific app, that through a new "Allow Notifications" setting, the option is available for each app. While in the past, there was only an option to disallow apps from displaying notifications in Notification Center.
Battery Usage by App: iOS 8 now lets you to know how much consume each app of battery, through a new "Battery Usage" setting. In beta 2 there is a new addition lets you know the battery usage when there was no cell coverage.
The public release of iOS 8 is expected to be in the fall, as we have seen there are several new features and changes, and iOS 8 beta 2 also has brought some changes, to get to the gold iOS 8 version, based on past history, we will see others betas.
The public release of iOS 8 is expected to be in the fall, as we have seen there are several new features and changes, and iOS 8 beta 2 also has brought some changes, to get to the gold iOS 8 version, based on past history, we will see others betas.
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