New mobile operating system iOS8 of Apple comes with lots of innovative features. Apple Inc is a highly competitive and innovative company. It has established itself as a big brand name in the mobile, laptop and personal computer segments. Apple with its iPhone is in the forefront of mobile manufacturers. Its iPhone is considered one of the coolest gadgets. Apple continues to invest heavily in research and development to come up with innovative and eye catching products from time to time. This time Apple is in the news for its new mobile operating system iOS 8.
Apple claims the new iOS8 to be the world’s most advance operating system. iOS8 is likely to provide more natural experience enabled by purposeful and efficient enhancements.
iOS8 provides enhanced user control to maximum device battery backup. Users can recognize which apps or features are highly battery intensive and can take decisions on running such apps or features.
In iOS8’s messaging center enables users to send audio and video messages right in a text message. Besides, a user can also set “Do Not Disturb” on specific conversations to avoid receiving regular alerts. iOS8 also provides a feature in the messaging center through which a user can share his/her location with contacts in conversation.
With iOS8, Apple presents a new feature called Family Sharing, which allows a maximum of 6 different Apple users share all iTunes, iBooks and App Store contents including purchases. Family Sharing feature automatically shares a user’s location with his/her family members which can result in a map showing location of all the family members. This feature is also helpful in locating any lost devices of your family members. Nonetheless, Family Sharing also enables parental control on purchases on iTunes, iBook and App Store. A family can share a single credit card for all such purchases wherein the kids can be enforced to seek their parent’s permission if “Ask to Buy” option is enabled.
This feature is particularly useful to the problem of children downloading paid apps on their parents' credit cards: With Family Sharing, the parent gets notified, and then can grant or deny the purchase.
In iOS8, Apple is providing greater flexibility for developers to develop apps with deeper access to hardware and iOS components. It is the first time in the history of iOS that third party on screen keyboards are allowed, media applications will have superior access to the camera and interactive notification.
Among these, allowing third party on screen keyboards is likely to be revolutionary. A third party keyboard like Swype for Andriod lets user to swipe around a keyboard rather than to tap, providing a smooth landing platform for users migrating from Andriod devices to iOS devices. The iOS 8 is also providing enhanced features with camera. The camera, besides providing focus and exposure control, will also have options for a three-second timer and time-lapse capture for video. iOS8’s interactive notification center is also quite helpful. A user while watching a video, do not need to launch the messaging center to reply an incoming message. He/she can reply to message by just pulling down the notification banner for the message eventually returning to the video.
Besides the above mentioned key enhancements, there are various other enhancements iniOS8 such as iCloud Drive which enables file sharing across devices, health app which keeps track of various health related parameters including calories burned, greater collaboration among iPhone, iPad and Mac enabling an activity to start in one device and be finished in other device and Apple’s new programming language- Swift helping developers.
Overall, iOS8 seems to be revolutionary platform which will not only rejuvenate iPhones and iPads but also help Apple strengthen its foothold against Android.
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