IOS 8

Everyone wants to know whats is in ios 8 and the people are waiting for the release of much avaited operating system IOS 8 

IOS8 was o officially showed to the public at WWDC, Apple’s annual developer conference this

June.It was presented by Apple executives in the keynote and in sessions at the conference,

so people get to see what the OS looks like, and what is difference about this from iOS7 and what new features this version have.But when it will be released officially ?Initially it will be restricted to beta testing programme, which app developers (or those who are willing to claim that  they are app developers) can pay to sign up to. These betas will be an uncomplete versions of iOS 8 , but by beta one can get a good idea of iOS8’s broad design ideas and main features before the final version. iOS 8 is expected to be release in the September or October – most likely alongside the iPhone 6.

new features for user

iOS 8 has a some very good  new features, which i ll tell you  one by one.

In apple presentation  a lot of emphasis was given to developer-specific, highly technical parts of iOS 8 as you would expect from a presentation to developers; but also key was the company’s new openness in allowing app developers to do many things within iOS 8.So we’ll divide this into two parts:

1: Innate features

     that iOS 8 can do itself

2: Developer features 

     that will let apps do new things.

Messages
 Apple software head Craig Federighi pointed out messages which is the most used app in

iOS.

Group messages are organised far more conveniently. You can use iOS’s Do Not Disturb

mode on a per-thread basis, such as situations when a group message thread has got out of hand and your device keeps buzzing with notifi cations of new messages. Or, in a more drastic measure, you can leave a group message thread at any point. If lots of people in the thread have been posting images or videos, you don’t need to worry about keeping track of them all, because Messages organises all the attachments in a particular thread at the bottom of it.

Finally, you can share your location with other members of a thread indefinitely or for limited

periods of time.

You can also send voice and video messages which will self-destruct (to save memory)

according to Federighi, after a period of time unless you save them.

Brilliantly, voice messages sent via Messages appear in the lock screen with a waveform graphic,

and you can listen to the message in question by simply lifting the iPhone to your ear – iOS detects

the motion and interprets the gesture automatically.

As usual, we look forward to testing this out and seeing how accurate it really is. You can reply,

without pressing any on screen controls, by simply speaking your reply, then lowering the phone to

send the message. It’s not clear how Apple intends to keep voice mail private in this scenario.

Mail

The Mail app has been updated with gesture support and a wide range of small, but convenient
tweaks – plus a raft of brilliant, new features.You can use gestures to delete, flag or ‘unread’
messages, swiping across a message to perform the chosen action. It’s a single swipe to mark as unread,flick across and tap to flag, or drag the message all the way across to delete. We’ve seen gesture support like this in third-party apps, but it’s nice to see Apple taking developments on board.
In a form of in-app multitasking, you can flick a message down to the bottom of the screen, check or copy material from another message, and then return to it with a single click. From the demo, it
appeared to be roughly the same as minimizing a window on a desktop OS.Federighi also showcased the ability of Mail to recognize an invitation in a marketing email as an event, and  to add it to Calendar. This whole process looked very slick, but we’ll reserve judgement until we’ve tried it ourselves.
A new feature called Mail Drop provides a solution when you need to send a large attachment. Rather than sending the file via the email server, it’s uploaded to iCloud and downloaded seamlessly at the other end.

Interactive notifications

As you’ll have noticed when we replied to a voice message from the lock screen, iOS 8 lets you
accomplish far more without leaving the app you’re in, thanks to more responsive notifications. Facebook, Messages or Twitter notifications pop down into your screen and can be responded to there and then – you get the option to reply or Like, accept or decline Calendar invitations and so on,all from the lock screen or Notification Center. Alternatively, notifications can be flicked away.

Quick Type predictive typing

We’ll return to typing in the developer section, but iOS 8 will have baked-in support for QuickType, a form of predictive typing that looks far more ambitious than the auto-correct-level predictions in previous versions. We’re not just talking about completing words you’ve nearly
finished typing. In Messages, Mail and similar apps, iOS 8 will over entire words that it suspects you may wish to use based on the particular context, in a little palette that appears above the keyboard.
For example, if you type a message to a friend suggesting dinner, predictive typing will add
a word-selector above your keyboard that could include “and a movie” to speed up typing. Furthermore, Apple says iOS 8 will be able to learn the words you typically use and understand the context in which you’re typing, such as a business or personal communication –messages it sense are intended for business use would see more formal suggestions. In order to safeguard privacy, all the information Quick Type acquires about your writing style will stay on the device, Federighi insisted.
   

Safari

Here’s a small but attractive change to the Safari interface: on iPad – you can see a new tab view that shows open tabs, and groups those from one site into stacks. And the sidebar from Mavericks is now present in Safari on iOS. Apple didn’t announce it during the event, but Safari users will be able to use Duck Duck Go – a highly privacy-focused search engine – as the default search. This was one of several subtle shots at Google – whose business model is built around gathering large volumes of user data – that Apple took during the night. In a further nod to privacy fans, Safari on iOS 8 will enable Private Browsing on a per-tab basis. The main changes in the way you use Safari,
however, are likely to be seen in the developer changes we’ll discuss later – the ability for third party apps to share data with Safari and be added to the sharing pane, for instance.

Camera

Apple didn’t discuss this on stage, but there are some nice updates for the app. Time-lapse video: Probably the most imaginative of the Camera updates; it’s a surprise this didn’t get a mention on stage. iOS 8 introduces a new Time lapse video mode, whereby the Camera app will take photos at dynamic intervals to create a, well, time-lapse video. Camera timer: For everyone who’s struggled

taking a selfie, iOS 8 has a timer.Burst and Panorama modes get more inclusive: In iOS 8, graphics optimizations will give users of older iPhones access to the quicker burst mode previously only

available to the iPhone 5s (other phones used to get a slower version of this feature, which only snapped images once every half-second or so). The iPad gets access to Panorama photos, too.

Separate focus and exposure controls: There are several ways the Camera app could implement

this useful new feature, including straight forward tap-to-focus with an exposure slider or via two

separate tap-to-focus re-tickles.

iCloud Drive

This is a sort of Dropbox-esque cloud storage service with seemingly wide cross-platform, cross app compatibility (but we need to test it out). If you’re in an app like Sketchbook, for instance,

you can bring up the iCloud Drive pane, and access the files there. Any edits you make are saved back to the original location. You’ll have access to all of those documents on your Mac and Windows, too.

Photos

Currently, Photo Stream means you can see the last 1000 photos taken on your iOS devices and stored in iPhoto on your Mac. With iOS 8 this could extend to all your photos. You can pay $1 (60p) per month to purchase 20GB of storage space in iCloud – 5GB is free. To cope with the enormous volumes of photos you will be able to access on your devices, Apple is talking up the enhanced smart search features in iOS 8 Photos. Search terms are returned as locations, times and

album names.You can edit photos within the Photo app (using auto straightening and cropping, for instance, and smart editing based on ‘intelligent image analysis’) and the edits are transferred across to other iOS devices, pretty much instantly. All of this worked seamlessly in the demo, needless to say. Will our mileage vary? We’re also a little concerned about the free allocation of space provided with iCloud, which may get used up quickly. Whether users will be willing to pay for more storage is debatable – although the pricing schemes do seem reasonable.

Siri

Another new feature we expected was Shazam, and sure enough, it’s integrated into Siri: Apple’s AI can recognize songs that are playing nearby, and then lets you buy them from iTunes. But that’s not the only upgrade for Siri in iOS 8. Oh no… Apparently car-bound Siri users can now fire it up

by saying “Hey Siri!” No need to tap the controls. (Presumably this means the device is always listening out for commands? Will this impact battery life?) And there’s ‘streaming voice recognition’, which simply means Siri displays what you’re saying (or what it thinks you’re saying) while you’re saying it. If nothing else, this will be a godsend for those incredibly irksome moments where you carefully dictate a long question and then see Siri had absolutely no idea what you were saying. Last of all, there are 22 new languages accepted for Siri voice recognition, and 24 new dictation