Thursday, September 18, 2014

Exploring in IOS 8 – 99mac

After a bit of chaos at the start of Wednesday night could 99mac editorial update a bunch of iOS devices to Apple’s new operating system iOS 8 which we looked forward to test since it was first shown up in the summer of # WWDC.

This time it is not about some big changes on the surface, but now plumes on the new direction they began with IOS 7th However, several new features and 99mac closer look at some of them here.

Messages

Messaging app is one of the most used in iOS, so it’s no wonder that many new features have been added. You can send your recordings by pressing a new microphone button and then send the recording by swiping your finger. Similarly, you can now take and send videos and pictures.

Group conversations can now name, and it has been the ability to add or delete a contact, or to themselves leave a group conversation. In conversation, it is now easier to activate the “Do Not Disturb”, share their geographic location or obtain a view of all pictures sent in the call. It is also now easier to send more than one picture at a time.

Using interactive alerts, you can now respond to messages directly in the article. This also applies to other notes as email, calendar invitations, remind panels and announcements from tredjepartsappar.



iCloud Drive

iCloud has with IOS 8 borrowed some features from Dropbox and other similar cloud services so that it is now possible to store documents in iCloud folders and access from all different units. Apps that are compatible can share a single file, and changes are automatically synchronized. As we have previously written about, it might be a good idea to wait to activate iCloud Drive until OS X Yosemite is available because before then will not be able to access the files from a Mac.



Mail and Safari

In Mail, you can now jump from the draft to the inbox, swipe down on the draft. Mail will also give better suggestions for additions to the Calendar and Contacts. Finally, the Mail also supports threads with VIP contacts.

Safari browser now has support for the integrity of loving search engine Duck Duck Go, which does not save any search information. Additionally, you can now enable private browsing on a tab in Safari, and it has also been support for RSS feeds, among shared links.



App Store

App Store has a new tab called Explore, which will provide easier scrolling among categories in the App Store. Search has also been improved by showing trending in search results, and it is now possible to scroll the search results. Apps can now also offer a preview in the form of a short video.

New App Store offers better search and new Navigation tab.

Battery use per app

To be able to see which apps use the most power is a feature that we have been the envy of the Android. Apple has finally listened and IOS 8 is now listed all active apps in descending order, and users who need to save power now know which apps should first be completed in order to preserve battery life.

The information found via Settings & gt; Using , which in iOS 7 were significantly less useful information.

While we’re on the battery so there is another cool feature where the phone sends its last position to Apple before the battery dies. This is nifty for anyone who has ever lost their phone or other iOS device. By accessing iCloud on the web, the owner can locate their device even after it turned itself off.



Health

Apple has since the heyday iPod collaborated with Nike and sent with an app to keep track of the number of steps and running routes. Apple now taking a more holistic approach to health and fitness with brand new app Health.

From start, there are not many apps that begs to be seen in health, but the number rose and a card with information for emergency situations can be created.

app can use the built rörelsecoprocessorn M7 in the iPhone 5S, or in the case of the upcoming iPhone models M8, to collect data on how the user moves, but otherwise collects the data from other apps.

Health has several tabs for different types of data, such as sleep, activity, nutrition and heart rate. The app also gather important information about the user in a special card for emergencies that can be displayed even if the phone is locked. It may contain details such as allergies or the user’s blood type.

Apple has developed a framework for developers called Healthkit that allows third party developers to use your health information that you of course can decide about you want to share. For example, you can let the app where you log what you eat send your calorie intake to your träningsapp.



Tips

Tips is a brand new app that collects just hints and tricks about how IOS is used to best effect. It is primarily intended for new users, but teaches updated with new tips so that veterans can probably find one and another cool feature that they did not know.

New app Tips does just that, tips on features in IOS 8th

Pictures & Camera

Photos app has been updated properly, and picks now several features from iPhoto as the app is no longer supported in IOS eighth Users who use iPhoto to move their photos to photos with a simple migration tool.

Pictures have better editing tools, and for example, you can adjust the brightness and color by swiping your finger across the screen. The search function has been improved so that it is possible to search for images by date, geographic location, or album name. You can also search using “smart suggestions”.

  • directly in the app photos, there are now more advanced editing tools. The previous app Iphoto no longer needed.

  • New camera features in iOS 8th

There are now special album that collects and slow motion time warp videos, articles and panoramas. Books, blogs and slideshows no longer exist, and these will be converted to standard image album.

Camera app has new buttons to make time warp video, and has received a long-awaited self-timer . You can now adjust the exposure directly on the screen before the picture is taken, and for the iPhone 5S and later models it is possible to take continuous shooting with the camera in front. Ipad Air and the iPad Mini with Retina has now also been given the ability to take panoramic pictures.



Continuity Features

Under the name Continuity Features Apple has collected features to get to a better interaction between different iOS devices and a Mac with OS X coming Yosemite. The devices can detect if they are near each other so that an initiated message from iPhone can be printed clearly on a Mac. Both the iPad and the Mac can now receive and send regular SMS and MMS, although there is iMessage messages, Iphone takes care of the actual transmission and reception. Similarly, it is possible to make and receive calls on any of the units at any time.

Tethering has been improved so that the iPhone can automatically share their mobile connection to devices. Finally Airdrop now finally compatible between the IOS 8 and Mac computers (reestablishment required next OS X Yosemite.)



Quick Type

Once upon a time felt T9 as a tremendous progress for text entry on mobile phones, but it has happened a lot on this front, especially for Android users who can choose among several different keyboards from third party manufacturers. With some of the keyboards, you can just swipe your finger across the letters and do not have to lift it from the correct letters.

To the left is Apple’s QuickType keyboard, in the middle is different installed the keyboard and to the right is Swype.

With IOS 8 Apple launches an improved own keyboard that can predict what you want to write, but also opens up for other developers such as Fleksy 99mac looked at earlier. Expect that the App Store will be filled up with several options going forward.

Unfortunately, Apple does not own or any third party options with Swedish from the start. Apple lists: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Thai together with Chinese and Japanese. Hopefully all parties are working on adding more languages ​​soon.



Siri and dictation Swedish

The digital assistant Siri can not yet speak Swedish, but should have been “improved response time, stability and precision.” The voice recognition is now shown flowing which should speed up conversations with Siri, and it is also possible to start by saying “Hey Siri”. Siri has now been integrated with the music recognition service Shazam, so she can recognize the songs and tell us what it is, and offer to also buy the song on the iTunes Store.

Something that come in Swedish is dictation. With IOS 8, we will be able to load the example emails or messages with dictation. By using the little microphone icon on the keyboard, you can talk and get IOS 8 to convert it to text.



Scanning credit card

With IOS 8 camera can now be used to scan the numbers on a credit card in Safari, which is a faster method when buying online than to manually enter the numbers. The function can also be used to save payment of the PBS for use with Apple Pay (USA only so far).

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