So WWDC happened on Monday.
With WWDC comes the opening keynote that most Apple nerds (and even non-Apple nerds) get all excited about because this is when they announce their new software and hardware. The two-hour keynote today consisted mostly of software announcements: Yosemite and iOS 8, baby!
While Kali will cover all the juicy details of Yosemite below, I’m here to give you a quick coverage of highlights from iOS 8. While it’s keeping the same flat design of iOS 7, it has been updated with features that will make your experience [even] easier.
iOS 8’s tagline reads, “Huge for Developers. Massive for everyone else.” Apple provided developers with deeper access and more tools. Such things like keyboard options and more ways to share content are just some of the things they can get their hands on.
Here are some of the other improvements we’ll see when iOS 8 is released this fall:
- Photos: Now every photo you take and edit will live in your iCloud Photo Library.
- Messages: You can now add your voice to your messages, share your location and send multiple photos and videos at once.
- Keyboard: Now suggests contextually appropriate words to complete the sentence you’re typing
- Family Sharing: Share data from your phone among six people in your family.
- iCloud Drive: Work on your files anywhere, anytime.
- Health: A new iApp (the ones you can’t ever delete from your phone or iPad) provides you with all sorts of health information.
- iPhone, iPad and Mac are now all connected: Now all of those devices are connected in such a way that if you start an email on your iPhone, you can finish it on your Mac at a later time.
- Spotlight: It will give you suggestions from Wikipedia, trending news and offers you answers that are in the context of where you’re located.
We’re sad we have to wait until Fall to check this out (well, at least I do, since I’m not a Developer). And if there’s any trend we are seeing from Apple these days it’s that they are making it easier than ever to own multiple Apple products.
To read a more expansive version of this article, head on over to our blog and check it out!
Also, check out what other people around the web have to say about the coolest, best and most important features of iOS 8!
Tech Crunch’s Article: The Coolest iOS 8 Features Apple Didn’t Talk About
MacLife’s Article: iOS 8: The 8 Best New Features
Mashable’s Article: The 18 Most Important Features in iOS 8