iOS 7 is the seventh major release of the iOS mobile
operating system designed by Apple Inc. and successor of iOS 6. It was announced at the
company's Worldwide Developers
Conference (WWDC) on June 10,
2013, and was released on September 18, 2013.] iOS 7 features a completely redesigned user interface, a design credited to a
team led by Apple's SVP of design Jony
Ive.
At Apple's Worldwide
Developers Conference in 2014,
CEO Tim Cook announced that iOS 7 was installed on
89% of all compatible iOS devices. iOS
7 was succeeded by iOS 8, which
was released on September 17, 2014. Support for the iPhone 4 was dropped in
2014 when it was announced that it would not receive iOS 8. On June 10, 2013,
iOS 7 Beta 1 was announced and released to
registered developers in the iOS Developer Program after the WWDC keynote
speech, supporting the iPhone 4 onwards, and the iPod Touch (5th generation). iOS 7
Beta 2 was released to developers on June 24, 2013, adding support for the iPad 2 onwards, and the iPad Mini.On September 10, 2013, at
their iPhone event, Apple announced that iOS 7 would be publicly released on
September 18, 2013, for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. The Golden Master of iOS 7
was released shortly after the event.
On March 10, 2014, Apple released iOS 7.1 to the public, this
was the first significant update to the OS since it was launched in September
2013. The update landed almost 5 months after the first beta of 7.1 was made
available to developers. Many improvements were made to the OS including,
performance enhancements, UI tweaks and Siri enhancements. iOS 7.1 was also the
first update which allowed people who were running a beta version of the OS to
update over the air to the final release.
Features
AirDrop
iOS 7 integrates Apple's wireless sharing
feature AirDrop for the iPhone 5 onward, iPod
Touch (5th generation) onward, iPad (4th generation) onward, and iPad Mini 1st
generation onward.
App Store
The App Store provides more search options by age
range and introduces a new section called Near Me, which allows the user to
find out which apps are popular in their area. The App Store also supports
automatic app updates. Prior to iOS 7, the user had to initiate the update
process.
Camera
The new camera interface supports the three previous
photo modes (video, photo, and panoramic photo) as well as a new square photo
mode. iOS 7 also offers live photo filter previewing with nine filters to
choose from, as well as a new Burst mode, and 120 fps video recording (on
supported devices).
Control Center
The Control Center display is available by swiping up
from the bottom of the screen. It provides access to settings such as airplane
mode and brightness, media controls, AirPlay and AirDrop, and shortcuts to
several apps including a built-in flashlight, clock, calculator, and
camera. Other functions offered are the ability to turn
on or off Bluetooth, and Do Not Disturb; lock the screen’s orientation; play,
pause, or skip a song, and see what is playing; connect to AirPlay-enabled
devices; and quickly access the clock, calculator, and camera apps. Users also
have access to AirDrop, previously only available on Macs and newly added
in iOS 7, as a method of transferring files between iOS devices.
Music and iTunes Radio
Along with user interface
changes, the Music app also integrates Apple's iTunes Radio service,
which is a free, ad-supported service available to all iTunes users,
featuring Siri integration on iOS. Users are able to skip tracks,
customize stations, and purchase the station's songs from the iTunes
Store. Users can also search through their history of previous
songs. The number of track skips are limited like Pandora Radio's
service. ITunes Match subscribers will be able to use an ad-free
version of the service. The service has pre-loaded stations, including a
playlist of trending songs on Twitter. The service also generates a
radio station based on input like a single artist with songs by them and others
similar. The service's selection is expected to learn the user's
preferences from input whether the user likes or dislikes the track.
Currently, iTunes Radio is
available only in the U.S. and Australia, but Apple has
announced plans to offer the service in other countries at a later
date. The service is only available for iTunes, iOS,
and Apple TV platforms.
Multitasking
iOS 7 builds on the limited multitasking introduced in
iOS 4 and provides full multitasking for all apps. The multitasking layer also
provides for background updating of apps, and previews of all running apps. The
new Multitasking dock in iOS now shows a screenshot of the whole app rather
than just the icon.
CarPlay
CarPlay (formerly iOS in the Car), released as part of
iOS 7.1, uses Siri integration in selected car models to offer eyes-free and
hands-free satellite navigation, phone, music and messages integration through
the car's screen. It supports all Lightning-enabled iPhones.
iOS 8 is the eighth major
release of the iOS mobile operating system designed
by Apple Inc. as the successor to iOS 7.
It was announced at the company's Worldwide
Developers Conference (WWDC) 2014 on June 2, 2014, and was released on September 17,
2014. Billed as "The biggest change to iOS since the introduction
of the App Store", iOS 8 builds on the major redesign that iOS 7
introduced, while including many enhancements and interface improvements. iOS 8
was installed on 87% of compatible Apple devices as of September 14, 2015 (2
days before the release of iOS 9). The
final version of iOS 8 is 8.4.1, released on August 13, 2015.
iOS 8 Beta 1 was introduced at the
company's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 2, 2014, and it was
released to developers later that day. From then until September, new beta
versions were seeded to developers typically every two weeks. Each new beta
version contained bug fixes and improvements over the previous version.
On September 9, 2014, at their
'Wish We Could Say More' event, Apple introduced the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus,
a new mobile payment service called Apple Pay, and the Apple Watch.
At their event, Apple also announced that iOS 8 would see a public release on
September 17. The Golden Master version was seeded to developers shortly after.
On October 16, 2014 at their
"Its Been Way Too Long" event,Apple introduced the iPad Air
2, iPad mini 3, new Mac mini and
the iMac with Retina 5K display. At the event, Apple also
announced that iOS 8.1 would see a release of October 20. iOS 8.1 saw the
return of the camera roll album, the introduction of Apple Pay and
bug fixes.
On March 9, 2015 at their
"Spring Forward" event, Apple announced iOS 8.2, which includes
support for the Apple Watch. It was released to the public within a few
hours.
On March 12, 2015, Apple seeded
iOS 8.3 beta 3 to developers. A new iOS public beta program was also announced,
allowing members of the public to download and test the iOS 8.3 beta.
On June 30, 2015, Apple released
iOS 8.4 to the public. iOS 8.4 comes preloaded with the new Music app that
contains both Apple Music and Beats 1, Apple's worldwide radio station.
On August 13, 2015, Apple
released iOS 8.4.1 to the public. iOS 8.4.1 is the final version of iOS 8.
Features
Photos and Camera
The Photos app contains
more tools for editing photos. The cropping feature now enables rotating images
both clockwise and counter-clockwise. Furthermore, users can set the desired
brightness and colors for photos. In iOS 8.0, the Camera Roll and My Photo Stream
albums were removed; they were brought back in iOS 8.1. The Camera app now
features a shot timer for the front camera, which can be set to 3 or 10
seconds. The camera also has a new time-lapse mode.
Notification Center
Notification Center has been redesigned,
only having two tabs (Today and Notifications), whereas the Notification Center
in iOS 7 had three tabs (Today, All, and Missed). Users can now add or remove
custom widgets from third-party applications in Notification Center with the
"Edit" button located at the bottom. This also allows the
rearrangement of notification widgets. The "Clear" button that is
used to clear notifications, has been tweaked to make it slightly more visible.
Users are also now able to reply to certain notifications (messages, calendar
alerts etc.) directly by swiping down at the notification when it appears.
Messages
In the Messages app, users can
send audio and video messages by holding down the record button. In group
conversations, users can add or remove someone from a thread, name a thread,
share their location in a thread, view all attachments, and turn on Do Not
Disturb to not receive notifications from a specific thread. There is also an
option for messages to be automatically deleted after a month or a year.
Keyboards
iOS 8 includes a new predictive typing feature called
QuickType, which displays word selections above the keyboard as one types. The
feature can be turned off in Settings, or hidden using a swipe gesture.
Additionally, iOS 8 allows users to install third-party keyboards.[9] Many developers
have ported their keyboards to iOS, including Minuum, Perkee, Swype, SwiftKey, Fleksy and Adaptxt
Family Sharing
In Family Sharing, a user can add five others as
family members. Family members can share purchased apps, music, movies, TV
shows, and books using the same credit card. Family members can also sync photo
streams, calendars and their location history with each other.[] One can send iTunes download
requests to another accounts for approval if the user is signed up as a child.
iCloud Drive
iCloud Drive is
Apple's file hosting service for devices running iOS 8 or OS X
Yosemite. Users can save photos, videos, documents (Keynote, Pages, and Numbers),
and music, and application data to iCloud.
HealthKit
HealthKit is a service that allows developers to make
software that integrates with the new Health application. This application
allows users to track their steps, oxygen, sleep levels, and other health
related data. Additionally, users can enter their medical history in Medical
ID, which is accessible in the lock screen, in case of an emergency. The
Healthkit application, called 'Health', is available on an iPhone 4S or later
and iPod touch (5th generation) or later.
HomeKit[
HomeKit is a database similar to HealthKit and PassKit that
allows developers to make software that discovers, configures, communicates
with and controls devices for home automation. Actions can be grouped
together and can be initiated using Siri either from home or Apple
TV.
There are also the option for
manufacturers of existing equipment to make gateways that
connect equipment using their protocols to HomeKit, which includes equipment
manufactured by Insteon As the products talking to HomeKit directly
need to be certified with Apple's MFi Program and currently require
an encryption co-processor, it is likely new devices will be needed.
Continuity
iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite support
Continuity, which allows all text messages to be read and replied, and make and
receive voice and video calls on their Mac and iPad.
Continuity includes Handoff, which allows users to
share documents, e-mails, and websites over Wi-Fi or personal hotspot between
iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite devices. Handoff also allows users to start their
work on one device and continue on another device.
This feature is supported only on compatible Macs
with Bluetooth LE running OS
X Yosemite, and on compatible devices running iOS 8. The following
devices (iPhone 5 or later, iPad (4th generation) or later, all iPad Mini
models, and iPod touch (5th generation)) running iOS 8 will be supported,
Spotlight
In iOS 8, Spotlight is
integrated with a number of web services so that users can search
using Wikipedia, Bing, or Google. Spotlight can also search for
news, nearby places, suggested websites, movie showtimes, and content that is
not already on the device from the iTunes Store. Spotlight is also available
in Safari, which searches for services (e.g. Wikipedia) linked to
Spotlight.
iOS 9 is the ninth major
release of iOS, the mobile
operating system by Apple
Inc. It is the successor to iOS
8 and focuses less on new features and more on
under-the-hood optimizations, as well as battery improvements. It was announced at the company's WWDC 2015 keynote on June 8, 2015, and released on September 16,
2015.
On September 21, 2015, Apple announced that iOS 9 had been
installed on more than 50% of "active" iOS devices as measured by the App Store, making
it the fastest adoption rate for a new operating system. As of March 7, 2016, that percentage
has increased to 79%
iOS 9 debuted at the Apple
Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8, 2015, with iOS 9.0 beta 1
being made available to registered developers straight after the keynote, and a
public beta made available to members of Apple's Beta Software Program in
July. iOS 9 was released publicly on September 16, 2015.
iOS 9.0.1 was released on September 23, 2015, as the
first update to iOS 9. It fixed a major bug that caused the "Slide to
Upgrade" screen to freeze when updating from earlier versions of iOS.
iOS 9.0.2 was released on September 30, 2015, to fix a
major lock screen bypass issue.
iOS 9.1 was released on October
21, 2015. It includes support for the iPad Pro and Apple
Pencil and the 4th generation Apple TV.
iOS 9.2 was released on December 8, 2015, with new
features including adding Arabic language support for Siri and introducing
iPhone support for the USB Camera Adapter, which lets users transfer photos
from a camera to an iDevice without syncing to a computer first.
iOS 9.2.1 was released on January 19, 2016, with some
bug fixes. On February 18, a second version of iOS 9.2.1 was issued to fix an
issue that could brick iPhones with Touch ID sensors that had been
repaired by a third-party.
iOS 9.3 beta was released on January 14, 2016. It
included new features such as Night Shift, locking notes, News & Health
improvements, more 3D Touch shortcuts, and Education features. It is in its
seventh beta phase.
Features
iOS 9 includes enhancements to preinstalled
applications and system functions, especially for the iPad, as well as
improvements to stability, speed and battery life.
Keyboard
On iPad, a two-finger drag on
the keyboard moves the cursor freely like a traditional trackpad making
positioning the cursor and selecting text easier. On the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus,
a force press on the keyboard also allows the user to move the cursor like a
trackpad. A shortcut bar has been added including cut, copy, paste, undo and
redo.
When shift is inactive, lowercase letters are
displayed, instead of the all-caps representation on all previous iOS
versions, although this can be disabled.
News
iOS 9 includes a new News app (replacing
the Newsstand app) which displays news from sources such as The
New York Times, CNN, Wired, and ESPN to bring one unified
experience in the way users read, experience, and discover news. Publishers use
the Apple News Format to create rich, dynamic articles for iOS users, using
diverse typography, layout and full width imagery. The app has been compared to
the popular app Flipboard, which also aggregates news in addition to
social media posts. It has been discovered that the News application will
also have support for RSS feeds from Safari.
Originally, News was only available in the US only,
but as of the iOS 9.1 release, the app also arrived in the UK and Australia.
Notes
The built-in Notes app has received a number of
enhancements, including the ability to draw sketches with a number of different
tools, including a ruler for straight lines. Images can also be added, and
links to websites and Map locations get a more prominent, visual appearance
when added to notes. Attachments including images, links, locations, documents
and audio across all notes can be viewed in a single view from the notes list.
Advanced formatting options including checked, bulleted, dashed and numbered
lists can be added. The iPhone 4S, iPad 2, iPad (3rd generation), iPad Mini
(1st generation), and iPod Touch (5th generation) do not support the Sketch
feature of the Notes application.
Notes now sync using iCloud Drive, as opposed to the
less secure IMAP system that Apple has used in past
iterations of iOS. When a library has been updated to the new Notes format,
devices that still use IMAP will no longer be able to view the upgraded notes.
The new Notes format also syncs to any Mac on the same iCloud account
running OS X 10.11 or higher.
Maps
Apple Maps adds support for
transit directions in Baltimore, Berlin, Chicago, London, Los
Angeles, Mexico City, New York
City, Paris, Philadelphia, San Francisco,Shanghai, Toronto,
and Washington D.C., along with several other cities in China at launch,
which will expand as Apple maps out more cities. The Maps app now also makes recommendations
to points of interest, restaurants, etc. based on what time of day it is or the
users' interests. Map also display place cards for landmarks, cities and text
taken from Wikipedia. Apple has claimed that information collected by iOS this
way will not be shared with the company or third parties. There will also be an
icon in the details view of a retailer to indicate that they support Apple
Pay. The transit feature is not available on the iPhone 4S, iPad 2, iPad Mini
(1st generation), and iPod Touch (5th generation).
Multitasking
iOS 9 also adds a number of features
to the iPad to improve productivity. These include Slide Over, Split
View, and Picture in Picture, for enhanced multitasking, similar to the
experience found on OS X El Capitan. Slide Over allows the user to pull in
a second app with a swipe from the right edge of the display. This app takes up
the width of 33% of the screen size, and disables interactivity within the full
screen app, which takes up 66% of the display, allowing users to perform quick
tasks and then dismiss the app again. If the user taps on the handle next to
the Slide Over window, or extends it further towards the left of the screen,
the user enters Split View, which allows users to interact with two apps
simultaneously side-by-side in a 50%/50% split. Users can switch to another app
in either Slide Over mode or Split-Screen view by pulling down on the handle on
top of either app and selecting another app from the list to replace the
existing one. The Split-Screen Multitasking feature is only be available
to iPad Air 2, iPad mini 4, and iPad Pro. However, the Slide
Over and Picture in Picture feature will be available on the iPad Air, iPad Air
2, iPad mini 2 and higher, and the iPad Pro. The iPad 2, 3rd generation,
4th generation, and Mini (1st Generation) will not receive any of these
multitasking updates.
When banner notifications are tapped, causing another
app to open, a back button at the top-left corner of the screen has been added,
bringing the user back to the previous app.
The app switcher is redesigned, with app previews
stacked on each other that are swiped through in a carousel effect. It also
removes the recent contacts section found in iOS 8.
Proactivity
Intelligence is one of the main features in iOS 9, consisting
of the newly integrated Siri and Search
(previously known as Spotlight), as well as "proactivity" throughout
the operating system. iOS is now more aware of contextual information (such as
time and location), and proactively provides the user with what they may need
in advance to save them time and effort. For example, the Search screen
displays suggested apps, nearby points of interest from Maps and current news
stories, based on time of day and location. When typing, Search has also been
improved to display instant answers in an at-a-glance, widget-like format,
similar to that provided in the Siri interface. Search can display current
weather, sports scores, news, and more. The Search screen with proactive
suggestions can be accessed by swiping to the left of the first home screen, as
with the old Spotlight in iPhone OS 3 to 6. The new Search screen is not
available on the iPhone 4S, iPad 2, iPad (3rd generation), iPad Mini (1st
generation), and iPod Touch (5th generation). However, the Search field and
Siri button can also be accessed by swiping down on any page of the home screen
(as in iOS 7/8), but doesn't show any suggestions. The intelligence also
extends into apps. For instance, in Mail, events can be automatically added to
Calendar if details are found in the message content, and likely additional
recipients are suggested during message composition. Siri is also aware of what
is currently onscreen when it is engaged by holding down the home button. For
example, if a user is shopping for something in Safari, the user can say,
"Remind me about 'this' when I get home", and Siri will set a
reminder with a geofence and attached link of the current page.
The user can also ask Siri "Show me photos I took last June" and Siri
will direct into the photos app, similar to the new Spotlight in OS X
10.11 El Capitan.
Wallet
The Passbook application was renamed Wallet in
iOS 9 and includes many new changes such as support for store loyalty cards,
gift cards, Discover Credit/Debit Card support, and Apple Pay in the UK.
3D Touch
3D Touch, which is only available on the iPhone 6S and
iPhone 6S Plus, is deeply incorporated into iOS 9. Quick Actions that can only
be triggered with 3D Touch were added to the home menu. iOS 9 has actions known
as Peek and Pop, which lets the user preview all kinds of content and act on it
without having to actually open it. For example, with a light press the user
can Peek at each email in the inbox, then when the user wants to open the
email, they would press a little deeper to Pop into it. If someone sends the
user a link to a website, the user can Peek at it without leaving the screen
he/she's on. Whenever the user is sent a link, or finds one while browsing,
they would press the link lightly and the top of the page appears just as it
would in Safari, and once the user lets go, he/she ends up in the original
location. If the user wants to open the full page in Safari, they would press
the link a little more deeply to Pop into it.
Battery, performance and security improvements
iOS 9 also includes many under-the-hood improvements
such as improved performance with its Metal API,
up to an hour more of battery life, improved security using advanced encryption
and new 6-digit passcodes for Touch ID-enabled devices (increased from 4). Devices
without Touch ID will also be able to use 4-digit passcodes, but it will not be
the default option when adding a passcode to the device. A new Low Power Mode
has been added, which is said to increase battery life by up to three hours.
This feature is only available on iPhone. iOS 9 also introduces a
new two-factor authentication system for better security within iCloud Drive. iOS
9 fixes a security issue within previous iOS versions where a hacker could
bypass Apple's certificate security protocols allowing the "attacker to
issue a malware payload via a directory traversal attack" which allows the
hacker to "remotely alter configuration files to ensure the exploit still
works even if an incomingAirDrop file is rejected by a
user". With the release of iOS 9, the Safari web browser
allows for third-party integration; as of September 2015, the most popular
third-party Safari extensions are ad- and
content-blocking applications. Also, new iCloud Drive app can be
enabled from the iCloud settings.
Enterprise enhancement
With iOS 9, deploying apps using Apple Volume Purchase
Program (VPP) managed distribution does not require a Apple
ID in the devices
iOS 9 Advantages
·
This
free update upto iOS 9 Public Beta 2 is only a 1.4 GB file and does not require
4.7 GB free space to install on our tiny 16 GB phone which is a bigrelief to
iPhone users.
·
A lot
of new apps can now be downloaded from iTunes.
·
The
security code with the typical 4 digit system has been upgraded to 6 digits now
on the update which is beneficial in safeguarding the user’s personal data on
the phone.
·
Every
device that used to work with the iOS 8 will now be able to support the updated
iOS 9. Surprisingly, it will even support iPhones 4s and iPad 2.
·
Unlike
iOS 7, this software is a rust proof glitching software which is quite user
friendly.
·
There
are fewer App crashes and Hard Restarts required as compared to the iOS 8.
·
Siri
Search has become 40% faster and 40% more accurate as the home button now leads
to smarter answer when asked.
·
Apple
maps have a new – ‘Nearby Shortcuts’ option which is a faster way of finding
nearby parking, restaurants, gas stations etc.
·
Has a
new application with the help of which even Android users can shift to iOS 9
without losing any of their data.
·
Deleting
pictures from the phone has become quite easier as now after selecting the ones
that we have to delete, one can simply delete them by dragging.
·
A new
search box has been introduced in the software update. With the help of which
we can now type the name of any application and it will directly navigate us
there directly.
·
A new
feature called ‘Live Photos’ has been introduced in the software which records
1.5 seconds of videos and sound before and after taking a picture which can
also be made as a the phone’s wallpaper now.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_7
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