When you don't want to be disturbed, your friends and family will see when you have Do Not Disturb turned on in Messages, exactly like a status update. They can still send a message through though, just like Do Not Disturb modes in other apps like Slack.
A new Notification Summary function lets you check unimportant alerts at specific times of day, like in the morning or evening. It's powered by on-device machine learning that identifies your phone usage patterns and parses what notifications should fall under the summary and when it should deliver them to you. Don't fret—your Messages and missed phone calls won't fall into Summary. You also have to opt into it. Perhaps the best new feature is a way to organize your entire iPhone's home screen to match your mood.
You can choose between profiles like Work, Personal, and Sleep, or create up to 10 Focuses , and your home screen will show apps and widgets related to the respective mode. So if it's 9 am and you switch to work, you can customize your home screen to show work apps, widgets, and messages from coworkers only. These modes can be turned on for an hour, start when you leave or enter a specific location, or can be timed to your calendar events.
Uniquely, your friends and family can see if you're in a Focus if you don't want to be disturbed via the Messages app, but a Status API will allow any messaging app to implement this functionality. One of the coolest features in iOS 15 is Live Text, and it's tied to upgrades in Apple's computer vision technology. Point your camera app at anything with text, and you'll see a text icon on the bottom right.
That'll let you highlight the text so you can easily copy and paste it to another app. This works for images with text in your Photos library too—just tap the same text icon on the bottom right. If there's a phone number in the photo or an address, Live Text will turn it into a link so you can tap it. Phone numbers seamlessly launch in the phone dialer and the address opens in Maps. Perhaps a little stranger is an integration between Apple Music and the Photos app.
When you open the Photos app and go to the For You tab, you'll be greeted with a new version of Memories—this feature automatically generates a mini-movie of specific trips or events and automatically chooses a relevant song from Apple Music but only if you have a subscription to the music service. You can customize the movie as you view it by changing up the pace, switching songs, changing filters, or swapping images. It's not far off from a Google Photos feature introduced in , but Apple gives you far greater control with music integration here.
Safari is now easier to use with one hand. The URL bar is now situated on the bottom, and it hides away when you scroll to maximize your screen's real estate. You'll notice Safari looks a lot more similar to the interface on macOS or your iPad on the new tab page—there's your favorite websites, reading list, and content shared with you.
You can swipe through tabs easily and group them together. And finally, for the first time, Safari extensions are coming to iOS. These are available through the App Store, though don't expect every single extension you use on a computer to be present just yet. With SharePlay in iOS Want to listen to a new album with your friend in sync at the same time? You can bring in tunes from Apple Music. Maybe you want to watch a movie with your long-distance partner while video chatting?
You can AirPlay the movie to your TV at the same time to watch it on the big screen. The implementation gives a lot of control to the developer.
It's the developer's choice. Speaking of travel, the improved version of Apple Maps the company introduced last year is now rolling out to four new countries: Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Australia.
Apple's map data is getting even more detailed in iOS You'll find more street-level details in commercial districts, elevation information in cities, as well as custom designs for landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge. When driving, Maps will now show highway interchanges in 3D so you have a better idea of exactly which lane you need to be on. These features are coming to CarPlay later in , too. If you ride public transit, Maps will tell you when to get off, and if you don't know which way to head once off the bus or outside the subway station, just point your phone at the buildings in front of you to have Apple's augmented reality point the way.
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Change the Size of the Touch Keyboard. As the name implies, the store only worked over Wi-Fi. Apple called these "Web Clips" and though the new functionality was appreciated, it mainly served as a reminder that there was no native app SDK. I distinctly remember at the time that the general feeling around the iPhone was a mix of impatience and excitement: impatience because we could clearly see the unfulfilled potential of the iOS platform and excitement because we had already learned by then that Apple was capable of pushing out regular feature updates.
Around this time, each new feature that came to iOS was met with a "finally! Native apps weren't on iOS yet, but everybody seemed to know they were coming, and soon. The App Store. Critically, the App Store existed both on the device itself and within iTunes, where users could easily browse and install apps.
Just as importantly, the App Store used Apple's already established base of iTunes music customers, so users wouldn't have to re-enter their credit card information in order to make purchases. It meant that finding and installing apps was easier than ever before and they quickly would become impulse buys.
The second innovation was simply that the iPhone was a powerful device and Apple provided a development kit for iOS that offered incredible tools for developers. The combination gave the platform a lead on apps that other companies are still trying to close in on. The introduction of apps and the App Store was not without some controversy, however. Apple did not completely open up iOS, but instead prevented users from "sideloading" any app they'd like.
The only legitimized way to install apps was via the App Store, and Apple set a policy of curating apps that would and wouldn't be allowed in. Apple regularly rejects certain classes of apps that are allowed on other platforms, including apps that allow tethering your computer to your iPhone for internet access. Another, perhaps unforeseen, consequence of the App Store was that apps became much much less expensive.
Top-selling charts for apps began to look like the top Billboard charts for music: if a developer could find a way to the top, he or she could make big money, but it was difficult at the bottom. Most of these concerns have gone away in the last couple of years and now there are many, many development houses and independent developers making their living by selling iOS apps.
Microsoft Exchange support. The most important of these was full support for Microsoft Exchange for push email, calendars, and contacts. Apple also introduced proper contact search previously you had to scroll through your contacts manually , as well as multi-selection for email. Apple also announced its own cloud-based service, which replaced. Mac and provided integrated email, calendar, and contact sync.
Unfortunately, iOS 2. The 2. It fixed a raft of bugs across the board on the OS and also added faster sync with iTunes.
In terms of features, Maps saw the biggest updates, with Google Street View, walking directions, and public transit directions added in. Instead, Apple filled in all sorts of gaps in iOS with a massive list of functionality and app updates touching every corner of the operating system.
Cut, copy, and paste. With iOS 3. Apple's combination of a text-magnifying glass and selection sliders was intuitive and, as with many of its touch-friendly features, turned out to be well ahead of the competition in terms of usability. As with many of the features introduced in iOS 3, this feature came later than users would have liked but Apple took the time to get the UI up to its own high standards.
Spotlight search. Finding content was becoming a fairly big chore on iOS, so a system-wide search option was inevitable. Spotlight allowed users to go one screen to the left of the main homescreen to get a text box that could search across contacts, emails, calendars, notes, and the iPod. More options would come later, but Apple had "finally" matched a feature that had been commonplace on BlackBerry, PalmOS, webOS, and Windows Mobile: quickly entering text from the home screen to search across the phone.
Push notifications for 3rd party apps. Although it had actually been promised at the iOS 2. Push notifications were able to serve as a sort of stopgap for many of the functions normally handed by proper multitasking. The feature would eventually become a victim of their own popularity, however, as the constant pop-up modal dialogs would come to annoy users. Apple also added MMS support, though by mid it was already becoming a less important feature for many users.
Other features in iOS 3. Another standard smartphone feature, voice dialing, was added in iOS 3. However, to be fair, Apple went a bit further with Voice Control, giving users the ability to dial contacts and also start or identify music.
After iOS 1 established the platform and iOS 2 brought apps, iOS 3 was all about filling in most of the major complaints and "gotchas" for the platform. With the update, Apple was well on its way to not just reaching feature parity with competing platforms, but establishing an OS that could be dominate on the feature front. Only a few major checkboxes remained, not the least of which was multitasking. A few months later, Apple released iOS 3. New UI paradigms for a larger screen.
In order to bring iOS to the iPad, Apple didn't just "blow up" the iPhone UI, but rather added a few changes designed specifically for the larger screen. The most significant was the addition to a left-hand sidebar list.
Typically, an app would have a list of content you could drill down into, then go back to the list. Apple removed that step by displaying the list on the left and the content on the right, no "back" button required for most apps. Apple also made it so that you could still see your content in a full-screen simply by turning the iPad into portrait-mode. The list was then hidden not behind a back button, but instead became a pop-over list.
Apple added pop-over dialogs throughout the OS where previously the iPhone would require users to switch screens.
New app designs. Safari received a dedicated row for bookmarks, Apple added CoverFlow to the App Store, the Photos app organized pictures into stacks of images that could be pinched-out for a sneak-peek of the images within, Music got a simplified, iTunes-like interface with rows of album art, and the Settings app received the two-pane treatment mentioned above.
Essentially, native app sthat would have looked silly "blown up" to the iPad's x screen resolution received UI tweaks for the iPad's larger screen. Unfortunately, iOS 3. The Notepad app received a border of stitched leather to make it look like a real notebook, the Calendar and Contacts apps were both made to look like small books, complete with pages.
While many simply found the new looks to be corny, the bigger issues was that in most cases, the realistic appearance did not have a direct correlation with the user interface. So while the Address Book might look like a book, there were no pages to be turned, instead it simply had a book skin. This look has stayed around and in some cases has even made the transition to Mac OS X. The very common knock against the iPad boiled down to this: it was just a big iPhone.
That complaint was both true and false for a number of reasons. It was technically true that with iOS 3. However, that complaint turned out to not matter too much when it came to sales: Apple had already trained millions of users on how to use the iPhone and with the iPad essentially decided not to mess with a good thing. This version and two subesquent iOS 3. Released in June of , iOS 4 was mainly about one thing: adding features for power users. Multitasking, app folders, Wi-Fi tethering, spell-check, customized Spotlight searching including web and Wikipedia , unified inbox, and support for multiple Exchange accounts all added up to an update that helped keep iOS competitive with Android, which was beginning to finally make inroads.
The headline improvement was, of course, multitasking. However, iOS 4 did not technically support "true" multitasking in that it didn't allow any app to simply run in the background.
Instead, iOS 4 offered developers several different multitasking services that they could run in the background:. The major question at the time was whether Apple's unique implementation of multitasking was a distinction without a difference.
For most users, that turned out to be the case. Apple's implementation of multitasking meant that the iPhone would be less likely to suffer from rogue apps taking up too much memory in the background, which in turn led to a system with most of the battery life and performance benefits of the old, "single-tasking" iOS with the multitasking features that Apple felt users needed.
There were and are plenty of cases where Apple's system didn't feel robust-enough, such as allowing apps to update themselves in the background, but by-and-large the compromise struck in iOS 4 and beyond has worked for most users.
The multitasking menu was triggered by yet another Home button change: you brought up a list of recently running apps with a double-press. Although Steve Jobs famously said that "If you see a task manager [ Apple also added a persistent set of music control widgets that could be accessed by swiping to the left of the menu.
As with many iOS features over the years, Apple was certainly not the first to offer video chat. However, Apple's implementation both worked better and had a simpler interface than other solutions. FaceTime worked only between iPhones and and later, Macs and iPad 2s and though Apple had promised to make the video chat solution an open standard, it has yet to deliver on that promise. With iOS 4, Apple "finally" introduced folders to the homescreen.
Its solution was elegant in that users simply had to drag and drop icons on top of each other to form folders, a UI innovation that seems simple yet Android has just now caught up with Ice Cream Sandwich. Along with folders, iPhone users could now also replace the background image on the home screen.
Retina Display. Apple also added support for the iPhone 4's Retina Display and faster processor, giving developers even more ways to create high quality apps.
Productivity features. Although iOS 4 still may not have appealed to hardcore BlackBerry users, Apple did at least beef up its email offering by adding support for multiple Exchange accounts and, critically, a unified inbox and threaded email messages.
System-wide spell check also made its first appearance, offering red underlines and quick text-replacement for misspelled words. The Calendar app now allowed users the individually hide specific calendars, the Contacts app gained the ability to link duplicate contacts, and the Messaging app received search capabilities.
Unfortunately for Apple, iOS 4 was also embroiled in the Antennagate scandal just as much as the iPhone 4 was. In this version of iOS as well as earlier versions , Apple claimed the phone didn't properly display signal strength information. Users observing a drop of several bars when they grip their iPhone in a certain way are most likely in an area with very weak signal strength, but they don't know it because we are erroneously displaying 4 or 5 bars.
Their big drop in bars is because their high bars were never real in the first place. On the camera front, iOS 4. Lastly, this update introduced AirPrint for those who still bother with that sort of thing. That purpose actually brought with it an added benefit: full support for Wi-Fi-based mobile hotspots.
Apple followed up with iOS 4. Also like iOS 3, iOS 5 introduced so many new features that it's difficult to keep them all straight. So many, in fact, you might say that in the current smartphone battle, Apple's hardware is the anvil and iOS 5 is the hammer the company is using to forge a permanent and sizeable marketshare.
Available only on the iPhone 4S, Siri replaces Voice Control with a "virtual assistant" that is able to do more than just connect calls. Siri allows you to ask it questions and give comments in natural language with hooks all over the OS and the web. Siri communicates with everything from your calendar to WolframAlpha.
Apple launched Siri as a Beta, which is unique for the company. Often, Siri deserves the tag: it sometimes is unable to connect to the web to perform either voice recognition or transcription, other times it returns strange results. Still, as a natural user interface, it's one of the more promising things we've seen come along in some time. Notification Center.
With iOS 5, Apple did something to make sense of the barrage of notifications coming in to the typical iPhone with Notification Center. Similar to the way Android works, there is a persistent pull-down drawer that lists all of your recent notifications along with the ability to clear them out by tapping a tiny "x" for each app. Notification Center is also Apple's first, tiny foray into the world of ambient information, with weather and stock widgets built-in.
There is also a large and depending on how many apps you have installed, somewhat daunting section within settings for managing which apps can notify you and how. Within these settings you can also decide which notifications appear on the lock screen.
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