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Posted On June 3, 2014 By In Design, Mobile, Top Stories

Quick Preview of iOS 8 Features

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At the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) event yesterday, Apple unveiled its new mobile OS,  iOS 8. The OS comes with a host of new features and additional improvement to the former. Here’s a quick look at some of the iOS 8 features

 

iCloud Drive

The iCloud Drive app allows users to synchronize app files across all their devices. its kind of like the DropBox.

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QuickType Keyboard

The new keyboard helps users to accurately predict what their next word might be.  iOS 8 also gives room for the use of third party keyboard such as Swipe and SwiftKey

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iMessage

The messaging app wasn’t left out as users can now directly send audio and video messages just like the likes of WhatsApp and others.

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Family sharing

This is a feature that lets up to six users share a variety of stuffs from App store purchases to photos and user location. These are just to mention a few. There are still other new features like the HealthKitand HomeKit.

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The OS is said to be available this fall. Only the beta version is available now for developers to work with.

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The new iOS 8 can be updated on the iPhone 4s upwards, the iPad 2 upwards but in the iPod line up, only the iPod Touch 5 will get the update.

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