Anyone who has not found out that the new operating system of the apple company was launched yesterday is because he was very busy or because he did not want to find out. As expected, the launch of this new iOS has generated much expectation and has managed to collapse, once again, Apple's servers.
This new iOS 8 offers us a lot of new utilities that we can enjoy on our iPhones, iPads from now on. Some of these new features have been as popular as Quicktype, support to third party keyboards, Or the widgets from the notification center. However, this system offers a lot of possibilities that you may not have realized.
Flyover City Tours
As we know, one of the great features of iOS maps is the ability to see certain cities or parts of them in 3D with a gesture on the screen. With iOS 8, this feature goes further, offering us a kind of »tourist tour» or tour flying over the buildings and significant places of the city. As with Flyover, this option is not available in all cities.
Share Wi-Fi automatically
If we do not have Wi-Fi on our Mac or iPad, we can use the data of our iPhone rate as long as it is nearby. The option will appear immediately on our Mac or iPad without having to give it access from the iPhone or enter a password, which makes the process Too much faster.
Hey siri
This is one of the popular features, although precisely because of this and because it is Siri (which we use much less than we could take advantage of), we tend to leave it aside. The point is that Siri is constantly listening so that when you say "Hey, Siri", it is activated no need to press the start button. It only works when we have it connected to a charging source, since otherwise this option of always being "listening" would excessively reduce the battery of our device.
P2P connectivity in Airplay
With iOS 8 we can stream content to our Apple TV no need for Wi-Fi connectionas it establishes a P2P connection or Peer to Peer.
Recover recently deleted photos
This is one of the most interesting options in iOS 8, since from the photos application we will be able to see the images that we have added most recently, as well as the ones we have recently deleted, in order to be able to recover them if necessary.
Search my Iphone
Undoubtedly one of the most useful options that we can find on our device and that now incorporates a new function. With this new operating system, Find my iPhone nit will send you the location of the device when the battery level reaches a low level. Especially useful if we lose the device.
Permission to download
It has been a long time since children from 13 years old can have an account in iTunes, associated with their parents' account. In this way, when they go to download an app, a notification will appear on their parents' device so that accept or deny downloading it.
Battery usage according to applications
One of the most demanded features in iOS, and that we finally see come true. Now we can carry out a more specific monitoring with this new function, where we can see where the battery is being used. We can choose vision of the last 24 hours or the last 7 days.
Easily free up storage space
Storage is going to be one of the main problems for those with a 6GB iPhone 16, since the new camera options will consume more resources, so with this option we will optimize the space dedicated to this storage, saving the files higher resolution in iCloud.
View desktop version in Safari
Many times the versions adapted for mobile phones of some websites turn out not to be as good or complete as the original, so from Safari we will be able to enter directly into it default desktop site, without having to change it from the mobile site.
Independent private browsing
The possibility of browsing privately is not something new in iOS, but it is new that from now on we can choose in an independent way which tabs we want to be in private browsing and which ones not, without having to change the mode of all the tabs.
Time-Lapse
Not long ago Instagram launched a similar application, to make videos in Time-Lapse format and then upload them to the social network. It seems that this application will no longer be needed, since iOS 8 includes this option in the native camera application.
Timer
Finally. After a long time seeing how even mid-range Android phones had this option in the camera, now we can see it in iOS. 3 or 10 seconds are the default shooting options.
Focus and exposure now separate
That our photos turn out better will now be easier thanks to the exposure and focus controls, which we can control separately when taking a picture.
OS X 10.9.5 now available for download 🙂
Can someone tell me what the "location alert" is for? It is found in settings, privacy, location, system services, and there is the option. I had to disable the option because the GPS was constantly on. I have not found anything that clarifies the reason for its use on the internet or what it is for. Let's see if you can give me a cable. Thanks.
This alert alerts you when there are notices of very dangerous incidents, for example, here it sounds when you are going to see a big storm or things like that.
Thanks byron! It increases the battery drain quite a bit so I will "take a chance" to have it disabled.
I ask you a question, does anyone know how to disable 3G in the new iOS8? Since with the update this option has disappeared.
Thank you!
Very good info.Thank you and Regards
If using private browsing on Iphone safari… Is there a way to track the pages where this option was entered? Because history on the iphone does not leave, but perhaps you can find out in another place or in another way the pages that were entered in case of using private browsing. Thanks!