Email is a lot simpler with iOS 8. Before, if you swiped left on an email your only options were "More" and "Archive." Now, when you swipe left you'll be able to hit "More," "Flag" or "Trash." If you swipe right, you can "Mark as Unread."
Say goodbye to bad autocorrects with the new QuickType feature. iOS 8 will recommend words as you type in iMessage or email. It will learn the kinds of things you usually type and try to imitate your style. Apple claims that the new engine learns how you write. It's so sensitive that it knows who you are talking with and adjusts the suggestions accordingly. Apple also claims it learns from your behaviour.
At first, iMessage was just about simple texting back and forth. But Apple’s free messaging service is beefing up in iOS 8, adding the ability to record and send voice messages and videos without ever having to leave the app. You can also share your location from right in the app, and you can finally rename group conversations so they don’t simply list all of the people in the conversation; you can label your conversations as “Road Trip Crew” or “Kickball Team” to make them easier to find. And even better, you can now “leave” those group conversations without needing to delete the entire thread from your phone.
The native Photos app, which allows users to view their… well… photos, used to sit in relative isolation from the App Store’s wide universe of photo-editing tools. Not anymore. Third-party app developers will now be able to create extensions that users can download in order to infuse Apple’s own Photos app with a wide array of picture editing tools and filters. Expect a few interesting tools at launch—and countless more as developers rush into this new showcase for their products. From a broader perspective, this new feature is also a great example of iOS 8′s general willingness to allow third-party apps the ability to play nice with Apple’s own software.
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Imagine your doctor, trainer, or nutritionist each had an incredibly valuable piece of information about your health that they weren’t allowed to share with each other. Until now, that was pretty much the state of the health and fitness app world—an app could have useful information that would allow another program to work better, but there was simply no way for them to communicate with each other. With iOS 8, that changes (assuming users grant permission for apps to do so). So if you’re using one app to track your heart rate and another to track your sleep patterns, a third app can pull it all together to give you a better sense of your overall health.
IOS 8 is available to download. The update is done from the settings of the device (Settings > General > Software Update) or from iTunes.
Remember, there’s no going back to iOS 7 once you’ve upgraded to iOS 8. So why not let the guinea pigs test it out and let Apple and the app makers iron out the wrinkles before you end up making a decision you could regret?
