IOS 9: How to live up to expectations?
Apple introduced iOS 9 WWDC earlier this week. While the company had several announcements during the course of the event, phone enthusiasts were closely watching IOS 9 and its improvements over iOS 8. While there are some smaller features such as a new keyboard lowercase trackpad within keyboard, etc., are some of the main features you need to know.
But we like all these features? we'll see.
What we liked:
Multitasking Splitscreen: With iOS 9, Apple has enabled native support true multitasking using the split screen. Although most of this functionality is limited to the iPad 2 Air due to hardware limitations, it goes without saying that this could be a game changer for Apple. Given the imminent release of productivity oriented iPad Pro, this could provide a perfect halfway point for users interested in a cross between a PC and a tablet.
Improved Battery Life: Apple has also made changes to its architecture OS to allow for better battery life on devices. There is an energy saving mode offered as well, which could add up to 3 hours of extra battery for your iPhone. Regular use an iOS device 9 may last for 1 hour more than the same iOS device 8 according to Apple. So it's an improvement in the way you look.
iOS 9 Beta for all developers and consumers can access the beta of iOS 9 Right from the beginning. This is in contrast to the way betas were handled as before developers were limited. Of course, it is recommended that people with one iOS device chorus download the beta version as usually full of bugs and glitches. But it's nice to have that option. With this, Apple can get feedback from standard users, in addition to the developers.
Proactive: This is similar to Google Android Now virtual assistant brings all core device data in one place. Similarly, proactively offering ticketing information, reminders and other important notifications right within a screen. From here you can also find the most frequent users of contact on your device and also suggested to guide you to get the best of the iOS ecosystem Applications section.
What we did not like:
Notifications: While there is a package of improvements to iOS in September, Apple is still rectify some problems iOS 8. One of these complaints is the handling of notifications of applications. Instead of displaying notifications chronologically based on what came first, the iOS notification center provides notifications from a particular application in a list.
So if you were to get five notifications of Twitter and Facebook most recent notification, you have to scroll all the way through notifications of Twitter to check what became Facebook. This was expected to be solved with IOS 9 but unfortunately that does not seem to be the case.
The lack of adequate support for custom keyboards: While Apple surprised the world by bringing support for custom keyboards last year, it was still a little limited in its approach as it did not allow certain iOS features like Siri Dictation. And to make matters worse, third party keyboards also lacked a dedicated switch / keyboard menu button.
On Android, this can be accomplished with a pop-up menu at the bottom of the keyboard. Unfortunately, Apple has not learned from iOS 8 and apparently ignored this aspect in particular. In its current form, it is almost like Apple developers are doing a favor by allowing third-party keyboards iOS (as Federico Viticci of MacStories aptly puts).
As you can see from the above list, it is clear that Apple has more positives than negatives with IOS 9 which is a very good sign of things to come.
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