iOS 7, most awaited update for iPhone’s, iPad’s and iPod’s is available now to download.
This update features a beautiful new design and also contains hundreds of new features, including the following:
- • New design
- ◦ Redesigned interface updates the entire system and every built-in app
- ◦ Subtle motion and animation; layers and translucency provide depth
- ◦ Elegant new color palette and refined typography
- ◦ Updated system sounds and ringtones
- • Control Center
- ◦ Quick access to commonly used controls and apps with a swipe up from the bottom of the screen
- ◦ Turn on & off Airplane Mode, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Do Not Disturb; adjust screen brightness; access media controls; turn on AirPlay and AirDrop
- ◦ Quickly access flashlight, timer, calculator, camera and music controls
- • Notification Center improvements
- ◦ New Today view gives you an overview of your day, including weather, calendar, and stocks
- ◦ Notifications dismissed on one device dismisses across all your devices
- • Multitasking improvements
- ◦ Preview screens of open apps when you switch between them
- ◦ Permits any app to keep content up-to-date in the background
- • Camera improvements
- ◦ Swipe through different camera modes – video, still photo, square aspect, and panorama
- ◦ Real-time photo filters with iPhone 4S or later, and iPod touch (5th generation)
- • Photos improvements
- ◦ Automatically organizes your photos and videos based on time and location into Moments
- ◦ iCloud Photo Sharing supports multiple contributors and videos, plus a new Activity view
- ◦ Add photo filter effects
- ◦ Flickr and Vimeo support
- • AirDrop
- ◦ Quickly and easily share content with people nearby
- ◦ Securely encrypted transfers with no network or setup required
- ◦ Supported on iPhone 5, iPad (4th generation), iPad mini, and iPod touch (5th generation) and requires an iCloud account
- • Safari improvements
- ◦ New iPhone tab view that lets you easily switch between open web pages
- ◦ Unified smart search field for both search terms and web addresses
- ◦ Shared Links shows web pages shared by people you follow on Twitter
- • iTunes Radio
- ◦ Streaming radio service
- ◦ Pick from over 250 featured and genre-focused stations
- ◦ Start your own station from your favorite artist or song
- • Siri improvements
- ◦ New, more natural sounding male and female voices for US English, French and German
- ◦ Integrated Wikipedia, Twitter search, and Bing web search results
- ◦ Change settings including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and brightness
- ◦ Supported on iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPad with Retina display, iPad mini, and iPod touch (5th generation)
- • App Store improvements
- ◦ See apps relevant to your current location with Popular Near Me
- ◦ Discover age-appropriate apps in the Kids category
- ◦ Keep your apps up to date automatically
- • Find My iPhone Activation Lock
- ◦ Turning off Find My iPhone, erasing your device, reactivation, and signing out of iCloud requires your Apple ID password
- ◦ A custom message can be displayed on your device even after a remote erase
- • iTunes Store improvements
- ◦ Preview and buy songs you’ve heard on iTunes Radio while inside the iTunes Store
- ◦ Add to, and shop from, your iTunes Wish List
- ◦ Scan code with camera to redeem iTunes Gift Cards
- • Music improvements
- ◦ Play music purchases from iCloud
- ◦ Rotate your iPhone or iPod touch to browse your music with the Album Wall
- • Videos improvements
- ◦ Play movie and TV show purchases from iCloud
- ◦ View similar movies and TV shows from Related
- • Maps improvements
- ◦ Turn-by-turn walking directions
- ◦ Automatic night mode
- ◦ Bookmarks shared across devices via iCloud
- • Mail improvements
- ◦ New Smart Mailboxes, including Unread, Attachments, All Drafts and To or CC
- ◦ Improved search
- ◦ View PDF annotations
- • FaceTime audio calling
- • Block unwanted Phone, Messages and FaceTime callers
- • Support for sending long MMS messages
- • Pull down on any Home Screen to reveal Spotlight search
- • Scan to acquire Passbook passes
- • New ringtones, alarms, alerts and system sounds
- • Definitions of a selected word for additional languages: Italian, Korean, and Dutch
- • Inclinometer in the Compass app
- • Wi-Fi HotSpot 2.0 support
- • Accessibility features
- ◦ Individuals with limited physical motor skills can now control their device using Switch Control
- ◦ Customize closed caption style
- ◦ Handwriting input support in VoiceOver
- ◦ Math input support using Nemeth Braille in VoiceOver
- ◦ Select from multiple premium voices for speak selection and VoiceOver
- ◦ Support for Made for iPhone Hearing Aids and stereo audio for iPhone 5 and iPod touch (5th generation)
- • Enterprise features
- ◦ Manage which apps and accounts are used to open documents and attachments
- ◦ Per App VPN
- ◦ App Store license management
- ◦ Enterprise single sign-on
- ◦ Remote configuration of managed apps
- ◦ Automatic data protection for third-party apps
- ◦ Exchange Notes syncing
- ◦ Install custom fonts
- ◦ New management queries and restrictions
- • Education features
- ◦ Mobile device management for Apple TV
- ◦ Request AirPlay Mirroring from a student device to Apple TV
- ◦ Pre-configure AirPlay destinations and AirPrint printers
- ◦ Streamlined MDM enrollment
- ◦ Ability to restrict changes to accounts
- ◦ Web content filtering
- ◦ Authorized apps can initiate single app mode
- ◦ Configure accessibility settings for single app mode
- • Features for China
- ◦ Tencent Weibo integration
- ◦ Chinese-English bilingual dictionary
- ◦ Improved handwriting input with improved accuracy, stroke order independence and support for simultaneous multiple character input
- • Bug fixes
Some features may not be available for all countries or all areas.
For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222
