Are you excited for iOS 11? We sure are! Here's the latest info on iOS 11 from WWDC 2017!
If you're someone who's been following along with all the latest announcements at WWDC, then you probably have a couple of questions about the latest version of iOS 11.
Here's everything you need to know!
What's new about iOS 11?
Messages
With iOS 10, apps and stickers were introduced, but iOS 11 makes them even more accessible with an app drawer at the bottom of your messages screen.
Also new with iMessages, when you sign into a new device, all your messages are automatically synced (so you can delete embarrassing messages across all platforms!)
With Messages for iOS 11, there's also optimized device storage, and end-to-end encryption.
Apple Pay
Apple Pay now introduces person-to-person payment!
Send and receive money while chatting with friends and family because it's integrated right into messages as an iMessage feature. The money you get will go into your Apple Pay cash card, so you can shop online, send money elsewhere, and more! It'll be available with all iOS devices.
Subsequently, if someone messages you, "You owe me $20!", iMessage will recognize the dollar amount in the message and suggest sending money via Apple Pay.
Siri
Siri is available in more languages and more countries than any other assistant, but it's time for a change! Siri's voice has changed to a more natural, less-robotic tone, and now there's a male voice available, too.
Siri also has a new translation option: If you say, "What are the most popular dishes in your restaurant in ______?" Siri will translate and speak in that language. Right now, the translation languages are limited to English to Chinese, French, German, Italian, and Spanish, with more languages to come in the next few months.
Sirikit can now do more than ever: secure task management, take notes in Evernote, do baking with Citymobile, chat with WeChat, and so much more!
Siri understands what you want next… with iOS 11, Siri uses on-device learning to topics it thinks might interest us.
For example, if you've been looking at photography in Iceland or are researching a trip to Iceland online, Siri might recognize this and suggest news articles about Iceland in the News app! Now what Siri learns about you on one device is synced across all your devices.
Camera
With iOS 11, Apple is introducing HEVC; a format that's up to 2 times better compression-wise for camera captured videos so you use up less space on your device.
To save even more space, iOS 11 is also introducing the replacement to the JPEG called the with HEIF, which is half the size with twice the quality.
Low light photographs using improved image quality, improved low light performance, optical image stabilization, true tone flash, Depth API, and HDR.
Photos App
If you loved the Memories feature that came with iOS 10, then you'll love being able to watch your Memories in portrait mode with iOS 11!
Live photos can now be trimmed, selected, muted, looped, rewinded, and so much more. You can also go into Live photos and select the key photo you want to display as the first image you see when you tap/look at it!
Oh, and did we mention you can select and alter exposure AKA change the long exposure on a photo.
Control Center
Control center now packs all it's features into a single page.
Basically the new control center packs a ton of capabilities into a single-page design! You can control typical things like Airplane mode, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, orientation, screen mirroring, and so much more, but with more access to other features like volume and what you're listening to.
The redesigned lockscreen and notification centre aim to combine and make things one: Scroll up, and you can get all your other notifications that you normally wouldn't with your lockscreen.
Maps
There are new maps for exploring around and shopping at major malls, and maps for major airports like Amsterdam, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Dubai, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, Nashville, New York, Toronto, Vancouver, and so many others!
There's also going to be new navigation tools like lane guidance for when you're trying to navigate your way through traffic.
Do not disturb while driving
It's all about keeping your eyes on the road. When you're driving, you don't need to be responding to these kinds of messages!
Instead of all those distracting notifications, your iPhone screen will go black, and if you touch the phone, it'll remind you that you're driving.
It can also automatically send messages out to people with generic messages letting them know that you're driving and that you'll be able to respond once you reach your destination safely.
Homekit
There are new speakers for homekit that build multi room audio throughout iOS, so you can play music from select speakers throughout your house with a few taps of your iPhone or iPad!
Plus if you have a friend over that wants to contribute to the playlist, they can do it without interrupting the current song.
Third party audio apps on iOS can also get in on the fun!
Apple Music
Now, in Apple Music, you'll be able to find out what your friends have been listening to right inside the app, so you never need to ask "hey, what are you listening to?" ever again!
App Store
The App Store is turning 9 years old this year, and nearly 80 billion apps have been downloaded to date, so it's time for a makeover! The App Store is getting a revamp.
The brand new #App Store will be app-solutely beautiful!
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New tab called Today which is located at the bottom of your screen and features a new app every day (and the stories about the developers that created them!) In the Today tab, the App Store will have a new app of the day, game of the day, and a daily list that's focused on a theme or a goal, like meditation.
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In the Games tab, there will be charts that only feature different games based on popularity and ranking. You can browse by game categories, watch videos on game play, effortlessly scroll through ratings, and more.
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The Apps tab focuses just on apps, so you don't have to worry about different games getting muddled into the mix.
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Faster app review times
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TestFlight more testers
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App Store cleanup
Machine learning
Powerful machine learning made easy with a set of new APIs: vision tracking, natural language API, and more, which are all built on Core ML.
Did you know that the iPhone is 6x faster using core ML?
AR (Augmented Reality)
Introducing: ARKit! A brand new app for iOS 11 AKA the largest AR platform in the WORLD.
With ARKit, the camera on your iPhone or iPad can identify surfaces and then you can add certain objects to your environment that will interact and acknowledge one another: for example, you can add a cup of coffee to your table and a lamp, and every time you turn the lamp on or off or reposition the coffee, the shadows change like they would in real life!
ARKit provides fast motion tracking and uses your camera to play with plane estimation, allowing users to take advantage of the state-of-the-art mobile cameras they own, and thanks to GPU and CPU, hundreds of millions of people will have access to ARKit on their iPhone and iPads!
[With AR], it's like you're the director of your own experience
iOS 11 for iPad
iOS 11 really takes iPad to a whole new level… We are so excited about the marriage of iOS 11 and the new iPad Pro!
You can now summon the dock from anywhere on your iPad, pull a specific app out (regardless of what you're doing on your iPad!) and swap your apps for different apps on one screen. It's super simple. Drap and drop to iPad. Drag text, drag images, drag urls, etc!
It's a drag-fest!
The new Files app brings together all your files on your iPad and pulls them into a beautiful, simple layout that makes accessing your iPad's info as easy as pie. Files supports Google Drive, Dropbox, and other 3rd party organizing apps, so you don't have to worry about having documents floating around everywhere.
The app has a grid or list view that function that's super similar to your documents and files on your MacBook, and on the let of the Files app, you have access to all your 3rd-party apps.
Tap and hold the Files app and you get instant access to the latest images, documents, etc, that you saved so you can add them to different projects that you're working on!
In regards to the Apple Pencil, iPad, and iOS 11, now when you take a screenshot, a thumbnail will appear automatically in the lower left-hand corner of the thing you just screen-shotted. You can then instantly go into markup and edit it to your liking!
With the Apple Pencil, you can do inline drawings, and have your iPad search your own personal handwriting using machine learning. With notes, you can even scan certain documents and mark them up on your iPad with the Apple Pencil!
You can use the Apple Pencil to tap on the lockscreen which will automatically unlock the iPad and take you to your notes.
When can we expect the newest version of iOS?
In the fall of 2017.
What do you think about iOS 11?
Are you excited for the latest version of iOS? What other features and products are you pumped about at WWDC? Let us know what you thinks in the comments below!
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