iOS 7 - Changing the Way You Have Been Using iPhone In its series of launching a new operating system every year, Apple announced the next version of its popular operating system with the name iOS 7. The company claims it to be the world's most advanced OS ever. With the launch of this new version, the company is trying to mud over the six year old interface and offer the users a completely new user interface and features. Apple plans to make its iOS based devices more interesting than ever by introducing simple, more useful and intuitive features.
iOS 7 Key Features
• It offers a completely redesigned user interface with adaptive and cool colors along with a system-wide back swipe gesture. This makes navigating across the system easier than ever.
• The system icons and folders are redesigned from scratch as opposed to minor improvements which Apple has been doing for the last 6 years. The operating system also offers animated icons.
• The phones are going to be much safer than before with an integrated activation lock which would not allow any thief or unauthorized user to access and use a phone unless provided with the associated iCloud user ID and password.
• The phone will now be smart enough to identify your position and show a parallax effect, making it livelier than ever. The parallax effect can be observed across the system.
• For the first time in the history of the iOS, Apple is offering dynamic wallpapers with this version.
• An easy to access control center will offer useful toggle keys, shortcuts and multimedia controls.
• The notification center has undergone a total makeover and will show three useful tabs.
• Apple has tried to ease the process of multi-tasking by introducing a card interface based access to open apps.
• The new version will now support FaceTime calls without video.
• One of the innovative changes in the system is AirDrop file sharing. It facilitates peer-to-peer file sharing between iOS 7 users without requiring any network connectivity or setup.
• The photo drawer now offers better photo organization and higher capabilities with picture editing.
• The live animations within the weather app make it more interesting to learn about the weather conditions around.
• The maps are now smart enough to adjust screen brightness during different times of the day, with integrated night mode feature.
• It includes a native feature to blacklist contacts and avoid unwanted calls.
• The users can now keep a complete track of their cellular data usage as the system offers breakdown statistics of data usage.
• If you are a mobile app developer, it would be good for you to know that Apple would offer around 1500 new developer APIs in iOS 7.
Though critics believe that the design of the new operating system is mostly inspired from a mix of Windows mobile and Android OS, it would not be wrong to say that this version is ready to fight tough with its competitors.
