Welcome iOS 11 and its great innovations that promise to improve the experience we have on our iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
Tim Cook, chief executive of Apple, officially introduced during WWDC 2017 to iOS 11, the next version of the company's mobile operating system.
iOS 11 brings new features for iMessage, Apple Pay advances, more intelligence for Siri, new features for the camera and a new Control Center design. However, there are many more novelties that we collect below.
New Control Center
iOS 11 brings a new design for the Control Center to integrate all the tools in a single screen. In addition, this Control Center can be customized and compatible with 3D Touch, which allows enabling more control commands.
News in notifications
Now you can slide your finger from bottom to top to see all notifications in one place on the lock screen. In addition, the Notifications panel now shows you the notifications of today and if you slide up it shows you a screen with notifications of other days. You need to swipe from the bottom edge to close the notifications panel and return to Start.
On the other hand, in the configurations you can select if you want to show notifications previews always, when unlocked or never, giving you more control.
Keyboard for one-handed use
Hold down the emoji virtual key and select the handwriting to let the keyboard tilt to one side, similar to what different Android keyboards have offered.
iMessage in the cloud
iMessage will now sync with iCloud to allow conversations to be synced across all your devices; so, if you delete one of the messages on your iPhone, it will be erased from your iPad.
Also, when you activate your new iPhone, your entire conversation will be rebuilt quickly.
Apple Pay to make payments between friends
Apple Pay comes to iMessage to receive or send money to friends. The money will be stored in Apple
Pay Cash and you can use it to pay someone else or to make purchases with Apple Pay. Also, when someone asks you for money, the keyboard on your iOS device will suggest you use Apple Pay to pay.
Camera and photo optimizations
The camera app now brings new filters that allow you to better highlight what you captured.
You can also create Live Photos loops, crop, play, and rewind a captured moment, mute, and get an extended exposure to create a drag effect.
In addition, the videos and photos will take less space, thanks to the new format HEVC and HEIF video that manages to occupy only half the space.
On the other hand, Apple will allow the depth information captured with the two cameras of the iPhone 7 Plus can be used by developers to create different effects and photos in low light can take advantage of the optical image stabilization of the cameras.
Also, now you can see Memories in portrait mode, not just horizontal.
Apple Maps are more efficient
The Apple Maps app will be updated with iOS 11 to provide shopping and airport information.
In addition, Apple Maps will include the speed limits and will indicate which lane you must take to follow the navigation directions, similar to what Google Maps has offered for some years.
These new features of Apple Maps will only be applied in some cities and airports in the beginning but are expected to be extended to more places in the future.
New way not to distract while driving
When you install iOS 11, you will receive the option to activate the new Do Not Disturb While Driving mode.
If activated, this new mode will detect that you are in motion and will turn off the screen and will not show you notifications. In addition, it will include an autoresponder message to indicate that you are driving, but it will show you some notifications of your favorite contacts, in which case they are emergency communications.
However, if you are not the one driving, you can activate the screen and select to deactivate that mode.
HomeKit, AirPlay 2 and Apple Music: Smart home with music AirPlay 2 lets you play music through different speakers in different rooms in your home, and you can control everything from the HomeKit app on your iOS device.
Also, Apple Music allows you to create public playlists so your friends can see it and even add their own songs.
On the other hand, Apple is opening up Apple Music so that other developers can access its catalog, including Nike and Shazam. For example, when you detect a song in Shazam you can add the song to your list of Apple Music with a single click.
New App Store
The Apple App Store, App Store, brings a completely new design.
The App Store now has different tabs including: Today, games, apps, updates and searches.
Today's tab lets you discover new apps and games, while the Featured app helps highlight popular apps and an organization in different categories.
What is more interesting is that the App Store now will show you tips and tricks of all kinds of apps and games, through video and photos.
On the other hand, Apple promises that with the new app store the company will be able to evaluate and approve apps in just 24 hours, although in many cases it could take an hour or two.
ARKit: Apple Augmented Reality
Apple is creating a new augmented reality platform directly on iOS 11. With this new tool Apple will allow developers to create all kinds of augmented reality experiences.
Core ML: The Apple Machine Learning Intelligence for Everyone
Apple is enabling machine learning so developers can take advantage of it and give their apps a little more intelligence.
Auto Setup
Did you buy a new iPhone? Just bring it closer to another device with iOS or macOS so that many of your iCloud Keychain settings, preferences and passwords are imported automatically.
File or File App: File Manager
The new Files app lets you browse, search and organize all your files.
Files not only allows you to manage files on your iPad, but also access files you have on other devices with iOS (on iCloud Drive), as well as files in services such as Box, Dropbox or Google Drive.
Siri is smarter:
Siri understands more of your life
Apple adds new intelligence to its virtual assistant, Siri, to offer suggestions for different apps. For example, if you visited a page of an event in Africa, News may suggest something related to that.
More natural language
Apple claims that in iOS 11 Siri will have a more natural language so that it sounds much more like a person of flesh and blood.
Offers translations (beta)
Siri will help you translate from English to French, Italian, German and Spanish, but hopefully in the future, it will work with more languages.
Communicate with Siri via text
iOS 11 will allow you to write to communicate with Siri with the function called "Type to Siri". Other new features in iOS 11:
Best multi window
With the help of this new dock, you can drag an app to your screen to activate the multi-window functions in a simple way.
Support for dragging files
Although the dock is the one that allows you to drag apps to activate the multi-window functions, iOS 11 lets you drag and drop all kinds of files.
For example, now you can drag photos to an email so you can share what you want in a more intuitive way.
New App switcher or App Exchanger
The new apps exchanger now has a laptop design.
Annotations
With the Apple Pencil and iOS 11 in the iPad Pro, you can write and draw in the Notes app, screenshots or PDFs (including PDF books), just like the Mail app.
Scan function
iOS 11 will allow you to scan documents to be automatically adjusted. In addition, you can fill and sign fields with the Apple Pencil.
Devices Compatible with iOS 11
iPhone 7
iPhone 7 Plus
iPhone 6S
iPhone 6S Plus
Iphone 6
iPhone 6 Plus
iPhone SE
Iphone 5s
Second-generation 12.9-inch iPad Pro
12.9-inch first generation iPad Pro
10.5-Inch iPad Pro
9.7 inch iPad Pro
iPad Air 2
iPad Air
iPad 5th generation
iPad Mini 4
iPad Mini 3
iPad Mini 2
iPod Touch Sixth Generation
When can I upgrade my iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch to iOS 11?
The final version of iOS 11 will be available on September 19th as a free upgrade. The iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X arrive with iOS 11 the first time you turn them on.
First impression
iOS 11 is focused on many refinements of what Apple was offering in its operating system for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, but the most interesting news will be received by the iPad. These changes make the iPad work more like a laptop, increasing the possibilities of what this device can offer. In addition, the new designs of some iOS 11 components refresh a little the experience we have in these devices.
In general, the changes are welcome and make iOS 11 feel like a more modern operating system.
Tim Cook, chief executive of Apple, officially introduced during WWDC 2017 to iOS 11, the next version of the company's mobile operating system.
iOS 11 brings new features for iMessage, Apple Pay advances, more intelligence for Siri, new features for the camera and a new Control Center design. However, there are many more novelties that we collect below.
What's new in iOS 11
New Control Center
iOS 11 brings a new design for the Control Center to integrate all the tools in a single screen. In addition, this Control Center can be customized and compatible with 3D Touch, which allows enabling more control commands.
News in notifications
Now you can slide your finger from bottom to top to see all notifications in one place on the lock screen. In addition, the Notifications panel now shows you the notifications of today and if you slide up it shows you a screen with notifications of other days. You need to swipe from the bottom edge to close the notifications panel and return to Start.
On the other hand, in the configurations you can select if you want to show notifications previews always, when unlocked or never, giving you more control.
Keyboard for one-handed use
Hold down the emoji virtual key and select the handwriting to let the keyboard tilt to one side, similar to what different Android keyboards have offered.
iMessage in the cloud
iMessage will now sync with iCloud to allow conversations to be synced across all your devices; so, if you delete one of the messages on your iPhone, it will be erased from your iPad.
Also, when you activate your new iPhone, your entire conversation will be rebuilt quickly.
Apple Pay to make payments between friends
Apple Pay comes to iMessage to receive or send money to friends. The money will be stored in Apple
Pay Cash and you can use it to pay someone else or to make purchases with Apple Pay. Also, when someone asks you for money, the keyboard on your iOS device will suggest you use Apple Pay to pay.
Camera and photo optimizations
The camera app now brings new filters that allow you to better highlight what you captured.
You can also create Live Photos loops, crop, play, and rewind a captured moment, mute, and get an extended exposure to create a drag effect.
In addition, the videos and photos will take less space, thanks to the new format HEVC and HEIF video that manages to occupy only half the space.
On the other hand, Apple will allow the depth information captured with the two cameras of the iPhone 7 Plus can be used by developers to create different effects and photos in low light can take advantage of the optical image stabilization of the cameras.
Also, now you can see Memories in portrait mode, not just horizontal.
Apple Maps are more efficient
The Apple Maps app will be updated with iOS 11 to provide shopping and airport information.
In addition, Apple Maps will include the speed limits and will indicate which lane you must take to follow the navigation directions, similar to what Google Maps has offered for some years.
These new features of Apple Maps will only be applied in some cities and airports in the beginning but are expected to be extended to more places in the future.
New way not to distract while driving
When you install iOS 11, you will receive the option to activate the new Do Not Disturb While Driving mode.
If activated, this new mode will detect that you are in motion and will turn off the screen and will not show you notifications. In addition, it will include an autoresponder message to indicate that you are driving, but it will show you some notifications of your favorite contacts, in which case they are emergency communications.
However, if you are not the one driving, you can activate the screen and select to deactivate that mode.
HomeKit, AirPlay 2 and Apple Music: Smart home with music AirPlay 2 lets you play music through different speakers in different rooms in your home, and you can control everything from the HomeKit app on your iOS device.
Also, Apple Music allows you to create public playlists so your friends can see it and even add their own songs.
On the other hand, Apple is opening up Apple Music so that other developers can access its catalog, including Nike and Shazam. For example, when you detect a song in Shazam you can add the song to your list of Apple Music with a single click.
New App Store
The Apple App Store, App Store, brings a completely new design.
The App Store now has different tabs including: Today, games, apps, updates and searches.
Today's tab lets you discover new apps and games, while the Featured app helps highlight popular apps and an organization in different categories.
What is more interesting is that the App Store now will show you tips and tricks of all kinds of apps and games, through video and photos.
On the other hand, Apple promises that with the new app store the company will be able to evaluate and approve apps in just 24 hours, although in many cases it could take an hour or two.
ARKit: Apple Augmented Reality
Apple is creating a new augmented reality platform directly on iOS 11. With this new tool Apple will allow developers to create all kinds of augmented reality experiences.
Core ML: The Apple Machine Learning Intelligence for Everyone
Apple is enabling machine learning so developers can take advantage of it and give their apps a little more intelligence.
Auto Setup
Did you buy a new iPhone? Just bring it closer to another device with iOS or macOS so that many of your iCloud Keychain settings, preferences and passwords are imported automatically.
File or File App: File Manager
The new Files app lets you browse, search and organize all your files.
Files not only allows you to manage files on your iPad, but also access files you have on other devices with iOS (on iCloud Drive), as well as files in services such as Box, Dropbox or Google Drive.
Siri is smarter:
Siri understands more of your life
Apple adds new intelligence to its virtual assistant, Siri, to offer suggestions for different apps. For example, if you visited a page of an event in Africa, News may suggest something related to that.
More natural language
Apple claims that in iOS 11 Siri will have a more natural language so that it sounds much more like a person of flesh and blood.
Offers translations (beta)
Siri will help you translate from English to French, Italian, German and Spanish, but hopefully in the future, it will work with more languages.
Communicate with Siri via text
iOS 11 will allow you to write to communicate with Siri with the function called "Type to Siri". Other new features in iOS 11:
- Password autocompletion in apps
- Changes to the Podcast app design
- New NFC reading mode
- New extension of fraud detection through text messages
- QR Code Compatibility for Scanning with the Camera
- Support for swapping Safari tabs using 3D Touch
- Spotlight tab in Apple News lets you search for news
- Business chat preview
- Zoom on maps with one hand
- Communicate through text with Siri
- Function to record the screen
- Status of flights in Spotlight and Safari
- New feature for sharing files via iCloud
- Emergency function (SOS) on the iPhone
- HomeKit triggers based on user presence and duration
- Wi-Fi password sharing feature from your device
- Advanced Wi-Fi Network Analysis
- New design to invert colors (Classic or Smart) by pressing the Start button three times
- Family sharing plans iCloud storage
- Settings titles, Mail, and other Apple apps are larger.
- Additional functions for the iPad
- New 'dock'
Best multi window
With the help of this new dock, you can drag an app to your screen to activate the multi-window functions in a simple way.
Support for dragging files
Although the dock is the one that allows you to drag apps to activate the multi-window functions, iOS 11 lets you drag and drop all kinds of files.
For example, now you can drag photos to an email so you can share what you want in a more intuitive way.
New App switcher or App Exchanger
The new apps exchanger now has a laptop design.
Annotations
With the Apple Pencil and iOS 11 in the iPad Pro, you can write and draw in the Notes app, screenshots or PDFs (including PDF books), just like the Mail app.
Scan function
iOS 11 will allow you to scan documents to be automatically adjusted. In addition, you can fill and sign fields with the Apple Pencil.
Devices Compatible with iOS 11
iPhone 7
iPhone 7 Plus
iPhone 6S
iPhone 6S Plus
Iphone 6
iPhone 6 Plus
iPhone SE
Iphone 5s
Second-generation 12.9-inch iPad Pro
12.9-inch first generation iPad Pro
10.5-Inch iPad Pro
9.7 inch iPad Pro
iPad Air 2
iPad Air
iPad 5th generation
iPad Mini 4
iPad Mini 3
iPad Mini 2
iPod Touch Sixth Generation
When can I upgrade my iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch to iOS 11?
The final version of iOS 11 will be available on September 19th as a free upgrade. The iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X arrive with iOS 11 the first time you turn them on.
First impression
iOS 11 is focused on many refinements of what Apple was offering in its operating system for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, but the most interesting news will be received by the iPad. These changes make the iPad work more like a laptop, increasing the possibilities of what this device can offer. In addition, the new designs of some iOS 11 components refresh a little the experience we have in these devices.
In general, the changes are welcome and make iOS 11 feel like a more modern operating system.
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