Let us explore some incredible features in the recent IOS 8

    With every update, Apple has something new and extraordinary for its users. Undoubtedly, it is for the advancement of the already exemplary set of functionalities. The same trend was followed by the recent launch of IOS 8. A big progressive step from the version 7, Apple has added a lot many new and upgraded features to IOS 8. These functionalities are designed to integrate more intensely with the Mac.

    Let us uncover a few of these IOS features and surprise ourselves by knowing what is unique about them.

• Find My iPhone: 

    

    Have you ever wondered, what would happen if your phone’s battery dies? Of course, you will not be able to track your phone, and the chances of finding your device will decline by a large extent. 

   Well, with IOS 8 we need to worry less. This new and amazing feature can, fortunately, help you save your device. The Find My iPhone feature in IOS 8, can now track the last known device location to iCloud before the battery of any of iPhone/iPad/iPod touch dies away. 

    This can really be a helpful and powerful feature, for tracking your device. On enabling this feature, the device will ensure that as soon as the device battery becomes critically low, it will send the device most recent location to iCloud on a priority basis. This works perfectly, if your device has a cellular data connection, rather than a WiFi that is away from a known access point. 

• Scan of your credit cards in Safari, while making a purchase: 

    

    Do you find online purchases troublesome? Apple Pay is sure this painful experience of yours into a straightforward approach. With IOS 8, we can now use Safari’s credit card reading ability. 

• Find battery – draining apps on your device:

    

    The battery life of IOS devices is continuously improving with each passing day.It has become very simple nowadays to get a full-day battery life of mostly all modern IOS devices. Moreover, IOS 8 lets you examine how much battery life is each IOS app using. When you view the battery usage, you can get an app listing responsible for the loss of energy life, since the device’s last charge.

• Make photos invisible, rather than delete: 

    

    There are times when one does not want to display all their pictures in the photo app. For instance, there might be some private pics that you do not want to share. IOS 8 lets you hide these photos, while allowing you to still keep them around. When you hide a photo from the library, it will be hidden from the Moments, Years and Collections section, although it will be visible in the Albums. 

• Load a Desktop (not a mobile) Webpage in Safari: 

    

    At times, websites load in their mobile versions, that are a much restrained mode. A majority of these mobile sites, do not offer the same features as their desktop counterparts. This can many times leave the users unable to perform certain tasks. However, with IOS 8, the loading of your desktop site is comparatively much easier. This feature has long been a much awaited one.

    Of these fascinating features, what will be our most favored ones? Let us wait and watch, how far these functionalities take the iPhone Application Development industry.