If you are an iPhone user, this is what you should be waiting for — iOS 7 and for the developers a beta version is waiting for you
Learn more about the iOS 7 SDK for developers
Here is what iOS 7 looks like: it
Features and
Disadvantages
Key features
- Complete UI overhaul with adaptive colors and system-wide Back swipe gesture
- New system icons and folders, animated icons available
- System-wide parallax effect
- Dynamic wallpapers
- Control Center with toggles, multimedia controls and shortcuts
- Updated Notification Center with three tabs
- All apps multitasking with new card interface
- Updated Safari browser with unified search filed
- iTunes radio
- AirDrop file sharing
- Inclinometer within the Compass app
- Camera filters with live preview and new square mode
- New Photos app with better photo organization, picture editing
- Weather app with live weather animations
- Updated Maps with Night mode and Turn-by-Turn walking directions
- New Siri interface, new supported commands, new voices
- Contact Blacklist
- FaceTime audio
- Activation lock
- Automatic app update
- Cellular data usage breakdown
- Chinese-English, Italian, Korean and Dutch dictionaries
- iOS in the Car coming in 2014 in selected cars
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| Camera, Safari and Siri |
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| Control Center, Notification Center and Multi-Tasking |
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| iTune Radio, Photo and AirDrop |
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| Mail, Weather and Messages |
Main disadvantages
- Very iTunes dependent for uploading files and multimedia
- No open file system means you often have to duplicate files
- Limited integration of 3rd party social networks and services
- No widgets
- Air Drop works only between selected iOS 7 or later running devices
- No lockscreen shortcuts (besides those in the Control Center)
- Very basic camera UI with limited features and settings
- Limited codecs support
- iTunes radio only works in the US
The iOS 7 update will be seeded to iPhone 5, 4S and 4; iPad 2, 3, 4 and
mini; and iPod Touch 5 generation. But not all features will become
available on all devices.
Coming this fall on your iPhone
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