Keyboard
◾ QuickType keyboard – which enables predictive suggestions inside iOS Messages and other apps
◾ Third party keyboards – iOS 8 supports third party keyboard replacements such as Swype, SwiftKey, and others



Interactive Notifications
◾ Quick reply to messages from anywhere
◾ Accept/decline calendar invitations
◾ Mark an email as read or trash it
◾ Mark reminders as complete
◾ Reply to notifications from third party apps



Mail
◾ Swipe to mark an email as read or flag it, or long-swipe to delete
◾ Now recognizes a reservation, flight confirmation, or phone number

Safari for iPad
◾ New Tab view
◾ New new slide-out sidebar for bookmarks, shared links and Reading List

Messages
◾ Rename group threads
◾ Enable Do Not Disturb for a group thread to silence alerts
◾ Easily remove yourself from an annoying group thread
◾ Record and send audio notes
◾ Record and send videos
◾ Share your location
◾ Send multiple photos and videos
◾ View all attachments from a thread at once



App Store
◾ New ‘Explore’ tab
◾ New ‘Trending’ searches
◾ New Editor’s Choice label
◾ App previews with short videos

Family Sharing
◾ Up to six people in your family can share purchases from iTunes stores
◾ Parents can track/limit kids’ spending
◾ Easily share photos, videos, calendars and location



Photos
◾ iCloud Photo Library keeps every photo and video in iCloud, accessible from any device
◾ Search for photos by the date, time, location, or album name
◾ Smart composition tools auto-straighten and crop photos
◾ Smart adjustments intelligently adjusts exposure, brightness, contrast, and more
◾ New photo filters
◾ Create time-lapse videos



Siri
◾ Hey, Siri
◾ Shazam song ID
◾ Dictation supports 22 new languages

Health app
◾ Easy to read dashboard for your health and fitness data
◾ HealthKit platform makes it easier for third party apps to integrate with Health app
◾ Emergency card stores important health information



Other
◾ Widgets in Notification Center, third party app support
◾ Contact shortcuts in Multitasking screen
◾ Touch ID gains third party support

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This post has been edited by C63 AMG: Jul 4 2015, 05:49 PM

My exact thoughts.
Wonder what is it with Health apps these days. Seems to be the latest craze where 1 manufacturer begins and the rest all follows suit.

If not mistaken long ago already can lol

Agree with your first sentence.
Wait till those China phones hit international markets on a wider scale.
Now everyone can afford high specced mobile phones.

But then again, can't really compare Apple with Android as both have different followings.
If Nokia/Sony came up with an iOS device at RM1,000-RM1,500 things will definitely be WAY different. Well, one can always dream.

In fall according to Apple, which should be around Sep-Oct. 2014
Most likely together with the anticipated iPhone 6.

It is able to pull data from supported health-related apps and consolidate it all into one.
This allows you to view all your health data in one app.
Quite impressive if you're really into health.

Would probably mature off in a few months before the official launch of iOS8

Mind sharing some shots of your iOS 8?

Is that even possible?

Will probably only be more stable and good for use in Beta 4 onwards.

Around Sept. Few more months to go. Chill.
Just pretend Apple didn't announce it

Lol I think I will.
Am getting bored with iOS7 and hope the iOS7 bugs are killed.
For instance, the bluetooth one whereby the logo at status bar still shows even when turned off bluetooth

There are still many unannounced features launched in iOS8
You guys can head to idownloadblog.com for more info.
Very informative blog

Heard some say whatsapp not compatible.
U can survive without W/A?

I wished iOS8 launched a change to the icons to be like those on Windows Phone platform.

Allow us to change the size of the icons and lets have real LIVE information showing on them. That, would have made iOS8 great.

Not suggesting any change to the orientation.
Just the icons.
Imagine you being able to decide the size of your icons.
Imagine your icons being able to display more information.
If anything, it would resemble WP more, not Android.

Anyone using the GM iOS 8 now?

Lol true that.
Both has its upsides and downsides.
No one OS is truly perfect.

Tomorrow noon would be best.
Download would probably be super slow tonight

Not so fast yet.
Earliest also tomorrow 1am.