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"Apple has unveiled iOS 8 at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference.\nThe new version of iOS, which will come to iPhones and iPads in the fall, includes many new features.\nSee also: Apple Gets Into Fitness Tracking With Health App and HealthKit for iOS 8\niOS 8 brings Interactive Notifications, giving users the ability to respond to a notification without launching the app it comes from, just by pulling down on the alert. On the lock screen, swiping notifications will bring up a pair of Accept/Decline buttons.\nApple is also bringing an enhancement to the multi-tasking app screen, accessible by double-clicking the Home button. In addition to showing all apps running, the screen will show a scrolling strip of your most recent contacts, identified by photos, along the top of the screen. Tap one, and you'll be able to call, message or FaceTime the contact.\nMail is enhanced, too, letting you \"pull down\" an email draft without fully closing it, so you can perform another task while composing. Similar to notifications, swiping an email in to the side will bring up buttons for More, Flag and Delete. Swiping the other direction lets you mark the message as unread.\nApple added some enterprise features in iOS 8. Users can subscribe to specific message threads called VIP threads, calendars can share \"busy\" information with an organization, and iCloud can work with third-party storage providers like Box and OneDrive.\n\nCraig Federighi, vice president of software engineering at Apple Inc., delivers a keynote address during the Apple World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco, California.Image: Mashable, Lance UlanoffThe keyboard in iOS brings an upgrade that Android users will find familiar: predictive typing. Suggestions for what you might be typing next appear above the keyboard. The suggestions can adapt depending on who you're talking to. For example, the sentence, \"The meeting was...\" could get suggestions like \"rescheduled/cancelled\" for one contact and \"epic/awesome\" for another.\nApple's new Continuity feature \u2014 which works across Macs and iOS devices \u2014 features in iOS 8 as well. Documents and email messages that you begin on the iPhone can relay instantly to an iPad (or Mac). An iPad can receive SMS text messages from your iPhone, and it can also connect to your iPhone as a hotspot with one tap, with no configuration required.\nMessages have a set of upgrades, including location sharing, the ability to use the iPhone's Do Not Disturb feature to mute notifications from a specific thread, and a new feature called Tap to Talk, which lets you speak and send an audio message the recipient can play back (but doesn't convert the speech to text). Details of the contacts you are talking to within a conversation are a tap away in the new \"Details\" button in the top right of any screen.\nSee also: Apple Gets Into Fitness Tracking With Health App and HealthKit for iOS 8\nThe Messages app also takes advantage of the iPhone's sensors: You can reply to a message, either with a call or an audio message, by simply raising the phone to your ear.\niCloud Drive, a new feature in OS X 10.10 Yosemite, also comes to iOS. Storing and editing documents in the cloud \u2014 with different kinds of apps \u2014 is enabled through the service, and it's compatible with Windows devices, too.\niOS 8 has a larger emphasis on fitness through an app simply called Health. It's supported by a service called HealthKit, which lets gives health and fitness app developers a centralized place on the iPhone to integrate their software with. Apple is also working with health providers to get the most out of the service.\n\nApple Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi speaks during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at the Moscone West center on June 2, 2014 in San Francisco, California. Image: Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesiOS 8 also includes Family Sharing, which finally adds a long-requested feature: linking Apple IDs. With family sharing, up to six family members can share any iTunes content that any of them has purchased, and if one family member tries to buy an app or in-app purchase, the credit-card holder will get a notification, allowing them to grant or deny the request.\nThe handling of photos on iOS is getting an upgrade. Called iCloud Photo Library, users will be able to make adjustments to photos and photo albums that will save across devices. Apple also announced OS X 10.10 Yosemite would get a new Photos app in early 2015, which would work seamlessly with the new version in iOS 8 as well as on the web.\nFinally, Siri will get some enhancements, including song identification with Shazam; the ability to make iTunes purchases directly; and support for 22 more dictation languages.\nApple unveils new software for both its mobile (iPhone and iPad) and desktop (Mac) platforms every June at WWDC. Rumors about the introductions have circulated for the past few months, including a dramatic design overhaul for OS X and a possible smart home initiative. The new software typically launches in the fall, alongside new hardware.\n\n\nApple WWDC 2014\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPeople wait to get in to the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at the Moscone West center on June 2, 2014 in San Francisco, California. \n\nImage: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPeople wait to get in to the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at the Moscone West center on June 2, 2014 in San Francisco, California. \n\nImage: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAttendees wait in line to enter the Moscone Center during the Apple Inc. World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco, California, U.S. on June 2, 2014. \n\nImage: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAttendees wait in line to enter the Moscone Center during the Apple Inc. World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco, California, U.S. on June 2, 2014. \n\nImage: Mashable Lance Ulanoff\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe crowd awaits the beginning of the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference event in San Francisco, June 2, 2014. \n\nImage: Mashable, Lance Ulanoff\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nApple CEO Tim Cook arrives to speak during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at the Moscone West center on June 2, 2014 in San Francisco, California. Tim Cook kicked off the annual WWDC which is typically a showcase for upcoming updates to Apple hardware and software. The conference runs through June 6.\n\nImage: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nApple CEO Tim Cook speaks about iOS 8 at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Monday, June 2, 2014. \n\nImage: Jeff Chiu/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nApple Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi (L) and Apple CEO Tim Cook speak during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at the Moscone West center on June 2, 2014 in San Francisco, California. \n\nImage: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nApple Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi speaks during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at the Moscone West center on June 2, 2014 in San Francisco, California. Tim Cook kicked off the annual WWDC which is typically a showcase for upcoming updates to Apple hardware and software. The conference runs through June 6.  \n\nImage: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nApple senior vice president of Software Engineering Craig Federighi speaks at an Apple Worldwide Developers Conference event in San Francisco, Monday, June 2, 2014. \n\nImage: Jeff Chiu/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nApple Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi speaks during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at the Moscone West center on June 2, 2014 in San Francisco, California. \n\nImage: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nApple Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi speaks during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at the Moscone West center on June 2, 2014 in San Francisco, California. \n\nImage: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn apple representative speaks at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference event in San Francisco, June 2, 2014. \n\nImage: Mashable, Lance Ulanoff\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nApple CEO Tim Cook speaks at an Apple Worldwide Developers Conference event in San Francisco, Monday, June 2, 2014. \n\nImage: Jeff Chiu/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nApple Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi speaks during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at the Moscone West center on June 2, 2014 in San Francisco, California. \n\nImage: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn apple representative speaks at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference event in San Francisco, June 2, 2014. \n\nImage: Mashable, Lance Ulanoff\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nApple Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi speaks during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at the Moscone West center on June 2, 2014 in San Francisco, California. \n\nImage: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nApple Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi speaks during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at the Moscone West center on June 2, 2014 in San Francisco, California. \n\nImage: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., delivers a keynote address during the Apple World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, California, U.S. on Monday, June 2, 2014. Apple Inc. announced the new Mac operating system called \"Yosemite\". \n\nImage: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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