35 new features coming to iOS 8

Apple senior executive Craig Federighi is quite the personality. On stage today for the WWDC keynote, the hardware engineering chief announced several new features of iOS 8 in the most humorous way possible. But it would have been impossible for Federighi and the rest of the Apple team to cover all of the new functionality included in the software update, so instead they fit several features into one slide. We’ve gone ahead and rounded up all 35 of the featured listed ahead…

• Braille keyboard for direct 6-dot braille input
• Alex voice for accessibility
• Private browsing per tab in Safari
• Instant burst mode
• Wi-Fi calling
• Vector maps in China
• Hey, Siri
• iBooks built into iOS
• New definition dictionaries for Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Thai and Turkish Hindi localization
• Flyover city tours
• Auto night mode in Books
• Separate focus and exposure in Camera
• Panoramic photos on iPad
• RSS feeds in Shared Links
• DuckDuckGo support in Safari
• Improved zoom for accessibility
• Battery usage by app
• In Case of Emergency card
• Travel time notifications
• Purchase iTunes content with Siri
• 24 new dictation languages
• Rich text editing in Notes
• See your books as a series in iBooks
• Touch ID to exit from Guided Access
• Multi-device support for MFi hearing aids
• Camera timer
• Indian, Tagalog, Irish Gaelic and Slovenian keyboards
• Tips app
• Navigation for China
• Speak screen
• Shazam with Siri
• FaceTime call waiting
• Lunar calendar support
• Time limits and countdown timer for Guided Access
• Place cards in other apps

What features are you looking forward to in iOS 8?

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