The devices that support this new iOS are:
- iPhone 4
- iPhone 4s
- iPhone 5
- iPod touch 5th generation
- iPad 2
- iPad 3 (The new iPad)
- iPad 4
- iPad mini
Jony Ive the Senior Vice President introduce the new iOS 7 in this video, and introduce the new design, features and setting of the whole redesigned iOS.
Tim Cook and company just took the wraps off of the next version of its mobile operating system, iOS 7. And as expected, it’s by far the biggest update to the platform since the original iPhone launched back in 2007.In short, iOS 7 adds a vast number of incredible feature that were undoubtedly inspired by jailbreaking.
What’s different? Everything. In line with previous reports and speculation, Apple has completely redesigned the OS from the ground up with an all new user interface and a slew of new features. And honestly, it looks amazing…
Wow, where to even start here. Obviously, we’ll be going into specific features in more detail in the future post on our website.
First, there’s the Lock screen. It’s been completely redone with a much more minimalistic design. The ‘slide to unlock’ slider is now transparent, the Camera grabber has been moved to the bottom right-hand corner, and it now supports animated backgrounds. Bonus: the Notification Center can now be accessed from the Lock Screen.
And now the Home screen. Notice how the icons have all been redone, and there are now Settings toggles available with a swipe up from the bottom of the screen. The new Home screen looks vibrant, and Apple says it’s added a ton of new features.
Today photos and camera apps looks totally different in iOS 7 and they are full redesigned and look more cooler than before. The company added some improvements to the photos app First and foremost, the new Photos app. The new Photos app auto organizes pictures based on when and where you took them, a featured dubbed Moments.
One interesting aspect of Moments is the ability to zoom out, and selectively pick specific photos from the grouping by tapping and dragging your finger over the photos. Photo streams have received a significant update as well, as you can now share your photos directly into other’s photo streams, and vice versa.
The camera app looks amazing as Apple dubs it, four cameras in one. With a swipe, you can go from the standard camera, to the video camera, to a square Instagram inspired camera, to the panoramic camera. Further showing the influence that Instagram has, you also have the ability to add one of several filters directly to the photos you take without using a third party app.
Now you can quickly share your photos with just one tap, right now the camera app supports Facebook, Twitter, Mail, Google+ and more....
Yet another big update is the new Siri. It got a polished new interface and it goes after Google Now with card-based UI and new services to provide answers to your questions (Twitter, Wikipedia and Bing, take that Google). It can also control your iDevice (increase brightness, turn on Bluetooth) and it offers a new, more life-like voice (both female and male) for English, French and German.
Safari will also show what tabs are open on your other devices and features the just announced iCloud Keychain integration, meaning it would be sync your passwords and credit card info with your Mac. The Reading list and Shared links features of the desktop Safari are available here too.
A cool new feature lets you swipe from the sides of the screen to go back and forth through your browsing history.
The App Store got tweaked too – it now automatically updates apps (hi, Play Store) and suggest apps based on your location (just like Windows Phone).
Facetime got an audio only option, which is basically VoIP calling.
There's AirDrop, which is Apple's answer to NFC (they even made a joke about not having to bump your phones together). It's a streamlined and centralized interface for sharing stuff with other people, who our close by. It uses a peer-to-peer Wi-Fi connection for that.
Finally, the Music player has been revamped as well and now it offers a new service, called iTunes Radio – an ad-supported streaming music service for free (launching in the US). This one is also available on Macs, PCs and even Apple TV.
There's also a cool new weather app that shows the weather in multiple cities with beautiful animations, a detailed forecast for today and tomorrow and the weather for the next five days. You can check the weather of one location or all of them at once.
As for the deeper vehicle integration, Apple introduced ‘iOS in the Car.’ The feature apparently mirrors your iPhone on your in-car display, similar to AirPlay, allowing users to access Maps, messages, and other services without having to take their eyes off the wheel.
Apple says that it has been working with numerous auto-makers to get this right. Honda, Mercedes, Nissan, Ferrari, Chevrolet, Kia, Hyundai, Volvo, Jaguar, have all pledged support for the feature and are planning to start adding it to their 2014 model vehicles.
But there’s also a lot of stuff in iOS 7 that Apple didn’t talk about today, due to time limitations and other restrictions. And looking at this slide behind Tim Cook at the end of the keynote, there’s at least 24 features that weren’t mentioned today…
- Enterprise single sign-on
- View PDF annotations
- Inclinometer
- Long MMS support
- Per app VPN
- Maps bookmark syncing
- Phone, FaceTime and Message blocking
- Smart download of TV episodes
- Notification sync
- Night mode for Maps
- WiFi HotSpot 2.0
- Scan to acquire Passbook passes
- Turn-by-turn walking directions
- FaceTime audio
- New smart Mailboxes
- Managed app configuration
- App Store Volume Purchase
- Tencent Weibo
- Chinese English bilingual dictionary
- Handwriting recognition for multiple Chinese characters
- Improved Mail search
- Streamline MDM enrollment
- Do Not Track option in Safari
- Italian, Korean and Dutch dictionaries
And we imagine that this is just a handful of the new features in iOS 7. Last year, Apple said that it added more than 200 new features in iOS 6, and this is a much bigger update. So we expect to see tons of new stuff pop up in the coming months.
Remember, this is just the first of what will likely be 4 or 5 beta releases before iOS 7 lands this fall. Also keep in mind that Apple typically saves one or two big features to announce alongside a new iPhone, which too is expected in fall.
iOS 7 is available for the iPhone in beta today. In the Fall, iOS 7 will be available on iPhone 4 and later, iPod touch 5th gen, iPad mini and iPad 2 and later.
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