iOS 8, All The Little Things! [Features Discovered in iOS 8]

Siri dictation languages ...Anyone?

a feature that I wanted iBooks to have for a long time:
Books can now be categorized into series.

So good.

This thread is going to be a huge mess if the OP is not going to be keeping a list in the first post. Why even start it if you're not gonna do it??

Enquad said:

Siri dictation languages ...Anyone?

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The only languages under Siri seem to be Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.

Is the play all videos button back in videos? or something else to play videos back to back? My girlfriend really missed that from ios6.

so is there not a master list being compiled by someone? this is a useless thread without one.

SumYoungGai said:

Double tapping the home button and accessing the multitasking page (the one with contacts and apps) is extremely fast now.
So is going to an app from that screen.

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What about performance overall too?

I think the only way to find out the new languages with Siri dictation is to enable keyboards of those languages in the Settings. Can someone try Turkish for me, thanks !

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Some of the new features


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

SMIDG3T said:

What about performance overall too?

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pretty much like iOS 7

For the people who don't restart their phones very often...

"Touch ID requires your passcode ager 48 hours"

Just got that message. I was already annoyed about having to type it in every time I restart! I wish the passcode could be made optional when using Touch ID.

MosesOlsen said:

My number 1 feature made it! Hey, Siri! Can't believe nobody is talking about this.

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Unfortunately, only functions when the device is receiving a charge. Works for me since I have a solar case w/ batter backup!

in accessibility there is now Greyscale mode

Full screen picture

I know it's not the most exciting feature, but can a developer check if the full screen calling pictures are really back? They were shown during the demos and they are present on apple.com, but one person already said that he's still stuck with the circled photo.
Maybe you gotta add the picture again, straight from camera roll, or sync it with the Facebook app. So please could a developer check if they're really back?

spikie said:

I know it's not the most exciting feature, but can a developer check if the full screen calling pictures are really back? They were shown during the demos and they are present on apple.com, but one person already said that he's still stuck with the circled photo.
Maybe you gotta add the picture again, straight from camera roll, or sync it with the Facebook app. So please could a developer check if they're really back?

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It's not there, I tried everything.

Here is greyscale mode. If you take a screenshot, it does not show it as greyscale when you revert back to colour.

Any sign of a dark theme as seen in Yosemite?

SumYoungGai said:

New font!

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Wow huge improvement! Nice font selection

Stock weather app now uses the weather channel instead of yahoo

spikie said:

I know it's not the most exciting feature, but can a developer check if the full screen calling pictures are really back? They were shown during the demos and they are present on apple.com, but one person already said that he's still stuck with the circled photo.
Maybe you gotta add the picture again, straight from camera roll, or sync it with the Facebook app. So please could a developer check if they're really back?

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I have fullscreen photos on mine ios 7

Can someone look at the settings for Music under EQ? In iOS 7, exactly one setting, "Night Mode" is global, in other words it effects the EQ of the sound from *all* audio output, regardless of which app is producing it, whether the app is Spotify, or the built in music player, or anything at all. Do any of the other settings do this too now or are there any other new EQ features? I can't install the beta to find out.

swordfish5736 said:

Stock weather app now uses the weather channel instead of yahoo

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Should be about the same since Yahoo! used Weather Underground/The Weather Channel for its information.

jags828 said:

I have fullscreen photos on mine ios 7

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I'm talking about when someone calls you, not you calling them. They removed it in iOS 7.1, it was still full screen in iOS 7.0.*

Did they improve the music app on iOS? Hopefully they were able to being back some of the functions under iOS 6.

In the weather app, you now scroll down to see more information as opposed to tapping on the temperature as in iOS 7. I prefer how you do it in iOS 7. However, more days are available to see now.