9: A New Font
From Helvetica to the new San Francisco, Apple has introduced a new font to their products and to the font market. As always, Apple knows how to please their users; this time with a soothing & well-curved font!
8: Photo Search
With an increased functionality search on photos, you can now search by location orrrrr date. I do wish there were a way to add tags to photos though so that I could just search based on tags that I set as well.
7: Siri Nearby
There’s an new addition to the search page on the home screen (the leftmost page on your home screen that you didn’t create): the nearby list!
Even though it’s just a convenience thing, but now Siri will tell you quickly what location options are near you. Of course, we’re talking about Apple here so their four options that’d they present you with are somehow dependent on what time of day it is and maybe even where you’ve just been. Slightly creepy…but mostly helpful.
Side note: I would prefer there be a way to switch the default mapping app to whatever you want (*cough*Google Maps*cough*) instead of defaulting to Apple Maps…which we all know is SUCH a winner.
6: AutoFill Password
So I noticed this pretty cool, but totally random feature that pops up when you go to create a new account for something. I believe it’s based on the passwords that you have saved in your iCloud Keychain, but when the system asks you to select a password, an autofill password option shows and lets you select passwords that you use for other sites.
5: Split Screen
Unfortunately, this update is only really applicable to iPad users….but let’s be real. iPhones don’t exactly have the screen real estate for this luxury.
Now with this OS upgrade, iPad users can split their screens to multitask. However, I’d advise you not get too excited about this, considering that it’s just a temporary overlay of your second app. You can’t actually have both open consistently and use both. Baby steps though, I guess. Maybe iOS 10 will enhance the “multitasking” feature to actually allow multitasking.
It’s also currently limited to a selection of stock apps, which isn’t ideal. But as I said, there will always be another update!
4: The Scheduled Reminders
There’s now a new, automatically generated list in the Reminders app. With this Scheduled list, the OS takes all the reminders that have due dates on them, consolidates them to one list, and organizes it by date. This way, if you use different lists as a categorization, but still utilize the due dates, you won’t have to go through each list to see if something is due today.
Honestly, I use the scheduled reminders for my bill paying: gotta keep dat credit score high (especially if I want to keep shopping) 🙂
3: Siri Suggestions
As of iOS 8, Siri started displaying the last four people you had contacted as a quick contact sort of thing when you would double-click the home button (shown with the app switcher).
Now with iOS 9, Siri made this more available by adding it to the search screen off the home page. By default it will show the last four people, but you can click Show More to extend the list to 8. In addition to showing contacts, it also shows the last four (or eight) apps that you’ve opens. In my opinion, that’s super helpful…way better than using the app-switcher.
And, as you can see, just like in the previous iOS, you can click on a contact to choose what to do: call, text, or see details.
2: Back to Previous App
Ok–definitely a huge, huge improvement that’s immediately noticeable is the Back to Previous App addition. So now if you get a notification while you’re in app A and you tap it to go to app B, you’ll have an option in the top left corner to go back to app A. Massively helpful and convenient feature.
So, when I click on a link in my email (I use the Inbox app), it’ll open in Google Chrome, but that little arrow and button pops up on the top-left and gives me the option to return back to Inbox.
1: Battery Life
Best thing about the new iOS 9 is the battery life hands down. It’s a significant improvement that is obvious from the first use.
Seriously, the first day that I downloaded this, I was concerned because I thought there was a bug that wasn’t displaying my remaining battery percentage correctly….turns out it was just the better battery.
And all of these improvements make me a happy iUser 🙂
So, download the new iOS and enjoy all these new features that I’ve been enjoying!
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