iPad All-in-One For Dummies. Nancy C. Muir

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      ✔ Family Sharing: Apple has provided a new feature called Family Sharing with iOS 8. This feature allows up to six people to partake of purchased iTunes content on their separate devices. You can also create a Family calendar that helps everybody in the family create and view upcoming family events.

      ✔ Continuity: This concept, enhanced in iOS 8, allows you to move from one iOS device to another to pick up where you left off using a feature called Handoff. For example, you might start to watch a TV show on your iPhone on the train but then pick up where you left off viewing the show on your iPad when you get home. You can even hand off a document or email and start where you left off on another device, as well as have text messages and phone calls ring through from your iPhone to your iPad or Mac.

      ✔ Improved Notification Center: Notification Center is a centralized location for reviewing things like calendar appointments, messages, and weather, With iOS 8, you can interact with notifications from the center, for example, replying to a message listed there. The new Today view lets you display your choice of notification types on both the Home and Lock screen.

      ✔ Mail Improvements: In iOS 8, you can access other email messages while composing a new message. You’ll now be prompted to add a phone number or flight number mentioned in an email to your Calendar app. You can also flag or mark email by simply swiping across the screen to access those commands.

      ✔ Quick Type for iPad Keyboard: Now the iPad onscreen keyboard uses predictive technology to suggest words as you type. The keyboard also notes whether you’re typing an email or message and makes suggestions based on the tone of voice each type of message calls for.

      ✔ Improvements to the Photos App: To help you organize your photos, in iOS 8 you can now store your photos in iCloud and download them when you want to view them via your iCloud Photo Library. Photos or videos can also be shared among up to six people’s devices using Family Sharing. There are also several improved tools for editing photos in iOS 8.

      ✔ Shazam: Shazam is a music identifier service that has been integrated into Siri to identify songs and other media as they play around you.

      ✔ Messaging: The Messages app has some improvements. For example, you can name group messages by swiping down in the Details screen to access the hidden group name setting, and remove people from conversations. You can also set up a Do Not Disturb feature for certain threads so that you’re not interrupted by messages on those threads, and you can record and send voice messages.

      ✔ Siri Hands-Free: If you are driving or otherwise occupied and want help from Siri, such as getting directions or to send a message, you can use a new feature to open Siri without touching your iPhone – as long as it is connected to a power source. With this feature enabled, all you have to do is say “Hey, Siri,” and your electronic personal assistant opens, ready to hear your wish, which is, of course, Siri’s command.

      ✔ Instant Hotspot: You’ve been able to use your iPhone as a hotspot in the past, essentially using your iPhone connection to get other devices online. With iOS 8, this personal hotspot is improved; nearby devices such as a computer now automatically display the iPhone as an optional network that you can join to go online.