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now iOS 8 of course builds on the design of iOS 7 with enhancements for both iPhone and iPad let's start with the phone now in iOS 8 we've refined Notification Center but what I really love our new interactive notifications so now if you get a message like this just pull down and you can reply right where you are you don't have to leave the app you're in and this works for all kinds of notifications if you get a calendar event for instance just pull down and respond and it works on the lock screen so you can just swipe across in the lock screen you get those action buttons tap and you've dealt with it right there now in iOS 7 we gave you quick double path access to get at your most recent apps well now you can also use that same double tap to get at the people you communicate with most frequently it's really handy if I tap on one I've controls here to give them a phone call mess I message them or even FaceTime right here with just a double tap on the home button so let's talk about spotlight now of course spotlights super convenient way to search in your device you just pull down when on your home screen and you can execute these searches and find things like launching apps or find an email message but now with those same things we showed you in Yosemite with spotlight suggestions you can get it so much more you can search for apps and find matches of apps that you don't yet have on the App Store you can search for points of interest and get Wikipedia entries and directions you can search for news search for restaurants songs not just in your own library but also on iTunes and when you search for a movie you can get results both for theaters nearby as well as content available for streaming and when you search inside of safari in addition to your great google search suggestions you can also get a suggest at a glance for the answer you're looking for right from spotlight suggestions so that is the new spotlight next the keyboard and the technology we call quick type 0 so prior to iPhone this was the state-of-the-art in smartphone typing but iphone changed all of that with the introduction of touch and we've been able to do so much more like access to special characters are alternate character sets special keyboard layouts even handwriting and dictation but underlying it all have been the language models under autocorrect well now in iOS 8 quick type supports predictive typing suggestions so as you type you get suggestions for the next words you might want to type and you can tap things out faster than ever before and it's incredibly smart so its context sensitive for instance in messages if someone asks you do you want to go for dinner or a movie it's going to suggest dinner or a movie and it's personalized it learns how you type to different people in different apps so maybe you're communicating with a co-worker and it's going to say well the meeting was canceled rescheduled move these are kind of formal terms but now if you're communicating with someone else where you have a different communication style you might get the meeting was epic awesome or a snoozer because it learns how you type and when it does it does so in a way that's always protecting your privacy all that learning is done local to the device and none of your keystrokes leave the device now quick type has great language models but all of these lands next of course continuity you get all the great continuity features so now on your iPad you can pick up where you left off on your iPhone you can set up an instant hot spot with no configuration on your iPad you can receive your messages on your iPad and when you receive a call from someone going like this you can pick it up right on your iPad it's really great and that's continuity next up messages so messages is the most frequently used app on iOS and an iOS 8 it's better than ever so when it comes to group messaging we have some great enhancements you can now name your threads you can add or remove people from a conversation underway and if you've ever been on one of those noisy threads that just keeps buzzing in your pocket what you can do not disturb on a per thread level and you can choose when to leave the thread this is pretty important now you also can share your location with people in a conversation and if they've shared their location with you you can see it from right within side messages and you also have a really great at a glance view of all of the pictures and attachments that are shared on any thread but one feature that I really love is our new tap to talk you just hold your finger down on the microphone button and then you can just swipe up when your finger when you're done talking and send what you said and it's really great for video messaging as well jaws we've got a serious situation developing back here I can't control this dealer work right I got to do something I'm not just gonna need your eyes more time