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back at WWDC Apple announced the largest iOS update ever iOS 8 and earlier today it went live to the public so what does it entail I'm Taylor Martin this is pocket now and here is our iOS 8 hands on back in June Apple announced its latest version of iOS iOS 8 we quickly downloaded the Developer Preview and gave you an in-depth hands-on showing all the new features what changed and what didn't now iOS 8 has gone through several beta stages hit the gold master release and now just two days before iphone 6 day has been officially released to the public we're going hands-on once more to see what the official update is all about to see how its improved and to explore all the features that work live before the very first thing i noticed that has changed since beta 1 is the appearance of control center its appearance has been even further flattened it's cleaner and it's brighter than before that as well as some other visual changes were introduced throughout the various beta releases such as a toggle for predictive text suggestions in the keyboard settings the tips app and a few other odds and ends in other words the UI has barely changed at all since beta 1 and also since iOS 7 the brunt of the changes are behind the scenes but that doesn't mean they're small meaningless features quite the contrary possibly one of the biggest updates is for soft keyboards Apple updated its own iOS keyboard with intelligent predictive text not only will it learn the way you type over time it will learn how you talk with different people as well it's sort of contextually aware and it adapts to you but if you don't like the stock keyboard iOS 8 brings a long desired ability to install third-party keyboards and that's finally live today for the public popular Android keyboards like swype minumum and flexi are already available and SwiftKey should be available later today hopefully by the time this video is uploaded simply head over to the keyboard settings select add new keyboard and choose any third-party keyboards you have installed when typing tap the globe to switch between all activated keyboards this update was huge for third-party developers not only for keyboard options but for sharing as well this was a feature we discussed in our first hands-on video but it wasn't live yet now from within any application which uses the native iOS sharing menu you can share to any third party applications that support sharing for instance you can save articles directly to pocket or evernote straight from safari this is a huge step forward for the platform and users alike thanks to the extensibility api's third-party widgets can now be added to the today view in Notification Center as well simply pull down the shade scroll to the bottom and tap edit any third-party apps with widgets can easily be added and rearranged I've added Yahoo weather Evernote in day one widgets we're sure more will begin to pop up over the coming weeks and months in Notification Center items can quickly be deleted individually by swiping them to the left you can also swipe messages and emails to the left to reply instantly without leaving the app you're in or you can pull down on a better notification to do the same these are what Apple calls actionable notifications continuity was also one of the cooler features announced at WWDC start typing a message on your phone and finish it from the iPad this aptly named hand all feature is baked into this release of iOS 8 but it's not fully functioning and it won't be until Yosemite is released for mac so no SMS on the iPad until October spotlight in Syria also have new tricks up their sleeve both are powered by bing and spotlight will now provide cards of information when you begin to type like near I events movies playing Wikipedia articles etc and Siri can now provide song information using Shazam's music recognition service and it can be activated hands-free from stand by using the hey Siri command so long as your iOS device is plugged in and charging the last major iOS 8 feature we're going to cover here is a built-in photo editor in the Photos app it comes with several different filters and options to tweak your photos it takes a lot from iPhoto and it reminds us a little bit of Snapseed we'll just say we're mighty impressed with how powerful this editor is all remaining pretty lightweight other great features can be found throughout iOS 8 it's a huge update that brings a ton of much needed change in improvements to an operating system that was otherwise growing very long in the tooth things like better usage by app third-party touch ID support health kit family sharing and the shortcut to favorite in recent contacts in the recent apps menu are all welcome changes we just can't wait to try out these new features on bigger hardware everyone thanks for watching if you enjoyed this video and found it helpful be sure to help us out and let us know by clicking the thumbs up button below and subscribing to the channel you can find us around the web on twitter facebook and google+ at pocket now I'm Taylor Martin Casper tech on Twitter and I will see you next time