those of us that end up with thousands of pictures in our Camera Rolls, Moments and Collections offer a better way to organise those photos. Just as iPhoto on the Mac can automatically break pictures into events, Photos on iOS can use metadata like time and location to create different "Moments" — all the pictures you took on Thursday at dinner, for example, or all the photographs you snapped while on that weekend trip to the country.
Collections are larger groupings of Moments — often all the photos you took in a general area (around your house) during a time period of often several months. Beyond that, you can zoom out even further to a Years view, which breaks down all the pictures you took in various years.
AirDrop in iOS 7 lets you exchange files like pictures, Passbook passes and contacts between two iOS users over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, without any configuration and (as Apple's Craig Federighi pointed out) without the need to walk around and "bump" phones with people. It will appear in the Share sheet, along with more conventional items like Mail and Messages; you can even use it to share multiple items to multiple people at once. Files end up right in the appropriate app and are encrypted during transmission. You can also change permissions to determine whether everybody can share with you, or only certain people nearby (or people in your contacts).
What we don't know is whether or not iOS devices will be able to AirDrop files back and forth with Macs.
Safari
Apple's web browser - which the company likes to point out is the most used browser for mobile devices - has some new tricks up its sleeve in i05 7. There's an entirely new minimalist interface; the search and URL fields have been merged into one, which will now suggest URLs, bookmarks and search results as you type. In addition, your favourites are quickly and easily available from that screen, allowing you one-touch access to your bookmarked sites. And the interface will disappear into the background as you scroll, giving you even more space with which to view your content.
A new tab interface lets you scroll more quickly through open pages (and continue scrolling down to iCloud Tabs); there are also the same continuous-scrolling Reading List and Shared Links features that will appear in OS X Mavericks. And iCloud Keychain, a new feature that syncs your passwords between your devices and even helps you generate new passwords, should work seamlessly with Safari.
iTunes Radio
Some have argued that iTunes Radio is basically Pandora (the popular US radio service), but that doesn't mean it won't be popular. As with Pandora, you can create stations based on a song, artist or genre, then rate the songs as you go along - in case you want to hear more like that track or nothing like it ever again. You can also control the balance of your stations, determining whether they're hit-heavy, favour new music discovery, or a mixture of the two. A history tab will give you a full list of all the songs you've listened to, just in case you can't remember the name of that track that had you tapping your toes.
But Apple's new streaming service has the additional benefit of being closely tied in with the rest of the iTunes ecosystem, meaning that you can easily buy songs from the iTunes Store, directly from within iTunes Radio. Apple hasn't yet confirmed when it will launch the iTunes Radio service in the UK.
Music
Most of the changes to the Music app are cosmetic, it seems, reflecting the new design aesthetic of iOS 7, Despite the extensive overhaul of iTunes on the Mac that Apple did last year, there didn't seem to be much crossover to 105 - or, if there is, Apple hasn't revealed it yet. In particular, there's no indication that iTunes 11's Up Next feature has jumped to Apple's mobile platform.
THE REST
Siri
We don't yet know whether Siri is out of beta. Apple's virtual assistant didn't get much screen time in the keynote, and what time it did have in the spotlight was relegated to discussing its new integration features, such as in-Siri results for Bing search, Wikipedia and Twitter, as well as some new control features for things like iTunes radio.
Siri's also got new, high-quality voices and a fancy new interface - though it doesn't yet have the live-transcription feature that Google recently showed off for its voice search offering.
Activation Lock
This is a system whereby a thief who attempts to disable Find My iPhone or wipe the phone won't be able to do so without entering your Apple ID and password. While dedicated hackers may still be able to find a way around it, the hope seems to be that Activation Lock is enough of a deterrent that thieves will think twice before stealing iPhones to sell.
iOS in the Car
At the moment, Apple says that a dozen car manufacturers, including Honda, Nissan and Jaguar, have signed on to provide support for the iOS in the Car initiative, which will allow drivers to use the screen in their car to access certain lOS features, including navigation, phone, and entertainment functions.
Other changes
Apple's Federighi limited himself to previewing just 10 new features at WWDC, but one of the final slides during the iOS 7 sneak peek hinted at many more changes - everything from system improvements to
developer APIs.
Macworld's Serenity Caldwell dug into some of the iOS 7 features Apple didn't talk about during its WWDC keynote, and that's a worthwhile read if you'd like greater depth on what Apple has planned for its mobile operating system.
What's missing
There are a few things we hoped iOS 7 would offer that it doesn't yet, For example, the Maps app has no public transport directions; Sin doesn't feature live transcription, a la Google's Voice search; Home screen organisation doesn't seem to have changed;
you can't apparently set third-party apps as defaults for tools like browsers or mail clients; there's no Up Next feature in iTunes; and mare. But hey, that just means there's room for improvement.
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