Every fall Apple updates the iOS operating system, giving Apple's customer base of over 1 billion iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch owners the ability to get free new tools — even without having to buy a new device.
The highlight of iOS 9 is a new News app, on the front page of your iOS device, offering news stories with bigger fonts and a better display.
Apple calls the News app a “new mobile reading experience,” and features many publisher partners, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CNN, Buzzfeed and the Guardian.
For now, even sites that are behind a paywall, like theTimes and Wall Street Journal, have tons of free content available. Ironically, the old IOS Newstand app, which still resides on the front page of IOS devices, still has the NYT in there. But readers there can only read 10 articles monthly for free.
Other additions:
—Wallet. The home for Apple Pay has a new look on the front page, with a black border, but otherwise, nothing has changed.
— A new way to search. Instead of swiping down to get to the search bar, you can also swipe left, and can do more than just look for stuff on your iOS device.
Search has been expanded now to also include web searches "and even see suggestions before you start typing,” according to Apple.
A search for president Barack Obama brought up his Wikipedia page, while typing the letters CH brought up my Chipotle app. (Apple must know I access it all the time.)
“Calif” got me a listing for a nearby California Pizza Kitchen, and “All About” got to me Meghan Trainor’s “All About that Bass,” song via my Apple Music subscription.
One other new feature to look for: the “Notes,” app has new tools. Beyond just jotting down quick ideas, you can also add photos, either by taking a picture with the iOS camera, or from the Camera Roll, or drawing into the note itself.
Fun stuff.
The new iOS so far seems as advertised: smaller in scope, with enough fun new features to warrant an upgrade.
Hopefully that will remain the same as we use it more often over the rest of the week.
The new iPhone 6S and 6S Plus goes on sale Friday, September 25th.
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