iOS 7

This update features a beautiful new design and also contains hundreds of new features, including the following:

• •    New design

•                 ◦    Redesigned interface updates the entire system and every built-in app

•                 ◦    Subtle motion and animation; layers and translucency provide depth

•                 ◦    Elegant new color palette and refined typography

•                 ◦    Updated system sounds and ringtones

• •    Control Center

•                 ◦    Quick access to commonly used controls and apps with a swipe up from the bottom of the screen

•                 ◦    Turn on & off Airplane Mode, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Do Not Disturb; adjust screen brightness; access media controls; turn on AirPlay and AirDrop

•                 ◦    Quickly access flashlight, timer, calculator, camera and music controls

• •    Notification Center improvements

•                 ◦    New Today view gives you an overview of your day, including weather, calendar, and stocks

•                 ◦    Notifications dismissed on one device dismisses across all your devices

• •    Multitasking improvements

•                 ◦    Preview screens of open apps when you switch between them

•                 ◦    Permits any app to keep content up-to-date in the background

• •    Camera improvements

•                 ◦    Swipe through different camera modes – video, still photo, square aspect, and panorama

•                 ◦    Real-time photo filters with iPhone 4S or later, and iPod touch (5th generation)

• •    Photos improvements

•                 ◦    Automatically organizes your photos and videos based on time and location into Moments

•                 ◦    iCloud Photo Sharing supports multiple contributors and videos, plus a new Activity view

•                 ◦    Add photo filter effects

•                 ◦    Flickr and Vimeo support

• •    AirDrop

•                 ◦    Quickly and easily share content with people nearby

•                 ◦    Securely encrypted transfers with no network or setup required

•                 ◦    Supported on iPhone 5, iPad (4th generation), iPad mini, and iPod touch (5th generation) and requires an iCloud account

• •    Safari improvements

•                 ◦    New iPhone tab view that lets you easily switch between open web pages

•                 ◦    Unified smart search field for both search terms and web addresses

•                 ◦    Shared Links shows web pages shared by people you follow on Twitter

• •    iTunes Radio

•                 ◦    Streaming radio service

•                 ◦    Pick from over 250 featured and genre-focused stations

•                 ◦    Start your own station from your favorite artist or song

• •    Siri improvements

•                 ◦    New, more natural sounding male and female voices for US English, French and German

•                 ◦    Integrated Wikipedia, Twitter search, and Bing web search results

•                 ◦    Change settings including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and brightness

•                 ◦    Supported on iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPad with Retina display, iPad mini, and iPod touch (5th generation)

• •    App Store improvements

•                 ◦    See apps relevant to your current location with Popular Near Me

•                 ◦    Discover age-appropriate apps in the Kids category

•                 ◦    Keep your apps up to date automatically

• •    Find My iPhone Activation Lock

•                 ◦    Turning off Find My iPhone, erasing your device, reactivation, and signing out of iCloud requires your Apple ID password

•                 ◦    A custom message can be displayed on your device even after a remote erase

• •    iTunes Store improvements

•                 ◦    Preview and buy songs you've heard on iTunes Radio while inside the iTunes Store

•                 ◦    Add to, and shop from, your iTunes Wish List

•                 ◦    Scan code with camera to redeem iTunes Gift Cards

• •    Music improvements

•                 ◦    Play music purchases from iCloud

•                 ◦    Rotate your iPhone or iPod touch to browse your music with the Album Wall

• •    Videos improvements

•                 ◦    Play movie and TV show purchases from iCloud

•                 ◦    View similar movies and TV shows from Related

• •    Maps improvements

•                 ◦    Turn-by-turn walking directions

•                 ◦    Automatic night mode

•                 ◦    Bookmarks shared across devices via iCloud

• •    Mail improvements

•                 ◦    New Smart Mailboxes, including Unread, Attachments, All Drafts and To or CC

•                 ◦    Improved search

•                 ◦    View PDF annotations

• •    FaceTime audio calling

• •    Block unwanted Phone, Messages and FaceTime callers

• •    Support for sending long MMS messages

• •    Pull down on any Home Screen to reveal Spotlight search

• •    Scan to acquire Passbook passes

• •    New ringtones, alarms, alerts and system sounds

• •    Definitions of a selected word for additional languages: Italian, Korean, and Dutch

• •    Inclinometer in the Compass app

• •    Wi-Fi HotSpot 2.0 support

• •    Accessibility features

•                 ◦    Individuals with limited physical motor skills can now control their device using Switch Control

•                 ◦    Customize closed caption style

•                 ◦    Handwriting input support in VoiceOver

•                 ◦    Math input support using Nemeth Braille in VoiceOver

•                 ◦    Select from multiple premium voices for speak selection and VoiceOver

•                 ◦    Support for Made for iPhone Hearing Aids and stereo audio for iPhone 5 and iPod touch (5th generation)

• •    Enterprise features

•                 ◦    Manage which apps and accounts are used to open documents and attachments

•                 ◦    Per App VPN

•                 ◦    App Store license management

•                 ◦    Enterprise single sign-on

•                 ◦    Remote configuration of managed apps

•                 ◦    Automatic data protection for third-party apps

•                 ◦    Exchange Notes syncing

•                 ◦    Install custom fonts

•                 ◦    New management queries and restrictions

• •    Education features

•                 ◦    Mobile device management for Apple TV

•                 ◦    Request AirPlay Mirroring from a student device to Apple TV

•                 ◦    Pre-configure AirPlay destinations and AirPrint printers

•                 ◦    Streamlined MDM enrollment

•                 ◦    Ability to restrict changes to accounts

•                 ◦    Web content filtering

•                 ◦    Authorized apps can initiate single app mode

•                 ◦    Configure accessibility settings for single app mode

• •    Features for China

•                 ◦    Tencent Weibo integration

•                 ◦    Chinese-English bilingual dictionary

•                 ◦    Improved handwriting input with improved accuracy, stroke order independence and support for simultaneous multiple character input

• •    Bug fixes

Some features may not be available for all countries or all areas.

For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website:   

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222