iOS 8 beta 3: Here’s what’s new

Apple seeded beta 3 of iOS 8 earlier today to registered developers of its iOS developer program. Apple unveiled iOS 8 last month with a number of new features like Handoff, custom keyboards, widgets, interactive notifications etc. Here’s what’s new in iOS 8 beta 3. 

• Handoff: There’s a new toggle for Handoff in Settings > General. You can enable it to seamlessly switch between your iPhone, iPad and Mac without interrupting your work flow.

• iCloud Drive: A new iCloud Drive welcome screen

• App Analytics: A new opt-in screen to allow iOS to share crash data and other analytics information with developers

• Wallpapers: New wallpapers added to iOS’ default wallpaper gallery

 

• QuickType: New toggle to enable or disable QuickType, iOS 8′s new keyboard feature that suggests words based on the current context

• Weather app: Minor tweaks to the Weather app’s design. Details at the bottom are now horizontally centred as opposed to the earlier design, where there were two columns.

• Wi-Fi Calling: iOS 8 beta 3 adds Wi-Fi calling to make phone calls over Wi-Fi. You’ll of course need carrier support for this, and T-Mobile is the first carrier to support Wi-Fi calling (hat tip Rabih):

• Notification Center: The Clear button has a new design:

• Find my iPhone: iOS 8 Beta 3 brings a new version of the Find my iPhone and Find my Friends app. Find My Friends now lets you move your friend list to an iCloud account.

• Photos: Shared Photo Streams are now simply called Shared Albums. Additionally, items in Recently Deleted now have a label showing the number of days after which the photo gets permanently deleted.

• Messages: There’s a new option in Messages to Automatically keep video and audio messages. By default, these messages are ephemeral in nature.

 

• The Assistive Touch menu now has options for Control Center and Notification Center.

• iBooks now combines books that are part of the same series.

• There’s finally a way to mute all notifications from an app with a single toggled called “Allow Notifications”. Previously, you had to switch off all types of notifications for an app to completely disable notifications.

• iOS 8 brought a new option to view battery consumption by app. Beta 2 now also lets you see how much battery your iPhone used when there was no network coverage.

• The Photos app has new albums for Bursts photos and Slo-Mo videos. This way, users can easily browse through their slo-mo videos or burst photos.