Hey what's up everybody this is Dom and today we're checking out the top 10
hidden features
iOS 8. Now these are ones that are hard to find
or Apple didn't announce and I wanted to share my top 10 favorites with you.
And if you're not already feel free to subscribe to this channel for more
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But let's go ahead and get started with the top 10 hidden features
iOS 8. So in order to check out the first one we are going to hop into the Photos app
here and in the bottom corner as you can see we have the share button which is
nothing new,
but if we launch our share sheet there's actually a hidden feature available
right in here.
So you can see we have Airdrop and social sharing options and other options
at the bottom,
but we can actually rearrange the icons now so if you tap and hold on them
you can drag them to any specific location that you want in any
order that you would like and you can customize it to your liking
now if you swipe over here to the side you can see that we have this more button
right here,
and every tap on that also gives us the ability to rearrange these icons
and turn them on or off of so if you don't want Facebook to show up there you can
disable that
and it well be gone just and you can go ahead renenable the options that you
would like
in the same goes for the bottom area down here as well you can rearrange
these
just by tapping and holding and dragging them but you cannot drag them up to the
top area
now we also do have a more section here and that will allow us to rearrange
those icons as well
but this is also where third-party application support will show up when that
is ready
when I was it launches later this year so a cool feature here for share sheets
in iOS 8
Now moving along we are jumping into the camera app where you can see the little timer
icon
up here at the top and that will allow us to use the self timer that's available
here so
we can set an interval by tapping on where the second options up there
at the top and once we've done that we can go ahead and snap
our photo and it will count down in quickly take a burst
of 11 shots in this case, that may change in the future though
and as you can see we've taken our burst shot with the self-timer
so you have different second intervals and maybe those will change again
in the future as well we don't know until the final release is available but
it's a pretty cool feature to have i think is very handy and could be very
useful to some people
also in the camera app here we have the ability to shoot
time-lapse videos to go to the time lapse section here on the iPhone
press the red record button and with all my fingers out here in front of the
camera
we can go ahead and create a time-lapse video any will play this back super fast
so if we tap on stop
and we go into the gallery here we can play that video and as you can see
we have a nice little time lapse video right here from the iPhone
which will be pretty cool to capture some special time lapse moments in the
future and I look forward to trying that out more. Coming up next year we are hopping
out at the camera app and jumping into the setting the app we are going to
check out some
accessibility settings so be hop in the General Settings and tap on
accessibility
the first thing that you'll see here is the ability to grayscale the entire user
interface
here in iOS 8 so if we turn on that button as you can see
everything has been grayscaled and this can be useful
if it helps you see the user interface better so they give you that
option right here inside iOS 8 and of course if you disable it everything turns back
to normal immediately
and it works pretty well in my opinion so you got a nice little grayscale look
going on
move along here our next hidden feature is available in the zoom options that
we've seen in the past but we have
further expansion up the zoom feature here in iOS 8
So as you can see when we turn that on we have this little magnifying
glass that
we can reposition on the screen and we have several options like increasing the
magnification
and adjusting some of the other settings pertaining to this little magnifying
glass
so it's pretty cool basically when you scroll over something it was zooming in
on that specific portion of the screen
and you also have the ability to enlarge this little magnifying glass if I can
can I get that working right here
it is a beta so bear with me but all we have to do is drag along the edges here
and we can resize that little magnifying glass
to fit which ever portion of the screen that we'd like and
when we scroll over something that maybe is hard to read this will help you see
that better so
moving along we are jumping at the settings here and going into Safari
where you can see the I have the mobile version
of YouTube pulled up and we can actually request
the desktop version at the site now so all have to do is tap on the address bar up
here
and swipe down and you'll see that request desktop site option available
and if you tap on that it'll do exactly what you think pull up the desktop
version
of any given website that you have entered in in that address bar
so I very useful feature if you're getting tired using the mobile version
of website
or you're missing some features that are only available on the desktop version
the website you can easily access that
just like you can in other web browsers like Chrome. Next up we are checking out
Shazam integration with Siri and this will allow you to quickly identify songs that
are playing in the background or maybe something you're listening to you
and you can hold down Sir and ask Siri what song this is
and while a song is playing Siri will be listening and respond to you with the
answer to your question as you can see right here we pulled up a song
and we have the ability to buy it right in iTunes
from Siri so a very cool feature with Shazam
integration iOS 8. For the next feature we are jumping back into the camera app
where you will find the ability to manually adjust
exposure after you've set your focus which is a huge thing in my opinion I
can't believe it's taken this long to get in iOS, but
at least we have it now. So you can tap to set your focus
and then you can adjust your exposure accordingly by swiping up
or down on the screen after the focus has been set
it just that easy but it will give you a better way to
adjust the focus and take the perfect picture every time
Thank you Apple for putting this in the camera app I am so grateful at this
point but
kinda sad it took this long to get here. So for our second to last feature in
this roundup we are going into the Settings app specifically into General
Settings and then tapping on
Usage down there at the bottom now we have the ability to view battery usage
based on specific apps so it will give you a percentage here
iOS 8 and tell you which apps are eating
the most battery life and it was sort them just like that
as you can see in percentages from highest to lowest and you can sort them
based on last 24 hours
or the last seven days to get a better idea on
how your battery is performing in accordance with the apps that are
currently running on your device so it is a very cool feature,
kinda something that's a no brainer it's been on Android all along, but
I guess Apple finally got together and put it here in iOS 8
for us to keep track of how our apps are using our battery life so for our
final feature in the hidden features roundup we are jumping into messages
settings
where we have the ability to save a little bit of space on our device so we
had the store messages option down here at the bottom
and currently it is set to forever.. now this setting will specify to iOS 8
how long it needs to keep your messages so anything that you have stored in the
Messages app
you can switch between forever, 30 days or one year and depending on how long
you have selected in here and I will depend on how long I iOS is going to
keep messages, so if a message is
older than 30 days and we have thirty day selected it will automatically
delete those messages which is a very cool feature. So I hope you enjoyed the
video I enjoy making for you and that was my look at the top 10 hidden
features
found in iOS 8
if you enjoyed it and subscribe for more videos like this
in the future thanks again for watching everybody this is Dom
and have a great day
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