iOS 9, like all major iOS updates, includes many enhancements to stock applications and integrates intelligence throughout the OS, especially on iPad, as well as improving stability, speed and battery life.
Keyboard
On i Pad, a two-finger drag on the keyboard moves the cursor freely like a traditional trackpad making positioning the cursor and selecting text easier. A shortcut bar has been added including cut, copy, paste, undo and redo.
When shift is inactive, lowercase letters are displayed, [ 5 ]instead of the all-caps representation on all previous iOS versions, although this can be disabled.
News
iOS 9 includes a new News app which displays news from sources such as The New York Times, CNN, Wired, and ESPNto bring one unified experience in the way users read, experience, and discover news. [ 6 ]Publishers use the Apple News Format to create rich, dynamic articles for iOS users, using beautiful typography, layout and full width imagery. The app has been compared to the popular app Flipboard, which also aggregates news in addition to social media posts. It has been discovered that the News application will also have support for RSS feeds from Safari.
News will be available in the US, UK, Australia and Turkey when iOS 9 is initially launched. [ 7 ]
Notes
The built-in Notes app has received a number of enhancements, including the ability to draw sketches with a number of different tools, including a ruler for straight lines. Images can also be added, and links to websites and Map locations get a more prominent, visual appearance when added to notes. Attachments including images, links, locations, documents and audio across all notes can be viewed in a single view from the notes list. Advanced formatting options including checked, bulleted, dashed and numbered lists can be added.
The iPhone 4S does not support the Sketch feature of the Notes application. [ 8 ]
Notes now sync using iCloud Drive, as opposed to the less secure IMAPsystem that Apple has used in past iterations of iOS. When a library has been updated to the new Notes format, devices that still use IMAP will no longer be able to view the upgraded notes. The new Notes format also syncs to any Mac on the same iCloud account running OS X 10.11or higher.[ citation needed]
Maps
Apple Mapsadds support for transit directions in Baltimore, Berlin, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, New York City, Paris, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Shanghai, Toronto, and Washington D.C., along with several other cities in China at launch, which will expand as Apple maps out more cities. [ 9 ]The iPhone 4S does not support the Transit feature.[ citation needed]The Maps app now also makes recommendations to points of interest, restaurants, etc. based on what time of day it is or the users' interests. Apple has claimed that information collected by iOS this way will not be shared with the company or third parties. There will also be an icon in the details view of a retailer to indicate that they support Apple Pay.
Multitasking
iOS 9 also adds a number features to the iPadto improve productivity. These include Slide Over, Split View, and Picture in Picture, for enhanced multitasking, similar to the experience found on OS X El Capitan. Slide Over allows the user to pull in a second app with a swipe from the right edge of the display. This app takes up the width of 33% of the screen size, and disables interactivity within the full screen app, which takes up 66% of the display, allowing users to perform quick tasks and then dismiss the app again. If the user taps on the handle next to the Slide Over window, or extends it further towards the left of the screen, the user enters Split View, which allows users to interact with two apps simultaneously side-by-side in a 50%/50% split. Users can switch to another app in either Slide Over mode or Split-Screen view by pulling down on the handle on top of either app and selecting another app from the list to replace the existing one. The Split-Screen Multitasking feature will only be available to iPad Air 2users at launch. However, the Slide Over feature will be available on the iPad Air, iPad Air 2, and iPad mini 2 and higher. [ 6 ] [ 10 ]The iPad 2, 3 and 4 will not receive any of these multitasking updates. [ 11 ]
Also, in iOS 9, launching apps while another is in use regardless of the source of redirection introduces a one-time back button that acts as a shortcut to the app previously in use. The said button is to be found replacing the default signal and telco icons, and also any other like the call-forwarding indicator on the left side of the Status bar. Once it has been used to go back to the previous app, it disappears and it is only available for use just once, unable to return to the original app if multiple app redirects have been done. Note too that if an app is launched from a widget like Launcher, the button will be available to let you, say, return to Safari even without user interaction through a notification banner or alert.
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