What has your phone done for you lately? Besides keeping us connected, entertained and informed, we expect our phones to talk to us, answer questions, give directions, make movies and tell us when our next appointment is. Who needs a secretary when you have Siri? Well if you weren’t happy with all the things your phone did for you last week, hold onto your iPhones, because the iOS 7 update is here.
I had been hearing about iOS 7 on the news and in my classrooms for the last few weeks, knowing nothing about it, and thinking it was something for the computer techs of the world, I just ignored all the chatter. I’m not an expert on anything technical; however, I do love an update. Who doesn’t like getting a new phone and playing with it for hours? iOS 7 has given its iPhone users that very experience.
With an all new design that is still familiar to its users, Apple is calling this an upgrade you won’t know how you lived without. One of the more noticeable changes is a control center that gives you quick access to your W-Fi, calculator, Bluetooth, camera, music and more.
There is also a pull down screen now that tells you your daily plans, current weather, and alerts. My favorite new thing is if someone sends you a date in a text, it is now highlighted, like a website would be, so you can put it directly in your calendar. There’s no shortage of cool new short-cuts and easier access.
This update didn’t leave out many areas of your iPhone. You can now take panoramic pictures, and as you move left or right while filming, it will tell you to slow down as it is capturing your image. In addition to giving you more fun filters to play with, there is now a better way to organize your photos. Grouping them in years and creating categories within those years, will allow you to easily find that one picture from your camping trip last June.
Well now that I’ll be able to pull up the exact photo I was looking for, take panoramic pictures and can turn my Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on in the same place, I’m a happy girl again. God knows I was getting ready to contact someone about those problems.
While I love an update and all the fun new things, the few seconds this much talked about new update will save me, will be used up with learning how to work my phone again.
