IOS 9 arrives today with proactive features and iPad multitasking

Best practices for early and ongoing testing and monitoring of iOS 9 apps, including how to build automated functional testing into the build cycle.

You may also replace your gadget by way of iTunes by connecting it with your PC or Mac.

In anticipation of iOS 9, a bunch of new apps are already available in the app store that take advantage of these updated features, 9to5Mac reports. We’ve combed through the update to find the biggest changes that you need to know.

Apple has additionally determined to take on Flipboard and Google’s Play Newsstand to launch its personal News app to present personalised content material to customers with iOS 9.

Meanwhile, iOS 8’s adoption was pegged at 91 percent on September 14 by mobile analytics firm Mixpanel, which bases its figures on mobile app usage.

A Wall Street Journal report has tried to explore Apple’s plan to deliver a smarter iOS 9 without laying hands on user data. If you’re reading a movie review in the new News app, now you can look up movie times in Safari simultaneously.

Testing intelligent search features, including “a more advanced Siri” with enhanced voice control and intelligent suggestions. One neat function of the Maps app is that it’ll present “multi-modal routing”; this function will, for instance, present if a single station permits passengers to change from buses to inter-metropolis trains to metro trains. On an iPad Air 2 or iPad Pro, you can have two full-sized apps on screen in landscape mode: Split View, as it’s called, will let you have, for example, a browser next to a Word document. It only works in Apple apps like Mail, Safari and Messages. Tim Cook says, Apple doesn’t want your data unlike firms that are “gobbling up everything they can learn about you and trying to monetize it. We think that’s wrong”. And even when I typed “potato”, it pulled up recipes Yummly’s website rather than the app. That’s likely because the software isn’t finalized yet – I’m expecting this feature to work much better when the final version launches in the fall.

Apple is catching up to Android in this regard, since Google Now has been able to offer contextual information for quite some time now. But there are other additions that contribute to this as well.

Additionally, a new Low Power option makes it possible to get another three hours of life. There’s a new app switcher that makes it easy to flip between your recently used apps quicker.

Those are just a few of the subtle yet useful features you’ll find sprinkled throughout iOS 9. To ensure existing applications continue to run without interruption for the millions of users who will transition to the latest OS, Keynote provides day one iOS 9 testing capabilities, allowing developers and QA engineers to test apps on both the new operating system and new devices. If one thing is clear, it’s that Apple focused on making your iPhone and iPad more productive with its latest software update.