#8 Transit Directions
A company as big as Apple cannot afford to miss on anything. Apple Maps have been panned for being inaccurate and lacking features like transit directions. However, with iOS 9, at least one of the two complaints has been addressed. Apple Maps will give public transport information. A little relief.
#7 Enhanced Search
searching is one of the most important parts of our lives now. This time in iOS 9, siri Siri will offer a wider range of search topics and offer more answers. It will offer search suggestions including nearby places, frequently used apps and people and local news. It will also be able to search inside third-party apps. How cool is that. But wait, we already had that in android and google search, right?
#6 Keyboard shortcuts
Something that Android had from a very long time, iOS is introducing now. The new Quicktype keyboard in iOS 9 will sport a new toolbar that will feature new shortcut keys for cut, copy, paste and for adding files and photos and text formatting.
#5 News app
Come on, News app, seriously? This is one of the most used apps in every Android device. And now, Apple is killing its Newsstand app that helped user aggregate digital magazines and is replacing it with News app. The app will bring personalized content from different publishers and will make it look slick and interactive, full of transition effects and multimedia content.
#4 Picture In Picture
Another new one for Apple. Apple has also introduced a Picture in Picture feature letting users run videos on a small window while working on other apps.
#3 Low power mode
This is a necessity in every smartphone now and Apple has just realized it. iOS 9 comes with a Low Power mode that extends the battery backup of the iPhone by up to 3 hours. Of course it reduces performance and network activity and disables fetching of emails, background app refresh, transition effects and animated wallpapers, and reduces brightness. Android 5.0?? Anyone???
#2 Proactive Assistant
Another one from Android. Perhaps the biggest update that iOS 9 brings to the iPhone and iPad is 'intelligence,' part of which is the Proactive Assistant that offers contextual information based on your email, calendar and usage pattern. Google phones already have this.
#1 Split View
This was expected and pretty much on the cards. Apple also announce the much awaited split-screen feature called Split View, enabling iPad Air 2 users to simultaneously run two apps side by side and work on both of them at the same time.
