All notes are about stuff that's visible in the publicly accessible Apple.com screenshots and text
http://www.apple.com/ios/ios7/
http://www.apple.com/ios/ios7/design/
http://www.apple.com/ios/ios7/features/
https://developer.apple.com/ios7/
- One-swipe to open (vs unlock phone, double tap (or 4-finger swipe up) and swipe left in multitasking bar)
- Visible controls
- On/off switching for airplane mode
- wifi
- bluetooth
- DND
- screen lock
- brightness
- airplay
- flashlight
- alarms
- calculator
- camera
- On/off switching for airplane mode
- Contextual upcoming info display
- New "Missed" notifications tab
- Transparent blurred background
- No buttons in any of the screenshots - instead replaced with text
- Text looks colored when it is tappable, but different-colored when it is not
- Transparent blurred background
- Selected color matches the Nav Bar button colors
- Shows app screen (instead of just app icon)
- Implies State restoration will be important
- Update data and download content in the background without draining extra battery
- Updates can happen at opportunistic times and are intelligently scheduled according to usage
- "Because iOS 7 learns when you like to use your apps and can update your content before you launch them. So if you tend to check your favorite social app at 9:00 a.m. every day, your feed will be ready and waiting for you. That’s multitasking in iOS 7. It knows what you want to do before you do."
- "iOS schedules updates during power-efficient times. Like when your device is on and connected to Wi-Fi. So your battery isn’t drained unnecessarily."
- Zoom in/out animations between views
- dynamic motion controls in UIKit
- Looks like it is usable system-wide
- Peer-to-peer connection implies that there is a way for 2 devices to directly communicate now
- Custom UIAlertViews - in iOS6, you can't easily modify a UIAlertView
- "simply add an activity sheet, and peer-to-peer sharing is handled for you with no extra setup"
- "Wi-fi peer-to-peer technology you can connect multiple devices with no problems"
- "Enter AirDrop for iOS. It lets you quickly and easily share photos, videos, contacts — and anything else from any app with a Share button. Just tap Share, then select the person you want to share with. AirDrop does the rest using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. No setup required. And transfers are encrypted, so what you share is highly secure."
- Live filters
- New "Square" photo mode
- 60fps video capture so you can slow it down later
- barcode scanning built-in
- UIBar slides in/out
- Controls look like they slide out while you're reading
- New way to view open tabs
- Looks like there is only one search bar now - maybe for unified search/URL bar?
- More tabs in demo than is currently the default (9 is current default)
- New Siri interface
- Animated background, suggests that our apps might be able to do that too
- Completely full-screen interface - content sits on top and status bar text is an overlay instead of a bar that occludes the content
- Bounciness to message bubbles
- Message bubbles exist below the keyboard
- New keyboard style
- Same zoom in/out interface that appears in the Photos app - again, suggests that we'll be able to do that too
- Emphasis on Full Screen
- develop 2D games easily
- animate sprites, simulate physics, and create particle systems
- use game controllers
- Game Center support for turn-based-games and leaderboards, authenticate players, securely transmit game scores and achievements
- low-powered, low-cost transmitters that can notify nearby iOS7 devices of their presence.
- inter-app audio
- directions API
- map rotations in 3D
- more control of overlays