The iPhone and iPad are amazing tools for lawyers because they are relatively easy to use, but are also incredibly powerful. But as lawyers (and others) start to master the basics of iOS, they often start to want more powerful features. Every year, Apple adds more advanced features to iOS, and now it is hard to imagine that there was a time when we didn’t have third party apps, copy and paste, or even Siri. But based on the announcements made by Apple yesterday, when iOS 8 comes out this Fall, Apple will make huge advancements to the operating system, with lots of advanced features for power users and lots of ways to make iPhones and iPads more powerful for everyone. Apple announced a huge number of new features yesterday and I won’t even try to mention all of them today — not only because there are so many of them, but also because many of the features have so much potential that it is going to take a while for their importance to really sink in. Moreover, Apple only gave us a taste of the highlights of iOS 8, and I’m sure that when it is actually released in a few months there will be even more surprises. For all of those reasons, today’s post provides only a few of the reasons that I am confident that lawyers are going to love iOS 8.
For many lawyers, Mail is the app that you use the most on your iPhone and iPad. Mail will see some great improvements in iOS 8. First, you know how you start to compose a an email message and then realize that you need to check something in another message to add to your email? Currently, your only option is to cancel out of the current email (although you can save a draft). But in iOS 8, you can simply swipe down to move the current draft of your email to the very bottom of the screen, then use the Mail app to find whatever you were looking for, then bring that draft right back up again to work on it more. What a great and useful feature.
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