How the IOS app development have changed from IOS1 to IOS14

Akshay Nanjunda
6 min readJul 21, 2021

Apple has been the game changer in the mobile phones industry from the day they were found The revenue that they get every year is a record even after the 13 years of their establishment The fact that they have remained the top runners is because of the standard of the apps that they offer and also the frequent update with the operating system that has kept the users interested There are a number of updates that has been released by the apple for the operating system there are 13 of them and each of the update has brought the upgradation in the feature of the operating system and also the apps that are uploaded in the app store We will take a look at all of operating system from IOS1 to IOS13 one by one and the updgradation that they brought to the smartphone and the apps below

IPhone OS 1

It was 2007 june 29th the first generation iphone was released they operating system was not named as IOS at that time and the operating system in the first release of the iphone was the breakthrough for the Apple

Key features

The features that was introduced with the iphone was class apart they had the multi touch screen,voice mails,maps and the itunes which was the stand out at that time

Iphone OS2

The 2008 was the year the OS2 was released and they released the update since the iphone had seen the huge hit by that time and was the on demand The version 2 of the operating system was released along with the iphone 2 the smart phone that had the 3g capabalitiy and were compatible with all the devices that were released at that time One of the major update during the release was the IOS SDK for made opern source where it was available for the best IOS app development companies in dubai or around the world to start developing the apps for IOS

Key features

The biggest update was the app store that had more than 500 apps and this update already came in for the second version of the operating system The feature that was also included was the podcast and maps that provided the directions

Iphone OS 3

The major change for that was introduced along with this version is the loopholes existed with the previous versions were removed and a bunch of updates and the features were added

Key features

The features also were again considered as the game changers push notifications was introduced, usb,bluetooth tethering were some of the features that were introduced along with the operating system update

IOS 4

June 21 2010 was when the iphone Os was named as the IOS and also came the launch of iphone 4 and it supported only the iphone and ipod for the first time and the bigger update was the users were able to multitask in the ios 4 version

Key features

Multitasking,facetime video chat,home screen folders,ibooks,airprint,airplay.retina display were some among the amazing features that came along IOS 4

IOS 5

October,2011, with the Thor’s hammer which apple used for permanent and sizable market share and there was ICloud where the iphone or the IOS capitalized rising trend of the cloud computing

Key features

IOS 5 was again a game changer or can be the one with lot of surprises where one of them were the Voice assistant “siri” replacing the virtual assistant and to add to it iphone came with the itunes with wifi sync,Imessages,Notification center and many more

IOS 6

Apple started WWDC for the launch of their phones which on the inaugural edition they launched IOS 6 and released it to the public on september 2012 In this version the google maps were dropped and Apple’s very own navigation system was brought in this version of IOS where the navigationwas mentioned turn by turn

Key features

The Apple maps were the big inclusion, siri was enhanced,passbook and integration of yelp were the new features and twitter and facebook also came in as the built in feature

IOS 7

This was the version where along with the release of the new operating system a pair of iphones were also released Iphone 5s and Iphone 5c and there were also some administrational changes with in Apple

Key features

Control center AiDrop functionality,Touch ID and Itunes radio were introduced during the release

IOS 8

In this versions the major plan was to refine the design,expand the feature sets and improving the working flow,this version also helped the developers with tons of the developer tools for developing and improving the apps

Key features

SOme of the features are the widgets and the actionable notification,allowing the support to the third party apps, icloud drive,health ki,home kit were some of the features that were added

IOS 9

Was released in sept 16,2015 along with other phones and ipads this version made the technical foundation more stronger with having same form of the features and the design , the features that were added during this version of the app release was very less

Key features

One of the main feature of this version is that the passbook was converted to the wallet and there was the night shift and also the previous features were also updated this version

IOS 10

Released on sept 13,2016 along side the new iphones apple in this version one app using the feature of other app were made possible enabling the direct communication between the apps

The users were able to also delete the bult in apps and some of the animations that effected the text messages

Key features

In this version the main feature is that the voice assistant siri was made available for the third party apps, maps had a revamp with respect to the design,photos had a valid search options and other small features were also included

IOS 11

The emphasis of IOS 11 was the ipad than the iphone IOS 11 was released on september 2018 along with the various versions of the IPhone ARKit was the new inclusion which was used by the developers to use Artificial intelligence across millions of devices

Key features

The majore feature was the “Files” app this is majorly fo the ipda users where they scold search and organize the files on their devices .Drag and drop functionality was also added making the movement of the files from one app to another a easy easy task

IOS 12

Released in september 2018 along with various versions of iphone In this the apple release they mainly concentrated on enhancing the existing features rather than adding more features to it The conceneteration was also making the working faster and more responsive

Key features

As said not more of the features were included everything was to enhance the existing feature

IOS 13

In this release the support for the ipad and was removed and ipad had their own operating system Apple has the intention of replacing the ipad with laptops so they are coming up with the own operating system for ipad

Key features

The some of the eye catching features of IOS 13 were Darkmode was made available, there was the update on security and the privacy policy, sign in with apples account was made available upon of the first boot and there a lot of stock apps such as notes and reminders

IOS 14

This release didnot come with the lot of changes there were very small and medium changes that were made concentration was laid on enhhancing the user experience

Key features

Home screen widgets were included,App Clips,picture in picture mode,improved privacy and car key technology

Conclusion

The above gives the break down of various versions of the IOS and also what are the features that were included , how it would help the developers and we brillmindz one of the best mobile app development companies in dubai are always upto the challenge to develop the apps for all the updates with operating systems

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