Apple introduced iOS 7 – its new mobile operating system during the WWDC 2013 Keynote on June 10. It features more than 200 new features including an all-new user interface, Control Center, improved Notification Center, true multitasking, all-new Camera app with filters, new Photos app, AirDrop, iTunes Radio and lots more.

Here’s the exhaustive list of new features and improvements in iOS 7.

Design and UI:

• No more fake linen and leather textures. iOS 7 has forgone skeuomorphism in favor of a digitally authentic interface, with a heavy use of blur, transparency and layering to create the illusion of depth.
• The system font has changed to Helvetica Neue Regular.
• Full Screen apps that make use of the system status bar and navigation bar.
• Translucent design in tab bar, navigation bar, status bar, system keyboard, Control Center, and Notification Center (some translucent layers not on iPhone 4).
• Opaque design in Alert view, Action Sheet and Share Sheet.
• Borderless buttons in general.
• Back navigation gesture by swiping from left edge of the screen.
• New UI for arranging tab-bar icons.
• System-wide dynamic font size, configurable in Settings.
• Enhance the viewing experience of non-iPad apps on Retina iPads, remove the 1x and 2x toggle, apps are opened in ’2x’ mode by default on non-Retina iPads.

Home screen:

• “New” banner on newly installed apps have been replaced with blue dots.
• Built-in app icons have glossy effect removed.

Control Center:

• A unified screen to quickly access toggles and controls for system settings and services, and for using AirDrop and AirPlay.
• System wide, accessible by swiping upward from the bottom of the screen.
• Accessible in the lock screen.
• Flashlight (device-specific features that come with physical camera) toggle button.
• Landscape support.
• A grabber in full screen apps.
• Mute/silent toggle button in iPad.

Airdrop:

• Integrates Apple’s ad-hoc Wi-Fi sharing feature AirDrop (iPhone 5, iPad (4th generation), iPad Mini, and iPod Touch (5th generation) only).
• Alert view, for receive invitation from other devices, option to accept/cancel.
• Options to set discoverable: Off/Contacts only/Everyone.

Inter-app Audio:

• Register audio streams to share with other apps.
• Provides for MIDI control of audio rendering, remotely launching other registered Inter-App Audio apps.

Notification Center:

• Accessible in the lock screen.
• Today tab, for previewing the events calendar, stocks, and tomorrows events; provides traffic info on frequently visited places.
• Missed Filter – Can filter list to see notifications that occurred when phone was not actively in use
• Bounces when swiped down quickly.
• Landscape support.

Folders:

• Unlimited number of apps via folder subpages.
• Newsstand app can now be moved inside any folder.
• Transparent background
• Folders change color when apps are downloading and clock-like animated progress graphic is superimposed over folders that have actively downloading apps.

Newsstand:

• A dedicated app (the previous version was a kind of folder), with short cut to Store.
• Newsstand can now be hidden in a folder

Calculator:

• New feedback when pressing a key.
• Toggle landscape mode button.
• The Calculator app no longer looks like a real calculator. The buttons have been flattened, there’s no leather texture in the background and the numbers itself are now shown in a very thin font.
• The Equals button has become smaller, and the landscape button grid is now 5 x 10 instead of 6 x 8

Spotlight search:

• Accessible on every page of the Home screen by swiping downward from anywhere.
• New animation

Multitasking:

• Redesigned switcher, with horizontal scrolling for previewing all running apps, and swipe upward gesture to stop any running apps.
• Can close multiple apps simultaneously by swiping with multiple fingers.
• Landscape switcher.
• Smart background app running mode; fetches data based on network connectivity and user habits.
• Use apps while the app is updating.

Wallpapers:

• New wallpapers.
• Dynamic wallpapers.
• Gyroscope-responsive parallax wallpaper effect, based on user’s movement.
• Panorama wallpapers, which didn’t make it through the betas.
• Wallpaper preview in Settings now shows iOS 7 lock screen.

Weather:

• Dynamics animation for different weathers. (iPhone 4S and later, iPad, iPod touch only)
• Shows sunrise/sunset humidity, chance of precipitation, and wind speed.
• Can see multiple locations simultaneously when the menu icon is selected.
• Can select GPS Arrow Icon at bottom to immediately see weather for current location.

Phone:

• Block list.
• Contact pictures on Favorites.
• Transparency in the number pad button when pressing.
• Phone History and Voicemail Info options allow one to return the call in multiple ways including call back, FaceTime and Messaging.

Contacts:

• New fields in Contacts: “Add Social Profile”, and “Add Instant Message”.
• “Chat”, “FaceTime”, “Mail” buttons next to the contact information; no longer need to scroll down to the bottom.
• Send contacts through AirDrop.

FaceTime:

• FaceTime Audio.
• Block list.
• A dedicated app on the iPhone, like the previous version on iPod Touch, and iPad.

Messages:

• Long SMS.
• Block list.
• No longer have to scroll to the top to access “Call”, “FaceTime”, and “Info”.
• Contact pictures in group chats.
• Ability to see the time of each message.
• Drag the conversation bubbles to the left to see the exact time the message was sent.
• Event and address detection in the message context, tap to open in Calendar and Map.
• A contact with a nickname will appear in Messages under the nickname, rather than the full name.
• New animation when compressing video to be shared.

Safari:

• Full screen browsing, the previous version only support in iPhone Landscape mode.
• Unified text field for both URL and search.
• Bookmarked website thumbnail icons appear when text field is activated.
• Top-hit, Google suggest, Bookmarks, and History appear on the unified text field while typing.
• Preview tabs are no longer limit to only 8.
• Preview tabs use new 3D vertical animation for previewing the opened tabs; long press to edit positions, swipe to remove.
• Reading List shows website thumbnails on the right.
• Scrolls articles one-by-one vertically from Reading List, as per OS X Mavericks.
• Supports iCloud Keychain for website login & Wi-Fi network passwords, credit/debit card management, and other account info. This feature was removed in iOS 7 GM.
• Swipe gestures for back/previous history, as per OS X.
• Parental controls.
• Private button: enables “Do not track me.” feature per website within the app. Previously, configuration appeared in Settings for the every website.
• Recent links: a reading list of all user’s friends on Facebook or Twitter post.
• Reading List button: new round glasses icon pays tribute to Steve Jobs.
• The .com button removed and replaced with a simple period button. The .com, .net, and .org domain extensions can be accessed by holding down on the button.
• Bookmarks/Reading List/Shared Links tabs re-ordered/slightly tweaked.
• New bolder loading bar, private browsing UI tweaks and tab/bookmark changes on the iPad .

iCloud:

• Photo Stream video support, and more than one contributor per photo stream.
• Notification Sync across different iCloud devices.

Maps:

• Automatic Day/Night Mode that responds to ambient light and current time to switch between day and night color schemes.
• Turn-by-turn walking directions, with estimated time.
• Maps bookmarks syncing.
• Receives notification data sent from the new Maps app in OS X Mavericks (version 10.9).
• A live compass at the right top corner.

Clock:

• App icon reflects the live time.
• Timer shows in the lock screen.

Music:

• New iTunes Radio service.
• Scrub along the song to get to a certain part directly from the lock screen.
• Download full albums from iCloud from iTunes Match.
• Tapping a song in the Now-Playing screen allows users to rate.
• Cover Flow: Instead of swiping though individual albums, one now swipe through multiple albums.

App Store:

• Automatic app updates: switch to enable/disable in Settings, under iTunes, App Store.
• New catalogues for kids based on their age.
• Genius tab replaced with “Apps Near Me” tab. for app recommendations based on user’s location.
• Volume purchase.
• Search tab redesigned, the number of results appears on the right of the search field.
• Circular download progress animation during downloading/updating in Home Screen.
• Add to wish list.

iTunes:

• Smart TV show downloads, through the new multitasking system.

Photos:

• Albums are organized by Places, Moments, and Years, using the EXIF data as the base of the collection.
• Share Sheet shares photos to iCloud, social networks, and AirDrop (if available).
• New default album “Panorama Photos”.

Camera:

• Control redesign: swipe horizontally to select the still images, videos, square photos, and Panorama modes (if available).
• Live Image filters (if available).
• SDK for 60 FPS video recording.
• Pinch to zoom while video recording.
• Redeem iTunes gift card using front camera.
• Slow motion video recording at 120 frames per second.

Calendar:

• New layout for Calendar list view on the iPhone.
• Years view.
• Week view.
• Integration with Mail.
• Integration with Maps, users are notified with transit information when entering places information.
• Can now hide or show declined events.
• Will support custom calendar colors
• All Day toggle on the Add Event Screen instead of buried in the Select Time control.
• Can snooze or View Event when an Event Reminder appears.
• Can setup a second alert time for an event.
• Can change Busy/Free Status
• Selecting the name of the calendar month shows the monthly calendar.

Game Center:

• Secure game scores.
• Authenticated players.
• Turn-based game modes.
• Ranking-style leader boards.

Compass:

• A new “level” inclinometer mode in the compass app.

Mail:

• View PDF annotation.
• New smart mailboxes.
• Improved Mail search.
• Hotmail is now Outlook when adding an account, using new Outlook icon.
• Flagged, Unread, To or CC, Attachments, All drafts, All sent, All Trash smart mailboxes.
• Shake to Undo to un-archive something.
• When emailing a passbook pass, it appears as a pass.
• New animation when compressing video to be shared.
• New animation when moving mail into a folder.
• When selecting a target folder while moving an email, an iconic image of the email above the folder selector appears.
• Have the ability to move an email to Junk folder when flagging.
• New Print option available when Reply option is selected.

Notes:

• New design, mostly white.
• No longer change fonts in Notes.
• Can AirDrop notes.

Settings:

• Add a new Control Center.
• Per app cellular data usage permission.
• Per app using microphone privacy permission.
• Per app using camera privacy permission.
• Password required to reset networking and contents.

Accessibility:

• Head movement detection for different gestures.

China-specific features:

• Tencent Weibo social network integration.
• Chinese-English bilingual dictionary.
• Improved Chinese input including T9 keyboard for pinyin (Added in Beta 4), and handwriting recognition for multiple Chinese characters.

Siri:

• Updated voices, and a new male voice (in select regions/languages). English (US), French, and German will be available with the launch of iOS 7 (additional languages will be added over time).
• Controls certain system settings, such as turning on/off Bluetooth, and changing display brightness.
• Search from Wikipedia and Bing search engines.
• Instruction “Launch Maps” gives users a choice between Apple’s Maps app or other map apps.
• Navigation, access and voice are more natural.

Reminders:

• Geofencing.
• Ability to create repeating reminders has been removed.

Passbook:

• Scan and recognize barcodes/QR codes.
• Add gift cards as a folder.

Find My iPhone:

• New version
• Re-activation with iCloud account if the device have been wiped remotely using Find My iPhone service, to prevent unauthorized usage of the lost device.
• Password required to disable. (Activation Lock)

iOS in the Car:

• Providing iOS control to in-car control systems on some car models by selected vendors from 2014.
• Includes Siri integration (eyes-free/hands-free modes), satellite navigation, telephony, music, and iMessage integration.

Enterprise and businesses:

• Enterprise single sign-on.
• Per app VPN.
• Managed app config, for more efficiently deploying and managing of iPhones and iPads.

Accessories:

• Setup and configure Wi-Fi accessories, such as AirPlay speakers.
• Alert error message “This cable or accessory is not certified and may not work reliably with this iPhone.” when connecting to uncertified cables or MFi accessories.
• iBeacons: a new class of low-powered, low-cost transmitters that can notify nearby devices, which serve as trail markers in a park, exhibits in a museum, or product displays in stores.
• Bluetooth LE profiles; including time, notifications, keyboards, and stereo sound, which means a lot more notifications for your Pebble watch.
• MFi game controllers.

Voice Memo:

• New design.
• Save to iCloud.
• Share using AirDrop.

Status Bar:

• Translucent design.
• 1xRTT icon on CDMA iPhones changed from “o” icon to “1x” icon.
• GPRS icon on GSM iPhones changed from “o” icon to “GPRS” icon.
• Dots representations for cellular signal strength.
• Battery Percentage in status bar for iPod Touch (5th Generation)
• Icon size slightly increased for better readability on the lock screen.
• The charging lightning bolt indicator no longer blinks, it is now static.

Lock Screen:

• Charging the battery: rather than battery image on the lock screen, x% charged briefly appears under the clock, then reverts to the date.
• Access Notification Center, Control Center, Music Control, Passcode.
• When playing music, the lock screen will now display the time.
• iPad has Camera control on the Lock screen, like the previous version in iPhone/iPod Touch.
• Timer counting down is shown when the device is locked.

Others:

• New first-time setup menus.
• Boot up no longer shows spinning wheel.
• Add Passcode Lock during Setup Assistant (added in Beta 2.).
• Vimeo and Flickr social network integrations.
• Italian, Korean, and Dutch dictionaries.
• New fade animation when pressing the power button (time background and status bar).
• New Tamil keyboard.
• New ringtones and system sounds.
• User is warned when plugging their iOS device into their Mac/PC, “Trust the currently connected computer? Trusting this computer will allow it to have full access to your device and all of its data.”