Apple released iOS 9 yesterday, bring a variety of new features to the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Along with iOS 9 comes a landslide of app updates that’ll bring new features and compatibility with Apple’s latest version of iOS. Below you will find a list of apps that have been updated with support for the new features found in iOS 9.
Most of the apps have been updated with support for the new iPad multitasking features which include Slide Over, Split View and Picture e in Picture. Not surprisingly, Spotlight, watchOS 2 support and 3D Touch also are popular features showing up in apps. Other less known, but equally important features include Quick reply, deep linking, SFSafariViewController and App thinning.
- Quick Reply — Quick Reply allows users to respond to a message from within the notifications. In iOS 8, this feature was limited to the default messaging app, while it is ubiquitous in iOS 9.
- Deep Linking — Deep linking is a way of linking to content within another app. Instead of opening a web page view when you click a link, iOS will open the targeted app (a Foursquare link will open in Foursquare) and even pull up relevant content like a map for a link with an address.
- SFSafariViewController — SFSafariViewController is a way for developers to remove the limited mini browser within an app and replace it with an instance of Safari that runs inside the application. This is advantageous to the user who now has access to personalized content store is Safari, such as password keychain, stored credit card info, and more.
- App Thinning — App thinning is an iOS 9 optimization that reduce the space taken up by applications by only downloading the assets needed by the device to which the app is being downloaded, downloading resources such as tutorial files on demand as they are needed and more.
Below is a list of apps optimized for iOS 9 and what features they now support.
- 1Password 6.0: Spotlight Search/ Slide Over / Split View
- Actionify: Slide Over / Split View
- Anylist: Slide Over / Split View
- AutoCAD 360: Split View
- BBC iPlayer (UK Only): Picture in Picture
- Calculator Pro for iPad – Standard and Scientific: Slide Over / Split View
- Chronicle – Bill Management & Reminders: Slide Over / Split View
- Clips – Copy and paste anywhere with widget and keyboard: Slide Over / Split View
- Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary of American English: Slide Over / Split View
- Colordrop – Extract and explore colors: Slide Over / Split View
- Dispatch: Email meets GTD with TextExpander snippets: Slide Over / Split View, Spotlight
- Documents 5: Slide Over / Split View, Spotlight
- Dropbox: Spotlight
- Duet: ReplayKit (record a video of your game)
- Flipboard: Spotlight Search
- FormConnect: Slide Over / Split View
- ForScore: Slide Over / Split View
- Hootsuite: Slide Over / Split View
- Hulu: Picture in Picture
- iBank for iPad: Slide Over / Split View
- iHotel – Hotel Search: Slide Over / Split View
- Instapaper: Slide Over / Split View
- Launcher with Notifications: Slide Over / Split View
- Log My Day: Slide Over / Split View
- Lucidchart – Diagram & Flowchart: Slide Over / Split View
- Menstruation and Ovulation Calendar: Slide Over / Split View
- Microsoft Excel: Split Screen / Slide Over, Wireless Keyboard Shortcuts
- Microsoft OneNote: Slide Over / Split View, Spotlight
- Microsoft Outlook: Slide Over / Split View, Spotlight, Wireless Keyboard Shortcuts
- Microsoft PowerPoint: Split Screen / Slide Over, Wireless Keyboard Shortcuts
- Microsoft Word: Split Screen / Slide Over, Wireless Keyboard Shortcuts
- OmniPlan 2: Split Screen / Slide Over
- Opener ‒ open links in apps: Slide Over / Split View
- Parcel – Delivery Tracking: Slide Over / Split View, Spotlight, Proactive within app, iOS 9 share extension
- PCalc – The Best Calculator: Split Screen / Slide Over
- PCalc Lite – The Best Free Calculator: Split Screen / Slide Over
- PDF Markup Ultimate – Annotate, Scan, Fill Forms, and Take Notes with PDF Reader: Slide Over /Split View
- Plane Finder: Slide Over / Split View
- Scanbot Document Scanner: Split Screen / Slide Over, Spotlight
- Scanner Pro: Split Screen / Slide Over, Spotlight
- Ship Finder: Slide Over / Split View
- Smartsheet: Split Screen/ Slide Over
- Soriko Radio: Split Screen / Slider Over / App Thinning / SFSafariViewController / watchOS 2
- Star Walk ™ 2 – Guide to the Night Sky to Watch Stars, Planets, Meteor Showers & Constellations: Slide Over, Spotlight Search
- TestFlight: App Thinning
- The Guardian: Slide Over / Split View, Spotlight and deep linking
- The Night Sky: Slide Over / Split View, Spotlight, App Thinning, 3D Touch.
- The Wisdom English Japanese 2: Slide Over / Split View
- Theory Lessons: Split Screen / Slide Over, Deep Linking
- Timesheet – Time Tracker: Slide Over / Split View
- Twitter: Slide Over / Split View, quick reply to tweet notifications
- Weather+: Slide Over / Split View
- Weather Live: Slide Over / Split View
- WebProtectMe Safe Browser with Parental Control: Slide Over / Split View
- Wetter-Radar – Unwettervorhersage und Unwetterwarnung (German): Slide Over / Split View
We’ll continue to update this post. Do let us know your favorite apps that are now compatible with iOS 9 features.
