While Apple[1] introduced iOS 11[2] on Monday to the world, some things about the platform were not discussed on stage and have since been uncovered by the developers who have got their hands on the preview already. Now, the list of these new things seems to be growing further as developers have found out that the new iteration of iOS brings along an easy Wi-Fi sharing feature, native support for GIFs, and more. Separately, iOS 11 has been tipped to bring Gmail push notifications back to their former speed as well as expand the NFC features beyond Apple Pay[3]. Notably, not all features in the developer preview may make it to the final public release.
Apple's iOS 11, which will be made available widely this fall, brings along a new feature that allows users to share their Wi-Fi with friends or with their other devices by just a single tap, reports[4] 9To5Mac. As per the report, the feature makes a similar pop-up notification like AirPods[5] do for the establishment of a connection. When you bring a new device in proximity to a device that is already connected to the Wi-Fi network, the connected device will see a notification that informs about the new device trying to connect to the network. Users can then share the Wi-Fi access by a single tap, the report points out.
Moving to the GIF support, although GIF images were already supported by certain platforms within the iOS, some Reddit users have found that now the support for animated images has been added to the native Photos app with iOS 11, as per a report[6] by The Next Web. As Live Photos were already...