Whether or not you were following along live as Apple unveiled iOS 11 during its big WWDC 2017 keynote, you’re obviously going to want a recap of all the biggest new iOS 11 features coming to the iPhone and iPad. If it is activated, anyone sending you a message will get an automated response telling them that you’ll see their message when you get where you’re going. Control Centre: The Control Centre in iOS 11 will see a complete overhaul in that it will be a single page affair as opposed to spanning multiple home screens in the incumbent iteration. Lock Screen and Notification Center have been combined, which is a nice consolidation that further simplifies the UI a bit. Apple’s Maps app in iOS 11 gets huge enhancements for indoor mapping beginning with malls and airports, allowing users to quickly and easily navigate shopping centers and airports when traveling. And Apple will also provide a “lane guidance” view when you take the wheel of a car. Speaker support has been added to HomeKit, and AirPlay 2 supports multi-room configuration and playback. What you will notice is that the look and feel of the App Store app resembles the Apple Music app:

At the bottom of the App Store, there will be tabs that are titled: Today, Games, Apps, Updates and Search. Here are eleven of the changes coming to iOS that caught my attention:

The faddish popularity of last summer’s Pokemon Go release gave iPhone users an early sense of what augmented reality is all about, essentially layering characters and other “fake” stuff on top of the real world. Using a platform called ARKit, developers will be able to exploit computer vision and take advantage of what Apple maintains will be “the largest AR platform in the world,” given the vast user base of iPhones and iPads that are out there. “iOS 11 gives iPad users the powerful app functionality they need to take advantage of everything iPad is capable of, and brings hundreds of new features and incredible updates to the iOS apps iPhone and iPad users enjoy every day.” iPad Becomes Even More Powerful iOS 11 makes multitasking on iPad even more powerful with a new customizable Dock that provides quick access to frequently used apps and documents from any screen, and a redesigned app switcher makes it easier to move between pairs of active apps, used in Split View and now Slide Over. However, the main concentration this year, is expected to be on artificial intelligence and digital assistant Siri, after the company was not able to take over the plunge of other assistants like Amazon’s Echo and Google Assistant. Using the latest advancements in machine learning and artificial intelligence, new male and female voices are more natural and expressive, adjusting intonation, pitch, emphasis and tempo while speaking, and can translate English words and phrases into Chinese, French, German, Italian or Spanish. With iOS 11, Apple introduces a new technology called High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) that reduces the file size of every photo taken with iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. For example, Apple executive Craig Federighi said on stage that when you receive money from a friend it will go into an Apple Pay Cash card, of which I’d like to learn more. If there is a discussion about money on the Messages app, then Siri may suggest you to use Apple Pay to send or receive money. *Do not disturb while driving

Speaking of driving, this genuine safety feature is good news for drivers too easily distracted by notifications and alerts. Maps: Maps in iOS 11 will offer detail floor maps of malls and airports, as well as offer lane guidance – and speed limits – while the user is driving. Meantime, while the newly-announced $349 Siri-controlled HomePod speaker isn't coming until December, the new AirPlay 2 feature in iOS 11, will let you control Apple TV and third party speakers in multiple rooms around the house, using Control Center, the Home app or Siri. — One-handed keyboard mode on iPhone makes typing on the go even easier and a new QuickType® keyboard on iPad delivers quick access to numbers, symbols and punctuation. Plus there is a new Music API that gives developers full access to the Apple Music service, 40 million songs, featured content, recent search, Cloud Library access and Users’ For You recommendations.
Apple announces iOS 11 in WWDC 2017.