Since the beginning, Apple has bigger approval in US audience than any other mobile platform because it cares its end users a lot despite charging heavily. Be it user experience, durability, support, or security, it is always ahead in the march against the other rivals like Google or Microsoft.

In order to improve its track records and touch new heights, Apple is constantly improving its iOS and its devices including iPhone, iPad, etc. In due course, it has improved many aspects of user experiences and security in new release of iOS 8. Let’s see what has been done in iOS 8 that is still in beta version.

Security with iOS App Extensions

Apparently, Apple has allowed 3 party keyboards to enhance the texting experiences in modern contexts. However, it has done it with a great care and established a security system for all other 3 party extensions working with your iOS apps.

In the eyes of iOS 8 app developers, Apple has loosed up the concept of sandbox that it has clanged tightly since the first release of iPhone SDK. However, Apple has taken care before going to leeway and it has created a sort of iOS broker process. This broker process will check all the communications made by third-party extensions against the malicious attach.

Moreover, iOS app developers would not much rely on the third-party extension for excessive load or processes, as iOS 8 will allow running such extensions for a short while in order to manage memory limitations and will wipe off all the data stored by extension once the app is close. This is big bet on security issues because in doing so iOS 8 allows extensions to be executed by the system framework in its own contexts and needs, not as per the wishes of coding of third-party application space.

Security Extended with Touch ID

Keeping the track of Touch ID of iOS 7, Apple has enthusiastically extended the functionality of Touch ID in iOS 8. It has gone beyond the mere screen locks to access of the third-party apps using the fingerprint data stored in the iOS keychain. In simple words, just like Google, you can use a single strong and complex password one time to open all iOS and third-party apps using your fingerprint authentication. Thus, users need not remember intricate passwords for each new or old apps from either iOS or third-party apps.

Security Extended in Access of Location

In iOS 7 the access of your location data was bound with the location API and its settings. Thus, if any iOS app developer accidentally or by force allow access of location for public or other third-party apps, it was creating a chaos amongst the users. As all users, never like to publish their real-time locations in all contexts.

For instance, if you are geo-tagging your photo and allow location access to your camera app, it doesn’t mean that you need to geo-tag all your personal or public photos all the time, particularly when you are posting photos on your social networks. Therefore, Apple has improved the access of location functionality a bit further, and it begins to show a dialog that ask for the user permission to show or use location in background.

This may relax iOS 8 app developers to consider the “location shaming” issues before developing any iOS app using location APIs.





