![]() ![]() I find the default one fine, and I never got on with things like Swype. I wasn’t excited about iOS 8’s new support for system-wide, third-party keyboards. An enhanced keyboard Imagine this in every app. I can imagine the fantastic Fantastical adding an Extension that can parse a sentence and turn it into a reminder or an event, or any number of other apps adding their own clippers to add things to your to-do list. And if Apple doesn’t do it, somebody else will. In fact, I should be able to add anything to my calendar. I should be able to turn anything into a reminder. ![]() Better still, if the clipboards were combined with one of the new system-wide keyboard replacements, you could have the clipboard buffer right there with a keystroke. You could copy a username and a password from an email, then switch to a Web page and fill them in without having to flip back and forth between apps. Having multiple clipboards in iOS would be incredibly useful. I use Launchbar for this but there are plenty of options. On my Mac, I can copy any number of items using ⌘-C and pop up a list of them with a keystroke. Multiple clipboards This is the Launchbar clipboard manager on OS X. With Extensions, you might be able to send snippets of text straight to Drafts, clipping highlights, saving recipes or even just popping open a box to add something to your shopping list. It’s like a quick-input box for your iDevice. You type in whatever’s on your mind and then send it off to any other service or app. It’s an app that opens to a blank text file. ![]() Draftsĭrafts app should be in everyone’s dock. But who will need these when you can just pop open an Evernote import box wherever you are in iOS? Clip text, photos and even PDFs to your Evernote, all without leaving the current app. There’s a whole market of Evernote clippers that kind of run in the background and save images and links to your Evernote account. This is an obvious one, for obvious reasons. This will clearly be huge in Safari, but it also means you’ll never have to juggle apps to find your login password again. The 1Password folks already have an Extension up and running, and it lets you access your 1Password password collection, unlock that collection using TouchID and fill in the password. In fact, you have probably used Apple’s own “test” Extensions already: Whenever you see the Mail sheet roll down inside another app, or you access the built-in Twitter sharing box, you’re using an Extension.īut what kind of things can Extensions do for us? I’ve been thinking about that, and here’s a wish list of Extensions I’d love to see. It’s something that Android and Windows Phone users have enjoyed for a while, but Apple has – typically – taken its time to get it right. For instance, if you have Evernote installed on your iPhone, you could pop up the Evernote Extension when you’re running the Mail app, and save a snippet of that email to your Evernote account.Ĭlearly this is huge. Extensions are essentially miniature versions of apps that can be run inside other apps. IOS 8 will bring Extensions to your iPhone and iPad. Photo: Jim Merithew/Cult of Mac Photo: Photo: Jim Merithew/Cult of Mac We can't wait for iOS 8 to supercharge our trusty iPhones with Extensions. ![]()
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