Apart from bug fixes and beautiful new design here are few new features that are part of iOS 7 release.
- New design
- Redesigned interface updates the entire system and every built-in app
- Subtle motion and animation; layers and translucency provide depth
- Elegant new color palette and refined typography
- Updated system sounds and ringtones
- Control Center
- Quick access to commonly used controls and apps with a swipe up from the bottom of the screen
- Turn on & off Airplane Mode, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Do Not Disturb; adjust screen brightness; access media controls; turn on AirPlay and AirDrop
- Quickly access flashlight, timer, calculator, camera and music controls
- Notification Center improvements
- New Today view gives you an overview of your day, including weather, calendar, and stocks
- Notifications dismissed on one device dismisses across all your devices
- Multitasking improvements
- Preview screens of open apps when you switch between them
- Permits any app to keep content up to date in the background
- Camera improvements
- Swipe through different camera modes – video, still photo, square aspect, and panorama
- Real-time photo filters with iPhone 4S or later, and iPod touch (5th generation)
- Photos improvements
- Automatically organizes your photos and videos based on time and location into Moments
- iCloud Photo Sharing supports multiple contributors and videos, plus a new Activity view
- Add photo filter effects
- Flickr and Vimeo support
- AirDrop
- Quickly and easily share content with people nearby
- Securely encrypted transfers with no network or setup required
- Supported on iPhone 5, iPad (4th generation), iPad mini, and iPod touch (5th generation) and requires an iCloud account
- Safari improvements
- New iPhone tab view that lets you easily switch between open web pages
- Unified smart search field for both search terms and web addresses
- Shared Links shows web pages shared by people you follow on Twitter
- iTunes Radio
- Streaming radio service
- Pick from over 250 featured and genre-focused stations
- Start your own station from your favorite artist or song
- Siri improvements
- New, more natural sounding male and female voices for US English, French and German
- Integrated Wikipedia, Twitter search, and Bing web search results
- Change settings including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and brightness
- Supported on iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPad with Retina display, iPad mini, and iPod touch (5th generation)
- App Store improvements
- See apps relevant to your current location with Popular Near Me
- Discover age-appropriate apps in the Kids category
- Keep your apps up to date automatically
- Find My iPhone Activation Lock
- Turning off Find My iPhone, erasing your device, reactivation, and signing out of iCloud requires your Apple ID password
- A custom message can be displayed on your device even after a remote erase
- iTunes Store improvements
- Preview and buy songs you've heard on iTunes Radio while inside the iTunes Store
- Add to, and shop from, your iTunes Wish List
- Scan code with camera to redeem iTunes Gift Cards
- Music improvements
- Play music purchases from iCloud
- Rotate your iPhone or iPod touch to browse your music with the Album Wall
- Videos improvements
- Play movie and TV show purchases from iCloud
- View similar movies and TV shows from Related
- Maps improvements
- Turn-by-turn walking directions
- Automatic night mode
- Bookmarks shared across devices via iCloud
- Mail improvements
- New Smart Mailboxes, including Unread, Attachments, All Drafts and To or CC
- Improved search
- View PDF annotations
- FaceTime audio calling
- Block unwanted Phone, Messages and FaceTime callers
- Support for sending long MMS messages
- Pull down on any Home Screen to reveal Spotlight search
- Scan to acquire Passbook passes
- New ringtones, alarms, alerts and system sounds
- Definitions of a selected word for additional languages: Italian, Korean, and Dutch
- Inclinometer in the Compass app
- Wi-Fi HotSpot 2.0 support
- Accessibility features
- Individuals with limited physical motor skills can now control their device using Switch Control
- Customize closed caption style
- Handwriting input support in VoiceOver
- Math input support using Nemeth Braille in VoiceOver
- Select from multiple premium voices for speak selection and VoiceOver
- Support for Made for iPhone Hearing Aids and stereo audio for iPhone 5 and iPod touch (5th generation)
- Enterprise features
- Manage which apps and accounts are used to open documents and attachments
- Per App VPN
- App Store license management
- Enterprise single sign-on
- Remote configuration of managed apps
- Automatic data protection for third-party apps
- Exchange Notes syncing
- Install custom fonts
- New management queries and restrictions
- Education features
- Mobile device management for Apple TV
- Request AirPlay Mirroring from a student device to Apple TV
- Pre-configure AirPlay destinations and AirPrint printers
- Streamlined MDM enrollment
- Ability to restrict changes to accounts
- Web content filtering
- Authorized apps can initiate single app mode
- Configure accessibility settings for single app mode
- Features for China
- Tencent Weibo integration
- Chinese-English bilingual dictionary
- Improved handwriting input with improved accuracy, stroke order independence and support for simultaneous multiple character input
PS: Some features may not be available for all countries or all areas.
