First look: iOS 9 brings Find My Friends widget, changes for Safari, Reminders, Camera
Apple's next-generation mobile operating system includes a number of evolutionary updates to complement its new headline features, like a new Notification Center widget for Find My Friends and user interface tweaks to Safari, Reminders, and the Camera app.

With the new Find My Friends widget, pulling down the Notification Center shade reveals the location of your nearby friends, with an option to view the location of all the friends you have access to by opening the full Find My Friends app. Users will be able to quickly return to the app they were last in when they jumped to Find My Friends via a small back button in the upper left, which is a system-wide addition activated when opening an app via Notification Center or Spotlight.
Safari was on the receiving end of changes designed to simplify the address bar, with the "Request Desktop Site" and "Find On Page" options relocated to the share sheet.

Reminders adds a new meta-list that collates scheduled reminders from all other Reminders lists.

The Camera app has seen some attention with new, simplified iconography. Labels have been abandoned in favor of stylized glyphs --?"HDR Off" in iOS 8 simply becomes "HDR" with a slash through it, for instance.


With the new Find My Friends widget, pulling down the Notification Center shade reveals the location of your nearby friends, with an option to view the location of all the friends you have access to by opening the full Find My Friends app. Users will be able to quickly return to the app they were last in when they jumped to Find My Friends via a small back button in the upper left, which is a system-wide addition activated when opening an app via Notification Center or Spotlight.
Safari was on the receiving end of changes designed to simplify the address bar, with the "Request Desktop Site" and "Find On Page" options relocated to the share sheet.

Reminders adds a new meta-list that collates scheduled reminders from all other Reminders lists.

The Camera app has seen some attention with new, simplified iconography. Labels have been abandoned in favor of stylized glyphs --?"HDR Off" in iOS 8 simply becomes "HDR" with a slash through it, for instance.

Comments
You wouldn't believe how much it costs to localize. This saves enough money in a year for Tim to get a new Aston Martin DB9.
Funny that it's the icons they're changing.
My annoyance with Camera app is you have to scroll through all the different camera operations just to get to the one you want. Just took a pano and want to do video? well swipe to square and it stops, then swipe to Photo and it stops, then swipe to video. (doubly annoying if i want to move from Photo to Pano and accidentally go the wrong way and get video, which kills the music I'm listening to...)
Br nice if it were a dropdown, or even 6 small icons and just tap what you want.
I prefer text labels to glyphs for clarity, but at least they look more like buttons now.
let me guess, 6 months ago you were complaining that Apple should stop introducing all these new feature and focus on fixing iOS 8?
I hope they fix the iOS bug where Camera constantly forgets your HDR setting and defaults to it being off.
Having Find My Friends in the widgets means it's going to run more frequently. That means it'll tap the GPS on my device and any friends. And drain battery faster, right?
Not necessarily. Phones these days don't need GPS to find their locations (it's just more accurate). Since they're always talking to the cell towers anyway, it's easy to triangulate the position of a device that way without using GPS.