14 DAY TRIAL // Among the high-octane Enterprise features touted by Apple in iOS 8 there’s an intriguing reference to AirPlay no longer requiring you to connect to the WiFi network to display content from your iPhone/iPad onto the big screen through Apple TV.
Peer-to-peer AirPlay discovery and playback is confirmed on Apple’s iOS 8 Preview page in the Enterprise section.
There, it states, “With iOS 8, you can wirelessly connect iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch to Apple TV without first connecting to the organization’s network. Which means you can present or share your work even if you’re offline or the organization has a complex network.”
This is a huge leg up not just for the Enterprise but for business environments, schools, and even parties. Imagine just waltzing into a room full of people where there’s a big TV set hanging on the wall and it’s connected to an Apple TV set-top box.
All you need to do is just “discover” the Apple TV on your iDevice and you can instantly display your content for everyone in the room to see. Although it’s aimed at presentations, P2P AirPlay will be just as welcomed by party lovers.
Other Enterprise enhancements include security, productivity, and device management features.
“The enterprise-grade security technologies built into iOS are even more powerful in iOS 8. We’ve expanded data protection to more apps and enabled finer control over mail encryption,” Apple says.
Users will have more ways to get things done quicker and easier with Mail and Calendar. For example, people with huge inboxes will be able to mark messages with a much simpler swipe gesture, designate individual mail threads as VIP, use custom mailboxes, choose to have external email addresses marked in red, and set automatic reply messages in Exchange.
As far as Calendar is concerned, “you can see your colleagues’ availability when scheduling a meeting so you can quickly find a time that works for everyone,” Apple reveals.
“You can mark events as private. It’s easier to create events that repeat at custom intervals and lengths of time, such as on the first Monday of every month. And you can email meeting attendees from Calendar to let them know you’re running late,” the tech titan adds.
iOS 8 enables easier access to corporate documents, more ways to manage information without burdening employees with complex setup procedures and rules, new tools to manage books and PDFs, data management and content filtering, new device management capabilities, and more.