The best iOS 8 features you may not know about

Apple's latest iOS update is here, and it's full of new features. The company has showcased plenty ofthe changes already: better photo editing, easy-to-send voice messages, a smarter keyboard, fitnesstracking, and the list goes on and on. It's so long, in fact, that we've gathered some of iOS 8's lesserknown features here to make sure you don't miss them as you get familiar with the new softwaretoday. Improvements are everywhere, and many of them aren't immediately obvious. We'll have afull review of iOS 8 soon, but for now hopefully you'll find something here you didn't know aboutbefore.

Maybe you've ignored Spotlight until now. But if so, it's time to start using it. Once you do, you'llquickly get hooked. Apple's built-in search tool, which can be accessed by swiping down on anyhome screen, is now incredibly powerful and genuinely helpful. It'll display Wikipedia snippets,suggested websites, content from iTunes and the App Store, local movie times, and more based onyour search queries. And it can also dig through your message history, email, and reminders -- withinstant results.