Apple demoed it’s new iOS 8 software for iPhones and iPad at the World Wide Developer Conference 2014 in San Francisco, California yesterday.

With this demo, Apple also introduced it’s new health care App which the tech firm has been working on for quite some time now. HealthKit has it has been named will integrate seamlessly with of other third-party health apps like Nike+ to help users monitor their health through their iOS 8 device.

Apple Demos iOS 8

Apple iOS 8 will also feature advancement to Mail and Notification Centre which has been completely changed to allow users reply and interact with messages and notification without actually opening the app – like your text messages or Facebook notifications. Additionally, the multitasking view of iOS now includes recently contacted people, as well as recently used apps.

Must of all iPhone users will be excited about the new typing function called QuickType which offers predictive typing suggestions. Craig Federighi, Apple’s software chief, demonstrated the new feature which is similar to Android’s SwiftKey and Swype.

Quicktype looks at what a user has previously written and suggests what it thinks the next word in the sentence should be. When replying to a text suggesting dinner or a movie, for instance, it can automatically work out that the “dinner” and “a movie” are words which are likely to be written next.

iMessage has been improved to allow your iPhone know the difference between a normal text message and an iMessage. iMessage ups its game when it comes to group messaging, putting the service on par with the likes of, Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp and Snapchat.

It is expected that the US tablet market will fall to 51.8% in 2014, down from 54.5% last year. However the story is different in the UK where Apple is expected to claim 12.3 million iPad users in 2014, which represents roughly 50% of the UK tablet market, showing a decrease from 59% the year before.

Apple’s share of the US smartphone market is expected to rise to 40.5% up from 40% in 2013 and 36.5% in 2012, according to new data from eMarketer. By comparison Google’s Android will claim 50% of smartphone users in 2014, up from 49.5% in 2013.

In the UK, Apple’s numbers are slightly lower. Apple is expected to claim 30.5% of smartphone users this year, up from 29% in 2013, while Android smartphone users will account for 53% of the market in 2014 compared to 54.5% in 2013, according to eMarketer.