The new iPhone 8 best feature

The iPhone 8 is expected to offer fans a few innovations that have never been seen on an iPhone before. The list of rumored features includes an almost bezel-less OLED screen, home button functionality backed into the screen including the Touch ID sensor, wireless charging, a 3D front-facing camera complete with facial recognition support, and a new A-series processor that’s faster than anything out there. Various design leaks have also provided more indirect evidence supporting these rumored features. But the one feature that should end up being the best new thing about the iPhone 8 hasn’t even leaked yet.

It’s already June, which means come next Monday Apple will unveil a variety of new products during its WWDC 2017 keynote. And it’s not just software novelties, rumors say, as Apple is going to unveil quite a few new products during the event, including a new iPad, MacBook refreshes, and possibly a Siri speaker.

iOS and macOS will be the stars of the show, however. Which brings me to the iPhone 8’s best new feature: iOS 11.

Without iOS powering the iPhone, all we have is a piece of hardware that looks like every other screen backlight out there. But iOS is really the one thing that keeps fans loyal to the iPhone. Sure, the hardware is amazing, but iOS is really what makes me want to stay inside Apple’s ecosystem. And I suspect that’s the case for many other iPhone users.

Unlike in previous years, Apple somehow managed to prevent major iOS leaks. We’re just days away from WWDC 2017 and there have not been any major scoops about the operating system. We have no idea what’s coming, and I suspect that Apple will do its very best to keep some of iOS 11’s gems a secret during the keynote and even after the first iOS 11 betas are released, as they would practically confirm details about the iPhone 8’s features and final design.

Rumors say the iPhone 8 will support wireless charging as well as AR and VR. These features could be confirmed by iOS 11 leaks months before the iPhone 8 actually ships. Even the new Touch ID fingerprint sensor’s functionality could be explained by an iOS 11 leak.

Reports have also indicated that Apple is taking secrecy to a whole new level, and it looks like it’s working well so far. While Apple can’t control leaks from component makers and manufacturing partners, it sure seems like it was able to contain any software leaks, which could only originate from Cupertino.

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Your phone can become a document scanner

Using your phone to "scan" documents is nothing new. Using an Adobe app to snap, store and share those scans? That's new.

Adobe Scan (Android|iOS) is a free tool that turns your screen repair into a document scanner. With it, Adobe joins the likes of Office Lens and Scannable in providing a fast and easy way to capture receipts, business cards, whiteboards and the like.

Although it's pretty simple to use, there are a few things you should know about Scan -- so let's do a quick tutorial.

Scanning with Scan

After installing the app, you'll need to sign into your Adobe account -- or sign up for one if necessary. It's free to do so, though it's not immediately clear how much storage is available as part of that free account. (I even signed into my Adobe Document Cloud in a desktop browser, but my selected plan was simply the "free" one -- no mention of storage allotment.)

To scan a document, just tap the camera icon and line it up to fill as much of the screen as possible. You'll need at least moderate lighting for the app to perform its automated edge detection and snap the first scan. If you have more than one page, just flip to the next one, line it up and wait for the next snap. Repeat as needed until you've captured all the pages.

The app will continue looking for documents to capture until you tap the document thumbnail in the lower-right corner (or turn off auto-capture, which is the icon second-from-right in the top-right corner).

Tweaking your scan

After you've completed your scan, you'll have the option to make changes -- starting with the name. Tap the little pencil icon up top if you want to rename the document from the default "Scan [date]."

Across the bottom, there are six edit icons. From left to right:

Capture more photos to add to this scan, or import from your existing photo library.

Reorder the pages in the scan.

Crop the currently visible page.

Rotate 90 degrees clockwise.

Switch from the default Auto Color image-correction to original photo, grayscale or whiteboard.

Delete the scan.

When you're done, tap Save PDF in the top-right corner. That'll immediately upload your scan to Document Cloud. Just keep in mind that once you complete that action, you can no longer do any editing on the document.

Finally, tap Share if you want to email the scan as an attachment, create a link to share or access any of the other typical sharing options. Alternately, you can tap Open in Acrobat (provided you have that app installed). Like Scannable, Adobe Scan employs an OCR engine so you can edit text after sending a document there.

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