Today, Tuesday the 13th, Apple released iOS 10 with a plethora of new features to make your iPhone experience snappier and more efficient. With this new version comes new features and a newer look. Here’s what to expect when you update your phone.
The first big change you’d notice when opening iOS 10 is when you lift the iPhone up, it wakes up. Raise To Wake helps with being able to see your notifications before the “Touch-ID-acted-too-fast-to-read-notification” problem people were once having. Along with that, notifications and almost all of the lock screen has been redesigned. Notifications are in little bubbles and you can interact with them via 3D Touch. When you slide from the right you will see Widgets, that were once in the Today view in the notification bar, and sliding left will bring up the camera. Now to unlock your phone you push the home button.
Both Siri and Maps developer kits were released which will bring new 3rd party functionality to both. Photos added some new features such as facial/object recognition and a new Memory tab where you can see old trips, dates, and people you have photos of. The Phone app will now have voicemail transcripts and caller ID to not answer those pesky spam calls.
Maps, Music, and News have all been redesigned. With Maps having better proactive search and navigation features with traffic on route and the ability to show you how long a stop at McDonald’s will add on to your daily commute. Music adding Lyrics and new discovery and daily curated playlists and News having Breaking new notifications and you can now subscribe to your favorite news organizations, such as the New York Times.
By far the biggest update was to Messages. Adding things like Rich Links, where they show photos and previews from the links, new bubble effects, where you can send cute messages with “invisible ink” or send a LOUD text with bigger font, and adding a lot of new features to Emojis. Apple made a big deal about how they are now 3 times larger for some reason and showed predictive Emojis and “Emoji-fy” which was when you click on the Emoji keyboard and it highlights words that can be used in place of Emojis. Other features are Handwritten messages and iMessage apps, which are pretty much what Facebook Messenger has been added as of late.
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