iOS 10 release date and time
You're able to download the iOS 10 update to your iPhone and
iPad today, as Apple hit its release date right on the nose yesterday: Tuesday,
September 13 at 10am Pacific.
That was three days before Apple sends the iPhone 7 and
iPhone 7 Plus to customers. It didn't go perfectly, with a handful of iOS
10 problems emerging. But the end result has been good overall.
This wasn't your first chance to download iOS 10. Apple
staggering the iOS 10 release date among app developers, public beta testers
and then everyone else who wants to wait for the final version.
iOS 10 technically launched the same day as WWDC in beta form
to developers, and in public beta came 23 days later. Trust us, it wasn't ready
for average iPhone and iPad users.
Last year's public beta was a big success for Apple judging
from the smoother sailing of iOS 9, and it continued that streak with new iOS 9.3
features that also went through a three-month beta.
iOS 10 compatibility
Works with iPhone 5, iPad 3, iPad mini 2 and iPod touch 6th
gen or higher
All 30-pin dock devices are out. Lightning or nothing!
iOS 10 is available on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch,
unless of course you have an age-old phone or tablet that still uses the 30-pin
dock connector or an older iPad mini or iPod touch.
iOS 10 raise to wake
Just pick up your iPhone and it'll wake up
Notifications don't vanish when brushing up against Touch ID
Apple redesigned the iPhone and iPad lockscreen, giving us
the biggest revision since the first iPhone nine years ago. Slide to unlock is
gone and replaced with simple instructions: "Press Home to open."
What's been added is the ability to raise your iPhone to
wake it, fixing the all-too-common issue of blowing past lockscreen
notifications when you hit the fast TouchID home button.
This is a great solution that we have seen on a select
number of Android phones, like the Google Nexus
6P and Nexus
5X, and it almost reminds me of flicking my wrist to light up the Apple
Watch.
This is the sleeper hit of iOS 10 that is going to change
your daily iPhone routine.
TechRadar's take: This is the best new iOS 10 feature.
It makes reaching for the tiny, side-mounted sleep/wake button a thing of the
past. iOS 10 is worth downloading for this reason alone.
Rich lockscreen notifications
No need to exit the homescreen for quick reads and replies
Works with third-party apps like Uber and Apple Home devices
You'll see that notifications are broken up into bubbles now
and use 3D Touch to show hidden menu actions - just hard press on a calendar
invite alert and you'll be able to accept or decline it.
3D Touch-enabled iOS 10 notifications work even better for
Messages. You can immediately respond to messages as soon as you pick up your
phone, without ever leaving the lockscreen. It's all done inline.
No more digging around the home screen and layers of app
menus to check vital information. If you have a doorbell camera notification,
you can see who's at the front door, use the intercom or unlock the door.
This "peeking at apps" capability via the
lockscreen isn't limited to Apple's first-party apps. Uber is just one
third-party app maker that allows you to hard press on notifications. You'll get
live updates on where your driver is on a map - usually headed in the other
direction.
TechRadar's take: You don't really need to open your
phone to do half of your daily tasks anymore. Replying to messages, accepting
invitations or seeing where your Uber driver is (answer: circling the wrong
block a third time) can all be done from the lockscreen.
Clear all notifications button
Vanquish all notifications at once with 3D Touch. That's it.
What may be the best change to iOS 10 notifications is the
ability to clear all of your old notifications with 3D Touch. Swiping them away
one by one or dismissing them in groups is a time-consuming mess in iOS
9.
Just hard press that little "x" icon within the
redesigned (and now dedicated) notifications pulldown menu and tap the
"clear all" box that pops up. Tap it once to just dismiss the group
of notifications.
It's super easy to clear away expired alerts with iOS 10 and
it will please everyone inflicted with phone notification-clearing OCD.
TechRadar's take: Being able to clear all notifications
has been a long time coming. Our only complaint is that it didn't arrive
sooner.
Water detection
iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are water-resistant, but all
other iPhones are not
iOS 10 will warn of possible water damage and provide
instructions
Only the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are water-resistant, but
Apple hasn't made a fully waterproof iPhone. So it's making it easier to avoid potential
water damage with the iOS 10 update.
As of iOS beta 2, the software reportedly includes a warning
message to unplug the lighting cable at the bottom of a device if the phone and
new software detect water.
Whether or not the iPhone 7 is waterproof, as some have
speculated, this iOS 10 message is a handy tool because water and a turned-on
iPhone don't mix very well. Let is sit first (in rice, if you believe that
myth).
TechRadar's take: This is peace of mind that we never
want to actually see on our screens. Powering down a phone is important – we
know from experience – and this message is literal damage control.
Control Center is decluttered
Swipe-up-from-the-bottom menus is now split into several
panels
Broken into: quick settings, media playback and Apple Home
Touch detection issues for brightness slider vs sliding
between panels
The swipe-up-from-the-bottom Control Center overlay menu has
a brand new look that helps declutters the layout in iOS 10, and it's something
Apple users have been asking for.
It once again features four app shortcuts along the bottom
(flashlight, stopwatch, calculator and camera app) and moves the fifth Beatle, Night
Shift, to a new, bigger spot above the quartet.
That fixes an issue where people said having five app
shortcuts in that bottom row, a short-lived idea that came about when Night
Shift debuted in iOS
9.3, made the buttons a tad too small.
Bigger AirPlay and AirDrop buttons appear above Night Shift,
too, while toggles for Airplane mode, WiFi, Bluetooth, Do Not Disturb and
Orientation lock are unchanged (except for their new blue hue when on).
But what happened to the music controls? Slide right on the
Control Center, and there's a dedicated pane for the volume, playback and
device output controls, and even music album cover art.
TechRadar's take: Control Center is simpler on each
pane, yet more complex because there are multiple panes to slide through.
Overall, it's a wise design move by Apple, though there are flaws. The
touchscreen gets confuses our when we want to engage the brightness slider,
switching the pane. It's a pain! Also, Night Shift gets too big Control Center
real estate. It would be better served by adding a toggle for Apple's clutch
Low Power Mode to half of Night Shift's space.
Lockscreen camera and 'widgets'
Slide left to reveal the new spot for the Today widgets
It's not as customizable as Android widgets, but closer
Too much empty space when widgets have no content
Slide right to reveal the new camera shortcut
It's easier than ever to flip on the camera with iOS 10
because sliding the lockscreen right (when Control Center isn't open) automatically
transitions to the camera app.
This is a camera app shortcut we've seen on several Android
phones and it beats reaching for the bottom right corner, where the camera
shortcut remains in iOS 9. You use the camera app everyday, why not make it
easier to access?
What happens when you swipe to the left on the lockscreen?
Glad you asked a second question. It reveals a new spot for Apple's Today menu
"widgets." It's not as customizable as Android widgets, but it's new
location a big improvement.
TechRadar's take: The lockscreen is now very busy. But
the Today menu is in a much better space than it was in the pulldown
notifications shade, that's now dedicated to notifications. We still see a
problem with widgets not being dynamic. Boxes still show if you have no
OpenTable reservations, flights on an airline or upcoming calendar appointments.
These boxes should be hidden rather than taking up space telling us "we
have no content to show."
Graphical 3D Touch shortcuts
3D Touch (pop) your way to more detailed information (peek)
Activity and sports score apps like ESPN provide colorful
stats
Within the home screen, 3D Touching app tiles like Activity
gives you a more graphical account of your fitness goals. You'll know faster
than ever that you have to close those daily activity rings.
ESPN had even richer shortcut information within its 3D
Touch menu. It runs scores and there's a button to easily add a widget. It's
even more graphical, throwing up a drawn out play-by-play interface and video
of in-progress games you're following.
All of this peeking at apps can be done without leaving the
home screen, and it means that 3D Touch is becoming a little more relevant in
iOS 10.
TechRadar's take: More developers need to take
advantage of 3D Touch's new graphical capabilities, but from the apps we've
played with, it makes the "right click of mobile" seem less plain.
Talk to Siri normally
You don't have to talk like a robot to your robot phone
Two billion requests a week go through Siri, and it's now
going to do "so much more," according to Apple. With that, they
announced that iOS 10 will open up Siri to third-party developers.
Now you'll be able to ask Siri things like, "Send a
WeChat to Nancy saying I'll be five minutes late.'" It can be said variety
of ways and still understood by the now-smarter Siri.
In (very literal) other words, Siri also works just fine if
you say it like "Tell Nancy I'll be five minutes late with WeChat,"
and even "Siri, can you shoot a message on WeChat and say I'll be five
minutes late?"
Siri for iOS 10, all of a sudden, is going to be a whole lot
less "Sorry..." for miscues. This is thanks to what Apple calls an
"intense API," which even functions in this new way in its multiple
languages.
TechRadar's take: Siri is less frustrating to use in
iOS 10. Saying what you want however you want to your personal assistant means
you're likely to get results the first time around.
Siri third-party apps
Siri now works with more third-party apps, not just Apple's
apps
WhatsApp, Uber and MapMyRun can now use Siri, for example
Besides WeChat, Siri is ready for other chat apps, like WhatsApps
and Slack, and ride hailing services like Uber, Lyft and Didi in China (which
Apple invested in recently).
Searching photos through apps like Shutterfly and Pinterest
can be done with your voice thanks to Siri, and you can start, pause and stop
fitness workouts with MapMyRun, Runtastic and RunKeeper.
Siri can also help you send money to friends with Number26,
Square and Alipay, or start a VoIP call to tell your friend why you're not
paying them on time via Cisco Spark, Vonage and Skype.
This makes Siri much more useful now that Apple's personal
assistant has broken free of pre-loaded apps, and makes driving a tiny bit
safer thanks to messaging and VoIP integration for Apple
CarPlay.
TechRadar's take: Developers are just starting to take
advantage of Siri, and it's beneficial. It's not game changing just yet, but
has the potential to drive more voice-controlled automation by the time iOS 11
launches.
Siri-influenced QuickType keyboard
Makes next-word suggestions based on whole sentence context
Suggests address, calendar appointments and current
locations
Apple's on-screen QuickType keyboard can intelligently tell
the difference between what you're saying and what computers usually think
you're saying (but not) thanks to more advanced Siri intelligence.
Using deep learning kept locally, or what Apple calls
"differential privacy," iOS 10 understands the wider context of what
you're typing, influencing the words in the suggestion bar above the keyboard.
It has better context by taking into account the whole
sentence, not just spitting out the next guess based on the previous word.
This will be completely opt-in, masked and stored on the
device, according to Apple. That's different from Google's data-harvesting
using its online servers.
QuickType is also adding a handy button for your current
location whenever someone asks "Where are you?" or requests someone
else's contact information. That Contacts app will go further unused.
Locally, Siri uses deep learning to analyze a conversation
and is able to pick up on you and a friend talking about food, a proposed time
and resturant address, and then pre-fill in Calendar event when you go to add
it to the Calendar app. "Look at that, it's already halfway filled
in," you'll say.
Rounding out the QuickType iOS 10 features is the ability to
paste a recent address you looked up without having to copy it to the
clipboard, do the same for movies and restaurants you've searched and adjust to
your multilingual typing.
It's Apple new "easy button" for iOS 10, and it's
all about shortcuts to everyday activities.
TechRadar's take: Apple's QuickType keyboard always
gets a little better. It's never been as smart as the one from Google, but the
layout is ingrained in iPhone users brains, so the more improvements it sees,
the better.
Photos with advanced computer vision
iOS 10 automatically pieces together photo albums for you
Creates mini-movies filled with video and photos, complete
with titles
iOS 10 is going to make use of deep learning so that it'll
be easier to organize photos with what it calls "advanced computer
vision." This is how Apple plans to rival Google Photos.
Again, stressing that it's done locally, Apple touts the
Photos app's ability to create albums based on face recognition, and can do the
same for object and scene recognition thanks to 11 billion computations. It
also serves up a way to see photos overlaid on a map based on where they were
taken.
Apple plans to take Photos to the next level with Memories,
which are supposed to remind you of events in life by clustering together
photos into trips, people and topics. It seems to have a nice magazine-style
interface I can get behind.
iOS 10 will also let you assemble your captured photos and
videos of a particular memory with a special movie that's cut automatically.
It's customizable, with a number of mood choices and three length options, just
in case you don't want to fine tune it yourself.
Despite the AI-infused deep search and facial recognition
capabilities, Apple promises privacy protection.
TechRadar's take: You'll actually be inspired to look
back at photos and videos when Apple's Photos app puts them together
automatically. It's not perfect, but this feature has huge potential down the
line.
Apple Maps is way better
Look ahead to the next turn without springing back into
place
Free to pan, zoom and explore nearby points of interest
Still can't compete with the juggernaut that is Google Maps
iOS 10 fixes my biggest complaint about Apple Maps - its
inability to scroll ahead on a route. Right now, Maps annoyingly springs you
back to your current location whenever you try to look anywhere else.
You'll be free to pan and zoom around the map with the new
Apple Maps update and the navigation software is also dynamically zooming in
and out of long stretches and complex interchanges.
Maps for iOS 10 is adding traffic on route to better compete
with Google Maps and expanding its Nearby functionality with more points of
interest that you can find along your route.
Vehicles that supports Apple CarPlay not only get suggested
alternate routes based on traffic conditions, Maps' turn-by-turn directions can
pop up on the instrument (if they have a screen next to the odometer).
Apple is weaving iOS 10 information from other apps into
Maps, like if it knows you go to work at a certain time, it'll make a
suggestion for the route, or make one based on a calendar event address.
That's just the start. It's also opening up Maps to
third-party developers, so Uber riders can call, follow and pay for their ride
without ever leaving Apple's app. It's getting there.
TechRadar's take: Apple Maps will still get you lost at
times. Sorry. But it's now usable with fixes to the broken functionality that
didn't make any sense before. Seriously, you couldn't look ahead on your route
before. That's fixed.
source: http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/ios-10-release-date-news-beta-and-rumors-1311275
by Matt Swider
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