All New IOS 10 Features in Two Minutes
iOS 10 is here with a brand new lock screen, a completely different way to unlock your phone, a fancy new message app, and more. Let’s take a quick look at all the new items.
The lock screen has been completely redesigned with new notifications, a wake up lift and more.
The first thing you’ll probably notice after installing iOS 10 is the new “Raise to Wake Up” feature. When you pick up the phone, the screen will automatically light up. This works on iPhone 6s and newer phones.
The lock screen is now slightly different. You can switch in three directions to open different screens. Swipe left to bring up the camera, swipe up from the bottom for Control Center, and if you swipe left in Control Center, you will be taken to the audio controls. When you swipe right, you will see a new widget area. This is basically the same as the widgets in the Notification Center in iOS 9, but much cleaner.
The notifications are now slightly different too. When a new notification appears, you can tap on it to reply, view attachments, or watch a video right from the lock screen.
When you’re done looking around, you’ll notice a feature that’s been in iOS since the first iPhone disappeared. That’s right, “Slide to Unlock” is gone. Now press the Home button to unlock your device using Touch ID.
Messages now have animations, extended links, giant emojis, and more
Messages … are much dumber. You can handwritten messages on the screen, add animation effects to message bubbles, add full-screen animations, send silly “hidden” messages, reply with simple animated quick replies, add thumbnails over images, use stickers, and much more. In fact, a brand new App Store is built into the Messages app, where you can search and add apps.
You can now also scan a message before sending it to see if any emoticons can replace words. Oh, and emojis are gigantic now when they are sent without any other text.
Photo automatically arranges images, creates its own groups
Photos will now tag and organize photos automatically, which will hopefully improve its organization. Photos will continue to do this by date and location as always, but can now also automatically create albums with a new Memories tab. Here you will find albums that “Photos” create on their own, usually based on things like vacations. The app can now also search for people’s faces in the app and can recognize objects that will be automatically tagged so you can find them later by searching. This works for all kinds of things like mountains, cars, bicycles, cats, sunsets and more.
Siri can now control some non-Apple apps
Apple has finally given Siri control of third-party apps, although while you’re not too excited, it’s a little limited. Siri can access six different types of apps: travel booking, messaging, photo search, payments, VoIP calling, and workouts. This means you can potentially ask Siri to do things like send a message via Facebook Messenger, book a ride with Lyft, or pay someone with Venmo . However, you cannot and will not be able to control a third-party music or maps application.
Apple Maps can work with third-party apps and calendars, and can now search by route
Apple Maps has made minor changes to the base design and added several new features. It will now scan your calendar to see if you have any upcoming events, and should show this even on the map. You can also tap the navigation bar at the bottom as you start driving to reveal some new options, including overview mode, details mode, and sound options. Here you can now search for gasoline, food and coffee along the route. Third party applications will also be integrated into Apple Maps. For example, you can request Uber directly from Apple Maps, or book your reservation directly using OpenTable when you’re in the Apple Maps app. These features will be provided by the third party apps themselves, so we’ll have to wait and see how they are used.
Apple Music introduces a setting to make it easier to find music
If you’re an Apple Music subscriber, you’ll be glad to see some minor changes made to the main Music screen to make finding and playing music easier. The connection tab – the one that leads to the normally unused social network Apple Music – is gone as well.
The new home app wants to control all your connected devices
If you have a lot of connected devices in your home, such as smart bulbs, thermostats, or whatever, you know that managing them all is a problem. Home is a new app that aims to improve this by giving you a single place to control all of these devices. Home is only compatible with HomeKit-enabled devices , but it’s a pretty big collection.