iOS 10 review

 iOS 10, the latest operating system for Apple's iPhone and iPad. On June 13, 2016, Apple unveiled iOS 10, the next-generation operating system for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch,  on September 13 it was released to the public. At the introduction, Apple CEO Tim Cook described iOS 10 as the "biggest release ever" for iOS users, and the operating system includes major updates for a wide variety of apps, features, and services, including Messages, Maps, Apple Music, News, Apple Pay, Siri, Photos,  Control Center, and more.

  Features:
*Siri

Siri now integrates third-party apps Apple is opening up Siri and making the process for app developers transparent is great which is important, some apps can now be controlled by Siri: calls, messaging, payments, photos, ride-sharing apps, workouts, and CarPlay systems. Square Cash,  WhatsApp, and Yelp, LinkedIn, OpenTable, Uber, are all options inside Siri.

In settings you can find a list of your apps that support Siri.

You still can only use Siri with voice and can’t type at it.

*Maps:

Apple Maps has been overhauled in iOS 10. Apple has put a slider on top of the map canvas, on the bottom, and generally cleaned up the way it displays pins and locations on the map itself.

The CarPlay navigation view is a little more robust now, too. It can connect to restaurant apps and ride-sharing apps and the navigation view is also better and allows you to search along the route.

*iMessage:

iMessage is becoming a platform all its own. There are third-party apps, stickers, crazy confetti effects, and emoji.  You can embiggen your texts so they slam on the screen when you send them. You can turn your phone sideways and scribble out notes — then send them with the "invisible ink" option so your recipient has to manually reveal them. You can search for GIFs . You can draw on photos before you send them.

The basics are easy, and if you want to go bonkers you can hunt the rest down. our chats could become a multimedia nightmare of stickers, drawings, audio clips, GIFs, heart beats, kisses, and laser effects. Or maybe that's a wonderland, not a nightmare. Your call.

There are also more full-featured apps in iMessage.

*Lock screen and notifications:

 Apple Slide to Unlock feature that was one of the defining features of iPhones since they were first announced is out of the way now. Instead, you'll use Touch ID and press the home button to unlock. It's different, and it takes a little getting used to.

The screen wakes up as soon as you lift your phone up, showing your notifications straight away. To unlock, you press the home button.

The bigger change to the lock screen is how it handles notifications: they've been overhauled all over the OS, and the lock screen gets those benefits. They look different now they're discrete bubbles.

*Widgets:

Today View shows up in three places: the left of the home screen, notification pane, and lock screen. It's a place for you to put all your widgets for weather and news and whatever else, replacing Apple's own half-baked attempts with the old Siri predictive screen. Apple’s own apps have a bunch of widgets ready for use and there are third-party widgets already available, too because they were there on iOS 9. But they’re easier to find now.And Control Center also lets you use 3D Touch on the bottom row of icons (which, frustratingly, you cannot change) but not (again, frustratingly) the system toggles on the top. It’s split into two, sometimes three panes. The first is for system controls, the second for audio controls, and the third (if you need it) for smart home controls.

*Music

Apple Music in iOS 10, is the better. The "Connect" tab, a little feed of content from your favorite artists, has been sent off to live with Ping on the island of forgotten Apple social ideas.

The overall navigation and organization of the app has been clarified and cleaned up. Like Spotify, Apple Music is trying to be at least two things at once: a place to navigate your own music library and a place to discover new music via a subscription service.

The new "Now Playing" screen is also simplified, just don't forget to scroll up a bit to get options like lyrics and the shuffle / repeat buttons.

*Other Apps:

Apple News continues to exist, now with breaking news notifications from key partners. 

Apple Mail. It finally does a decent job threading emails into a single, scrollable pane of messages. you couldn't imagine using a mail client that doesn't offer a "snooze" function anymore, and there are too many good options out there that offer it to consider sticking with Apple Mail.

*CarPlay:

Just like in iOS 10 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices, Apple CarPlay now has the ability to remove or hide stock apps if the user sees fit. It’s natural to assume that not every stock app that ships pre-installed with CarPlay will be useful to the vehicle owner, just like not every app on the iPhone or iPad is utilized frequently. Seeing this, Apple has given users the ability to remove stock apps in CarPlay as well.

This option can be accessed by heading into Settings > General > CarPlay > [Your Car/Receiver Name] on the connected iPhone.

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