Apple releases iOS 10

MacDailyNews ^ | September 13, 2016 1:09 PM

[Swordmaker]

Apple has just released iOS 10 to the public. iOS 10 is the latest operating system designed for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.

iOS 10 can be downloaded on the iPhone 5 and later, the iPad mini and later, the iPad 2 and later, and the 6th generation iPod touch.

The update is available on all compatible devices through iTunes or over-the-air in the Settings app. To access the update, go to Settings > General > Software Update.

Currently the update may be unavailable due to high user demand.

iOS 10 is the biggest release of iOS ever. A massive update to Messages brings the power of the App Store to your conversations and makes messaging more personal than ever. Find your route with beautifully redesigned Maps. Relive memories like never before in Photos. Use the power of Siri in more apps than ever. A new Home app to make controlling your home even easier. And all-new Music and News.

iOS 10 introduces new features and improvements including:

Messages

• Expressive Messaging
◦ Bubble effects let you send messages loudly, gently, slam or with invisible ink
◦ Full-screen effects to celebrate special moments
◦ Tapback for quick replies to messages, links, and photos
◦ Handwritten messages animate like ink on paper
◦ Digital Touch lets you send sketches, taps, and heartbeats 
◦ Tap to replace can emojify your text with just a tap
◦ Rich links show a preview of web pages you share
• iMessage apps
◦ New App Store for iMessage 
◦ Use the power of apps in Messages to share and collaborate with friends 
◦ Download stickers to send and place on text bubbles and photos

Siri

• Siri now works with the following types of apps 
◦ Messaging apps to send, search and read back text messages 
◦ VoIP apps to place phone calls 
◦ Photos apps to search for images and photos 
◦ Ride service apps to book rides 
◦ Payment apps to make personal payments 
◦ Fitness apps to start, stop, and pause workouts 
◦ CarPlay automaker apps to adjust climate, radio, seat, and personal settings

Maps

• All new look
◦ Proactive suggestions for places you’re likely to go next, based on your routine or appointments in Calendar
◦ Improved search with new callout design, clustered results and category filters
◦ Home, work, favorite locations, and locations from upcoming Calendar events are displayed on the map
◦ Displays where your car is parked via CarPlay or Bluetooth
◦ Weather for the currently viewed area 
• Extensions
◦ Make a reservation within Maps using extensions from participating reservations apps
◦ Book a ride to a destination within Maps using extensions from participating ride service apps
• Turn-by-turn navigation improvements
◦ Search along route for gas stations, food, and coffee shops 
◦ Automatic view adjustment of the road ahead 
◦ Use pan and zoom during navigation
◦ Option to avoid tolls and highways

Photos

• Advanced face recognition designed with deep learning to automatically group similar faces together
• Object and scene recognition to intelligently search for photos by what’s in them using advanced computer vision that scans your library locally on device 
• Places album to see all your photos, videos and Live Photos on a map
• Memories
◦ Intelligently highlights forgotten events, trips, and people, and presents them in a beautiful collection
◦ Memory movies automatically edited with theme music, titles, and cinematic transitions
◦ Related memories make it easy to rediscover even more photos in your collection, based on location, time, people, scenes and objects 
◦ Easily share with family and friends
• Brilliance control applies region-specific adjustments to brightness, highlights and contrast

Home

• New Home app to securely manage and control HomeKit enabled accessories 
• Scenes to control groups of accessories with just a tap 
• Rich Notifications with quick actions to control accessories
• Optionally share home access with family and friends
• Remote access and automation of accessories with Apple TV or iPad

Apple Music

• An all-new design for Apple Music brings greater clarity and simplicity to every aspect of the experience
• Navigate your Library with an improved menu and see all of the Downloaded Music that you can play on your device while offline
• See recommendations in For You that highlight mixes, playlists, albums, and Connect posts—selected for you based on the music and artists you love
• Visit Browse to more easily see exclusive releases, find curated playlists, and discover the most important new releases—picked by our editors each week
• Listen to Radio more easily—clearly see what’s live on Beats 1, hear your favorite shows on-demand, or choose a curated station for any genre of music
• Play music with an improved Now Playing experience—swipe up to view available lyrics and quickly see or edit songs that are coming up next

Apple News

• An all-new design in For You adds bold typography, vibrant color, and distinct sections that make it easier to find stories on specific topics
• See the most important stories of the day within Top Stories—updated by our editors throughout the day
• Find the most popular stories right now within Trending Stories—selected based on what others are reading
• See all of your stories grouped into easy-to-understand sections on the topics you follow or read
• Discover the best and most interesting stories of the week within Featured Stories—selected by our editors
• Share stories more easily—just tap the icon on any story to send it to a friend right from For You
• Receive breaking news notifications from some of your most trusted sources
• Subscribe to your favorite magazines and newspapers directly in News
• New personalized Today View widget lets you keep up with the latest stories throughout the day

Experience

• Raise to Wake automatically wakes the screen as you raise your iPhone
• Rich notifications that support real time information, audio, photos and videos
• Today view is redesigned and supports all new widgets for apps like Weather, Up Next, Maps, Stocks and more
• Control Center is redesigned with easier to access controls including dedicated cards for music playback and Home
• Expanded use of 3D Touch
◦ Lock screen notifications to support an expanded view and access to quick actions
◦ New quick actions for built in apps like Weather, Stocks, Reminders, Health, Home, FaceTime, iCloud Drive and Settings 
◦ Home Screen widgets 
◦ Control Center for access to quick actions for Flashlight, Timer, Calculator and Camera
◦ Clear all in Notification Center  

QuickType

• New emoji, including gender diverse options to existing characters, single parent family variations, rainbow flag and beautiful redesigns of popular emoji
• Contextual predictions for current location, recent addresses, contact information and calendar availability using deep neural network technology
• Emoji predictions
• Calendar events are intelligently populated using deep learning technology with information from your conversations in Mail and Messages
• Multi-lingual typing now lets you type in two languages at once without having to switch keyboards
• Rest & Type on iPad intelligently adapts to your unique typing patterns
• Predictive typing now uses deep neural network technology for greater prediction accuracy

Phone

• Voicemail transcription (beta)
• Spam call alerts with spam call identification apps 
• Support for third party VoIP apps receiving calls on the Lock screen, including support for Call Waiting, Mute and Do Not Disturb

Other improvements 

• Apple Pay in Safari 
• View two pages at once using Split View in Safari on iPad
• Notes collaboration lets you invite people to work on your notes together
• Markup support in Messages, Photos and PDFs stored in Notes
• Bedtime Alarm in the Clock app lets you set a regular sleep schedule and receive bedtime reminders
• Health adds support for health records and organ donation (US Only)
• Stabilization support for Live Photos for improved camera capture
• Live Filters support when capturing Live Photos 
• iCloud Drive now supports Desktop and Documents folders from macOS
• Live search results in Spotlight for Chinese and Japanese
• Siri support for Spanish (Chile), Chinese (Cantonese – China), English (Ireland), English (South Africa)
• Ling Wai and Kaiti Black document fonts for Chinese
• Yu Kyokasho and Toppan Bunkyu fonts for Japanese
• New definition dictionaries in Traditional Chinese and Danish and bilingual dictionaries in Dutch and Italian
• New keyboard for Spanish (Latin America)

Accessibility  

• Magnifier now uses the camera on your iPhone or iPad like a digital magnifying glass for real-life objects
• New range of display color filters to support different forms of color blindness or other vision challenges
• VoiceOver adds a Pronunciation Editor to customize the way words are pronounced, additional voices, and support for multiple audio sources
• Additional text highlighting options in Speak Screen and Speak Selection, as well as the ability to speak keyboard letters and predictive typing suggestions to support multi-modal learning     
• Switch control now lets you control iOS, macOS and tvOS all from the same iPhone or iPad, so you don’t need to configure switches for the secondary device
• Software TTY allows you to place and receive TTY calls without the need for traditional hardware teletypewriter accessories

Some features may not be available for all devices, countries or all areas, for more information visit: http://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability/ and http://www.apple.com/ios/whats-new.

For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit this website: https://support.apple.com/HT201222.

[Swordmaker]

Apple released iOS 10. . . and yes, the revolver emoji is gone, replaced by the stupid squirt gun. However, when you send that squirt gun emoji to any non-Apple user, it will revert to a revolver. LOL!

In addition, Apple released iTunes update to 12.5.1, Apple Watch 3.0, and an Apple TV update. — PING!

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[House Atreides]

Just updated my iPad Pro. Now it’s time to explore all the new enhancements/improvements whilst I await the imminent arrival of the anti-Apple trolls to this thread.

[Swordmaker]

Apple releases watchOS 3 with App Dock, instant app launching, new watch faces, and more

Apple today released watchOS 3, the newest version of the operating system that runs on the Apple Watch,” Juli Clover reports for MacRumors. “watchOS 3 is a significant update to the watchOS operating system, introducing an overhauled interface, new apps, new watch faces, and impressive performance improvements.”

“watchOS 3 can be downloaded through the dedicated Apple Watch app on the iPhone by going to General -> Software Update,” Clover reports. “To install the update, the Apple Watch must have 50 percent battery, it must be placed on the charger, and it must be in range of the iPhone. watchOS 3 is available for all Apple Watch models, but requires an iPhone running iOS 10 to install, which was also released today.”

“watchOS 3 features a new dock that houses your favorite and recently used apps so they’re quicker to access,” Clover reports. “Up to 10 apps saved to the dock are kept up to date at all times and are able to launch instantly, cutting down on app loading times.”

Read more in the full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: It really is like getting a whole new Apple Watch!

[Swordmaker]

Apple Releases tvOS 10 With New Siri Features, Improved Search, Dark Mode and More

Tuesday September 13, 2016 9:56 am PDT by Juli Clover

Apple today released tvOS 10, the latest operating system designed for the fourth-generation Apple TV, bringing a range of improvements that make it easier to locate and watch content on Apple's set-top box.

tvOS 10 can be downloaded over the air through the Settings app on the fourth-generation Apple TV by going to System --> Software Update. Those who have automatic software updates turned on will be upgraded to tvOS 10 automatically.

In tvOS 10, Apple has brought improved search, expanded Siri capabilities, a new dark mode, a Continuity option for using the iPhone for text input, automatic download of universal apps, and more.

With tvOS 10, Siri is able to search for movies by topic, bringing up content around a theme like "high school comedies from the 80s" or "movies about dinosaurs," and a new Live Tune-In feature lets Siri go directly to a live channel in a supported app.

A Single Sign-On feature for pay TV apps that lets users sign in once with their cable credentials to access all live cable content included in a cable subscription was supposed to be included in tvOS 10, but it appears Single Sign-On was not included in the first version of the operating system and will be coming at a later date.

Third-party apps can do more in tvOS 10 with developer APIs for recording and live broadcasting, accessing iCloud Photo Library photos, using HomeKit, and developing games with more complicated controls that necessitate a game controller.

iOS 10 features like the Apple Music overhaul and the new Photos "Memories" feature have been ported to tvOS, allowing users to access the new Apple Music interface and view favorite Photos memories.

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For additional details on what's included in the tvOS 10 operating system update, make sure to check out our full tvOS 10 roundup.

Related Roundups: Apple TV, tvOS 10
Buyer's Guide: Apple TV (Neutral)

[pepsi_junkie]

I’ll have to tune in to Rush tomorrow to hear all about it, for the entire show.

[dayglored]

> ...when you send that squirt gun emoji to any non-Apple user, it will revert to a revolver...

That will no doubt make for some interesting and confusing exchanges, since each person can't see what the other sees, but assumes the other is seeing what they themselves are seeing.

How foolish on Apple's part to break from a standard representation. *sigh*

[Paladin2]

Hasn’t iOS X been on laptops and desktops for a while?

[dayglored]

Big update indeed. Looks like this is about 850MB for my iPhone 5c which is currently up-to-date at 9.3.5.

Better get rid of some of the other stuff and make room for the download....

[Paladin2]

Oranges rule....

[Swordmaker]

Apple releases iTunes 12.5.1 with all-new Apple Music design, Siri capability, and more

Apple today released iTunes 12.5.1 featuring an all-new Apple Music design and more.

Now with an all-new Apple Music design which brings greater clarity and simplicity to every aspect of the experience.

This update includes support for iOS 10. It also adds enhancements designed for macOS Sierra including:

• Siri. Play music from your Library and Apple Music using your voice. Just ask Siri.
• Picture-in-Picture. Watch videos as you multitask and use different apps. Your video floats above your desktop in any corner of the screen.

iTunes 12.5.1 is available via Software Update.

MacDailyNews Take: Apple Music is improved. How much of an improvement it is has yet to be determined.

[Swordmaker]

Hasn’t iOS X been on laptops and desktops for a while?

No, OS X is a different operating system. iOS is the mobile operating system and has just released the tenth version. OS X will be moving to MacOS 12 Sierra in about a month or so, currently it's called OS X.11.5 El Capitan.

[moose07]

“850MB”

That’s not a download...that’s an invasion!
:)

[bigbob]

“New emoji, including gender diverse options to existing characters, single parent family variations, rainbow flag and beautiful redesigns of popular emoji”

Hilarious.

[Swordmaker]

Big update indeed. Looks like this is about 850MB for my iPhone 5c which is currently up-to-date at 9.3.5.

1.7 GB on my iPad Pro and 1.6 GB on my girlfriend's iPhone 6. I didn't notice on my iPhone 6S.

[Leroy S. Mort]

Might want to hold off on that iOS10 upgrade:

http://betanews.com/2016/09/13/ios-10-update-bricking-iphones-and-ipads/

[Paladin2]

Well then, can I put it in a VirtualBox on my LINUX Desktop?

[smokingfrog]

Don't update. They'll take your gun. /s 🐸 🔫

[Sarah Barracuda]

Good thing I didnt update yet but supposedly that issue has now been resolved..reminds me a few months back some IOS update came out that bricked all of the new iPad Pro(9.7 inch) so I held off and a few weeks later a fix came out for it

[usconservative]

I plan on waiting AT LEAST two weeks for the unforseen bugs to be reported and worked out. Not going to risk bricking myh iPad Mini.