FYI see below!
iOS 10
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>
Thanks,
Matt.from.florida@xxxxxxxxx
