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Everything New in iOS 9.3 Preview: Night Shift, Secure Notes, Education, More

Everything New in iOS 9.3 Preview: Night Shift, Secure Notes, Education, More

Posted January 11, 2016 at 7:40pm by iClarified
Apple has added several new features in the beta of iOS 9.3 including Night Shift, secure Notes, more personalized News, an improved Health app, updates to CarPlay, and new Education features.

This latest iOS release adds numerous innovations to the world’s most advanced mobile operating system. There are improvements to a wide range of apps, along with great new additions to CarPlay. iOS 9.3 may even help you get a good night’s sleep. And you’ll find a preview of new features that will make using iPad in schools easier and better for students and admins.

Here's a look at the new features...


Night Shift:
Many studies have shown that exposure to bright blue light in the evening can affect your circadian rhythms and make it harder to fall asleep. Night Shift uses your iOS device’s clock and geolocation to determine when it’s sunset in your location. Then it automatically shifts the colors in your display to the warmer end of the spectrum, making it easier on your eyes. In the morning, it returns the display to its regular settings. Pleasant dreams.

Everything New in iOS 9.3 Preview: Night Shift, Secure Notes, Education, More


Secure Notes:
Notes is one of those apps you use all the time for all kinds of things. Now you can secure the notes that contain your most personal data — such as financial details, medical info, or website logins — with a password or fingerprint. You can also sort notes by date created, date modified, or alphabetically.
Everything New in iOS 9.3 Preview: Night Shift, Secure Notes, Education, More

More Personalized News:
The articles in For You are now better tailored to your particular interests. And to help you discover new Favorites, For You suggests trending topics and Editors’ Picks. When a story contains video, you can play it right from your feed. On your iPhone, you can view everything in landscape. And when you check for updates, the latest stories appear much faster — so you can catch up on the day’s events quickly and easily.
Everything New in iOS 9.3 Preview: Night Shift, Secure Notes, Education, More


Improved Health Dashboard:
It’s simpler than ever to find third-party apps to track your health and wellness. Categories such as Weight, Workouts, and Sleep have a new slider menu that reveals great apps you can easily add to your Health dashboard. The Health app also now displays your move, exercise, and stand data, as well as your goals, from Apple Watch. So you can see all your health metrics in one place and easily share your data with third‑party apps.
Everything New in iOS 9.3 Preview: Night Shift, Secure Notes, Education, More

CarPlay Updates:
With iOS 9.3, CarPlay adds even more useful features. New and For You from Apple Music — with songs, artists, and albums handpicked by experts, plus selections based on your preferences— are right at hand on your screen. And the Nearby feature in Maps lets you find gas, parking, restaurants, coffee, and more with a tap. So you’ll know the best places to stop, whether you’re on your daily commute or an epic road trip.
Everything New in iOS 9.3 Preview: Night Shift, Secure Notes, Education, More


Education:
● Shared iPad: When a 1:1 student-to-iPad ratio isn’t possible, Shared iPad offers an elegant solution that lets students enjoy the benefits of having their own iPad in whatever classroom they’re in. They simply log in to any iPad, and their content is ready to go.

● Classroom App: Every teacher can use a little help. With Classroom, you can launch everyone’s apps at the same time, then guide what students are looking at on their devices. So teachers can focus on teaching, and students can focus on learning.

● Apple School Manager: Introducing one central place for admins to create Apple IDs, build courses, and access everything you need to deploy iPad in your school. All from the web browser on your Mac or PC.

● Managed Apple IDs: Apple School Manager offers something completely new: Managed Apple IDs. Like any Apple ID, they allow you to store documents in iCloud, enroll in iTunes U courses, and more. But Managed Apple IDs are designed just for schools, so you can easily reset passwords, audit accounts, create IDs in bulk, and create customized roles for everyone in the district.

Everything New in iOS 9.3 Preview: Night Shift, Secure Notes, Education, More

Multiple Apple Watches:
iOS 9.3 supports pairing multiple watches running watchOS 2.2.


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e.kl
e.kl - February 24, 2016 at 9:00am
what about Siri in hebrew?
Johny
Johny - January 28, 2016 at 12:09am
My question is very simple: Are Secure Notes SAFE in iCloud after back up? Because from what we know, End to end encrypted immessages are kept in plain text on Apple serves after you back up your iOS device to iCloud. Whats the point of these so called security features when Apple servers is the weakest point?
gamerscul9870
gamerscul9870 - January 28, 2016 at 12:19am
Must be running a jailbroken iPhone.
DeXtER420
DeXtER420 - January 23, 2016 at 7:06am
that's a cool version for Apple when its is releasing ! i wanna see it soon plz reply this comment!!
dami
dami - January 20, 2016 at 3:37pm
Next update add must bio Protected password apps inside offcial firmware then no need to use jailbreak must add this option and watusi apps for whatsapp invisible chat for bussness man client no disturbe and not see other when i m working chat for other clients and barrel app thanks for reply apple software creaters.
daniel georgiev
daniel georgiev - January 12, 2016 at 4:52pm
For PC you can try Iris http://iristech.co . It's alternative to f.lux and Night Shift working on Windows, Mac, Linux :)
Flux & Siri
Flux & Siri - January 12, 2016 at 5:47am
Finally we can have flux! Also, a Hebrew version of Siri
gamerscul9870
gamerscul9870 - January 12, 2016 at 2:37am
f.lux my ass! Night shift is finally here. Now I can easily fool my family with private browsing so I can still secretly work on other peoples homework for money. In case you guys are concerned, I do edgenuity work.
gamerscul9870
gamerscul9870 - January 12, 2016 at 2:39am
and by fool, I mean make them think private browsing it actually nighttime so they'll not know I'm running private browsing. That is if safari gets a black look to resemble might time.
Great
Great - January 11, 2016 at 11:54pm
Apple is taking out f.lux and 1password with iOS 9.3!
iamevl
iamevl - January 11, 2016 at 10:30pm
Apple fkn love the jailbreak scene because.. free R&D!
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AverageReviewer
AverageReviewer - January 11, 2016 at 8:51pm
I feel like f.lux could have a valid law suit, they won't allow f.lix on the App Store so that Apple can implement their own rip off version of something that jailbreakers have had for years its BS
gamerscul9870
gamerscul9870 - January 12, 2016 at 2:36am
Jailbreak only had it because apple focused on so much and finally have time to get to this. I wouldn't say BS on that!
Amatmulisha
Amatmulisha - January 11, 2016 at 7:51pm
Very exciting about that night shift mode.i thinks its a handy and usefull for a person that have insomnia,like me.cant wait for this update.one more thing please fix a bugs for whatsapp notifications,its very annoying me.
John
John - January 11, 2016 at 7:46pm
more refinements! i love this especially the fact that I now have night mode and things, its definately a turn in the right direction for iOS
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