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Here Are the Full Release Notes for iOS 10

Here Are the Full Release Notes for iOS 10

Posted September 13, 2016 at 5:24pm by iClarified
Here are the full release notes for the just released iOS 10 mobile software update.

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 this update, please visit this website:
https://support.apple.com/HT201222

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Paul
Paul - September 16, 2016 at 12:12pm
I have updated my 6s plus to iOS 10 but it keeps freezing. Hope it's corrected soon
Joe Bloggs
Joe Bloggs - September 15, 2016 at 4:55pm
Still no ability to expand/collapse email folders within the mail app, still can't believe that such a rudimentary functionality has been evidently missing since day one, it's as bad as the omission when the very first iPod was release with the simplistic ability to simply cut, copy and paste. Thankfully though when looking to file an opened email from the inbox, new functionality suggests which folder to move the current open email into, selecting 'other' still initially shows all folders with no +/- to expand/collapse. Just how many more revolutionary updates are we to wait? ... beyond disappointed, simply inept, just fix what needs fixing, instead of taking 'courage' to dick about with something that just works.
Secret agent
Secret agent - September 14, 2016 at 3:37am
I used beta for 2 days with a lot of complains not only battery issues . Today I used all day the official release and I am very concerned seeing that a lot of the beta problems are not addressed . So yes I do have rather quick battery drain . I believe based on the lift to wake up . My phone is lit in my pocket all the time ... Also the clock appears very large with some of the fonts not being able to be reduced ( they look grainy and not up to the resolution of the display ) . The new control center is not practical at all . You cannot slide up on the corner right to quick access your camera . I am supposed to receive my iPhone 7 Thursday I've been looking forward to it but to be honest I will change my 6s to 9.3.5 and hold on to it because I am pretty sure I will return the 7 after few days of use :(
Just me
Just me - September 13, 2016 at 9:03pm
My battery now uncharges itself rather quickly. Even when I plug in my cable it uncharges instead of charging. It's like some Adams family type of ish. I love everything about the update but I hate that I can't hide the predictive typing bar over the keyboard. Not only does it annoy me but makes me dizzy. Love love love love the way the new apple music looks. Finally!!! It's nicely organized and makes sense now.
Just me
Just me - September 13, 2016 at 9:05pm
Has anyone else had the issue with the battery after upgrading? I was soooooo looking forward to it but now I have this stupid issue. GRRRR
gamerscul9870
gamerscul9870 - September 13, 2016 at 9:34pm
I actually reset after evey iOS update and it worked fine afterwards.
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