Features
-New UI
-Apple Music Updates
If you’re an Apple Music subscriber, allowing Apple to handle all of your music streaming needs across multiple devices, then iOS 10 will definitely appeal to you. iOS 10 still continues to promote Apple Music as a perfect streaming option through the native Music app, but Apple has seen fit to make some changes that will hopefully improve the overall experience. First of all, there’s been a redesign of certain views within Apple Music to try and allow users to more easily find and discover new content. That includes focusing more on black and white background and visible text over color changing views based on album art.
Rather than allow the new Music app to look dull and monochromatic, Apple has put additional emphasis on the album artwork to bring the album or songs page to life, and to try to avoid a dull black and white look. There’s also additional emphasis being placed on the company’s 3D Touch technology within the Apple Music experience that should hopefully allow users to interact with and share content more efficiently.
As an Apple Music user, how often do you actually interact with and use the Connect feature? Do you even use it at all, or do you remove it from the tab bar in favor of showing the Playlists option? Well, after trying to push the ability to “connect” with artists when Apple Music was initially unveiled, it seems that the company has conceded that it just hasn’t been executed correctly and doesn’t really warrant a section of its own. To that end, Connect will no longer command its own tab bar item in the main interface, and will instead form part of the For You experience within iOS 10.
-Siri Improvements
improvements to Siri have been a long time coming. A number of high-profile companies have shown their hands recently by investing in, and making significant improvements to digital assistants and products that have that assistant at the forefront of the experience. Apple was in danger of being left behind if Siri didn’t improve. Well, with iOS 10, Siri most definitely improves and becomes a lot smarter than it currently is thanks to the more advanced A.I. and the integration of the VocalIQ technology that Apple acquired last year.
With iOS 10, Siri is able to understand and process deeper natural language based questions, such as “show me local Italian restaurants that offer disabled car parking and have free Wi-Fi access”.
In addition to all this, Apple also clearly believes that Siri is now performant and powerful enough to be offered to third-party developers for integration into App Store apps through the release of a Siri SDK.
-Dark Mode
This is probably going to be one of the most popular new additions to come to iOS in recent times. With iOS 10, Apple is bringing Dark Mode to iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. This mode basically turns the color and theme of iOS to more darker tone, with white text on black background of sorts, and is available system-wide in iOS.
-Photo App Updates
Apple recognizes that the stock Photo app is likely to be one of the most used apps on iOS. The company also seems to recognize that the experience really isn’t up to scratch, and that the discontinuation of the iPhoto app for iOS came at a time when the stock Photos app simply couldn’t offer the same experience and power that users were used to. The unveiling of iOS 10 looks to try and solve the concerns by bringing additional power to the Photos app that goes way above and beyond what is currently available.
The real focus here is placed on the photograph editing abilities within the app. Rather than simply being able to cut and crop an image or change the filter and brightness levels, users are now able to do things like directly edit EXIF data, as well as manipulate certain elements of a photo with special tools, rather than changing all of the characteristics of a single photo.
-Apple Pay Updates
While the Apple Pay team is continuing to push the payment platform into different markets around the world as part of growing partnership with financial institutions, Apple’s engineers are developing the platform from a functionality perspective.
iOS 10 introduces the ability to use Apple Pay to pay for goods and services through supporting websites online.
Apple has also built additional power into the iMessage service to support peer-to-peer payments. Rather than having to find additional ways to pay a contact some money, iOS 10 users will be able to send cash through iMessage and Apple Pay directly to another person.
-New Home App (for HomeKit)
Apple has finally seen fit to introduced a simple but highly powerful app for HomeKit called Home into iOS 10. Rather than having to use multiple third-party apps to control different aspects of the connected home, Apple now allow users to invoke the power of the new app to interact with and control all HomeKit-compatible hardware through one powerful interface.
-Compatibility
For a list of devices that are compatible with iOS 10, check out our post here: iOS 10 Beta Compatibility For iPhone, iPad, iPod touch.
Release Date
As always, the first developer beta is available for immediate download today. The full and final version of iOS 10 will be available to everyone this fall.
-New UI
-Apple Music Updates
If you’re an Apple Music subscriber, allowing Apple to handle all of your music streaming needs across multiple devices, then iOS 10 will definitely appeal to you. iOS 10 still continues to promote Apple Music as a perfect streaming option through the native Music app, but Apple has seen fit to make some changes that will hopefully improve the overall experience. First of all, there’s been a redesign of certain views within Apple Music to try and allow users to more easily find and discover new content. That includes focusing more on black and white background and visible text over color changing views based on album art.
Rather than allow the new Music app to look dull and monochromatic, Apple has put additional emphasis on the album artwork to bring the album or songs page to life, and to try to avoid a dull black and white look. There’s also additional emphasis being placed on the company’s 3D Touch technology within the Apple Music experience that should hopefully allow users to interact with and share content more efficiently.
As an Apple Music user, how often do you actually interact with and use the Connect feature? Do you even use it at all, or do you remove it from the tab bar in favor of showing the Playlists option? Well, after trying to push the ability to “connect” with artists when Apple Music was initially unveiled, it seems that the company has conceded that it just hasn’t been executed correctly and doesn’t really warrant a section of its own. To that end, Connect will no longer command its own tab bar item in the main interface, and will instead form part of the For You experience within iOS 10.
-Siri Improvements
improvements to Siri have been a long time coming. A number of high-profile companies have shown their hands recently by investing in, and making significant improvements to digital assistants and products that have that assistant at the forefront of the experience. Apple was in danger of being left behind if Siri didn’t improve. Well, with iOS 10, Siri most definitely improves and becomes a lot smarter than it currently is thanks to the more advanced A.I. and the integration of the VocalIQ technology that Apple acquired last year.
With iOS 10, Siri is able to understand and process deeper natural language based questions, such as “show me local Italian restaurants that offer disabled car parking and have free Wi-Fi access”.
In addition to all this, Apple also clearly believes that Siri is now performant and powerful enough to be offered to third-party developers for integration into App Store apps through the release of a Siri SDK.
-Dark Mode
This is probably going to be one of the most popular new additions to come to iOS in recent times. With iOS 10, Apple is bringing Dark Mode to iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. This mode basically turns the color and theme of iOS to more darker tone, with white text on black background of sorts, and is available system-wide in iOS.
-Photo App Updates
Apple recognizes that the stock Photo app is likely to be one of the most used apps on iOS. The company also seems to recognize that the experience really isn’t up to scratch, and that the discontinuation of the iPhoto app for iOS came at a time when the stock Photos app simply couldn’t offer the same experience and power that users were used to. The unveiling of iOS 10 looks to try and solve the concerns by bringing additional power to the Photos app that goes way above and beyond what is currently available.
The real focus here is placed on the photograph editing abilities within the app. Rather than simply being able to cut and crop an image or change the filter and brightness levels, users are now able to do things like directly edit EXIF data, as well as manipulate certain elements of a photo with special tools, rather than changing all of the characteristics of a single photo.
-Apple Pay Updates
While the Apple Pay team is continuing to push the payment platform into different markets around the world as part of growing partnership with financial institutions, Apple’s engineers are developing the platform from a functionality perspective.
iOS 10 introduces the ability to use Apple Pay to pay for goods and services through supporting websites online.
Apple has also built additional power into the iMessage service to support peer-to-peer payments. Rather than having to find additional ways to pay a contact some money, iOS 10 users will be able to send cash through iMessage and Apple Pay directly to another person.
-New Home App (for HomeKit)
Apple has finally seen fit to introduced a simple but highly powerful app for HomeKit called Home into iOS 10. Rather than having to use multiple third-party apps to control different aspects of the connected home, Apple now allow users to invoke the power of the new app to interact with and control all HomeKit-compatible hardware through one powerful interface.
-Compatibility
For a list of devices that are compatible with iOS 10, check out our post here: iOS 10 Beta Compatibility For iPhone, iPad, iPod touch.
Release Date
As always, the first developer beta is available for immediate download today. The full and final version of iOS 10 will be available to everyone this fall.
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