Here are the highlights of the 10 important features of iOS10 :-
3D Touch enhancements for Lock screen and Notification center
- New lock screens with greater interactions that provide more peek details about message
- New notification center with 3Dtouch enhancements
Siri
- Open to developers with enhancements
- Autotype enhancements
- Siri automatically helps with location
- Quick type automatically changes language keyboards
- Extracting information from message about a lunch
Photos
- Advanced facial recognition on iPhone done natively
- Deep learning on photos; you have a horse, mountains in a photo for searching
- Trips can be grouped
- Topics like at the beach, at the water
- Related photos
- Create a whole new memory with photo, video and audio
Maps
- New design of maps, more proactive and suggestions
- New designs applied to navigation with traffic on route with pan and zoom to see upcoming traffic conditions
- Turn by turn in the instrument clusters in car
- Opening maps to developers using Map extensions
- Find a restaurant, book a reservation, pay for it and more all in Apple Maps
Music
- All new re-design – Clarity and Simplicity
- More intuitive and familiar
- Lyrics with songs
- For you is a new discovery mix
- Daily curated playlists
News
- All new design
- Top / Popular / Trending / News creates new topics based on what you browse
- Subscriptions and breaking news notifications
Homekit
- New categories like camera
- New app Home
- Scenes in new app Home
- Tap to open garage door
- Geofencing as you get near doors open
- WatchKit supports HomeKit
Phone
- Voicemail transcriptions
- Tencent security caller id to identify spam
- VoIP apps like WhatsApp show full screen who is calling
Messages
- Support rich links with videos playing inline
- Camera within messages
- Bigger emojis with emoji prediction
- Highlight the emoji-fiable words in a message and replace
- Bubble effects in message; surprises
- Quick affirmation or reply or handwriting bubbles and digital touch
- Messages can take the whole screen
- Custom iMessage apps
Notes
- Collaboration between multiple people
Safari
- Offers side by side views
Privacy
- End to end encryption in FaceTime, Homekit etc
- Searches are anonymous using differential privacy
- Developer preview today for iOS10
Enjoy,
Gary Saggu
Gary Saggu has been coding since the 80’s. He has been programming in C, C++,C#, Java, Objective C and Swift for many years. He has an interest in tech startups, blockchain & big-data technologies. He is a certified Yoga instructor & a scuba diver.
