“Apple took the wraps off of the latest version of its iOS operating system at its big developers conference Monday, and it promises to bring a boatload of new features to your iPhone and iPad,” Daniel Howley writes for Yahoo Finance. “Available later this fall, iOS 10 is one of the largest updates to the operating system to date.”
Howley writes, “The OS has been upgraded from the bottom up, but these are the seven biggest innovations.”
The 7 best new features of Apple’s iOS 10:
1. Messages
2. Lock screen
3. Photos
4. Siri
5. Apple Music
6. Maps
7. Home
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: The more we dig into Apple’s iOS 10, the more interesting it gets. It really is, as Tim COok described it, the mother of all iOS releases!
I for one was VERY VERY impressed with what i saw yesterday… Specially ios 10.. Cant wait for it!.. That messaging stuff is soooo cool. And of ourse so much more !
Also Some of the improvments in watch os ..and the progress in TVOS…
Good job Tim and Team !
Easily impressed, aren’t you?
Lets just say ‘not as ignorant as you ‘
Testy little sycophant, too.
Thanks for your valuable and and insightful contribution to discussion, Frank.
Sticking up for your boyfriend, that’s real nice.
Frank calm it fella the stress might make your balls drop lol.
You like mens’ balls?
For some of us, having RAW processing abilities is a great addition too!
I have long been a critic of iOS and monday’s WWDC hasn’t changed anything. Apple no longer cares about being simple, it now puts effort into being cutesy.
Messages — predictive text may be helpful, but emoticons are not. Seems like just another way to force users onto more expensive cellular data plans.
Lock screen: rearranging the distractions. I already hate it that people now pay more attention to their phones and Apple watches than to the people who are attempting to talk to them face to face.
Photos – not sure I trust Apple to be secure or cost effective. This is clearly another iCloud sales pitch. You could do all the same by archiving your photos using a more powerful archival tool on your Mac. Facial recognition is creepy and will likely be innaccurate, as they all are.
Siri – no thanks to voice control. Just give me fewer swipes and clicks to the app, thanks.
Apple Music — modest improvements but still a pretty bad interface with list upon list of “curated” stuff pushed at you, with very poor ability for user search of deep metadata.
Maps — best part of the whole show. Finally Apple seems to be getting somewhere. We shall see if it’s too late. Accuracy will be everything. This just brings Apple up to where every other mapping company was a few years ago.
Home — sorry, but no matter how many times Apple drops the word “security” does not make it so. Every single home automation system to date has been compromised. Apple didn’t explain how it ensures things aren’t spoofed. How tragic it would be for someone to misplace an Apple device and then come home to find the thief had a run through their house because Apple’s homekit allowed for automatic proximity-based unlocking. Not that it matters, of course. Anyone carrying around their little electronic tracking devices these days is constantly pinging their location, making it very easy for “friends” (practically anyone online) to know when you’re out of town.
My biggest complaint is that Apple seems to think complicating the iPhone is an improvement. Making it entirely reliant on subscription-based services seems to be the end goal, just like all the other big tech companies. But does Apple make it easy for users to find, evaluate, and purchase truly great standalone apps that are ad-free, subscription-free, and genuinely useful? Good luck, Apple doesn’t help you in finding the gems amongst the 1.5 million garbage & time-wasting apps that flood the App Store now.
Wow people are so tetchy on here today, though at least you tried to explain why as opposed to Frank who was, well just bring frankly dim and moronic as is his nature. You though I can sympathise a little with, the stress of modern living can be tough, but it sounds like you would be happier in a classic 1950s atomic family setting, though without all the premonitions of silver suits no doubt. Good luck on that one but I suspect the overwhelming majority are headed in a different direction.
Spy, your opinion is noted.
I side with Macuser and the tech luddites who are very productive with their old Macs, some running Snow Leopard or earlier. I still have a Ti Powerbook G4 serving up photos and media at home, no new iOS crap required. It just works and back then Apple made it so one could upgrade the beast to extend its life.
The WWDC yesterday left me bored. Everything Apple showed looked like it was more intended to entertain teenagers than get stuff done. Who wants to talk to a snarky Siri or listen to other people do it? Who needs a more complicated iMessage? Who needs a $500 watch to unlock a Mac? Why would I ever want Apple to automatically take my documents and send them to an unspecified server somewhere else on the planet? Not impressed.
Personal computing leaves the end user in control. I guess your vision of the future is to be entirely reliant on Apple’s umbilical cord at all times. Irony that this is the company that released the 1984 ad. Now Apple demands that you subscribe to news, music, server rental, … and now use iOS to pay for stuff giving Apple a nice middle man cut of each transaction.
Sorry, Apple isn’t thinking different anymore. They’re just trying to force users to buy every size screen you can, and then just trust that Apple will be able to sync them all despite ample evidence to the contrary.
On point. The “mother of all iOS updates?” This article discussing the best things calls out how it’s all just trying to keep up with the competitors.
Lift to Wake: “Motorola’s Moto X offered a similar function”
Photos: “You can already do that in Google’s Photos app,”
Siri: “won’t prove as useful as something like Amazon’s Alexa”
Maps: “getting some improvements that bring it more in line with its rival, though don’t outdo it.”
Ummm… Those are already existing things, so not new features in and of themselves. Tell me what is new within each to make it meaningful.
Someone needs some basic iOS help. Allow me to point you to some of those old features called new here…
1. Messages – the icon is a white speech balloon on a green background. You use it to send texts and pictures to friends and family. Oddly enough, the name of this app is “Messages”.
2. Lock screen – This is the mostly blank screen from which you must use Touch ID or Enter Passcode to unlock your phone for use. If yours isn’t active, you go to Settings>General>Auto-Lock to set the time delay for it to come on.
3. Photos – This one looks like a color chart on a white background. It is where your photos are stored. Genius! And they called it “Photos”!
4. Siri – Hold down the Home button for a bit, and Siri will come on and offer to assist you. If not active, go to Settings>General>Siri to turn the feature on.
5. Apple Music – This one, finally, is a bit trickier. It is simply called “Music”, and the icon is a couple of eighth notes beamed together on a white background. Once inside, you can then access music already stored on your device (under My Music tab at the bottom) or other options where Apple Music subscribers can listen to “Radio” channels and whatnot.
6. Maps – Much maligned over the years (yeah, it has been around a loooong time – definitely not new), Maps looks like a street map with a highway marker on it and is called Maps. Go figure.
7. Home – I’ve already mentioned the Home button above. Some don’t like it, but it has been there from day one. Then there’s the Home screen. This is the first screen that opens when you wake you iDevice. Sorta like a home page. But that still isn’t the Home this one is talking about. Okay, you got me on this one. It *is* new, even though the name might make you think it is the aforementioned old things.
There you have it. Six old features and one new one (with an old, under-descriptive name) on the list of “The 7 best new features of Apple’s iOS 10”. Sorry that doesn’t bother you. It does me.
Absolutely NONE of your explanations say how any of these are radically improved in the upcoming iOS 10 versus the current iOS 9. THAT is the point SJB was attempting to make. Sure, many of them were tweaked, but how were they radically improved so that anyone can consider them vastly better?
With very few exceptions most of the posters on this site do know a bit about macOS, iOS, tvOS, and even watchOS. You’re treating a person as though they know nothing at all (while not really responding to the issue at all) is inappropriate.
Sorry you missed the fact that it was me responding to the one star someone gave me. The initial one star rating missed the point of my post, and so I proved exactly what you have pointed out with my second post. 😀
Split screen multitasking would have been awesome! But nope 😐
Maybe on iphone 8…..9……or 10
I just want to be able to name my photos and add a description to them on my iPad like you can on the desktop app! Ahhhhh!