iOS 10.0

iOS 10.0 | iOS 10.1

Expressive Messaging,Bubble effects and more…

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