Posted on 09/13/2016 11:52:51 AM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple has just released iOS 10 to the public. iOS 10 is the latest operating system designed for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.
iOS 10 can be downloaded on the iPhone 5 and later, the iPad mini and later, the iPad 2 and later, and the 6th generation iPod touch.
The update is available on all compatible devices through iTunes or over-the-air in the Settings app. To access the update, go to Settings > General > Software Update.
Currently the update may be unavailable due to high user demand.
iOS 10 is the biggest release of iOS ever. A massive update to Messages brings the power of the App Store to your conversations and makes messaging more personal than ever. Find your route with beautifully redesigned Maps. Relive memories like never before in Photos. Use the power of Siri in more apps than ever. A new Home app to make controlling your home even easier. And all-new Music and News.
iOS 10 introduces new features and improvements including:
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 Apple software updates, please visit this website: https://support.apple.com/HT201222.
I must have been one of the first to try the upgrade (iPhone 6S Plus). It took a couple hours to download, then bricked my phone until I could get to iTunes. Now after another 30 minutes iTunes says the corrected iOS 10.0.1 wouldn’t download correctly and I may have to do a full restore.
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The “bricking” was evidently most common when using over the air updates...
My iPhone 6 update happened without a hitch - as usual.
I always connect my iPad to itunes, download the update..then go into DFU mode and install the update that way, I do a full restore since I dont have much on my Ipad to begin with and I like a clean install..I havent done it yet, reading some of the twitter posts about bricked iPads is making me kind of nervous
Ah, at last we are back to "MacOS". How I have missed thee!!
"OS X" was good, it lasted 15 years, but once you've hit "OS X 11" things have gone too far. Especially if you're one of the half-dozen or so people on Earth that (correctly, mind you) pronounce "X" as "ten" rather than "X" (eks). That always reminds me of this:
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) is a lecturing physician at an American medical school and engaged to the tightly wound socialite Elizabeth (Madeline Kahn). He becomes exasperated when anyone brings up the subject of his grandfather, the infamous mad scientist. To dissociate himself from his forebear, Frederick insists that his surname is pronounced "Fronkensteen."
from MacRumors:
For those who are still having trouble resolving this issue: If you are unable to update or restore thru iTunes it's because the software servers are overloaded. You probably guessed that already. I just talked to Apple support and they confirmed that we'll have to wait until things slow down a bit before the iTunes update will work. So the good news is yes, it's fixed. The bad news is we can't actually access the fix for a little while.
Guess I'm phoneless for a while. Thanks Obam...errr....Tim.
On my iPhone6 it’s 1.1Gigs. What really stinks is that I hadn’t done an update in over a year (it’s a real hassle for me), but just last week I finally broke down and did an update to the 9.3.5, and NOW they come out with this. Ugh.
One thing I do not like that changed when I did the update was that one can no longer clear the search history right in Safari. It seems that to clear the search history one needs to go into settings and it also clears all web data, which has the effect of signing out of websites. Maybe this new version will change that back, but it may be months before I decide to do an update again.
Similar news over here:
Apple software update causes major problems for iPhone and iPad users
Is that why #ThanksObama is trending on twitter LOL I figured people wanted to thank him for something..LOL..I will wait, no rush, I went into iTunes and already downloaded all of the apps that have updates..heard that in IOS 10 they removed the emoji with the gun and replaced it with a water pistol, yeah that is gonna stop violence in the hood/sarc
IPhone 6S, iPhone 6, and iPad Pro 13" all updated over the air without a hitch. One more to go plus an AppleTV and two Apple Watches.
It's necessary. The reason for that is to clear those phishing and ransom ware websites that won't let go of your browser. If clearing history doesn't close the website and web data, then they reopen and you are back to having your browser hijacked all over again.
Finally on the fifth try, my phone updated. Now I need to catch up on four hours of messages...geez.
Im glad that your iphone is working..I think the system is still overloaded so I am going to wait til 8pm Pacific time to do it hopefully by then it will be easier to download/install
Really impressed with the iMessage. They really out-did themselves there. Made that app lots of fun.
Or to a Windows user. Windows 10 just changed their Ray Gun to a revolver. LOL!
The second lesson taught in Naval Aviation: Don't fly an "A" model. (Or at least not until you have a heart-to-heart talk with a test pilot/flight instructor who's dealt with the beast)
The First Lesson? Avoid collisions. Collisions with the ground, collisions with the water, collisions with those nasty sky-full-of-rocks-and-trees aka mountains....
Anyway, I figure I'll give it a few days for all the bugs to crawl out of the woodpile. Best of luck to all you folks just gotta be in a hurry.
My older iMac is stuck on OS 10.7.5 which works for me.
For later.
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