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iOS 10 |OT| Siri, you're free

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Homepage: http://www.apple.com/ios/ios-10/

Release Date: 9/13/16

What's new:

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

Compatibility:

iPhone
iPhone 7
iPhone 7 Plus
iPhone 6s
iPhone 6s Plus
iPhone 6
iPhone 6 Plus
iPhone SE
iPhone 5s
iPhone 5c
iPhone 5

iPad
iPad Pro 12.9-inch
iPad Pro 9.7-inch
iPad Air 2
iPad Air
iPad 4th generation
iPad mini 4
iPad mini 3
iPad mini 2

iPod
iPod touch 6th generation
 
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brianmcdoogle

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The thing that bothers me the most is that the lock sound is too quiet. Also, ironically, for the first time since I've use an iPhone I've been having Bluetooth pairing problems.

I also want Siri for all third party apps, not selected partners. I want Overcast to be able to use it.
 
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Jeffrey

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its a fairly large or fairly minuscule update depending on how much apple ecosystem you use.

They really should package those separately like how google handles google play apps on android, letting them do more frequent updates and not have them tied to annual/biannual releases.

How many more iOS updates before they finally ditch the old homescreen 'management'? Let me place icons whereever already.
 
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nhlducks35

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iOS 10 will improve the speed of your phone a lot if you have a 5S and above, since it uses the Metal API to improve graphics performance
 
aparisi2274

aparisi2274

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Just a heads up if you plan on getting this and want to take advantage of the new iMessage Background effects (ie. balloons, confetti, laser, ect). To use it, you need to turn off Reduce Motion. If it is on, the effects will not work

Settings>General>Accessibility>Reduce Motion
 
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Mammoth Jones

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brianmcdoogle said:
The thing that bothers me the most is that the lock sound is too quiet. Also, ironically, for the first time since I've use an iPhone I've been having Bluetooth pairing problems.

I also want Siri for all third party apps, not selected partners. I want Overcast to be able to use it.
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I really hope to not have bluetooth pairing problems. Not now....

SuperPac said:
The 4S is what, four years old? So yes, it's obsolete. The iPad too.
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It's a five year old phone. And it's not like the thing magically stops working. But not gonna be shocked Apple is no longer supporting ancient hardware.
 
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FloatingDivider

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SuperPac said:
The 4S is what, four years old? So yes, it's obsolete. The iPad too.
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It still seems to work fine? I guess you're okay with planned obsolescence to drive sales but I think it's kind of lame. I guess I do enjoy buying a new product every 5 year regardless of the functionality of my previous one, I should start doing that with everything I own it'd be genius.

I'm fairly sure 80% of the things I own are obsolete if I'm using your Apple standard of obsoleteness.
 
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Sir Abacus

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People running the GM, remember to clear your beta profile of the profile section.

Settings --> General --> Profile and clear out the beta profile.

Then you should be able to update to the non-beta builds again.
 
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Modest Mauser

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FloatingDivider said:
It still seems to work fine? I guess you're okay with planned obsolescence to drive sales but I think it's kind of lame. I guess I do enjoy buying a new product every 5 year regardless of the functionality of my previous one, I should start doing that with everything I own it'd be genius.

I'm fairly sure 80% of the things I own are obsolete if I'm using your Apple standard of obsoleteness.
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Planned obsolescence because it doesn't support an OS five years later? Are they supposed to update every model going back forever?
 
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FloatingDivider

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numble said:
Which of the 80% of the things you own are getting feature updates to improve their function by the manufacturer?
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Most of the things that need it? I dno? My obsolete iPad mini is 3 years old if that makes it better or is 3 years still too old? Should we start obsoleting shit the second it hits that 2 year mark of expired warranty?
 
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Deku Tree

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FloatingDivider said:
Oh hey I guess my 4s and iPad are now officially obsolete, great. Thanks Apple, gg wellplayed.
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Google supports there flagship phones for 18 months-3 years with security updates, depending on when you bought the phone. You get OS updates for two years from when the phone was released.

The 4s got full OS updates and security updates for five years from when it launched. I don't know of any other phone or tablet company that supports their devices as long as Apple does. Tech doesn't last forever.


FloatingDivider said:
Most of the things that need it? I dno? My obsolete iPad mini is 3 years old if that makes it better or is 3 years still too old? Should we start obsoleting shit the second it hits that 2 year mark of expired warranty?
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http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/06/21/google-support-site-now-lists-end-life-dates-nexus-devices/

Security updates are provided for three years from release or 18 months from when they leave the Google Store, whichever is longer. The updates that everyone cares about are the move to a new version of Android, and those are available for at least two years from release date.
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numble

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FloatingDivider said:
Most of the things that need it? I dno? My obsolete iPad mini is 3 years old if that makes it better or is 3 years still too old? Should we start obsoleting shit the second it hits that 2 year mark of expired warranty?
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Okay, name some of the "most of your 80% of things" that have added new features recently.

How is it obsolete because it doesn't add new features? They aren't turning it off.
 
RowdyReverb

RowdyReverb

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What time do these usually go live? I'm wondering if I can update before I leave in the morning and fiddle with the update at work
 
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FloatingDivider

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Deku Tree said:
Google supports there flagship phones for 18 months-3 years with security updates, depending on when you bought the phone. You get OS updates for two years from when the phone was released.

The 4s got full OS updates and security updates for five years from when it launched. I don't know of any other phone or tablet company that supports their devices as long as Apple does. Tech doesn't last forever.
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Not disagreeing that Android is worse considering my last android phone was obsolete before I even unboxed it since I could only successfully install 0.05% of the apps available. That being said I think 5 years isn't that long. I also didn't buy mine at release so it's probably significantly less than 5 years old for me. My ipad mini is also way less than 5 years old.

Jeffrey said:
2 years is cute.

America is 1 :(
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I know, I'm sorry you guys got screwed.

numble said:
Okay, name some of the "most of your 80% of things" that have added new features recently.

How is it obsolete because it doesn't add new features? They aren't turning it off.
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I don't particularly care about new features, I mean I don't use 90% of them now but I do care about app compatibility. Because I've seen what happens next on Android before. Within now and a year every single app I currently use will probably be unusable&uninstallable so that seems like it's essentially bricking my phone.
 
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numble

Member
FloatingDivider said:
Not disagreeing that Android is worse considering my last android phone was obsolete before I even unboxed it since I could only successfully install 0.05% of the apps available. That being said I think 5 years isn't that long. I also didn't buy mine at release so it's probably significantly less than 5 years old for me. My ipad mini is also way less than 5 years old.


I know, I'm sorry you guys got screwed.


I don't particularly care about new features, I mean I don't use 90% of them now but I do care about app compatibility. Because I've seen what happens next on Android before. Within now and a year every single app I currently use will probably be unusable&uninstallable so that seems like it's essentially bricking my phone.
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They already added a feature to allow you to use old app versions--3 years ago:
https://www.infoq.com/news/2013/09/previous-version-ios-apps
 
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MThanded

I Was There! Official L Receiver 2/12/2016
Dev account takes some of the magic out of iOS release.

Been on 10 for so long at this point.
 
Link

Link

The Autumn Wind
FloatingDivider said:
Oh hey I guess my 4s and iPad are now officially obsolete, great. Thanks Apple, gg wellplayed.
Click to expand...

FloatingDivider said:
It still seems to work fine? I guess you're okay with planned obsolescence to drive sales but I think it's kind of lame. I guess I do enjoy buying a new product every 5 year regardless of the functionality of my previous one, I should start doing that with everything I own it'd be genius.

I'm fairly sure 80% of the things I own are obsolete if I'm using your Apple standard of obsoleteness.
Click to expand...
You're on a videogame forum. Let's stop acting like this is some egregious, unprecedented practice.
 
Ecto311

Ecto311

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Updated to GM on beta a few days ago and man it makes my 6+ run like shit. The double press of the home sucks because muscle memory makes me swipe and it doesn't do that anymore. Plus in messages the dumb hold down to make fireball thing is really odd. I sent a few to my wife and who knows wtf it is supposed to mean then it goes away? How is that useful? Apple usually steals good ideas but this shit is all weird.
 
Gamespawn

Gamespawn

Member
Ecto311 said:
Updated to GM on beta a few days ago and man it makes my 6+ run like shit. The double press of the home sucks because muscle memory makes me swipe and it doesn't do that anymore. Plus in messages the dumb hold down to make fireball thing is really odd. I sent a few to my wife and who knows wtf it is supposed to mean then it goes away? How is that useful? Apple usually steals good ideas but this shit is all weird.
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you can turn off the double press thing. I've got my 6s set for a single press.
 
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