Apple announced its new, highly-efficient iOS 10 at this year’s WWDC conference on June 13. The new OS is expected to be rolled out soon but users keen on experiencing it before the official launch can do so now by signing up for company’s public beta testing program.
With the public beta program, the company aims to give its users a chance to try out the new OS before officially releasing it in September. While the developer beta lets developers take advantage of the new APIs, the public beta is solely for users to point out bugs.
However, users should be careful as beta versions have a reputation of harming devices, or totally bricking a device altogether. According to Tech Crunch, you should try it out on an old iPhone or iPad which you don’t use often.
To install the beta version of the OS, you should ensure that your iCloud is up to date and then head over to the beta testing program page. All the steps are listed out over there.
Here are all the features that Apple announced with iOS 10 that you will experience on your iPhone, post the new update:
iMessage
iMessage now has rich links, meaning you can stream videos or songs from within the conversation without actually jumping off to another app, to play it.
The emojis have become bigger than before, now the app will prompt to emojify words, typed. Additionally, it features ‘invisible ink’, that the recipient can only read after swiping over it.
Beside this, it will allow users to send payments or schedule dinner or movie, all from with the Message app.
Siri
In iOS 10, Siri can be extended into major new areas and do more than ever by working with the apps you love to use. For the first time, developers can build on the intelligence Siri offers and let users interact directly with apps using just their voice. SiriKit helps developers easily design their apps to work with Siri for messaging, phone calls, photo search, ride booking, personal payments and workouts, or use Siri to control CarPlay apps, access climate controls or adjust radio settings within automakers' apps.
Redesigned Maps
Maps in iOS 10 gets a beautiful redesign that makes it even simpler and more intuitive to use. Now open to developers with new extensions, apps like OpenTable can integrate bookings right into Maps, and services like Uber and Lyft can make it easier for users to book a ride, without ever leaving the Maps app. Maps is even smarter with new intelligence that proactively delivers directions to where you most likely want to go next, based on your routine or appointments on your calendar. Once a route is planned, Maps can search along the route for gas stations, restaurants, coffee shops and more and provides an estimate of how the stop impacts the length of your trip.
Photos
Photos in iOS 10 helps you rediscover favorite and forgotten occasions from your photo library by automatically surfacing them in Memories. Memories scans all your photos and videos and finds favorite and forgotten events, trips, and people, and presents them in a beautiful collection. A Memory also contains the Memory Movie, an automatically edited movie with theme music, titles and cinematic transitions.
Memories uses advanced computer vision to group the people, places and things inside your images into albums with on-device facial, object and scene recognition. This intelligence brings Memories and Related photos to life in a way that's personal and meaningful to you, while maintaining your privacy.
Home App
The Home app is deeply integrated into iOS, delivering a simple and secure way to set up, manage and control your home in one place. Accessories can be managed individually or grouped into scenes so they work together with a single command and can be controlled by using Siri. They can be managed remotely or set up for home automation with Apple TV, and can respond with automatic triggers set by time of day, location or action.
Apple Music & News
Apple Music has an all-new design, it uses a new design language that allows the music to become the hero and a new structure that makes it easy to navigate and discover new music. iOS 10 features a redesigned News app with a new For You, organized into distinct sections that make it easier to find stories, support for breaking news notifications and paid subscriptions.
Privacy
Security and privacy are fundamental to the design of Apple hardware, software and services. iMessage, FaceTime and HomeKit use end-to-end encryption to protect your data by making it unreadable by Apple and others. iOS 10 uses on-device intelligence to identify the people, objects and scenes in Photos, and power QuickType suggestions. Services like Siri, Maps and News send data to Apple’s servers, but this data is not used to build user profiles.
Starting with iOS 10, Apple is using technology called Differential Privacy to help discover the usage patterns of a large number of users without compromising individual privacy. In iOS 10, this technology will help improve QuickType and emoji suggestions, Spotlight deep link suggestions and Lookup Hints in Notes.
