The latest version of iOS will be compatible with the iPhone 5 and newer, fourth generation iPad and newer and the sixth generation iPod Touch.
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The new software, which Apple has re-branded as macOS in line with its watchOS and tvOS naming convention, will also bring support for Apple Pay transactions on websites rather than just in apps (also available in iOS 10), more ways to optimize storage space on your Mac, and the ability to copy and paste information between a Mac and an iPhone.
Consumers will have a new, convenient way of making online purchases this fall.
On Apple’s official YouTube account, the company uploaded two new videos, New Beginnings and iOS 10 – Hey Hi Hello. The app will be able to sort photos based on dates, places and people.
Apple is opening up Apple Maps to third party developers with new “extensions”.
Apple’s Siri move was largely foreseen by analysts, and the event itself did not grip investors as some of Apple’s product announcements have in the past. Emojis will also apparently be larger.
The phone app can make transcriptions of voicemail calls, and third-party services like Tencent will be able to tap into the phone app to alert you to incoming spam calls. This certainly won’t ever go wrong!
The company is also adding “stickers”.
Messages can now also be resized and animated in order to add different sentiments, while handwritten notes can now also be sent for the first time.
The technology giant’s virtual assistant Siri has been given a major update that now means it can use machine learning to predict words you plan to use in text conversations as well as find faces in your photo albums.
You’re either going to think all of this is really dumb or kind of cool. The Phone app was updated too and now Viber, Skype and other VoIP apps are using the same calling screen as the default Phone application.
Here’s everything you need to know about macOS. Just pick it up in your hand and the device’s screen will come to life. Apple’s Siri made a big splash when the wisecracking digital assistant debuted in 2011. Now, users might ask Siri to open a competitor like Spotify. Photos will also receive the ability to automatically create a video of the photos and video clips you took on a trip, for example, and set it to music.
Let’s be real: Voicemails are a pretty inefficient way to deliver information. Apple Maps are getting an upgrade with Map layers and now it supports extensions, it can make reservations for you and provide you with the fastest route around the city by analyzing traffic. The feature might remind you of Google Voice.
Apple previewed 10 new features included in iOS 10, including improvements to Siri, a standalone home automation app, artificial intelligence built into the default keyboard, and redesigned lockscreen widgets.
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While Cue didn’t elaborate on how the subscriptions will work, he mentioned being able to read “every article from magazines like National Geographic and newspapers like The Wall Street Journal right inside Apple News”.
