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Apple iOS update renders some users phones unusable

In addition, to tackle the issue of the lock screen having become redundant due to touchID, Apple has introduced a new “raise to wake” feature, which displays the lock screen whenever someone lifts there iPhone, without having to touch any button.

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What devices is iOS 10 for? iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch – but you might want to avoid it if you have a phone older than the iPhone 6. News is also getting a big update with breaking news notifications and subscriptions in iOS 10.

In the same vein as Apple music, the News application has also been redesigned, with bold sections for Top News, Sports, Trending and featured Stories. Here’s what’s new in tvOS 10.

In a statement about the iOS 10 technical problems, an Apple rep said, “We experienced a brief issue with the software update process, affecting a small number of users during the first hour of availability”.

According to Apple, via CNET’s Jason Cipriani, iOS achieves this by going through 11 billion computations recognizes faces, places and certain objects.

Apple is opening up Messages to developers with iOS 10, so they can create their own mini applets that work within the Messages app.

– Picture-in-Picture. Watch videos as you multitask and use different apps. As developers update their apps with Siri integration, you’ll be able to do things like order an Uber vehicle, send messages in third-party apps like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, or even start tracking your workouts all using voice commands with Siri.

Home app enables you to control your smart gadgets with snap of a finger. For example, you can press firmly on the flashlight icon to turn the rear LED on with low, medium or high brightness.

And don’t worry, the media controls missing in the image above are still there – just swipe to the left for Control Center’s new second panel.

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Automatic suggestions make it easy to replace words with emoji. It may throw some users for a loop, but the features added to the lock screen easily make up for that hassle.

Phil Schiller Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing talks about the features on the new iPhone 7 during an event to announce new products Wednesday Sept. 7 2016 in San Francisco