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IOS 11 release is tomorrow: Our essential ‘getting ready’ list

Your iPad will be more capable than ever before.

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When you update your iPhone or iPad to iOS 11 later today, older 32-bit apps will no longer work with the new software. We still have to learn all the ins and outs of the new App Store but it’s already growing on us.

There are several new photo filters that are created to give your snaps a bit more style. Privacy is also a priority for Apple with its own software, which explains the amount of encryption features that the company highlights whenever it pushes out new software. Expanding beyond the company’s original vision of letting users pay for purchases using their iPhone, iOS 11 lets the handsets exchange funds between themselves.

Data from analytics platform Sensor Tower shows that around 50 percent of apps haven’t been updated in a year or more, and roughly 16 percent in more than three years. This will also help keep large message thread storage in check without the need to delete threads all the time.

The second biggest update is Siri.

Native translation is also coming to Siri in iOS 11, which will support English to Chinese, French, German, Italian and Spanish at launch.

Apple Maps now have indoor maps for major airports and shopping centres, and there’s a DND mode while driving. At first, these will cover a small selection of world cities, including London – and Heathrow and Gatwick – with more locations to be added at a later date. But it may be the addition of an iPad Dock and better split screen capabilities that will make it feel like the time has come for iPads in the office.

And please enable the do not disturb while driving feature. There are probably a few here you didn’t know about. As well as getting the tech equivalent of that new auto smell, it’s a chance to clean out devices and get rid of all the crappy apps (do you really need 17 different fart apps?) you’ve accumulated.

– Fixed: Reordering lists on iOS 11 would sometimes crash the app. And augmented reality (AR) is the ideal example. If you’ve downloaded Google Drive to your iPhone, just upload what documents you want to retain onto Google Drive to put on your new Android device later. First and foremost, download iTunes (apple.com/itunes) then launch it with your iOS device connected to your PC or Mac. It will enable users to send and receive money from friends and family quickly easily and security. Users should get a notification in their device alerting them of the new update if they are connected to the internet. In simple words, Apple Pay can be used to transfer money to your friends through iMessages, though Apple Pay is not available in India but we hope it will available soon in India. The iOS 11 was announced earlier this year in June at the Apple WWDC and the Cupertino-based giant is referring it as “a giant step for iPhone and a monumental leap for iPad”.

These include FaceID – a new authentication technology that can verify the user’s identity by scanning their face in 3D.

But the biggest news, of course, was the unveiling of the iPhone X.

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But the above shortcut will give you a quick overview of which apps you’ll need to be prepared to live without.

iOS 11 Arrives in 2 Days – Here is What You Get.