Here’s Everything You Need To Know About iOS 10

Today at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference keynote, Apple announced iOS 10. This version of iOs is going to add power across the board. Here’s what you need to know about iOS 10. 

Messages

Messages can now have animations that take over the entire screen, there are "invisible ink" messages that friends can only read after swiping over them with a finger, and handwritten notes. Type in a suggestion, and words that can be replaced with emoji will be highlighted so that you can enter emoji with a tap. Tapback lets you respond to messages with a tap -- similar to what's seen on the Apple Watch right now and iOS 10 users will be able to send rich links that can be viewed or played in the Messages app. Developers can add their own apps to Messages, for stickers, personalized GIFs or photos, to allow payments, schedule appointments or make reservations, all within Messages. 

Apple Music

The Music app is completely redesigned, making discovery of music much easier. Library, For You, Browse and Radio tabs were redesigned so that they don't all look alike, and there's a Search tab. Playback controls have beeb moved over the tabs for control of music at a touch. 

iOS User Experience and Features

The new iOS 10 Raise To Wake feature automatically wakes the screen when you pick up the iPhone, so notifications are available on the redesigned Lock screen with a glance. Notifications, Today view and Control Center are all easily accessible from the new Lock screen with a swipe or press, and even more capability was added to 3D Touch on iPhone 6s and 6s Plus to add notification from app buttons. Siri intelligence is now added to QuickType so that it makes contextual predictions to bring up information based on location, calendar availability or contacts, and new predictive typing allows multi-language support without switching keyboards. Voicemails are now transcribed for reading, and there's a caller ID extension for spam alerts. Safari will allow split view on iPad. Apple Pay will let users make payments on participating websites using Safari in addition to the existing in-store and in app purchases. The Clock app now has something called Bedtime Alarm to set bedtime reminders. 

Privacy

Apple doubled down on privacy today by announcing that iMessage, FaceTime and HomeKit all use end-to-end encryption. iOS 10 utilizes on-device intelligence and powerful CPUs to make Photos identification possible and make QuickType suggestions. And while some services, like Siri, Maps and News send data to Apple, the data isn't used to build user profiles. Apple will begin using a technology called Differential Privacy in iOS 10 to discover patterns of large numbers of users without compromising individual privacy. These patterns can help improve QuickType and emoji suggestions, Spotlight deep link suggestions, and Lookup Hints in Notes.

UPDATE 9/7/16 - iOS 10 will be available to download on September 13th.