Quick roundup of latest iOS 10 features

Most of you must be familiar with iOS 10, the latest iPhone operating system introduced by Apple last month. The new operating system features a plethora of features and enhancements to play with. Even if you’re not a tech geek, you might still be interested to know what the iOS 10 has in store for you. That’s why we’ve come up with this post, where we’ll have a quick overview of latest iOS 10 features. Let’s get started.

Quick roundup of latest iOS 10 features

iMessages

One of the major changes in iOS 10 is made in the iMessages app. Yes! Apple’s default messaging application received a plenty of new features that’ll bring your conversations to life. These new features and a completely redesigned interface makes iMessage a tough rival to other messaging services like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Snapchat.

Let’s have a look at what iMessage app has to offer:

• Stickers

iMessages app has received its own App Store from where you can download stickers, GIFs and much more. Apple added four set of sticker packs in iOS 10.You can use them as per your choice.

• Tapback

Tapback feature is also there within the new iMessages app. It lets you quickly reply to the sent message using emoticons. Tapback has many advantages. You can reply to your messages very quickly without having to type anything. Moreover, you can show the reader how the message he sent made you feel. Seriously the new feature is worth!

• Bigger Emoji

Among so many new features, introduced in the new iMessages app in iOS 10 is the ability to send bigger emoji, which looks even better and make your conversations more lively and interesting.

• App Store

The new iMessages app also has its own App Store featuring a variety of apps, games, and stickers.

• Digital Touch

With digital touch, your iPhone’s screen becomes your canvas, on which you can write or doodle anything. Whatever you write or doodle will be sent to the conversation, with an animation of how you drew it. This is pretty much fun! You can also do so on your photos and videos.

• Manage Attachments

With the iMessage app in iOS 10, it’s very easy to manage attachments you send or receive. This way you can manage your iMessage attachments quite smartly and can keep your iPhone free from clutter.

Effects

The new iMessages app also features plenty of effects to choose from. These effects add new colors to your conversations and make them more live and interactive.

• Send GIFs

The iMessages app in iOS 10 also allows you to send GIF images. And what’s more exciting is that you don’t even need to search for them manually. You can find them within the app itself.

• Markup images

You can also mark images in iMessage in iOS 10. It’s pretty much fun to draw a monkey face on your friend’s picture and share it in a group. Enjoy!

• Quickly Send Selfies

Guess what can be better than sending an emoji? Sending a Bitmoji? No. Sending a GIF? No. Let me tell you, it’s when you send your actual facial reaction to the message you’ve got. Nothing can beat this experience. It has its own charm and iMessages app iOS 10 lets you do so. You can quickly send selfies.

Music

The music app has also received a plenty of new features. Let’s have a look:

• Shuffle

In the new music app, you can easily shuffle songs from your library, from an album or from the now playing view.

• Download and manage music

With the new and redesigned Apple music app in iOS, it has become very easy to download new songs and manage music library. Apart from this, you can easily differentiate between songs downloaded to your device and the ones available for streaming.

• Optimize storage

The new Apple Music app in iOS 10 also includes a new Optimize storage feature that makes it quite easy to manage space on your handset and ensures that you don’t run out of storage space too soon.

• Lyrics

The app now features built-in support for displaying lyrics to the songs being played. This way you can sing along your favorite songs quite easily. 

          

Photos

Apart from the iMessages and the Apple Music app, the Photos app has also received some major changes (most of the changes are borrowed from Google Photos). 

Let’s have a look at what the new Photos app has got:

• Searchable Objects

With the new photos app, you can search for people, objects, and texts and more in your photos.

The feature may seem very common, but it often comes handy every once in a while. Just imagine when you need to send your friend’s photos and he/she is demanding to send it soon. At such instant, instead of traversing through each and every photo, you can simply search for his/her name in the photos app and you’re done. Pretty impressive! Isn’t it?

• Memories

The memories tab in the Photos app stores your memories. Here, you’ll find different albums generated periodically by the app itself, based on certain context. It can be anything, a name, time, place or people you were with. Seriously! It’s the best way to relive those incredible moments once again.

Lock Screen

Here’s what the new lock screen in iOS 10 has to offer:

• Quick reply from lock screen

The new lock screen in iOS 10 lets you quickly reply to notification from your lock screen, without having to navigate to the app itself. Now, you can directly reply to your WhatsApp messages and you don’t even need to open the app. This saves a lot of your time.

• Quickly call favorite contacts

All thanks to quick access to widgets, you can easily make quick calls to your favorite contacts without having to unlock the phone.

• Disable press to unlock

In order to revamp the lock screen for iOS 10, Apple has made a significant change in the unlocking behavior for iOS. Now, instead of keeping your finger on the Touch ID sensor, you’ve to press the button to unlock your device. This is pretty much confusing, especially for new users. However, the best part is that you can disable the feature and set it to the default method.

Others

Apart from the above mentioned apps, several other features are also their within iOS 10. Let’s have a look:

• View voicemail transcripts

Apple has also introduced a new transcription feature for voicemail that automatically transcripts your unread voicemails.

• Find your parked car location

With a newly introduced feature in the Maps app, you can automatically find your car location. When you leave you car parked, iOS 10 will remember the location and notify you later.

• Clear all notifications

Apple has also introduced an option to clear all notifications of all 3D Touch capable devices in iOS 10.

• Remove stock apps

Now there is no need to create Extras folder and drag all unused apps in it. Apple has introduced a new feature in iOS 10 that lets you delete all unwanted stock apps.

Home app

Revived in iOS 10, Home is the only app you’ll need to control all the smart home (HomeKit) devices you’ve. Once you’ve set the devices using their own apps and pairing systems, you’ll be able to use them within the app. From here, you can easily control all the devices.

Our list of latest iOS 10 features ends here. So, if you own an iOS device running the latest OS version, it’s time to go through all the features and get more familiar with them. But if you’re still running the old iOS 9, we recommend you update your iOS device to iOS 10 and unlock a world of new features and advanced functionalities. Enjoy!