WWDC 2016

Messages app updated in iOS 10 with new emoji features, Bubble effects and more

Cody Lee ∙ Updated April 30, 2018

Also getting a big update in iOS 10 is the Messages app. New features include inline rich links, which open YouTube videos, images and other types of media—videos now play right within the app!—a built-in Camera viewfinder, and some great emoji improvements.

These improvements include 3x bigger emoji images within your messages, so you can see the icons in greater detail, and predictive emoji. Apple calls this "emojifiable." So the Messages app in iOS 10 can essentially guess emoji images for the words you tap on.

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Say hello to a brand new iOS 10 stock app: Home

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated June 3, 2017

There's a new stock app in iOS 10 that most people will probably want to get rid of: Home. Home is the missing link in Apple's strategy for the connected home, which now supports even more categories of HomeKit-compatible devices like smart cameras and door locks. It's not just a new Home screen app: Home is built right into Control Center and it also works from the Lock screen of your iPhone.

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Here’s all-new Apple Music redesign from the ground up

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated June 3, 2017

The beautiful new design language in a revamped Apple Music is now a reality. According to Apple, the first tab within the app is now Library that gives you quick access to your songs as well as your downloaded music. A new Recently Added section makes it easy to pinpoint new songs and albums you've added to your library.

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Maps app gets smarter in iOS 10 with improved search, Quick Controls and more

Cody Lee ∙ Updated April 30, 2018

Eddy Cue is on stage right now, at Apple's WWDC keynote, talking about the new Maps app in iOS 10. The stock mapping application gets a lot smarter in the upcoming update, with improved search, en route traffic information and a new feature called Quick Controls.

"We're making Maps do more for you in advance," says Eddy Cue. The new Maps app can proactively deliver directions to where you most likely want to go next, based on your routine or appointments on your calendar. Once a route is planned, Maps can search along the route for gas stations, restaurants, coffee shops and more and provides an estimate of how the stop impacts the length of your trip.

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New in iOS 10’s Photos: Maps view, Memories, facial recognition and more

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated October 16, 2018

Photos in iOS 10 is receiving a major upgrade with several major new features and a few noteworthy improvements. For starters, Photos in iOS 10 has a dedicated Maps view similar to iPhoto for Mac which lets you browse your photos on a world map, based on where you took them.

More importantly, Photos now features facial, object and scene recognition that uses advanced computer vision and deep learning techniques to recognize objects on photos locally on the device, taking advantage of the power of Apple's A-series of processors.

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Here’s iOS 10’s revamped Lock screen with widgets, Raise to Wake, rich notifications and more

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated October 16, 2018

Apple is holding its anticipated keynote presentation at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco this morning, which has kicked off the five-day WWDC 2016 developers conference, and they just announced iOS 10, the tenth major version of the mobile operation system powering the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.

For iOS 10, there's a completely redesigned Lock screen that now makes it easy to respond to notifications with a lot richer 3D Touch support, the ability to enjoy widgets full screen, a time-saving feature called Raise to Wake and more.

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tvOS 10 releasing this fall

Christian Zibreg ∙ June 13, 2016

Today is a big day for Apple fans from around the world as the Cupertino firm telegraphed some interesting changes coming to its software platforms, among them tvOS, the operating system that powers the fourth-generation Apple TV. tvOS 10 is available now as a developer-only preview and everyone else will be permitted to install it on their set-top box this coming fall, said Apple.

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Apple introduces macOS Sierra with Siri, Auto Unlock and more

Cody Lee ∙ Updated April 30, 2018

We know OS X is now macOS, and the first major version is macOS Sierra. So what new features does it have? SVP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi is on stage at Apple's WWDC keynote running through the new additions and improvements in the software, and there are some great ones.

The main focuses for this update are going to be Continuity, iCloud and "the fundamentals of the Mac experience." The first big new feature for the group is Auto Unlock, which allows you to automatically unlock your Mac with your Apple Watch—meaning, if you have your Watch on, you don't need to type in your password.

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Apple rebrands OS X as macOS

Cody Lee ∙ Updated April 30, 2018

That Apple would rebrand OS X as 'MacOS' was one of the worst-kept WWDC secrets ahead of today's keynote, and Apple just made it official. SVP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi just announced on stage that from here on out, the Mac operating system is going to be called macOS.

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