There have been no surprises, but we didn't expect them either. Apple has presented iOS 10, the next version of the apple mobile operating system that will be launched publicly in September. Actually, they are talking about the new version right now, Craig FederighiTo be exact, the apple senior vice president of software engineering that more than one of us would like to see as Apple's CEO (although many others would be satisfied with anyone other than Tim Cook being the CEO).
In iOS 10 he has promised us 10 interesting news. The first thing he has spoken about has been the notifications. As we had already advanced, the notifications of iOS 10 are more interactive and will also have a more careful design. And that of eliminating notifications one by one in the Notification Center is over: now we can use the 3D Touch to eliminate them all at once.
iOS 10 unveiled at WWDC 2016
The second thing they told us was what we already knew: a SDK to integrate Siri with third-party applications and we can send a WhatsApp (when they update it) asking Siri just like we can send an SMS or an e-mail.
The third novelty has been a More capable Quick Type, that is, a more intelligent predictive text that will "read" the messages to offer us better results.
The fourth point they have talked about has been about the Photos application. The facial recognition that was available in OS X for a long time, since the days of iPhoto, will also be available in iOS 10. But the technology will also be used to recognize objects, animals, etc.
To tell us about the fifth point, Eddy Cue has entered the scene. The iOS 10 maps They will have a "totally new" design and will be proactive, like Siri in iOS 9. This means that the iOS 10 maps will "know where we might want to go" to suggest places that we might be interested in.
On the other hand, and in the same way as Siri, there will be an extension available so that developers can implement it in their applications.
The sixth novelty deals with the Music app. Cue has revealed to us that Apple Music already has 15 million subscribers before telling us about the new design (with animations) that Bloomberg had already advanced.
As Mark Gurman told us, the lyrics will be available! Goodbye, Musixmatch (or the app, at least).
In seventh place they have told us about Apple News. In iOS 10, Apple's News application will have a new, more careful design, something that I think it was quite lacking. On the other hand, it also offers news that may interest us more precisely and we may subscribe to some publications. They have not said anything that it will be available in more countries, so those of us who do not have it available will have to keep waiting (and we will get tired of waiting before we can use it).
The eighth novelty deals with HomeKit. In iOS 10 more categories will be available and to control them we will have available (installed by default…) an application called «Home». We can also control our home from a Control Center that now seems to include cards such as multitasking.
The penultimate thing that they have presented is related to the application Phone. The new version may know if a call is SPAM or not, which I find the most interesting. They have also included a new API that will add the possibility of calling a contact by WhatsApp, for example, from their contact sheet, that is, from our agenda we can call by WhatsApp or other messaging applications that offer the option.
Finally, in position 10, they have talked about the new application Messages. Like Telegram, there will now be a preview of the links. On the other hand, something very applauded, Emoji will be 3 times bigger and will also appear in predictive text. In addition, text can be replaced by Emoji quickly, as long as we want it and the words match.
All the bubbles will now appear with an animation. We can also send messages and photos smeared with a magic ink that disappears if we slide our finger over it. And do you remember the Digital Touch of the Apple Watch? It will be available on iOS iMessage as well.
Messages will also be open for developers to include support, which will allow us to use the stickers made famous by Viber, for example. But they have not mentioned anything that it will also be available for Android, which I think is a shame (although I did not expect it to work).
iOS 10 will be available from today in beta and it will be officially released in September of this year, although in the keynote they have only mentioned "autumn". The public beta will arrive in July.
Will not be available in July?
Pablo something that left me with my mouth open is the support that Apple is giving to the devices, all those that are compatible with iOS 9 will be compatible with iOS 10 except the iPhone 4 something that seems curious to me is that the iPod touch of 5 generation, the iPad mini and the iPad 2 that have the same hardware as the iPhone 4 (A5 and 512 RAM) if they are compatible with iOS 10. The complete list of compatible devices is already on Apple's official website
Hello Jorge. It is one of the positive points of Apple: the support. Still, many think that it is a bad thing because they will go much worse than when they were launched.
With regard to the iPhone 4 and the iPad, it is a bit surprising, but it must be borne in mind that Apple's most important device is the iPhone. They can stop supporting you for two reasons: thinking "good", they don't want to finish choking you; thinking badly, they force us to buy another one to use the new functions.
A greeting.
Little friend you are wrong, the iPhone 4 has the A4 chip which makes it inferior and not resistant to iOS 8 onwards and probably in iPhone 4s as well but the hardware and in this case the ram memory has been no more modified to be able to do more powerful to iPad mini 2 iPod 5th gen etc ...
Sure. It is the 4S that should match the iPad 2, both with A5 and 512MB of RAM. IPad 3 already uses A5X.
Pablo something that left me with my mouth open is the support that Apple is giving to the devices, all those that are compatible with iOS 9 will be compatible with iOS 10 except the iPhone 4 something that seems curious to me is that the iPod touch of 5 generation, iPad mini and iPad 2 that have the same hardware as iPhone 4 (A5 and 512 RAM) if they are compatible with iOS 10. The complete list of compatible devices is already on the official website.
Hello! Does anyone know of a page where to download the betas? And how would the watchOS beta be installed? Thanks!!
Hello Pablo, today's Keynote seemed good to me, there were everything, jokes, seriousness, moments of sadness like when they remembered the boys from the last attack in Orlando, and even small system errors (when they did the IMessage demo) ... What is curious is that they changed the skin of the lock screen and not of the whole system, the called App only had a «note», even so it was good in my point of view, I would have liked more useful things to be launched improvements real, the native messages App is as it is for a long time, it is curious there are many things that Apple did not say today. Let's wait for a developer to install iOS 10 and we'll start to see what hidden news they have for us.
We were all waiting for screen multitasking just like the galaxy s6 already has ... Or the iPad itself ...