Apple Previews iOS 10

Yesterday Apple® previewed iOS 10, the biggest release ever of the world’s most advanced mobile operating system, featuring a huge update to Messages that delivers more expressive and animated ways to message friends and family, like stickers and full-screen effects. iOS 10 introduces the ability for Siri® to do more by working with apps, beautifully redesigned Maps, Photos, Apple Music® and News apps, and the Home app, delivering a simple and secure way to manage home automation products in one place. iOS 10 opens up incredible opportunities to developers with Siri, Maps, Phone and Messages.

“iOS 10 is our biggest release ever, with delightful new ways to express yourself in Messages, a native app for Home automation, and beautifully redesigned apps for Music, Maps, and News that are more intuitive and more powerful, making everything you love about your iPhone and iPad even better,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “iOS 10 adds Siri intelligence into QuickType and Photos, automates your home with the new Home app and opens up Siri, Maps, Phone and Messages to developers — while increasing security and privacy with powerful technologies like Differential Privacy.”

Personal & Expressive Messages

Messages is the most frequently used iOS app, and with iOS 10 it is more expressive and fun with animated and personalized ways to message friends and family. Messages includes powerful animations, such as balloons, confetti or fireworks that can take over an entire screen to celebrate a special occasion, invisible ink to send a message only revealed after a friend swipes over it, and for added personalization, handwritten notes. Automatic suggestions make it easy to replace words with emoji, Tapback creates a quick and simple way to respond with just a tap and rich links let you see content inline and play media without ever leaving your conversation.

Beautifully Redesigned Maps

Maps in iOS 10 gets a beautiful redesign that makes it even simpler and more intuitive to use. Now open to developers with new extensions, apps like OpenTable can integrate bookings right into Maps, and services like Uber and Lyft can make it easier for users to book a ride, without ever leaving the Maps app. Maps is even smarter with new intelligence that proactively delivers 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.

Apple Pulls iOS 9.3.2 Update For 9.7-Inch iPad Pro

Apple has just released its iOS 9.3.2 update, but some owners of the 9.7-inch iPad Pro tablet who installed the latest OS were in for an unpleasant surprise.

Despite going through the usual beta testing and releases, the latest iOS turned a number of slates into bricks. After updating, users who encountered the bug saw a "Connect to iTunes" message. Unfortunately for them, the restoration process (via iTunes or DFU) failed to fix the "Error 56," as the bug is named.

9to5Mac reports that Apple is considering replacing the bricked iPad Pros at the Genius Bar, should the devices become a victim of Error 56. "We're looking into a small number of reports that some iPad units are receiving an error when updating the software," Apple notes.

It took a while before the manufacturing company took note of the issue and directed those affected toward contacting Apple support. The matter remained pending, until the OEM decided to curb the number of casualties among 9.7-inch iPad Pro tablets.

To do so, Apple has stopped distributing the iOS 9.3.2 to 9.7-inch iPad Pro slates. It should be noted that the larger 12.9-inch iPad Pro tablets face no problems during the update.

This is not the first time that iOS updates have rendered Apple devices useless.

No sooner than a few months ago, the company launched iOS 9.3, which caused a number of older iOS gadgets to crash. Users who owned an iPhone 5s and earlier or an iPad Air and earlier complained of activation problems while attempting to step up to iOS 9.3.

After the incident, the iPhone maker put a pause on the update until a fixed version went live. As a reminder, the iOS 9.3 fix came rather quickly after the reports started to pile up, which allowed the update process to keep going at its normal pace.

Seeing how there is no official statement from the company about a temporary fix for those affected, there is a high chance that Apple will issue a new release for the tablets who suffered after the iOS 9.3.2 bug.

Credit: techtimes.com