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iOS 10, watchOS 3, tvOS 10 Released: What's New and How to Download

iOS 10, watchOS 3, tvOS 10 Released: What's New and How to Download

By Gadgets 360 Staff | Updated: 15 September 2016 16:49 IST

Highlights

iOS 10 is perhaps the biggest update since iOS 7
watchOS 3 makes the Apple Watch noticeably faster
tvOS 10 brings a new dark mode

Apple has released iOS 10, watchOS 3, and tvOS 10 updates for its mobile devices, Apple Watch, and the Apple TV 4th generation respectively. The updates bring a host of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to millions of Apple devices worldwide.

iOS 10 is perhaps the biggest update to Apple's platform for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices since iOS 7 and it brings enhancements like iMessage apps, improved Siri with third-party integration, revamped Photos, Apple Music, and Apple Maps, plus a whole lot more.

(Also see: 10 New Features of iOS 10)

Here are the complete release notes for iOS 10:

Messages

Expressive Messaging

Bubble effects let you send messages loudly, gently, slam or with invisible ink

Full-screen effects to celebrate special moments

Tapback for quick replies to messages, links, and photos

Handwritten messages animate like ink on paper

Digital Touch lets you send sketches, taps, and heartbeats

Tap to replace can emojify your text with just a tap

Rich links show a preview of web pages you share

iMessage apps

New App Store for iMessage

Use the power of apps in Messages to share and collaborate with friends

Download stickers to send and place on text bubbles and photos

Siri

Siri now works with the following types of apps

Messaging apps to send, search and read back text messages

VoIP apps to place phone calls

Photos apps to search for images and photos

Ride service apps to book rides

Payment apps to make personal payments

Fitness apps to start, stop, and pause workouts

CarPlay automaker apps to adjust climate, radio, seat, and personal settings

Maps

All new look

Proactive suggestions for places you’re likely to go next, based on your routine or appointments in Calendar

Improved search with new callout design, clustered results and category filters

Home, work, favorite locations, and locations from upcoming Calendar events are displayed on the map

Displays where your car is parked via CarPlay or Bluetooth

Weather for the currently viewed area

Extensions

Make a reservation within Maps using extensions from participating reservations apps

Book a ride to a destination within Maps using extensions from participating ride service apps

Turn-by-turn navigation improvements

Search along route for gas stations, food, and coffee shops

Automatic view adjustment of the road ahead

Use pan and zoom during navigation

Option to avoid tolls and highways

Photos

Advanced face recognition designed with deep learning to automatically group similar faces together

Object and scene recognition to intelligently search for photos by what’s in them using advanced computer vision that scans your library locally on device

Places album to see all your photos, videos and Live Photos on a map

Memories

Intelligently highlights forgotten events, trips, and people, and presents them in a beautiful collection

Memory movies automatically edited with theme music, titles, and cinematic transitions

Related memories make it easy to rediscover even more photos in your collection, based on location, time, people, scenes and objects

Easily share with family and friends

Brilliance control applies region-specific adjustments to brightness, highlights and contrast

Home

New Home app to securely manage and control HomeKit enabled accessories

Scenes to control groups of accessories with just a tap

Rich Notifications with quick actions to control accessories

Optionally share home access with family and friends

Remote access and automation of accessories with Apple TV or iPad

Apple Music

An all-new design for Apple Music brings greater clarity and simplicity to every aspect of the experience

Navigate your Library with an improved menu and see all of the Downloaded Music that you can play on your device while offline

See recommendations in For You that highlight mixes, playlists, albums, and Connect posts—selected for you based on the music and artists you love

Visit Browse to more easily see exclusive releases, find curated playlists, and discover the most important new releases—picked by our editors each week

Listen to Radio more easily—clearly see what’s live on Beats 1, hear your favorite shows on-demand, or choose a curated station for any genre of music

Play music with an improved Now Playing experience—swipe up to view available lyrics and quickly see or edit songs that are coming up next

Apple News

An all-new design in For You adds bold typography, vibrant color, and distinct sections that make it easier to find stories on specific topics

See the most important stories of the day within Top Stories—updated by our editors throughout the day

Find the most popular stories right now within Trending Stories—selected based on what others are reading

See all of your stories grouped into easy-to-understand sections on the topics you follow or read

Discover the best and most interesting stories of the week within Featured Stories—selected by our editors

Share stories more easily—just tap the icon on any story to send it to a friend right from For You

Receive breaking news notifications from some of your most trusted sources

Subscribe to your favorite magazines and newspapers directly in News

New personalized Today View widget lets you keep up with the latest stories throughout the day

Experience

Raise to Wake automatically wakes the screen as you raise your iPhone

Rich notifications that support real time information, audio, photos and videos

Today view is redesigned and supports all new widgets for apps like Weather, Up Next, Maps, Stocks and more

Control Center is redesigned with easier to access controls including dedicated cards for music playback and Home

Expanded use of 3D Touch

Lock screen notifications to support an expanded view and access to quick actions

New quick actions for built in apps like Weather, Stocks, Reminders, Health, Home, FaceTime, iCloud Drive and Settings

Home Screen widgets

Control Center for access to quick actions for Flashlight, Timer, Calculator and Camera

Clear all in Notification Center

QuickType

New emoji, including gender diverse options to existing characters, single parent family variations, rainbow flag and beautiful redesigns of popular emoji

Contextual predictions for current location, recent addresses, contact information and calendar availability using deep neural network technology

Emoji predictions

Calendar events are intelligently populated using deep learning technology with information from your conversations in Mail and Messages

Multi-lingual typing now lets you type in two languages at once without having to switch keyboards

Rest & Type on iPad intelligently adapts to your unique typing patterns

Predictive typing now uses deep neural network technology for greater prediction accuracy

Phone

Voicemail transcription (beta)

Spam call alerts with spam call identification apps

Support for third party VoIP apps receiving calls on the Lock screen, including support for Call Waiting, Mute and Do Not Disturb

Other improvements

Apple Pay in Safari

View two pages at once using Split View in Safari on iPad

Notes collaboration lets you invite people to work on your notes together

Markup support in Messages, Photos and PDFs stored in Notes

Bedtime Alarm in the Clock app lets you set a regular sleep schedule and receive bedtime reminders

Health adds support for health records and organ donation (US Only)

Stabilization support for Live Photos for improved camera capture

Live Filters support when capturing Live Photos

iCloud Drive now supports Desktop and Documents folders from macOS

Live search results in Spotlight for Chinese and Japanese

Siri support for Spanish (Chile), Chinese (Cantonese - China), English (Ireland), English (South Africa)

Ling Wai and Kaiti Black document fonts for Chinese

Yu Kyokasho and Toppan Bunkyu fonts for Japanese

New definition dictionaries in Traditional Chinese and Danish and bilingual dictionaries in Dutch and Italian

New keyboard for Spanish (Latin America)

Accessibility

Magnifier now uses the camera on your iPhone or iPad like a digital magnifying glass for real-life objects

New range of display color filters to support different forms of color blindness or other vision challenges

VoiceOver adds a Pronunciation Editor to customize the way words are pronounced, additional voices, and support for multiple audio sources

Additional text highlighting options in Speak Screen and Speak Selection, as well as the ability to speak keyboard letters and predictive typing suggestions to support multi-modal learning

Switch control now lets you control iOS, macOS and tvOS all from the same iPhone or iPad, so you don’t need to configure switches for the secondary device

Software TTY allows you to place and receive TTY calls without the need for traditional hardware teletypewriter accessories

iOS 10 is available right now as a free download. To see if your Apple device is eligible to receive the update and for detailed download instructions, see How to Download and Install iOS 10.

Next up is watchOS 3, the update that is most definitely the biggest software update to the Apple Watch platform. watchOS 3 brings noticeable speed improvements to a platform that many had termed slow, and introduces an all-new dock with "instant access" to apps. The update also brings new watch faces, new workouts, wheelchair use, breathe mode, and more. Here are the full release notes:

Performance and Navigation

Press the side button to access your favorite apps in the Dock

Apps in the Dock launch instantly with already updated information

Add up to 10 apps in the Dock, control music from Now Playing or launch your most recently used app

Swipe edge-to-edge to quickly switch your watch face

Swipe up from the bottom of your watch face to access important settings in Control Centre

Watch faces

New Minnie Mouse, Activity, and Numerals watch faces

Complications now available on Photo, Photo Album, Timelapse, and Motion

New complications including Workout, Music, and Messages

New Face Gallery in the Apple Watch app on iPhone to add and customize watch faces

Discover and add third party complications in the Face Gallery

Activity

Ability to share and compare your Activity rings

Rank alphabetically, or by progress towards Move goal, Exercise goal, steps or today’s workouts

Automatic notifications when a friend completes their rings, finishes a workout, or earns an achievement

Customised smart replies for encouragement or smack talk

New Sharing tab in the Activity app on iPhone to view history

Workout

Quick Start for most commonly used workouts

Multiple metric view, customizable for each workout type

New gestures for pause, resume, and marking segments

Labels for “Other” workouts to keep track of Yoga, Pilates, Cross Training, and more

Auto-pause for running workouts

Siri support for pause, resume, and end workouts

Route maps with speed indicators for outdoor workouts

Wheelchair use

Activity rings optimized for wheelchair users

Accounts for varying speeds, terrains, and pushing techniques

Pushes contribute to all-day calorie goals

Time to roll notification and roll ring

New Outdoor Run Pace and Outdoor Walk Pace workouts

Breathe

New Breathe app to take a moment in your day for short deep breathing sessions

Calming visualization and haptic cues guide you while you inhale and exhale

Adjust session length and breaths per minute

Summary upon completion including heart rate

Time to breathe reminders

Weekly summary

Communication

Expressive Messaging

Full-screen effects to celebrate special moments

Tapback for quick replies to messages, links, and photos

Handwritten messages animate like ink on paper

Send recent built-in or third-party stickers

View secret messages with invisible ink

Scribble

Write words on the display and Apple Watch will convert the handwriting to text

Use the Digital Crown to scroll through predicted options

Available in English (US), Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese

Reply options available in the Messages and Mail notification, including Digital Touch, emoji, and smart replies

New emoji, including gender diverse options to existing characters, single parent family variations, rainbow flag, and redesigns of popular emoji

Emergency SOS

Press and continue to hold the side button to call emergency services

Automatically notify SOS contacts and share your location

Display your Medical ID with information about medications, allergies, and medical conditions

Adjusts the emergency number to your current location

Home

New Home app to control HomeKit enabled accessories

Enable scenes created on your iPhone to control groups of accessories with just a tap

Control favorite accessories from your wrist, even remotely with Apple TV or iPad

Support for IP cameras to see live video in rich notifications and accessory controls

Other improvements

New Reminders app for managing scheduled reminders, grocery lists, and more

New Find My Friends app for viewing location of friends and family

Pay with Apple Pay within third party apps

Delete events and switch calendars in Calendar app

Support for FaceTime Audio calls directly from Apple Watch

Search for Settings in Apple Watch app on iPhone

Camera app controls for Flash, Live Photos, HDR, Zoom, Burst, and Front or Rear facing

Siri support for Spanish (Chile), Chinese (Cantonese - China), English (Ireland), English (South Africa)

Refer Apple's website for detailed instructions on how to update your Apple Watch to the latest OS.

Finally, there's Apple TV, which has got an update of its own, bumping the software version to tvOS 10.0. The update brings a dark mode, improved Siri, and a bunch of other feature. The much vaunted single sign-on for all Apple TV apps showcased at WWDC hasn't rolled out just yet though.

Siri: Siri now understands Spanish in Mexico, Dutch in Netherlands, and Norwegian in Norway, and Swedish in Sweden.

Search with Siri: Ask Siri to find movies by topic or theme. For example, ask for spy movies or the best movies about football. This feature is available only in the United States.

Siri for Podcasts: To find what you're looking for, just include the word “podcast” in your Siri search.

Dictation: You can now use Dictation with Dutch, Norwegian, and Swedish system languages, no matter where you are in the world.

App Store: Automatically add apps that you purchased on your iOS device to your Apple TV. Just sign in to iTunes on your Apple TV with the same Apple ID that you use for iTunes on your iOS device. Then apps from your iOS device appear on your Apple TV Home screen.

Music: Experience a fresh, streamlined design that makes it easier than ever to find the music that you love.

Photos: Enjoy the new Memories feature, which highlights moments from your Photo Library in a lively presentation for the big screen.

HomeKit: From your Apple TV, ask Siri to turn off the living-room lights, change the temperature, and more. You can also use your Apple TV as a home hub. Then you can set up Automations or access your home remotely from the Home app on your iOS device or Apple Watch.

Appearance: You can change the look of your Apple TV. To make your Home screen and menus pop in bright or dim settings, choose a Light or Dark background Appearance.

Apple Remote Keyboard: With this feature, a keyboard appears on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch whenever you select a text field on your Apple TV. Then you can quickly enter text on your Apple TV using the keyboard on your iOS device.

Display Accommodations: Colour Filters can help you distinguish colours or read onscreen text.

Read how to update the software on your Apple TV.

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