New Features in iOS 10: A Comprehensive Guide

iOS 10 has brought about numerous exciting features that enhance user experience and functionality. In this article, we will delve into the world of iOS 10's new features and explore what they offer.

**Search Bar with a Twist**

One of the most significant changes in iOS 10 is the reimagined search bar. The old way of searching for apps or data has been replaced by a more intuitive system. You can now swipe down from the top of the screen to access the search bar, which allows you to quickly find what you're looking for. Additionally, tapping on the magnifying glass icon will instantly access Spotlight Search, making it easier to find information.

The new search bar also includes features like suggested searches based on your past interactions and a more comprehensive list of results. You can tap on "Lookup" to get definitions from the dictionary, as well as additional data such as app store results, news results, and suggested websites.

**3D Touch: A Game-Changer**

3D Touch is one of the most exciting features in iOS 10. This new technology allows you to interact with your iPhone in a whole new way. You can 3D touch on an app icon to share it, rename folders, manage App Store downloads, and even find apps with pending notifications.

One of the coolest aspects of 3D Touch is its ability to display all the shortcuts assigned to a particular app icon. Simply swipe down from the top of the screen, tap the home button, and then 3D touch on the shortcut you want to access. This feature is particularly useful for those who frequently use specific apps or have customized their home screen.

**Enhanced Multitasking**

iOS 10 introduces several new features that enhance multitasking capabilities. One of the most notable changes is the ability to resume App Store downloads. If you were in the middle of downloading an app when you left your iPhone, you can now 3D touch on the folder containing the app and pause or cancel the download.

Additionally, you can use 3D Touch to manage notifications for apps within a folder. Simply swipe down from the top of the screen and tap on the folder containing the app with pending notifications. This will display all the apps inside that folder with pending notifications, making it easier to manage your notifications.

**Spotlight Search**

Spotlight search has been revamped in iOS 10, allowing for more efficient searching within Spotlight. You can now use Spotlight to find files and documents stored on iCloud Drive, which makes it even easier to access your content.

One of the most significant improvements is the automatic suggestion feature. When you start typing a file or document name, Spotlight will suggest relevant results from your iCloud Drive storage. This feature significantly reduces the time spent searching for what you're looking for.

**Live Photos and Markup**

The Messages app has been enhanced with a new feature that allows you to mark up photos directly within the app. To do this, simply tap the little extensions button, tap Mark Up, and then use your finger to draw on the photo. Live Photos will be disabled if you use Mark Up, but the result is well worth it.

The Photos app has also been updated with a new feature that allows you to access home screen favorites via Control Center. To do this, simply swipe down from the top of the screen and tap on the home button. This will display all your favorite scenes, making it easy to quickly access them.

**Emergency Bypass for Do Not Disturb**

One of the most useful features in iOS 10 is the emergency bypass for Do Not Disturb. To activate this feature, simply edit a contact, change its ringtone, and then select "Emergency Bypass." This will allow you to receive sound and vibration notifications from that specific contact while Do Not Disturb is active.

**Accessibility Magnifier**

iOS 10 includes an accessibility feature called magnification, which allows you to quickly zoom in on objects in front of you. To access this feature, go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Magnifier. Simply triple tap the home button to activate the magnifier, and then use your finger to zoom in on any object.

**Apple Watch Integration**

One of the most significant updates in iOS 10 is the integration with Apple Watch. You can now find your Apple Watch within the Find My iPhone app, making it easier to locate or track its location if it's ever lost or stolen.

**Older Apps and Apple TV Remote App**

Finally, iOS 10 includes a new feature that warns you when you try to run a 32-bit app on your device. Additionally, Apple has released a new Apple TV remote app to replace the old one, which is available for download from the developer website or the App Store.

This is Jeff with nine-to-five Mac, and we hope this article has provided you with an in-depth look at the exciting features in iOS 10. If you enjoyed this article, please subscribe to our channel and leave us a thumbs up.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enlast week we covered 75 new features found in iOS 10 well this week we're covering an additional 30 new features in iOS 10 check it out now I was so excited about this first feature that I covered it in its own standalone post but I didn't include it in our compilation post so I wanted to mention it here yes you can now play videos inline in Safari that means you can watch the video while reading content you can scroll up and down the page the video keeps playing that is a brand new feature in iOS 10 also if you enjoy these videos please click here to subscribe to our Channel and leave us a thumbs up below now the Nets feature is an improved landscape mode Safari tab interface on smaller devices so if you have an iPhone 6 plus or 6s plus you already know this you already benefit from this enhanced tab interface while in landscape mode but us smaller iPhone users haven't been able to have this until now so this is new for iOS 10 now I also did a standalone video for this as well but I wanted to highlight it since I didn't bring it out in a prior compilation video if you tap and hold on the tab button in Safari you can close out of all tabs in one fell swoop such a welcome new addition to Safari now you can also search your bookmarks in your reading list content right from Safari just swipe down to reveal the search bar either in reading list or in your bookmarks so we're gonna swipe down and we can just type in our search query just like that now I did touch a little bit on Safari split view in our prior video but I didn't mention that you could actually drag tabs to the left or to the right just like this to invoke split view and when iOS 10 you can quickly share links by long-pressing on a link and then you'll see open open a new tab at the reading list copy but now you see a new share option you tap that share option and guess what you get your share sheet to easily share links in the Photos app you can swipe up on a photo to quickly view related photos just like this you can also tap the details button in the upper right hand corner to view the same thing just like that iOS 10 promises smoother live photo playback eliminating much of the herky-jerky nespresso and iOS 9 now in our last video I did mention briefly that lyrics are now in the music app but I wasn't able to show you so now I'm going to you lyrics and the music app so you just open up the nail plain interface and swipe up and there are the lyrics you can hide or show them right there on the fly just like that now in some cases when editing Siri queries in iOS 10 Siri will actually provide you with a list of suggestions to choose from so I'm gonna show you right now we're gonna edit this query by tapping on the query and now you see maybe you said hmm maybe I'll select this one here and you can see it update right there on the fly at the top and then the results appear right here what if you're using a full screen iMessage app or a full screen digital touch and you receive a message well this is what happens see that you get the message notification right there at the top let me show you again I'm gonna send myself another test message while in full screen digital touch view and here we go pretty cool huh now I'm not sure how I miss this one in the last video but you can use handwriting mode in messages just turn your device sideways to go into landscape mode while composing a message and then you can just write on the screen you can sign your name and it automatically moves over to intelligently give you more space to sign your entire name and then you can utilize the arrows to move back and forth to view the entire composition like that and once you're ready to send just tap Done and then you'll see it in the message compose window and then you just tap the send button now ever since Notification Center became a thing people have been clamoring for the ability to clear all notifications in one fell swoop and now you can do so just 3d touch on the Clear button and you can tap clear all notifications and get rid of them all instantly iOS 10 brings the ability to use spotlight search from anywhere that includes within apps all you need to do is just pull down just a little bit you'll feel a little a haptic feedback and then the search interface and keyboard will automatically appear when you release now you can still bring up the full Notification Center by swiping all the way down like I just did there and you can even tap in the search box to bring up the search but now you can just swipe down a little bit release and then instantly access search now like the Mac iOS 10 now gets a system-wide lookup feature so that's not just definition from the dictionary but now you can tap lookup and it will still give you definitions but now you get a whole bunch of additional data like app store results news results suggested websites it's okay so now we're going to talk a lot about 3d touch first of all you can 3d touch an app store app to share that application so if I 3d touch on reddit for instance I can tap share and share that using the share sheet you can also use 3d touch to rename I hate to say it but yes you can rename folders I know you guys always joke on the way I say folder it's my accent I can help it but you can 3d touch to rename folders you can also use 3d touch to manage App Store downloads that are in progress so I'm going to open up this folder here set it again 3d touch on that application there and you can see you can pause the download you can also cancel the download of course you can resume a download etc you can also use 3d touch in folders to find apps that have pending notifications so it will display all the apps inside that folder with pending notifications those handy spotlight search suggestions you can also use 3d touch on those as well I'm gonna 3d touch on the fine of my iPhone icon and you can see all of my devices this can be a really handy shortcut you can just search right in spotlight and then 3d touch on that to access any of the shortcuts assigned to that particular app icon just like that one of the most annoying features about iOS 9 is that music would stop playing whenever you open up the camera app to take a live photo that was super annoying but now you can see the camera app is open live photos his own I took a photo and the music is still playing finally in iOS 10 that calendar app will automatically suggest events based on prior events so when I type in here you're gonna see suggestions just tap the suggestion it'll fill in the event name and also populate the time as well in iOS 10 spotlight can nail search iCloud Drive so if I just typed the name of a file in iCloud Drive and I scroll down here I can tap that and open it right up in iCloud Drive now in the prior video I showed you how to mark up photos within the messages app but of course you can do the same thing within the Photos app as well just tap the little extensions button tap mark up and you can start drawing on your photos now keep in mind that live photos will be disabled if you use mark up you can also access home app favorite scenes via control center just swipe all the way over to the right you'll see all your favorite scenes listed here only have one and you can also tap the little home button to go directly to the home app now this is one of the cooler features that I've found within iOS 10 emergency bypass for Do Not Disturb so all you need to do is go in and edit a contact edit that contacts ringtone and then you'll see emergency bypass you can turn that on and you will still receive sound and vibration notifications even if do not disturb his own for this particular contact very handy if you're looking to gain a close-up view of any object in your vicinity you can use the accessibility magnifier found in Settings General accessibility magnifier and then use a triple tap of the home button tap magnifier and now you can use the magnifier to quickly zoom in to any object in front of you now this is technically a watch os3 feature but now you can find my Apple watch within the Find My iPhone application super handy feature for those of you who frequently misplace your Apple watch or for those of you who are worried about it being stolen if you try to run an ode 32-bit app on iOS 10 you're gonna get a warning telling you that hey this app is outdated ironically though it's the remote app which is from Apple but fortunately Apple did come out with a new Apple TV remote app to replace the old remote and here it is you can download this from the developer website if you have a developer account in the future it will be released on the App Store and this is very handy we will have a full walkthrough of the Apple TV remote app in a future video so ladies and gentlemen boys and girls that has been a look at 30 additional new features found in iOS 10 which one is your favorite also if you enjoyed this video please subscribe and leave us a thumbs up this is Jeff with nine-to-five Mac youlast week we covered 75 new features found in iOS 10 well this week we're covering an additional 30 new features in iOS 10 check it out now I was so excited about this first feature that I covered it in its own standalone post but I didn't include it in our compilation post so I wanted to mention it here yes you can now play videos inline in Safari that means you can watch the video while reading content you can scroll up and down the page the video keeps playing that is a brand new feature in iOS 10 also if you enjoy these videos please click here to subscribe to our Channel and leave us a thumbs up below now the Nets feature is an improved landscape mode Safari tab interface on smaller devices so if you have an iPhone 6 plus or 6s plus you already know this you already benefit from this enhanced tab interface while in landscape mode but us smaller iPhone users haven't been able to have this until now so this is new for iOS 10 now I also did a standalone video for this as well but I wanted to highlight it since I didn't bring it out in a prior compilation video if you tap and hold on the tab button in Safari you can close out of all tabs in one fell swoop such a welcome new addition to Safari now you can also search your bookmarks in your reading list content right from Safari just swipe down to reveal the search bar either in reading list or in your bookmarks so we're gonna swipe down and we can just type in our search query just like that now I did touch a little bit on Safari split view in our prior video but I didn't mention that you could actually drag tabs to the left or to the right just like this to invoke split view and when iOS 10 you can quickly share links by long-pressing on a link and then you'll see open open a new tab at the reading list copy but now you see a new share option you tap that share option and guess what you get your share sheet to easily share links in the Photos app you can swipe up on a photo to quickly view related photos just like this you can also tap the details button in the upper right hand corner to view the same thing just like that iOS 10 promises smoother live photo playback eliminating much of the herky-jerky nespresso and iOS 9 now in our last video I did mention briefly that lyrics are now in the music app but I wasn't able to show you so now I'm going to you lyrics and the music app so you just open up the nail plain interface and swipe up and there are the lyrics you can hide or show them right there on the fly just like that now in some cases when editing Siri queries in iOS 10 Siri will actually provide you with a list of suggestions to choose from so I'm gonna show you right now we're gonna edit this query by tapping on the query and now you see maybe you said hmm maybe I'll select this one here and you can see it update right there on the fly at the top and then the results appear right here what if you're using a full screen iMessage app or a full screen digital touch and you receive a message well this is what happens see that you get the message notification right there at the top let me show you again I'm gonna send myself another test message while in full screen digital touch view and here we go pretty cool huh now I'm not sure how I miss this one in the last video but you can use handwriting mode in messages just turn your device sideways to go into landscape mode while composing a message and then you can just write on the screen you can sign your name and it automatically moves over to intelligently give you more space to sign your entire name and then you can utilize the arrows to move back and forth to view the entire composition like that and once you're ready to send just tap Done and then you'll see it in the message compose window and then you just tap the send button now ever since Notification Center became a thing people have been clamoring for the ability to clear all notifications in one fell swoop and now you can do so just 3d touch on the Clear button and you can tap clear all notifications and get rid of them all instantly iOS 10 brings the ability to use spotlight search from anywhere that includes within apps all you need to do is just pull down just a little bit you'll feel a little a haptic feedback and then the search interface and keyboard will automatically appear when you release now you can still bring up the full Notification Center by swiping all the way down like I just did there and you can even tap in the search box to bring up the search but now you can just swipe down a little bit release and then instantly access search now like the Mac iOS 10 now gets a system-wide lookup feature so that's not just definition from the dictionary but now you can tap lookup and it will still give you definitions but now you get a whole bunch of additional data like app store results news results suggested websites it's okay so now we're going to talk a lot about 3d touch first of all you can 3d touch an app store app to share that application so if I 3d touch on reddit for instance I can tap share and share that using the share sheet you can also use 3d touch to rename I hate to say it but yes you can rename folders I know you guys always joke on the way I say folder it's my accent I can help it but you can 3d touch to rename folders you can also use 3d touch to manage App Store downloads that are in progress so I'm going to open up this folder here set it again 3d touch on that application there and you can see you can pause the download you can also cancel the download of course you can resume a download etc you can also use 3d touch in folders to find apps that have pending notifications so it will display all the apps inside that folder with pending notifications those handy spotlight search suggestions you can also use 3d touch on those as well I'm gonna 3d touch on the fine of my iPhone icon and you can see all of my devices this can be a really handy shortcut you can just search right in spotlight and then 3d touch on that to access any of the shortcuts assigned to that particular app icon just like that one of the most annoying features about iOS 9 is that music would stop playing whenever you open up the camera app to take a live photo that was super annoying but now you can see the camera app is open live photos his own I took a photo and the music is still playing finally in iOS 10 that calendar app will automatically suggest events based on prior events so when I type in here you're gonna see suggestions just tap the suggestion it'll fill in the event name and also populate the time as well in iOS 10 spotlight can nail search iCloud Drive so if I just typed the name of a file in iCloud Drive and I scroll down here I can tap that and open it right up in iCloud Drive now in the prior video I showed you how to mark up photos within the messages app but of course you can do the same thing within the Photos app as well just tap the little extensions button tap mark up and you can start drawing on your photos now keep in mind that live photos will be disabled if you use mark up you can also access home app favorite scenes via control center just swipe all the way over to the right you'll see all your favorite scenes listed here only have one and you can also tap the little home button to go directly to the home app now this is one of the cooler features that I've found within iOS 10 emergency bypass for Do Not Disturb so all you need to do is go in and edit a contact edit that contacts ringtone and then you'll see emergency bypass you can turn that on and you will still receive sound and vibration notifications even if do not disturb his own for this particular contact very handy if you're looking to gain a close-up view of any object in your vicinity you can use the accessibility magnifier found in Settings General accessibility magnifier and then use a triple tap of the home button tap magnifier and now you can use the magnifier to quickly zoom in to any object in front of you now this is technically a watch os3 feature but now you can find my Apple watch within the Find My iPhone application super handy feature for those of you who frequently misplace your Apple watch or for those of you who are worried about it being stolen if you try to run an ode 32-bit app on iOS 10 you're gonna get a warning telling you that hey this app is outdated ironically though it's the remote app which is from Apple but fortunately Apple did come out with a new Apple TV remote app to replace the old remote and here it is you can download this from the developer website if you have a developer account in the future it will be released on the App Store and this is very handy we will have a full walkthrough of the Apple TV remote app in a future video so ladies and gentlemen boys and girls that has been a look at 30 additional new features found in iOS 10 which one is your favorite also if you enjoyed this video please subscribe and leave us a thumbs up this is Jeff with nine-to-five Mac you\n"