IOS 10 will let you delete that bloody Stocks app
One of the most pleasing updates to iOS 10 will be the ability to uninstall Apple apps, these are the apps that come pre-built into the phone when you first buy it. Users will now be able to delete those Apple apps and download them again if they want them.
Security and privacy are “fundamental to the design of Apple hardware, software and services” said the firm. iMessage, FaceTime and HomeKit use end-to-end encryption to protect your data by making it unreadable by Apple and others. iOS 10 uses on-device intelligence to identify the people, objects and scenes in Photos, and power QuickType suggestions.
It is reported that with iOS 10, Apple iPhone users are expected to experience the 3D Touch functionality and redesigned lock screen option with extra interactive notification facility.
In the new smarter Photos app, Apple says it ran over 11 billion calculations used in analysing a single photo for faces, places and objects.
Apple has unveiled macOS Sierra, the latest version of its desktop platform that has several new features and ditches the OS X brand. However, this will take few months because developers need to obtain the Siri SDK from Apple and learn to integrate Siri into their apps.
Since the launch of Apple TV, Siri has gotten more powerful, now searching over 650,000 TV episodes and movies. The biggest change is that with the launch of macOS Sierra in the fall, Siri will be available on the Mac.
“This can affect things like related system functions or information on your Apple Watch”. The company also announced the introduction of Safari-like tabs to all their desktop apps. After this announcement, Uber was quick to jump on this new feature. The reason for this is to bring the desktop operating system’s name in line with the likes of iOS, watchOS etc.
Apple Music, which now has 15 million paying subscribers, is getting a new interface that’s meant to be simpler and that will make it easier to find music you store on your phone, and not just tunes you can stream from the internet. “This makes performance of all your apps, especially real-time apps like voice and video, much more reliable, particularly when you are on the move”.
What if you are an athlete trying to work out with the help of the Apple Watch? It’s also extending Apple Pay to the web, so users can pay for purchases made on their Mac computers using the fingerprint authorization on their iPhone or Apple Watch. And Google should put users before everything else because its top competitor in the mobile space Apple is doing that.
Snapchat’s popularity has clearly rubbed off on Apple, as they attempt to make their messaging service more fun.