iOS 10 "undocumented" features & changes
- Travel time in Calendar now works with Transit
- Lock on top of status bar when on lock screen
- Modified opening/closing app animation
- New folder view
- New back link (arrow, app name)
- Spotlight entries rounded
- Individual read receipts
- Notification Center - tapping Search is the same as Spotlight
- Recent Searches in Notification Center
- Ability to hide (not delete) most stock applications
- Messages: New name initial icons
- Camera: photo filters & swap camera buttons switched around
- Health: New Calendar and Today view. Ability to add favorites.
- New Siri Tab in Settings
- New keyboard typing sound
- Bedtime Alarm feature (Imgur Album)
- (Supposedly?) Non-Removable Apple Music "For You", "Browse" tab EVEN Apple Music is off. Cannot rate songs in stock Music app.
- Game Center dedicated app removed.
- Every single third party app has a fixed "Share" 3D touch menu, as well as Safari webpage shortcuts.
- You can now change the video playback quality in the videos app through settings when streaming from iCloud.
- Unsubscribe from mailing list subscriptions
- Parked car reminder in Maps
- Flashlight has 3 different intensities via 3D Touch in Control Center
- 3D Touch now works on searched apps and Siri suggested apps
- Colour Filters now available in Settings>Accessibility>Display Accomodations
- Security recommendations for joined WiFi Networks
- Read receipts by conversation in iMessages
- iCloud Drive Desktop folder
- Air Quality Index for China
- Faster Camera launch
- Continuity Clipboard
- Auto-correct improvements for Korean and Thai
- Notes Collaboration
- Unlimited tabs in Safari
- Male and female Siri voices for Russia, Spain, & Italy
- Definition dictionary in Danish
- Live Photos stabilization
- Markup in Messages
- Side-by-side Mail compose iPad
- Location suggestions in Calendar
- New iPad Camera UI
- Live Filters for Live Photos
- Conversation view in Mail
- Discover in iBooks
- Improved Auto Enhance in Photos
- Faster FaceTime connectivity
- CarPlay app reordering
- Split View in Safari on iPad
- Rest & type iPad keyboard
- Sort Favorites in News
- iCloud Drive Documents folder
- Bilingual dictionaries in Dutch & Italian
- Apple Pay in Safari
- Mail suggested move folder
- Air quality in Maps for China
- Found in Messages
- Brilliance adjustment slider in Photos
- Mail filters
- CarPlay on ultrawide screens
- Bedtime alarm
- Siri for South Africa & Ireland
- Definition dictionary in Traditional Chinese
- Live Photos editing
- Avoid tolls in Maps
- Mailbox column
- Faster attachment sending in Messages
- Home Screen Icon in Hardware Keyboard App Switcher
- Command "`" enabled to go reverse through Keyboard App Switcher
- Long press on Safari Tab icon allows closing all tabs and open new tab
- Continuity of Care Document (CCD) support in Health
- Emergency Bypass feature added to Contacts Ringtone & Text Tone to bypass Do Not Disturb
- Confirmation vibration when using the silent switch on iPhone 6S and 6S Plus is now haptic feedback instead
- Enhanced Data Detector in iMessage supports wider range of detectable input
- Album art on lock-screen and control center becomes smaller when music is paused
- Ability to view lyrics in the Music App if available.
- A slow pull down on notification center give a two-step haptic feedback, stopping at the first pulse opens search instead of notification center
- On the lock screen, the "Stop" button for alarms and timers is now a large button, offering a much larger touch target than hard-to-tap colored text from iOS 7-9.
- The seconds hand on the clock icon has been changed from red to orange to match the new black/orange color scheme of the clock app.
- PPTP VPN Removed
- Contacts
- Interactive Notifications
- Cache Delete
- Smart Card API
- Window Tabs
- SiriKit Payments
- SiriKit VoIP calling
- Camera sensor data
- Live information
- Recent addresses
- SiriKit
- SceneKit physically based rendering
- SiriKit Messaging
- iCloud for Developer ID
- SiriKit ride booking
- Xcode source editor extensions
- ReplayKit Live
- Book-a-ride extension
- Live Photos editing
- Apple Pay on the web
- SiriKit photo search
- iMessage apps
- Smaller Xcode download
- Xcode editor extensions
- Maps extensions
- Spam alert extension
- HomeKit Air Purifier
- Native VoIP experience
- Xcode FPS gauge
- Live Photos capture
- iMessage extensions
- Xcode thread sanitizer
- Speech Recognition
- HomeKit Doorbell
- Reservations Maps extension
- HomeKit accessories
- HomeKit Air Conditioning
- User notifications
- VoIP extensions
- Wide color
- CarPlay Maps instrument cluster
- Stickers
- Grid View
- HomeKit Camera
- CloudKit sharing
- RAW photo editing
- SiriKit Workouts
- Memory debugger
- Pixar USD model support
- Metal Tesselation
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