Ipad Iphone User Issue 110 2016
Ipad Iphone User Issue 110 2016
Ipad Iphone User Issue 110 2016
FROM IDG
HEAD TO HEAD:
iOS 9
VS
iOS10
GUIDE TO
iOS 10
BETA
Contents
3
Welcome
Head to head
4
iOS 9 vs iOS 10
Features
15
20
26
33
43
50
55
67
80
86
How To
91
93
98
101
Opinion
109
Welcome...
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Head to head:
iOS 9 vs iOS 10
David Price looks at the differences between
Apples two mobile operating systems
Features
When we compare generations of iOS, the
featuressection tends to be a walk-over: the
newerversion of the operating system will
get a bunch of new features (which in most
cases youcan ignore if you dont like them)
and might ditch a couple that Apple doesnt
think have worked out. If it were just a case
of comparingfeatures, iOS 10 would win this
comparison at a canter. Yet there are downsides
toupgrading, which youll nd in other sections.
iOS 10 brings a raft of new features: well over
ahundred, by Apples count, although most
of these are minor tweaks. In this section well
talkabout our highlights.
1. Raise to Wake
This handy and largely self-explanatory feature
(which currently works on the iPhone 6s, 6s Plus
and SE only, sadly it requires an iPhone with
an M9 coprocessor) means that, like the Apple
Watch, an iOS 10-equipped iPhone will light up its
screen and show you the lock screen when you lift
it up. Which makes particular sense given Apples
greater focus on lock-screen information and
interactivity youll actually see the lock screen
on your iPhone now, rather than blasting through
to the unlocked home screen thanks to superfast
second-generation Touch ID.
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iPad 4
iPad Air 1 and 2
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Verdict
iOS 10 is stuffed to the gills with handy new
features, fun little visual touches, smart interface
tweaks and a couple of entirely new apps, and
were having a great time trying it all out. Maps
is about to get a lot more useful. (And if you
dont like it, you can remove it, and a bunch of
other presintalled apps, from your Home screen.)
Messages is more fun. Raise to Wake is a great
idea. The new Home app is neatly designed and a
pleasure to use. Swift Playgrounds (which we didnt
even get round to discussing) is a great way of
nurturing the app developers of tomorrow.
At time of writing iOS 10 is still in its earliest
publicly testable form. As such, its too early to
give a denitive verdict. Features may be added or
taken away, bugs may be discovered or removed,
design changes may be made or reversed. But at
the moment its looking pretty much essential.
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Feature: Guide
to iOS 10 beta
Susie Ochs reveals everything you need to know
What is the
iOS 10 beta?
Apple has a
Beta Software
Program
(tinyurl.com/
pkmbuxz) that
started with
OS X 10.10
Yosemite
and is now
providing
betas of
macOS Sierra.
iOS 10 is
the second
versionof iOS
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How to sign up
You just head to the Beta Software Program page
and express interest by signing in with your Apple
ID and password. You also have to agree to the
terms and enrol your iOS device.
Supported devices
Theres some bad news: iOS 10 doesnt support
some of the older devices that are compatible with
iOS 9. The iPhone 4s, second- and third-gen iPads,
the original iPad mini, and the fth-generation
iPod touch are all being left behind. Its kind of a
bummer: my third-gen iPad, purchased just four
years ago, was still hanging on until I gave it away
a month ago. It had denitely slowed down, and it
couldnt take advantage of any of the iPad-related
productivity features included in iOS 9. But still,
fouryears isnt that old, even as hardware goes.
Feature: Should
you install iOS 10?
There are reasons to go for it and reasons
to wait. Susie Ochs looks at your options
Just a 3D Touch
iOS 10s biggest difference over iOS 9 is how
muchyou can do without opening apps. Some
apps will be able to integrate with Siri, so you
could, say, call a car without having to launch Lyft.
Notications are getting richer, letting you 3D
Touch to get more information or take action.
And the widgets that used to be conned to the
Today view in Notication Center are now also on
the Spotlight screen you see when swiping right
from the lock screen or home screen. Widgets let
you get information at a glance without opening
apps, like the next hours forecast from Dark Sky,
progress toward your activity goals, your next
calendar appointment.
Widgets are just as handy no matter what phone
you have. But getting them is done differently. On
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Verdict
If putting a beta of iOS 10 on your everyday iPhone
seems too risky, slapping it on your iPad might be a
safer bet. Youll get to play with the new Messages
app, the new lock screen widgets, and the
redesigned Photos, News, and Music. But iOS 10 is
curiously light on iPad-specic features, especially
if you dont have an iPad Pro or at least an iPad
Air 2 (which can do Split View). Beta software is
fun, but a little risky to put on devices you rely on
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4. Sketch in Messages
The ability to sketch out messages was rst
introduced on the App Watch. Its a fun feature, but
bound to nd many more fans now that Apple is
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5. Bedtime in Clock
The Clock app has a new feature, called Bedtime.
Bedtime sets a recurring wake-up alarm, and a
gentle reminder when its time to go to bed. Open
Clock and tap Bedtime > Get Started. Bedtime
asks what time you want to wake up, tap next and
deselect the days the alarm should not go off.
7. Memories in Photos
Few apps have had as big a shot in the arm in iOS
10 as Photos. Open Photos and youll see a new
option called Memories. This automatically creates
Photo albums. Youll see the Best of Last Month,
and Best of Last Three Months. Below that will be
albums of places or events.
9. Control Centre
The Control Centre has been split into two
windows, making it less baffling to the eyes. Slide
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space will appear next to it. Drop the tab into the
grey space and itll expand to ll half the screen.
3. Split View
When I rst discovered the new Split View support
in the iPad version of the Music app, I thought:
Who needs this? Well, if you love music and are
constantly researching new artists, albums, and
songs, being able to search for tunes in the Music
app while reading reviews or music reviews on
Safari is incredibly useful. For example, I was
browsing through NPRs list of best albums of 2016
(so far, at least) with Apple Music open in Split View.
Tapping on each albums Apple Music link would
pull up the album right next to the Safari article, so I
could easily save records I hadnt listened to yet to
my library or play them on the spot.
Emoji nation
When Apple announced that emojis in iOS 10
wouldbe three times bigger during WWDC, the
crowd cheered. In order to get the super-sized
versions, however, you have to send an message
containing only emojis. Adding text shows
regular-sized emojis.
On top of that, Messages has a new emoji
replacement tool for converting keywords into
corresponding emojis. For example, the text I love
monkeys turns into I all you have to do is
compose your message and then tap on the emoji
button. Then tap on the highlighted keywords to
choose from the corresponding emojis.
Digital Touch
A feature that originated on the Apple Watch has
come to iOS 10. Tap on the icon with the heart and
the two ngers that sits on the right of the input
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Handwriting
Digital Touch is not the only way you can use your
nger to express yourself in the new Messages.
Turn your iPhone horizontally to landscape mode,
and youll be able to use handwriting. Here, you
can select from seven pre-populated handwritten
messages like happy birthday and thinking of
you. Or you can just keep the font and create your
own message by tapping Clear towards the top.
If the recipient has installed iOS 10 as well, these
messages are displayed stroke by stroke, as if they
had been handwritten in real-time. The ink also
has a drying effect for an authentic pen-on-paper
feel. If the recipient has iOS 9, these handwritten
messages show up as still attachments.
Raise to Wake
If you have a new iPhone 6s,
6s Plus or SE the changes will
appear instantly. When you pick
up your phone, your screen will
wake to display the time. Its a
small change, one already in
use on the Apple Watch (and on
Android phones), but it eliminates
the pain point of having to press
abutton just to see the time.
The
Spotlight
screen in
iOS 9 (left)
versus the
overhauled
screen in
iOS 10 (right)
3D Touch a
notication (or
swipe left and
tap View if you
dont have 3D
Touch) to see
the whole thread
and even reply,
without having to
fully launch the
Messages app
Still in beta
iOS 10 makes your iPhone and iPad useful
directlyfrom the lock screen, no passcode
required. That brings up its own set of privacy
issues, though you can prevent people from
seeingnotications on your locked device by
toggling off Notications View under Settings
> Touch ID & Passcode > Allow access when
locked.Or just head to Settings > Notications,
andtweak the settings to prevent sensitive apps
from sending notications to the lock screen at
all,while still letting other notications through.
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An interactive 360-degree
shot uploaded from the
Panorama app and viewed
on the desktop in Google+
Google Street View, 360 Panorama, and DMD Panorama are among
several apps available that facilitate mobile 360-degree immersive images
2. Shoot panoramas
Panoramas are an excellent way to capture
extremewide-angle shots with your iPhone.
Just launch the Camera app and hold the phone
uprightin portrait orientation. When you hit the
button, hold the phone with both hands and
steadily move it inone direction, following the
arrow prompt. Note any messages on the screen
and beware of moving too quickly.
Try to lock the exposure at a medium brightness
in the landscape where the light is optimal before
you tap the shutter button, otherwise you risk
combining different exposures as the camera
appadjusts to various points in the scene.
Panoramas can be vertical too, and are shot
the same easy way, except that you hold the
7. Use silhouettes
Silhouettes can dramatise just about any animate
or inanimate subject, and theyre super-easy to
accomplish. To create one, just look for the light
source and position your subject in front of it. You
can shoot silhouettes at any time of day, but the
most dramatic time for outdoor silhouettes is when
the sun is low in the sky, around sunrise or sunset
(often referred to as the golden hour).
Most of the time, you can rely on the iPhones
auto exposure for great silhouettes, however to
make sure that you get the image youre looking
for a blackened subject and a nicely exposed
sky tap on the brightest part of the image
thesky and a silhouette will naturally form,
provided the light source is behind the subject. If
you need to darken the subject more, swipe down
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Feature: Beginners
guide to Pokmon GO
Dont know the difference between a regular Pok Ball and a
Great Ball? Sarah Jacobsson Purewals guide will help
Gyms
What is a Gym?
In addition to PokStops, youll also see Pokmon
Gyms usually larger landmarks around your
city. Gyms are where you can battle other players
Pokmon for control, pride, and free PokCoins.
You cant visit gyms until you are level 5 and have
chosen a team.
What is a team, and why you need to join one?
When you get to level 5, youll be asked to choose
a team. There are three teams: Team Instinct
(yellow), Team Mystic (blue) and Team Valor (red).
Once you pick a team, your job is to ght for control
of the Pokmon Gyms around your city if an
opposing team controls a gym, you can battle them
for dominance; if your team controls a gym, you can
train at the gym or place one of your Pokmon at
the gym to defend it from opposing teams.
If you control a gym or if you have a
Pokmon defending a gym (you dont necessarily
have to be the gym leader) you will get a
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Banner Saga 2
The Banner Saga is a unique and beautifully made
tactical RPG/adventure game, and its mobile and
desktop versions feature prominently in our Best
iOS games and Best Mac games articles. So the
prospect of a sequel is fantastic.
The PC version of Banner Saga 2 is scheduled
to launch on 19th April 2016, and you can watch a
video trailer here. But when will the game come
to iPad? The iOS version of the original game
appeared nine months after the PC launch, so our
best guess is that BS2 will come to the App Store in
early 2017, but were optimistic that Stoic might get
it out there early and give iOS gamers a treat for
Christmas 2016.
Legend of Grimrock 2
This is our favourite roleplaying game on the iOS
platform. It is simply wonderful: cruel, compelling,
sometimes very difficult; a love letter to the gridbased rst-person RPGs of the 1990s with the
addition of modern graphical polish. And if by some
quirk of circumstances you havent played it yet,
you should go and download it, then close down
your browser and not come back until its nished.
LoG 2 came out on PC back in late 2014, and
Rock Paper Shotgun, whose recommendation led
us to try Grimrock in the rst place, described their
experience with the sequel as being like a pig in a
lifetimes supply of the very nest quality shit.
So come on, Almost Human, let the iPad gamers
have their turn. The rst game came to the App
Store last May, so we can only hope that the
developers have been too busy counting their
money to bother porting the sequel.
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Feature: Ask
the iTunes Guy
Kirk McElhearn answers your iTunes questions
Shuffle or not
Q: I have a mix of songs, albums and audiobooks,
all in playlists in my iTunes library. I would like to
have the playlists that contain music shuffle all
their songs, and the audiobooks play in chapter
order. However, when I switch shuffle on it affects
all playlists, which obviously plays audiobooks
out of order. It there anyway to set up iTunes so
shuffle is on for some playlists and off for others?
A: The iTunes shuffle feature is great for music, but,
as you point out, not for audiobooks. There are
several ways you can control shuffle in iTunes, and
its good to know about these.
To turn shuffle on globally for your library, choose
Controls > Shuffle > On, and start playing a track.
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Colour unbalance
Q: Recent iTunes versions have a black
background on the top portion of the window,
so the song titles are impossible to read. Is there
some way to change that?
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and use. Apple iOS devices may not need the same
level of maintenance as Mac OS X), but they still
need some attention to run at optimum speed.
Recover memory
Apple iOS should manage your memory effectively.
And apps that are running in the background
should not take up memory. Having said that, we do
nd that restarting an iPhone clears all the memory
and ensures that the apps we need have enough to
use. Here is how to restart your iPhone:
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Manually
Heres how to change a contact photo on your
iPhone manually by choosing an existing photo or
to taking one yourself.
Facebook
To update your contacts
usernames and photos
automatically through syncing
Facebook head to your phone
settings. Bear in mind this will
only update the friends in your
contacts list who you also have
on Facebook.
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Twitter
To update your contacts
usernames and photos
automatically through syncing
Twitter to your contacts list, head
to your iPhone Settings.
Open Twitter.
Tap Update Contacts.
You can also stop Twitter
accessing your account by
turning the toggle off at the
bottom at any time.
Instead of deleting
the app (which you
wouldnt beable to do
anyway, with Apples
preinstalledapps) you
could go into the app
in question and clear
out some old photos or
songs, for example.
To delete an app
youre nished with,
click it in this list, then
Delete App and conrm.
Alternatively,from the Home screen you can tap
and hold any icon, then tap the X at the top left
ofan app to delete the app. (If it hasnt got an X,
you cant delete it.)
iCloud backup
If having erased the content of the phone you
intend to keep using it, you can restore the content
to your phone from your backup.
With the factory reset completed youll need
to go through the setup of your iPhone again
from the beginning; entering your details, Wi-Fi
password and a few other things until you reach
the page where youre asked how you want to
SetUp iPhone. You have the three options Set
Up as a New iPhone, Restore from iCloud Backup
or Restore from iTunes backup so select the
iCloudoption and youll be prompted to enter your
iCloud account details. Once youve done this, and
agreed to the terms and conditions, your iPhone
will begin restoring all of your data.
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iTunes backup
As with the iCloud instructions weve already
outlined, follow the steps up to the Set Up iPhone
screen, then select Restore from iTunes. Youll be
prompted to Connect to iTunes, so plug in your
iPhone and youll see a screen on iTunes that gives
you the option to restore a backup. Click continue
and your iPhone will be set up automatically, with
the apps being restored from the iTunes backup.
When its nished, youll have a freshly cleaned
system and hopefully any problems that you were
encountering before will be a thing of the past.
What to do if your
iOS device isnt backed up
If youre worried that your iPhone or iPad wasnt
backed up, chances are that there is a backup
that you were unaware of. To nd out if you are
backing up to iCloud (you get free 5GB of space)
go to Settings > iCloud and tap on Storage. Wait a
few seconds for Manage Storage to show up and
tap on that. Here you will see your various backups
for your iOS devices (there might be one for an old
iPhone you could delete if you need more space).
One of the backups should say that it is This
iPhone or This iPad. Tap on that and you can
see what is, and isnt being backed up. You can
basically turn things on and off so that they dont
take up your full 5GB, or you can pay a few pounds
a month for more storage.
You may think that some of those apps dont
need to be backed up, after all, you will be able
to download them again from the App Store as
you already own them. But note that the data may
include saved data for games, and other settings
and preferences that you would prefer not to lose.
To check when your iPhone last backed up, go to
Settings > iCloud > Backup and look at the date and
time of the last back up. It will have happened the
last time you plugged your iPhone in to charge and
had Wi-Fi access available.
If you nd that you arent backing up this way, we
recommend you go to Settings > iCloud > Back up
and turn iCloud Backup On as this is the simplest
way to back up and means that you always recover
the data on your phone no matter where you are,
all you will need is a connection to the web.
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Intelligence inside
Even if its true that the new iPhone is virtually
indistinguishable from the model it succeeds, that
doesnt mean it wont be a major step forward.
While we can certainly count on the requisite
improvements to the camera and chip, there
almost certainly will be one or two major internal
enhancements that not only make it attractive to
upgraders but also chart a new course for Apples
mobile strategy.
There are already some clues out there. The
iPad Pro introduced the Smart Connector for quick
keyboard hookups, and there has been speculation
that the iPhone Plus (or a new iPhone Pro) will
adopt it, as well as the True Tone display, which
would be right at home on the iPhone. But the killer
feature will likely be something we havent seen
yet. The S models have actually meant more to the
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The power of 10
We may have only gotten small preview of iOS 10,
but from what weve seen, its set to implement
some of the most exciting changes since the launch
of the App Store. Its not just about extra features
and apps (though there are plenty of those). iOS
10 introduces some exciting new ways to interact
with apps that rely on 3D Touch, which just so
happens to only available on the 6s. Apple has said
that rich notications with be available for devices
without 3D Touch, but the experience is inferior on
devices without it, even the new iPhone SE. With an
increased reliance on peeking and popping, Apple
will surely improve how it operates, much like it has
with each generation of Touch ID.
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