Now Apple starts rolling out Public Betas of iOS 10 and with each new iteration, there are few changes. While most of these changes are bug fixes from past betas, or setup changes in view of user feedback, some of the changes are great new features.
1.Emergency Bypass in Contacts
We all know that feeling when we pull our phone after a long time of it being on “Do not Disturb”, just to find about a million missed calls from our parents, usually followed by a mini heart attack. Somebody at Apple’s software department clearly didn’t want to give their children use the “my phone was set to do not disturb” excuse, whenever they failed to answer a call, and the result in iOS 10, is an alternative to enable Emergency Bypass on a per-contact basis.
If you have enabled Emergency Bypass for a particular contact, your iPhone will ring for calls from that number, even if your iPhone was set to Do Not Disturb.
To enable Emergency Bypass for a particular contact, follow the steps below:
- Go to the Contacts app, and select the contact that you want to enable Emergency Bypass for.
- Tap on “Edit”on the top right.
- Go to “Ringtone”options.
- Enable “Emergency Bypass”.
2.Annotate Videos and Photos in iMessages
iMessage is getting some really features in iOS 10, making it a competitor against more popular apps such as WhatsApp and Snapchat, each of which have their own set of tricks up their sleeves. We have secured WhatsApp and Snapchat tricks earlier.
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Among the variety of changes coming to iMessage, one that definitely occurs is the ability to explain videos and photos. A feature that Snapchat has boasted of for a long time. Annotated videos and photos make it easier to draw attention to particular parts of a video/photo.
To annotate photos in iMessage, follow the steps below:
- Open “Messages”on your iPhone.
- Open the conversation where you want to send an annotated Video/Photo.
- Tap the gray arrowon the left of the text box.
- Select the Digital Touch Message button (it’s shaped like a heart).
- This will open a small screen where you can tap and send digital touch messages from. Tap on the “disclosure”arrow on the bottom right.
- Tap on the video iconon the bottom left, to enable camera.
- Click the image that you want to annotate.
- You can now annotate the image using any of the colors available in the palette on the top.
- Simply tap the blue arrow on the bottom right to send the annotated image to the recipient.
Cool Fact: The annotation on the image animates when the receiver opens the message.
Annotating videos in iMessages is very similar, except that the annotation has to be done while you are recording the video.
Below the steps to get an idea of how this works:
- Open “Messages”on your iPhone.
- Open the conversation where you want to send an annotated Video/Photo.
- Tap the gray arrowon the left of the text box.
- Select the Digital Touch Message button (it’s shaped like a heart).
- This will open a small screen where you can tap and send digital touch messages from. Tap on the “disclosure”arrow on the bottom right.
- Tap on the video icon on the bottom left, to enable camera.
- Tap the record button to start recording a video.
- You can annotate the video as it records.
- If you can’t attach a video clip here, and iMessages doesn’t save the video to Photos, so you can’t really convert it to a GIF either, but here are two successive screenshots that show how the video plays while the annotation animates on it.
3.Add Stickers to Messages Sent/Received Previously
Another actually change to iMessage that many might not be known about, is that you can overlay stickers to messages that have already been sent. You can additionally overlay stickers onto received messages.
While this may be viewed as an innovation feature, it beyond any doubt could be enjoyable. Warning: in excessive amounts, this feature becomes addictive enough that you will keep doing this on each message, potentially irritating the recipient, while likewise throwing your productivity at work down a cliff.
Follow the steps below, to try this feature out for yourself:
- Open the iMessages conversation that you want to do this on.
- Tap on the gray arrow on the left of the text box.
- Select the “App Store”icon.
- If you don’t already have a stickers pack downloaded on your iPhone, tap on the four ellipses on the bottom left, tap on the plus icon labelled “Store” and download one of the sticker packs.
- Tap and hold on a sticker and simply drag and drop it on the message that you want to overlay it on.
- That’s it, the recipient will also see the change in their messages.
Bonus:
You can add as many stickers onto a single message as you need, until the space on the message bubble runs out
4.Edit Numbers Before Dialing
It is one of the most irritating chances of the phone app on the iPhone, was that while dialing a number, if you made a mistake, you had to delete all the numbers that succeeded it, in order to get to, and replace it. iOS 10 finally fixes this. You can now edit numbers in the dialer in the same way that you can edit text in any text box.
Simply tap and hold on the number, and you will get the familiar lens view, magnifying the text immediately under your finger. Slide your finger left or right to adjust the cursor and edit the phone number.
5.Color Filters in Accessibility
The availability tab inside settings finally has Display Accommodations settings that can make it easier for color blind people to use their iPhones. The color filters additionally have a greyscale setting, that may save some battery on your iPhone, if you can live with the tradeoff of an absolutely black and white screen on your iPhone.
To check out Color Filters, head on to Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Display Accommodations -> Color Filters
6.Close all Tabs in Safari
Closing tabs in Safari has always been a pain. Particularly in the event that you tend to open an extremely large number of tabs. Swiping them all out can get quickly repetitive and boring. However, iOS 10 finally implements a strategy to close all Safari tabs in just two taps.
- Inside Safari, tap and hold on the “tab switcher”button.
- The context menu that comes up, now has an option to “Close all Tabs“.
Note: The option actually reads “Close <number of open tabs> Tabs”, you have used “Close all Tabs” for simplicity.
7.Export Safari Pages to PDFs
Safari has a new feature that allows to quickly export webpages opened in Safari to PDF files, that you can share using any valid sharing method.
To do this, follow the steps outlined below:
- Open the webpagein Safari.
- Tap on the Sharebutton.
- From the options, select “Print”.
- In the Printer Options page, perform the zoom in gesture using two fingers on the preview of the webpage.
- Tap on the Share iconin the bottom left.
- You can now share the PDF directly using any of the available options, or you can save the PDF to iCloud Drive.
