New Technologies in iOS 10 & iPhone

Apple iOS 10 Now Has Smarter Siri, Touch Improvements and Many More Updates

Apple’s annual WWDC developer conference started in San Francisco few days ago. In this conference, the company made some major announcements in terms of software. Apple announced various new features in iOS10, few of them being, a lock screen that now is now updated in terms of interface and functionality, a new ‘Raise to Wake’ option where the user can glace at the notifications and many more. The notifications now have a visual overhaul and the ability to support more functions with widgets and use of Apple’s 3D Touch technology. Lock screen notifications are actionable, in simpler terms, messages that the user receives, can be replied through the lock screen.

Apple has now made Siri open to developers making it more useful for messaging, ride booking, photo searches and many more functionalities.

The keyboard too got a makeover with few additions of Siri’s abilities like quick access and multiple replies, multilingual typing, and the ability to add data to calendar from the received messages.

In iOS 10, the app Photos, lets the users to group and find their pictures. It allows the users to view the photos and videos on the maps. This app now has the feature of Facial recognition.

App like Music and News also got updated in terms of their visual appeal. The Music app gives the users various suggestions in terms of genres and playlists. It also has Music Library to play music according to the user’s taste.

The News app allows the users to subscribe to various newspapers and publications and notifies the users of the breaking news on the lock screen.

The Phone App brings the voicemail transcriptions and alerts on spam calls.

The biggest update of all is the update of iMessage App. This app is opened to developers and will now provide rich links, in-line video, camera and photo integration just under the typing box. The emojis can be scaled up to three times the size and can be sent with full screen effects. The new and updated iMessage allows the users to send handwritten messages.

With all these updates, iOS10 is going to take Apple a step further in terms of innovation and modularity.

Convert Live Photos on iPhone into GIFs using Google’s Motion Stills

Google lately has been working to introduce new apps on iOS devices. Recently, it launched GBoard Keyboard with inbuilt Google Search for iOS. Now it has launched an app that would enable the users to convert Live Photos into GIFs that can be easily shared via various Social Media Applications.

This app utilises Google’s video stabilization technology that has the ability to enhance the Live Photos and make them into steady GIFs. This App separates the video frames into background and foreground to be stabilized separately later. This feature is handy while creating a lopped GIF.

In order to use its functionality, the user would have to shoot a Live Photo with the built in Camera App and then use the Motion Stills App to create a GIF to be shared on various social networks. The app also lets the user create short movies by combining various clips. It doesn’t need internet connection to function and is compatible with iOS devices running on 9.0 or higher.

Go ahead, install this App on your iPhones to check it yourselves.

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