I'm going to skip this "update". My wife has installed iOS 10 on both her iPad and iPhone 6, and I am completely unhappy with it on either platform.
Neither of us use TouchID, so all the home button clicking shenanigans are unwanted. Slide to unlock was a nice way to gain access to the unlock screen, and was part of a very intuitive motion to go from the swipe to the unlock code. I was able to do it without looking at the screen. Now unlocking is turned into multiple separate movements that are just one more of those minor aggravations that add up over time, like those people ahead of me in traffic who drive with their foot on the brake. That constant flickering of the brake lights...
So, "click to unlock, a couple of times" gets -3 StevePoints for ruining the very first thing that a person encounters when using their shiny phone. First impressions were very big to him.
Its very apparent that the new Messages was designed for the skinny jeans crowd. Amongst all the confetti and balloons there isn't a single thing there to make it more efficient to communicate. At this point just about any technologically clueless TV show about government agents or police work has better fake text apps than this real one. Messages gets 1 StevePoint for "fun for the kiddies", but loses 7 StevePoints because it doesn't do anything better and its an insult to any adult who doesn't wear a fedora while eating a single serving yogurt and spinning around on a swivel chair in a commercial.
News is freaking terrifying. I clicked through the "Next" buttons on my lady's News app to see how the new "pick your favorites" screen looked compared to the previous one in iOS 9. On my 6S I skipped News because not one of the magazines presented interested me, and also because, well, its data mining designed to build psychological profiles on News users.
On her phone, it already had three favorites picked out and presented a Newspaper full of headlines for her. I asked her if she'd ever set up any favorites and she said she'd never even opened the app. So how did it get the favorites? I suspect it either mined her email or her web browsing habits. Since she just installed the update a day and a half ago, either this thing mined really quick, or else they've been building this for some time and it wasn't related to the update. I don't know where this stands on the SteveScale, honestly. He would have approved of tight integration that anticipated people's needs, but he really detested things that compromised privacy. Zero StevePoints.
That lock screen and the data on it... wow what a mess that is. My previous dealings with any Apple Preferences meant that simply relaxing and thinking about where I would put a particular preference if I was designing the product usually meant that I would find that particular control very quickly. Not this time.
I wanted to delete everything from her notifications except the weather, and ten minutes of angry searching later I still hadn't found it. I finally noticed the "edit" button standing right out on the screen. Who puts an edit button for any application preferences on the main screen for an app? Its like building a house and putting the studs outside the drywall instead of behind it. That is bad UI, and there is no defending it. That gets -3 points for visual clutter and -4 points for breach of UI common sense.
I gave up after that, because thats all I had stomach for. Especially after I did my usual search through all the settings to find out about "accidental" privacy breaches, and found Location Services turned on. I know that I'm probably fooling myself for even thinking turning that off means anything, but they could have at least left me with that small comfort of an illusion.