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iOS 10 Concept Imagines Customizable Control Center, Siri API, Dark Mode and More

Rogifan said:
I thought I wanted dark mode but when I see it here I'm not sure I like it. Hmm...

I do find it amusing though that every time someone comes out with an iOS concept everyone says yes Apple implement this. Here's a prior concept for widgets that eveyone was drooling over at one point. I'm not sure why.

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I agree.

I was in that boat, but now I'm like. "That's a hot mess!"

I was in that camp and damn I was misguided.
 
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Federico Vittici of MacStories has teamed up with Sam Beckett to create an iOS 10 concept video covering "wishlist" features Vittici hopes to see in the next version of iOS. Most concept videos we see are fanciful and filled with features unlikely to make it into iOS, but Vittici's vision of the future of iOS is logical and well thought out.

Major features covered in the video include a customizable Control Center with icons that can be rearranged and third-party app integration, a Siri API for third-party apps, and a system-wide dark mode.


Smaller tweaks include searchable emoji and rich previews in Messages, a document picker for iCloud Drive, and features to make Split View multitasking more useful on the iPad.

iOS 10 isn't expected to be released until the fall of 2016 alongside new iPhones, but we'll get our first look at it in just two months when Apple debuts the operating system update at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference. Little detail has leaked out so far, but we may learn more as we grow closer to its official announcement.

Our forum members are also discussing features they would like to see in iOS 10, with a long wishlist thread highlighting desired additions like a revamped UI for iPads, user profiles, lock screen widgets, and more. Join in on the discussion here.

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LOVE IT!!
 
69Mustang said:
Hiring them may be hyperbole, but Apple could definitely use the ideas as inspiration... and give some credit along the way. Photoshop or not, hard to deny the simple elegance of the concept.
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Sure all I'm saying is it's easy to mock anything up when it doesn't have to be engineered to work. Like all these iPhone concepts we get that have nothing to do with reality. Anyway expansion of 3D Touch as well as 3D Touch in control center is a no brainier unless Apple is waiting until they can expand 3D Touch to iPad to bring some of these changes.
 
Rogifan said:
I thought I wanted dark mode but when I see it here I'm not sure I like it. Hmm...

I do find it amusing though that every time someone comes out with an iOS concept everyone says yes Apple implement this. Here's a prior concept for widgets that eveyone was drooling over at one point. I'm not sure why.

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The future of this will eventually be the future of 3D Touch.

Something like this

Peek into apps

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Peek into apps to see information not just shortcuts. This will be apple’s answer to home screen widgets and live tiles. The peek UI will be interactive, similar to a widget.

Some examples where this may be used :



  • Peek into weather to see weather information.
  • Calendar to see upcoming events and months view.
  • Maps to see places nearby and shortcuts for directions.
  • Music for music controls.
  • Clock to set alarm and timer within the peak UI
 
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Wow, some ideas are actually great!!!

For instance, those smart previews in Messages. When you send a link to a song, just show this freakin' song banner! Dear Apple, you own Apple Music, you own the info who subscribes it, just check it, and if someone happens to HAVE IT, just allow to listen it back without going anywhere.

This + whole other refinements makes a good OS.
 
TurboPGT! said:
You will never be able to delete it, nor should you. Just the fact that you call it bloatware makes me even more glad that you can't delete it.
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Umm sorry but I couldn't care less about iOS Tips and Find My Friends, etc. Just like I'm sure non-Apple Watch owners couldn't care less about that pre-installed app.

And Tim Cook has said before that Apple constantly considers building in the ability to delete unwanted apps, so never say never.
 
xdexina said:
The future of this will eventually be the future of 3D Touch.

Something like this

Peek into apps

YU7SMq3.0.png


Peek into apps to see information not just shortcuts. This will be apple’s answer to home screen widgets and live tiles. The peek UI will be interactive, similar to a widget.

Some examples where this may be used :



  • Peek into weather to see weather information.
  • Calendar to see upcoming events and months view.
  • Maps to see places nearby and shortcuts for directions.
  • Music for music controls.
  • Clock to set alarm and timer within the peak UI
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Now this I like. Hopefully something like it is possible.

AZREOSpecialist said:
This video actually turns iOS into something useful. Apple would never go for it.
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Ok I'll bite. So iOS isn't useful but this concept would suddenly make it useful? Hyperbole is strong in this statement.
 
My predictions for iOS 10.

  • Low Power Mode + Night Shift (at the same time! This is the major feature...)
  • More Peek and Pop functions for unwanted pre-installed apps like Find My Friends
  • More pre-installed apps. AppleCar? :p iTunes U? iCloud Drive?
  • Siri still can't understand you UNLESS. YOU. TALK. LIKE. "Here's what I found on the web for Unless you talk like" (I wasn't finished yet Siri!)
  • New way to bypass lock screen...
  • Not much else.
I feel like Apple is only slightly updating iOS these days. There's never anything truly innovative in major updates any more. :confused:
 
Not for nothing, but ToDo has offered decent Siri integration for a while now. They work through the Reminders app. Any reminders I ask Siri to set are automatically synced over to ToDo. Pretty great, and it would be wonderful if Appe opened that up so we could have native support for more apps.
 
twocents said:
There's a pattern I've found in iOS updates where the first in the sequence is a big release, the 2nd expands on it, and 3rd fills in any gaps and optimizes it. This applies to iOS 1,4,7, and now iOS X, between iOS 2,5,8 and iOS 3,6,9. So hopefully they keep this cycle up and have iOS X be a yuge update!
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Hot damn this is a good point. I am so ready to get that iOS 7 feeling back :D
 
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Eventually, all things Mac will find their way into iOS with multitouch functionality. It will happen slowly, but it will happen.

If Apple are smart, they will alter the current offerings into two divisions...

#1: iOS based devices for home users, running on the "A" chips.
#2. Mac lineup becomes Pro users only, running on Intel chips.

To me, this makes a whole lot more sense than the current line up. Please Apple, don't forget the pro user market and PLEASE don't forget the Mac product...
 
Will the Siri API allow somebody to actually make Siri useful for more than asking the weather or sports scores?

It's a serious (no pun intended) question, because Apple is doing a crap job with Siri. I no longer use her for important queries or for directions because the Google assistant almost always "gets it right", while Siri gives me "I'm sorry, I can't do that". Or something totally unrelated and not even similar-sounding.

"Siri, where can I find food near here?"

"I found 3 places matching feces not far from you."

(eek! Let's try again.)

"I'm hungry."

"Here's what I found on the internet" (Wikipedia article on hunger, but I'm driving!)

"Never mind." (opens Google assistant)

My next smartphone just might be an Android.
 
Speedy Dingo said:
My predictions for iOS 10.

  • Low Power Mode + Night Shift (at the same time! This is the major feature...)
  • More Peek and Pop functions for unwanted pre-installed apps like Find My Friends
  • More pre-installed apps. AppleCar? :p iTunes U? iCloud Drive?
  • Siri still can't understand you UNLESS. YOU. TALK. LIKE. "Here's what I found on the web for Unless you talk like" (I wasn't finished yet Siri!)
  • New way to bypass lock screen...
  • Not much else.
I feel like Apple is only slightly updating iOS these days. There's never anything truly innovative in major updates any more. :confused:
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If you had a technical understanding of how difficult natural language finite automata translation systems work you'd be impressed with how far we've already come.
 
that dark mode was SEXY.

Actually all of it was. Please do things that are actually useful this time around, Apple.
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mv9092 said:
A lot of these concepts are already available in the jailbreak community
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Don't be that guy.
 
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If iOS 10 gets half of that, I'll be happy
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brinary001 said:
Umm sorry but I couldn't care less about iOS Tips and Find My Friends, etc. Just like I'm sure non-Apple Watch owners couldn't care less about that pre-installed app.

And Tim Cook has said before that Apple constantly considers building in the ability to delete unwanted apps, so never say never.
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Agreed
 
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just let me hold down on the BT icon to choose a recent BT device. for the love of all that is good in this world. please.
 
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You are forgetting that OLED Displays are coming in 2017/2018. Since OLED Displays don't use battery energy when they show black(=completely off) the design will dramatically change to the one similar on the apple watch.

Black(background) will be the new white!

Jony Ive:
He picked up his iPhone 6 and pressed the home button. “The whole of the display comes on,” he said. “That, to me, feels very, very old.” He went on to explain that an Apple Watch uses a new display technology whose blacks are blacker than those in an iPhone’s L.E.D. display. This makes it easier to mask the point where, beneath a glass surface, a display ends and its frame begins. An Apple Watch jellyfish swims in deep space, and becomes, Ive said, as much an attribute of the watch as an image. On a current iPhone screen, a jellyfish would be pinned against dark gray, and framed in black, and, Ive said, have “much less magic.”
 
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