What's New in iOS 9.3: Night Shift, New Quick Actions, Improvements to Apple News, Notes, CarPlay and Health

[freeskier93]

One of the education features allows students to log into any shared iPad and make it their own. I hope this is a precursor to full multiuser support in iOS 10. All they have to do is implement it with Touch ID and otherwise similar to OS X and it will be amazing. That would be so perfect for a family iPad for kids.

This doesn't necessarily translate to personal use. Can pretty much guarantee you this operates like everything else in the education space. The iPads are blank slates with just the necessary apps the students would be using. Student user/profile data is stored on local servers so when the student logs in their data is downloaded and when they log off everything is deleted. This works great for education but no so much for personal.

The reason Apple doesn't implement this for personal use is storage requirements, it would just be a terrible experience on the lower capacity devices.

 

[boston04and07]

Seems iBooks now can upload your PDFs and ePubs to iCloud from iOS (and I'm guessing 10.11.4).

Ahhh, this is fantastic!! I've been wanting this for a while and recently started sending feedback on it, since my PDFs were taking up way too much room. Glad they listened!

 

[Psyfuzz]

So happy to see a screen temperature option for users - seems like a no brainer and could be an easy remedy for my "my ___ screen is too yellow/blue" issues.

Screen profiles has been a godsend for OS X to ensure I get a display to my liking every time - glad to see iOS getting the same treatment.

 

[KPOM]

Notes - There's a new option to use Touch ID or a password to protect the Notes app. With this enabled, Notes will ask for either the user's PIN or a fingerprint when opening the Notes app. Password Protection for Notes is available in the Settings app, but it appears that the feature may be non-functional at the current time. There are also new options in Settings to organize notes by Date Edited, Date Created, or Title.

It's active, but it's not easy to find. Type a note, then click the "Share/Action icon" up on the upper right. Password Protect Note is one of the options.

 

[easheer]

Set wallpaper is very low list on my priorities for what I would want a settings icon quick action to be used for. I would rather have it activate the personal hotspot.

It would be nice if you could customize the actions in the 3D Touch menu, as opposed to having Apple choose them for you.

 

[haydn!]

You are in the very small minority on this. Apple has to think about ALL of its users.

Maybe. But then... they could just fix it for everyone and let you decide your own quick links.

 

[dfinglas]

Why is it when Apple brings a new update Wifi on my phone gets worse i dont think ill update the last update they did has screwed up my phone

 

[ortiz3m]

Has anyone else noticed how snappy iOS 9.3 is? It feels like its moving in and out of apps faster than 9.2.1

 

[Leonard1818]

Still adding crap we don't need but not getting rid of crap that we don't use. When is someone Apple going to wake up from their drunken party and smell the coffee.

You must be the life of every party!

As another poster asked: Can you cite some examples of "crap we don't need" that is being added and "crap we don't use" being left in iOS? I'll add to that the question of who "we" is....? Is "we" you and your closest friend? Or are you attempting to speak for the collective iOS user base?

Just the cool/warm screen setting is an AMAZING feature that I, for one, welcome with open arms. I've had a couple of devices that have been yellower than I like and this will make that a non-issue moving forward.

Oh and don't bother letting us know how your new Android phone works out for you... we don't really care.

 

[jmh600cbr]

the 3d touch option on jailbroken phones is better than these

 

[Aluminum]

Anybody noticed the app switcher is different? More rigid

 

[PowerBook-G5]

Curious how they used an almost empty battery in the "Battery" Quick Action icon.

Anyone think this will drop to the public tomorrow?

 

[sdm1985]

Has the deleting of the 'public beta profile' to download developer versions been fixed? Cannot update from 9.2.1 beta.

 

[blairh]

iOS desperately needs dark mode. Allow me to enable it in messages and settings and notes.

 

[FloatingBones]

The f.lux developers did a superb job with their iOS and MAC apps. I fondly hope that Apple compensated them well for this iOS code.

 

[jaxsoccer24]

Ahhh, this is fantastic!! I've been wanting this for a while and recently started sending feedback on it, since my PDFs were taking up way too much room. Glad they listened!

How do you actually do it? Post-upgrade to 9.3, I still don't see the option to upload my epubs to iCloud.

 

[akm3]

Sherf.luxed.

Makes me think they must have something really special planned for iOS 10 if they are releasing cool features between major point updates.

 

[NovemberWhiskey]

We need TouchID for photos, not notes. And real segregated folders.

 

[johngordon]

One thing from the Health image is the that it looks like some of the graphs that are line graphs are being changed to bar graphs. (Or at least giving you an option to choose)

For example, steps has never made sense as a line graph, and is shown as a bar graph in the 9.3 screenshot.

Or have I missed something and this is already possible?

 

[igorsky]

One thing from the Health image is the that it looks like some of the graphs that are line graphs are being changed to bar graphs. (Or at least giving you an option to choose)

For example, steps has never made sense as a line graph, and is shown as a bar graph in the 9.3 screenshot.

Or have I missed something and this is already possible?

To me that looks like the Health app's version of the Apple Watch circular activity data.

 

[cclloyd]

Yes !! finally a built in F.lux app, no need for me to jailbreak anymore

Literally the only reason I haven't updated to a 6s yes. Because I would lose my jailbreak and F.lux.

 

[igorsky]

I still have doubts about updating because it's obvious with each update they put little hidden bugs in to slow your phone down over time, making it more clogged and annoying, eventually making you want to get a new iPhone.

Seriously?

 

[johngordon]

To me that looks like the Health app's version of the Apple Watch circular activity data.

I don't think so - the black bit at the top looks like watch activity data - move, exercise and stand.

But the orange graph below that looks like steps data but as a bar graph instead of a line graph.

 

[nviz22]

Where is our multi-window/split screen view, Apple?

 

[bgraham]

Is that classroom app built into iOS 9?