Earlier today, Apple announced iOS 9.3, a fairly significant point update to iOS 9. The new operating system adds new features for the Health, Wallet, Notes, and Settings apps, in addition to a Night Mode and new 3D Touch shortcuts. This gallery below shows off all of the new features, and here’s a bulleted list of everything new in the first beta:
- Night Shift mode to adjust colors based on time of day and location of device
- Password protecting (with Touch ID support) notes in the Notes app
- Ability to jump to corresponding apps from Apple Pay and passes in Wallet app
- iPhone Landscape support + more personalization in the News app
- New 3D Touch shortcuts from Home screen for Weather, Settings, Compass, Health, App Store, iTunes Store
- Siri Support for Hebrew, Finish, and Malay (not available yet on the Apple Watch)
- Feedback app (in the beta only)
- Choose to Duplicate a Live Photo as a Still Photo when exporting from Photos app
- Taptic Feedback when accessing multitasking via 3D Touch
- Activity app data in the Health app
- New Workout data section in the Apple Watch Activity app
- iOS Education upgrades
- Enhanced Apple Music support in CarPlay (Screenshots below)
- iCloud for iBooks now syncs PDFs and more
- New ‘Duplicate’ action in Photos
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So that’s why f.lux had to be removed by Apple…
No, they were using private APIs.
They violated the terms of service agreement by attaching the app to undocumented APIs and telling users to compromise their devices’ security by side-loading the app since they knew Apple would never approve it for the App Store.
What might have happened is that behind closed doors Apple paid f.lux to be able to use their code in a feature baked directly into the OS. Either way, now everyone can take advantage of the the idea.
Password/touch ID protecting should be any app you want system wide….adding Notes is nice but it should be available for any app installed.
They absolutely should do it for photo albums. What is the point of a hidden album that anyone can access? And no, I don’t store naked pictures on my phone, but why not help the millions that do?
Agreed. I was just starting a comment on the other post about this. Makes no sense. Nearly *puritanical*, given Apple’s stances on privacy issues on the larger stage (like they’re making fun of/punishing people who sext). Same goes for Messages Conversations. The Hidden album “feature” is just bizarre.
Just download st@sh already.
Any indication of fixing Live Photos / Music bug?
iCloud for iBooks, about damn time.
Does it fix audiobook playlists? No? I’m not upgrading then.
WOOO Progress!!!!! I was looking for both of these features pretty recently : ]
Does the apple watch activity data in the Health app having any new information shown that is not already in the phone Activity app? For example, heart rate graphs….
Pheeeezeewwww. At last PDF sync between devices. I wish there is a “Preview” for iOS
glad to see Apple implementing f.lux directly in iOS!!
In Australia, the Settings.app menu for choosing what cellular network you want used to be called ‘Carrier’ and now it is labelled ‘Service Provider’
Am I the only one who doesn’t notice a change in icon color based on time of day?
Has to be enabled manually in settings, not done automatically (yet)
I don’t get Night Shift on my IPhone 5 :-(
It is written Finnish not Finish :)
What about GameCenter fixes? It’s been months!
I’m a hebrew speaker, waiting for the public beta
Finally Apple decided to allow sync of pdfs in ibooks over iCloud! This feature was so obvious and a must since day one!
I hope trackpad function with 3d touch works finally stable and robust (testing dpt. should have noticed long time ago…)
Hope pdfs ibooks sync works with El Capitan as well!