2) SiriKit
Apps that provide services in specific domains can use SiriKit to make those services available from Siri on iOS. Making your services available requires creating one or more app extensions using the Intents and Intents UI frameworks. SiriKit supports services in the following domains:
Audio or video calling
Messaging
Sending or receiving payments
Searching photos
Booking a ride
Managing workouts
Adjusting settings in a CarPlay-enabled vehicle (automotive vendors only)
Making restaurant reservations (requires additional support from Apple)
3) Proactive Suggestions
iOS 10 introduces new ways to increase engagement with your app by helping the system suggest your app to users at appropriate times. If you adopted app search in your iOS 9 app, you gave users access to activities and content deep within your app through Spotlight and Safari search results, Handoff, and Siri suggestions. In iOS 10 and later, you can provide information about what users do in your app, which helps the system promote your app in additional places, such as the keyboard with QuickType suggestions, Maps and CarPlay, the app switcher, Siri interactions, and (for media playing apps) the lock screen. These opportunities for enhanced integration with the system are supported by a collection of technologies, such as NSUserActivity, web markup defined by Schema.org, and APIs defined in the Core Spotlight, MapKit, UIKit, and Media Player frameworks.
4) Integrating with the Messages App
In iOS 10, you can create app extensions that interact with the Messages app and let users send text, stickers, media files, and interactive messages, including interactive messages that update as each recipient responds to the message. You can also make your publicly accessible images available to the #images app in Messages.
You can create two types of app extensions:
A Sticker pack provides a set of stickers that users can add to their Messages content.
An iMessage app lets you present a custom user interface within the Messages app, create a sticker browser, include text, stickers, and media files within a conversation, and create, send, and update interactive messages.
5) User Notifications
iOS 10 introduces the User Notifications framework (UserNotifications.framework), which supports the delivery and handling of local and remote notifications. You use the classes of this framework to schedule the delivery of local notifications based on specific conditions, such as time or location. Apps and app extensions can use this framework to receive and potentially modify local and remote notifications when they are delivered to the user’s device.
6)Speech Recognition
iOS 10 introduces a new API that supports continuous speech recognition and helps you build apps that can recognize speech and transcribe it into text. Using the APIs in the Speech framework (Speech.framework), you can perform speech transcription of both real-time and recorded audio.
7)Wide Color
Most graphics frameworks throughout the system, including Core Graphics, Core Image, Metal, and AVFoundation, have substantially improved support for extended-range pixel formats and wide-gamut color spaces. By extending this behavior throughout the entire graphics stack, it is easier than ever to support devices with a wide color display. In addition, UIKit standardizes on working in a new extended sRGB color space, making it easy to mix sRGB colors with colors in other, wider color gamuts without a significant performance penalty.
8)Adapting to the True Tone Display
The True Tone display uses ambient light sensors to automatically adjust the color and intensity of the display to match the lighting conditions of the current environment. To ensure that your app works well with the standard color shift provided by True Tone, add the new UIWhitePointAdaptivityStyle key to your Info.plist file to describe your app’s primary visual content.
9)App Search Enhancements
iOS 10 and the Core Spotlight framework introduce several enhancements to app search:
In-app searching
Search continuation
Crowdsourcing deep link popularity with differential privacy
Visualization of validation results
10)Widget Enhancements
iOS 10 introduces a new design for the lock screen, which now displays widgets. To ensure that your widget looks good on any background, you can specify widgetPrimaryVibrancyEffect or widgetSecondaryVibrancyEffect, as appropriate (use these properties instead of the deprecated notificationCenterVibrancyEffect property). In addition, widgets now include the concept of display mode (represented by NCWidgetDisplayMode), which lets you describe how much content is available and allows users to choose a compact or expanded view.
11)Apple Pay Enhancements
In iOS 10, users can make easy and secure payments using Apple Pay from websites and through interaction with Siri and Maps. For developers, iOS 10 introduces new APIs you can use in code that runs in both iOS and watchOS, the ability to support dynamic payment networks, and a new sandbox testing environment.
12)CallKit
The CallKit framework (CallKit.framework) lets VoIP apps integrate with the iPhone UI and give users a great experience. Use this framework to let users view and answer incoming VoIP calls on the lock screen and manage contacts from VoIP calls in the Phone app’s Favorites and Recents views.
13)News Publisher Enhancements
News Publisher makes it easy to deliver beautifully designed news, magazine, and web content to Apple News using the Apple News Format. Anyone can sign up, from major magazines or news organizations to independent publishers and bloggers. To get started or to learn more about recent updates, visit https://newsresources.apple.com
14)Video Subscriber Account
iOS 10 introduces the Video Subscriber Account framework (VideoSubscriberAccount.framework) to help apps that support authenticated streaming or authenticated video on demand (also known as TV Everywhere) authenticate with their cable or satellite TV provider. Using the APIs in this framework can help you support a single sign-in experience in which users sign in once to unlock access in all of the streaming video apps that their subscription supports.
15)App Extensions
iOS 10 introduces several new extension points for which you can create an app extension, such as:
Call Directory
Intents
Intents UI
Messages
Notification Content
Notification Service
Sticker Pack
Apps that provide services in specific domains can use SiriKit to make those services available from Siri on iOS. Making your services available requires creating one or more app extensions using the Intents and Intents UI frameworks. SiriKit supports services in the following domains:
Audio or video calling
Messaging
Sending or receiving payments
Searching photos
Booking a ride
Managing workouts
Adjusting settings in a CarPlay-enabled vehicle (automotive vendors only)
Making restaurant reservations (requires additional support from Apple)
3) Proactive Suggestions
iOS 10 introduces new ways to increase engagement with your app by helping the system suggest your app to users at appropriate times. If you adopted app search in your iOS 9 app, you gave users access to activities and content deep within your app through Spotlight and Safari search results, Handoff, and Siri suggestions. In iOS 10 and later, you can provide information about what users do in your app, which helps the system promote your app in additional places, such as the keyboard with QuickType suggestions, Maps and CarPlay, the app switcher, Siri interactions, and (for media playing apps) the lock screen. These opportunities for enhanced integration with the system are supported by a collection of technologies, such as NSUserActivity, web markup defined by Schema.org, and APIs defined in the Core Spotlight, MapKit, UIKit, and Media Player frameworks.
4) Integrating with the Messages App
In iOS 10, you can create app extensions that interact with the Messages app and let users send text, stickers, media files, and interactive messages, including interactive messages that update as each recipient responds to the message. You can also make your publicly accessible images available to the #images app in Messages.
You can create two types of app extensions:
A Sticker pack provides a set of stickers that users can add to their Messages content.
An iMessage app lets you present a custom user interface within the Messages app, create a sticker browser, include text, stickers, and media files within a conversation, and create, send, and update interactive messages.
5) User Notifications
iOS 10 introduces the User Notifications framework (UserNotifications.framework), which supports the delivery and handling of local and remote notifications. You use the classes of this framework to schedule the delivery of local notifications based on specific conditions, such as time or location. Apps and app extensions can use this framework to receive and potentially modify local and remote notifications when they are delivered to the user’s device.
6)Speech Recognition
iOS 10 introduces a new API that supports continuous speech recognition and helps you build apps that can recognize speech and transcribe it into text. Using the APIs in the Speech framework (Speech.framework), you can perform speech transcription of both real-time and recorded audio.
7)Wide Color
Most graphics frameworks throughout the system, including Core Graphics, Core Image, Metal, and AVFoundation, have substantially improved support for extended-range pixel formats and wide-gamut color spaces. By extending this behavior throughout the entire graphics stack, it is easier than ever to support devices with a wide color display. In addition, UIKit standardizes on working in a new extended sRGB color space, making it easy to mix sRGB colors with colors in other, wider color gamuts without a significant performance penalty.
8)Adapting to the True Tone Display
The True Tone display uses ambient light sensors to automatically adjust the color and intensity of the display to match the lighting conditions of the current environment. To ensure that your app works well with the standard color shift provided by True Tone, add the new UIWhitePointAdaptivityStyle key to your Info.plist file to describe your app’s primary visual content.
9)App Search Enhancements
iOS 10 and the Core Spotlight framework introduce several enhancements to app search:
In-app searching
Search continuation
Crowdsourcing deep link popularity with differential privacy
Visualization of validation results
10)Widget Enhancements
iOS 10 introduces a new design for the lock screen, which now displays widgets. To ensure that your widget looks good on any background, you can specify widgetPrimaryVibrancyEffect or widgetSecondaryVibrancyEffect, as appropriate (use these properties instead of the deprecated notificationCenterVibrancyEffect property). In addition, widgets now include the concept of display mode (represented by NCWidgetDisplayMode), which lets you describe how much content is available and allows users to choose a compact or expanded view.
11)Apple Pay Enhancements
In iOS 10, users can make easy and secure payments using Apple Pay from websites and through interaction with Siri and Maps. For developers, iOS 10 introduces new APIs you can use in code that runs in both iOS and watchOS, the ability to support dynamic payment networks, and a new sandbox testing environment.
12)CallKit
The CallKit framework (CallKit.framework) lets VoIP apps integrate with the iPhone UI and give users a great experience. Use this framework to let users view and answer incoming VoIP calls on the lock screen and manage contacts from VoIP calls in the Phone app’s Favorites and Recents views.
13)News Publisher Enhancements
News Publisher makes it easy to deliver beautifully designed news, magazine, and web content to Apple News using the Apple News Format. Anyone can sign up, from major magazines or news organizations to independent publishers and bloggers. To get started or to learn more about recent updates, visit https://newsresources.apple.com
14)Video Subscriber Account
iOS 10 introduces the Video Subscriber Account framework (VideoSubscriberAccount.framework) to help apps that support authenticated streaming or authenticated video on demand (also known as TV Everywhere) authenticate with their cable or satellite TV provider. Using the APIs in this framework can help you support a single sign-in experience in which users sign in once to unlock access in all of the streaming video apps that their subscription supports.
15)App Extensions
iOS 10 introduces several new extension points for which you can create an app extension, such as:
Call Directory
Intents
Intents UI
Messages
Notification Content
Notification Service
Sticker Pack