A Guide to iOS 10
Get Lasers
If you are hesitant to make the switch to iOS 10, I am here to tell you everything you need to know about this new update. Like many other technological updates, this one comes with an abundance of flashy features you never knew you needed before but soon won’t be able to live without. In order to give you the best technical advice about the new update, I visited the Apple website and watched this short film, which just might be the most overwhelming thing I have ever experienced and the closest I have come to being brainwashed.
There is confetti. There is a self-driving car. There is a raccoon wearing human clothes but you don’t question it because this is iOS 10 and anything goes. Be careful because the beat of the song is so catchy that you will nod your head without even realizing it. This is just iOS 10 trying to take control of your mind. Snap out of it.
Yes, you can use iOS 10 to unlock the doors of your house and turn out the lights. But the most important new feature is the ability to send a message accompanied by lasers. I stumbled upon this feature by accident as I walked to meet some friends last Thursday morning. When you hold down the send arrow you are given a series of options for your message. If you have previously thought to yourself, “I want to send a text message but I really wish I had the option to add lasers to it,” this feature is for you. If you send the lasers to friends who don’t have the update yet, it sends them a message that says (sent with lasers) which is arguably almost as great as the lasers themselves. Lasers are the perfect addition to any message, such as when you want to tell your friends you are on your way but with special effects.
Other options include “Gentle” which makes your text really small. This can be useful for all those shy texters out there, those moments when you don’t want to come on too strong, or those times when you want to convey that you are whispering over text message. Another option is invisible ink, which serves no real purpose other than making your message illegible until someone taps it. This is useful for when you want to be stealthy but only mildly stealthy, like just for a few seconds. The firework feature allows you to experience the Fourth of July from the comfort of your cell phone, and the confetti feature can turn basic messages into big celebrations. The feature that turns your phone background into a night sky with a shooting star will come in handy in a number of logistical planning situations, as you can only imagine.
Thankfully the emojis are slightly larger in iOS 10, solving previous issues with emoji illegibility. iOS 10 also gives you the ability to react to messages. You can love, like, dislike, laugh, emphasize, and even question. The handy emphasis button is just what the doctor ordered because in the past, when you wanted to emphasize something your friend said over text, you had to type out “I would like to emphasize the point you just made.” There goes iOS 10 again, solving all our toughest problems from the minuscule to the grand scale. From here on out, we will live in a world without hate because there is no iOS 10 button for expressing that.
With updates like these, you might be asking, “How will the next update be able to top this?” Fortunately, the wait is over, because iOS 10.0.2 is already here. All the above features are included and the bugs you might have experienced from iOS 10 are fixed, including those pesky mosquitoes and termites. Download now so that you, too, can experience real lasers instead of just (lasers).
