iOS 10

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! class="ios-lab" | Developer
| class="ios-val" | [[Apple]]
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! class="ios-lab" | Announced
| class="ios-val" | June 13, 2016 (WWDC)
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! class="ios-lab" | Initial release
| class="ios-val" | September 13, 2016
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! class="ios-lab" | Final release
| class="ios-val" | 10.3.4 (July 22, 2019)
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! class="ios-lab" | Launch devices
| class="ios-val" | [[iPhone 7]] · [[iPhone 7 Plus]]
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! class="ios-lab" | Preceded by
| class="ios-val" | [[iOS 9]]
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! class="ios-lab" | Succeeded by
| class="ios-val" | [[iOS 11]]
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iOS 10 is the tenth major release of [[iOS]], released on September 13, 2016, ahead of the [[iPhone 7]] and [[iPhone 7 Plus]]. Its center of gravity was Messages: bubble and full-screen effects, stickers, inline rich previews, and a dedicated iMessage App Store turned Apple's messenger from a texting app into a platform — Apple's answer to the messaging-as-OS wave led by WeChat and Messenger.

The release also retired one of the platform's founding gestures. "Slide to unlock," on every lock screen since 2007, gave way to press-home-to-open, with raise-to-wake and rich lock-screen notifications rebuilding the phone's front door around the widget-and-notification layer.

= Features =

Messages effects and apps; the Home app for HomeKit; Siri opened to third-party developers (ride hailing, messaging, payments); Photos with on-device face and scene recognition and Memories; redesigned Music and News; deletable built-in apps (finally answering a decade of clutter complaints); multilingual typing; bedtime alarms; and voicemail transcription. The 10.3 update migrated devices to the APFS file system in place — a billion-device filesystem swap executed silently by a point release.

= Supported devices =

[[iPhone 7]]/[[iPhone 7 Plus|7 Plus]] back through [[iPhone 5]], iPad 4th generation and later, and the sixth-generation iPod touch — dropping the [[iPhone 4s]], iPad 2/3, the first iPad mini, and the fifth-generation iPod touch.

= Legacy =

iOS 10's Messages platform entrenched iMessage as a social lock-in force (the "green bubble" era dates to these effects), Siri's opening began the assistant's slow decentralization, and deletable stock apps conceded that the platform had grown past its fixed sixteen-app origins. The APFS migration remains one of the largest silent infrastructure swaps in computing history — and the template for how Apple ships plumbing: invisibly, in a point release.