Do More With iOS 10

There’s more to iOS 10 than first meets the eye – and more new features are arriving with updates. Here are the latest tips for your iPhone and iPad.

- Matt Bolton

Every new version of iOS brings with it a host of changes. Sometimes that means headline features such as an entirely new style of interface, though more often than not, the tweaks are more subtle, if just as useful.

iOS 10 was a huge update that added a ridiculous number of new options to your iPhone and iPad – we revealed over 100 in our big feature in issue 120, but there are still more to discover, and new features have been added with Apple’s latest updates. So here are more tips and tricks for iOS 10!

iOS 10 tips and tricks

Get more from your iPhone and iPad

3D Touch in Control Center

We’ve mentioned in a previous iOS feature that you can 3D Touch on the flashlight icon in Control Center to choose different light levels, but that’s not the only option. You can hard press on the timer icon to choose preset countdown times, or on the camera icon to open the app straight to different photo modes.

Spotlight in iCloud Drive

iOS 10’s Spotlight search, which is accessed either by opening the Today view, or swiping down on a Home screen (or in any app by slowing pulling from the top of the screen), can now search files in iCloud Drive, so it’s easy to find even well hidden documents and open them from anywhere on your iOS device.

In-line video playback

When you’re browsing in Safari on iPhone, and you play a video, it used to always take over the screen. Now, you can play videos in-line in the web page. If a video opens full screen, tap the arrow in the corner to reduce its size with the video still playing, then keep browsing the page. You might also find some videos play in-line automatically – this now an option for web developers to implement.

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