Who Is iOS 10 For?
Apple iOS 10 is designed for the iPhone 5 or later, iPad 4th gen or later, iPad mini 2 or later, iPad Pro range and the 6th generation iPod touch or later. Users are automatically prompted to upgrade, but if you don’t yet have a notification you can manually trigger it by going to Settings > General > Software Update
As always, the size of iOS updates differs significantly depending on your device. In the case of iOS 10 it is a major release and typically weighs in between 600MB and 1.2GB.
iOS 10 continues where iOS 9.3.5 left off: it also blocks the recent Pangu jailbreak and it is unlikely the two major jailbreaking teams – Pangu or TaiG – will come up with a workaround any time soon.
In addition iOS 10 had a controversial start to life after upgrade problems saw a number of iPhones and iPads fail the installation and require resetting via iTunes. Apple confirmed the bug to The Verge and has now implemented a fix, but cautious users may prefer to wait a little longer before upgrading.
Finally, being a major iOS update, there are a lot of isolated incidents being reported by users in Apple’s official Support Communities forum. These include sluggish performance, weaker battery life, Bluetooth glitches and incompatibility with some third party accessories (such as battery cases) but none have so far been shown to affect a wide number of users.
Should this change, I will post an update.
So What Do You Get?
Unlike the final upgrades to iOS 9 which primarily focused on security patches, iOS 10 adds numerous new features. The highlights of which are:
New Notifications – iOS 10 goes a long way towards catching up with Android’s strongest feature with ‘Rich Notifications’. These allow direct interaction with notifications from the lockscreen (reply, view videos, etc) and there’s additional notification functionality for 3D Touch compatible devices (iPhone 6S and iPhone 7 series).