Clearer, Cleaner and Convenient! - iOS 10 Beta 3

Is iOS 10 public beta worth downloading early?
 I have just downloaded the iOS 10 public beta 3 version which is out now and - brace yourself - it's the most jolting, but logical refresh of Apple's iPhone mobile operating system that we may have seen!

 As soon as I downloaded iOS 10 and booted it up for the first time, I noticed the changes right away. These aren't minor tweaks and background enhancements like we saw in iOS 8 and iOS 9.
It didn't even present me with the "swipe to unlock" screen that has greeted everyone since iPhone OS 1. It's gone, and in its place it asks me to press down on the home button. It makes sense eventually.

 Overall, iOS 10 remains a familiar, yet better laid out ecosystem for long-time Apple users. It's filled with more menu shortcuts to get used to and a lot of messaging features to explore.

 Here are my first impressions of this iOS 10 public beta, the unfinished update:

 Getting started with iOS 10

 Apple's iOS 10 public beta launched this week, just 23 days after the company announced the update at WWDC 2016. That's lightning (port) fast, and comes with a major caveat.

 You're going to experience app bugs, crashes and random restarts between now and the final build. It's inevitable, as smoothly as the public beta runs overall. I recommend backing up your files first.

 That said, it's easy to update to iOS 10. Signing up for the public beta through Apple's website lets you download and install the big changes over the air (OTA). That part is simple.

 As soon as I picked up my iOS 10-loaded iPhone 6 Plus, Apple's changes were immediately apparent.
It has an incredibly useful way to glance at my lockscreen notifications without pressing a single button.

 Control Center

 Swipe up from the bottom and you'll be greeted with one of the best iOS 10 changes: a revamped and decluttered Control Center. It's a lot easier to use.

 With iOS 9.3 and the addition of Night Shift, it became obvious that there was too much happening in the Control Center pane. Apple has simplified it by adding multiple menus with a right swipe.

 Where are the music playback controls at? Swipe one Control Center menu to the right and it's contained in its own menu along with a shortcut button to Apple Music.

 Messages

 Messages see the most dramatic changes on the iOS 10 features list, and they're more fun than they are productive. Apple is stepping into Facebook Messenger's territory, big time.

 The field where you enter a text has been shortened to include three buttons for photos, sketches and apps. Yes, Apple is opening up some of its pre-installed apps to outside developers.

 You don't always need stickers to convey messages without words. Emojis are here and they're easier than ever to add to texts thanks to their inclusion in the predictive word suggestion box.

 Better yet, writing out an iMessage with Digital Touch is so much fun :D

 Apple apps

 Almost every Apple app has changed in iOS 10, and there's a new one you haven't seen before: Home.Apparently, it's the ultimate way to configure your smart home gadgets.

 Contact information pages have been changed with new icons: messages, call, FaceTime and mail. Or, they could be messages, WhatsApp, FaceTime and mail. It's a lot more customisable. Clock is presented in a dark mode, which is hopefully a sign of a system-wide dark mode to come.

 New to the Clock app is a fifth tab along the bottom: Bedtime. I can set the desired bedtime, and based on the amount of hours I want to sleep, it'll set my wake up alarm. It'll then remind me to sleep, which I have most certainly ignored every 15 minutes until I turned this feature off.

 There's a lot to the iOS 10 public beta, but plenty of features are being saved until a later public beta update, or the final build that we expect to see in September. For now, the more newer iPhones - 6S, 6S Plus , SE and for sure later the iPhone 7 have these and better features.

 So long then... :-)

 (Techradar)

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