30 Hidden Tips for Mastering iOS 10 Unique Offerings

The greatest news from iOS 10 is you no longer have to keep the apps that Apple pre-loads on all iPhones but inevitably end up in a folder marked ‘’ crap’’. Delete them the same way you delete any app you don’t want (hold a finger on icon until they all go wiggly, then click the X that appears in the upper left of the app). You can reinstall them anytime via the App Store.

As Apple outlines on its SupportPage, removing some apps will affect others. Delete the iBooks, Maps, Music, or Podcast apps, for example, and they won’t work with CarPlay.

With the release of every new mobile operating system – especially Apple’s iOS – there comes a slew of new features. Like iOS 9 and iOS 8 before it, iOS 10 is no exception.

Apple packed a lot of improvements and tricks into its latest OS, and now – a few months after its release – we revisit those tips and add a few ones.

Apple’s iOS 10 didn’t have the smoothest of rollouts; there were some uniquequirks. Not Samsung Galaxy Note 7 bad, but iPhone owners encountered bricked iPhones, or at the very least, updates that malfunctioned and required iTunes to complete. In PC Labs, our analysts updated five iPhones to iOS 10 last fall and it worked great – on four of them.

At this point, you’re probably in the clear when it comes to iOS problems. Apple says 79% of all the iPhones and iPads out there now are running iOS 10 (with 16% on iOS 9, and 5% apparently not caring about their security at all.) But it’s possible that even as an iPhone power user, you missed out on a few great new features. These tips cover iOS 10’s unique offerings.