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The update to iOS 9.3 isn’t a full blown update compared to iOS 9 back in September, but it does bring with it a couple of small but important and useful updates.
Here are some of the more noticeable improvements to Apple’s mobile software.
(If you haven’t updated already, go to Settings > General > Software Update and it will appear)
Some important security fixes
The main reason you should install any update and this is more apparent here as iOS 9.3 squashes quite a number of bugs.
Some of the fixes include an iMessage flaw which affected images and videos sent through the service and closing loopholes which could allow a hidden web page to access sensitive user info like device-motion data.
It also got rid of that May 1970 bug which emerged last month so if you haven’t already, update it now for security alone.
Night Shift Mode makes the screen easier on your eyes
The most noticeable feature to be included with iOS, Night Shift follows the same concept as the likes of F.lux and Twilight by changing the warmth of the display from blue to orange. The theory is looking at blue light at nighttime keeps you awake so changing it will help you sleep better.
There are two ways to access it. The first is to bring up the control panel (swipe up from the bottom of the screen) and it will be nestled in-between the timer and calculator button.
Pressing this button will turn it on but it’s better to schedule it by going to Settings > Display and Brightness > Night Shift.
You can either allow it to use your location so it switches on automatically – it tracks both sunrise and sunset - or you can set a custom schedule.
More importantly, you can change the colour temperature from less warm (normal) to more warm.
Keeping your notes secure
A small but important addition to notes is the ability to lock them using a password or Touch ID. When you’ve finished writing up a note, hitting the share button will bring up the Lock Note option.
Tapping this will let you set a password and whether it can be unlocked using Touch ID. Handy if you have sensitive details like passwords to remember.
Duplicate Live Photos
Introduced with the iPhone 6s range in September, Live Photos effectively recorded a small clip before and after a photo was taken, hence the name.
Before the update, if you wanted to save a still image, you would have to disable Live Photos, but now you can get around that.
After you’ve taken your live photo, going into share will bring up the duplicate option. Here you will be given the option to clone the live photo as it is or just the still photo.
3D Touch is expanded
Another feature introduced with the iPhone 6s range, 3D Touch may have had a slow start but it’s slowly expanding to more apps.
Some additional functionality has been added to standard Apple apps like Settings (which has a handy quick option for battery), Weather (if you have two or more locations added), Compass and others. They’re minor updates but can be useful if you remember them.
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Super news for Cork. Along with the 300 other jobs for Cork announced previously. It’s great to have these companies establish all around Ireland, not just in Dublin, Leinster. Also shows how fast competitiveness can be regained in a few years.
Quite a comeback considering the knock they took in 2008 – fair play to the last few holdouts in Tyco Cork who clearly kept the door open until opportunity knocked.
Excellent news for Cork..
500 hundred more jobs for Cork, 200 at the Tindell instutute,another 200 in The ex Pfizer plant in Ringskiddy makes 900 total, looks like a very good week indeed for the Rebel County.
What part of good news do some of you not understand? If it bring one family in Cork out of the dole queue it’s good news. Simple!
Thanks Enda :)
Enda has nothing to do with this. Governments don’t create jobs. Neither do businesses. Consumers do.
Enda creates the environment and the stability to attract these jobs, therefore it is everything got to do with our greatest ever leader :)
Enda leaves money under your pillow when you lose a tooth as well
Does anyone ever go back a few months/years after these big announcements and see/report how many jobs were actually created?
Genuine question. Talk is easy, and talk of x hundred jobs means very little till there are bums on seats. But it gets great publicity, for the company as well as the relevant happy minister.
It’s great news but the tax raised by these jobs + corporate tax will be cancelled quickly by the 2,000 extra jobs required by Irish water.
There are no “extra” jobs in Irish water. These people are alredy working for the various local authorities around the country and are being transferred to Irish Water.
Half of them work for local authority half are employed !!
Ever the opportunity to see a glass half empty!
Pathetic Gary.
How many of those rolls will be allocated to jobs bridge
Do you mean breakfast rolls Kev?
Bitter Kevy?
It’s a relevant question
Stand by for the political photo opportunity
Or standby for people finding out about TYCO. You couldn’t make it up
Coupled with the resounding success of job bridge for all non lazy people, and the endless new jobs created the whinging class of nobodies are fast running out if excuses for their lazy useless ways
I sympathize with you. It is a struggle to post opinions when you have a limited vocabulary (…for all non lazy people) and limited cognitive function.
It was announced today that Tyco will be purchased by Johnson Controls, a company that pays its CEO 21 million dollars per year.
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