The problem with Apple's new version of its iOS mobile operating system is the sheer number of new features and enhancement it brings to your iPhone and iPad. But it's worth spending some time researching and exploring.
There are some very business-friendly improvements to be discovered. But first, we'll explain how to reverse one iOS 10 change that wasn't welcome.
In earlier releases you can unlock a handset with Touch ID just by resting a finger or thumb on the home button for a moment. iOS 10 changes that to a two-step process.
You rest your digit for a moment and then press the button. If you're like us and far prefer the old one-step way, look for the home button entry under the accessibility options in general settings. The slide of a switch fixes the issue.
We love the enhanced Widgets page that's accessible by right swiping your home screen. You can now choose which apps appear and in what order and, used thoughtfully, this page can be your new best friend.
We've pared the page down to four items we want to have handy at all times: the next three departures from our nearest public transport stop, our calendar for today, the top entries on our Things task list and the Notes app.
One swipe brings all these into view in the order that suits us, and the single screen view of our key information is gold.
Valuable addition
The last thing we'd do is turn on the universal iMessage read receipt feature that's been available for some years. Everyone gets enough messages already, without message read notifications being added to the e-pile.
But iOS 10 lets you activate them on a person by person basis and that can be valuable in business scenarios.
We've turned on read receipts with our admin and a couple of key people in the office. If one of us sends a note that hasn't been picked up within a reasonable time, we can escalate it with a phone call if it's important.
There are some people and situations where you do want to be sure a message has been eyeballed, and the new iOS lets you set up a confirmation system without applying it to your whole phone book.
Threaded email has received a power boost because it can now link messages that have been filed into different folders.
Filing mail itself is easier because the operating system now learns which kinds of messages are likely to be filed in what folders, and offers intelligent options when you left swipe a message and select the move option.
But even after you've neatly filed Fred's earlier missives into a dedicated folder, Mail can present them in a unified threaded view even when you open Fred's next message arriving in your inbox.
It's a quantum leap in making sense of the large number of mail conversations many of us have running these days.
More tips to come
Talking of email, iOS 10 Mail now attempts to identify messages from mailing lists and presents an unsubscribe link at top of screen.
It's nothing you couldn't locate yourself by wading through small print at the end of many messages, but since iPhone started making it so easy we've already quit a number of mailing lists that were surplus to requirements but we'd never gotten around to cleaning out before.
No matter how many new iOS 10 tips you collect today, there are more to come soon when Apple releases Sierra, the next incarnation of its desktop operating system.
For those of us who live in a Mac world, Sierra will integrate our devices more tightly than ever.
For those of use who are constantly using iMessage or email to send ourselves a copy of a web link or some content we clipped out of Safari on our iPad, the Universal Clipboard will be a boon.
Copying text or an image on a compatible device won't just create a duplicate in the local clipboard, it will also send one to iCloud ready to be pasted from other Apple devices.
iOS 10 mobile devices will also pair via Bluetooth with Mac desktops running Sierra to automatically unlock them, so no more passwords required when your iPhone or Apple Watch are within three metres.
Anticipated for release on September 20, Sierra will have Mac business users boasting, yet again, about their champion.
Peter Moon is a technology lawyer with Cooper Mills.peter.moon@coopermills.com.au
