10 reasons to upgrade to iOS 10 when it launches at 6PM BST

iOS 10 is out today at about 6PM. Want to know why you should bother upgrading all your devices? Here's why.

Hide stock apps

Finally! Instead of stuffing Stocks, Tips, and Maps in a folder labeled "Junk", you can now banish them from your homescreen for good.

Just delete them like any other app, and then redownload them from the App Store if you miss 'em.

Siri is one of those features that's really cool, provided you only ever use Apple's apps and services. But as soon as you tell Siri to hunt through your Gmail archive, it looks at you like a dog trying to comprehend a helicopter.

Now, third-party developers can borrow your digital assistant.

You go to call someone. A robot answers. That's weird. You forgot what you wanted to say. You stumble over your words, you uhm and ah, you hang up. No one wants to listen to that noise.

Luckily, your iPhone will do it for you and spit out an auto-transcribed version you can skim read. Hooray.

Oh god messages has become a shit show. You can make a message bubble explode onto the scene. You can fill your friend's screen with balloons.

You can hand write a message that no one will be able to see. You can send fireballs, and turn your words into emojis. God, what hath humanity become.

The stickers are nice though. They even have Mario!

Predictive text is cool. Start typing Palae and iOS is like, stop right there. You want Palaeontologist, right? We got you. Save your fingers, kind sir or madam.

In iOS 10, that same tech can predict when you want to type in an email address, or a phone number, or a free spot on your calendar and offer it up. Handy!

iPhone cameras are getting so big, sending your pal a photo you just snapped is like sending 6 terabytes of data down the wire.

A new feature in settings, which lets you "Enable Low Quality Image Mode", will shrink your snaps before you send them, saving everyone data and storage space.

If you've got a recent-ish iPad, you'll know all about the magic of split screen apps. The problem comes when you want to read two websites in Safari at once. You know, like a maniac.

iOS 10 adds this functionality: just drag a tab to either side of the screen to split Safari in two.

The fingerprint sensor on the new iPhones is so good, it can read your fingerprint in the split second it take to turn on your lockscreen. Which means you skip straight past it, and miss all your notifications.

Gah!

A new "rise to wake" feature on iOS 10 will let you see your lockscreen with a lift, meaning you'll never miss a notification again.

You know when you install a bunch of apps or a bunch of updates, and some huge game decides to go first while tiny apps have to wait? Well no more!

In iOS 10 you can press on an app and select Prioritize Download from the list of options. This may be exclusive to 3D Touch. If so: boo.

God Apple is annoying with software updates these days. Until you update, you're bombarded with messages telling you to update, asking you to keep your phone plugged in all night, just generally being a pain.

Fine, we'll update, just to stop that damn message from showing up.