The iMessages was recently opened by Apple along with Maps and Siri with the iOS 10 SDK beta version. Apart from the comprehensive widgets, there are also rich notifications that have been introduced on the widgets that are there in the iOS10. Much to the likes of Facebook and Slack which presently dominate the world of bots, Apple is yet to join in. However if you look carefully at the landscape, you will get to see that actually, the company has put its steps into this particular world in a fascinating manner and this has been done in a very unexpected manner.

Without making any kind of changes to the context, the services can be accessed in a contextual way using bots. They not only help in the reduction but even at times in the elimination of using or downloading the traditional apps for mobiles. There are three main categories of bots that can be used; there are three main categories of bots that we can find today.

The first been conservative or textual bots which is used on chat and message based platforms, the second being visual bots which use the help of visual elements that are present on most of the mobile apps and lastly the audio bots, these are bots that can be found in products like Siri of Apple, Cortana on Microsoft, Viv, Alexa of Amazon and various other personal assistance features that are offered. When you compare them with the widgets that are there on the iOS 10, under the visual bits of Apple, you have iMessage and widget apps, while the visual bots would be Siri and Maps. It seems to be that the approach the company has taken in introducing these bots to their various apps is really interesting and provides various kinds of benefits to the users.