iOS 16: All The News

For all those who, despite having updated, have not stopped to read the entire list of changes introduced with the latest iOS 16 release from the update screen of their iPhone, or simply for all the others who usually do it with less hurry, here you can read the most important news of the new version of the operating system for our mobile devices, attention, only for iPhones and not for iPads.

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What’s New?

iOS 16 introduces a new lock screen design, with never-before-seen customization options and widgets to view information at a glance. Connect your lock screen to total immersion and use filters to reduce app distractions. Essential updates in Messages allow you to edit or unsend messages. Visual Search lets you lift the subject of an image from the background to copy and paste into apps like Mail and Messages. iOS 16 includes new Mail, Maps, Wallet, Health, and more updates.

Lock Screen

The redid lock screen configuration gives you better approaches to customize it by exhibiting your most loved photographs, changing textual style styles, adding gadgets, and that’s just the beginning. You can make different lock screens and effectively switch between them. The lock screen display gives ideas custom-made only for yourself and Apple-approved assortments.

Textual style and variety of choices let you redo the date and time look on your lock screen. Gadgets on the lock screen show data initially, for example, the climate, battery level, and upcoming occasions in your schedule, and that’s just the beginning. Another impact puts the photographer’s fundamental subject before the time (iPhone XS and later).

Photograph styles change the variety of channels, colors, and textual styles on the lock screen to match them. Warnings at the lower part of the lock screen can be seen as a rundown, assortment, or commencement.

Full Immersion

You can link the lock screen to a deep dive to activate it when you navigate to the corresponding screen. Streamlined setup makes it quick and easy to get started with Deep Immersion, with tailored home and lock screen suggestions that include apps and widgets relevant to the deep immersion you’re setting up.

Messages

Edit a message within 15 minutes of sending; recipients can view the history of changes. Unsend a message to call it back within 2 minutes of sending it. Mark a conversation as unread to find it later easily.

Share Play via Messages lets you watch a movie, listen to music, play a video game, and more with friends while exchanging messages. Easily invite others to collaborate on a file via Messages and get activity updates in the conversation when someone edits a shared project.

Email

The improved Search offers more precise and complete results and displays suggestions as you start typing. Cancel sending a message to undeliver it within 10 seconds after pressing Send. Notifications about emails to remind you to schedule a specific day and time to receive a reminder about a message.

Safari And Passkeys

Share a group of dashboards with others and instantly see updates as you collaborate. The opening pages of the panel groups can be customized with different background images and bookmarks. Pin different tabs in each group to quickly access the websites you visit most often. Passkeys provide a more accessible and secure login method for replacing passwords. Synchronizing passkeys using iCloud Keychain makes them available across all your Apple devices using end-to-end encryption.

Active Text

Live Text compatibility with video lets you interact with text in a paused frame to copy, translate, search for information, share, and more (iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, and later).

Quick Actions analyze data from photos and videos so you can one tap to track flight or shipment status, translate foreign languages, convert currencies, and more (iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, and later models).

Visual Search

“Release Subject from Background” isolates the subject of an image for you to copy and paste into apps like Mail and Messages (iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, and later). Visual Search now recognizes birds, bugs, spiders, and statues in photos (iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, and later).

Siri

The simplified setup of Shortcuts allows you to execute shortcuts with Siri as soon as you download an app without having to set them up beforehand (iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, and later). A new setting lets you send messages without Siri asking for confirmation.

Dictation

The new Dictation experience supports using your voice and keyboard to enter and edit text (iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, and later).

Maps

“Multi-stop routes” allows you to add up to fifteen stops along driving routes in Maps. Add transit cards to Wallet to check if your available balance is low and to top them up without leaving Maps. Travel fares show you the cost of travel in the San Francisco Bay Area, London, New York, and San Diego.

Apple Pay And Wallets:

Apple Pay order tracking allows you to receive detailed information in your Wallet about receipts and order processing for purchases made with Apple Pay at participating merchants.

Home

The new home app design makes it easier to locate, organize, view, and control innovative home accessories. The Home panel now groups all accessories, rooms, and scenes to give you an overview of your home at a glance.

Categories for Climate, Lights, Speakers and TVs, Security, and Water give you quick access to related accessories by room and show detailed information about their status. The new camera view displays up to four in the center of the Home panel, with the ability to scroll to view more. The new design of accessory tiles includes more recognizable icons that match the color of the category and new interactions that allow more precise control of accessories.

Health On iOS 16

The Medicine highlight helps you track and deal with the drugs, nutrients, and enhancements you take by making a rundown, customized timetables, and updates and permitting you to see your admission history. Period irregularity notices inform you when the information you enter shows a propensity for irregular, sporadic, delayed periods or tireless spotting

Wellbeing information sharing solicitations make it simple and secure for your friends and family to impart data about their well-being to you. Wellbeing information sharing updates give you straightforwardness and command over the clinical data you share with individuals you care about.

In The Family

Improved child account setup makes it easy to create a child account with the proper parental controls, including age-appropriate media restrictions. Child device setup lets you use Get Started to get a new iOS 16 or iPadOS 16 device ready for a child with the parental controls you want.

Screen Time requests in Messages make it even easier to approve or deny your kids’ demands. Family Control List gives you tips and tricks, like how to update parental control settings for a child, turn on location sharing, or remind yourself to share your iCloud+ subscription.

Security Control: iOS 16

“Security Checkup” is a new section of Settings designed to help people experiencing domestic or partner violence quickly initialize the access permissions granted to others. Emergency Erase lets you take quick action to revoke access for all people and apps, like turning off location sharing via Find My, erasing app permissions, and more. Sharing and access management helps you review and personalize which apps and people have access to your information.

Accessibility

Entryway recognition in the Magnifier application finds entryways, peruses encompassing signs and images, and carefully guides open them (iPhone 12 Star, iPhone 13 Expert, and 14 Genius). Apple Watch Reflecting gives you unlimited authority over all Apple Watch highlights from the iPhone. It is viable with Switch Control, Voice Control, and other availability highlights on iPhone to take advantage of your Apple Watch.

“Shared Regulator” consolidates inputs from numerous regulators into one to assist clients with mental disabilities to get help from their parental figures while playing. VoiceOver is currently accessible for more than 20 new dialects, including Bengali (India), Bulgarian, Catalan, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

This Version Also Includes Other Improvements And features

The Fitness app helps you track and reach your exercise goals, even if you don’t have an Apple Watch yet, by using the motion sensors on your iPhone to estimate calories burned for your daily Move goal. Compatibility with AirPods Pro (2nd generation).

Personalized Spatial Audio uses the iPhone TrueDepth camera to create a personal profile and deliver a more accurate and immersive listening experience on AirPods (3), AirPods Pro (1 and 2), and AirPods Max. Handoff in FaceTime lets you quickly transfer FaceTime calls from iPhone to iPad or Mac and vice versa. Memoji updates include more poses, hairstyles, headdresses, noses, and lip colors for stickers.

Quick Notes lets you take notes in any app on your iPhone and add links as context to make content easier to find. Camera translation lets you translate the text around you by pointing the camera at it in the Translate app.

The foreground blur in Portrait mode photos taken with the Camera app blurs closer objects for a more realistic depth-of-field effect (iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max, and above). Featured lists in Reminders help you quickly find the ones you often access.

Home screen search lets you access Spotlight right from the bottom of the screen to easily open apps, find your contacts, or search the web for information. Send messages automatically in CarPlay without having to confirm the dictated text. Quick fixes can be applied automatically between one standard software update and the next to introduce significant safety improvements to devices even faster.