iOS 16 is out there at this time

September 12, 2022

UPDATE

iOS 16 is out there at this time

iOS 16 brings the largest replace ever to the Lock Screen, the power to edit and collaborate in Messages, new instruments in Mail, and extra methods to work together with photographs and video with Live Text and Visual Look Up. iOS 16 is out there at this time as a free software program replace.

A More Personal, Beautiful, and Helpful Lock Screen

The Lock Screen will get reimagined, providing deeper personalization. Now customers can add a depth impact to their Lock Screen picture, artfully displaying the picture topic in entrance of the time, and so they may even customise the font and kind fashion. New widgets on the Lock Screen make it simple to get useful info at a look like upcoming calendar occasions, battery ranges, alarms, time zones, Activity ring progress, and extra.

The new Lock Screen gallery contains a vary of choices. Users can select an intelligently instructed picture from their private library that may look nice on the Lock Screen, or a dynamic set of photographs that shuffle all through the day. Apple collections embody iconic imagery from Apple; Pride and Unity wallpapers; a Weather wallpaper to see reside climate situations as they modify all through the day; and an Astronomy wallpaper for views of the Earth, moon, and photo voltaic system. Users also can create distinctive designs with their favourite emoji and coloration mixtures, and with a number of Lock Screens, customers can change between their favorites with only a swipe.

Redesigned notifications now roll in from the underside to supply a transparent view of the Lock Screen, and customers can select to view notifications in an expanded record, stacked, or as a rely view.

Stay within the Moment With Focus

With iOS 16, Focus is simpler to arrange and will get much more highly effective by connecting to the Lock Screen, giving customers a option to merely swipe to a chosen Lock Screen to activate the corresponding Focus. With Focus filters, apps like Calendar, Mail, Messages, and Safari can show solely the content material that’s related to a person’s Focus, serving to them to seek out higher steadiness.

New Ways to Interact in Messages

Updates to Messages make it attainable to edit, undo ship, and mark conversations as unread, making it even simpler to remain linked.¹ With iOS 16, customers can now invite family and friends to SharePlay by way of Messages, providing one other option to take pleasure in synced content material like motion pictures or songs and shared playback controls. In addition, new collaboration options in Messages make working with others fast and seamless. When customers select to share recordsdata for collaboration by way of Messages, everybody in a thread might be mechanically added, and when somebody makes an edit to the shared doc, exercise updates seem on the prime of the thread.

Increase Productivity With New Tools in Mail

Now customers can schedule supply of an e mail forward of time or cancel supply of a message earlier than it reaches a recipient’s inbox.² Users also can set reminders to come back again to a message at a later date with Remind me, obtain computerized solutions to comply with up on an e mail in the event that they haven’t obtained a response, and get computerized alerts after they’ve forgotten to incorporate a recipient or attachment in an e mail. With the largest replace to go looking in years, Mail options state-of-the-art methods to ship extra related, correct, and full search outcomes.

Visual Look Up and Live Text Enhancements

Users can now faucet and maintain as regards to a picture to raise it from the background and place it in apps like Messages. Visual Look Up additionally expands to acknowledge birds, bugs, spiders, and statues, serving to customers shortly get details about objects and scenes in photographs. 

Using on-device intelligence, Live Text can now acknowledge textual content in movies throughout the system. Users can pause a video on any body to work together with textual content and take fast motion, akin to copy and paste, translate, convert forex, and extra.

More Secure Browsing in Safari With Passkeys

Browsing in Safari is even safer with passkeys, a next-generation credential that may’t be phished or leaked, making it safer and straightforward to make use of. Designed to exchange passwords, passkeys use Touch ID or Face ID for biometric verification, and iCloud Keychain to sync throughout iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV with end-to-end encryption. Created as a joint effort in collaboration with the FIDO Alliance, Google, and Microsoft, passkeys will work throughout apps and the net, and customers can check in to web sites or an app on non-Apple units utilizing simply their iPhone.

Safari additionally provides shared Tab Groups to share a set of internet sites with family and friends, making it seamless so as to add tabs and see what others are viewing.

New Accessibility Features to Navigate, Stay Connected, and More

Accessibility updates embody Door Detection, which helps customers who’re blind or low imaginative and prescient use their iPhone to navigate the previous couple of toes to their vacation spot; and Apple Watch Mirroring for customers with bodily and motor disabilities to reflect their Apple Watch show to iPhone, and management Apple Watch with Voice Control and Switch Control.³ Additionally, Live Captions make it simpler for Deaf and onerous of listening to customers to comply with together with any audio content material — whether or not they’re on a cellphone or FaceTime name, utilizing a videoconference or social media app, streaming media content material, or having a dialog with somebody subsequent to them.⁴

Additional Features

• Apple Pay Order Tracking permits customers to obtain detailed receipts and order monitoring info in Wallet for Apple Pay purchases with collaborating retailers.

• Updates to Apple Maps allow additional exploration of the world with improved driving and transit navigation, and multistop routing. Drivers can simply create routes with a number of stops and mechanically sync routes from Mac to iPhone after they’re able to go. Transit instructions will now show how a lot a journey will price, and customers can add transit playing cards to Wallet to see low balances — and replenish transit playing cards — all with out leaving Maps.

• Family Sharing provides a better option to arrange accounts for youngsters with the suitable parental controls in place from the beginning. It consists of solutions for age-appropriate restrictions for apps, motion pictures, books, music, and extra, and an easier course of for establishing a brand new machine for a kid that applies present parental controls mechanically. When a toddler asks for extra display time, mother and father and guardians can now approve or decline proper in Messages. A brand new Family Checklist supplies tips and solutions, akin to updating a toddler’s parental controls as they become old or turning on location sharing.

• Dictation provides a brand new on-device expertise that permits customers to fluidly transfer between voice and contact. Users can kind with the keyboard, faucet within the textual content discipline, transfer the cursor, and insert QuickType solutions, all with no need to cease Dictation. In addition, Dictation options computerized punctuation and emoji dictation.

• Siri provides the power to run shortcuts as quickly as an app is downloaded with out requiring upfront setup. Users can add emoji when sending a message, select to ship messages mechanically — skipping the affirmation step — and cling up cellphone and FaceTime calls utterly hands-free by merely saying “Hey Siri, hang up.”

• The reimagined Home app provides customers simpler methods to navigate, manage, and examine their equipment.

• The Fitness app is now out there to all iPhone customers to assist observe and meet health objectives, even when they don’t have an Apple Watch. iPhone customers can set a private Move purpose, examine their traits, and share exercise for extra motivation. iPhone movement sensors observe steps, distance, and flights climbed to estimate energetic energy burned. Any exercises accomplished in third-party apps additionally contribute to closing the person’s Move ring. The new Fitness app Lock Screen widget provides Move ring progress, steps taken, and distance at a look.

• The Health app provides Medications, permitting customers to conveniently construct and handle a drugs record, create schedules and reminders, and observe their drugs, nutritional vitamins, or dietary supplements. In the US, customers can merely level their iPhone digital camera at a label so as to add a drugs, learn in regards to the drugs they’re taking, and obtain an alert if there are potential vital interactions with their drugs.⁵ Users also can now ship family members an invite to share their Health knowledge, and simply create a PDF of accessible well being information from linked well being establishments, proper from the Health app.⁶

• Apple News introduces a brand new My Sports part, the place customers can simply comply with favourite groups and leagues; obtain tales from lots of of prime publishers; entry scores, schedules, and standings for the highest skilled and school leagues; and watch highlights proper within the News app. Favorites will sync with the Apple TV app to supply a seamless sports activities expertise.

• Game Center makes it simple for customers to play with or compete in opposition to their mates by way of the redesigned dashboard that exhibits mates’ video games exercise and accomplishments multi function place.

• Personalized Spatial Audio provides an much more exact and immersive listening expertise. Using the TrueDepth digital camera on iPhone, customers can create a private profile for Spatial Audio that delivers a listening expertise tuned only for them.

• Safety Check, a brand new private privateness instrument, could be useful to customers whose private security is in danger from home or intimate accomplice violence. It permits customers to shortly assessment and take away any entry they’ve granted to others. It additionally consists of an emergency reset that helps customers simply signal out of iCloud on all their different units, reset privateness permissions, and restrict messaging to simply the machine of their hand. Users also can perceive and handle which individuals and apps they’ve given entry to.

Availability

• iOS 16 is a free software program replace that’s out there beginning at this time for iPhone 8 and later.
• In an replace later this yr, Apple will introduce iCloud Shared Photo Library to offer households a brand new option to share photographs seamlessly with a separate iCloud library that as much as six customers can collaborate on, contribute to, and revel in.⁷ Live Activities will make it even simpler to remain up to the mark occurring in actual time, proper from the Lock Screen, akin to a sports activities sport, ride-share, or meals supply order, and Clean Energy Charging goals to lower the carbon footprint of the iPhone by optimizing charging occasions for when the grid is utilizing cleaner power sources.⁸ The replace may also convey assist for the Matter sensible residence connectivity customary as soon as it turns into out there later this fall.
• For extra info, go to apple.com/ios/ios-16. Some options might not be out there in all areas, languages, or on all iPhone fashions.

1. Users can edit a message for as much as quarter-hour after sending it and may unsend a message for as much as 2 minutes after sending it. Users could make as much as 5 edits to a given message, and recipients will have the ability to see a file of edits made to the message.
2. Users can cancel supply of a message inside 10 seconds of hitting ship, or they’ve the choice to vary the length that the message is within the outbox. In addition, Undo Send could be turned off. 
3. Door Detection and People Detection options in Magnifier require the LiDAR Scanner on iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd and third technology), and iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th and fifth technology). Apple Watch Mirroring is out there on Apple Watch Series 6 and later. Door Detection shouldn’t be relied upon in circumstances the place a person could also be harmed or injured, or in high-risk or emergency conditions.
4. Live Captions might be out there in beta with iOS 16 on iPhone 11 and later, iPadOS 16 on iPad fashions with A12 Bionic and later, and macOS Ventura on Macs with Apple silicon. Accuracy of Live Captions might differ and shouldn’t be relied upon in high-risk conditions.
5. Medication and interplay info is evidence-based content material licensed from Elsevier, a number one writer of well being and science info. The Medications characteristic shouldn’t be used as an alternative to skilled medical judgment. Additional info is out there on the labels of medicines, however customers ought to seek the advice of their healthcare supplier prior to creating any choices associated to their well being.
6. Health Records on iPhone is out there at collaborating establishments within the US, the UK, and Canada.
7. Users who’re beneath 13 (or equal minimal age within the related jurisdiction) with an Apple ID established by a guardian or guardian can solely take part in a Shared Photo Library with different members of the family.
8. Clean Energy Charging is out there to customers within the US.

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