Apple has brought back the covers of iOS 16, but is it different from iOS 15?
At WWDC 2022, Apple unveiled the latest version of its iPhone operating system: iOS 16. Here’s a quick look at how it compares to iOS 15, which replaces it, and the new features that make it a serious upgrade.
Lock screen
While iOS 15 has done a good job of making the system look and feel smarter, it still leaves the first screen that you see a bit early on. This has now changed to iOS 16 thanks to the modified lock screen.
This feature allows you to customize how the information is displayed on the screen. Photos can be placed in front of things like time and date, which makes the aesthetic more 3D than ever before and is definitely better than what you can find on Android right now. You can also choose images and text from a variety of font and color schemes to your liking.
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In addition to the classic time and date you’ll find in iOS 15, the new version will allow you to add widgets like a calendar to see upcoming appointments, activity and weather apps to see how close your rings are to close. So that you do not fall in the rain. These are based on Apple Watch widgets and look impressive, we’ve had to see them effectively for a limited time.
Based on the Focus feature introduced in iOS 15, you can set up multiple lock screens that can be easily toggled. These will then link to the focus modes you set up, so you can finish an evening’s work, swipe to the Family Lock screen, and trigger all your Family Focus settings at the same time. Excellent
Live updating widgets allow you to keep track of deliveries, game latest scores, or other useful information. Also, you can now display the full album artwork on the lock screen above the playback controls while listening to music.
Notification
iOS 15 has begun the big work of sorting out notoriously sophisticated notification systems on the iPhone, introducing the ability to mute conversations, distributing notifications at preferred times, adding contact photos to instantly identify who is texting you, as well as notification summary features. Bundles together and delivers them in the morning or evening or at another time you specify.
iOS 16 doesn’t change much. We’ve already mentioned the ability to link the lock screen to your focus settings, but in the new update you’ll also notice that the warnings slide down from the bottom of the screen so that the beautiful image you’ve carefully selected is always blurred by the notification box.
Message
Some of the most useful update messages for appearing on iOS 16 are available in the app. First, you’ll be able to edit messages already sent, allowing you to quickly fix an embarrassing typo before the recipient gets the wrong idea. What if your message should not have been sent? You will now be able to delete it before viewing the individual content Finally, you can mark a thread in your inbox as unread, so that you can remember to view it later.
iOS 15 has introduced a feature shared with you that will monitor your messages, then automatically place links to any content-music, movies, interesting articles, etc. sent from friends in the relevant app. So, if a partner shares a track from a new album, the next time you open it, it will be in the Apple Music Sharing section with you.
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In iOS 16, Apple has taken it even further by introducing the SharePlay feature in iOS 15, which lets you and friends enjoy content at the same time and make it available in live messages. This means you don’t have to open another app to watch movies or listen to tracks with your friends. You can continue chatting while the content is running, all from a single app.
While the Mail app can sometimes feel a bit like an unwanted honest child, third party offers usually boast a lot of great toolkits for managing your messages. iOS 15 has introduced some privacy features that can hide your information from senders, such as location, online activity or whether you read the message. These were good additions but didn’t really add to the lack of control and power within the app. iOS 16 addresses this with some new features that need to close the competition gap.
Scheduled emails will now be matched, so you can set up important messages sent at a specific time. Also, you will be warned just before sending the message, if you want to change your mind and cancel it. You will now receive an email to return to the top of your inbox after a certain period of time, which will prevent you from forgetting when you arrive at a busy time.
Mail will scan your messages to see if you forgot to include something as important as an attachment, then alert you before sending the message. Not to mention that it will use its smart to bring to your attention any important email from which you have not yet received a response and will allow you to follow it.
Maps
iOS 16 has come up with a really nice feature that is missing from Apple’s navigation app: multistep routing. This allows you to plan your journey with up to 15 different stops, all without any additional information on the map. It’s linked to Mac, so you can plan a vacation trip on your iMac or MacBook, then sync it with your iPhone and go out the door.
There are also new transit features that give users a predicted cost of their travel and add a transit card to iOS 16 Wallet that will monitor the balance to remind you when to top up.
Shared photo library
Keeping photo libraries organized can be a real pain, especially when many people want access. Now, on iOS 16, Apple has created a new single place where families (up to six people) can share photos and manage them together in the iCloud Shared Photo Library. You’ll be able to select from existing photos in your library, as well as use a new toggle in the Camera app to send photos directly to the library. Everyone in the group can add, delete, or edit images, so it’s not up to you to manage the whole thing.
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Live text
Arguably one of the most impressive additions to iOS 15 was live text. This is a feature where you can point your camera towards some text in a foreign language (this is a menu or icon) and your iPhone will translate automatically. It also draws text from images so you can add it to notes or call the phone numbers displayed in the image. Now iOS 16 brings it to video as well. Just pause the recording of the text in question, then the software will be able to pull it out and translate or copy the words to the clipboard.
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Visual look up
A sister feature of Live Text that appears in iOS 15 is Visual Look Up, which helps the iPhone camera identify certain objects such as landmarks, art, flowers and dog breeds. The figure is then analyzed and the results are presented through Siri.
iOS 16 adds more features, including birds, insects and statues, as well as introduces a new feature where you can tap and hold on content and then pick it up from the image. It’s like a Photoshop effect that enables you to share messages, social media posts or whatever you have. We don’t really see the point, but it can be quite fun.
New Wallet Features in the United States
Customers in the United States who want to dispense item payments over a period of weeks can use the Apple Pay Later feature on iOS 16. It lets you order a product and then set up a six-week payment schedule to pay for it. Six Weeks sounds a bit strange to us (of course most people are paid monthly?), But it’s intended to help people budget to buy. You will also be able to track the delivery of the specified items in the Wallet app.
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There’s also a new feature that can confirm your age without disclosing your information to suppliers or bartenders, as well as the ability to share electronic keys via messages, mail and other apps for your car, hotel room, office, etc. By
Apple went crazy with iOS 16, adding lots of other features like carpet improvements, dictation, kids account set up, fitness, home, accessibility and more. You can read more about them in our guide to the top new iOS 16 features.
It should be based on the great features introduced in iOS 15, which brings some necessary additions to Mail, Messages, Lock Screen and others. The public beta version will be available in July so you can test it with the new iPhone 14 before full release in September.
One thing to note: Apple says iOS 16 will only be available to those who have an iPhone 8 or later. So, if you’re not on that list, take a look at our best iPhone deal roundup to see if you can bargain for an upgrade.