IOS 16 will help you to reinforce your personality because it enhances the iPhone with great features that helps to take your personality to a higher level. You’ll become more intelligent as you interact with this Phone daily because of an amazing seamless way to communicate and share with the world.
The lock screen Feature
The lock screen was reinvented for creativity
Recreate your iPhone with the new ways to personalised how you interact with your phone such as:
- Personalising how you lock your screen
- Show favourite photos
- Customise font style
- And display a set of widgets to get information briefing
Video
- Give your favourite photos an opportunity to personalise your lock screen and your favourite photos will be brighter.
- There’s a new multi layered effect that helps the subject of your photo stands out
- Style helps to change the colour filter, the tinting, and the font style of your lock screen automatically.
- A set of photos can also be selected to shuffle automatically.
Widgets
Take a quick glance at some data with the widget locked on the screen, check data such as:
- Weather
- Calendar events
- Date
- Time Zones
- Alarms
- Battery level
- Activity ring progress
- And more from your favourite apps
Create A Multiple Lock Screen
Create different lock screen that comes with each unique backdrop and style, and you can easily switch between them. Browse a gallery of wallpapers with suggested photos, and themed collections for inspiration.
Notifications
Notifications can be viewed on the lock screen in an expanded list view, could either be stacked or hidden view. Notifications will appear at the bottom of your screen so that they are not in the way.
Live Activities
Follow an ongoing activity from your lock screen, which will help you to track progress of your food delivery or use the now playing controls to unlock your device.
Focus
Set up a new Focus with Ease
There’s a new streamline set up focus, it allows you to select the apps and people you’ll like to receive notifications from by either allowing them or silencing them. Your lock screen must be connected to focus so that the look and feel of your iPhone matches how you want to use it at the moment.
Go from a personal focus to work focus with a swipe and the widgets will show, upcoming appointments and to-do-lists.
Focus Filter
Distracting content can be filtered from your everyday apps
Set boundaries in apps like calendar and messages as well as third party apps to focus by hiding distracting content. You can keep email from work inbox out of sight while using the personal focus.
Photos
iCloud Share Photo Library
You can share photos and videos seamlessly with up to five people, this means that everyone can collaborate on the family’s collection and enjoy more complete memories. The iCloud share photo library allows family memories to be in one place for everyone to enjoy at any time, even if you’re not the one who took the pictures or edited the photos.
Smart ways to Share
If you set up or join a shared photo library, you can decide to contribute past photos based on a start date or the people in the photos. A photo can be shared instantly straight from a camera once shared library is set up. You can share automatically if other shared library members are nearby, you’ll also get smart suggestions for adding photos to the shared library.
Edits and changes syncs everywhere
There are equal rights for everyone to add, edit and delete photos in the shared library. Favourite captions and keywords sync too, therefore if one person organises the collection, everyone benefits.
Messages
Your messages are enhanced
Messages sent can now be edited and resend altogether, messages can also be marked as unread if you can’t respond now and want to come back to it later.
Videos
Share Play via Messages
Watch the latest episodes of your favourite shows or listen to a new song with friends while chatting about it in the messages. Share playback controls to ensure that you’re always in sync.
Richer Collaboration
Collaborate instantly by sharing:
- Notes
- Presentations
- Reminders,
- And Safari tab groups
The list above can all be shared in messages.
View updates on shared projects in the thread and get in touch easily with your collaborators directly from the app you’re working on.
Search Improvement
The search will deliver more accurate and complete results and provides suggestions before you start typing.
A sent email can be recalled for whatever reason, messages can be scheduled to send at any time, get a reminder to follow up or come back to the message later. Rich links can be added to email to reveal more details briefly.
In case you forget to include a recipient or an attachment, mail will notify you and ask if you want to add whatever is missing.
Safari and Passkeys
A new sign in method was introduced by passkeys which is an end-to-end encrypted and safe from phishing and data leaks. This makes passkeys strongest compared to all common two factor authentication types. They also work on non-Apple devices.
Shared Tab Groups
Share tabs and bookmark, send messages, and start Facetime straight from Safari. Plan a trip with a friend or shop for a sofa with your partner, you can share all the tabs in one place. And when they find something great can be added to the tabs too.
Intelligence
Lift a Subject from the Background
A subject can be easily lifted from an image or isolate the subject by removing the background. This is available in:
- Photos
- Quick Look
- Safari
- And More
Live Text for Video
Pause a video on any frame that contains text to use familiar interactions like:
- Copy
- Translate
- Look up
- Share and more.
Live Text Quick Actions
It’s much easier now to call
- Phone numbers
- Visits websites
- Convert currencies
- Translate languages
- And more in photos
- And more in videos
- And more in camera
A combination of Keyboard and Dictation
Input text seamlessly as you switch between voice and touch, type with the keyboard, tap into the text field, move the cursor, and insert quick type suggestions, all without having to stop dictating.
Maps
Travel cards and fares in Maps
- Add new travel cards to the wallet
- Check your balance
- Top up your card
- View your total cost
- All on your Map
Apple Pay and Wallet
Track your Apple pay orders and view your receipts all in the Apple wallet
Share Keys Securely
Your keys can be securely shared in the wallet using your favourite messaging apps, including messages, mail and what’s app. You can decide where and when your keys can be used and can be revoked at any time.
Home
Reimagined the Home App
The home app is even more efficient and reliable because it was rebuilt from the ground up, navigate through all your smart home accessories in the redesigned new home tab. There are new categories for:
- Climate
- Lights
- Security
- And more
Access relevant accessories with a tap, and a multi camera views puts your smart home camera at the front and centred.
Matter Support
This is a smart home connectivity standard, which enables a wide variety of smart home accessories to work together across platforms. Matter and home kit can be controlled seamlessly with enabled accessories with the home app and Siri. Matter offers the most choice and compatibility for accessories in your home, whilst maintaining the highest level of security.
Health and Safety
App updates
The new medication feature in the health app will assist you in managing and tracking your medication intake. It will also help you to stay connected to what matters most, you’re able to send your loved ones an invitation to securely share their information stored in the health app.
Fitness app for iPhone
Achieve your fitness goals with the fitness app even without an Apple Watch, using the motion sensor, your steps, distance, and third-party workouts, you’ll get an estimate of your calories to contribute to your daily fitness goals.
Family Sharing
Manage child accounts with Ease
You can easily create accounts for your children with the right parental controls, right from the start. Set your preferences for:
- Age-appropriate media
- Screen time
- Location sharing
- And more
Screen time request from your kids now appears in messages, therefore it’s easy to approve or decline a request.
Set up a new Device for a Child
Quick start and your device can be used to set up a new iPhone or iPad for your child with all the appropriate parental controls already in place.
Family Checklist
There are many tips and suggestions that helps you to get the best out of family sharing, such as updating your children’s settings as they get older, turning on location sharing or reminding you that you can share your iCloud+ subscription with everyone.
Car Play
The Car Play – Next Generation
This offers you a unique experience on the iPhone in your car. It provides all the content on the Driver’s screen, including the instrument cluster, ensuring a cohesive design experience that is very great for your car and your Device.
Vehicle functions such as radio and temperature controls are handled directly from car play, personalised options ranges from widgets to selecting curated gauge cluster designs to make it unique to the Driver.
Security and Privacy
You stay up to date automatically and protected against security threats because your iPhone will get security improvements from the normal software update.
Safety Check
Review and reset access granted to others, this feature is extremely useful for people in domestic abuse or intimate partner violence situation. Privacy permission for apps is also reset by the safety checks and restricts messages and FaceTime to the device at hand.
iPhone controlling the Apple Watch
Voice control, switch control and other assistive feature on the iPhone can control your Apple Watch
Door Detection
Find out how far you are away from a door and how to open it as you navigate the final few feet to your destination. Door detection will read aloud important details such as room numbers and wheel-chair accessible symbols.
The combination of two controllers into one is possible anytime you need an assistance during a game. Create a link with two wireless game controllers and drive a single player to get to the next level as you play your favourite games on:
- iPhone
- iPad
- Macs
Apple News
My Sports
Keep track of your favourite leagues and teams and be up to date, get access to the best stories from hundreds of national and local publications. Enjoy highlights and get the latest:
- Scores
- Fixtures
- And rankings in your news feed.
Spotlights
Get in depth results, good suggestions, and even more images result from apps like messages, notes, and files. Start a timer or run a short cut directly from the spotlight.
Notes
Use your device passcode to lock a note, get rid of having to remember multiple passwords. Smart folders come with a new customisable filter that allows you to organise based on:
- Creation
- Date
- Attachments
- Checklists
- And more
There are pencil and other drawing features which helps you to:
- Add shapes
- Text boxes
- Arrows
- Rotate images
Reminders
Favourite lists can be pinned for easy access, today and schedule lists are now grouped items by date and time, which makes it easier to view and add reminders. You can create, save, or share lists as templates to reuse them for routine tasks. View all your completed reminders in one place with the all-new completed list along with details like the time the tasks were completed.
Handoff in FaceTime
Transfer a call from your MacBook to your iPhone or iPad with a simple tap and the connected Bluetooth headset will switch over as well. You can switch devices during a Facetime call without missing out.
Stock
The tickers you follow can be easily organise by creating multiple watch lists, symbols can be grouped by the criteria of your choice such as:
- Asset types
- Ownership status
- And more
Upcoming company’s earnings reports can be added to your calendar and get even more information briefly with the new widget options.
Memoji
The new Memoji allows you to express yourself with new stickers and customisation options like:
- Nose shape
- Headgear
- And hairstyles that showcase natural hair texture and curl patterns
There are new Memoji contact stickers which adds more personality to your contact app.
Translate
The camera in the translate app helps you to translate text around you, zoom in for a closer look and pause the view to get the translation overlaid on text in a photo. Text can also be translated in photos from your photo Library.
Focus
This new update allows users to decide the apps and people to receive notifications from after setting up focus, there are options to allow or silence people and app. Set boundaries in Apple apps like calendar and messages by hiding contact that are distracting with focus filters.
Maps
Users can incorporate multiple stops into their route in advance, directions checked on the iPad can also look upon the iPhone when you are setting out. Total cost of journeys by public transport can also be viewed.
