10 iOS 16 Hidden Features That Just Make Your iPhone Better - CNET

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This communicative is portion of Focal Point iPhone 2022, CNET's postulation of news, tips and proposal astir Apple's astir fashionable product.

Your iPhone is mode much almighty than you think. Underneath each the large caller features on iOS 16, similar location surface widgets, Live Activities and Emergency SOS via satellite, determination are awesome features and settings that Apple whitethorn not springiness arsenic overmuch radiance to, but that you should decidedly cognize about.

If you privation to instrumentality a person look astatine immoderate of the iOS 16 hidden gems that volition marque your mobile acquisition better, similar password-protected photograph albums and easily accessible Wi-Fi passwords, here's what you request to know.

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Pair Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons with your iPhone

Apple has agelong allowed you to brace third-party controllers, similar the PS5 Sony DualSense and Xbox Core Controller, to your iPhone and iPad, successful bid to much comfortably play mobile video games similar the Apple Arcade library, Minecraft and Call of Duty. Now you tin adhd different console controller to that list.

If you ain a Nintendo Switch, you tin now pair your Joy-Con controllers to your iPhone oregon iPad running iOS 16. To start, clasp down the small achromatic pairing fastener connected the Joy-Con, until the greenish lights commencement moving backmost and forth. This means the instrumentality is successful pairing mode. Next, unfastened your iPhone and spell to Settings > Bluetooth and prime the Joy-Con from the list. Repeat this measurement with the different Joy-Con.

Hidden and Recently Deleted albums are present password protected

The Hidden medium successful the Photos app is intelligibly not hidden, seeing arsenic anyone tin easy find it. That makes it impractical for adequately hiding backstage photos and videos. While Apple does person an enactment to marque the Hidden medium "invisible," anyone with entree to your telephone could marque it disposable again and presumption everything inside.

Thanks to iOS 16, you tin present fastener the Hidden album. You don't really request to bash thing to toggle this diagnostic on. If you privation to cheque it out, motorboat the Photos app and spell to the Albums tab astatine the bottommost of the screen. If you scroll down, you'll spot a tiny fastener adjacent to the Hidden and Recently Deleted albums. To presumption the contents of those albums, you'll request to usage Face ID oregon your passcode.

View and stock saved Wi-Fi passwords

Apple has allowed iOS users to stock Wi-Fi passwords for a portion now, but lone by placing 2 Apple devices adjacent each other. And if that diagnostic didn't automatically work, you couldn't conscionable excavation retired the password from your settings. Plus if you wanted to stock a saved Wi-Fi password with idiosyncratic else, similar an Android idiosyncratic oregon idiosyncratic connected a computer, you had to retrieve the password. Until now.

In Settings, spell to Wi-Fi and pat the tiny accusation icon to the close of the web you privation the password for. To presumption the web password, pat the Password section and past usage Face ID oregon participate your passcode to presumption it. You tin past pat Copy to transcript the password into your clipboard and stock it.

Find and region duplicate photos and videos

Maybe you've saved the aforesaid photograph aggregate times oregon downloaded a video much than once, resulting successful duplicates littering up your photograph album. It whitethorn not beryllium a occupation if you've got retention to spare, but you're moving retired of space, you tin present region each azygous duplicate easy with iOS 16.

In Photos > Albums, you should spot a caller Duplicates medium nether Utilities. Apple scans done each of your photos and shows you immoderate photograph oregon video you've saved much than erstwhile successful that album. From there, you tin either delete immoderate duplicates, oregon simply property Merge, which volition support the photograph with the highest prime (and applicable data) and past determination the others to the trash.

Although you'll astir apt privation to spell done each acceptable of duplicates, to guarantee that they're really nonstop copies and not akin photos, you tin besides deed Select > Select All > Merge to region each azygous photograph and video that Apple thinks is simply a duplicate, each astatine once.

Hang up a telephone oregon FaceTime telephone with Siri

Siri does a batch of things. You tin usage the virtual adjunct to nonstop a substance message, get directions oregon play euphony -- but 1 happening she's ne'er been capable to bash is bent up a telephone call. Weird right? Now that's yet a anticipation with iOS 16.

In Settings, spell to Siri & Search and archetypal marque sure Listen for "Hey Siri" is toggled on. If it is, you should spot a caller enactment underneath -- Call Hang Up. Go into that enactment and toggle connected Call Hang Up. When you're connected a telephone telephone oregon FaceTime video chat, simply say, "Hey, Siri," and inquire her to bent up your existent call.

Copy and paste photograph and video edits

If you usage the exertion instrumentality successful the Photos app, you'll beryllium blessed to larn that you tin present transcript and paste edits, including saturation, opposition and brightness, betwixt photos. If you edit 1 photograph oregon video and are blessed with the look, you tin paste those aforesaid nonstop edits to immoderate different photograph oregon video successful your camera roll.

To bash this, motorboat the Photos app and unfastened a photograph that's been edited successful full-screen. Next, pat connected the three-dot paper successful the top-right country and past hit Copy Edits. This enactment volition lone look if the photograph has been edited wrong Photos, not immoderate third-party photograph editor. Finally, spell to the photograph you privation to transcript these edits implicit to, pat connected the three-dot paper and past deed Paste Edits. After a 2nd oregon so, you should spot the photograph edits appear.

Copy and paste photograph edits connected iOS 16

Bring haptic feedback to your keyboard

The iPhone has agelong had haptic feedback. It's what you consciousness underneath your fingertips whenever you effort to delete an app from your location surface oregon participate the incorrect password connected your fastener screen. Strangely enough, haptic feedback has ne'er been disposable for the banal iOS keyboard -- until now.

If you privation to alteration a flimsy vibration for each azygous cardinal you benignant in, spell to Settings > Sounds & Haptics > Keyboard Feedback and toggle connected Haptic. The dependable enactment you spot is the large and annoying clacking dependable you mightiness perceive erstwhile you benignant successful thing and your telephone isn't connected soundless mode, truthful you tin support that disabled.

Haptic feedback mounting for keyboard connected iOS 16

Pin your favourite tabs successful Safari

Safari caps your unfastened tabs astatine 500, and if you're nearing that limit, it mightiness beryllium beauteous darn hard to find the nonstop tab you're looking for. You could scroll endlessly, but there's present an easier mode to find the nonstop tab you're looking for.

In Safari, if you property down connected an unfastened tab, you present person the enactment to deed Pin Tab. This volition determination that tab to the apical of Safari, wherever it volition beryllium arsenic a tiny tab preview, permanently pinned there, which you tin past pat to view. If you property down and unpin a tab, it volition determination to archetypal successful your grid of unfastened tabs.

Use Face ID portion you're lying down

If you've ever tried to unlock your iPhone portion it's vertical, similar erstwhile you're lying connected your side, you mightiness person noticed that it doesn't work. You person to spot your iPhone successful representation orientation, oregon upright, for Face ID to work. With iOS 16, you tin yet usage Face ID to unlock your iPhone erstwhile it's successful scenery orientation. However, for this to work, you indispensable person an iPhone 13 oregon 14 moving iOS 16.

Remove much preinstalled Apple apps

Since iOS 10, you've been capable to region immoderate preinstalled iOS applications similar Stocks, Maps and Calculator -- but not each of them. With the merchandise of iOS 16, you tin adhd 3 much apps to this database of ones you tin remove: Find My, Clock and Health. However, deleting these apps tin negatively impact and interruption enactment with different apps and connected devices, similar your Apple Watch.

For much connected iOS 16 and the iPhone, cheque retired the iOS 16 Cheat Sheet.

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