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It hasn't been agelong since Apple released iOS 16.0 with implicit 350 caller features, but iOS 16.1 is blistery connected its process with adjacent much chill updates for your iPhone. While immoderate of the caller upgrades were expected, others are somewhat astonishing — and there's adjacent 1 that you whitethorn not adjacent deliberation was possible.
Apple's iOS 16.1 update is still successful beta testing, but you tin install the beta connected your iPhone close now if you privation to commencement investigating the beneath features retired earlier everyone else. However, Apple volition merchandise iOS 16.1 to everyone connected Oct. 24, truthful it mightiness beryllium champion to hold for the unchangeable update if you're not already a portion of beta testing. (Some of these features besides look connected iPadOS 16.1 for iPad, also inactive successful beta.)
1. Larger Numbers for Battery Percentage
On iOS 16.0, Apple yet added a power successful the Battery settings connected Face ID devices to enable the artillery percent successful the presumption bar, thing Touch ID devices person agelong been capable to do. The update enactment the percent wrong the artillery icon, and iOS 16.1 makes the numbers larger and easier to see. Below, you tin spot the icons earlier and aft successful airy and acheronian modes.
2. Battery Percentage for More iPhones
While iOS 16.0 lets america adhd the artillery percent to the artillery icon successful the presumption barroom connected Face ID devices, it's not available connected each Face ID models. Specifically, the iPhone XR, 11, 12 mini, and 13 mini are near out, presumedly due to the fact that of their smaller displays. The iOS 16.1 update adds enactment for those models, truthful present each iPhone models that tin tally iOS 16 tin get the caller artillery icon.
3. Clean Energy Charging
Go to Settings –> Battery, past unfastened up the "Battery Health & Charging" menu, antecedently conscionable "Battery Health," and you'll spot a caller enactment called "Clean Energy Charging."
Apple says your iPhone "will effort to trim your c footprint by selectively charging erstwhile little c emanation energy is available." It goes connected to accidental your iPhone "learns from your regular charging regular truthful it tin scope afloat complaint earlier you request to usage it."
The mounting should beryllium automatically enabled by default, but the "Learn More" nexus goes to a non-existing webpage, which should spell unrecorded erstwhile iOS 16.1 unchangeable is released.
4. Live Activities
Live Activities are yet here. They look connected the bottommost of your iPhone's fastener screen, arsenic good arsenic successful the Dynamic Island for the iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max models, and show an app's astir existent data, updated successful existent time.
Live sports games successful the Apple TV app is 1 illustration of what Live Activities tin do. Pick a unrecorded crippled disposable successful your portion from the Live Sports section, past pat the "Follow" button. You'll past spot the play-by-play and real-time scores connected your fastener surface and successful the Dynamic Island if you person an iPhone 14 Pro oregon 14 Pro Max. Right now, I tin lone get it to enactment with MLB games.
According to Apple, a Live Activity tin lone beryllium progressive for up to 8 hours successful the Dynamic Island, but it tin spell arsenic agelong arsenic 12 hours connected the fastener screen. So connected the iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max, a Live Activity would vanish from the Dynamic Island aft 8 hours but stay connected your fastener surface for up to 4 much hours. Needless to say, you tin halt pursuing a Live Activity astatine immoderate time.
There are besides 4 antithetic viewing modes for Live Activities successful the Dynamic Island: a compact starring view, a compact trailing view, a minimal view, and an expanded view.
5. Live Activities API
Live Activities aren't conscionable disposable for Apple's apps — immoderate third-party developer tin incorporated them into their apps utilizing the caller ActivityKit framework. Examples of activities you could way see a thrust pickup from Uber oregon Lyft, bundle transportation from UPS oregon FedEx, nutrient transportation from GrubHub oregon DoorDash, pickup bid for Starbucks oregon Target, workout utilizing Nike oregon Health, and truthful on.
While developers are present gathering Live Activities for their apps, you won't beryllium capable to effort immoderate retired until the iOS 16.1 unchangeable merchandise appears. That's due to the fact that developers can't taxable their updated apps with Live Activities to the App Store until the iOS 16.1 Release Candidate is available, the past beta build. You whitethorn beryllium capable to find beta apps connected TestFlight that are experimenting with Live Activities.
6. Download In-App Content Before First Launching Apps
There's a caller toggle successful Settings –> App Store for "In-App Content," which volition "automatically tally apps successful the inheritance to download contented earlier you archetypal motorboat them" erstwhile enabled. You'll announcement the alteration mostly successful games and navigation apps that request a batch of resources to tally correctly. The App Store has record size limits, but developers tin propulsion the required resources aft the archetypal app installation.
It is unclear if the diagnostic lone applies during the app's archetypal installation oregon if it tin besides instal caller in-app contented successful the inheritance aft manually oregon automatically installing an app update. After installing the iOS 16.1 update, this toggle should beryllium enabled by default.
7. Subscribe to Fitness+ Without Apple Watch
Before iOS 16.1, you had to person an Apple Watch to subscribe to Fitness+ successful the Fitness app. Now, you don't request one, but you'd beryllium missing retired connected each the wellness and fittingness metrics displayed connected the Apple Watch during a workout. If you don't attraction astir that information and conscionable privation to travel on to a workout session, Fitness+ is present a viable option.
8. New Shortcut Actions
The iOS 16.0 update added almost 60 caller actions successful the Shortcuts app, and iOS 16.1 throws a fewer much in. The archetypal is "Get Current Focus" for the Settings app, which returns the presently progressive focus. The 2nd is "Search successful Shortcuts" for the Shortcuts app, which opens Shortcuts and performs a hunt for the specified text. And the 3rd is "Open Smart List," which opens a circumstantial astute database successful Reminders.
9. Better Categories for Shortcut Icon Glyphs
On iOS 16.0.3. and earlier, whenever choosing a shortcut icon, the icon picker would categorize each the glyphs by Objects, People, and Symbols — that's it. (Left GIF below.) With specified fewer groups, it's amended conscionable to usage the hunt tool.
On iOS 16.1, determination are present categories for Accessibility, Arrows, Automotive, Camera & Photos, Commerce, Communication, Connectivity, Devices, Editing, Fitness, Gaming, Health, Home, Human, Indices, Keyboard, Math, Media, Nature, Objects, Objects & Tools, People, Privacy & Security, Shapes, Symbols, Text Formatting, Time, Transportation, and Weather, not needfully successful that order. (Right GIF below.)
10. Glyphs for Shortcuts Show successful Multiple Categories
With astir 30 categories present for glyphs successful the Shortcuts app, there's bound to beryllium immoderate overlap, and Apple doesn't effort to pigeonhole icons into 1 grouping. For example, if you request the prima glyph, you'll find it listed nether the Nature, Weather, and Keyboard categories. However, Apple besides removed 100 glyphs and icon choices, though they whitethorn look again successful a aboriginal bundle update.
For a implicit database of glyphs that amusement up successful aggregate categories, arsenic good arsenic each the missing glyphs, cheque retired our usher connected Shortcuts' iOS 16.1 update.
11. Delete Apple Wallet
If you don't usage Apple Pay, Apple Cash, Apple Card, oregon store loyalty cards and tickets successful Apple Wallet, you tin yet delete the Apple Wallet app. Before, you could lone remove it from the location screen, hiding it successful the App Library, but present it tin beryllium gone for good.
12. Key Sharing successful Wallet
If you ever get a integer cardinal stored successful your Wallet app, specified arsenic 1 for your car oregon edifice room, you tin present stock them with different iPhone users utilizing Messages, WhatsApp, and different messaging apps. And radical tin besides stock their keys with you.
13. Savings Account for Apple Card
For those of you with an Apple Card, you tin crook your Daily Cash into adjacent much currency by depositing it into a high-yield savings relationship from the Wallet app. Goldman Sachs runs the accounts, and you tin take to person your Daily Cash automatically moved to it for contiguous investment. Apple states that determination are nary fees, minimum deposits, oregon minimum equilibrium requirements.
Once users acceptable up their Savings account, each aboriginal Daily Cash received volition beryllium automatically deposited into it, oregon they tin take to proceed to person it added to an Apple Cash paper successful Wallet. Users tin alteration their Daily Cash destination astatine immoderate time.
To grow Savings adjacent further, users tin besides deposit further funds into their Savings relationship done a linked slope account, oregon from their Apple Cash balance. Users tin besides retreat funds astatine immoderate clip by transferring them to a linked slope relationship oregon to their Apple Cash card, with nary fees. Once acceptable up, Apple Card users tin ticker their rewards turn successful Wallet done an easy-to-use Savings dashboard, which shows their relationship equilibrium and involvement accrued implicit time.
14. Lock Screen Customization Changes
Apple is making the lock screen and home surface customization little confusing connected iOS 16.1. Now, whenever you deed the "Customize" fastener for a fastener surface successful the fastener surface switcher, it volition springiness you a prime betwixt editing the fastener surface oregon location surface wallpaper.
Previously, it would leap close to the fastener surface exertion erstwhile you tapped "Customize." Then, erstwhile you were done editing it, you would get an enactment to "Set arsenic Wallpaper Pair" oregon "Customize Home Screen." You'll inactive spot those 2 options erstwhile adding a caller fastener screen.
15. Switch Wallpaper Pairs from Settings
Apple continues to tweak wallpaper management, and iOS 16.1 gives america amended options via Settings –> Wallpapers. Before, you could lone customize your existent wallpapers oregon adhd a caller brace — you couldn't power betwixt each your pairs. The caller interface fixes that.
The wallpaper settings volition amusement your existent brace of wallpapers, and you tin swipe near oregon close to find the wallpaper acceptable you privation to power to, and you tin deed "Set arsenic Current" to marque the change. While there's a redesigned "Add New Wallpaper" fastener beneath the previews, you tin besides swipe near to the precise extremity of the previews and deed the positive (+) connected the blank acceptable to physique and usage a caller pair.
16. Hide the Reader Controls successful Books
A immense contented galore users had with the updated Books app connected iOS 16 (besides removing the skeuomorphic page-turning animation) was the information that the scholar controls were ever connected the screen. Now, iOS 16.1 automatically hides them arsenic you commencement reading, disappearing aft a fewer seconds. You tin besides pat the leafage erstwhile to fell oregon uncover them.
17. Screenshot Editor Changes
When you pat connected the thumbnail aft taking a screenshot to unfastened the editor, everything should look the aforesaid until it's clip to exit the editor. Tap "Done," and alternatively of a ample enactment expanse that takes up the bottommost fractional of the surface (left screenshot below), you'll get a smaller contextual paper adjacent the "Done" fastener itself (right screenshot below).
18. iCloud Shared Photo Library
If you usage Family Sharing to stock contented with your partner, kids, and different household members, iCloud Shared Photo Library is different diagnostic you tin present instrumentality vantage of. It's a abstracted media room that tin beryllium shared with up to 5 users, and everyone tin add, edit, favorite, caption, and delete content.
You tin see each your photos successful the shared room oregon usage the setup tools to see lone circumstantial contented based connected a commencement day oregon radical of people. People tin besides adhd contented manually oregon stock media automatically via a power successful the Camera app, utilizing a Bluetooth proximity trigger, oregon from sharing suggestions successful For You.
Content from your iCloud Shared Photo Library whitethorn look successful the Photos widget, nether your Featured Photos successful For You, oregon arsenic representation videos. Also, determination are room filters to rapidly power betwixt the Shared Library, your Personal Library, oregon some libraries together.
19. Matter Support
Matter, a caller unifying unfastened connectivity modular for the Home app, Siri, Control Center, and HomeKit-based apps, enables secure, IP-based connection among a wide scope of compatible astute location devices and accessories.
Designed by the Connectivity Standards Alliance, which includes hundreds of companies similar Apple, Amazon, and Google, the royalty-free protocol makes devices and accessories from antithetic companies enactment unneurotic seamlessly crossed platforms. According to Apple, it volition "provide much prime and interoperability for customers."
Amazon Echo, Google Home, and Samsung SmartThings are conscionable immoderate of the astute location tech that volition enactment with Matter. To usage Matter accessories, you'll request a location hub, specified arsenic an Apple TV oregon HomePod device.
While it's not determination now, you whitethorn beryllium capable to spot each of your connected Matter accessories via Settings –> General –> Matter Accessories.
20. Game Center Improvements
The Contacts app volition amusement your friends' Game Center profiles, and you tin pat done to spot what games they're playing and the achievements they're accomplishing. However, they indispensable alteration the caller toggle successful Game Center for "Allow uncovering by friends" oregon from the caller splash surface for it called "Help Your Friends Find You." If you don't privation others to find you successful their Contacts apps, you tin halt allowing it from your settings.
Help your Game Center friends find you much easy based connected the sanction they person for you successful their Contacts app. To bash this, Game Center volition usage the email code and telephone fig associated with your Apple ID.
Multiplayer games that enactment with Game Center are besides expected to enactment with SharePlay, truthful you tin play games with your friends during FaceTime calls.
21. Lock Screen Charging Indicator Changes
Whenever you plug your iPhone into powerfulness connected iOS 16.0.2 and earlier, it shows the artillery icon connected the fastener surface with the existent artillery percent beneath it. On iOS 16.1, it shows the existent complaint supra the battery, and erstwhile you pat your iPhone to aftermath it, you'll besides spot the existent complaint supra the clip to support you updated connected the charging progress.
22. Disable Volume Swipe for AirPods Pro 2
The iOS 16.1 bundle adds a caller power to your AirPods Pro 2's settings for "Volume Swipe." With it on, which was the lone enactment anterior to iOS 16.1, you tin set the measurement by swiping up oregon down connected the sensor located connected the AirPods Pro stem. With it off, swiping won't bash anything, which is adjuvant if you support accidentally adjusting your volume.
23. Bug Fixes
According to Apple, the pursuing bugs were squashed connected iOS 16.1. So if you were experiencing immoderate of them, it's astir apt a bully thought to update to iOS 16.1 if you haven't already.
- Deleted conversations whitethorn look successful the conversations database successful Messages.
- Dynamic Island contented is not disposable erstwhile utilizing Reachability.
- CarPlay whitethorn neglect to link erstwhile utilizing a VPN app.
What's Missing?
There are inactive a fewer things Apple said were coming aboriginal this twelvemonth that aren't afloat implemented yet connected iOS 16.1, including starting Live Activities from a Spotlight Search result, Live Activities for App Clips, and its caller Freeform app.
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