6 amazing new things an iPhone can do with this iOS update - Fox News

Apple is outdoing itself erstwhile again with its latest iOS16.2 update for iPhone devices. Not lone are caller iOS downloads important for information fixes, sometimes they are packed afloat of astonishing caller features to marque your iPhone travel live successful caller ways.

They already added a ton of features with the erstwhile iOS16.1 update, including the iCloud Shared Photo Library and enactment for Apple Fitness+. I'm cutting done each the caller worldly to stock highlights successful the iOS 16.2 update that tin marque your beingness better.

Of the aggregate unsocial caller tricks, I'm excited astir these beneath connected iPhone.

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1. Apple Music Sing

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Perhaps 1 of the astir breathtaking caller tools connected the iOS16.2 update is the Apple Music Sing feature. This is simply a karaoke diagnostic that volition beryllium disposable for Apple Music listeners. It allows you to sing on to millions of songs connected the Apple Music streaming level by giving you the enactment to little the measurement of the pb vocals and instrumentality power arsenic the pb singer.

Music Sing is compatible with immoderate iPhone 11 exemplary oregon newer, prime iPads, and the latest Apple TV 4K.

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2. Advanced Data Protection

Advanced Data Protection is an optional diagnostic that comes with the update, and it volition let users to expand end-to-end encryption to assorted iCloud information categories including iMessage, Notes, and Photos.

This volition importantly summation unreality information information and springiness users the accidental to support the immense bulk of their data, allowing radical to interest little astir their accusation being stolen oregon publicized without their permission.

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Screenshot of an iPhone with precocious information protection. (Fox News)

3. Freeform App

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Photo of the Freeform app logo. (Apple)

Another amusive diagnostic volition beryllium disposable successful the integer whiteboard app called Freeform. The app allows you to gully oregon insert sticky notes for yourself connected an infinite canvas. The app allows you to stock a committee with up to 100 people, who tin marque their ain additions and comments.

All collaborators request to beryllium utilizing an Apple instrumentality successful bid to entree the creation. You tin besides driblet successful text boxes, shapes, photos, videos, links, PDFs, and more. The app volition besides beryllium disposable for iPad and Mac devices successful lawsuit users privation a larger abstraction to make than their smaller iPhone screens.

4. Lock Screen Widgets

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Screenshot of fastener surface widgets for an iPhone. (Fox News)

Two caller Lock Screen widgets volition beryllium disposable with the iOS 16.2 update. One volition beryllium for the Sleep app and the different for the Health app. The Sleep app widget volition let you to presumption each your astir caller slumber schedules and stages, portion the Health app volition springiness you a speedy look astatine your medicine docket erstwhile you request it.

These widgets volition let radical to instrumentality amended power of their carnal wellness and support way of their habits. Learn however to customize your fastener surface widgets by heading implicit to CyberGuy.com and searching "lock screen."

5. Always connected Display

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Screenshot of instructions connected however to prime "Always connected display." (Apple)

This diagnostic volition lone beryllium disposable connected the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max models, yet it volition let you to fell your wallpaper and notifications erstwhile the Always On Display mode is turned on.

When you privation much privacy, the Always connected Display mode volition crook fastener screens coagulated achromatic truthful nary 1 tin spot what pops up connected your screen. You tin besides modify this somewhat by toggling connected the Show Wallpaper oregon Show Notifications options arsenic well.

6. AirDrop Setting

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Screenshot of however to airdrop connected an iPhone. (Apple)

AirDrop is simply a ace convenient diagnostic for erstwhile you privation to rapidly nonstop oregon person pictures and videos. Watch retired though, origin it tin beryllium atrocious quality if those pictures and videos get to the incorrect person.

That's wherefore iOS16.2 is limiting AirDrop's erstwhile 'Everyone' setting. The enactment volition present lone person a much protective "Everyone for 10 Minutes" diagnostic alternatively truthful that unwanted contented from strangers tin beryllium limited.

Once the 10 minutes is up, radical whitethorn lone AirDrop pictures and videos to their contacts.

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When did the iOS 16.2 update drop?

Apple dropped the latest update connected Tuesday, Dec. 13. iPhone users should person received a notification wrong their Settings app arsenic soon arsenic the update was disposable to install, oregon you tin spell to Settings > Software Update to download and instal manually.

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