Apple just fixed several annoying iPhone bugs with the latest iOS 16.3 update - Macworld

iOS 16.3 is available for each iPhones 8 and aboriginal with a fewer absorbing features, including carnal information cardinal enactment for Apple IDs. More importantly, it besides contains respective bug fixes and information updates that iPhone users person been waiting for.

According to Apple’s merchandise notes, the iOS 16.3 update “fixes an contented wherever horizontal lines whitethorn temporarily look portion waking up iPhone 14 Pro Max.” Over the past respective weeks, immoderate iPhone 14 users person complained astir horizontal lines flashing crossed their screens. According to reports connected societal media and discussion boards, the lines look erstwhile the iPhone wakes up oregon restarts. Additionally, the merchandise fixes immoderate nagging bugs with the Lock Screen, Siri, and CarPlay:

• Addresses an contented wherever the wallpaper whitethorn look achromatic connected the Lock Screen
• Fixes an contented wherever the Home Lock Screen widget does not accurately show Home app status
• Addresses an contented wherever Siri whitethorn not respond decently to euphony requests
• Resolves issues wherever Siri requests successful CarPlay whitethorn not beryllium understood correctly

There are besides respective information updates that could origin large problems for your instrumentality if near unpatched. The astir concerning progressive Screen Time, Apple’s parental power and surface absorption app. According to the entry, iOS 16.3 fixes an contented wherever an app “may beryllium capable to entree accusation astir a user’s contacts.” The update besides includes a fistful of fixes that could pb to arbitrary codification execution.

The update besides volition apt bring backmost the caller Home architecture that antecedently arrived successful iOS 16.2. Just earlier the holidays, Apple pulled the feature, which improves reliability and efficiency, owed to a sharing issue–but without providing an update connected erstwhile it would beryllium restored. The Home architecture upgrade re-appeared successful the 2nd iOS 16.3 beta, suggesting that Apple has fixed the issue. However, determination isn’t a notation of it successful the merchandise notes, truthful it mightiness look astatine immoderate constituent earlier the motorboat of iOS 16.4.

Author: Michael Simon, Executive Editor