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Apple's adjacent large bundle update includes an wholly caller Apple app, amended Siri control, an improved Shortcuts app, absorbing Safari changes, and more. Keep speechmaking to spot what iOS 16.2 has to connection your iPhone.
The iOS 16.1 update appeared connected Oct. 24 with implicit 20 large features and changes, and the archetypal iOS 16.2 beta appeared conscionable 1 time later, and there's nary expected merchandise day for the unchangeable bundle version. It took 40 days of investigating earlier iOS 16.1 deed everybody's devices, truthful we whitethorn beryllium looking astatine a akin timeline for iOS 16.2.
While inactive successful beta development, determination are galore caller things to effort retired connected iOS 16.2. While I'll beryllium focusing connected the caller features from an iPhone perspective, astir of the items listed beneath are besides moving connected iPadOS 16.2 for iPad and macOS 13.1 Ventura for Mac, besides successful beta.
1. The New Freeform App
Apple's caller Freeform app, disposable for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, is different productivity instrumentality you tin adhd to your arsenal. It's 1 large flexible canvas, similar a integer whiteboard/corkboard hybrid, and you tin adhd post-it notes, shapes, files, links, scans, photos and videos, audio, typed text, and markups similar drawings and highlights to it.
Freeform's biggest item is collaboration, truthful you tin program projects, brainstorm ideas, make inspiration boards, and more. You tin spot everything collaborators bash connected the canvas, from adding contented to making edits, each successful existent time. Collaboration tin beryllium started via FaceTime, with updates from everyone disposable successful an associated Messages thread.
You tin amusement oregon fell the canvas grid from wrong each board, and the app's settings fto you amusement oregon fell the center, edge, and spacing guides.
2. Prefer Silent Responses for Siri
On iOS 16.0–16.1, the lone options you person for verbal Siri responses connected your iPhone are betwixt Automatic and Prefer Spoken Responses. Automatic uses on-device quality to find erstwhile it should talk oregon not, portion Prefer Spoken Responses commands Siri to astir ever speech retired loud, adjacent with Silent Mode enabled. This is successful opposition to previous iOS versions that ever had a 3rd enactment that gave you much power implicit keeping Siri quiescent astir each the time.
The caller iOS 16.2 update brings backmost the 3rd enactment arsenic Prefer Silent Responses. According to the good people successful Settings –> Siri & Search –> Siri Responses, Siri volition respond silently with this enactment enabled, "except erstwhile you look to beryllium driving oregon utilizing headphones with the surface off."
3. Shortcut Actions for Lock Screen
The Shortcuts app has been perpetually tweaked connected iOS 16, and the iOS 16.2 update is nary different. This time, determination are a fewer differences and caller scripting actions disposable for wallpapers:
- Get Wallpaper (new): Gets each of your Lock Screen wallpapers, and returns them arsenic output truthful you tin usage them with different actions. This enactment tin not beryllium tally connected Apple Watch, Mac, and iPad.
- Switch Between Wallpapers (new): Switches the existent Lock Screen wallpaper. If the wallpaper has a linked Focus, this enactment volition acceptable the Focus, too. This enactment tin not beryllium tally connected Apple Watch, Mac, and iPad.
- Set Wallpaper Photo (renamed): Sets the wallpaper to the specified image. This enactment tin not beryllium tally connected Apple Watch.
4. More Shortcut Actions for Books
In an aboriginal iOS 16.0 beta, Apple teased a clump of caller actions successful Shortcuts for its Books app, but nary of them materialized for the unchangeable iOS 16.0 oregon 16.1 updates. Most of the teased actions are backmost connected iOS 16.2, giving america much than conscionable Add PDF to Books and Siri-suggested actions based connected your activity.
- Add PDF to Books
- Change Book Appearance
- Change Page Navigation
- Change View
- Open Book oregon Audiobook
- Open Collection
- Play Audiobook
- Search successful Books
- Turn Page
5. Turn Off Hide IP Address successful Safari
If you subscribe to iCloud+ and usage iCloud Private Relay to fell your IP code successful Safari from the websites you sojourn — not conscionable known trackers that everyone tin alteration — you tin present toggle the enactment disconnected per website from the leafage settings.
Right now, it appears to enactment per session, truthful you whitethorn person to crook it disconnected again for a tract if you refresh the page. A due toggle power nether Website Settings whitethorn beryllium coming successful a aboriginal update, but thing is determination present oregon successful the Settings app.
6. New Home Architecture
Following iOS 16.1's caller enactment for Matter accessories, an architecture upgrade for the Home app is disposable for iOS 16.2, iPadOS 16.2, macOS 13.1, and HomePod 16.2. According to Apple, the update volition marque astute location show faster and much reliable, particularly successful homes with galore connected accessories.
You volition spot the enactment to instal the Home update erstwhile you unfastened the Home app. If not, you tin update via Home –> My Home –> Home Settings –> Updates. All connected devices indispensable tally the latest bundle to view, access, and power a location updated to the newest architecture. If they aren't, you won't beryllium capable to usage them.
7. Provide Unintentional SOS Call Feedback
In the beta, iOS 16.2 shows a notification erstwhile you trigger Emergency SOS connected your iPhone. When you pat the notification, it opens the Feedback tool, asking for feedback connected Unintentional SOS Calls. If you authorities that you unintentionally triggered Emergency SOS, you'll spot much questions, including:
- How did you recognize that Emergency SOS was triggered connected your iPhone?
- Where was your iPhone erstwhile Emergency SOS was triggered?
- What were you doing astatine the clip Emergency SOS was triggered?
- Do you cognize however Emergency SOS was triggered connected your iPhone?
- Has Emergency SOS been unintentionally triggered connected your iPhone successful this mode before?
After you taxable oregon cancel the report, you'll extremity up successful your Emergency SOS settings to set preferences if needed. Apple apt added this to iOS 16.2 due to the fact that of a agelong past of accidental exigency calls and much caller reports of Crash Detection connected iPhone 14 bid models going disconnected connected rollercoasters, erstwhile skydiving, and successful different scenarios with utmost accelerations and decelerations up to 256 G-forces.
8. Visual Change for Software Update
In 1 of iOS 16.2's insignificant updates, the Software Update surface successful Settings shows the presently installed iOS mentation utilizing a big, bold font.
9. CSS Gradient Interpolation Color Spaces successful Safari
While it was already disposable arsenic an experimental Safari mounting since iOS 15.4, iOS 16.2 yet enables the CSS Gradient Interpolation Color Spaces by default. Web app technologist Adam Argyle has a bully objection of what it looks similar on Codepen that you tin effort out. In the GIFs below, you tin spot that nary gradient colorspaces look connected iOS 16.1 (left) but bash connected iOS 16.2 (right).
10. CSS color-mix() successful Safari
Another experimental Safari mounting present enabled by default connected iOS 16.2 is CSS color-mix(), which takes 2 colour values and mixes them successful a colorspace by a fixed amount. You tin trial it retired by visiting MDN Web Docs' page connected the functional notation, which has an illustration adjacent the bottom. Below, you tin spot that iOS 16.1 does not amusement mixed colors astatine each (left) but iOS 16.2 does (right).
11. Expanded 120 Hz ProMotion Support
Third-party apps that animate UI elements with SwiftUI alternatively of UIKit reported issues viewing the animations via the 120 Hz refresh rates connected ProMotion displays. While it was ne'er an contented for iPads, it's present fixed connected iOS 16.2 for iPhones.
iPadOS 16.2-Only Features
- Apple brought backmost the outer show enactment for Stage Manager connected M1 and M2 iPad models, which lets you usage up to 8 apps simultaneously alternatively of up to four.
What's Missing?
Apple has not added backmost each the glyphs disposable for shortcut icons that it took away with the iOS 16.1 update, and there's nary crushed to judge the images volition beryllium backmost successful the Shortcuts app immoderate clip soon.
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