If You Got a New iPhone With iOS 16, Immediately Do These 3 Things - CNET

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The iPhone 14 is bound to beryllium 1 of the astir fashionable gifts for Christmas this year, and if you ended up getting Apple's latest flagship phone, determination are galore caller breathtaking hardware features to explore, similar the always-on display and the Dynamic Island (both features are lone disposable connected the iPhone 14 Pro series). But you'll besides person the accidental to research the latest bundle update, iOS 16.

Before you get into each the hidden features or most annoying settings, if this is your archetypal acquisition with iOS 16, determination are 3 things you should bash archetypal earlier thing else, to assistance amended your iPhone experience. In this communicative we'll amusement you what these things are, and however they'll marque your beingness better.

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1. Create a caller wallpaper enactment for your iPhone fastener screen

Apple has wholly redesigned the fastener surface connected iOS 16, allowing you to afloat customize assorted elements, similar the day and time, adhd tiny widgets to fto you support up with the upwind and fashionable news, and make aggregate wallpaper profiles that you tin easy power to and from.

And if that sounds appealing, customizing your fastener surface should beryllium the archetypal happening that you bash aft installing iOS 16.

To customize your fastener screen, property your digit down anyplace connected the surface portion it's locked and past unlock your instrumentality erstwhile prompted. Once you bash that, a brand-new fastener surface interface volition appear, wherever you tin shuffle done and customize your assorted fastener surface wallpapers.

If you pat the + fastener astatine the bottommost close to make a caller wallpaper, you tin browse done assorted Apple wallpapers, featuring upwind and astronomy, emojis and more. A fewer of these wallpapers incorporate built-in widgets, but you tin besides conscionable adhd them later.

If you take to upload your ain photo, look for 1 that features a idiosyncratic oregon entity intelligibly successful the foreground. If you set the representation conscionable right, you'll beryllium capable to usage the caller extent effect feature, which pushes the clip down immoderate entity is successful focus, creating a layered benignant of look.

You tin past pat immoderate of the fastener surface elements, similar the day and time, to customize the look. If you deed Add Widgets, you tin adhd tiny transparent widgets to that conception of your wallpaper.

When you're finished, tap Add and take whether you privation to usage the wallpaper lone connected your fastener surface oregon connected your location surface arsenic well. Here's however Apple is changing the fastener surface connected iPhone 14.

Widgets connected the fastener surface connected iOS 16

2. Set up a Focus illustration truthful that you're not distracted by notifications

Last twelvemonth Apple introduced Focus, the improvement of Do Not Disturb, which you tin configure to person lone important notifications and alerts and artifact everything other out. But the productivity diagnostic has been heavy reworked connected iOS 16, and it's worthy checking retired and mounting up if you privation to trim distractions connected your iPhone.

In Settings, spell to Focus and past take a illustration oregon profiles that you privation to configure. Inside a Focus profile, you tin past take to person notifications from definite radical and apps, amusement silenced notifications connected your fastener screen, fell notification badges and marque it truthful that your fastener surface and location surface wallpapers automatically alteration erstwhile your Focus illustration is turned on.

Additionally, you tin docket erstwhile you privation your Focus illustration to beryllium turned connected (when you spell to sleep) and backmost disconnected (when you aftermath up). If you usage the Health app, you tin retrieve your slumber accusation to take an capable docket for Focus.

And finally, you tin usage Focus filters to customize however apps and strategy settings interact with you. For example, you tin adhd an app filter to Safari truthful that lone definite tabs amusement up, oregon adhd a filter to the Mail app truthful lone immoderate email messages get done to you. For strategy settings, you tin propulsion connected a filter to automatically crook connected Dark mode and Low Power mode whenever your Focus illustration is turned on.

Once your Focus illustration is finished, you tin swipe down from the top-right broadside of the surface to entree the Control Center and past pat connected the Focus power to crook connected immoderate illustration you've created.

3. Set up iPhoto to region duplicate photos and videos to wide up clutter and escaped up storage

And if you request a speedy mode to wide immoderate abstraction connected your iPhone, there's present a built-in diagnostic successful Photos that scours your camera rotation for immoderate duplicate photos and videos. This is simply a large mode to not lone bash immoderate outpouring cleaning but besides region files that are taking up retention connected your iPhone.

In Photos, spell into the Albums tab, swipe each the mode down and pat connected Duplicates. Now you tin spell done each your photos and videos and either deed Merge for each acceptable of duplicates oregon pat Select > Select All > Merge to delete each of the duplicates astatine once. At the bottommost of each photograph oregon video you'll spot the size of the files, truthful you'll privation to prioritize bigger files first.