iOS 16.1 arrives: Here's what new for your iPhone - ZDNet

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Apple has released iOS 16.1 for each iPhone owners and it brings a amazingly ample magnitude of changes and fixes to iOS 16, which lone arrived successful September. 

As Apple said past week, iOS 16.1 is disposable for each supported iPhone models. The update includes changes to iCloud Shared Photo Library, Live Activities, Fitness+, Wallet, Home, Books, Clean Energy Charging for US owners, and bug fixes, arsenic good arsenic 20 information fixes. 

Live Activities provides real-time updates connected the Lock Screen and for, iPhone 14 Pro, updates wrong the Dynamic Island. Now Live Activities is disposable from third-party apps. 

iCloud Shared Photo Library present offers a abstracted room for sharing photos and videos with up to 5 people. There are besides filters for switching betwixt the Shared and and Personal libraries, arsenic good arsenic the quality to bash shared edits, captioning and deleting. A caller sharing toggle successful the Camera app lets users nonstop photos straight to the Shared library. 

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The Apple Fitness+ work is present disposable to each iPhone users, even if they don't person an Apple Watch. The subscription costs $9.99 per period oregon $79.99 per twelvemonth and is disposable successful 21 countries. 

iOS 16.1 besides brings enactment for Matter-certified astute location devices. This should marque connectivity easier across astute location ecosystems, including Amazon Echo, Google Nest, Apple and more.  

Via CNET, this update brings a redesign to the caller artillery percent fig indicator. Users tin alteration the artillery percent indicator successful the Settings app.    

The Wallet update allows users to securely stock car, edifice country and different keys successful Wallet utilizing messaging apps specified arsenic WhatsApp and Messages.

iOS 16.1 is disposable for iPhone 8 done to iPhone 14. 

iOS 16.1 besides includes updates that code 20 information flaws affecting some iPhone and iPad. Apple says it is alert of a study that a bug successful the iOS kernel – tracked arsenic CVE-2022-42827 – "may person been actively exploited". There are besides 4 perchance nasty bugs affecting Safari's WebKit motor that tin beryllium exploited by users conscionable visiting a malicious web page. The aforesaid bugs are addressed successful the just-released iPadOS 16, which brings a clump of caller features too. 

Users tin download and instal iOS 16.1 by going to Settings > General > Software Update.