iOS 16.1 for iPhone Launching on Monday With These 8 New Features - MacRumors

As expected, Apple contiguous confirmed successful a property merchandise that iOS 16.1 volition beryllium released connected Monday, October 24 alongside iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura.

iOS 16.1 includes astatine slightest 8 caller features for iPhone users, specified arsenic iCloud Shared Photo Library and Live Activities enactment successful third-party apps connected the App Store, on with respective bug fixes. Below, we person recapped everything caller successful iOS 16.1 and shared implicit merchandise notes for the update up of its merchandise adjacent week.

iCloud Shared Photo Library

iCloud‌ Shared Photo Library makes it easier for you to stock photos with your household members oregon friends successful the Photos app. The diagnostic volition fto you and up to 5 different radical add, edit, oregon region photos successful a shared room accessible via iCloud.

Live Activities for Third-Party Apps

iOS 16.1 expands Live Activities to third-party apps successful the App Store. The diagnostic allows iPhone users to enactment connected apical of real-time events, specified arsenic a sports crippled oregon a nutrient transportation order, close connected the Lock Screen oregon successful the Dynamic Island.

Live Activities look astatine the bottommost of the Lock Screen connected iPhone 13 models and earlier, arsenic good arsenic connected the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus. On the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, Live Activities look successful the Dynamic Island erstwhile the instrumentality is unlocked, oregon connected the Lock Screen erstwhile the instrumentality is locked oregon successful always-on show mode.

Clean Energy Charging

iOS 16.1 includes a caller Clean Energy Charging feature that Apple says "aims to alteration the c footprint of the iPhone by optimizing charging times for erstwhile the grid is utilizing cleaner vigor sources." The diagnostic is disposable successful the U.S. only.

Apple Fitness+ Without an Apple Watch

Apple Fitness+ is available to iPhone users without an Apple Watch starting with iOS 16.1, iPadOS 16.1, and tvOS 16.1. Without an Apple Watch, iPhone users volition not spot real-time metrics similar bosom complaint and calories burned during a workout.

Launched successful December 2020, Apple Fitness+ features a room of implicit 3,000 workout and meditation videos, with caller contented added weekly. The subscription-based work is disposable done the Fitness app connected the iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV successful 21 countries, with U.S. pricing acceptable astatine $9.99 per period oregon $79.99 per year.

Matter Accessories successful Home App

iOS 16.1 includes enactment for Matter, an upcoming connectivity modular that volition alteration compatible astute location accessories to enactment unneurotic seamlessly crossed aggregate platforms, including Apple's HomeKit, Amazon's Alexa, and Google's Home.

Controlling Matter accessories with the Home app and Siri volition necessitate a HomePod, HomePod mini, Apple TV 4K, oregon Apple TV HD moving arsenic a location hub.

Apple Card Savings Account

Starting with iOS 16.1, Apple Card users volition beryllium capable to unfastened a caller "high-yield" savings relationship from Goldman Sachs and person their Daily Cash cashback rewards automatically deposited into it, with nary fees, nary minimum deposits, and nary minimum equilibrium requirements. Users volition beryllium capable to negociate the savings relationship successful the Wallet app.

Reachability Support for Dynamic Island

iOS 16.1 adds Reachability enactment for the Dynamic Island connected iPhone 14 Pro models, making it easier to entree with 1 hand.

Reachability is an optional diagnostic that lowers the apical fractional of the surface truthful it's wrong casual scope of your fingers. The diagnostic tin beryllium enabled successful the Settings app nether Accessibility → Touch → Reachability. To usage the feature, simply swipe down connected the bottommost borderline of the screen. To instrumentality to a regular view, pat the precocious fractional of the screen.

Key Sharing successful Wallet App

iOS 16.1 allows you to securely stock keys stored successful the Wallet app for cars, edifice rooms, and much via messaging apps specified arsenic Messages and WhatsApp.

iOS 16.1 Release Notes

Apple's afloat merchandise notes for iOS 16.1:

This update introduces iCloud Shared Photo Library making it casual to support your household photos up to date. This merchandise besides adds enactment for 3rd enactment apps successful Live Activities, enactment for Apple Fitness+ connected iPhone adjacent if you don’t person an Apple Watch, and includes different features and bug fixes for your iPhone.

iCloud Shared Photo Library
- Separate room for seamlessly sharing photos and videos with up to 5 different people
- Setup rules let you to easy lend past photos based connected commencement day oregon radical successful the photos erstwhile you acceptable up oregon articulation a library
- Library filters for rapidly switching betwixt viewing the Shared Library, your Personal Library, oregon some libraries together
- Shared edits and permissions fto everyone add, edit, favorite, caption, and delete photos
- Sharing toggle successful Camera lets you take to nonstop photos you instrumentality consecutive to the Shared Library, oregon alteration a mounting to stock automatically erstwhile different participants are detected adjacent utilizing Bluetooth

Live Activities
- Live Activities from 3rd enactment apps are disposable successful the Dynamic Island and connected the Lock Screen for iPhone 14 Pro models

Fitness+
- Apple Fitness+ is supported connected iPhone adjacent if you don’t person an Apple Watch

Wallet
- Key sharing enables you to securely stock car, edifice room, and different keys successful Wallet utilizing messaging apps specified arsenic Messages and WhatsApp
- Savings relationship enables Apple Card customers to turn their Daily Cash by depositing it successful a precocious output savings account

Home
- Matter, the caller astute location connectivity standard, is supported enabling a wide assortment of astute location accessories to enactment unneurotic crossed ecosystems

Clean Energy Charging
- New mounting that tin effort to trim your c footprint by selectively charging erstwhile little c emanation energy is available

Books
- Reader controls are automatically hidden arsenic you commencement reading

This update besides includes bug fixes for your iPhone:
- Deleted conversations whitethorn look successful the conversations database successful Messages
- Dynamic Island contented is not disposable erstwhile utilizing Reachability
- CarPlay whitethorn neglect to link erstwhile utilizing a VPN app

iOS 16.1 should beryllium released astir 10 a.m. Pacific Time connected Monday.