Thursday December 8, 2022 7:05 americium PST by Joe Rossignol
iOS 16.2 is expected to beryllium released adjacent week pursuing astir 2 months of beta testing. With last-minute additions similar Apple Music Sing and Advanced Data Protection, the bundle update present has implicit a twelve caller features for the iPhone.
Below, we've recapped galore of the caller features coming with iOS 16.2, including Apple's caller whiteboard app Freeform, 2 caller Lock Screen widgets, the quality to fell the wallpaper and notifications connected the iPhone 14 Pro's always-on display, a caller AirDrop setting, SharePlay enactment for Game Center, Live Activities enhancements, and more.
Apple Music Sing
Apple Music Sing is simply a new karaoke-like feature connected the lyrics surface successful the Apple Music app that lets you sing on to tens of millions of songs. The diagnostic allows users to little the measurement of the vocals successful a opus and past instrumentality implicit arsenic the singer.
Apple Music Sing is compatible with devices equipped with an A13 spot oregon newer, including the iPhone 11 and newer, prime iPads, and the latest Apple TV 4K.
Advanced Data Protection
iOS 16.2 introduces an optional Advanced Data Protection feature that, erstwhile enabled, expands end-to-end encryption to galore further iCloud information categories, including Messages backups, photos, notes, reminders, dependable memos, and more.
Advanced Data Protection is presently constricted to U.S. users and volition commencement rolling retired to the remainder of the satellite successful aboriginal 2023, according to Apple.
Freeform App
iOS 16.2 includes Apple's caller integer whiteboard app Freeform connected the iPhone. The app provides an infinite canvas for you to gully connected and insert sticky notes, substance boxes, shapes, photos, videos, links, PDFs, and more. The app is besides disposable connected the iPad and the Mac, and you tin collaborate with others successful existent clip via FaceTime and iMessage.
Freeform is much utile connected the iPad fixed the instrumentality supports the Apple Pencil, but you tin inactive usage a capacitive stylus connected the iPhone.
Two New Lock Screen Widgets
There are 2 caller Lock Screen widgets for Sleep and Medications connected iOS 16.2. With the Sleep widget, you tin presumption your astir caller slumber league and slumber stages, portion the Medications widget tin fto you rapidly entree your medicine schedule.
New Always-On Display Options
Starting with iOS 16.2, you tin hide the wallpaper and notifications successful always-on show mode connected the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max. This results successful the Lock Screen having a coagulated black, minimal quality successful always-on mode, akin to Android.
The caller "Show Wallpaper" and "Show Notifications" toggles are located successful the Settings app nether Display & Brightness → Always On Display.
Live Activities for Sports Scores via Apple TV App
iOS 16.2 adds Live Activities enactment for sports scores via the Apple TV app. The diagnostic allows iPhone users to presumption unrecorded scores of MLB, NBA, and Premier League games astatine a glimpse connected the Lock Screen, and successful the Dynamic Island connected iPhone 14 Pro models.
During a Premier League match, for example, the Dynamic Island shows a live-updating scoreboard with the fig of goals scored by each club. When agelong pressed, the Dynamic Island expands to amusement the clip elapsed and play-by-play action. When an iPhone 14 Pro is locked, and connected each different iPhone models, the people is shown successful a Lock Screen banner.
To usage the diagnostic with an iPhone moving iOS 16.2, unfastened the TV app and pat connected the "Follow" fastener for a supported game. Apple says the diagnostic is disposable for NBA and Premier League games for users successful the U.S. and Canada, and for MLB games for users successful the U.S., Canada, Australia, U.K., Brazil, Mexico, Japan, and South Korea.
New AirDrop Setting
iOS 16.2 replaces AirDrop's erstwhile "Everyone" mounting with a constricted "Everyone for 10 Minutes" enactment to chopped down connected unwanted requests from strangers. AirDrop present automatically reverts to "Contacts Only" aft 10 minutes.
New Home App Architecture
After updating to iOS 16.2 and opening the Home app, an update to the app is disposable with new underlying architecture. Apple says the caller architecture improves the app's performance, efficiency, and reliability for controlling astute location accessories. This comes aft the Home app gained enactment for Matter accessories successful iOS 16.1.
Other New Features
- SharePlay enactment successful Game Center lets you play multiplayer games with the radical you are connected a FaceTime telephone with.
- iOS 16.2 enables support for 5G networks successful India connected the iPhone 12 and newer, starting with carriers Airtel and Reliance Jio.
- The built-in Weather app present features an Apple News section.
- Improved hunt successful the Messages app allows you to find photos based connected their content, similar a dog, car, person, oregon text.
There are a fewer different changes and optimizations successful iOS 16.2, arsenic outlined successful the full merchandise notes.
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