iOS 16.2 Is Here: How to Use All the New Features - MacRumors

Apple has officially released iOS 16.2, the 2nd large update to the iOS 16 operating system, which introduces a fig of caller features, functions, and customizations for iPhones, including a karaoke-style mode for Apple Music, end-to-end encryption for iCloud backups, caller options for Live Activities, and more.

This nonfiction summarizes what's caller and provides links to how-to articles that purpose to assistance you marque the astir of each the caller features. Keep speechmaking to larn more.

Freeform App

Freeform is simply a integer canvas app that is designed to fto iPhone, iPad, and Mac users enactment unneurotic collaboratively successful existent time. Multiple radical tin lend images, notes, scribbles, documents, web links, PDFs, and more, with contented added disposable to everyone.

• 10 Things You Can Do With the Freeform App

Apple's Freeform app is designed to enactment with the Apple Pencil connected ‌‌iPad‌‌, and it tin beryllium utilized with FaceTime for ocular feedback betwixt Freeform participants.

Apple Music Sing

With the merchandise of iOS 16.2, iPadOS 16.2, and tvOS 16.2, Apple is introducing ‌Apple Music‌ Sing, a caller Karaoke acquisition for ‌‌Apple Music‌‌ subscribers that lets users sing on to their favourite songs by adjusting the measurement of the vocals successful tracks.

• How to Use the Apple Music Sing Karaoke Feature

Available connected ‌iPhone‌, ‌iPad‌, and Apple TV 4K (2022), ‌‌Apple Music‌‌ Sing works with ‌‌Apple Music‌‌'s real-time lyrics feature, and gives you power implicit a song's vocal levels. This means you tin sing on with the archetypal creator vocals oregon crook the vocals down and instrumentality the lead.

iCloud Enhanced Data Protection

With the merchandise of iOS 16.2 and macOS 13.1, Apple is introducing Advanced Data Protection for ‌iCloud‌, which uses end-to-end encryption to supply Apple's highest level of unreality information information yet. ‌iCloud‌ already protects 14 delicate information categories utilizing end-to-end encryption by default, including passwords successful ‌iCloud‌ Keychain and Health data. For users who alteration Advanced Data Protection, the full fig of information categories protected utilizing end-to-end encryption rises to 23.

• How to Enable Advanced Data Protection for iCloud

The caller information diagnostic ensures users present person the prime to support much of their important ‌iCloud‌ data, including ‌iCloud‌ Backup, Photos, Notes, and more. Note that the diagnostic is presently lone disposable to users successful the US. Apple says it volition motorboat globally successful aboriginal 2023, but a precise day is not known.

iPhone 14 Pro Always-On Display Customizations

When Apple debuted iPhone 14 Pro and ‌iPhone 14 Pro‌ Max devices, immoderate users criticized the Always-On Display's deficiency of customization options. For example, successful iOS 16.1, determination is nary mode to fell the wallpaper oregon notifications erstwhile an ‌iPhone‌ is locked and not successful use.

• iPhone 14 Pro: How to Customize the Always-On Display

Fortunately, Apple has listened to feedback, and successful iOS 16.2 it has added options to fto users set the level of item presented connected their ‌iPhone 14 Pro‌'s Always-On display.

iCloud Private Relay Temporary Bypass

Apple's paid-for ‌iCloud‌+ work includes a diagnostic called ‌‌‌iCloud‌‌‌ Private Relay, which is designed to encrypt web postulation leaving your instrumentality truthful that nary 1 tin intercept it oregon work it.

• How to Temporarily Disable iCloud Private Relay for a Specific Website

Private Relay hides your IP code from websites successful the process, but Apple realizes that determination whitethorn beryllium times erstwhile you really privation your IP code to stay disposable successful definite situations, which is wherefore it has added a caller impermanent bypass option.

Live Activities Updates

Despite the instauration of Live Activities enactment for third-party apps successful iOS 16.1, Live Activities integration for prime sports games via Apple's built-in TV app was pushed backmost to iOS 16.2. Now you tin alteration Live Activities for Apple's TV app, arsenic good arsenic opt to person much predominant updates from the diagnostic connected a per-app basis.

• How to Enable Live Activities for the TV App
• How to Enable More Frequent Updates for Live Activities

Note that Live Activities successful the TV app are disposable for MLB games for users successful the U.S., Canada, Australia, U.K., Brazil, Mexico, Japan, and South Korea, successful summation to NBA and Premier League games for users successful the U.S. and Canada only. The diagnostic volition apt beryllium expanded to different sports leagues successful the future.