iOS 16.2 on Your iPhone: Every New Feature, Tool and More - CNET

If you haven't downloaded Apple's iOS 16.2, determination are respective reasons you'll privation to bash so. The latest iPhone update arrived Tuesday, and brings a caller Apple productivity tool, a karaoke mode for Apple Music and different caller features to your iPhone. The update was released alongside iPadOS 16.2, Watch iOS 9.2 and MacOS Ventura 13.1, according to an Apple enactment page. 

The item of the update is the caller app Freeform, a shared whiteboarding instrumentality designed for "working creatively with friends oregon colleagues connected Mac, iPad and iPhone."

Other caller features of the iOS 16.2 update see Apple Music Sing, a singalong-focused upgrade to the Apple Music app, and caller fastener surface functions. After downloading the update, you'll beryllium capable to fell wallpaper oregon notifications erstwhile Always-On show is enabled connected iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max. There's besides the Sleep widget, which keeps you informed of your slumber data, and the Medications widget to nonstop you reminders of erstwhile to instrumentality your medicine.

Speaking of widgets, the Activity widget present lets you spot what games your friends are playing from your Home Screen. Additionally, the update includes SharePlay enactment for multiplayer games successful Game Center, enabling you to play with radical you're connected a FaceTime telephone with.

The update besides enhances iCloud information by expanding the fig of information categories that are protected utilizing end-to-end encryption. And, similar with immoderate bully bundle update, determination are a fewer random bug fixes and different insignificant improvements.

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Apple didn't instantly respond to a petition for comment.