iPhone Features We're Still Waiting For Following iOS 16.2's Release - MacRumors

Apple released iOS 16.2 this week with galore caller features, including the integer whiteboard app Freeform, Apple Music Sing, Advanced Data Protection for U.S. users, and more. Attention present turns to iOS 16.3, which should participate beta investigating this week.

Below, we've recapped 5 upcoming iPhone features that Apple has antecedently announced but yet to launch, specified arsenic an Apple Pay Later financing enactment and an Apple Card savings relationship for earning involvement connected Daily Cash. It's imaginable that immoderate of the features volition beryllium portion of iOS 16.3, portion others mightiness not look until iOS 16.4 oregon later.

Advanced Data Protection successful More Countries

Apple precocious introduced an optional Advanced Data Protection feature that expands end-to-end encryption to galore further areas of iCloud erstwhile enabled, including iCloud Backups, Photos, Notes, Reminders, Voice Memos, and more. The diagnostic was enabled successful iOS 16.2 and different bundle updates released this week for U.S. users lone and volition commencement rolling retired to the remainder of the satellite successful aboriginal 2023, according to Apple.

It's unclear precisely erstwhile Advanced Data Protection volition beryllium disposable successful further countries, but fixed the aboriginal 2023 timeframe, it's imaginable that the diagnostic volition beryllium enabled successful upcoming betas, specified arsenic iOS 16.3 oregon iOS 16.4 for the iPhone.

Apple Pay Later

Announced astatine WWDC 2022 successful June, Apple Pay Later is simply a financing diagnostic that volition fto qualifying customers successful the U.S. divided a acquisition into 4 adjacent payments implicit six weeks, with nary involvement oregon fees to pay. The diagnostic volition beryllium built into the Wallet app and volition beryllium disposable for purchases online and successful apps connected the iPhone and iPad.

On the iOS 16 features page, Apple says Apple Pay Later is coming successful a aboriginal bundle update for qualifying applicants successful the U.S. and whitethorn not beryllium disposable successful each states. Apple Pay Later was not included with the merchandise of iOS 16.2 and Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has suggested that the diagnostic might not motorboat until iOS 16.4 adjacent year.

Security Keys for Apple ID

Apple precocious previewed a caller Security Keys for Apple ID feature that it said volition beryllium disposable globally successful aboriginal 2023. The diagnostic gives users the enactment to usage hardware information keys to further support their account. For users who alteration this feature, Security Keys strengthens Apple's two-factor authentication by requiring a hardware information cardinal arsenic 1 of the 2 factors alternatively of a verification codification from different Apple device.

Apple does not program to merchandise its ain hardware information keys. The diagnostic volition trust connected third-party information keys disposable from brands similar Yubico.

Apple Card Savings Account

In October, Apple announced that Apple Card users would soon 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. The relationship would beryllium managed done the Wallet app connected the iPhone.

The savings relationship was listed successful the release notes for the iOS 16.1 Release Candidate, but it did not extremity up launching with that update. The savings relationship did not motorboat with iOS 16.2 either, truthful it's unclear erstwhile it volition beryllium available.

Once the relationship is acceptable up, each Daily Cash received from that constituent connected would beryllium automatically deposited into it and commencement earning interest, unless a idiosyncratic opts to proceed having Daily Cash added to their Apple Cash balance. Apple Card provides 2-3% Daily Cash connected purchases made with Apple Pay and 1% connected purchases made with the carnal card.

Launched successful 2019, Apple's recognition paper remains exclusive to the United States.

Apple Classical

In August 2021, Apple announced the acquisition of classical euphony work Primephonic. In a property release, Apple said it planned to motorboat a dedicated classical euphony app successful 2022 that combined Primephonic's idiosyncratic interface with further features, but the twelvemonth is astir implicit and the institution has not commented connected the plans since.

Earlier this year, code-level references to an "Apple Classical" app were discovered successful betas of the Apple Music app for Android and iOS 15.5. These references were ne'er made disposable to the public, but it could uncover that Apple is oregon astatine slightest was readying to sanction the app "Apple Classical" alternatively of Apple Music Classical. Even much references to the classical euphony app were discovered successful an XML record connected Apple's servers successful precocious September.

If the Apple Classical app ever launches, it's unclear if the app would beryllium built into iOS oregon made disposable done the App Store only.