What's New in iOS 16.3? - Gizmodo

If you haven’t checked your iPhone yet, there’s an update rolling retired today. The iOS 16.3 update is comparatively insignificant but includes bug fixes and interface tweaks, enactment for the second-gen HomePod and its temperature sensors, and caller wallpaper. There’s besides an optional diagnostic that adds other information to your Apple ID by letting you usage a carnal information cardinal to log into it successful lieu of integer two-factor authentication methods.

In a press release precocious past year, Apple teased the information cardinal diagnostic coming to iOS. iOS 16.3 volition fto you insert immoderate Yubikey-type information cardinal into the iPhone arsenic a 2nd method of getting into your Apple ID. You’ll request entree to this cardinal whenever you log successful with your Apple ID connected different machine oregon instrumentality too your main iPhone. It’s akin to the process that asks you for a six-digit codification oregon to corroborate it’s you done Face ID.

Other updates see an betterment to the Emergency SOS diagnostic connected the iPhone, helping forestall accidental calls. It present requires holding the broadside fastener with either the up oregon down measurement fastener to marque the telephone for help. This is undoubtedly being introduced arsenic a mode to combat each those mendacious alarms that were happening implicit the summertime connected rollercoasters.

Apple is besides introducing Advanced Data Protection to much devices, which is fancy terminology to explicate that the institution has added to the types of information that are end-to-end encrypted successful your unreality retention account. It was already disposable successful iOS 16.2 to U.S. users, but present it’s disposable successful much regions. You’ll person to have two-factor authentication turned connected to usage the feature, and it works with devices too the iPhone.

iOS 16.3 besides brings a ton of bug and security fixes, including fixing an contented with the Freeform app—the app everyone forgot Apple added to their devices—and amended enactment with Siri via CarPlay. The update is retired now—you tin drawback it connected iOS nether Settings > General > Software Update.