New Lock Screen, revamped notification center, and deeper Focus Mode integration
The Lock Screen is Apple’s main bet with iOS 16. You can customize the font, color, or placement of elements on your Lock Screen by tapping the element.
With Widgets and a new API, users can add third-party widgets to the Lock Screen. In a future update, Live Activities will show ongoing sports games or track the progress of your Uber ride, for example.
iOS 16 will suggest photos and styles, and the best part is that it’s deeply integrated with Focus Mode. Depending on your Focus, you can change the lock screen wallpaper, style, and even widgets.
Focus Mode also can be turned on at a set time, location, or while using a certain app. Last but not least, with Focus filters, you can set boundaries within Apple apps like Calendar, Mail, Messages, and Safari.
To finish this section, the revamped notification center now shows notifications from the bottom to the top. The system also hides better notifications depending on your Focus Mode.
Three apps that Apple focused with iOS 15 are also very important on iOS 16. Messages have three main new features:
Edit a message: During 15 minutes, users can make up to 5 edits to a given message, and recipients will be able to see a record of edits made to the message;
Undo send: Unsend any message for up to 2 minutes after sending it;
Mark as unread: Mark messages as unread when you don’t have time to respond but want to be sure to reply to the sender later.
With iOS 16, Apple is bringing handoff in FaceTime, which lets you move calls seamlessly from your iPhone to your Mac or iPad, and vice versa. The company is also adding Live Captions in FaceTime, letting you see automatically transcribed dialogue integrated into your video calls.
Last but not least, Safari now has Shared Tab Groups, web push notifications coming in 2023, and new web extension APIs.
Introduced with iOS 15, Live Text now work in videos when you pause them in iOS 16. You can use functions like copy and paste, lookup, and translate.
Apple is also bringing an all-new Dictation experience since you can move fluidly between voice and touch. With selected phones, you can insert emojis using your voice while dictating on the device. It also features automatic punctuation such as commas, periods, and question marks for you as you dictate.
With the release of iOS 16, Apple said some of the features previously announced during the WWDC 2022 keynote won’t be available at launch, such as:
- Live Activities: Live Activities help you stay on top of things that are happening in real-time, right from your Lock Screen;
- Live Activities API: Follow an ongoing sports game or track the progress of your ride or order with just a glance. Glance at Live Activities from your favorite third-party apps with the new developer API;
- Freeform app: Users will have a canvas for diagramming new projects, and having real-time collaboration while chatting via iMessage or FaceTime. This whiteboard has plenty of space for lots of people working together by writing or drawing;
- Matter support: This won’t launch until sometime later this year. Matter is a new smart home connectivity standard that will enable compatible accessories to work together seamlessly, across platforms;
- iCloud Shared Photo Library: It gives families a new way to share photos seamlessly with a separate iCloud library that up to six users can collaborate on, contribute to, and enjoy. Users can choose to share existing photos from their personal libraries, or share based on a start date or people in the photos
Frequently asked questions.
1. What is most important feature in iOS 16 ?
Ans:- Lock Screen with more access the widget as well as third party one.
2.what about storage and accessibility in iOS 16 ?
Ans:- Access to icloud which can be used upto 6 users.
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