June 6, 2022
PRESS RELEASE
Apple introduces a whole new lock screen experience and new ways to share and communicate on iOS 16
Users can customize the lock screen, store family photos in iCloud’s shared photo library, remember sent messages, schedule mail, and find out more with live text and visual search.
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today unveiled iOS 16, which offers the biggest lock screen update and new sharing, communication, and intelligence features that together change the way users experience the iPhone. iOS 16 introduces iCloud photo sharing library to seamlessly share a collection of photos with family, message and email updates that help users stay in touch easily, and powerful enhancements for live text and visual search.
“iOS 16 is a big release with updates that will change the way you experience the iPhone,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering. “We’ve reimagined how the lock screen looks and works with exciting new features that make it more personal and useful. We’ve taken advantage of enhanced intelligence with live text updates and Visual Look Up “.
A custom lock screen experience
The lock screen becomes more personal, beautiful and useful with iOS 16. With a new multi-layered effect, the themes in the photos are set artistically ahead of time on the lock screen, creating a sense of depth. Users can also change the look of the date and time with expressive type styles and color options.
The lock screen includes widget-inspired widgets, making it easy to get information at a glance, such as upcoming calendar events, weather, battery levels, alarms, time zones, progress ring progress and more.
A new lock screen gallery includes a variety of inspirational options, such as Apple’s collections, which include Pride and Unity to celebrate special cultural moments; a live weather wallpaper to see live weather conditions as they change throughout the day; and an Astronomy wallpaper to see the Earth, the moon, and the solar system. Users can also create lock screens using their favorite emojis or color combinations. With multiple lock screens, users can switch between their favorites with just one swipe.
Live Activities is a new feature that helps users keep up to date with what’s happening in real time, such as a sports game, a workout, a shared trip, or a food delivery order, right from the home screen. blocking.1
Notifications have been redesigned to scroll from the bottom, ensuring that users have a clear view of their custom lock screen.
Find balance with focus
Focus is more powerful, easier to set up, and now connects to the lock screen, giving users a way to link a lock screen wallpaper and widgets to a specific focus. To activate a focus, users can only swipe the corresponding lock screen. With Focus Filters, apps like Calendar, Mail, Messages, and Safari can only show content that’s relevant to a user’s Focus, helping them find a better balance.
A place for family photos with the iCloud shared photo library
The iCloud shared photo library offers families a new way to seamlessly share photos with a standalone iCloud library with which up to six users can collaborate, contribute, and enjoy. Users can choose to share existing photos from their personal libraries or share them based on a start date or people in the photos. A user can also choose to send photos to the Shared Library automatically using a new switch in the Camera app. Additionally, users will receive smart suggestions for sharing a photo that includes participants in the Shared Photo Library. Each user in the Shared Photo Library has access to add, delete, edit, or bookmark shared photos or videos, which will appear in each user’s Featured Memories and Photos so that everyone can relive more familiar family moments.
Message Updates
Users can edit or remember recently sent messages, retrieve recently deleted messages, and mark conversations as unread so that they can return later.2 In addition, SharePlay reaches Messaging, allowing you to enjoy synchronized content such as movies or songs. and shared playback controls while chatting to Messages.
New mail tools
Users can now schedule emails in advance and even have a moment to cancel delivery of a message before it reaches a recipient’s inbox. Email detects if the user forgot to include an important part of their message, such as an attachment. Users also have the option to reappear at any date and time with Remember later, and follow-up suggestions automatically remind users to track an email if they haven’t received a reply. Mail also includes the largest search revision, and uses state-of-the-art techniques to deliver more relevant, accurate, and complete results. Users see recent emails, contacts, documents, and links as they begin searching for emails.
Live text and visual search enhancements
Live Text uses device intelligence to recognize text in images on iOS, and is now expanding to include video. Users can pause a video in any frame and interact with the text. Live Text also adds the ability for users to quickly convert currency, translate text, and more.
Visual Look Up takes photos further by introducing a new feature that allows users to touch and hold the subject of an image to lift it from the background and place it in applications such as Messages. Visual Look Up is also expanded to recognize birds, insects, and statues.
Wallet adds Apple Pay Later, order tracking and other features
Apple Pay Later gives U.S. users a perfect, secure way to split the cost of an Apple Pay purchase into four equal payments over six weeks, with no interest and no commissions of any kind.3 Integrated into Apple Wallet and designed with Taking into account the financial health of users, Apple Pay Later makes it easier to view, track and pay for Apple Pay Later wallet payments. Users can request Apple Pay Later when purchasing with Apple Pay or Wallet. Apple Pay Later is available anywhere Apple Pay is accepted online or from the app, via the Mastercard network.4 In addition, with Apple Pay order tracking, users can receive detailed receipts and information Wallet order tracking for Apple Pay purchases with participating merchants.
Wallet keys and IDs receive more support. Users can use their Wallet ID for applications that require identity and age verification. To ensure a private and secure experience, the app will only be provided with the necessary information needed for the transaction, and the user can review it and give their consent to share it using Face ID or Touch ID. In addition, users can securely share their home, hotel, office and car keys in Wallet using messaging apps such as Messaging, Mail and more.
The next generation of CarPlay
CarPlay has fundamentally changed the way people interact with their vehicles, and the next generation of CarPlay goes even further by deeply integrating with a car’s hardware. CarPlay will be able to deliver content across multiple in-vehicle displays, creating a unified and consistent experience. Deeper integration with the vehicle will allow users to do things like control the radio or change the weather directly through CarPlay, and using vehicle data, CarPlay will perfectly display speed, fuel level, temperature and more on the dashboard. of instruments. Users will be able to customize their driving experience by choosing different indicator cluster designs, and with additional support for widgets, users will have information at a glance from Weather and Music directly on their car dashboard. More information about the next generation of CarPlay will be shared in the future, and vehicles will be announced at the end of next year.
Additional features
- Safari adds shared tab groups to share a collection of websites with friends and family, so it’s easy to add tabs and see what others see. Safari browsing is even more secure with passwords, unique digital passwords that are easy to use, more secure, never stored on a web server, and remain on your device so that hackers can’t steal them in a breach of data or trick users into sharing it. Designed to replace passwords, passwords use Touch ID or Face ID for biometric verification and iCloud Keychain to sync with iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV with end-to-end encryption. They’ll also work across apps and on the web, and users can sign in to websites or an app on non-Apple devices with their iPhone only.
- Apple Maps is introducing multi-stop routing, so users can plan up to 15 stops in advance and automatically sync routes from Mac to iPhone when they’re ready. Maps also provides transit updates to users, so users can easily see how much their trip will cost, add transit cards to Wallet, view low balances, and replace transit cards, all without leaving Maps.
- Family Sharing provides an easier way to set up an account for a child with proper parental controls from the start. Includes suggestions for age-appropriate restrictions for apps, movies, books, music, and more, and a simpler process for setting up a new device that automatically applies existing parental controls. When a child requests more screen time, tutors can approve or reject messages directly.
- Dictation offers a new experience to the device that allows users to move smoothly between voice and touch. Users can type, tap the text field, move the cursor, and insert QuickType suggestions, all without having to stop dictation. In addition, Dictation includes automatic punctuation and emoji dictation.
- Siri adds the ability to run shortcuts as soon as an application is downloaded without a pre-setup. Users can add emoji when sending a message, …