TechPhonesiPhonesApple’s iOS 16.1 update is bringing some big free upgrades to your iPhoneSome of iOS 16’s best new features are coming in iOS 16.1When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechPhonesiPhonesApple’s iOS 16.1 update is bringing some big free upgrades to your iPhoneSome of iOS 16’s best new features are coming in iOS 16.1When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Some of iOS 16’s best new features are coming in iOS 16.1
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It’s been a good month foriPhoneusers. Not only hasGoogleembraced the Lock Screen with stacks of brilliantLock Screenwidgets (pictured above), but the iOS 16.1 update that’s coming on Monday is a pretty big upgrade with some important new features.
The biggest feature here is iCloud Shared Photo Library, which is a vast improvement over the normal Shared Albums feature in Photos. You can now share over iCloud with up to five other people, and they can add to, edit and even delete images too. It’s a great option for sharing with family members, and you can instantly switch Photos between personal and shared libraries or see both at once. I’ve been experimenting with it in the beta and I like it a lot.
Your Lock Screen is getting a whole lot smarter
Another new feature I’m really looking forward to is Live Activities, which will enable third party apps to update your Lock Screen with key information such as the location of your Uber driver or the current score in a sporting event. If you have theiPhone 14 ProorPro Max, Live Activities can use the Dynamic Island as well as the Lock Screen.
Some of the other features are a bit less obvious but still very useful.Mattersupport is coming to the Home app, opening your smart home tech to a much bigger world of devices, andAppleFitness+ no longer needs you to have anApple Watchin order to use it. And in the US, there’s support for Clean Energy Charging. That charges your iPhone at times when the grid is using cleaner energy sources, Apple says.
There are plenty of other improvements too, and Apple has detailed them all online in itsrelease notes.
iOS16.1 will go live on Monday 24 October alongside iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura. For some features, such as the shared photo library, you’ll need to upgrade youriPadand Mac too as it’s not backwards compatible with older versions of their operating systems.
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