iOS 16 – Top 10 Coolest Features!
next iphone 14 is going to release with
so these are my top 10 new features
right here from apple hq the place where
they would thought of number 10 being
properly live wallpapers
sort of you still can’t get full moving
video wallpapers like you can on android
but you do not get wallpapers that
animate as you transition between the
lock screen and the home screen it is
pretty much a one to one of a feature
that xiaomi has had for years now but
still it does add a much needed touch of
life to the iphone
and that brings me on to number nine the
new wallpaper gallery so you know how
right now if you want to find new
wallpapers all the time pretty much your
only option is to head onto the app
store and download one of those free
wallpaper apps that serves you an ad
every single time you click a button
well apple is now trying to bring this
feature internally so now when you go to
choose a new wallpaper your phone will
serve you a combination of both new
wallpapers that it thinks you’ll like
and also photos you’ve already taken
that it thinks are a good fit oh yeah
and also i kind of like this because i
get bored on my home screen easily you
can now set it to shuffle so every
single time you check your iphone’s lock
screen there is a new wallpaper
automatically applied
messages has also had an upgrade a very
simple upgrade but one that will
probably affect quite a lot of people
you can now edit messages after you’ve
sent them in case let’s say you spell a
word wrong you can undo messages and you
can also mark a message thread as unread
but this is where it gets juicy because
more important than wallpapers and
messages is how ios 16 manages to
improve the general intelligence of
iphones so you might know that right now
when you take a photo on an iphone you
can interact with the text in that photo
but with the new ios you can also pause
any video and interact with the text
within any frame you’ve got new quick
actions in the camera which let you
convert currencies and translate text in
real time plus i think this is even
cooler a feature called visual lookup it
lets you touch and hold the subject of a
photo let’s say your dog and then
instantly it can strip out the subject
separating it from the background to be
able to paste that subject into other
apps let’s say messages and finally
dictation is now more intelligent when
you’re using speech to text on your
iphone it’ll now automatically add in
punctuation and somehow even emojis
okay let’s talk about sharing because i
really get the impression that sharing
is the thing that apple is trying to
double down on right now so first up is
photo sharing which is is trying to
address the very real problem of each
member of a family or friendship group
having their own set of photos that
they’ve taken but never the full set of
photos that everyone’s taken so ios 16
now creates a shared icloud photo
library with up to five people and you
can set the rules that dictate what gets
shared to that folder like for example
the location that a photo was taken in
or who is actually in that shot and even
within the camera app you now have an
option to shoot photos directly to a
shared icloud library it’s very
convenient but i do also feel like
there’s a high likelihood of
accidentally sharing something that you
did not want to share
sharing is not always caring there is
also a lot more emphasis on sharing
things by the messages app so for
example you know share play the ability
to watch movies or go on apps together
at the same time with your friends you
can now jump into shareplay apps
directly from messages oh yeah and as
well as ways to extend the amount that
you share apple is also trying to allow
you to reduce the amount with something
that they’re calling safety check which
is made for sufferers of abusive
relationships to be able to really
quickly stop sharing your location to be
able to reset your privacy settings and
also to sign out of icloud and apple
messages on all your devices except the
one you’re using this
is very smart
but number five seems like kind of a
huge deal and it’s to do with apple pay
now one new thing coming is that you’re
very soon going to be able to tap two
iphones together and just with that
transfer money from one user to another
user that’s pretty cool already but then
something i think is absolutely enormous
is a feature that they’re calling apple
pay later it basically lets you when
you’re about to buy a product using
apple pay to split that payment up into
four separate chunks with zero interest
and no fees so at the point where you’re
buying something apple pays the full
amount of that purchase to the company
and then over the course of the next six
weeks takes back that amount bit by bit
from your account it’s almost like
apple’s becoming a bank
and related to that they’re also
lasering in on expanding the apple
wallet you can kind of tell that the end
goal here what apple’s trying to achieve
with ios is to effectively replace your
actual wallet so for example right now
they’re working with various states and
cities to try to make your apple wallet
hold your driving license plus your keys
your apple wallet can now hold your
hotel keys your office keys your home
keys and just like with a physical key
that you could you know take out of your
wallet and hand over to someone else you
can now just send someone one of your
virtual keys through apple messages can
you imagine if you sent them to the
wrong contact though
okay the new apple maps is also kind of
exciting now just to give you a little
bit of context i’m pretty much mostly a
google maps user i quite like how it’s
it’s not focused on being ultimately
streamlined and instead just focuses on
getting as many features in as possible
but there is enough new stuff coming to
apple maps that i’m pretty keen to give
it another go there’s an upgraded 3d
view which highlights buildings with
better elevation and improved detail and
to be fair on the demos they showed us
this looks insane with even a different
aesthetic depending on whether your
phone is set to light mode or dark mode
but i think i do need to see how it
looks in the more day-to-day more normal
rural scenarios to come to a conclusion
but there’s more you can now plan a
route with up to 15 different stops in
advance you can plan that route on your
mac and then send it straight to your
iphone which is actually something that
i would use it will save me the couple
of minutes that it takes to re-enter it
on my phone plus you can also see the
fares and actually make the payment for
those fares of any public transport
within the apple maps app
one of the things that i’m most excited
about though is how ios 16 handles
notifications and i think the key thing
it’s trying to do is reduce that feeling
of spam so for starters notifications
now come up from the bottom of your lock
screen instead of near the top but then
also i imagine i’m not the only one who
has a couple of apps that try to ping me
like 10 different times per day you get
this a lot if you use sporting apps
they’ll give you a new notification
literally anytime even the most minor
thing happens so ios 16 separates them
it puts these activity-based
notifications into a separate live
activities section it makes them more
compact and it allows you to set them so
that they don’t bug you in the same way
that notifications that actually require
your attention need to i would say the
most significant change in ios 16 is the
lock screen it’s taking its sweet sweet
time but finally we have proper lock
screen customization you press and hold
on your screen and it takes you to the
editor mode it’s it’s a very apple
experience like it’s definitely somewhat
controlled like you can’t change the
core format of the screen and you still
can’t move around the camera icon or the
flashlight icon but in traditional apple
style it does make the customization
very easy like with one swipe you can
change the color filter applied to the
wallpaper you can change the text font
you can change the text color and then
if you don’t love the automatic settings
that apple’s chosen for you you can tap
on any individual element to have a
fiddle yourself the your phone can
detect the multiple different layers
within a portrait mode shot that you’ve
taken and sandwich the clock between
them there’s a new look to music with
bigger album art plus
widgets in ios 14 apple introduced
widgets on the home screen and now in
ios 16 you get widgets on the lock
screen and they’re not just the same
widgets repurposed they’re brand new and
they’re custom made to fit better and
also you can now have one lock screen
for when you’re at work with your work
notifications your work wallpaper and
your work widgets and then with one
swipe you can switch to your personal
ones a lot of these features are not new
to smartphones but the fact that they’ve
been made easy here means that i think a
lot more people are about to start using
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