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Personalize your Lock Screen and let your favorite photos shine. A new multilayered effect helps the subject of your photo pop, and you can apply styles that automatically change the color filter, tinting, and font style for your Lock Screen. You can also select a set of photos to shuffle automatically on your Lock Screen throughout the day. Easily set up a Focus A new streamlined setup for Focus lets you select the apps and people you want to receive notifications from by either allowing them or silencing them. Connect your Lock Screen to your Focus so the look and feel of your iPhone match how you want to use it in the moment. With a swipe, you can go from your Personal Focus to your Work Focus with widgets showing upcoming meetings and to-do lists. Share photos and videos seamlessly with up to five other people, so everyone can collaborate on the family’s collection and enjoy more complete memories. With iCloud Shared Photo Library, family memories are in one place for everyone to enjoy at any time, even if you’re not the one who snapped the shot or edited the photo. Smart ways to share When you set up or join a Shared Photo Library, you can choose to contribute past photos based on a start date or the people in the photos. Once the shared library is set up, you can share photos instantly right from Camera, choose to share automatically when other shared library members are nearby, and get smart suggestions for adding photos to the shared library in For You. Matter is a...

Set Up Your Lock Screens The Lock Screen has been overhauled in ‌iOS 16‌, with Apple introducing customization options so you can personalize your Lock Screen. You can customize colors, pick a font for the time, choose a wallpaper, use emojis as a background, and select widgets. To edit your Lock Screen, unlock your You can create multiple Lock Screens and swap between them much like Apple Watch faces, just long press on the Lock Screen to get to your collection and swipe to change them. For more instructions on Lock Screen creation and a look at all of the different options, we have a dedicated iOS 16 Lock Screen Guide. Link Focus Modes After you've created a Lock Screen, you can link it to one of your existing Focus Modes or create a new Focus Mode to use with it. To do so, long press on the Lock Screen to get to the customization interface and then on your chosen Lock Screen, tap on the "Focus" icon. Choose a Focus to use with the Lock Screen, and then whenever you use that Lock Screen, it'll activate that Focus Mode. If you want to create a new Focus, you can do so in the Settings app, with additional information on the ‌iOS 16‌ Focus Mode changes available in our Set Up Focus Filters Focus Modes can filter out more specific kinds of content in ‌iOS 16‌, letting you set up a Focus that displays select information from apps like Calendar, Mail, Safari, and Messages. You can, for example, set up a Focus that shows only your work calendar, work tabs, and your work email w...

Focal Point iPhone 2023, CNET's collection of news, tips and advice around Apple's most popular product. Give your iPhone a big upgrade by downloading iOS 16, available today for most iPhone devices. You'll get a bundle of new lock screen options and plenty of other upgrades. Apple revealed the iOS 16 release date last week during its fall iPhone event. This is an annual tradition for Apple: Announce the next version of iOS in the spring at its WWDC conference, spend the summer testing the new operating system with developers and other beta testers, then launch the OS alongside the newest iPhone in the fall. iOS 16 release date Apple released iOS 16 on Monday, Sept. 12, following its usual cycle of new versions every fall. iOS 16 new features CNET has been testing the iOS 16 betafor months, so we already have a good idea of what to expect. The biggest iOS 16 features are a more customizable lock screen, the ability to edit and unsend iMessages(with limitations), some changes to lock screen notifications, enhancements to Apple Walletand the ability to use SharePlayfrom messages. These annual upgrades to iOS are important chances for Apple to make larger overhauls to its operating system, which it's been doing since 2007. Users can still expect smaller updates throughout the year -- iOS 15.6.1was the previous version, and it includes an important security patch -- but the September updates that upgrade iOS by an entire version usually involve the biggest changes. You should ...

The story of iOS 16 is all the things that your phone does when you’re not using it. Apple has been saying for years that we need a reset in our relationship with technology and that picking up our phones hundreds of times a day is not the right outcome. Apple, of course, is probably the company most to blame for that problem. And so, part of the idea with its new smartphone software is that there might be ways for your smartphone to be useful without you having to use it so much. Like every year, this new version of iOS (which is available for the iPhone 8 and newer all the new versions have been. iOS is an excellent, mature piece of software, and Apple’s clearly not looking for an excuse to reinvent the wheel anymore. But this year, Apple found a part of its software that hasn’t gotten much attention recently and gave it a makeover. The lock screen is the true star of iOS 16. Apple has reconceived its purpose altogether, shifting it from just a clock and a bunch of notifications to something much more like a second homescreen. Lock screen widgets were an instant upgrade to my phone life: I can now see my calendar without unlocking my phone or even swiping right to get to that page of widgets everyone always forgets about, and I have a tiny widget that launches a new note in my notes app. My favorite iOS 16 widget comes from the habit tracking app Streaks. I have “take 5,000 steps” as a daily goal (we’re still in a pandemic, I work from home, and 5,000 steps feels like an...

During the MacRumors wrote a series of in-depth feature guides highlighting every new addition in the update, along with how that walk you through using the new features. This is a comprehensive guide with all of our coverage, and it's a great resource for casual users who haven't had a chance to test out ‌‌iOS 16‌ prior to its launch. Everything is organized by app or feature to make it easy to find what you might be looking for, and for those of you with iPads, many of these features are also available in Lock Screen Customization With ‌iOS 16‌, Apple overhauled the We have a guide on all of the new changes with the Lock Screen, and a long list of how tos that will help you set up your ‌iPhone‌ Lock Screen to suit your needs. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Messages App Apple added a number of highly requested features to the Messages app in ‌iOS 16‌, including iMessage editing, undo send, and Mark as Unread, plus the Messages app now supports SharePlay. Our dedicated Messages guide covers everything that's new with the Messages app in ‌iOS 16‌. • • • • • Focus The Focus experience has been improved in ‌iOS 16‌, making it easier to set up Focus modes. Focus modes can now be linked to different Lock Screens and Home Pages, for more customizability when you're doing different things. Everything new with the Focus app is explained in our iOS 16 Focus guide. • • • • • • • • • Safari With the latest version of Safari, it's now possible to pin tabs, just ...

iOS 16.3 is here for your iPhone, bringing a few new features, some bug fixes and some tie-ins for Black History Month. Word of iOS 16.3's release comes from Apple itself. Besides spotlights on curated content in the Music, TV, News and Podcasts apps, Apple is adding a Unity watch face and iPhone wallpaper that incorporates colors of the Pan-African flag. (Image credit: Apple) Both the Unity 2023 watch face and Unity iPhone wallpaper will require iOS 16.3. If you've been following the iOS 16.3 beta process, you know that there's not a whole lot of major features planned for this release. But Apple does have some additions set to go live once iOS 16.3 lands on your iPhone. Here are the new iOS 16.3 features for your iPhone. (Image credit: Tom's Guide) Physical security keys are meant to augment Apple's existing two-factor authentication for Apple ID, particularly for iPhone owners whose public profile makes them likely targets for hackers. Think celebrities, politicians and — looks around nervously— journalists. When this feature is enabled, you'll need a physical security key as one of the two factors for signing into your Apple ID account.For more information on how this all works, see our guide to iOS 16.3 Global Advanced Data Protection As we mentioned above, the iOS 16.2 update gave U.S. iPhone owners access to Advanced Data Protection. That's a new security feature brings end-to-end encryption to Apple's iCloud storage service, protecting info you're stored in the clo...

Apple appears to be preparing an iOS 16.5.1 update for the iPhone, based on evidence of the software in our website's analytics logs last week. It's unclear when the update will be released, but it will likely be available either this week or next week. Minor updates like iOS 16.5.1 are typically focused on bug fixes, stability improvements, and security patches, rather than new features. Apple's Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter Apple released the Earlier this month, Apple revealed that Earlier this month, Apple revealed that 81% of all active iPhones were running iOS 16 ('https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/01/apple-shares-ios-16-adoption-statistics/'), but that percentage has surely declined following the iOS 17 beta. It absolutely has not. There are still more people buying new iOS 16 running phones, or updating their old phones from older versions to 16, then there are that will run the beta. Most people don't even actively update their phones, they're not going to run a beta. Most people just wait for the phone to update itself. I am quite happy with iOS 16.5 and my iPhone 14 Pro Max. Also Battery Life is finally more than ok. Getting at around 9-10h SOT. I hope 16.5.1 fixes the remaining bugs and that`s it. I still don`t know what iOS 16.6 is for expect iMessage encrypting thin or whatever. Here in Europe no one cares about iMessage.

My career has taken me through an eclectic assortment of fields, and connected me with people from all walks of life. This experience includes construction, professional cooking, podcasting, and, of course, writing. I’ve been typing up geeky takes since 2009, ultimately landing a freelancing position at PCMag. This blossomed into a full-time tech analyst position in 2021, where I lend my personal insight on the matters of web hosting, streaming music, mobile apps, and video games. Apple iOS 16 Specs Name Value Product Category Apple iOS Product Price Type Free Apple launched iOS 16 after a lengthy 2022 beta, delivering an impressive suite of new features to all compatible handsets (iPhone 8 and up). With it, Apple builds upon Apple iOS 16.3's New Features Apple iOS 16.3 introduces notable security and safety improvements. In particular, you can now use physical security keys as part of the two factor authentication for new device sign-ins. On top of that, Apple tweaked Emergency SOS to prevent accidental emergency calls (it now requires you to hold the side button with a volume button, and then release them). (Credit: PCMag) A Fresh Facade The most immediate and notable iOS 16 changes involve the overhauled The iOS 16 Lock Screen has original features, too, including a multilayered effect with compatible photos. Powerful object-recognition capabilities let the system identify and isolate a photograph's subject. As a result, subjects (like, say, your cat) are dynamically po...