Apple's WWDC 2022 Keynote: iOS 16

 At WWDC 2022, Apple announced iOS 16, which includes updates to alerts, lock screens, Messages, and Health apps.

iOS 16 adds additional customization capabilities, deeper intelligence, and more frictionless ways to connect and share to the iPhone. 

• Lock Screen
• Gallery of Lock Screens
• Browse a collection of various possibilities for ideas on how to make the Lock Screen your own, each with a distinctive backdrop, styled representation of the date and time, and information that can be seen at a glance.
• Switching from Lock to Screen: You can change your Lock Screen at any time during the day. Swipe after touching and holding it.
• The date and time have been stylized: You may modify the look of the date and time on your Lock Screen with expressive font styles and colour choices.
• Photo effect with multiple layers: To make the topic of the shot pop, it is dynamically displayed in front of the time.
• Shuffle your photos: On your Lock Screen, a set of images will shuffle automatically. Set the interval between new photo updates on your Lock Screen, or let iOS surprise and amaze you throughout the day.
• Lock Screen Widgets: To check the weather, time, date, battery levels, upcoming calendar events, alarms, time zones, and Activity ring progress, select a collection of widgets to display on your Lock Screen.
• API for Live Activities: With just a glance, you may keep track of a current sports event or the status of your ride or purchase. With the new developer API, you can view Live Activities from your favourite third-party apps.
• Lock Screens for Concentration: For specified Focus options, iOS proposes an appropriate set of Lock Screens, such as a data-rich Lock Screen when utilising the Work Focus or a photo Lock Screen when using the Personal Focus.
• Live Events: Live Activities allow you to keep track of what's going on in real-time, straight from your Lock Screen.
• On the Lock Screen, there is a notification view.: On the Lock Screen, you may display alerts in an extended list view, stacking view, or count view. You may squeeze to alter the layout in the middle of a conversation.
• Collections of apples: Choose from a variety of dynamic, classic, and landscape Lock Screens made only for iOS 16. Apple has Lock Screens to commemorate particular cultural events such as Pride and Unity.

 

• Focus
• Linking the Lock Screen: Connect your Lock Screen to your Focus to change the way your iPhone looks and works at the same time. Swipe to the matching Lock Screen to activate a Focus.
• Suggestions for the Home Screen: iOS proposes Home Screen pages with the most relevant applications and widgets for the Focus you're creating.
• Filters for focusing: Set restrictions for each Focus you activate inside Apple applications such as Calendar, Mail, Messages, and Safari. For example, while using the Work Focus, select a set of Tab Groups to appear in Safari, or conceal your work calendar when using the Personal Focus.
• API for a focus filter: Developers may utilize the signal that you're using to activate Focus to hide distracting information using the new Focus filter API.
• Schedules of concentration: Set a Focus to turn on at a specific time or location, or while using a specific app.
• Setup is simpler: Start using Focus right now with a customized setup experience for each choice.
• Allow and Disallow lists: Select applications and individuals you want to get alerts from while setting up a Focus by enabling or silencing them.

 

• iCloud Photo Library (Shared)
• With your family, create a photo library: Up to five individuals can share a distinct iCloud photo library.
• Set up rules that are smart: Share all of your previous images, or utilise tools to contribute select photos based on start dates or persons.
• Suggestions for smart sharing: Contribute photographs manually or utilise smart features like a switch in the Camera, automated sharing based on Bluetooth proximity, and sharing ideas in For You to make sharing simple.
• Work together on the collection.: Everyone has the same ability to add, edit, favorite, caption, and remove items.

 

• Messages
• Make changes to a message: A message can be edited for up to 15 minutes after it has been sent
• Undo send: Unsend any message for up to 15 minutes after it has been sent.
• Mark this page as unread: When you don't have time to react but want to be sure to get back to the sender later, mark messages as unread
• Recover texts that were recently erased: You can retrieve texts you've recently erased for up to 30 days after they've been removed.
• SharePlay via Messages: While conversing in Messages, share synchronised activities with pals, such as movies, music, exercises, games, and more.
• API that has been shared with you: Developers may include a Shared with You area in their app so that if someone gives you a movie or article that you don't have time to watch right now, you can discover it the next time you open the app.
• Invitations to collaborate: Send a message in Messages inviting people to work on a project, and everyone on the thread will be added to the document, spreadsheet, or project. Files, Keynote, Numbers, Pages, Notes, Reminders, and Safari, as well as third-party programmes, are all compatible.
• Updates on collaboration: You'll notice activity updates at the top of the Messages thread when someone adjusts. To return to the shared project, tap the updates.
• Collaboration API for Messages: Developers may link their app's collaboration experiences with Messages and FaceTime, making it simple to start and manage collaborations from anywhere you communicate with your colleagues.

 

• Mail
• Corrections to smart searches: By fixing typos and providing synonyms for your search phrases, intelligent search enhances your results.
• Suggestions for smart searches: From the minute you start searching for email messages, you'll get a better view of shared content and more.
• Recipients and attachments are missing: If you neglect to add a key portion of your messages, such as an attachment or a recipient, you'll be alerted.
• Send has been cancelled: Before an email message reaches the recipient's inbox, you may easily unsend it.
• Scheduled email: send Schedule an email to be sent at a specific time.
• Follow‑up: Move sent email messages to the top of your inbox so you can send a follow-up message fast.
• Please remind me: Never lose track of an email you opened but didn't respond to. Choose a date and time for messages to reappear in your inbox.
• A high-quality connection: Rich links provide extra context and data to your email messages at a glance.

 

• Passkeys
• Passkeys: Passkeys are a simpler and safer alternative to passwords.
• Phishing protection: Passkeys are unique to the site you created them for and never leave your device, making them nearly hard to phish.
• Websites are safe against data breaches: You don't have to worry about website leaks compromising your accounts because your private key is never stored on a web server.
• Sign in with different devices: Scan the QR code with your iPhone or iPad and use Face ID or Touch ID to verify. Sign in to websites or applications on other devices, even non-Apple devices, with your saved passkey.
• Sync across many devices: Passkeys are secured from beginning to end and synced across all of your Apple devices using iCloud Keychain.
• Live Text
• In videos, there is live text: In stopped video frames, the text is fully interactive, allowing you to perform capabilities like copy and paste, lookup, and translate. Photos, Quick Look, Safari, and other apps support Live Text.
• Quick actions: With a simple swipe, data recognised in photographs and videos may be acted upon. You may use it to track flights or shipments, translate other languages, change currencies, and so much more.
• Live Text in new languages: Japanese, Korean, and Ukrainian texts are now recognised by Live Text.
• Dictation
• Dictation is a brand-new experience: You may switch between voice and touch when dictating on your smartphone. Without having to interrupt Dictation, you can type on the keyboard, tap in the text box, move the cursor, and input QuickType suggestions.
• Punctuation is added automatically: As you dictate, Dictation automatically inserts commas, periods, and question marks.
• Emoji support is available: While dictating on your smartphone, use your voice to insert emoji.
• The text box for dictation in Messages: The Dictation icon has been added to the text entry area in Messages.
• Popover with dictation: Dictation may be easily stopped by touching the new cursor popover.
• Maps
• Routing with several stops: Maps allow you to add several stops along your driving path. On your Mac, create a route with many stops that syncs to your iPhone.
• Maps with transit cards: Without leaving Maps, you may add transport cards to your Wallet, monitor low balances, and replenish your card.
• Fares on public transportation: Find out how much your trip will cost in terms of transport fares.

 

• Apple Pay and Wallet
• Later, Apple Pay: You may now split your Apple Pay purchase into four equal payments over six weeks when you check out with Apple Pay.
• 11 In Wallet, you may keep track of what you owe and when you owe it.
• Sharing secrets is essential: Use your favourite messaging applications, like Messages, Mail, and WhatsApp, to securely share your keys in Wallet. The wallet makes it simple to control essential permissions and recipients.
• Apps that support ID cards: In apps that demand identity and age verification, share your ID information. Only the information required to complete the transaction will be requested by apps. You will have the opportunity to examine this request, and your information will only be shared after you have authorised it using Face ID or Touch ID.

• Home
• Home is a brand new app: The new design of the Home app makes it easier to manage, organise, display, and control all of your accessories. Improvements to the underlying architecture improve the performance of your smart home, making it more efficient and dependable.
• A panoramic picture of the entire home: In the revamped House tab, you can see your complete home at a glance. Rooms and favourite accessories have been merged into the main page of the app, making it quicker to reach the accessories you use the most.
• Categories: Lights, Climate, Security, Speakers and TVs, and Water are just a few of the categories that help you rapidly access all of the important accessories sorted by area, as well as more specific status information.
• A new perspective from the camera: Throughout the House page, up to four camera views are presented front and centre, and you can access any additional camera views in your home with a simple scroll.
• Layout of tiles: The form and colour of accessory tiles have been modified to make the various accessories more visually distinguishable. Accessories can be controlled straight from their tiles by touching the tile's symbol, or more extensive controls can be found by tapping the accessory name.
• Architecture has been updated: Improvements to the core architecture allow for quicker, more dependable performance, which is especially important for households with a lot of smart devices. Using the Home app, you can communicate with and control connected gadgets from many devices at once.

 

• Health
• Keep track of your prescriptions: To keep track of the drugs, vitamins, and supplements you take, make a medication list. Add personalised graphics to help you remember them. 
• Using the camera on your iPhone, add drugs: Using the camera on your iPhone, you can rapidly add your prescriptions. Simply place the pharmaceutical label in the frame to see the name, strength, and form of the drug. 
• Reminders about taking drugs: Whether you take prescriptions numerous times a day, once a week, or as required, create individual schedules and reminders for each drug.
• Keeping track of medications: You may use a reminder or the Health app to track when you've taken your meds. Interactive charts help you keep track of when you've taken your meds and provide insight into how well you're sticking to your drug regimen.
• Learn more about the meds you're taking: You may learn more about the drug you're taking by reading educational information about it, such as how to pronounce the name, what it's used for, how it works, and any potential adverse effects.
• Interactions between medications: Combining some drugs might reduce their effectiveness or produce negative effects. When you add a new drug, you'll get a notification if there's a potentially dangerous interaction. In the Health app, you may examine critical, serious, and moderate encounters.

 

• FaceTime
• FaceTime transfer: Move You can make FaceTime calls from your iPhone to your Mac or iPad and vice versa. When you transfer a call, your Bluetooth headset automatically switches to the new device.
• App discovery using SharePlay: Find out which of your installed applications support SharePlay and launch them from the FaceTime controls, or explore the App Store for new experiences to share with friends.
• Collaboration: During a FaceTime chat, tap the Share button to start working together in Files, Keynote, Numbers, Pages, Notes, Reminders, Safari, and compatible third-party applications.

 

• Privacy
• Check for Safety: This new feature in Settings allows those who have been victims of domestic or intimate partner abuse to easily reset the access they've given to others. It also allows you to keep track of who you've given access to and which applications they have.
• Pasteboard permission : Before an app may use the pasteboard to paste material from another app, it needs your permission.
• Enhancements to media streaming: Stream video from devices that don't support AirPlay streaming protocols without granting Bluetooth or local network access authorization.
• In Photos, lock hidden and recently deleted albums: Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode may be used to open the Hidden and Recently Deleted albums, which are protected by default.