Top iOS 16 Features

what’re features useful for ios 16

today we’re gonna be taking a final look at ios 16.
it’s finally been released in the stable form to the
public and so let’s go over all the top
features you should look forward to
getting as this update rolls out the new
lock screen is arguably the biggest ios
16 features being introduced you can now
essentially add widgets to the lock
screen and customize the placement and
style in accordance with what you’d like
lock screen widgets take inspiration
from apple watch complication so you put
things like your activity rings alarms
battery levels and the weather on the

lock screen in this little widget pane
there’s also an entirely new menu for
adding wallpapers to the lock screen and
home screen you’ve got different
categories you can use to select a
wallpaper you can select a wallpaper
from your photo gallery, there’s a preset
for people detected within your photo
library and then you can do photo

shuffle which will allow you to select a
specific group of photos and then have
them randomly change then there’s the
emoji menu which allows you to make
wallpaper art with up to a handful of
different emojis you can select the
background-color change the pattern in
which the emojis are presented and all
that good stuff then you’ve got the
weather wallpaper mode which simply has
a wallpaper based on the weather at your
current location and it’ll of course be
animated for my astronomy fans out there

there is an astronomy wallpaper mode
that lets you select 5 different moon
and earth wallpapers that are indeed
animated as well and last is the color
wallpaper mode that lets you select 5
different modes based on a specific
color you’ve got a different gradient
options and a solid color option if you
want to use that below all these options
are a bunch of preset wallpapers based
on those wallpaper menus and then you’ve
got a collections folder which gives you

a bunch of different options based on
apple made wallpapers and over time i’ve
really come to love the layout of this
menu and how easy it is to use another
really useful lock screen related
feature is that face id now works in
landscape mode so let’s say if you’re
lying in bed with the phone horizontally
you’ll still be able to use face id and
unlock your smartphone which is
something i’ve been wanting for a long

time and as you can see there’s a
completely different look to the media
and music player within ios 16 on the
lock screen and now you’re able to view
the album art for whatever music is
being played in full-screen mode by
tapping on the picture in the widget and

the background wallpaper will match the
color palette of set album art and if
you want to revert back to the regular
lock screen wallpaper you just have to
tap on it again and as you can see
there’s a little waveform icon in the
corner that represents what’s going on
in the song so when you hit the pause
button or skip a track you’ll see the
waveforms go dead there isn’t a real

functional benefit to having this but i
think it’s a nice touch and now there’s
a slightly different look to scrubbing
through parts of the track within the
media player and then you can also see
in the corner, you have an airplay menu
button ios 16 comes with new upgrades to
the focus feature includes the ability
to connect your lock screen setup with a

certain focus mode so if you have a
workout focus for example you can switch
to a more sporty workout-themed setup
with all these fitness and activity
widgets available on the lock screen
there’s also focus schedules which will
enable certain focus modes based on the
time of day you opening a specific

application or even being at a specific
location so, for example, you can study
focus schedule to automatically turn on
your work focus mode when you arrive at
the office in the morning or something
like that it’s pretty cool stuff you can
now also use focus filters to filter out
certain content within the calendar app
the mail application messages and safari
so for example you can set a certain

focus mode to filter out all the work
related contacts and messages and only
see personal contacts and messages i’ve
honestly been a big fan of the way
apple’s innovated upon focus mode since

it’s been introduced and all these
features being introduced in ios 16 as
another example of that there are new
features for spotlight as well firstly
you’ve now got the spotlight search
feature right on the home screen so you
no longer have to swipe down the search
if you don’t want to but if you want to
remove the spotlight button from the
home screen you can go into the settings
and do so you’ve also got expanded
search features like getting image

search results based on whatever
keywords you use so if i search the word
cowboy it’s going to give me pictures of
cowboy sourced from google a new update
i think most people are excited to see
in ios 16 is all the new messages
features you can now edit messages up to
15 minutes after sending them all you
have to do is long press a message and
hit the edit button you can now also

undo sends up to 15 minutes after you
send the message which is something
people have been waiting for years
and you get a dope animation when doing
it to it’s pretty cool there’s also a
mark as on red and mark answered feature
which allows you to eliminate or restore
the blue message bubble that pops up
next to your contacts within iMessage
when you’ve got a new message you’ve now
also got share play via iMessage which

allows you to watch or listen to content
in real-time with someone you’re
communicating with over iMessage and
it’ll work with pretty much any app that
supports sharply in general already so
spotify apple music Disney plus
applications like that facetime now also
allows you to hand off facetime calls
between apple devices like an iPhone and
ipad or iPhone and mac so now during an

active facetime call you can simply open
up your other device and transfer the
call to said device you’ll get a prompt
to do so and if you’re using wireless

earphones like AirPods then it should
transfer to that new device as well live
text is also getting some improvements
with ios 16 and the biggest improvement
is video support so you can now go to a
video in your camera roll pause on a
frame and copy or translate text it’s
definitely not perfect and the font and

clarity of the text also has to be at
least decent but it works very well
overall and it’s another one of those
things that make live text one of the
most underrated ios features in my
opinion there’s a brand new feature
called visual lookup that allows you to
long press on a subject within a photo
in your camera roll or in safari and
then share that subject individually
with someone via iMessage or another

application you have to press and hold
the subject for a few seconds then wait
for a line to highlight around the
subject and then you should get an
option to copy said subject and this
works for people structures and objects
like cars and things like that it’s
extremely impressive how easily and how

fast it recognizes what you want to pull
from the photo, it’s usually not pixel
perfect with cropping the subject out of
a photo but I’d say it’s more than good
enough given the fact that it can do
this in seconds there’s no waiting
around for it to figure out what the
subject is which is pretty cool and i’ve
personally been using this feature all

the time it’s probably my personal
favorite for this year’s ios update the
mail app has gotten a handful of really
useful updates including the ability to
undo send messages if you made a mistake
schedule send messages if you want to
send something later down the line and
there’s a new remind me to feature that
allows you to select certain messages
and choose a date and time to have them

resurface at the top of your inbox the
mail app also now has improved search
functionality and rich link support
which allows you to have better
interactions with links within a message
body safari has gotten a handful of nice
features that benefit both ios and mac
os the first one being shared tab groups
which allows you to add friends or
family to tab groups you have set up and

they can update these tab groups and
make changes to the tabs you can also
now pin tab groups which is really handy
and there’s now support for extension
syncing so you can install an extension
on an iPad and have it appear in the
extensions menu on your iPhone and

there’s also website settings sync
support which will sync web page
settings across your apple devices all
the way down to the zoom percentage so
let’s say you’re on the same web page on
safari within your MacBook that you’ve
got open on your iPhone if you zoom in a
little bit on the MacBook then you’re

gonna notice a few seconds later that it
updates on the iPhone which is pretty
cool to see a small but also pretty big
feature that’s coming to ios 16 is the
fact that you’ve now got a battery
percentage toggle for the battery icon
so you can go into the settings and
you’ll see a toggle called battery

percentage and when you enable it you’ll
see the exact battery percentage within
the battery icon and that’s really it
you’ll also notice that the battery icon
also adapts the lightness or darkness of
the ui of whatever application you’re in
but it’s a nice little touch that i
think a lot of people have wanted for a

while and for my people who are
constantly misplacing their iPhone
around the house, this is something you
probably want to know there’s a new
sound for the find my device feature so
for example, if you have an apple watch
and hit the find my iPhone button you’re
now going to hear this
sound and I’m not sure what prompted
apple to change this but the original

sounds been around for a while so I can
now understand apple wanting to switch
things up but I just wanted to show this
feature so anyone knows what sound to
actually listen out for when they’ve
lost something now the last feature i
want to talk about that’s also pretty
minor but also really beneficial

especially in the long term are these
new screenshot options now you’ll see an
option to copy and delete a screenshot
after it’s been taken so if you just
want to share a screenshot with a friend
and not necessarily save it in your
camera roll you can copy it to your

clipboard and it’ll be deleted from your
camera roll and this is a great way to
help eliminate clutter in the photos
library because I’m sure everyone has at
least like 100 screenshots maybe they’re
intentional or accidental in their photo
library on their iPhone there’s a bunch
of other new minor features and changes
to ios 16 within all the different apps
but i just want to cover the major

features that everyone should know about
if you want to check out that full deep
dive on ios 16 that’ll be linked in the
description below but so far stability
has proven to be download ready from my
perspective pretty much all the
noticeable issues I encountered during
the Vader releases have been eliminated
with this final release so with that i
want to know what you guys think of ios
16. are any of these new features useful
to you and if so what’s your favorite be