iOS 16 5 interesting features 2022
5. Ability to edit and send messages
Ability to edit and send messages Ability to edit and send messages So I realize I'm only asking to do this on Twitter, but apparently people want it for the message as well. So now you can long press on your sent message and up to 15 minutes after you send something the first time, you can edit and then type what exactly you want to send and who you're going to send it to. Will revise it. Or if you're that uncomfortable with the message actually being sent, you can actually unsend a message entirely, which is pretty sweet. If you do one of these things, the other person will see that it was edited but won't see the edit history. And if you unsend, it just leaves an alert for both people. By the way, as a development, if you try this feature with someone who isn't on iOS 16 yet, it won't work. So they won't see the edit or return on their end, so they'll still see that crazy, horrible message you sent in the beginning. You have been warned. But that brings us.
4. Live objects
which is a live object. Now, I guess I have to rewind a bit so you
can stand or at least fully appreciate how amazing this is. So you remember the
direct text, right? Live Text lets you open any image with text in it and it
instantly recognizes that text and lets you interact with it, copy paste it somewhere,
etc. . iOS 16 also adds live text to videos, so if you stop the video at a
frame with text somewhere in it, you can pick up that text from within the
video like this. But the cherry on top is now a subject and background image.
For example, you can literally pick anything by pressing it out of the picture
to copy and paste in whatever messages you want. So it erases the background,
that's all it asks of you, and does a surprisingly good job of deleting
literally 1 second of background. You can do this with virtually any image.
It's just not the same as portrait mode photos on the iPhone. It can be shot on
any camera. As a matter of fact, any image. It seems to need a decent subject
compared to the background, and the iPhone will detect that. I'm very impressed.
I will now make all sorts of stickers for my diss.
3. Small things added together.
Just all the little things added together. It's one of those
things where iOS still looks and feels like iOS. It's not such a dramatic view,
but when you add all these little things together, it feels pretty refreshing.
And I pretty much love all the things that have changed. I love that the
weather app finally shows you the individual forecast for the time of day. Now,
it's crazy that they had to buy Dark Sky to finally implement all of this. But
now, for a day, you can see how the temperature will move and fluctuate
throughout the day, or when it will rain, etc. love it. I love the new video
viewer UI. Now clean, simple if you choose to watch a video in Safari. I love
that Face ID now works in landscape. It's a small touch, but in the end, thank
you. I like that the home screen says Search at the bottom, where you can pull
up a slightly refreshing spotlight. The search UI now pops up from the bottom.
And I use Spotlight all the time, so I noticed it right away. And I love that
the things you order with Apple Card will start showing up right in the Wallet
app. So if you want to keep track of everything out there, our IP some package
tracking apps. And I know a lot of people who would love for the iPhone to
finally have a haptic keyboard. It's one of those things that Android has had
for so many years, a decade at this point, maybe from the beginning. But it's
funny because it's one of the things that gives me an instant feel when a phone
has a good haptic engine or not, because first you type in the Wi-Fi password
and you get the haptic keyboard. can feel, and it's either a soft meshy haptics
or really hard and clicky. The good stuff I let go of, the bad stuff shut down.
So the iPhone literally has the best vibration motor of any phone, so the
keyboard has a lot of time to get haptic feedback. And that's great. It's off
by default, but you can easily turn it on by going to Settings. So with
software updates there are always a bunch of little things that add up to a big
change. And I'm like, all of them are really good, but now it's time for bigger
things.
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2. Continuity Camera.
It might be my personal favorite, but it's the one I got the biggest announcement reaction on stage and it was the biggest shocker, so that's great. So basically, over the years, our smartphone cameras have gotten better and better, but webcams and laptops, not so much. I mean, it was only m one MacBook in 2020 where Apple finally updated to a 1080p webcam, but still looks worse than a normal phone camera. So Apple had this brilliant idea. Why not use the good cameras we make, iPhone cameras, as your webcam? This is genius. So you must have iOS 16 and the latest version of macOS Ventura. But once you've got all that, Continuity Camera wirelessly turns your iPhone into your Max webcam. So doing this not only looks infinitely better, but also gives you access to all the cool stuff your iPhone's camera can do, like portrait mode, studio light and, if you want, center stage. . It is very sick, but easily. The best part of it is called DeskView. So using your phone's ultrawide camera, when it's mounted on top of your laptop or your monitor, you can capture your standard webcam view and whatever's in front of you on your desk. Can get top down view. So in this case, it's basically showing what's in front of your keyboard where your hands are on anything that's flat on the ground, it sounds like black magic, but it's pretty cool. works. There's a lot of software processing going on to take the edge of the ultrawide frame and flip it upside down and turn it into that perfect top-down view. But I can see it being crazy useful in a lot of situations, as long as what you're working with is perfectly flat. So it's dope.
1. The new lock screen.
This is the biggest visual, most obvious change in iOS. It's got the most new stuff here and it's just all customization of clock and wallpaper and all the stuff going on. So let's jump right in. So first things first, the lock screen just looks different. New clock, font, matching colors, some widgets. So to start customizing your lock screen, all you have to do is press and hold it and then press the Customize button and then tap on the item you want to start customizing so you can change the font and color. Can mess with, of course to correct the contrast. So things are readable and then above the clock and below the clock, you have slots to add widgets. You can see I already have some and it's like adding them to your home screen. You just select the one you want to add, tap it or click to drag it. And the widgets under the watch are just like watch complications. They're these little square-looking pieces of information that you can't really interact with much. But when you click on them, they open the app they're associated with. And the ones above the clock are basically just a text format, so they probably make a lot of sense for calendar events or weather, things like that. So you can already play endlessly with just this combination of things. You can mess around with the clock, weather, widgets, and whatever else you want to put in there. But then the good thing is that you can save the layout you have created and then go to create a new one. So now you can save multiple different lock screens that you have customized and arranged. And like the watch faces on the Apple Watch, you can hold it down and switch between any of them at any time. But now here's an extra wrench to throw this whole equation. If you don't add a bottom widget. So if you only have your clock and maybe a top widget, there's a new feature where the clock will nest itself between the foreground and the background of your wallpaper. And it wasn't just for portrait mode photos or iPhone photos, it's any photo. So Apple is making a little more use of their AI, previously their impressive object recognition with the Live Object feature. And it's able to do it with pretty impressive consistency. Gives me some pretty cool cut-ups. It's really too bad that once you add the widget under Time it doesn't work, at least in this beta. So you have to choose between a cool clock cutout and many widgets on your home screen. But I think this feature is pretty cute when it works. And I'm also a fan of the little animation you see as it fades into the foreground when you unlock before it fades to black in the background. It's a nice touch. Now, to take it even further, you can associate any lock screen you create with Focus Mode. So if you have a focus mode, like for work, for example, you can already have a dedicated home screen for work. Now you can have a dedicated lock screen for work, then you can have a home and lock screen for sleeping, going to the gym, going home, whatever. All those things connect and switch automatically. And also, now that your lock screen is so beautiful, notifications come and they no longer cover your masterpiece, they come in from the bottom. So I really like this change. It's good for accessibility on phones of all screen sizes, but it seems to only make historical sense, the way they're scrolling and they scroll from the bottom. You can choose to display notifications as a stack, list or account, without disturbing your precious lock screen. In the past, they have always been a list. That's what we're used to, but I like them as a stack now. It is more compact. And another cool feature that Apple has added is called Live Activities. It is basically an app that will update your notification live with new information instead of sending you new notifications over and over again. So something like when your Uber is getting closer to you before it picks you up, or maybe live sports scores, just update the scoreboard. I really like new music. Live activity. It's much smaller than the big widget before and you can still scrub through songs. it's awesome. And the new live timer notification is pretty cute too, just a little animation to count down the seconds. Here's a good amount of polish on the lock screen. And I think that's really the highlight of iOS 16. It's just people are going to customize their lock screens from here on out, doing crazy things with the thing you interact with the most on your phone? Phone. How often, do you think? Maybe 100 times a day. You unlock your phone and look at the wallpaper, and your lock screen is a big deal. So that's a lot.
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