iPhone iOS 16: New features that will transform your iPhone

According to the latest reports from analysts and experts close to the California company, iOS 16 is not expected to be a more innovative update than iOS 15, which has brought many new features over the past year. However, we anticipate some significant changes to iOS 16.

Apple Classic:

Apple can launch a new service that allows users to find an entire catalog of classical music, or at least a new streaming app.

Messages:

Improved content sharing capabilities, including voice messages.

Health:

New sleep tracking feature, and dosing and menstrual cycle tracking. Finally, the iPhone may support new features for recording falls. Accessibility: Support for eye tracking accessories when using iPad, improved support for hearing aids, integration of audiograms in the Health app, new voice command options for controlling iPhone or iPad with short tones, text size, and brightness respectively An app that can be set in different ways.

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Home screen and lock screen: Apple wants to improve the lock screen and wants to be able to customize it. For the home screen, the California company will work on a new system of active widgets in synergy with a dedicated background.

Door detection:

Door detection calculates the distance to the door.

Real-time voice-to-character conversion:

A new feature that allows you to record and convert voice to voice in real-time from your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. This feature is initially limited to the United States and Canada.

Background sound:

A new sound that promotes concentration and relaxation.

Customize Modes:

Significant improvements to these customized modes for iPhone and iPad.

Private Streaming:

Expect significant improvements to private streaming capabilities, such as the ability to anonymize application traffic (currently, private streaming-only anonymizes web traffic).

Apple Apps:

There are rumors that some Apple apps on iOS 16 may undergo major changes. Memoji: New customization options for Apple Memoji such as cochlear implants, oxygen tubes, and straps.

watchOS 9:

According to Mark Gurman (Bloomberg), big new features such as Assistive Touch, which allows users with mobility problems to control the clock without touching the screen, are expected.

iPadOS 16:

Improved tablet multitasking with the ability to add customizable floating app windows.

When will iOS 16 be released?

Apple typically announces the next iOS during the annual WWDC conference, followed by a public beta release shortly thereafter. You'll definitely get more details at WWDC, where Apple announced an iOS 15 update last year.

The next iOS will usually be released at the same time as the new iPhone, so iOS 16 is very likely to be released in September. For example, last year Apple released iOS 15 on September 20, about a week after the iPhone 13 event.

If Apple's iPhone 14 event takes place in September, iOS 16 will soon follow, as it normally does on the iPhone.

Compatibility: Is iOS 16 available on iPhones?

Apple releases a new version of iOS every year, but its operating system is compatible with many older models, and iOS 15 runs smoothly on the 2015 iPhone 6S.

The French site iPhoneSoft claims that Apple developers have revealed that iOS 16 will be available on the iPhone. Works with A10 and later processors. This means iPhone 7 and above, but not iPhone 6S, 6S Plus, 2016SE.

iPhoneSoft also claims that the iPad OS 16 is "probably" incompatible with the 9.7-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Mini 4, iPad 5, iPad Air 2, or iPad Pro.

The 2016 iPhone 6s, 6s Plus, and iPhone SE will be discontinued. This also applies to the iPad Mini 4, iPad Air 2, iPad 5, and iPad Pro (2015). All of these models use older A8, A8X, and A9 chips, so they're still iOS 15.

Below is a list of iPhones compatible with iOS 16.

iPhone 13 / iPhone 13 Mini / iPhone 13 Pro / iPhone 13 Pro Max. iPhone12 / iPhone 12 Pro / iPhone 12 Pro Max / iPhone 12 Mini
iPhone SE 2020
iPhone 11 / iPhone 11 Pro Max / iPhone 11 Pro
iPhone XS / iPhone XS max
iPhone XR
iPhone X
iPhone 8 / iPhone 8 Plus
iPhone 7 / iPhone 7 Plus

The following is a list of iPads compatible with iPad OS 16.

iPad Pro 2021
iPad Pro 12.9 "(2016 or later)
iPad Pro 10.5 "(2016 or later)
iPad Pro 11 "(2018 or later)
iPad Air 3/4/5
iPad 6/7/8/9
iPad Mini 5/6

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