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Intro As I make this video, the latest new iOS,
iOS16 launched just a few days ago. If you’re a tech nerd like me, this is an exciting time,
for everyone else, new iOS updates are typically either boring or overwhelming. Your phone can
now do a LOT of new things, but if you’re not the kind of person to go off exploring on your device,
you’ve probably got absolutely no idea about just what your phone can now do. So, in this video,
I’m going to share with you 10 new things that your iPhone can do, thanks to iOS16.
Stick with me until the end of this video, there are some really exciting new features to unpack.
Oh, one thing to point out, some of the new features will only work on an iPhone XS,
XS Max, XR or newer phones, and rather than say that every time, what I’ll do
instead is put a caption on-screen like this whenever I’m talking about an impacted feature.
OK, let’s get into it.
01 - Lift Subject From Photo (iPhone XS) You can now lift a subject from a photo,
isolating something from an image, and you can then copy that image and paste
it elsewhere, or share it via a number of methods, and it’s very easy to do.
So here for example, in this image, I’m going to tap and hold on the subject until
I see this kind of scan animation whoosh over the item that I want to capture.
I’ll let go at that point, and my phone will then give me some options for what
to do with the image that I’ve just cut out, either to share it, or to copy it.
If I choose Share, you can see that the cutout is a PNG file,
and whilst it might not be obvious to you, I can confirm that the PNG has a transparent background,
so if you work with graphics where you need to cut things from images and paste them elsewhere,
this could be a super productivity hack for you. You can share the image via the usual sharing
methods like Messages, Email, WhatsApp etc. You can also do things like create a Quick Note with
it, and if you’ve got any applicable third party apps installed, you can share it with those too.
The other alternative is to Copy the image, and then open up something else, maybe an email or
a Message, or perhaps even something like Pages or Keynote, and you can then paste it right in.
Thanks to Universal Clipboard, you can even copy on your iPhone, and then paste the image on your
Mac or iPad. It’s not flawless, and it works better with very clear images where there’s an
obvious distinction between the subject and the background, but it does work pretty well overall.
02 - Messages - Edit Sent Message In iOS16, once you’ve sent a message
to someone, provided they are also using an iPhone and provided their iPhone has been
updated to iOS16 or above, you can edit the message. Once sent, tap and hold on
the Message to bring up the contextual menu. Then choose Edit, and you can edit the text,
as if you were editing it prior to sending it. Tap the little blue Tick icon to confirm the change.
At the recipient’s end, they will receive a notification letting them know that the Message
has been edited, and it will show with an edit button. If the user taps on that Edit button,
they can view the previously edited messages, shown in a slightly lighter grey colour. Note
that there is a 15 minute time limit on this, from the moment that you hit send.
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03 - Maps - Add Stops When I made a video about
Maps earlier this year, the number one comment, without a shadow of a doubt,
was that people wanted to be able to add stops along their planned routes. Well, in iOS16,
you now can. Now, when you create a route using the normal method, you can see that you have an
additional option called Add Stop. If you tap there, you can then search for somewhere you’d
like to stop at, another address, maybe a food location or a store, whatever you need. You can
then drag the individual items around to create your route, in the order you want to travel,
and you can add multiple stops, giving you a really accurate idea of how long an overall
journey is going to take, not taking the time you spend at each stop into consideration of course.
Maps allows you to add up to 15 stops along your route, this definitely works for car journeys,
although I believe it should also work for public transport where that option is available.
04 - Visual Look Up Improvements I’ve mentioned Visual Look Up in a previous video,
the feature where you can use your iPhone to identify things like plants, pets or landmarks,
and give you more information about them. That functionality has now been expanded out to cover
birds, insects, spiders and statues in your photos. Just as a reminder, to do this, find
a photo where you see this little i icon, with a sparkle next to it down at the bottom of the
screen. Tap on that, and here you’ll see the Look Up information for whatever your phone believes
is in the photo. Tap here to find out more, including Siri knowledge, and images from the web.
05 - Notes - Quick Notes on iPhone You can finally take Quick Notes on your
iPhone in iOS16. The Quick Notes function has been around on Mac and iPad for a while now, whereby at
any time, pretty much anywhere on either of those devices, you can swipe to create a Quick Note,
and link it to whatever you’re working on at the time. These notes go into a dedicated ‘Quick
Notes’ pile in Notes, which you can then sort and finish later on, but until now, you’ve not been
able to create them on your iPhone, only view and edit them, which has always been a bit odd to me.
So, let’s say I’m browsing the web using Safari, and I want to make a note of this
page. Tap the Share button down at the bottom, like you usually would,
but then scroll down a little and you’ll now see ‘Add to Quick Note’. Tap on that,
and a link to the page is created in a brand new Quick Note. You can then begin typing in
anything that you want to add, and then save it, and this note will appear in the
same Quick Notes part of your Notes app on Mac and iPad, if you use either of those.
06 - View Wifi Password (Settings) Definitely a minor update in amongst
some of these major changes, but I’m including it anyway as I reckon this is going to be really
useful for a lot of people. You can of course allow access to your Wifi with another iPhone
owner by accepting the request that will appear on your screen when someone tries
to join your network, but there are going to be times where you’re going to want to view,
perhaps even copy your wifi password, and you can now do just that in iOS16.
Head to Settings, then Wifi, then tap on the info button next to your Wifi network. Now in Password,
if you tap there, you can use your phone’s biometrics or password to view the wifi password,
and you can tap on the Copy button to of course copy it to your clipboard,
and once there you can do with it whatever you like.
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07 - Mail - Schedule Send In iOS16, you can schedule
an email to be sent later, rather than having to send it right away, which is a great little
addition to a Mail app which, let’s face it, has been a bit underwhelming in recent years.
So, I’ve got this email written. To send it, you would of course tap the Send button,
but instead, I’m going to press and hold the Send button, to bring up some options.
You’ve got Send Now up at the top, then Send Later down at the bottom,
and depending on the time of day when you do this, you’ll get different options in between,
things like send at 9pm tonight, that kind of thing. If you tap on Send Later, you can be
really specific about when you’d like the email to go, choosing a date and time in the future.
Notice up at the top, that your phone explains that your device must be online at the send time,
in order for this to work. This would mean that you couldn’t set
this up before boarding a flight for example, or shutting your phone down,
you would need to ensure that your phone is powered on and connected to the internet
at the desired sending time for this to work, but I can think of plenty of situations where
being able to draft an email right away, but not have it send immediately would be pretty useful.
Once you choose a time in the future, your email Mailboxes will show a ‘Send Later’ section,
and if you tap into that, then tap into the email, you can either Edit
the sending date and time, Cancel sending it later, or delete the email entirely.
08 - Apple Pay Order Tracking If you purchase things using Apple Pay,
you can now track your orders directly from within the Wallet app. Within the Wallet app,
you now have this little package icon up at the top right of the screen, and if you tap on that,
you can then view order information, and track the order, for whatever you’ve purchased. If
you tap into the order itself, you can view the order number, and tapping on that will
take you to the store’s website and into the order itself. You can view the total cost of the order,
and down at the bottom there’s a handy little ‘send email’ button, which is great if you realise
you need to get in touch with the seller, it saves you having to route around their website looking
for a way to contact them. If you tap the ellipsis up at the top, you can mark the order as complete,
pause any updates for it, and mute notifications about it, as well as deleting the order. Just a
reminder, this will only work if you pay using Apple Pay and I believe that the
retailer has to enable it at their end, but more and more companies are now offering it,
so there’s an increasing chance that you’ll be able to make use of this in the near future.
09 - Maps - Public Transport Fares This feature is currently only available
in London here in the UK, or the San Francisco Bay area, San Diego and New York in the US,
but I’m mentioning it because it’s a nice feature and will be coming
to other cities very soon. If you plan a trip in Maps using Public Transport in any
of the previously mentioned cities, Maps will not only show you a route,
it will also show you the cost of that trip. You can see the cost information just here.
10 - Mail - Recall an Email You can, kind of, recall emails
now in iOS16. So, the way this works, is let’s say you hit send on an email,
and you immediately have that feeling of dread when you realise that you shouldn’t
have sent it. Maybe it’s gone to the wrong person, contains something it shouldn’t,
whatever. Provided you realise that within 10 seconds of hitting send, you’re in luck. Look to
the bottom of the screen when I hit send on this email. You now get an Undo Send button. Tap that,
and you’re returned back to the email edit screen, no email has been sent, and you can do whatever
you need to do to keep you out of whatever trouble you might have been in if you’d sent the email.
Now, the reason why I say that this is ‘kind of’ a recall, is because I don’t think that’s what’s
actually happening here. I think Apple have written a 10 second delay into the software,
kind of an ‘are you sure you want to send this’ function. Do nothing,
and in 10 seconds your email is sent, hit the Undo button and you’re back where you
started. It’s a cool feature in fairness, and there have definitely been times recently
where I would have loved to have had this feature available to me, so, nice one Apple.
Lock Screen (mention other video, link to it) I feel like I ought to mention this, the Lock
screen has, without a doubt, seen the most significant changes in iOS16, with huge updates
to how the lock screen both looks and functions. So much so in fact, that I’ve already created a
dedicated video talking all about it. I’ll link to that video in the description of this one,
and if you haven’t already, I would definitely recommend that you check that one out next.
End So there you go,
10 great new features available to you on your iPhone, as part of iOS16. I’ve
got another one of these videos almost ready to go, with 10 more features,
that should be out in a day or two, so definitely keep an eye on the channel for that.
What about you? What new features are you really enjoying in iOS16? Likewise,
what were you hoping for, that didn’t materialise? Drop me a comment, and let me know.
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