16 Hidden iOS 16 Features You Didn't Know About

[compwiz1202]

Now do being able to delete CarPlay screenshots (or turn them off altogether) without an obscure shortcut

Yes or a pop up to delete screenshots after you share

 

[DeepIn2U]

Had me at :
Hidden and Deleted Photo Protection & Copy and Delete Screenshots!

 

[amcomis]

Is it just me or does the "duplicate photos" feature/album not showing up for anyone else (I have iphone 13 pro)? I know I definitely have SOME duplicates. How long could it possibly take to scan my album?

 

[jwdsail]

These are all great, but what the client I was working with today really wanted was the "Favorites" Shortcut from iOS 14 brought back.

Maybe in iOS 17?

 

[Aetles]

All of iOS 16’s features will remain “hidden” to me as I won’t be upgrading. There’s zero of any significant practical use to me.

Then one day in the future you'll suddenly be in a position where you really need to find out what that old wifi password was and you go to the wifi settings and find the password and don't even think about that fact that this was a new feature in iOS 16 (of which you – of course – actually upgraded to after a while, despite claiming otherwise on various forums on the internet).

 

[matrix07]

Spatial Audio Just for You - With the latest AirPods and some Beats earphones, iOS 16 users can activate Personalized Spatial Audio. Personalized Spatial Audio uses the LiDAR scanner on the iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro, or the iPhone 14 Pro to scan the geometry of the user's ears in order to deliver a better Spatial Audio experience.

Oh, so iPhone X user can't??

 

[matrix07]

• Spatial Audio Just for You - With the latest AirPods and some Beats earphones, iOS 16 users can activate Personalized Spatial Audio. Personalized Spatial Audio uses the LiDAR scanner on the iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro, or the iPhone 14 Pro to scan the geometry of the user's ears in order to deliver a better Spatial Audio experience.

So much wrong on this part. You don’t need a pro phone to get this. It uses the TrueDepth camera that is used for Face ID, not the LiDAR Scanner. Also this is available for first gen AirPods Pro.

So iPhone X user can use it?

 

[synergize]

Is it just me or does the "duplicate photos" feature/album not showing up for anyone else (I have iphone 13 pro)? I know I definitely have SOME duplicates. How long could it possibly take to scan my album?

Took about 30 hours for my dupes to show up!

 

[Hammerd]

FINALLY I can scan my ear canal.
About time!

 

[Haust]

I just want to be able to change the entire system font. Please!

 

[freedomlinux]

users can now say "Hey Siri, hang up the call" to end an active call. Note that the other person/people on the call will hear your request to Siri before being hung up on.

What is the use case for this? Maybe for accessibility or if you are on speaker with your hands full, but it still seems incredibly awkward.

Imagine having an argument: "AAAAA I'm hanging up on you! Siri, hang up the call"
Not quite as satisfying as slamming down a physical corded phone.

 

[Hildy]

Well I looked at that, of course (long press and customise), and got options for photos, photo shuffle, emoji, weather, astronomy, colour etc., but I cannot see any option to change the clock font, or I would not have asked the question. I looked in settings, and cannot see a "Lock Screen" option.

Thanks - it seems you have to add new wallpaper and then you can edit the clock font (limited options indeed)! I was trying to edit my current homescreen/wallpaper or whatever I should be calling it. Thanks for the help 👍

This is a good point though.., why do I have to change my wallpaper to make edits..? It seems to want to force a change to my status quo when one shouldn’t be required.

 

[Apple_Robert]

I can barely feel the haptic feedback from the keyboard; way too taint.

 

[BornAgainMac]

Almost have 5,000 photos are the duplicates. I don't want to have to click Merge for each one. I wish Siri could just do them all for me.

 

[neuropsychguy]

First time ever. I’m normally a day 1 downloader.

I’ve had zero bugs with iOS 16 on my 13 Pro. It was a quick upgrade and has been flawless ever since. Bugs were rare for me in iOS 15 (usually something with Safari) but nothing so far with iOS 16.

 

[BornAgainMac]

I like that crop feature by just pressing on the subject. It is really easy and fast.

 

[Rafagon]

I see that you can now create (and delete) lists of contacts (Dining, Family, Friends, etc.) using the Contacts app.

Is this new on iOS 16 or has it been around for a while?

I remember that at some point in the past these lists could only be created on macOS.

 

[Cmd-Z]

I see that you can now create (and delete) lists of contacts (Dining, Family, Friends, etc.) using the Contacts app.

Is this new on iOS 16 or has it been around for a while?

I remember that at some point in the past these lists could only be created on macOS.

I think this is new, I don't remember seeing Lists in iOS 15. Just tested this and it works well in iOS Mail, but does not work in iMessage.

 

[840quadra]

Wow it is so sad that I am looking to enable some of these features on my 13 Pro, then forget that it is still on the older iOS (work reasons), and that my iOS 16 device is my other phone 😂.

 

[dwreck]

I’m enjoying the new scrubbers for volume and playback. You can touch and scrub anywhere on the bar instead of trying to grab the small slider. Way easier to use.

is it just me or is the playback scrubber gone from the Music app itself? it’s still available in the Control Panel and Lock Screen players

 

[Cmd-Z]

is it just me or is the playback scrubber gone from the Music app itself? it’s still available in the Control Panel and Lock Screen players

Playback scrubber is present in the Music app ... there's no "cursor", just a highlighted line up to the current playback time, so you just tap and swipe on that to scrub.

 

[GlenK]

The Lists feature is awesome!!!

 

[johnmarki]

Full screen music player makes me so happy! Finally it returns!

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

I turned it off anyways. The battery shows as full until it hits a certain percent. Having a filled battery indicator when I’m sitting at 50% doesn’t sit right with me.

Yea, I rather Apple just replace the icon with the % text. The bright white batt icon seems to drown out the small numeral text inside it. It's not really glanceable pass a foot, and I have 20/20 vision.

 

[Kar98]

Photo dupe album took a day to appear. Guess it needed some time to look through them.