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As was widely expected, Apple unveiled at WWDC 2022 iOS 16, the operating system that once it has passed the beta phase, in September, will end up on the iPhone 14 and the iPhone 14 Pro. Craig Federighi wanted to immediately underline the new customization possibilities that the next Apple system will be able to offer its customers , a sign that Apple has probably worked like never before to reduce the gap between iOS and Android.
And Federighi started from the most visible element of all, the lock screen which remained substantially unchanged for years. “With iOS 16 – he said – we bring biggest lockscreen update ever “. To begin with, the clock font can be changed, and there are some sort of widgets reminiscent of the Apple Watch ones: “They will be very useful for gathering information at a glance.”
There are also new call notifications Live Activities to stay updated on live events, workouts but also the music player will be part of this category, ie a mix between a “classic” notification and a widget. The Full immersion they become part of the lockscreen, and each of them can be associated with backgrounds and special widgets, and are integrated in a deep way on the Safari browser, which for example can show the tabs related to work when you switch to the appropriate mode.
The app Messages earns the edit key before WhatsApp and Twitter, along with an additional virtual key to cancel sending a message. The modality Dictation iOS 16 will be hybrid, in the sense that the keyboard will also remain open at the same time as the voice dictation, so as to quickly switch from one input to another; there is also the possibility of dictating an emoticon with the voice, describing it, which is an important novelty in the area of ​​accessibility.
Apple has officially announced the operation of the feature tap to pay which turns the iPhone into a Pos, which we have already talked about extensively. New partners are arriving including Shopify, Chase and other American companies, but it seems that for the moment it will remain available only to customers overseas. New for the app Maps, but only a few involve Italy for the moment. Among these there is not the new 3D visualization, which arrives in other European countries such as France or Belgium.
In family gets new parental controls for content sharing and a revamped setup process that simplifies the previous one.
Regarding the photos, Apple introduced iCloud Shared Photo Library, an iCloud library that engages up to six users. Loading “intelligent”and a new virtual key integrated into the shooting app, Camera, which allows you to establish that all new photos automatically go to a shared album.
