After seeing the releases of iOS 15 and the following iPhone 13 collection, we’re within the midst of .1 updates which are slowly refining options we’ve been seeing since June, again at WWDC.
Nevertheless, that doesn’t cease us from pondering of what might be within the subsequent model of iOS that’s broadly anticipated to be referred to as iOS 16.
Each iOS launch has introduced a significant characteristic to the desk, whether or not that’s widgets or darkish mode. However iOS may nonetheless profit from some new refinements to raised handle how you utilize your iPhone on daily basis.
We’ve combed by means of our iPhones to roundup 5 options we’d wish to see arrive in iOS 16 subsequent yr, regardless of how main or minor these could also be. However first, we’ll run you thru after we anticipate it to land and which iPhones shall be supported.
iOS 16 launch date rumors
Apple has adopted a standard schedule of saying the newest iOS replace in June at WWDC, adopted by a launch round September.
With iOS 15.2 presently in testing, Apple has been specializing in rolling out vital options throughout extra .1 updates. In earlier years, we have seen the trackpad seem on iOS 13.4, alongside ProRes in iOS 15.1 in October of this yr.
It would not be a stretch to anticipate an iOS 15.7 by the point we see iOS 16 with extra vital options.
iOS 16 supported iPhones
Apple tries to help quite a lot of iPhone fashions in each new iOS launch. iOS 15 helps iPhone 6S at a minimal, which was launched in 2015.
It would not be a stretch to anticipate iOS 16 to help the iPhone 7 collection at a minimal, however with some options held again, primarily as a result of {hardware} limitations of the digital camera, or the chip inside sure iPhone fashions.
Each iOS launch comes with a significant characteristic, but in addition a bunch of minor enhancements throughout the board. For those who nonetheless have an iPhone 8 as an example, you could reap the advantages of a number of the small options in iOS 16 when it arrives. However you’ll more than likely miss out on the massive characteristic that Apple will showcase.
Redesigned Digicam app
The iPhone digital camera has seen enormous enhancements lately, with extra lenses being added and options corresponding to Evening Mode and Cinematic Mode being launched.
Nevertheless, this has meant that the digital camera app has begun to really feel bloated. Accessing compelled flash or publicity settings requires a couple of extra swipes than we’d like, alongside hidden gestures that don’t really feel wanted.
With the upcoming launch of iOS 15.2, we’re additionally about to see a brand new macro button seem, which can show you how to to extra precisely arrange these close-up photographs when wanted. That is only for the iPhone 13 collection, although.
Beginning afresh with the digital camera app may assist new customers take pictures in a complete new method, alongside giving current customers a contemporary method of taking pictures and movies.
It wouldn’t be a stretch to imagine that Apple has extra large plans for the cameras in future iPhone fashions, which can even imply new options that we’ll be switching on and off when required. Let’s see an app that’s redesigned for what got here earlier than, and lays the groundwork for what’s coming subsequent.
QuickNote to iPhone
It is a characteristic that seems in iPadOS 15 and macOS 12 Monterey, the place you may drag your finger from the bottom-right nook, and you may shortly kind in some notes, regardless of the place you’re in your gadget.
There are numerous gestures you are able to do on an iPhone, so there’s no hurt in including yet another. Dragging from the underside proper nook would show a notice that you could possibly shortly kind in, and save for a later date.
Together with your thumb being your main level of interplay along with your smartphone, it is a straightforward win that may actually assist with shortly jotting one thing down. It’s going to additionally save the pressure of your thumb as a substitute of reaching for the Management Heart on the highest proper, and deciding on the Notes icon.
Since widgets got a makeover in iOS 14, alongside the flexibility to position them anyplace on the house display, another apps haven’t been forthcoming with their very own widgets to assist scale back some steps. One blatant instance is the Residence app.
You’ll have a choice of sensible lights in your house the place you utilize the app to assist handle these. However if you wish to shortly change on a light-weight, you could expertise a delay should you ask Siri, or if the app isn’t responding, which has occurred typically in our expertise.
Having a widget on your own home display to your sensible lights may actually assist scale back the steps in shortly switching the bed room lamp on, as a substitute of getting to search out the Residence app.
It’s a bit of unusual that the widget hasn’t appeared as but, however we’re hoping it arrives, not solely to iOS 16, however future variations of macOS and iPadOS as nicely.
Air apps
For those who personal one of many AirPods peripherals, or an AirTag, you could discover it very cumbersome to attempt to handle every of those. AirPods settings are solely accessible by means of Bluetooth from throughout the Settings app, whereas AirTags settings are accessible by means of the Discover My app.
With the ability to handle these by means of a centralized ‘AirThings’ app may relieve numerous confusion as to what you personal from Apple.
Third-party distributors corresponding to Sony convey out sure apps that may show you how to handle headphones and extra to raised handle the options that these convey. With the ability to do the identical, with out having to go to Bluetooth throughout the Settings app, may convey numerous simplicity to managing your units.
Higher theme choices
Again in 2019, we noticed an onslaught of themes thanks to some new options that the Shortcuts app offered in iOS 13.
With Shortcuts, you need to use the app to create launch instructions for different apps, and place an icon of your alternative on the house display for it. This has resulted in lots of themes being made accessible for iPhone customers.
YouTuber Marques Brownlee created a brief information to create your personal icons with Shortcuts.
However iOS 16 may go additional. A brand new class within the App Retailer may allow themes to be downloaded after which chosen throughout the Settings app. You might additionally select totally different colours and sounds for notifications and set them as a separate theme, which is also enabled with Automations within the Shortcuts app.
Third-party builders may maybe make their very own sounds and themes accessible as nicely. Whereas there could be restrictions on altering different app icons, it may additional increase the individuality that customers need from their units.
