Hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and iOS 16.1 is finally here and available to
the public if you were able to install iOS 16 you'll have this update available when
you go to your software updates and check for an update and this particular update could be
pretty large depending on which version you're coming from if you're actually coming from the
betas it'll be a very large five gigabytes plus so it could take some time to install but once
you install it you'll have some nice features we've waited for since iOS 16 was announced so
let's go ahead and take a look at what's new now with iOS 16 we had the battery percentage but it
was missing on some phones Apple has added that to the remaining phones where it was missing so the
iPhone 10r iPhone 11 iPhone 12 mini and 13 mini can now add the battery percentage under battery
settings turn on battery percentage and now you'll have that here so if you want to use the battery
percentage in the little battery icon in the upper right you can now do that also if we go back to
settings go under battery again under bad battery health and charging there's a new option in some
regions you'll see it says clean energy charging it says in your region iPhone will try to reduce
your carbon footprint by selectively charging when lower carbon emissions electricity is available
iPhone learns from your daily charging routine so you can reach full charge before you need to use
it so that's something they've added again that's region specific it's not available everywhere and
if you don't want to use it you can just turn it off or leave it on it's up to you now something
they've added that we've wanted for a long time that was promised with iOS 16 is iCloud shared
photo library again that's found in Settings or you can see that in your photo settings but if you
tap on your name at the top then tap on iCloud and you'll see apps using iCloud tap on photos and if
you scroll down you'll see Library shared Library you can now share your iCloud photo library with
friends family or significant others or really anyone else that's in your family group that you
have set up on your iPhone so if we go into that if you scroll down to options you'll see we have
have shared Library suggestions and sharing from camera you can also have it delete notifications
where it says receive regular notifications when other participants delete content you added so you
can control permissions as well and within the camera when you have the option enabled you'll
now have a new icon with two little people here you can now have it automatically share with
that shared iCloud photo library so if you want to share turn that icon on turn it off when you don't
and it will go into your personal Library there's also additional settings in your photos for that
as well if we go into photos you'll see today's wallpaper of course Linked In the description and
if you have shared iCloud photo library enabled you'll have a new icon in the upper right tap
on it it's got a little person and it says move to Shared Library if it's already shared to your
library you can move it back to your personal Library tap the three dots in the upper right
and you have similar options as well to move it to your shared Library if we go back to an album
again go into the same menu we now have the option to view both libraries view only our personal
Library our shared library and also enable a badge for shared libraries so that we can see which ones
are shared or not shared so you have all of those options now if you have that enabled now live
activities is something we've been waiting for for a long time and it's enabled in 16.1 now it does
require the third party app to update the app to allow it to use live activities and apple showed
an example of showing Sports on your lock screen while you can just watch the sports scores change
throughout the day if you're unable to watch a game this is enabled in different apps such as
the clock app it's the only thing that Apple has it enabled in but if we swipe home you'll see here
if we go to the lock screen it's showing here there's one other third-party app I can share
that shows this as well and this is called I event timer and within the app you can create a custom
event so for example if we swipe home it goes up to the dynamic Island and you'll see that we have
a live activity for our new event so this will be available for more and more apps as they're
updated so we should see more of that very soon now also if the app does support live activities
they'll be an option for it in settings so if we go down to that same app we'll go down to I event
timer you'll see it here we have an option for live activities you can disable it if you don't
want it to show on the lock screen or keep it enabled if you want to see that information now
when you take a screenshot in iOS 16.1 go into the screenshot and tap done they've changed the
way the menu looks so in the upper left is where it shows up now it says save to photos files copy
and delete and delete screenshot before it was at the bottom so if we hit done on the
previous version you'll see it was at the bottom with the same options now it's in the upper left
with a menu that sort of fits everything else in iOS 16. with the iPhone 14 pro and iPhone 14
pro Max Apple added the dynamic Island if you have a dark wallpaper set like this one where
it's completely black at the top you can't see the dynamic Island so apple is updated that with iOS
16.1 if we go into music press play swipe home so it goes to the dynamic Island at the top it
will now have an outline that sort of matches the color of the app so you can see here there's music
if it's the phone it will actually be green and if we go into the clock set a timer swipe home
it's got an orange outline around it that allows you to see it when you have a dark wallpaper set
if it's not dark at the top you won't have the outline something else they've added with the
dynamic island has to do with reachability with the previous updates you couldn't interact with
different content in the dynamic Island if you pull down to bring down reachability so you can
reach the top of your screen you enabled that go into your content and it now works as expected
so again if we go back go into music Oregon just press and hold it will bring open the media player
as well so that's something they've updated that works properly they actually mention as a bug fix
if we go over to the fitness app Apple has updated this so that you can now use Fitness Plus even if
you don't have an Apple Watch so if maybe you don't want to pick up an Apple Watch you just
don't like it you don't want to wear something on your wrist you can now use Fitness Plus subscribe
right on the phone and use all of the different workouts directly from the phone this allows you
to use it not only on your iPhone but your iPad or Apple TV or any of those so you'll be able to use
that directly from here and then go through all of the different workouts if you want to use them
within Apple wallet something Apple's enabled with 16.1 is key sharing you can share a car
key a hotel room key and other keys and wallet using messaging apps so you can use WhatsApp or
iMessage and share that key to someone else so that they can use it also they've enabled the
option for a high yield savings account this is something they announced in apple Newsroom
a little while ago where it says Apple card users will be able to grow their rewards in
apple wallet by automatically depositing their daily cash into a new high yield savings account
from Goldman Sachs so this should be available in certain regions that have apple wallet and should
be available today or very soon if not already since they mention it directly you also have the
option to completely delete the wallet app if you don't want to use it tap on remove app tap
delete and you'll now have the option to delete it once you remove any of your cards in settings so
that's something they've updated and is now available to do with 16.1 now if we go over into
the books app within books if we go into maybe the iOS 12.3 user guide you'll see we have our options
down here in the bottom if we swipe through the different pages we can read of course but you'll
see that disappeared tap on the screen to bring back your options and then you can go into your
settings change your content search and everything else and as we continue to swipe through the book
it will actually disappear since we don't need it so it's just a nice little touch they've added to
make it more of a focused reading experience just something they mentioned specifically
they've also added something significant in the home app which we'll see in a little while within
a home it now has support for matter matter is a standard that's rolling out across many different
devices so not just iPhones but Android phones and others where it will just make things a little
more standard across different devices the new Apple TV supports thread support and so they're
really making this more of a standardized thing since it's been sort of confusing to use different
apps across different devices so hopefully that will get much better very soon now that we have
full matter support now Apple also released iPad OS 16 or iPad OS 16.1 as they're calling it as
well as Mac OS Ventura I'll have separate videos about everything new in both of those as those are
significant upgrades and the first major upgrades this year for both the iPad and Mac so be sure to
check out those other videos now Apple has also fixed some bugs with iOS 16.1 the first thing
they fixed has to do with messages so any deleted messages so you may have deleted a conversation so
sometimes it would appear in the main conversation list so if we go into messages within messages
we have our lists here if you have that enabled and you have all messages known senders unknown
senders and unread messages and then also recently deleted sometimes you would delete
it and it would show back up in messages that has been resolved and shouldn't do that any longer
also they've fixed something to do with carplay carplay has been a bit of a pain with iOS 16
and apparently it was related to vpns so if you're using a VPN app sometimes it would fail to connect
so carplay should be much better in this update and that should be resolved if you were using a
VPN something they've also fixed that they didn't mention specifically has to do with the startup
sound on iPhone 14 pro and 14 pro Max there's now a startup sound when you turn on your phone that's
enabled in settings and then under accessibility scroll down until you see Audio Visual and then
you have power on and off sounds this was a bit buggy before where you would turn off the phone
you'd hear the sound then you'd turn it back on and it wouldn't make any sound whatsoever that
has been resolved in this update they haven't mentioned it specifically but it's something
that actually works now now there are additional bugs that they haven't fixed you may have already
noticed where I swipe home it's a little bit stuttery from time to time so that's something I'm
seeing over and over it doesn't affect performance but it is something that seems to be an issue with
this they haven't resolved it 100 yet and I've had others report this to me so if you see that
it's not unusual some people are seeing it as maybe we'll play a song again swipe home you'll
see it just stuttered there again that's something I'm seeing over and over that needs to be resolved
so there are still some bugs there will always be software bugs that they'll need to update now also
there's security updates and it takes some time after the update is released for those security
bugs to show but I'll link to the security website in the description and you can see that by going
to Safari and within Safari if we scroll down you can see the recent security updates this
will be updated usually within a couple hours on the website with all of the latest updates iOS
16.1 iPad OS 16.1 and so on so it does take some time for them to update this but there will always
be security updates even if they don't mention specific ones now there's some features that are
not available yet with iOS 16.1 and for iPhone 14s we still don't have satellite connectivity
this is something that the groundwork of the code is there but it's just not yet in the update so
that's something that will be coming soon and also something else that will be coming very soon is
freeform freeform is a new collaboration tool that should be built in it says it's a productivity app
where you and your collaborators can bring ideas to life and everything is in real time this is not
yet available and will be with a future update and speaking of future updates I would expect iOS 16.2
betas whether that be this week or maybe next week at this point we just don't know when that will
release but usually we'll move on to 16.2 betas and then we'll have some updates there as well
Apple continues to update this throughout the year until we get to the next version of iOS 17. of
course overall performance I've shown you is quite fast promotion is quite good and I really haven't
had any issues other than that odd stuttering I've shown you already the overall heat of the device
seems to be pretty normal no big differences there and also battery life depending on who you ask is
either the same as before or better some people will have worse battery life but you need to give
it a few days as it does have to compile and fix a lot of things in the background rearrange photos
for example it does sometimes scan photos as you're maybe sharing libraries and things like
that that can take some time indexing and more so just keep that in mind and so if you're wondering
if you should install iOS 16.1 absolutely for the security updates and those bug fixes and
additional features this is the first major update so I would definitely recommend it it
should fix most bugs that people were having so that's everything with iOS 16.1 now if there's
anything else I didn't mention that you've found I'd love to hear from you in the comments below
and of course I'll have a follow-up about this how it's been over the next few days now of course be
sure to check out the iPad OS 16.1 videos and Mac OS Ventura videos that I'll have available soon
if you're not seeing them already if you have any other questions though I'll try to get back to you
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