hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and ios 16 has been out to developers and public beta
testers for a few months and many of us that have been using it full time since the initial
introduction with ios 16 beta 1 have had a chance to sort of figure out what features that we're
going to use the most and while there are hundreds of features and changes i thought i'd go over the
most used features since many people won't really use all of the little features here and there now
the first thing has to do with the keyboard this is a feature that's turned off by default and you
actually have to turn on i'll show you how to do that in a moment but a haptic feedback from
a keyboard is something other phones have had but iphone has not so if i type hi how are you today
you can feel every little tap as you're typing on the keyboard or if you're deleting on the keyboard
every time you press it you can feel a little bit of feedback and this is really nice however
it's not customizable in the sense that you can't change the intensity of it but you can feel it on
all the phones so in order to enable that just go into your settings go down to sounds and haptics
scroll down to keyboard feedback and you'll see sound and haptic turn it on not just sound or
haptic you can switch either one of these once you turn on haptic you'll actually have that enabled
unfortunately you can't modify the intensity of it that's something i'd like that seemed to have
changed over the betas but you definitely can feel it either way as you're typing this could
be helpful for just the regular user or maybe someone with accessibility needs i think it's a
great feature it's highly underrated and something i find that i use all the time and appreciate
the next thing is probably the most obvious change to ios 16 and that's the lock screen
the lock screen now has widgets it's got a bunch of customizations and it's something that i think
you'll use a lot in the sense of when you put your phone down maybe you just tap at it you
want to glance at it see what's going on with the weather maybe your status for battery and more
however most people are not on the lock screen all day so it's a nice change it's got some nice
customizations and let's see if we can get this to unlock again it's got some nice customizations
but it's not something that's i think game changing for iphone but it's great to have
so if we press and hold of course we can customize this and then change all the different widgets and
more so if you want to change your different watch widget to maybe change it to a calendar or maybe
a different thing such as reminders you have the ability to do this and you'll see this
more and more as apps are updated from third parties so after ios 16 is out for everyone
you'll see this updated regularly and will have a ton of different ones from different apps
of course along with that comes wallpaper customization you can put different
filters on it depth effects and much more and change what you have so you can make multiple
wallpapers and the nice thing is you can have this blurry on your home screen and more so there's a
lot of customization here i think a lot of people will appreciate change the font color and more you
can change everything around as you like change the different text and more so i think this is
a great change i know a lot of people appreciate customization and it also goes along with focus
modes where you can actually have it customized so we'll cancel this change the focus mode and then
you can have it tied to a focus mode so maybe when you get to work all of your wallpapers and widgets
change then when you get home they change back based on what you've said it this is great for
a lot of people and i know a lot of people will really appreciate it but then i think at some
point they'll just set it and sort of forget it so it'll be something they just don't remember and
they leave it alone so you can see these are from past videos the past couple days and if i change
to this i have similar widgets set up but you can customize this however you'd like so it's great
to see that they've added this now something else to go along with the lock screen is notifications
apple has moved them to the bottom this year and that's something i actually learned to appreciate
i thought i preferred them at the top but i actually find that i use them more at the bottom
they're customizable in the way they look and then of course they're just hidden down at the bottom
when in do not disturb they hide themselves you can just drag them down or bring them out and
then expand them further if you want to do that so i really appreciate this it's something that i
don't know that everyone will but give it time try it out and i think you'll appreciate it over time
now the next thing is not on all phones but on most phones so on the iphone 10r 11 12 mini
and 13 mini you won't have the battery option this is something they added in later betas
and i know a lot of people appreciate as simple as it is it's something ios has had for years
they removed with the phones with the notch and now they've finally brought it back for most
phones now this is something that i actually use from time to time just to glance at
but not something i look at all the time i would like to see some improvements with it maybe have
it go down as the actual percentage goes down like the previous battery indicator but it's something
they haven't updated yet but again that's in your settings under battery so under battery
go into battery percentage you'll see it here you can turn that on or off and then you'll get the
old icon turn it back on you'll get the new icon once it reaches twenty percent it will change and
show that it's depleted and you're in low low battery mode so that's something that changes
kind of oddly and something i'd like to see them update but either way you now have that percentage
now something i find myself using all the time is live text apple introduced this with ios 15
but it's been greatly improved in ios 16. so if we go into photos and within photos you
can see this is just a screenshot from one of the different videos i did with a different wallpaper
press and hold anywhere and now it recognizes things such as temperatures and then can convert
them so if i want to convert convert fahrenheit to celsius tap on convert fahrenheit and now you
can see the temperatures it seems a little bit backwards in the way they actually have this
organized in the sense of i would think this would be convert to celsius and convert from fahrenheit
but it's something that can be suggested in feedback also it can see this as an angle of
65 degrees and you can convert that as well live text now sees all of these things and understands
with more context what you're actually looking at live text also works within videos now too so
it's something i find myself using all the time throughout just to copy and paste so if i want
to copy and paste some text maybe i want to copy the word youtube copy it paste it somewhere else
i can do that that's something i think that is super helpful and i find myself using all the time
also within your photos at the bottom you have duplicates of course now which is a new feature
that's super helpful if you find duplicates you can go in there merge them delete them you also
have your folders locked under hidden and recently deleted this is something a lot of people have
wanted and i know more people would like from an individual app basis as well so if you go into
recently deleted or hidden it's going to look for face id or make you enter your passcode so this is
something i think is great we'll cancel it for now but that gives you an idea of how it works
and now they're finally locked also in photos there's a couple other things that i find i use
a lot also within my favorites you can see i have a picture i took of the oculus and world
trade center in new york city press and hold on and i can simply remove it from the background
this is something that's incredible given all the detail it goes around all the different building
structure parts and then if i want i can go out of this go into notes and just drag and drop it
here give it a moment and it drops into notes so you can easily remove a background without really
doing any work it's great you can also do the same within a video so you can see here's my video
it's live and let's just pause it we'll rotate press and hold and then remove a piece from the
background within a video just in real time and again you can use live text within a video as
well it will actually recognize text throughout the video so you'll see it recognized ios 16
and then we can translate look up and more so this is something that's super helpful that i
find that i use a lot to copy and paste to remove images and things like that it's something i
really think is incredible that it's just so simple to do in ios 16. also something that's
really nice and helpful is within notes this is something i've come to appreciate within
notes on ios 16 ipad os 16 and also mac os ventura it will auto sort it by the day
so maybe you're working on some notes for the day just like these particular videos
you'll see here sometimes i get some things ready you'll see today is just the notes we already
created ios 16 most used features waiting for ios 16 rc and some previous notes as well so it sorts
them automatically you don't have to worry about it it's just something i find very very helpful
and will be helpful if you use notes a lot as well some small changes or features that i think a lot
of people will appreciate that i hear about all the time has to do with the contacts app
while i don't use this app a whole lot myself many people say that these new lists are super helpful
and it just really helps manage things overall if you have duplicates you'll see duplicates
here just like you will in photos and then also you can create favorites and then see everything
all together if you want more information just press and hold on one of your groups and then you
can either email all of them message all of them export them rename them or delete them finally we
can export our contacts easily within ios also if we go into those we can select all three
just simply by putting two fingers down and dragging like you would in mail and then again
press and hold for more options you can merge them this time and then you can just drag and drop them
elsewhere also so if you want to drag and drop and then just copy these cards into maybe an email or
something else you can do that it's really easy to use and something i think a lot of people will
appreciate also finally one thing i like a lot is the weather app apple continues to update this
it may seem a little silly but there's more and more information in here we can
see more information about temperatures when to expect the different temperatures to change
rain and more so we can sort this go to humidity see the overall humidity or wind or something
else this is great when i'm filming outside i can see what it's going to be like when it's supposed
to be like that at least what they predict anyway and then see what it'll be as far as rain or wind
if it's really windy it's difficult to record outside so that's something i really appreciate
with more and more detail here as we go down in and then we can even see a map and more so lots
of information within the weather app and i think a lot of people will appreciate that so those
are the things i find that i use the most also there's one last thing i wanted to share because
it's also super helpful and that's in messages and i almost forgot about it so if we go into messages
and within messages we now have the ability to remove or unsend the message within two minutes
so if we've sent it within two minutes we can undo send and it just disappears now if they have ios
15 or earlier on there they may not see it go away and android users won't see it go away but you can
make it disappear for ios 16 users you can also edit a message as well for up to about 15 minutes
or undo deleting a message for 30 minutes so if we want to edit this this is a new message again
and you'll see that it's now edited you can see a log of the different edits as well by
tapping on it so you can see if maybe you need to copy and paste this if it's something important
so you can see sort of a change log to that if you go back a few pages you have the option to
restore recently deleted messages as well and then make messages unread also so this is super helpful
if you need to get something back you accidentally deleted just go into there tap on the message you
want and then at the bottom tap on recover all that are selected it's super helpful and something
i think a lot of people will appreciate so those are all of the most used features that i find i
use all of the time there's some other helpful features all throughout the os whether that be
mail or music or many different apps have changes as well but those are the things i find that i'm
using the most let me know what you're using the most if you're using ios 16 or what you think is
the best new change or feature of ios 16. i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
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