iOS 16 enhances iPhone with all‑new personalization features, deeper intelligence, and seamless ways tocommunicate andshare.
Key Features andEnhancements
Lock Screen
Lock Screen gallery
For inspiration on how to make the LockScreen your own, browse a gallery of many options, each with a unique backdrop, stylized view of the date and time, and information you can see at aglance.
Lock Screen switching
You can switch your LockScreen throughout the day. Touch and hold it, and thenswipe.
Lock Screen editing
It’s easy to customize the font, color, or placement of elements on your Lock Screen by tapping theelement.
Stylized date and time
Expressive font styles and color choices allow you to customize the look of the date and time on your LockScreen.
Multilayered photo effect
Photo subjects are dynamically displayed in front of the time to make the subject of the photopop.1
Suggested photos
iOS intelligently suggests photos from your library that look great on the LockScreen.
Photo shuffle
See a set of photos shuffle automatically on your Lock Screen. Set the cadence for how often your Lock Screen updates with a new photo, or let iOS surprise and delight you throughout theday.
Photo styles
Apply styles to photos on the LockScreen that automatically change the color filter, tinting, and font style to complement eachother.
Widgets on the Lock Screen
Choose to display a set of widgets as part of your LockScreen to glance at information like the weather, time, date, battery levels, upcoming calendar events, alarms, time zones, and Activity ringprogress.
WidgetKit API
Glance at widgets from your favorite third-party apps. View widgets in a textual, circular, or rectangular format near the time to get information like weather conditions or progress on yourgoals.
Live Activities
Live Activities help you stay on top of things that are happening in real time, right from your LockScreen.
Live Activities API
Follow an ongoing sports game or track the progress of your ride or order with just a glance. Glance at Live Activities from your favorite third-party apps with the new developerAPI.
Lock Screens made for Focus
iOS suggests a relevant set of LockScreens for provided Focus options, such as a data-rich LockScreen while you’re using the Work Focus or a photo LockScreen while you’re using the PersonalFocus.
Apple collections
Choose from a set of dynamic, classic, and landscape Lock Screens created especially for iOS16. Apple collections include Lock Screens to celebrate special cultural moments, like Pride andUnity.
Astronomy
See the earth, moon, or solar system with a set of dynamic astronomy-themed Lock Screens that update with live conditions.
Weather
Glance at live conditions on your Lock Screen as the weather changes throughout theday.
Emoji
Create patterned Lock Screens based on your favorite emoji.
Colors
Choose a color gradient for your LockScreen using your favorite colorcombinations.
New design for Now Playing
With LiveActivities, you can expand NowPlaying controls to a full-screen view that celebrates album art while you listenalong.
New notification design
The use of bold text and images makes notifications visuallypop.
Notification animations
Notifications, including your notification summary, now roll in from the bottom of your LockScreen, making them easy to see at a glance as they comein.
Notification view on Lock Screen
Choose to view notifications on the LockScreen in an expanded list view, stacked view, or count view. You can pinch to change the layout incontext.
Focus
Lock Screen linking
Transform how your iPhone looks and functions at the same time by connecting your LockScreen to your Focus. To activate a Focus, you can swipe to the corresponding LockScreen.
Lock Screen suggestions
iOS suggests a relevant set of LockScreens for provided Focus options, such as a data-rich LockScreen while you’re using the Work Focus or a photo LockScreen while you’re using the PersonalFocus.
Home Screen page suggestions
iOS suggests HomeScreen pages with apps and widgets that are most relevant to the Focus you’re settingup.
Focus filters
Set boundaries within Apple apps like Calendar, Mail, Messages, and Safari for each Focus you enable. For example, choose a set of TabGroups to show up in Safari while in the WorkFocus, or hide your work calendar when you’re using the PersonalFocus.
Focus filter API
With the new Focus filter API, developers can use the signal that you’re using to enable Focus to hide distractingcontent.
Focus schedules
Have a Focus turn on automatically at a set time or location or while using a certainapp.
Easier setup
Get started with Focus with a personalized setup experience for eachoption.
Allow and silence list
When you’re setting up a Focus, select apps and people you want to receive notifications from by either allowing them or silencingthem.
iCloud Shared Photo Library
Share a photo library with your family
Share a separate iCloudphotolibrary with up to five otherpeople.
Smart setup rules
Share all your past photos, or use setup tools to contribute specific photos based on start date orpeople.
Smart sharing suggestions
Contribute photos manually, or use smart features to make sharing seamless, like a switch in Camera, automatic sharing using Bluetooth proximity, and sharing suggestions in ForYou.
Collaborate on the collection
Everyone has equal permissions to add, edit, favorite, caption, anddelete.
Relive more complete memories
Enjoy shared photos in Memories, FeaturedPhotos, and the Photoswidget.
Messages
Edit a message
You can edit a message for up to 15 minutes after sending it. Recipients will be able to see a record of edits made to the message.2
Undo send
Unsend any message for up to 2 minutes after sending it.
Mark as unread
Mark messages as unread when you don’t have time to respond but want to be sure to reply to the senderlater.
Recover recently deleted messages
You can recover recently deleted messages for up to 30days after deletingthem.3
SharePlay via Messages
Share synchronized activities like movies, music, workouts, games, and more with friends while chatting inMessages.
Shared with You API
Developers can build a Shared with You section into their app, so when someone sends you a video or article that you don’t have time to check out at the moment, it will be easy to find the next time you open theapp.
Collaboration invitations
Send an invitation to collaborate on a project in Messages, and everyone on the thread will automatically be added to the document, spreadsheet, or project. Compatible with Files, Keynote, Numbers, Pages, Notes, Reminders, and Safari, as well as third‑partyapps.
Collaboration updates
When someone makes an edit, you’ll see activity updates at the top of the Messages thread. Tap the updates to get back to the sharedproject.
Messages Collaboration API
Developers can integrate their app’s collaboration experiences with Messages and FaceTime, making it easy to initiate and manage collaboration from the places where you’re communicating with your collaborators.
Tapbacks in SMS Threads
When an iOS user responds with a tapback to a text message in an SMS thread, their tapback appears on the corresponding bubble inMessages.
Dual SIM message filtering
Filter conversations in Messages by individual SIM.
Audio message playback
Fast-forward or rewind audio messages as you listen.
Smart search corrections
Intelligent search improves your results by correcting typos and using synonyms for your searchterms.4
Smart search suggestions
See a richer view of shared content and more from the moment you begin to search for email messages.
Missing recipients and attachments
Get notified if you forget to include an important part of your message, like an attachment or arecipient.4
Undo send
Easily unsend an email message that you just sent before it reaches the recipient’s inbox.5
Scheduled send
Schedule email to be sent at the perfectmoment.
Follow‑up
Move sent email messages to the top of your inbox so you can quickly send a follow‑up.4
Remind me
Never forget about an email that you opened but didn’t get back to. Select a date and time to have messages resurface in yourinbox.
Rich link
Add rich links that give your email messages more context and details at aglance.
BIMI support
Easily identify authenticated email messages with BIMI (Brand Indicators for Message Identification) verified brand iconography.
Safari
Shared Tab Groups
Share a set of tabs with friends. Everyone can add their own tabs and see the TabGroup update instantly as you work together.
Tab Group start pages
Tab Groups have dedicated start pages that you can customize with a background image andfavorites.
Pinned tabs in Tab Groups
Customize your TabGroups with pinned tabs for eachgroup.
New web extension APIs
Enables developers to create more kinds of Safari webextensions.
Web push notifications
Adds support for opt‑in notifications on iOS. Coming in2023.
Extensions syncing
See available extensions from your other devices listed in Safari preferences. Once installed, an extension will sync so you only have to turn it ononce.
Website settings sync
Settings you’ve set for specific websites, like page zoom and automatic Reader view, will sync acrossdevices.
New languages
Adds support for Arabic, Dutch, Indonesian, Korean, Polish, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese in Safari web page translation.
Web page image translation
Added support for translating text in images using LiveText.
Additional web technologies support
Gives developers more power and control over styling and layout of web pages to enable more engagingcontent.
Strong password editing
Edit strong passwords suggested by Safari to adjust for site‑specificrequirements.
Wi‑Fi passwords in Settings
Find and manage your Wi‑Fi passwords in Settings. Reference and share passwords or delete oldones.
Passkeys
Passkeys
Passkeys replace passwords with an easier and safer sign‑inmethod.
Safe from phishing
Passkeys never leave your device and are specific to the site you created them for, making it almost impossible for them to bephished.
Safe from website leaks
Your private key is never kept on a web server, so you don’t have to worry about website leaks compromising youraccounts.
Sign in on other devices
Sign in to websites or apps on other devices, including non‑Apple devices, with your saved passkey by scanning the QR code with your iPhone or iPad and using FaceID or TouchID toauthenticate.
Sync across devices
Passkeys are end‑to‑end encrypted and sync across your Apple devices through iCloudKeychain.
Live Text6
Live Text in videos
Text is completely interactive in paused video frames, so you can use functions like copy and paste, lookup, and translate. LiveText works in Photos, QuickLook, Safari, andmore.
Quick actions
Data detected in photos and videos is actionable with a single tap. Track flights or shipments, translate foreign languages, convert currencies, andmore.
New languages for Live Text
Live Text adds recognition of Japanese, Korean, and Ukrainian text.
Siri
Easy Shortcuts setup
Siri can run shortcuts from your apps without any setup required.7
Automatically send messages
Skip the confirmation step when sending messages. You can enable this feature inSettings.
Emoji in texts
Insert emoji when sending messages withSiri.8
Hey Siri, what can I do here?
Discover Siri capabilities in iOS and apps by asking “HeySiri, what can I do here?” You can also inquire about a specific app by saying, for example, “HeySiri, what can I do withiRobot?”9
Call hang up
Siri can help you to hang up a call completely hands free. Just say “HeySiri, hang up” (participants on the call will hear you). You can enable this feature inSettings.10
Expanded offline support
Siri processes more types of requests offline without an internet connection, including Home Control (HomeKit), Intercom, and Voicemail.10
Dictation
All-new Dictation experience
While dictating on device, you can move fluidly between voice and touch. Type with the keyboard, tap in the text field, move the cursor, and insert QuickType suggestions, all without needing to stopDictation.11
Auto-punctuation
Dictation inserts commas, periods, and question marks for you as you dictate.12
Emoji support
Insert emoji using your voice while dictating ondevice.8
Dictation in Messages text field
In Messages, the Dictation icon is now available in the text entryfield.
Dictation popover
Easily stop Dictation by tapping the new cursorpopover.
Maps
Multi-stop routing
Add multiple stops along your driving route in Maps. Plan a route with multiple stops on your Mac and it syncs to youriPhone.
Transit cards in Maps
Add transit cards to Wallet, see low balances, and replenish your card, all without leavingMaps.
Transit fares
See how much your journey will cost with transitfares.
ApplePay and Wallet
Apple Pay Later
Split the cost of your ApplePay Later purchase into four payments over six weeks with no interest or fees.13
Key sharing
Securely share your keys in AppleWallet with the people you trust via your favorite messaging apps, such as Messages, Mail, or WhatsApp.14
ID cards presented in apps
Share your ID information in apps that require identity and age verification. Apps will only request information needed to complete the transaction. You will be able to review this request, and your data will be shared only after authorizing with FaceID or TouchID.15
Daily Cash hub
As part of AppleCard, the DailyCash hub helps you learn how to earn DailyCash, view the lifetime DailyCash you’ve received, track your progress toward offers, and find the latest BonusDailyCash Merchants.
AppleCash
AppleCash payment requests make it easy to manage active payment requests from your AppleCash card in Wallet.
Verify your identity in apps
Customers in the U.S. will be able to share their verified information from their ID card in Wallet within apps that require age or identity verification.
Multi-stay hotel keys
You no longer need to add a new hotel key in Wallet for each new reservation: A single key allows you to check in and unlock your room for all your upcoming stays at hotels within the same brand.
Add keys from websites
You can now securely add keys to your iPhone and AppleWatch directly from your provider’s website without having to download anapp.
Previous keys
Easily add your previous keys on your new iPhone or Apple Watch directly fromWallet.
ApplePay Order Tracking
ApplePay Order Tracking allows users to receive detailed receipts and order tracking information in Wallet for ApplePay purchases with participating merchants.
ApplePay Merchant Tokens
Merchant Tokens let you securely set up and complete preauthorized or recurring ApplePay payments.
Pay multiple merchants in a single ApplePay transaction
Now you can specify purchase amounts for multiple merchants within a single ApplePay payment sheet. This gives you the flexibility to make a bundled purchase — such as a travel package with flight, rental car, and hotel — then send payments to individual merchants.
Quick access menu
The quick access menu (available for specific passes and cards) lets users access many back-of-pass features with a single tap.
Top up Appleaccount
Customers can replenish their account balance from their Apple Account card in Wallet.
Home
All-new Home app
The Home app has an all‑new design that makes it easier to navigate, organize, view, and control all your accessories. Improvements to the underlying architecture enhance your smart home’s performance and make it more efficient andreliable.16
Whole-house view
See your entire home at a glance in the redesigned Home tab. Rooms and favorite accessories are integrated into the app’s main tab, giving you easier access to accessories you usemost.
Categories
Categories for Lights, Climate, Security, Speakers and TVs, and Water let you quickly access all the relevant accessories organized by room, along with more detailed statusinformation.
New camera view
Up to four camera views are displayed front and center in the Home tab, and with just a scroll, you can see any additional camera views in yourhome.
Tile design
Accessory tiles have been redesigned so the different accessories are more visually recognizable through shape and color. Accessories can be controlled directly from their tiles by tapping the tile’s icon, or you can tap the accessory name for more detailedcontrols.
Updated architecture
Enhancements to the underlying architecture enable faster, more reliable performance, especially for homes with many smart accessories. Communicate with and control connected accessories more efficiently from multiple devices at the same time using the Homeapp.16
Widgets on the Lock Screen
New widgets on the iPhone Lock Screen let you see the status of your home and quickly access your favorite accessories right from the LockScreen.
Matter support
Matter is a new smart home connectivity standard that will enable compatible accessories to work together seamlessly, across platforms. Matter will allow you to choose from even more compatible smart home accessories and control them with the Home app and Siri on Appledevices.17
Health
Track your medications
Create a medications list to keep track of medications, vitamins, and supplements you take. And add custom visuals to make them easy toremember.18
Add medications using your iPhonecamera
You can quickly add your medications by using your iPhone camera. Simply position the medication label in the frame and you’ll see results for medication name, strength, andform.19
Reminders for medications
Create custom schedules and reminders for each medication, whether you take medications multiple times a day, once a week, or asneeded.
Medication logging
Log when you’ve taken your medications from a reminder or log medications right in the Health app. Interactive charts help you understand when you’ve taken your medications and give you insight into your medicationadherence.
Learn more about your medications
Educational content on medications you’re taking gives you more context, including how to pronounce the name, what the medication is used for, how it works, and potential sideeffects.
Medication interactions
Taking certain medications together can make them less effective or cause side effects. To help with this, when you add a new medication you’ll receive an alert if there is a critical interaction. You can review critical, serious, and moderate interactions in the Health app.
Invitations for Health Sharing
Invite your loved ones to share their health data securely with you. Once they receive your invitation, they can choose which data toshare.
Cycle deviation notification
You can receive a notification if your logged menstrual cycles show a pattern of infrequent periods, irregular periods, prolonged periods, or persistentspotting.
Fitness
Fitness app for all iPhone users
Track and meet your fitness goals even if you don’t have an AppleWatch. Using iPhone motion sensors, your steps, distance, and third‑party workouts will give you an estimate of your calories to contribute to your daily Movegoal.
FamilySharing
Improved child account setup
Set up an account for a child with the right parental controls, right from the start, including easy‑to‑use, age-appropriate suggestions for media restrictions.
Device setup for kids
Use QuickStart to easily set up a new iOS or iPadOS device for your child with all the appropriate parental controls already inplace.
Screen Time requests in Messages
ScreenTime requests from your kids now appear in Messages, so it’s easy to approve or decline arequest.
Family Checklist
FamilyChecklist gives you helpful tips and suggestions like updating a child’s settings as they get older, turning on location sharing, or just reminding you that you can share your iCloud+ subscription witheveryone.
Vehicle announcements coming in late2023CarPlay
Next generation of CarPlay
The next generation of CarPlay covers all of a driver’s screens for a cohesive experience. Deep communication with the vehicle’s systems allows for driving information on instrument cluster displays and control of the radio and HVAC. This new version of CarPlay is specific to each vehicle, accommodating unique screen shapes and layouts. New levels of personalization allow drivers to choose their gauge cluster design, including brand‑specific options.20
Fueling and driving task apps
Fueling and driving task apps are available in CarPlay. Your favorite apps that help you fill your tank and provide you with road information, toll support, towing help, and more can find a home inCarPlay.
Automatically send messages
Skip the confirmation step when sending messages. You can enable this feature in Siri settings while in CarPlay.
Privacy
Safety Check
This new section in Settings helps people in domestic or intimate partner violence situations quickly reset the access they’ve granted to others. It also helps you manage which people and apps you’ve given accessto.
Pasteboard permission
Apps need your permission before accessing the pasteboard to paste content from anotherapp.
Media streaming improvements
Stream video directly from devices that support non‑AirPlay streaming protocols without having to provide Bluetooth or local network accesspermission.
Lock Hidden and Recently Deleted albums in Photos
The Hidden and Recently Deleted albums are locked by default and can be unlocked using your iPhone authentication method: FaceID, TouchID, or your passcode.
Security
Rapid Security Response
Get important security improvements to your devices even faster. These improvements can be applied automatically between standard software updates.
Landscape FaceID
FaceID works in landscape on supported iPhonemodels.
Lockdown Mode
This new security mode provides extreme protection for the very small number of users who face grave, targeted threats to their digital security. It further hardens your device’s defenses and strictly limits certain functions, sharply reducing the attack surface that could potentially be exploited by highly targeted mercenary spyware.
Accessibility
AppleWatch mirroring
Fully control AppleWatch from iPhone and use SwitchControl, VoiceControl, or any other assistive features on iPhone to get the most out of your AppleWatch.
Detection Mode in Magnifier
Get rich descriptions of your surroundings with a new Magnifier mode that contains DoorDetection, PeopleDetection, and Image Descriptions.21
Door Detection in Magnifier
Locate a door, read signs or labels around it, and get instructions for how to open thedoor.21
Buddy controller
Combine inputs from multiple game controllers into one so your care provider or friend can support you in getting to the next level in yourgame.
Siri call hang up
Siri can help you to hang up a call completely hands free. Just say “HeySiri, hang up” (participants on the call will hear you). You can enable this feature inSettings.10
Voice Control call hang up
You can now hang up Phone and FaceTime calls with VoiceControl. Just use the voice command “hang up” when VoiceControl is turned on (participants on the call will hear you).
Beta Live Captions
Transcriptions are generated automatically in real time for users who are deaf or hard of hearing so they can follow along more easily with conversations, audio, andvideo.22
Beta Live Captions in FaceTime
See automatically transcribed dialogue integrated into your FaceTime video calls. With speaker attribution, it’s easy to follow along with group conversations.22
New accessibility options in Books
New themes and customization options such as bolding text, adjusting line, character, and word spacing, andmore.
New languages and voices for VoiceOver and Spoken Content
VoiceOver and SpokenContent are now available in over 20 additional languages and locales, including Bangla (India), Bulgarian, Catalan, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. You can also select from dozens of new voices optimized for assistivefeatures.
Siri Announce Notifications for hearing devices
Use Siri to announce iPhone notifications on your Made for iPhone hearingdevices.
Siri pause time
Adjust how long Siri waits for you to finish speaking before responding to yourrequest.
Siri support for switching auto‑answer for calls on and off
Switch auto‑answer for Phone and FaceTime calls on or off withSiri.
Starting point detection with VoiceOver in Maps
VoiceOver users now get automatic sound and haptic feedback that identifies the starting point for walking directions inMaps.
Voice Control spelling mode
Dictate names, addresses, or other custom spellings letter by letter using VoiceControl spelling mode.23
Activities in Magnifier
Save your preferred Magnifier controls, including camera, brightness, contrast, filters, and more, for recurring tasks andsituations.
Add audiograms to Health
Import your audiograms into the Health app on youriPhone.
Additional customization options for Sound Recognition
Train iPhone to listen to sounds that are specific to your environment, such as the beeping sound of an electrical appliance in your kitchen, the precise ring of the doorbell in your home, andmore.
Even More
App Clips
Increased size limit
Find and download more immersive AppClips with a 50 percent larger sizelimit.
Support for Live Activities
Use LiveActivities with your AppClips.
Precise location suggestions in Spotlight and SiriSuggestions widget
See nearby suggested AppClips with increased location precision in Spotlight and the SiriSuggestionswidget.
Books
Audiobook mini-player
The audiobook player has been redesigned with revamped player controls and a mini‑player that makes it easy to keep listening as you browse the store. Continue listening to any audiobook you are previewing by purchasing the book directly in theplayer.
Customizable reading experience
The new reader introduces options that allow you to customize the reading experience for your needs. Choose reading themes for different environments and moods or change font, spacing, text size, and othersettings.
Camera
Foreground blur in portrait photos
Portrait mode lets you blur objects in the foreground of a photo for a more realistic‑looking depth‑of‑field effect.24
Improved quality when recording in Cinematic mode
When recording videos in Cinematic mode on iPhone13 and iPhone13Pro, the depth‑of‑field effect is more accurate for profile angles and around the edges of hair andglasses.24
Contacts
Message and call status
See any unread messages or missed FaceTime and phone calls from friends and family, right on your Home Screen.
Dictionary
New dictionaries
Five new bilingual dictionaries are available: Bangla–English, Czech–English, Finnish–English, Hungarian–English, and Turkish–English.
FaceTime
Handoff in FaceTime
Move FaceTime calls seamlessly from your iPhone to your Mac or iPad, and vice versa. When you hand off a call, your connected Bluetooth headset transitions to the new device simultaneously.
SharePlay app discovery
See which of your installed apps support SharePlay and open them from the FaceTime controls, or browse new experiences you can share with friends from the AppStore.
Collaboration
Tap the Share button during an active FaceTime call to start collaborating with others on the call in Files, Keynote, Numbers, Pages, Notes, Reminders, Safari, and supported third‑partyapps.
Beta Live Captions in FaceTime
See automatically transcribed dialogue integrated into your FaceTime video calls. With speaker attribution, it’s easy to follow along with group conversations.22
Freeform
Flexible canvas
Freeform’s canvas is perfect for diagramming new projects, aggregating important assets, or just brainstorming on a board limited only by your imagination.
Fully collaborative
With real‑time collaboration, you can view others’ contributions as they add content and make edits, just as if you were together, standing in front of a realwhiteboard.
Rich communication
Freeform leverages the Messages Collaboration API so you can see updates from your collaborators right in your conversation in Messages. And you can jump on a FaceTime call with them with just a tap inFreeform.
Draw anywhere
Freeform is designed to provide a great whiteboard experience, even on the go. Write or draw anywhere on the canvas, then select and move your text or drawings around asneeded.
Rich multimedia support
Embed images, video, audio, PDFs, documents, and web links. You can add virtually any kind of file to the canvas and preview it inline, without leaving yourboard.
Game Center
Activity
See your friends’ play activity and achievements all in one place on the redesigned Game Center dashboard andprofile.
SharePlay support
Games that use GameCenter multiplayer support have SharePlay integration. You can start playing automatically with friends on a FaceTimecall.
Contacts integration
Contacts shows your friends’ GameCenter profiles. Tap through to see what they are playing and accomplishing ingames.
iCloud+
Hide My Email in apps
Hide My Email is integrated directly into QuickType keyboard suggestions, so you can keep your personal email address private in third‑partyapps.
Custom Email Domain
Share your custom domain with people outside your FamilySharing group, purchase a new domain, or enable catch‑all aliases right from iCloudMailsettings.
Inclusive Language
Choose your term of address
Choose your term of address for Canadian French, European French, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese to make your device feel more personal. In Language & Region settings you can choose how you would like to be addressed throughout the system: feminine, masculine, orneuter.
Keyboard
New Shuangpin layout
An additional layout called Changyong is now available for Shuangpin users.
QuickPath for Traditional Chinese
QuickPath is now supported for typing TraditionalChinese usingPinyin.
Cantonese input
Users can now input Cantonese words and phrases using Jyutping and other phonetic methods.
Sichuanese dialect support
Type words and phrases in Sichuanese more easily when using the Simplified Chinese Pinyin keyboard.
New languages for autocorrect
Autocorrect supports three new languages: English (New Zealand), English (South Africa), andKazakh.
New languages for emoji search
Search for emoji in 19 new languages including Albanian, Armenian, Azeri, Bangla, Burmese, Estonian, Filipino, Georgian, Icelandic, Khmer, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Marathi, Mongolian, Punjabi, Tamil, Urdu, and Uzbek(Latin).
New languages for keyboard layouts
New languages supported are Apache, Dzongkha, Samoan, and Yiddish, and the English Dvorak keyboard is nowavailable.
Keyboard haptics
Turn on keyboard haptics to feel confirmation when you type.
Memoji
More sticker poses
Memoji stickers include six new expressiveposes.
Contact stickers
All Memoji stickers can be used as contact pictures, and there are three new contact sticker poses to choosefrom.
More hairstyles
Choose from 17 new and updated hairstyles, including new curly styles, updates to tight curl styles, box braids, and boxerbraids.
More headwear
Style your Memoji with abonnet.
More noses
Choose from more nose options when you customize yourMemoji.
More neutral lip colors
Customize your Memoji with more options for a neutral lipcolor.
Music
Keep track with favorites
Keep track of the artists you care about most with new music notifications and improvedrecommendations.
Music Recognition
History sync
Songs identified with MusicRecognition in ControlCenter now sync with the Shazam app.
Hey Siri, what’s this song?
Songs identified with Siri now sync with the Shazam app and MusicRecognition in ControlCenter.
News
My Sports
Follow your favorite teams, leagues, and athletes in AppleNews. Customize your MySports feed to see the latest stories, watch highlights, and get scores, schedules, and standings for the teams and leagues youlove.
Home pages
Get more in‑depth coverage from your local city and top newspapers with homepages.
More local news
Local news is available in more markets, and you can find local stories in TopStories and the Todaywidget.
Favorites
Quickly access the channels and topics you care about most with a customizable Favorites group in the Todayfeed.
Notes
Quick Note on iPhone
Create QuickNotes in any app on your iPhone from the share menu.
Enhanced Smart Folders
Automatically organize notes in a SmartFolder based on powerful new filters. Create rules for DateCreated, DateModified, Shared, Mentions, Checklists, Attachments, Folder, QuickNotes, PinnedNotes, and Lockednotes.
Lock with passcode
Encrypt locked notes end‑to‑end with your iPhonepasscode.
Notes grouped by date
Notes are grouped by chronological categories like Today and Yesterday for easy reference in your list and galleryviews.
Collaborate with a link
Share notes that allow anyone with the link tojoin.
Filter by any or all
Choose whether to filter for any or all of the criteria in a SmartFolder or the TagBrowser.
Photos
Duplicate detection
Photos identifies duplicate photos in Albums > Utilities so you can quickly clean up yourlibrary.
Lock Hidden and Recently Deleted albums
The Hidden and RecentlyDeleted albums are locked by default and can be unlocked using your iPhone authentication method: FaceID, TouchID, or yourpasscode.
Copy and paste edits
Copy the edits you’ve made to a photo and paste them onto another photo — or a batch ofphotos.
Sort people alphabetically
Sort your People albumalphabetically.
Undo and redo edits
Undo and redo multiple edit steps in yourphotos.
Tap to restart a video in Memories
When a video is playing in a memory, tap to restart the video and play it from the beginning while the music continues toplay.
New memory types
New memory types for ThisDayinHistory and childrenplaying.
Turn off featured content
Disable Memories and FeaturedPhotos from appearing in Photos and in the Photoswidget.
Podcasts
New library in CarPlay
Get faster access to more of your library in CarPlay. Find downloaded and saved episodes more easily and see the latest episodes from the shows youfollow.
Reminders
Pinned lists
Pin your favorite lists to get to themquickly.
Templates
Save a list as a template to reuse it for routines, packing lists, and more. Create a link to publish and share a template with others, or download templates that others haveshared.
Completed Smart List
View all your completed reminders in one place, along with details like time ofcompletion.
Improved Scheduled and Today Lists
Time- and date-based grouping makes it easier to view and add reminders. The TodayList is grouped by Morning, Afternoon, and Tonight to help divide your day. The ScheduledList has new week and month groups to help with longer‑termorganization.
Improved list groups
Tap a group to see a combined view of the lists and reminders itcontains.
Notifications in shared lists
Get notifications when tasks are added to or completed in your shared lists.
Richer notes
Create bullets and underline, bold, or strike through text when adding notes to yourreminders.
Filter by any or all
Choose whether to filter for any or all of the criteria in a CustomSmartList or the TagBrowser.
Settings
AirPods Settings
Access and customize AirPods features and settings in one place. When AirPods are connected, an AirPods menu will appear at the top of Settings.
Known Networks editing
The Known Networks list in Wi‑Fi settings lets you delete known networks and quickly view network information.
Spotlight
Search on Home Screen
Spotlight can be accessed directly from the bottom of the HomeScreen, making it easy to open apps, find contacts, or get information from theweb.
Improved Siri Suggestions
Recents searches allow you to quickly revisit a result. SiriSuggestions now consider your context, so you can do things faster like navigating to your next meeting or checking the status of your upcomingflight.
Image search in more apps
Spotlight uses information from images in Messages, Notes, and Files to enable searching by locations, people, scenes, or even things in the images, like text, a dog, or acar.25
Quick actions
Use Spotlight to quickly take action. Start a timer, turn on a Focus, find the name of a song with Shazam, run any shortcut, and more. Search for an app’s name to see shortcuts available for the app, or create your own using the Shortcutsapp.
Start Live Activities
Start Live Activities like tracking a sports game from a Spotlightresult.26
Expanded rich results
Receive rich results when searching for businesses and sports leagues and teams.
Stocks
Earnings dates
See the date for a company’s upcoming earnings report and add it to yourcalendar.
Multiple watchlists
Create multiple custom watchlists to organize the tickers you follow. Group symbols using any criteria you choose, such as sector, asset type, ownership status, andmore.
New widget options
Use a new two-column layout in the medium‑size and large Stocks widgets to see even moresymbols.
System
New languages
New system languages include Bulgarian andKazakh.
Tips
Collections
You can now access collections by theme andinterest.
Translate
Translate camera
Translate text around you using the camera in the Translate app. Pause the view to get translations overlaid on text in a photo and zoom in to get a closer look, or translate text in photos from your Photoslibrary.27
New languages
The Translate app and system‑wide translation add support for Turkish, Thai, Vietnamese, Polish, Indonesian, and Dutch.
TV App
Sports: Live updates on Lock Screen
When you can’t watch your favorite sports matchups, LiveActivities allow you to follow along right on your LockScreen with scores and playbyplay.
Visual Look Up
Lift subject from background
Lift the subject from an image or isolate the subject by removing the background. This works in Photos, Screenshot, QuickLook, Safari, andmore.27
New domains for Visual Look Up
Visual Look Up adds recognition of birds, insects, spiders, and statues.28
Weather
Severe weather notifications
Get a notification when a severe weather alert has been issued nearyou.
More weather details
Tap any module in the Weather app to reveal a new, deeper set of data such as hourly temperature and precipitation over the next 10days.