Apple’s big day of iOS and iPadOS 16.1, macOS Ventura, watchOS 9.1 and tvOS 16.1

It’s the big day for Apple and its users who will be able to update their devices such as iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch but also Macs and Apple TVs from 7pm (usually) . There will therefore be the release of operating systems such as iOS and iPadOS 16.1 but also watchOS 9.1 for Apple Watch and again macOS 13 Ventura for Mac and finally also tvOS 16.1 for Apple TV. A generalized release that will allow users to be able to update their devices to the latest version but which above all will bring not only important news such as Stage Manager for iPadOS but also the resolution of bugs to iPhones and more.

iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16.1: what changes?

Let’s start with them that is the operating systems for iPhone and iPad. On the one hand, iOS 16.1 will finally allow you to bring the shared photo library on iCloud to the official channel . This will allow you to share the photos in the roll with all members of your family and be able to update them, modifying them for everyone. Not only because in this version the so-called Live Activities will also appear, i.e. the function that will allow you to interactively notify some information such as the results of a match but also the arrival of an Uber or any other information that third-party applications will want to implement . Not only because the news also concern Matterthat is the system support for the latest generation smarthome and which in the coming months will be fully supported by Apple. There is also the new icon for the percentage of the battery that Apple had already changed with iOS 16 but which now with iOS 16.1 changes again in the design, reducing consumption and thus allowing you to have an immediate vision of the same.

Here’s what’s new in iOS 16.1

Photo library shared on iCloud

• A separate library allows you to easily share photos and videos with up to five other people.
• When you create or join a library, the setup rules allow you to easily add existing photos based on the date or subjects included.
• Filter your library to quickly switch between shared and personal, or view both at the same time.
• Sharing changes and permissions allows anyone to upload, edit and delete photos, add them to favorites, and insert a caption.
• Choose with a tap whether to send photos taken with the camera directly to the shared library, or enable the setting to automatically share them when other participants are detected nearby via Bluetooth.

Real-time activity

• Third-party app real-time activities are available on Dynamic Island and on the lock screen for iPhone 14 Pro models.

Fitness +

• Apple Fitness + is supported on iPhone even without Apple Watch.

Wallet

• You can securely share car keys, hotel room keys, and more in Wallet using messaging apps like Messages and WhatsApp.

Home

• Compatibility with Matter, the new connectivity standard for smart home automation, allows a wide range of accessories from different ecosystems to work in harmony.

Books

• The reading controls are automatically hidden when you start reading.

This update also includes iPhone bug fixes:

• Deleted conversations could appear in the Messages conversation list.
• Dynamic Island content was not available while using “Accessibility”.
• Connection with CarPlay could fail while using a VPN app.

Here are all the news of iPadOS 16.1

For iPadOS 16.1, on the other hand, the one that changes the most and that has also made people talk is the arrival of Stage Manager that is the new interface that guarantees a different and more efficient multitasking for accessing multiple applications at the same time with floating windows. There will be 4 apps that can be opened simultaneously for all iPads while for Air and Pro with M1 or M2 you can push to 8 apps open together. There will also be the option to connect the iPad to an external display.

Here are all the news of iPadOS 16.1

Photo library shared on iCloud

• The shared photo library on iCloud allows you to easily share photos and videos with up to five other people in a separate, fully integrated library in the Photos app.
• When you create or join a library, smart setup rules allow you to easily add existing photos based on the date or subjects included.
• Filter your library to quickly switch between shared and personal, or view both at the same time.
• Sharing changes and permissions allows anyone to upload, edit and delete photos, add them to favorites, and insert a caption.
• Choose with a tap whether to send photos taken with the camera directly to the shared library, or enable the setting to automatically share them when other participants are detected nearby via Bluetooth.

Messages

• Edit a message within 15 minutes of sending it; recipients will be able to view the history of changes.
• Cancel sending a message to call it back within 2 minutes of sending it.
• Mark a conversation as unread to easily find it later.
• SharePlay via Messaging lets you watch a movie, listen to music, play a video game, and more with friends while texting.
• Easily invite others to collaborate on a file via Messages, and get updates on activity in the conversation when someone edits a shared project.

Mail

• Improved search delivers more accurate and complete results and displays suggestions as soon as you start typing.
• Cancel sending a message to cancel delivery within 10 seconds after pressing Send.
• Schedule an email to be delivered on a specific day and time.
• Email notifications to remember allow you to schedule a specific day and time to receive a reminder about a message.

Safari and passkey

• Share a group of panels with other people and instantly view updates as you collaborate.
• The opening pages of the panel groups can be customized with different background images and favorites.
• Set up different panels in each group to quickly access the websites you visit most often.
• Safari web page translation is now available in Turkish, Thai, Vietnamese, Polish, Indonesian and Dutch.
• Passkeys provide an easier and more secure login method for replacing passwords.
• Synchronizing passkeys via iCloud Keychain makes them available on all your Apple devices using end ‑ to ‑ end encryption.

Stage Manager

• Stage Manager is an innovative multitasking tool that automatically organizes apps and windows into one view.
• Windows can be stacked and resized to create the perfect workspace.
• Create groups of apps that you can quickly call up.
• Recent apps are arranged on the left side of the screen so you can quickly switch between them.

New viewing modes

• Reference mode shows the reference colors for the most used color standards and video formats on the 12.9 “iPad Pro with Liquid Retina XDR display. In addition, Sidecar allows you to use the same device as a reference display for Macs with Apple chip.
• Resizing the screen increases its pixel density to allow you to view more content in apps; is available on 12.9 “iPad Pro (5th generation and later), 11” iPad Pro (1st generation and later) and iPad Air (5th generation).

Weather forecast

• The Weather app on iPad is optimized for the larger screen and includes immersive animations, detailed maps, and forecast modules that can be expanded with a tap.
• Weather maps show precipitation, air quality, and temperature next to the local view or full screen.
• Tap a form to show more detailed data, such as hourly temperature or expected precipitation for the next 10 days.
• A colored index shows the quality, level and category of the air; the same information can be viewed on a map to discover health tips, a pollutant analysis and more.
• Animated wallpapers depict the position of the sun, clouds and precipitation with thousands of possible combinations.
• Get notified when a weather alert is issued in your area.

Games

• Dashboard activities show your friends’ milestones in the current game, other titles they are playing, and their achievements.
• Game Center profiles highlight achievement and leaderboard activities across all of your games.
• Integration with Contacts shows your friends’ Game Center profiles and lets you find out what they are playing and what they have achieved.

Active text

• Live Text compatibility with video lets you interact with text in a paused frame to copy, translate, search for information, share it, and more.
• Quick Actions analyze data from photos and videos so you can track the status of a flight or shipment, translate foreign languages, convert currencies, and more – all with a single tap.

Visual search

• “Lift Subject From Background” isolates the subject of an image so you can copy and paste it into apps like Mail and Messages.
• Visual Search now recognizes birds, insects, spiders and statues in photos.

Siri

• The simplified configuration of Quick Commands allows you to perform shortcuts with Siri as soon as you download an app, without having to set them up previously.
• A new setting allows you to send messages without Siri asking for confirmation.

Dictation

• The new Dictation experience is compatible with using your voice simultaneously with the keyboard or Apple Pencil to enter and edit text.

Maps

• Multi-Stop Routes allows you to add up to fifteen stops along your driving routes in Maps.
• Travel rates show you the cost of travel in the San Francisco Bay Area and London, New York and other locations.

Home

• The new design of the Home app makes it easier to locate, organize, view and control smart home accessories.
• The Home panel now groups all accessories, rooms and scenes together to give you an overview of the entire home at a glance.
• Categories for climate, lights, speakers and televisions, security and water give you quick access to related accessories divided by room and show detailed information about their status.
• The new camera view shows up to four cameras in the center of the Home panel, with the ability to scroll to view the others.
• The new accessory tile design includes more recognizable icons that match the color of the category, as well as new interactions that allow for more precise control of accessories.
• Compatibility with Matter, the new connectivity standard for smart home automation, allows a wide range of accessories to work in tune in different ecosystems to offer users more options and interoperability.

In family

• Improved setup of child accounts makes it easy to create a child account with the correct parental controls, including age-appropriate media restrictions.
• Child Device Setup allows you to use Get Started to prepare a new iOS or iPadOS device for a child with the parental controls you want.
• Screen Time requests in Messages make it even easier to approve or deny your children’s requests.
• Family Checklist gives you tips and tricks, for example to update parental control settings for a child, to turn on location sharing, or just to remind you to share your iCloud + subscription.

Desktop quality app

• Customizable toolbars allow you to add the features you use most often in apps.
• Menus offer additional contextual options for common actions like closing, saving, and duplicating, making it easy to edit documents and files in apps like Pages and Numbers.
• Search and replace functionality is available in apps across the system, including Mail, Messages, Reminders, and Swift Playgrounds.
• When you create meetings in Calendar, the availability view shows the available times of invited attendees.

Security control

• “Security Control” is a new section of Settings designed to help people in situations of domestic or partner violence to quickly initialize access permissions granted to others.
• “Emergency Initialization” lets you take quick action to revoke access for all people and apps, such as turning off location sharing via Find My, initializing app permissions, and more.
• Sharing and access management helps you review and customize the apps and people who have access to your information.

Accessibility

• Door detection in the Lens app locates doors, reads surrounding signs and symbols, and instructs you to open them.
• “Shared Controller” combines the inputs of various controllers into one to help users with cognitive disabilities receive assistance from their caregivers while they play.
• VoiceOver is now available for over 20 new languages, including Bengali (India), Bulgarian, Catalan, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

This version also includes other features and improvements:

• New tools in Notes and Edit allow you to draw and write with the Watercolor, “Solid Line” and “Fountain Pen” styles.
• Support for AirPods Pro (2nd Generation) includes the ability to use Find My and “Precise Location” to find the MagSafe Charging Case, as well as custom spatial audio, which offers the most accurate and immersive listening experience available also on AirPods (3rd generation), AirPods Pro (1st generation) and AirPods Max.
• Handoff in FaceTime allows you to easily transfer FaceTime calls from iPad to iPhone or Mac and vice versa.
• Updates to Memoji include more poses, hairstyles, headdresses, nose shapes and lip colors for the stickers.
• Camera translation allows you to translate text around you by framing it with the camera in the Translate app.
• Duplicate Detection in Photos identifies extra copies of images to help you quickly organize your library.
• Highlighted lists in Reminders help you quickly find the ones you access most often.
• Search on the Home screen lets you access Spotlight directly from the bottom of the screen to open apps, find contacts, or search for information on the web with ease.
• Rapid security interventions can be applied automatically between a standard software update and the next to introduce important security enhancements to devices even faster.

macOS 13 Ventura: what changes?

There will also be finally the release of macOS 13 Ventura , the new version of the operating system for Mac. Here the news are minor compared to other systems but there is no doubt the main protagonist as on iPadOS ie Stage Manager. Yes, because it also arrives on Macs and the new feature allows users to focus better when they have multiple applications simultaneously, keeping only one in the foreground and the others in the background, while allowing the transition between one and the other. There is also the Continuity Camerathat is the function to use the iPhone as a webcam with support for Center Stage but also for Desk View or to have a view of the desk and even Studio Light. And then there are news for Mail with the planning of sending and reading of emails and still new Weather and Clock apps in addition to System Preferences which are now more similar to those of iOS and iPadOS.

Here are all the news of macOS 13 Ventura

Mail

• Cancel or schedule a message to be sent and receive notifications about emails to remember and recipients who have not replied to you to easily check correspondence.
• Improved search delivers more accurate and complete results and displays suggestions as soon as you start typing.

Spotlight

• “Quick Look” allows you to easily preview a file by pressing the space bar while a result is selected.
• Searching for pictures helps you find them on the web, in the Finder, and in Photos, Messages and Notes.
• Extensive results for musicians, movies, businesses, sports and more.

Safari and passkey

• Share a group of panels with other people and instantly view updates as you collaborate.
• Passkeys offer a simpler and more secure login method that replaces passwords.

Messages

• Edit messages, unsend them and mark them as unread to facilitate conversations.
• SharePlay via Messaging lets you watch a movie, listen to music and more with friends while texting.
• Easily invite others to collaborate on a file via Messages and get updates on activity in the conversation.

Photo

• The shared photo library on iCloud allows you to easily share photos and videos with up to five family members in a separate library built into the Photos app.

Stage Manager

• Stage Manager automatically organizes apps and windows, bringing the active app to the center and moving the others to the left of the screen.
• Switching between apps is simple – just click on one of those shown on the left side of the screen
• Group apps into subgroups within Stage Manager.
• Quick Desktop Access allows you to easily drag and drop files into apps in Stage Manager.

FaceTime

• Handoff in FaceTime allows you to easily transfer FaceTime calls from Mac to iPhone or iPad and vice versa.

Continuity Camera

• The Continuity Camera allows iPhone to be used as a Mac webcam when it is close to the computer and placed on a stand (iPhone XR and later).
• Video and lighting effects include Portrait mode (iPhone XR and later), Auto Framing (iPhone 11 and later), and “Photo Set Light” (iPhone 11 and later).
• Desk Overview uses iPhone’s ultra-wide-angle camera to show what’s on your desk during a video conference (iPhone 11 and later).

This version also includes other features and improvements:

• The Clock app for Mac includes local times, timers and alarms to provide a seamless experience across all Apple devices.
• The Weather app arrives on the Mac: it is optimized for larger screens and includes immersive animations, hourly forecasts and detailed weather maps.
• “Lift subject from background” isolates the subject of an image so you can copy and paste it into apps like Mail and Messages.
• Full immersion filters help you avoid distractions in apps like Calendar, Mail, Messages, Safari, and third-party apps.
• System Settings has a new name and an easier-to-navigate design.
• Rapid security interventions ensure improvements to macOS security even faster.

watchOS 9.1 and tvOS 16.1: what changes?

Finally, there are also them, namely the new Apple Watch and Apple TV operating systems . We are talking respectively of watchOS 9.1 and also of tvOS 16.1 which will allow you to follow the innovations introduced on the other operating systems and therefore bring the many innovations also on Apple’s smartwatches as well as on TVs.

watchOS 9.1 allows you to introduce greater autonomy especially while it is in use on workouts but also on other outdoor activities with intense use of GPS. In this case, the heart rate as well as other parameters can be put under pressure but with a less important consumption of the battery. Improvements also for connectivity for the smart home with support for Matter and still there is no shortage of the usual solutions to bugs and more.

For tvOS 16.1 , on the other hand, the novelties are less but still focus here too on bringing improvements in the fluidity of the app and therefore also on solving any general operating problems.