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There’s a limit to how many custom lock screens you can save on iOS 16

One of the pivotal new features introduced with iOS 16 is the range of customizations for the lock screen with a new and improved lock screen media player, several new wallpapers, clock and widget customization and more. Most notable, however, is that you can create several lock screens and switch them up depending on your mood for the day.

Until now, we’d guessed that there ought to be a limit to the number of custom lock screens you can create, but an exact number was unknown. Now, thanks to Reddit user u/XiXMak doing some digging, we know that 200 is the maximum number of custom lock screens that you can have at once. Creating any more requires you to delete an older one.

The limitation shouldn’t impact the majority of iOS 16 users, as I don’t think many of you would like to have 201 custom lock screens ready to go, but it is still interesting to note that Apple chose 200 as the magic number. Why? We’ll likely never know.

Learn about how you can customize your iOS 16-running iPhone’s lock screen here.

Source: u/XiXMak

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Apple likely ignored keyboard haptics for years due to battery concerns

For years now, iPhone users have had to replace the satisfaction of using a haptic keyboard with the joyless click-clack keyboard sound. Finally, with iOS 16, Apple did introduce haptic feedback for keyboards to add a tactile feel to typing, but what took the company so long?

A new Apple support document spotted by 9to5Mac might offer some clues.

The support document, titled “Change how your iPhone keyboard sounds or vibrates when you’re typing,” warns that enabling the feature “might affect the battery life of your iPhone.” Apple did not clarify how severely the feature affects battery life, though if you’re constantly typing on your phone, the slight vibrations over a large duration of time could result in significant battery drain.

It’s surprising to note that keyboard haptics remain enabled when you turn on the ‘low power mode’ on your iPhone, which sounds counterintuitive to Apple saying that the feature drains the battery. On the other hand, Android users have long enjoyed the feature, with measures in place to disable haptic feedback when the device goes into power-saving mode.

While Apple did not say explicitly that battery concerns were the reason it held off on the feature for so long, it’s the most likely reason.

If you’ve updated to iOS 16 and want to enable haptic feedback for the keyboard, go to settings> Sounds & Haptics > Keyboard Feedback, and toggle on ‘Haptic.’

Via: 9to5Mac

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How to schedule emails in the Mail app in iOS 16

Apple’s fall hardware event is just a few days away, and we’re excited to see all the new hardware the Cupertino, California-based tech giant has to offer.

In addition to the new hardware, Apple will also likely release its various OS updates, including iOS 16, macOS Ventura, tvOS 16 and inform when the delayed iPadOS 16 would come out.

If you can’t wait until the official OS release, you can check out how to get iOS 16 on your iPhone today, and learn how to use new features like customizing your lock screen, using Safety Check, and the updated Visual Look Up feature.

Another new productivity and convenience-focused feature coming to your iPhone with iOS 16 is the ability to schedule email directly in the Mail app for moments when you’ve done writing an email but want to send it out at a specific time, with the only requirement being that your iPhone needs to be on during the scheduled time.

Here is how you can schedule emails in the Mail app on iOS 16:

Head to the Mail app and compose a new email. Fill out all the required information, like the recipient’s address, subject, and the content of the email.

Long press the blue send button on the top right, and you’ll see that you have the option to either send the email immediately, at a pre-set time (9pm in the screenshot below) or at a custom time.

If you press ‘Send Later,’ a calendar pops up that lets you select the date for your email, alongside a time slider where you can select the exact time for the email to go out. You can also select a different time zone if the recipient of the email lives in a different state or country, making sure that the email doesn’t land in their mailbox during odd hours.

Click ‘Done,’ and you’re email has been scheduled.

You can check all of your scheduled emails under the ‘Send later’ tabs in your Mailbox, and the same section also allows you to edit the date and time you want the email to go out or scrap it completely.

 

Email scheduling is one of the many new features coming to the iPhone with iOS 16. Learn more about other upcoming features via the link below:

Apple’s Fall Hardware event is scheduled for September 7th. We’ll cover the event live on MobileSyrup, so stay tuned to our homepage, as well as Twitter and Facebook to get all the latest news from the keynote.

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What is Visual Look Up in iOS 16 and how to use it

iOS 16 brings a lot of simple yet useful new features to the iPhone, like being able to edit or ‘Undo Send’ iMessage texts, a highly customizable lock screen with an improved media player, the introduction of an iCloud Shared Photo Library, improvements to Live Text that now allow you to pick up text from videos, and more!

With iOS 16, Apple has also expanded Visual Look Up capabilities. The feature rolled out last year with iOS 15, and allowed users to identify plants, flowers, landmarks and animals in their ‘Photos’ app or via the phone camera. Now, the functionality has expanded and allows users to virtually ‘pick up’ any object, person, animal, building plant, and more, then separate it from its background, kind of like the ‘Quick Selection Tool’ on Photoshop. The separated image can then either be copied and pasted into a different application or shared directly from the Photos app.

According to Apple, the feature is made possible through an advanced machine learning model that works with Apple’s Core machine learning and its neural engine to process roughly 40 billion operations in a second, however, for the user, the process is seamless.

Here’s how you can start using the new feature on your iPhone today:

The feature doesn’t require you to toggle any setting on, which is normally the case with new Apple features. You simply head to your Photo gallery and choose the image you want to use.

Select the object/person/animal/plant/etc. you want to crop out and long press on it until you see the Copy|Share prompt pop up. Copying the cropped-out image will allow you to paste it in essentially all messaging applications and your device’s notes, while sharing will allow you to share the cropped image directly from the Photos app, as you would with a regular image.

Similarly, if you have the app that you would like to paste the cropped image to open, you can simply drag and drop the image, as seen in the GIFs below. Note, the feature might look laggy in the GIFs, but in reality, works quickly and seamlessly.

The feature works extremely quickly on my iPhone 12 Pro, though you’ll need to be running an iOS 16 developer Beta to use the feature. iPhone 16 betas, and the eventual public build would only be available on the iPhone 8 and newer models. Check out other cool new features coming to the iPhone with iOS 16 via the link below:


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Apple’s upcoming order tracking feature visualized

One of the pivotal parts of the iOS 16 upgrade is the ability to track packages and orders directly from the Wallet app, and while we already have our hands on the OS beta, none of the merchants have the feature supported yet, making it completely unusable.

It’s likely that merchants will support the feature closer to the public launch of iOS 16. However, we recently got our first glimpse at the UI in action thanks to Apple publishing sample payloads as examples in its developer documentation, as shared by 9to5Mac.

According to the publication, when you place an order, it will automatically be added to the Wallet app, whereas orders can also be added to the Wallet app manually via a link. From there, merchants can push order updates to the app automatically, with push notifications enabled for supporting partners.

The order screen in the Wallet app will show information like order status, expected date of arrival, tracking status, a list of items in the order with thumbnails, and more, according to 9to5Mac.

Order data is end-to-end encrypted and is synced to the Wallet via iCloud, which means your order history will be available for you to go through weeks and months after your order has been delivered.

Learn about other new features coming with iOS 16 via the link below:


Apple's iOS 16 features new lock screen and ability to edit sent Messages


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iOS 16 enables the transfer of eSIMS over Bluetooth

In addition to Notes being updated, another iOS 16 feature that went under the radar is the ability to transfer an eSIM between iPhones via Bluetooth.

As reported by MacRumours, the feature works when you’re trying to transfer an eSIM and its associated number from an iPhone running iOS 16 to a different iPhone, which also needs to be running iOS 16. The feature works over Bluetooth, and comes up when you go to the “Set up eSIM” setting.

Further, MacRumours states that the feature will be available in several countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom, although Canada isn’t explicitly mentioned. Additionally, the transfer process will only work if the carrier you are on supports the transfer of eSIMs over Bluetooth.

In other iOS 16-related news, iPhone 7 and older devices wouldn’t be able to transition to the new OS.

For all of the Apple news from WWDC 2022, follow this link.

Via: MacRumours