iOS 16.2 is predicted to beryllium launched adjacent week pursuing astir 2 months of beta testing. With ultimate-minute additions similar Apple Music Sing and Advanced Data Protection, the bundle regenerate present has implicit a twelve caller features for the iPhone.

Below, we've recapped among the caller capabilities coming with iOS sixteen.2, unneurotic with Apple's caller whiteboard app Freeform, caller Lock Screen widgets, the capableness to fell the wallpaper and notifications connected the iPhone 14 Pro's usually-on show, a marque caller AirDrop placing, SharePlay enactment for Game Center, Live Activities enhancements, and extra.

Apple Music Sing is simply a new karaoke-like feature astatine the lyrics show surface wrong the Apple Music app that lets you sing alongside to tens of millions of songs. The diagnostic permits customers to little the measurement of the vocals successful a tune and past instrumentality implicit due to the fact that the singer.

Apple Music Sing is good matched with devices geared up with an A13 spot oregon much moderen, on with the iPhone eleven and much recent, take iPads, and the modern Apple TV 4K.

iOS sixteen.2 introduces an optionally disposable Advanced Data Protection characteristic that, portion enabled, expands quit-to-quit encryption to galore further iCloud facts classes, on with Messages backups, images, notes, reminders, dependable memos, and more.

Advanced Data Protection is presently constricted to U.S. Customers and could commencement rolling retired to the relaxation of the arena successful aboriginal 2023, accordant with Apple.

iOS 16.2 includes Apple's caller virtual whiteboard app Freeform connected the iPhone. The app presents an infinite canvas successful an effort to gully connected and insert sticky notes, textual contented containers, shapes, photographs, movies, links, PDFs, and greater. The app is likewise to beryllium had connected the iPad and the Mac, and you whitethorn collaborate with others successful existent clip done FaceTime and iMessage.

Freeform is other utile connected the iPad fixed the instrumentality helps the Apple Pencil, nevertheless you tin nevertheless usage a capacitive stylus connected the iPhone.

There are caller Lock Screen widgets for Sleep and Medications connected iOS sixteen.2. With the Sleep widget, you whitethorn presumption your astir existent slumber league and slumber stages, portion the Medications widget tin volition fto you speedy entree your medicine clip table.

Starting with iOS 16.2, you whitethorn disguise the wallpaper and notifications successful constantly-on show mode connected the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max. This outcomes successful the Lock Screen having a coagulated black, minimal look successful continually-on mode, overmuch similar Android.

The caller "Show Wallpaper" and "Show Notifications" toggles are placed successful the Settings app underneath Display & Brightness → Always On Display.

iOS sixteen.2 adds Live Activities enactment for sports activities scores via the Apple TV app. The diagnostic permits iPhone users to presumption unrecorded ratings of MLB, NBA, and Premier League games astatine a look astatine the Lock Screen, and wrong the Dynamic Island connected iPhone 14 Pro models.

During a Premier League fit, arsenic an instance, the Dynamic Island shows a live-updating scoreboard with the fig of desires scored via each membership. When agelong pressed, the Dynamic Island expands to uncover the clip elapsed and play-by mode of-play action. When an iPhone 14 Pro is locked, and connected each antithetic iPhone fashions, the people is proven successful a Lock Screen banner.

To usage the relation with an iPhone strolling iOS sixteen.2, unfastened the TV app and pat connected the "Follow" fastener for a supported recreation. Apple says the diagnostic is disposable for NBA and Premier League video games for users successful the U.S. And Canada, and for MLB video games for users successful the U.S., Canada, Australia, U.K., Brazil, Mexico, Japan, and South Korea.

iOS 16.2 replaces AirDrop's preceding "Everyone" putting with a constricted "Everyone for 10 Minutes" prime to trim down connected unwanted requests from strangers. AirDrop present automatically reverts to "Contacts Only" aft 10 minutes.

After updating to iOS 16.2 and opening the Home app, an update to the app is to beryllium had with new underlying architecture. Apple says the marque caller operation improves the app's wide performance, performance, and reliability for controlling astute home accessories. This comes aft the Home app received assistance for Matter accessories successful iOS 16.1.

There are immoderate different changes and optimizations successful iOS sixteen.2, arsenic outlined wrong the full merchandise notes.