iOS 15: When will these features become available for your iPhone?
Apple released iOS 15 which introduces a bunch of new features, tweaks and optimisations available for a wide range of iPhone models. iOS 15 is available for all iPhone models that have been announced since September 2015, meaning from the iPhone 6S/6S Plus until the iPhone 13 Series.
A big portion of iPhone users had been eagerly awaiting to try these new features out on their iPhones. However, they were surprised by the fact that the feature they wanted to test the most is not available for them.
Should you are not aware, Apple is reserving several new iOS 15 features for the latest generations of iPhones because of hardware limitations (mainly because they use less powerful versions of the A-Series SoCs). Furthermore, Apple is following the pattern of iOS 13 and iOS 14 leaving some highlight features of the new iOS version outside the first public release. Let’s dive into more details.
Features available on an iPhone with A12 Bionic and later
The following features will be available on newer devices because of hardware limitations:
Spatial Audio in FaceTime
Portrait mode in FaceTime and other Social Media apps
New Mic modes in FaceTime and other apps
Live Text
Visual Look Up on Maps
Immersive walking instructions on Maps
All-new city experience & 3D View on Maps. CarPlay support as well (coming later this year).
Home keys
Siri adds on-device speech recognition (via downloading the relevant speech models)
New animated backgrounds in Weather
Features coming with future iOS 15 updates
The following features have already been announced by Apple, but they haven't been included in the public release of iOS 15.0 (plus announced timeframe if any):
SharePlay (fall 2021 - already back on iOS 15.1 beta)
ID cards or Driver’s License Wallet (late 2021)
All-new city experience & 3D View on Maps at CarPlay (later this year)
ProRes Video for the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max (later this year)
App Privacy Report (coming in a software update to iOS 15)
iCloud Private Relay (currently on beta)
AirPods Separation Alerts
Custom iCloud Email Address (later this year)
New Digital Legacy program lets iOS 15 users designate people as Legacy Contacts able to access their account in case of death
Concluding, announce notifications feature is available on AirPods (2nd generation), AirPods Pro, and AirPods Max in U.S. English.
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