iOS 16.5 Coming Next Week - New Features
New Features
In general iOS 16.5 seems not to be a major update unlike iOS 16.4. We have been using iOS 16.5 since beta 1. Battery life and performance seem on par with iOS 16.4. However, Apple has added some smaller scale new features on iOS 16.5.
New “Pride” Wallpaper Category
Apple introduced a new wallpaper category dedicated to “Pride” wallpapers. Currently, this category includes only last year’s version but is expected to be updated later this month. This new wallpaper category was added in beta 4. The new wallpaper will be available next week (more details here).
Apple News New Sports Tab
From the first hour with it we can see that Apple added a new Sports tab in Apple News and changed slightly the bottom bar UI as 9TechEleven reported first on Twitter.
Use Siri to Start a Screen Recording
Update: This feature has NOT made it to the RC version of iOS 16.5 RC - so it will not be available
You are now able to use Siri to quickly start and stop a screen recording directly on your iPhone running iOS 16.5. Interestingly enough, the UI of the Screen Recording is different when it’s enabled with the assistance of Siri, vs when following the traditional manual process.
This feature is unavailable for several users since iOS 16.5 Beta 2, which make it blurry if Apple will actually release this or not when public release becomes available.
It seems that we should not be expecting more major features with iOS 16. The first beta of iOS 17 will be available in less than a month. Apple is focusing on the next version of iOS and the next versions of iOS 16 will bring less important updates for our devices.
