Customisable Lock Screen To Scheduling Emails: All The New Features That iOS 16 Brings

As widely anticipated, Apple kicked off its annual WWDC 2022 keynote with the announcement of iOS 16. Some other features will enable users to recall sent messages and schedule mail.

With iOS 16, users can recover recently deleted messages. Image: Apple

As widely anticipated, Apple kicked off its annual WWDC 2022 keynote with the announcement of iOS 16. Also, as excepted, the iPhone lock screen is getting a major facelift. The latest iOS update brings customisable lock screen wallpapers. It should be mentioned that the iOS 16's customisable lock screen has kind of evolved from Apple Watch faces. It should also be noted that iOS 13 appears to be quite similar to Android 13, courtesy of the ability to customise the fonts as well as the colour themes.

With iOS 16, Apple is adding the ability to press and hold and customise the wallpapers and also swipe to try different styles. Apart from the major facelift to the lock screen, the latest update also brings new sharing, communication and intelligence features that will enable them to recall sent messages, schedule mail and discover more with Live Text and Visual Look Up.

iOS 16 gives a major facelift to lock screen

With the iOS 16, the lock screen will become more personal, beautiful and helpful. Apart from customising the lock screen, users can also change the look of the date and time with expressive type styles and colour choices. As mentioned, the lock screen features widgets take inspiration from Apple Watch, thus, making it easy to get information at a glance, such as upcoming calendar events, weather, battery levels, alarms, time zones, activity ring progress, and more.

Edit or recall recently sent texts in Messages

With the iOS 16, users can edit or recall recently sent messages, recover recently deleted messages as well as mark conversations as unread so they can come back to them later. Also, SharePlay is coming to Messages, thus, making it possible to enjoy synced content like movies or songs and shared playback controls while chatting in Messages.

New Tools for Mail

iOS 16 brings the ability to schedule emails ahead of time and users will be given a moment to cancel delivery of a message before it reaches a recipient’s inbox. For example, Mail detects if the user forgot to include an important part of their message, such as an attachment. Users also have the option to resurface a message at any date and time with Remind Later, and Follow Up suggestions automatically remind users to follow up on an email if they have not received a response.

Safety Check, the new privacy tool

With iOS 16 comes a new privacy tool called Safety Check which can be helpful to users whose personal safety may be at risk from domestic or intimate partner violence by quickly removing all access they’ve granted to others. It includes an emergency reset that helps users easily sign out of iCloud on all their other devices, reset privacy permissions, and limit messaging to just the device in their hand. It also helps users understand and manage which people and apps they’ve given access to.

Live Text and Visual Look Up

Live Text makes use of on-device intelligence to recognise text in images across iOS, and it is now expanding to include videos as well. According to Apple, with iOS 16, users can pause a video on any frame and interact with the text. Live Text also adds the ability for users to quickly convert currency, translate text, and more.

Apple News gets new My Sports section

The new My Sports section with iOS 16 brings the ability to easily follow your favourite teams and leagues, receive stories from hundreds of top publishers, access scores, schedules, and standings for the top professional and college leagues; and watch highlights right in the News app.