Whereas iOS 17 hypothesis is already in full swing, there’s nonetheless a couple of software program options that Apple has introduced, however not but launched for iPhone and iPad customers. Head under as we spherical up the entire beforehand introduced options nonetheless coming for iPhone and iPad…
Apple Card Financial savings Account
Persevering with with the deal with monetary companies, Apple has additionally introduced it’s going to combine a high-yield financial savings account straight into the Pockets software for Apple Card customers. This characteristic was introduced in October, with Apple saying it will be out there someday “quickly.” On condition that Apple Card is just out there in the USA, the brand new financial savings account can even be restricted to the US.
Apple Card Financial savings Account will help you robotically deposit your Each day Money rewards into the account. It’s going to absolutely combine with the Apple Pockets functions, permitting you to trace the steadiness and progress of the account over time and even make further deposits through a linked checking account.
Apple Card Financial savings Account will likely be operated in partnership with Goldman Sachs, which can also be Apple’s companion for the Apple Card itself. There’s no phrase on what actual share charge the account pays out in curiosity, however Goldman’s present on-line financial savings account presents an annual share yield of three.30%.
Subsequent-generation CarPlay
At WWDC, Apple unveiled what it described because the “subsequent era of CarPlay.” It is a characteristic, nonetheless, that even Apple acknowledged wouldn’t be out there for fairly some time, regardless of the preliminary announcement at WWDC 2022.
The brand new CarPlay interface is a dramatic overhaul in contrast to what’s presently supplied. It’s going to supply assist for a number of screens inside your automobile and be capable to deeply combine together with your automobile’s {hardware}. Basically, this new CarPlay design can fully exchange the producer’s personal digital interfaces:
- Velocity, gasoline degree, temperature, and extra on the instrument cluster
- Management the radio or change the local weather straight by way of CarPlay
- Personalize the driving expertise by selecting totally different gauge cluster designs
- With widgets, customers could have at-a-glance data from Climate and Music proper on their automobile’s dashboard
It is a massive endeavor by Apple, and it’ll require shut cooperation with automakers seeking to undertake the brand new CarPlay interface. Apple says that extra data will likely be “shared sooner or later” and that we are able to count on the primary automobiles with assist for the brand new CarPlay design someday late this 12 months.
Lastly, there’s one safety and privacy-focused characteristic that Apple has already introduced is coming someday this 12 months. iMessage Contact Key Verification is designed for “customers who face extraordinary digital threats,” together with journalists, human rights activists, and members of presidency.
The characteristic works by giving these customers a strategy to additional confirm that they’re messaging with the folks they intend. Apple explains:
The overwhelming majority of customers won’t ever be focused by extremely refined cyberattacks, however the characteristic gives an necessary further layer of safety for individuals who is likely to be. Conversations between customers who’ve enabled iMessage Contact Key Verification obtain computerized alerts if an exceptionally superior adversary, reminiscent of a state-sponsored attacker, had been ever to succeed breaching cloud servers and inserting their very own system to listen in on these encrypted communications. And for even increased safety, iMessage Contact Key Verification customers can evaluate a Contact Verification Code in particular person, on FaceTime, or by way of one other safe name.
iMessage Contact Key Verification will likely be out there “globally” someday in 2023, Apple says.
Apple Pay Later [Now available]
Replace March 29, 2023: Apple Pay Later has formally began rolling out to customers, nevertheless it gained’t be out there to all customers for a number of months, Apple says.
Apple is ramping up its initiatives within the private finance sector, and one in all its most anticipated new options on this class is one thing referred to as Apple Pay Later. Introduced at WWDC 2022, Apple Pay Later will help you break up Apple Pay purchases into 4 equal funds with zero p.c curiosity, unfold throughout six weeks.
The Apple Pay Later characteristic is just like opponents like Affirm and Klarna, two of the businesses main a contemporary wave of “purchase now, pay later” platforms. Apple, nonetheless, touts that its platform will likely be “seamless and safe,” with integration into the Apple Pockets software and nil charges.
When Apple Pay Later was introduced at WWDC 2022, there was no clear timeline for when it will be out there to prospects. The characteristic was not included within the preliminary launch of iOS 16 and hasn’t been added with any of the next software program updates. Bloomberg reported that the characteristic confronted “pretty vital technical and engineering challenges.”
As soon as it launches, Apple Pay Later will likely be “out there in all places Apple Pay is accepted on-line or in-app” to “qualifying candidates in the USA.”
Apple Music Classical [Now available]
Replace March 29, 2023: Apple Music Classical is now out there to all Apple Music customers. Be taught extra in our full information.
Ah, sure, Apple Music Classical. This isn’t essentially a characteristic particular to iOS 16, nevertheless it’s one thing that Apple stated could be out there in 2022… and wasn’t. Apple acquired the classical music service Primephonic in 2021, instantly eradicating the app from the App Retailer and integrating the content material into its personal Music app.
Apple additionally promised, nonetheless, that it will launch a “devoted classical music app” someday in 2022, “combining Primephonic’s classical person interface with extra added options.” This didn’t come to fruition in 2022, and Apple is silent on when the app will launch.
At this level, we’re beginning to query whether or not Apple Music Classical has been scrapped (or considerably scaled again in scope), given Apple’s silence on the matter. The excellent news is that references to the service have been noticed in iOS code. Hopefully, we’ll get an replace quickly.
Internet push notifications [Now available]
Replace March 29, 2023: Extra superior internet apps at the moment are out there as of iOS 16.4, which could be put in through the Settings app in your iPhone.
Right here’s one thing that has largely flown below the radar because it was formally introduced: assist for internet push notifications for Safari on iOS and iPadOS. This was introduced at WWDC final 12 months, with Apple saying that Safari on iPad and iPhone would assist push notifications from web sites for the primary time.
Assist for internet notifications in Safari has been out there on the Mac for a number of years however has remained notably absent on iPhone and iPhone. What jogged our reminiscence on this characteristic was a put up on Mastodon from Jen Simmons, who works as an Apple Evangelist on the corporate’s Internet Developer Expertise workforce.
Within the put up, Simmons requested customers to share their “favourite internet apps” that they’ve added to the House Display screen of their iPhone. This might sign Apple’s continued work on internet push notifications for iPhone and iPad, in addition to perhaps another enhancements to how progressive internet apps work on Apple’s platforms.
Apple says that assist for internet notifications on iPhone and iPadOS will likely be out there someday in 2023. The characteristic hasn’t but materialized in betas of iOS 16.
New House structure [Now available]
Replace March 29, 2023: With the launch of iOS 16.4, the revamped House structure is now out there to customers as soon as once more.
With iOS 16.2 in October, Apple launched a brand new opt-in structure for HomeKit that it stated supplied “improved efficiency and reliability of the equipment in your house.” Because it turned out, that wasn’t the case, and the brand new structure had the other affect for a lot of customers who opted into the change.
In response to the backlash and complaints, Apple ended up pulling the brand new structure altogether final month. The corporate stated in an announcement:
We’re conscious of a problem which will affect the power for customers to share the House inside the House app. A repair will likely be out there quickly. Within the meantime, we’ve briefly eliminated the choice to improve to the brand new House structure. Customers who’ve already upgraded is not going to be impacted.
There’s no official phrase on when Apple plans to re-implement this new HomeKit structure. Proof inside current iOS beta releases, nonetheless, reveals the corporate is constant to work on the platform.
iOS 16.5 possible coming quickly…
iOS 16.4 was launched to everybody this previous week with a handful of options and modifications. Now that this replace has been launched, Apple has began beta testing iOS 16.5. Sadly, it doesn’t seem like this replace accommodates any of the options we’re nonetheless ready for Apple to launch.
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