All the iOS 16 Features You Won't Get Until Later This Year

[JippaLippa]

Freeform is a fantastic idea on paper, especially for my job, however you need to rely on your network to be on mac/iOS and in my case this is not the case (pardon the repetition).
Sure there are other third-party apps but there something so convenient to have something natively integrated in the system.
That said, I will use it on my own when I'll have an iPad.

 

[David1964]

They rather you buy iPhone 14 Pro “immediately”.

Just like any other business trying to sell it's products.

 

[VampyricGentleman]

The way I see it is this as someone with under 6 months fully in the Apple Ecosystem.. I’ve had my iPads about 18 months but they are my oldest devices

If Apple put out buggy apps/features people complain
If Apple delay putting out apps people complain

Which is better for PR? I’d bet putting out a polished apps/feature later. I’m an old enough smartphone user to have used the Sony P Series, anyone remember how bad the last version of the Symbian OS was for that series? It essentially killed it in my view. Crashes trying to do basic things that now we take for granted were common place.

All these features and quite a few that are now on every smart phone are things back then things that were unheard of. Your phone connects, makes calls, accesses your emails, messaging and the internet. Everything else is a bonus feature in my view

 

[tobybrut]

I’m still waiting on Home Key from WWDC21

Home Key has been out for a while. I use it now on my door lock. It's pretty cool since I can unlock my front door with either my phone or my watch. The main problem is how few locks there are that support Home Key. I only know of the one I bought, the Schlage Encode Plus. I had to wait three months for it to ship, but it did finally arrive.

 

[tobybrut]

It makes sense for some of these features to wait until macOS Ventura and iPadOS are released since they are shared features. Things like Shared iCloud Photo Library would be strange to have if only one set of OS'es are updated. Matter won't ship until the rest of the Matter community is ready. That includes hardware manufacturers and other companies like Google and Amazon, which have to support Matter on their voice assistants as well. I have a feeling a number of these features will come along with Ventura's and iPadOS 16.1's releases. Matter might take longer since it's not just dependent on Apple.

 

[I7guy]

As always, I prefer late and stable to early and buggy.

Looking forward to some of the new features, but I’ll be holding off for a couple weeks at least to see how performance is affected.

I'm updating immediately. Already using ipados 16 and liking it.

 

[SR 7]

Imagine announcing new products and software for 2022 but then not releasing it until 2023, a few months before the new products for 2023 Expo.

Under Cook, every. Single. Release. Is. Delayed. By. Months. Because. Poor. Management. And. Work. Standards.

 

[LeadingHeat]

iCloud Shared Photo Library: A new option in the Photos app to allow users to create a shared photos library and invite anyone with an Apple ID to view, contribute to, and edit it, including favoriting images and adding captions. There are no limitations, and all participants have the same permissions, making it ideal for families.

There is a limit of 6 people on the iCloud shared photo library feature.

 

[w5jck]

Early and buggie or late in buggie. The sign of a company that needs a new set of leadership within the software division, and over all. Apple lost its way long ago and needs someone at the helm to push the software to an acceptable level. I wish they would just stop this nonsense of annual releases and only have occasional releases that are well ironed out.

 

[LeadingHeat]

They are very talented?
You add all the bugs from iOS, MacOS, watchOS, HomeKit and CarPlay to estabilished that?
You know that iPhone 13 from 15.0 to 15.6 lost rilevant performance in just one year? But you use the products or buy it and show it?

You should apply to become a developer then and show them all how to write perfect code the first time!

 

[Zachari]

Home Key has been out for a while. I use it now on my door lock. It's pretty cool since I can unlock my front door with either my phone or my watch. The main problem is how few locks there are that support Home Key. I only know of the one I bought, the Schlage Encode Plus. I had to wait three months for it to ship, but it did finally arrive.

Welp, Latch was one of their “launch partners”, maybe they gave up. Sad day.

 

[Dark_Omen]

I guess I fail to see why Apple announces features at WWDC that aren’t ready to go on day 1. Is it because this update would’ve looked more lame than it already is?

An improved Lock Screen and a messages app that allows you to delete messages within 15 minutes are basically the main features of iOS 16.

 

[augustrushrox]

You forgot about Web Notifications. Though, I believe that those may be so incredibly late that they may arrive in 2023, which would technically make their exclusion in this article still valid…

 

[atomic.flip]

How about on time and stable. Is that so much to ask from such a rich company for such meh features?

Thank you. People are FAR too forgiving of these delays. In turn we should delay buying and investing in their products until they provide the features they promised.

 

[ghanwani]

My whole life feels like one big long wait.

 

[atomic.flip]

WFH is working out great. Only 9 new features are delayed. Oh that’s right, WFH people work the hardest out of everyone. 😉

Yes. People work harder when you stare at them from your desk all day. And also in other news paint dries twice as fast when you stare at it constantly. LOL

 

[atomic.flip]

The way I see it is this as someone with under 6 months fully in the Apple Ecosystem.. I’ve had my iPads about 18 months but they are my oldest devices

If Apple put out buggy apps/features people complain
If Apple delay putting out apps people complain

Which is better for PR? I’d bet putting out a polished apps/feature later. I’m an old enough smartphone user to have used the Sony P Series, anyone remember how bad the last version of the Symbian OS was for that series? It essentially killed it in my view. Crashes trying to do basic things that now we take for granted were common place.

All these features and quite a few that are now on every smart phone are things back then things that were unheard of. Your phone connects, makes calls, accesses your emails, messaging and the internet. Everything else is a bonus feature in my view

Which is better??? Simple. Don’t announce until you know when it will be ready. We aren’t talking about some ethereal esoteric science that is purely hypothetical. We are talking about coding and product development. Manufacturing and so on.

It’s not that hard to make accurate predictions. Unless your team is such garbage that you cannot possibly anticipate when they will be done with development. It’s frankly a pathetic and tired excuse. And after 25 years managing such teams I am no more forgiving than I was early on for inaccurate estimates of time and effort.

 

[spartan1967]

iOS 16 features you won’t get until much much later:
These features running bug free.

 

[Wahlstrm]

WFH is working out great. Only 9 new features are delayed. Oh that’s right, WFH people work the hardest out of everyone. 😉

I had totally forgot that prior to iOS16 Apple only released flawless updates.

OS X Lion, what a gem.
Maps in iOS6, such perfection.
iOS7, Software goals.

 

[btrach144]

Congratulations. However I have been using 16 for a while and have had 0 issues. As always, there are those of us who are early adopters and those who are late bloomers. Don't you backup?

That’s an irresponsible look. Items like the Home app if released buggy could destroy your entire setup because Home app has no back up. And yes, buggy releases in the past have led to users entire Home setups being erased. Setting that up again takes me normally 3 hours.

 

[Lounge vibes 05]

The benefits of WFH

Push notifications: announced in June 2008, shipping date announced for September 2008.
shipped in September 2009.
MMS for iPhone in the US: announced in March 2009, supposed to ship in June 2009.
Shipped in September 2009.
White iPhone 4: announced in June 2010, supposed to ship in July 2010.
Shipped in April 2011.
Multitasking and folders for iPad: announced in April 2010, supposed to ship in summer 2010.
Shipped in November 2010.
iCloud for Mac OS X mountain lion: announced in February 2012, was supposed to ship in July 2012.
Shipped in September 2012.
Portrait mode: announced in September 2016 with the iPhone 7.
Shipped over a month after the phone released in a software update.
And these were all before the pandemic, several before Tim Cook took over, in one case over an entire year delay.
It’s the tech world, it’s devices and software that’s going to be used by billions of people.
Delays happen, they’ve always happened, and they will always happen.
Same with bugs, there’s always going to be bugs, and the more potential people you have using your operating system, the more potential bugs there are to be found.

 

[falkon-engine]

Congratulations. However I have been using 16 for a while and have had 0 issues. As always, there are those of us who are early adopters and those who are late bloomers. Don't you backup?

After a certain amount of time, Apple stops signing the earlier firmware so even if you backup you can't restore to the earlier version. Obviously that's not true right now with 15.6.1, but it will stop being signed sooner, rather than later.

 

[JohnApples]

Home Key has been out for a while. I use it now on my door lock. It's pretty cool since I can unlock my front door with either my phone or my watch. The main problem is how few locks there are that support Home Key. I only know of the one I bought, the Schlage Encode Plus. I had to wait three months for it to ship, but it did finally arrive.

If I may ask, where did you get your Encode Plus? I’ve been checking Home Depot and Lowes regularly and signed up for their restock notifications, but I’ve yet to see it actually be in stock.

 

[Rydawg96]

Have a feeling Shared Photo Library was delayed due to the delayed release of iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura, Apple wants the feature to launch on all devices at the same time. When I ran the betas, both my main iOS 15 iPhone and my Monterey partition started to say that I had to update to see all my iCloud photos in the Photos app.

 

[kiensoy]

Reverse wireless charging could have come with iPhone 14 and iOS 16 at least for Apple Watches, just recording many people's anguish here

Because of MagSafe magnets, reverse wireless charging wouldn’t work with Apple devices.