Apple officially announced the new iOS 15 features for iPhone users during its keynote at WWDC21, Apple's annual developer conference this year. iOS 15 features include major improvements to the FaceTime video chat app, making it a competitor to many other competing apps, major changes to managing alerts to better focus on what's important to users, improvements to the Weather, Maps, Wallet, and Safari browser with more privacy features And no need to use Siri's ability to connect to the Internet.
What are the new features in iOS 15 for iPhone users
And here are now the best new features of ISO 15
Big improvements and new features in FaceTime
The FaceTime video chat app in iOS 15 gets significant improvements and many new features, making it a competitor to video conferencing apps like Zoom, most notably:
- Spatial audio support:
This allows for a more natural experience when making FaceTime video calls.
- Grid view:
This allows people participating in a FaceTime call to be displayed on the screen in the same size network, this provides the ability to have better conversations with more users, and the speakers are automatically marked to see who is always talking.
- vertical position:
A mode that provides background blur effect during video calls, providing a more professional experience.
- Background noise isolation:
Reduce background noise during calls, such as when there is important music or sounds in the background, and restore ambient sound using a mode called broad spectrum.
- Schedule video calls:
Schedule a FaceTime video call and get a unique link to share with friends, family, colleagues via Mail, Messages, and even WhatsApp so you can easily join the call by simply clicking on the link
- Talk to Android and Windows users:
Once they have a link to the FaceTime call, friends who are Windows 10 and Android users can click the link to join the call without installing any apps, Apple confirms that the call is inclusive. End encryption.
Share files with users via feature
SharePlay
It's one of the new features in ios 15, which allows users to post content easily through facetime or across calls facetime. With the advantage shareplay, users can watch TV shows, movies, together and listen to music, and even the participation of the screen. Says apple it's a new way to share experiences with family and friends.
With feature shareplay new, users can:
- Watch the content together:
Play movies and TV shows during a FaceTime call with friends, control playback at the same time, and automatically adjust the volume so call participants can continue the call while you watch.
- Listen together:
Users can share and listen to songs together or create playlists and add songs while sharing playback controls.
- Screen sharing:
This allows iPhone users to share their screen with friends or participants in a FaceTime call, whether planning tasks together, previewing photos, etc.
SharePlay works with a variety of Apple devices, whether it's an iPhone, iPad, or Mac, and with SharePlay controls, anyone can control the playback of content, whether it's video or audio, as well as what's available through Apple devices. TV .
SharePlay is compatible with many entertainment apps, including Disney Plus, ESPN+, HBO Max, Hulu, MasterClass, Paramount+, Pluto TV, TikTok, and Twitch, and developers can integrate the feature into their apps.
Focus and avoid distraction
A highlight of iOS 15, it helps users focus and avoid distractions by displaying alerts and apps based on what they want to focus on, so that users can activate focus mode while working or sleeping. The iPhone uses artificial intelligence to decide which alerts to get and who, and when Focus Mode is enabled on one Apple device, it works on others.
Enabling focus mode, the messaging app will show the sender that the user is in work or sleep mode and will not be able to receive alerts.
Big changes feature in alerts
Apple redesigned notifications or alerts in iOS 15, and photos of people's contacts now appear in the alert with a larger alert icon for easier identification, which Apple says helps reduce distraction and make it easier to identify an important alert.
Notification summary
iOS 15's Alerts feature also includes a new Notification Summary feature, which aggregates and displays alerts at a more convenient time, such as morning or evening, and prioritizes alerts based on artificial intelligence so that the feature displays the most important and important alerts. She confirmed that Apple said the emergency alert would appear immediately and would not be included in the summary.
Live Text feature to copy text directly from photos
What do users think one of the best features of iPhone with iOS 15 is that it allows users to copy text from photos and easily get important information from them, including photos with handwriting, you can get information like phone numbers in photos and make Calls are direct, and this feature also supports copying text through the camera, such as copying the Wi-Fi password displayed in a coffee shop.
Visual Look Up
Features that allow users to get more information about an image and identify objects within it, where the Visual Look feature recognizes and provides information about objects and scenes in images, similar to the Google Lens feature in the Google Voice Assistant, allowing users, for example, to learn more Convert a book, a famous landmark or a painting with a single click, to the images available on your device or the web.
Spotlight feature improvements
Based on artificial intelligence technology, the Spotlight function provides more information to search in images based on geographic location, people, scenes or objects, and the Spotlight function now allows to search web images and get new formatted results for actors, musicians, TV shows, and movies.In addition, Optimized results for contacts provide recent conversations and shared photos.
Interactive Memories in Photos
The new version of iOS 15 also brings improvements to the Memories feature in the Photos app, which can now add songs from Apple Music when viewing a group of photos in Memories, and the ability to customize Memories with more appropriate songs available in Memories Story.
Wallet apps are becoming more and more useful
Among the new features in iOS 15, the Wallet app has also been improved because it now supports more types of keys for later use with the iPhone, as well as the ability to use the app as a key for some BMWs, which is now available Add your home, hotel, office and other keys to your wallet and rely on iPhone as a digital key for those places.
iPhone users in the US can also add their driver's license or ID to the wallet, so the app can act as a digital ID, which Apple confirms will be securely encrypted using the same technology it uses. Depends on Apple Pay.
Shared advantage with you
A feature available through various system applications, including Apple Music, Photos, News, and Messages, so that a new tab called Shared with You appears in different applications to show friends sharing with others via iMessage photos directly in the Photos application, as well as to show links that Shared with others via Messages in Safari for easy browsing, the tab also appears in the Podcasts app, Apple TV, and Apple News.
Symbols expressive new to Express the users better
With the new iOS 15 update, iPhone users can better express themselves through memoji by choosing clothes that best express their look and style, including multi-colored headpieces.
Safari browser redesign and new features
Apple has redesigned the Safari browser in the new version of iOS 15, making the tab bar smaller and at the bottom, which makes it easier to access and gives users more space to browse, and the browser provides the ability to group open tabs or similar pages based on groups in the tab groups feature New Safari features also include the ability to install add-ons on your iPhone and search the web by voice directly from Safari.
More privacy features
Continuing efforts to improve privacy features, iOS 15 introduces a number of new privacy features, most notably:
App Privacy Reporting Feature:
It allows users to view the history or privacy dashboard, similar to what Google offers in Android 12, so that iPhone users can see what permissions are granted to apps, how they are used, and all apps related to their usage privacy.
Email privacy protection:
The ability to prevent tracking of users who open emails, while also preventing email senders from tracking users' activities, including IP addresses and geolocations.
Siri can perform some commands without internet
Similar to Google's voice assistant, Siri handles many voice commands directly on the device itself, without the need for an internet connection, allowing users to open apps and control smart home devices "offline".
Users can also make a voice request to Siri to share content on the screen, whether it's a photo, web page or news, if an item in the content can't be shared, Siri will send a screenshot.
Special benefits for iCloud + . subscribers
Apple is returning a monthly subscription to iCloud under the name iCloud + at the same cost at no additional cost, with a host of new features, most notably the iCloud Private Relay feature. Hides the user's IP address and geolocation, works as a VPN service, plus email masking Hides the user's email address and relies on temporary addresses, a feature built into Mail and the Safari app, and securely stores data from HomeKit compatible surveillance cameras.
3 new features in the Health app
Apple added 3 new features to the Health app in iOS 15, including a new Share tab that allows users to share health data with family members and health care providers, an Orientation feature that lets users focus on important health-related changes, and a Walking Stability feature that allows users to focus on important health-related changes. Provides a new metric for predicting fall risk.
Maps in iOS 15
Apple has made several improvements to the Apple Maps app in iOS 15, most notably a new experience for exploring the city with more detailed roads, neighborhoods, trees and buildings, and the ability to navigate 3D attractions, and the map also provides more detailed information from roads such as lanes Turns, sidewalks and bike lanes, with a special driving map to help users understand current events and traffic conditions at a glance, as well as AR technology while walking using arrows, the ability to get directions, and Apple Maps with a new update showing directions, public transit stations and transit times.
Translate text through the system
Features in iOS 15 also include improvements to the Translate app, allowing users to translate system-wide text from an app anywhere or on a device, as well as automatic translation in a face-to-face mode to facilitate conversations.
New design for weather app
The Weather app gets a new look with weather graphs, animated wallpapers, and maps that display precipitation, air quality, and temperature.
What's new in Notes
Apple took inspiration from some Twitter features in the Notes app, so in iOS 15 users can mark notes with hashtags and assign tasks by notifying other users with the @ sign in the note.
Make data transfer easier when buying a new iPhone
Apple has improved the data transfer process when migrating to a new iPhone (such as the iPhone 12 Pro), so existing iPhone users can temporarily backup their data to iCloud (even without a subscription) to easily transfer data to the new iPhone while allowing easy data transfer to the new iPhone at a time. Move to iPhone.
Improved Apple ID recovery
Apple users can now select one or more contacts to help recover an account, reset the account password, and access it again, as well as a digital legacy feature that allows people to designate contacts who can access the account in the event of death.
What devices will get the iOS 15 update?
- iPhone 12, 12 Pro, 12 Pro Max and 12 Mini phones.
- iPhone 11 series.
- iPhone X, Xs, Xs Max and Xr.
- iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Max.
- iPhone 7, 7 Plus, 8 and 8 Plus.
- iPhone SE and iPhone SE 2020.
- Seventh generation iPod touch.
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