iOS 15 is a major release with features that make iPhone even more essential. Stay connected to friends and family in more meaningful ways with new communication features. Find powerful tools to help you focus on tasks. Better understand and explore the world around you with the biggest and most exciting update ever for Maps. Enjoy intelligent features that help you find what you’re looking for, relive special moments, and discover more in your photos. And new privacy features improve transparency and give you more control over your data.
iPhone SE (1st and 2nd generation), iPhone 6s and later, iPod touch (7th generation) Public beta in July through the Apple Beta Software Program (beta.apple.com) Free software update in fall 2021
FaceTime Connect with friends in new ways with SharePlay in FaceTime. Listen to music together, watch a movie or TV show in sync, or share your screen—all in FaceTime. Calls look and sound even better with audio and video enhancements like Voice Isolation and Portrait mode. Invite friends into a FaceTime call using a link you can share anywhere. And for the first time, invite friends from Android or Windows devices to join a FaceTime call from their browser—so you can include everyone who matters to you.
Messages With Shared with You, it’s even easier to enjoy the things friends and family send in Messages. Articles, photos, TV show recommendations, and other things friends share will automatically appear in the Shared with You section of the corresponding apps, so you can enjoy them whenever it’s convenient. You can even continue the conversation right from the app you’re in. Shared with You works with Photos, News, Safari, Podcasts, Apple TV, and Apple Music.
Focus Stay in the moment and focus on what matters most. Choose a Focus and your device will filter out notifications based on what you’re doing, and you can even organize pages on your Home Screen with apps and widgets that match your mindset. Carve out time in your day for work or your personal life, or create a Focus for an activity like gaming, reading, or fitness. Signal your status in Messages and third-party communication apps, so others know not to interrupt while you’re using Focus.
Notifications Notifications have been updated and redesigned to help you prioritize information and reduce distractions. Notifications now include contact photos for people and larger icons for apps, so they’re easier to identify at a glance. And a new notification summary helps you quickly catch up, delivering a collection of notifications each day on a schedule you set.
Maps Enjoy the biggest and most exciting Maps update ever. Discover the natural beauty of Earth with a new interactive globe Explore San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and London in incredible, unprecedented detail with a new city experience. And find improved driving directions with a road-level view for complex intersections, walking directions shown in augmented reality, major improvements to transit, place cards, and search—and much more.
Wallet Add your keys to your car, home, hotel, and more, and other passes to Wallet. And with a new design, it’s even easier to discover features and services and quickly access passes.
Safari A new design puts your content front and center. Quickly switch between tabs by swiping on the tab bar and enjoy personalization features like a customizable start page and web extensions that help make Safari your own.
Weather Enjoy a new design that includes more graphical displays of weather information, layouts that change according to conditions, and beautifully redesigned animated backgrounds. And check out full-screen maps showing precipitation, air quality, and temperature.
Health Share your health data with family, caregivers, or even your healthcare team with the Sharing tab in the Health app. Explore Walking Steadiness, a first-of-its-kind metric that empowers you to proactively manage your fall risk. And with trend analysis in the Health app, you can make sense of your data and focus on meaningful changes in your health metrics.
Live Text Live Text recognizes text in images on your iPhone, the internet, and in real time using the Camera app. And text is now completely interactive in all your photos, so you can use things like copy and paste, Look Up, and translate on images containing text. You can even tap the image of a phone number to make a call or the image of a web address to open a page in Safari. Live Text works in Photos, Screenshot, Quick Look, and Safari and in live previews with Camera.
Spotlight You can now use Spotlight to search Photos and find images from the web. You’ll also get all-new rich results for your contacts, famous people, TV shows, and movies, with all the information you’re looking for. And Spotlight is easier than ever to access right from the Lock screen.
Photos Relive your favorite moments in powerful ways with the biggest update ever to Memories. Enjoy a new look, an interactive interface, and Apple Music integration that brings tens of millions of songs to your memories.
Privacy Get even more control over your data with new privacy protections and transparency features. Hide your IP address and location with Mail Privacy Protection—and help prevent senders from seeing if and when you’ve opened their email. See how often apps have accessed data like your location and photos and see if apps are contacting other domains with App Privacy Report. And get privacy controls like a share current location button and enhanced Photos library access.
Siri Siri has always been designed to protect your privacy, and now on-device speech recognition takes this further by processing the audio of your requests entirely on device. On-device processing also means that Siri is incredibly fast, and you can enjoy more personalization and make some requests while offline.
iCloud+ Subscribe to iCloud+ to access everything you already love about iCloud plus great new features. Protect your internet activity with iCloud Private Relay. Create unique, random email addresses with Hide My Email. And get expanded support for HomeKit Secure Video recording so you can set up more cameras than ever. No matter which plan you choose, iCloud+ can be shared with your family. And all existing iCloud subscribers will be upgraded to iCloud+ automatically when it’s available.
Apple ID With Account Recovery Contacts, resetting your password and maintaining access to your account is easier than ever. And with the Digital Legacy program, you can designate people who can access your account if anything happens to you.
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