iOS 16 launches Monday however these promised options will not be in it

While iOS 16 is stuffed with nice new options, not every thing Apple introduced at WWDC goes to make it to your iPhone when iOS 16.0 arrives on Monday. Some, in fact, simply don’t work on older iPhones. But others are merely not destined to be part of the preliminary launch coming Monday, September 12. Rather, you’ll see them later this 12 months in iOS 16.1, 16.2, or perhaps even a later replace. Here are the iOS 16 options we learn about that you just’re simply going to have to attend a bit of longer to get.

iCloud Shared Photo Library

One of probably the most anticipated options of iOS 16 is the flexibility to have a single shared picture library in iCloud. You’ve been in a position to make shared albums for a very long time, however having a single library shared amongst members of the family to which images and movies mechanically go–that’s one thing many have wished for a very long time.

We thought it was a sure inclusion within the preliminary iOS 16 launch, however has lower on the final minute, disappearing from the discharge candidate after being included in earlier beta releases. Apple didn’t point out when the characteristic will return, however the iOS 16 web site now says “Coming later this 12 months,” so we’d guess iOS 16.1 in October is a protected guess.

Live Activities

When iOS 16 was unveiled at WWDC in June, Live Activities was an actual spotlight. You can consider them as notifications that persist and are dynamically up to date by their related apps. Following a sports activities match? Why get a complete stack of notifications each time the rating adjustments, when you could possibly have one notification that exhibits a dwell, constantly updating rating? The identical goes for meals or parcel deliveries, ride-hailing apps, health actions, and extra.

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The Live Activities API was set to be within the preliminary iOS 16 launch, however a publish to the developer website saying the API for builders, confirmed that, “Live Activities and ActivityKit received’t be included within the preliminary public launch of iOS 16.” Instead, the characteristic will likely be accessible “later this 12 months,” which feels like iOS 16.1 to us. At any fee, it offers builders extra time to submit their apps with Live Activities to the App Store.

Matter help

Matter is a brand new sensible house cross-compatibility customary that’s lengthy overdue. Put merely, a tool that’s Matter licensed will work with Apple Home, Alexa, and Google Home (amongst others). The Home app in iOS 16 is getting a giant replace, together with a welcome new interface, numerous under-the-hood efficiency and reliability updates, and help for Matter.

The new app remains to be coming, however Matter help received’t arrive till later this 12 months. Still, Apple’s one of many early adopters right here: the primary gadgets to ship with Matter help and the primary software program updates to make older gadgets suitable with Matter are additionally coming later this fall.

Emergency SOS by way of satellite tv for pc

One of the best new options of iPhone 14 (customary and Pro) is its skill to ship temporary emergency texts by way of satellites if you happen to’re out of vary of Wi-Fi or cell towers. It’s sluggish (even brief messages can take 20 seconds to over a minute to ship) however it might actually save your life in a dire outdoor emergency.

It’s not going to be there proper when the iPhone 14 line goes on sale, although. Apple’s help doc explains the characteristic “will likely be accessible with an iOS 16 software program replace coming in November 2022.”

Game Center options

Game Center is getting help for SharePlay, which can allow you to begin enjoying a sport immediately whereas in a FaceTime name, and it’ll combine with Contacts so you possibly can see all of your contacts’ Game Center profiles (if they permit it) shortly and simply within the Contacts app. It’s not clear what the maintain up is on these options, however they’re coming in an replace to iOS 16 later this fall.

Freeform app

Apple introduced a brand new first-party whiteboarding and collaboration app known as Freeform as a part of of its iPadOS 16 demo at WWDC, however the app is admittedly cross-platform. You’ll be capable of obtain it for iPad, Mac, or iPhone, and collaborate freely together with your colleagues by way of the cloud wherever you might be. It’s principally a giant versatile canvas that allows you to drop virtually something onto it–PDFs, Notes, photos, audio, net hyperlinks, and extra–seeing all of them in preview. Then you possibly can add notes or draw wherever with Apple Pencil help, and see the place others are working with dwell cursors.

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Freeform was a “coming later this 12 months” factor from the very starting, however when Apple determined to skip the discharge of iPadOS 16, making the primary preliminary launch iPadOS 16.1, it actually put a maintain on it. At this level, we will’t be certain precisely when Freeform will likely be launched, however it’s actually going to be a while after iPadOS 16.1 and macOS Ventura, and presumably even 2023.