iOS 16: WLANs entrümpeln

Das iPhone merkt sich jedes WLAN, mit dem man sich verbunden hat. Und wenn man von einem iPhone zum nächsten iPhone migriert, dann gehen alle diese Einträge mit. Konferenzen, Hotels, etc. pp. Und diesen ganzen Müll kann man nun raustragen. Einfach in den Einstellungen der WLANs rechts oben auf Edit tippen und schon kriegt man eine sehr, sehr lange Liste angezeigt, aus der man die unsinnigen Einträge entfernen kann.

What are your favorite iOS 16 features?

Most people use the new O/S exactly like the old one. Can you remember what was new with iOS 15? I don’t. But this new release brings some new things that I wish had been there all the time. Like haptic feedback for the keyboard, which you enable in Settings/Sounds & Haptics. You can now “feel” that you pressed a key. It’s very subtle, unlike the vibration you get from other phones. It feels like the TouchID key, which isn’t a physical key.

I have been playing around with lock screens a lot. A lot more than I care to admit. The photos that look best are those portraits, where iOS can put the foreground in front of the clock. You can also select multiple photos that appear at random. Notifications appear from the bottom, and they are collapsed until you touch them. This again plays very well with the aesthetics of the new lock screen.

Removing the background from photos is another trick that is new to iOS 16. Just tap and hold the subject of any photo, and you can forward the object without background to a new image, or with a message, or to the clipboard. A pixel pushed might me more perfect, but this is certainly good enough for eBay if you don’t want to reveal your apartment, when you just want to sell a guitar.

Two really useful features in one screenshot: you can now switch on the remaining battery percentage in Settings/Battery, and you can find and consolidate duplicate contacts. Hooray!

Talking about duplicates, you can now also remove duplicate photos right from the folders view of your Photos app. You can play it safe and merge only exact copies or go the whole way to eliminate the bad copies.

What is your favorite new feature?