iOS 16.1: New options and modifications
Clear Vitality Charging
iOS 16.1 provides the brand new Clear Vitality Charging characteristic that Apple first introduced earlier this week. The corporate says that this characteristic goals to “scale back your carbon footprint” by “selectively charging when decrease carbon emission electrical energy is out there.”
You could find the toggle for this setting within the “Battery” menu of the Settings app and tapping the “Battery Well being and Charging” possibility.
Apple Pockets app might be deleted
As 9to5Mac first reported would occur, iOS 16.1 now lets customers delete the Pockets app for the primary time. As you’d count on, deleting the Pockets app means you received’t be capable to use various completely different options, together with Apple Pay, Apple Money, and Apple Card.
Battery proportion for extra iPhones

The favored battery proportion icon has been added to more iPhones. After first launching late within the iOS 16 beta cycle, the battery proportion icon can be now accessible on the iPhone XR, the iPhone 11, the iPhone 12 mini, and iPhone 13 mini.
Extra Lock Display modifications
One of many tentpole options of iOS 16 is the power to customise your Lock Display. With iOS 16.1, Apple is making a change to make it clear customise the Lock Display wallpaper versus the Residence Display wallpaper.
Once you long-press on the Lock Display and select the “Customise” button, you’ll now see two clear choices: one to customise the Lock Display wallpaper, and one other to customise the Residence Display wallpaper.
Stay Actions API
The Stay Actions API has returned with the discharge of the primary iOS 16.1 developer beta. Apple says:
Uncover how one can construct Stay Actions to your apps utilizing the brand new ActivityKit framework, now accessible in iOS 16.1 beta and Xcode 14.1 beta. Stay Actions assist folks maintain observe of your app’s content material with actual time updates. Your app’s Stay Actions show on the Lock Display and in Dynamic Island — a brand new design that introduces an intuitive, pleasant technique to expertise iPhone 14 Professional and iPhone 14 Professional Max.
Stay Actions are much more essential now than they had been when Apple first introduced them at WWDC. The iPhone 14 Professional and iPhone 14 Professional Max can combine Stay Actions from third-party apps right into the Dynamic Island, supplying you with a simple technique to sustain with issues like journey share, sports activities scores, navigation, and extra.
Early indicators of Matter for the Residence app

iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16.1 additionally embody the very early help for Matter good house equipment. Matter is a brand new good house commonplace that goals to enhance cross-platform compatibility for the most well-liked classes of equipment.
This characteristic continues to be in its early days and Apple has some particulars in its launch:
- To pair Matter equipment, a profile should first be put in in your gadget.
- Eradicating Apple Residence from the Matter accent Related Providers menu in Residence doesn’t take away the accent tile.
- You would possibly obtain an alert to activate Wi-Fi when pairing a Matter accent.
- Adjusting the colour or colour temperature would possibly end in an sudden colour set on a Matter accent.
- Accent particulars won’t open if a Matter accent is unreachable.
- You is likely to be unable to pair a Matter accent if the accent is already paired to a third-party ecosystem.
- The gadget that initiates the pairing wants to make use of the identical iCloud account as the house hub. Solely the proprietor of a house, not an invited consumer, can pair Matter equipment.
Stage Supervisor tweaks in iPadOS 16.1
For iPad customers, immediately’s launch of the brand new iPadOS 16.1 beta features a few modifications to Stage Supervisor. As noted by Federico Viticci on Twtitter, listed below are the modifications:
- The button so as to add extra home windows to a stage lastly works. Home windows open with a “curtain” animation and present you the app switcher.
- Seeing all open home windows for a similar app is less complicated than earlier than. You possibly can click on an app’s dock icon or use the Globe-Down hotkey. That “space” all the time features a + button to create a brand new window.
- Now you can drag home windows from the iPad to an exterior show with Stage Supervisor.
Regardless of these new options, Viticci says that Stage Supervisor continues to be extremely buggy. We’re nonetheless anticipating a launch someday in October.
Different modifications
- There’s a redesigned menu for screenshots.
- The icon within the Music app is bigger to your linked headphones.
- New possibility in Settings > Recreation Middle for “Enable discovering by mates.”
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