Apple released iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS Ventura system, and has released the first developer preview Beta. Apple iOS 16 will support iPhone 8, iPhone X, or newer. Even so, not all features will work on older iPhones. With that in mind, 9to5Mac has now collected all the features that require at least an iPhone XR, iPhone XS, or newer.
Some features are only available on iPhones with an A12 Bionic chip or newer, i.e. iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro, and iPhone SE (3rd generation).
Here are the features that will only be available to a select few iPhones with iOS 16 later this fall:
- Live text in the video: Text is now fully interactive in paused video frames, so you can use features like copy and paste, find and translate. This feature works with Photos, Quick Look, Safari, and other apps.
- Quick Actions in Live Text: Detected data in photos and videos can be manipulated with just one click. Track flights or shipments, translate foreign languages and convert currencies.
- New languages for Live Text: In iOS 16, Live Text recognizes Japanese, Korean, and Ukrainian text.
- Emojis in text: Previewed during the WWDC22 keynote, you can insert emojis when sending messages with Siri. Available in Cantonese (Hong Kong), English (Australia, Canada, India, UK, US), French (France), German (Germany), Japanese (Japan), Mandarin (China, Taiwan) and Spanish (Mexico, Spain, U.S).
- Discover Siri features and apps: Open the app and ask “Hey Siri, what can I do here?” Or you can query a specific app by saying “Hey Siri, what can I do with iRobot?”. This feature supports German (Germany), English (Australia, Canada, India, UK, US), Spanish (Mexico, Spain, US), French (France), Japanese (Japan), Mandarin (Mainland China) and Cantonese (China) Hongkong).
- A new dictation experience: You can switch between speech and touch smoothly in iOS 16. Use your keyboard to type, tap text fields, move your cursor, and insert QuickType suggestions, all without stopping your dictation.
- Add medication using an iPhone camera: You can quickly add medication in iOS 16 using cameras like iPhone XR/XS. Just place the drug label in the frame and see the results for the drug name, strength and form.
- Image search in more apps: In iOS 16, Spotlight uses image information from messages, notes, and files to support searching by location, people, scenes, and even things in images such as text, dogs, and more.
- Visual Lookup Improvements: Boost subjects from images or isolate subjects by removing backgrounds. This works for Photos, Screenshots, Quick Look, Safari, etc.
- New Domains for Visual Lookup: Added recognition of birds, insects and statues.
iOS 16 features for iPhone 11 and later
- Live Captioning: Automatically generate transcriptions in real-time for deaf or hard-of-hearing users so they can more easily conduct conversations, audio, and video. Requires iPhone 11 or newer, iPad with A12 Bionic chip or newer, Mac with Apple Silicon chip. Only available in English (Canada, United States).
iOS 16 features exclusive to iPhone 13 series models
The iPhone 13 models also have iOS 16-exclusive features. They are:
- Foreground blur in portrait photos: Portrait mode blurs objects in the foreground of the photo for a more realistic depth-of-field effect.
- Improved quality when recording in movie mode: When recording video in movie mode on iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro, the depth of field effect is more accurate for silhouette angles and around the edges of hair and glasses.
These are all features unique to the new iPhone models. As you can see, many of these are available for iPhone XR and iPhone XS or newer users, while only a few camera improvements are exclusive to iPhone 13 users.
iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 are scheduled to release public betas in July, and developer preview betas are currently available. iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS Ventura, and watchOS 9 will all be publicly released this fall.
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