One of the hardest features to understand and use is the Lock Screen feature where you can add widgets (there are only a few available).

Fortunately, Apple makes it easy to add widgets to your Lock Screen in iOS 16. Start by unlocking your phone with Face ID. Tap above the clock to add a widget on top or below the clock. To add widgets on the bottom, swipe down if you need to bring up the Lock Screen again. Long Scroll through the list of suggested widgets and find one you want (alternatively, you can tap on an app from the list at the bottom to see all the widgets available for that app). Press on the Lock Screen to start customizing if you use widgets on your Home Screen.

You can download apps that can add tons of cool widgets, like Launcher, Widgetsmith and ScreenKit, and customize them so that when you turn on your iPhone, the Lock Screen can display them and the time, contacts, calendar, photos, art and many other cool things. The only thing I can say is to try it out and see if it has any value to you!

The new passkey is something you need to do. If you go to a website that requires a password, passkey will give you the option to create a unique pair of secret keys. One of them is stored on that website, and the other remains locked on your device. When you log in to that website, you’ll verify things biometrical with your finger or a face scan. Once the device recognizes you, it will use its key to prove your identity to the website using weird math. Here’s the catch: you’ll have to have your phone or computer with you to use passkeys. You can’t log onto a passkey-secured account from a friend’s computer without a device of your own.

How does setting up a passkey work? It’s pretty simple. Use your fingerprint, face or another mechanism to authenticate a passkey when the website asks you to.

In Settings –> Battery, you can now set the battery percentage to display on the battery indicator.

If you take a photo of a sign that’s from Russia, you can press on the text in the photo and choose Translate –now it’s automatically typed out in English. While you’re playing a video with foreign text on the screen, you can pause it, tap on the text, and it will translate it, copy it and paste it into places like reminders or messages.

This is a really good one for the iPhone iOS 16. It’s called Duplicates Photo. Open up Photos on the iPhone, scroll down to the bottom, and under Utilities click on Duplicates. There you will find identical photos, and you can select one and delete it.

The Merge feature works like this. If one of the duplicates has information on it, like a title, it will transfer that information onto the photo that you choose to keep.

In the Health App, there is a reminder to take your medication daily or hourly.

Get this: now you can have live captions with your video. Go to Settings, Accessibility, Live Captions. When you now play the video, words appear below the screen.

iBooks has more features, like new fonts, font size, character spacing and more.

Not sure about this one, but the new iCloud Shared Photo Library lets your designated friends see your photo library, and if you add a photo, they get to see it also. You might use this with close family members. You’ll like this feature.

Here is an easy to copy a photo. Open up Photos and look for three dots ( … ) at the top. Tap on it, and you can copy it. Now open up an e-mail, click on the middle of it, and PASTE shows up. Click on it, and the photo is placed there.

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