Category: Cell Phone Batteries

 There’s a lot to discover in iOS 16, Apple’s latest mobile software update. For starters, you can unsend and edit text messages and emails, and easily crop people or objects from photos with just one click. There are several hidden features you should be aware of.

But not all iOS 16 features are universally loved. For example, the new iPhone home screen search button and unexpected photo pop-ups were quickly spurned. Fortunately, most of these iOS 16 features and settings can be completely disabled or removed. I’ll help you learn how to “fix” the most unpopular new iOS 16 feature. Let’s take a look below!

Stop unexpected (and embarrassing) photo pop-ups on your iPhone screen

Apple’s artificial intelligence helps you display photos and videos everywhere on your iPhone as reminders for family vacations, couple photos, and vacations, but you might not always want your personal photos to pop up unexpectedly, especially if they’re private , embarrassing or inappropriate.

In iOS 16, you can now prevent Featured Photos and a Featured Collection called Memories from appearing in the Photos widget on the Home screen and in the Search and For You sections of Photos.

To block these custom photos, launch the Settings app, go to Photos and turn off “Show Featured Content”. All featured content will no longer appear on your device, but will only be available in your photo library and albums.

Avoid accidentally ending your phone

The side/power button on the side of your iPhone lets you quickly sleep and wake your device, but if you accidentally press it during a call, you’ll end the call prematurely. If this is something you’ve encountered in the past, iOS 16 finally allows you to prevent that from happening.

In Settings, go to Accessibility > Touch and turn off “Lock End Call” to prevent the side button from ending a call. If you accidentally press the side button, your screen will go to sleep, but you will continue to receive calls without interruption.

Go back to using old iPhone lock screen notifications

Apple’s latest redesign brings widgets to the lock screen, customizable fonts and colors, a gallery of wallpapers and stylized date and time, and an overlooked notification change. Notifications now no longer appear at the top of the lock screen, but at the bottom, which you can then tap to go full screen.

However, not everyone is happy with the change. If you want to go back to how notifications appear on iOS 15, launch the Settings app and go to Notifications > Display As. Then you will see three options:

Count: Notifications appear as numbers at the bottom of the screen.

Stack: Notifications appear in a stack at the bottom of the screen.

List: Notifications appear entirely on your screen.

To return to the old notification style, select the list option.

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 iOS 16.1 introduces a feature we didn’t necessarily expect in the latest iPhone software update – Clean Energy Charging, designed to reduce the carbon footprint your phone builds up while charging. But to take advantage of this smarter way to charge your phone, you must know how to turn on clean energy charging in iOS 16.1.

This is of course a feature you want to take advantage of. With clean energy charging enabled, your iPhone will charge when low-carbon electricity is available. Your iPhone can do this by obtaining forecasts or carbon emissions from the local energy grid, scheduling charging slots when clean energy production occurs.

Currently, clean energy charging is only available for U.S. iPhone owners running iOS 16.1 on their phones. The first thing to do to turn this feature on is to adjust the settings. This is where you need to turn on clean energy charging:

1. Startup Settings

2. Scroll down to Battery and tap to enter battery settings.

3. On the subsequent screen, tap Battery Health and Charging.

4. The clean energy charging switch is at the bottom of the battery health and charging page. Slide the toggle switch to the right to turn on clean energy charging.

If you decide to turn the feature off, you can slide the toggle back to the left and Apple will give you the option to turn it off for just one day or permanently.

You need to check some other settings to make sure that clean energy charging is working as expected. To charge your phone at the right time, you also need to turn on Optimized battery charging. Luckily, that setting is also on the battery health and charging screen, just above the clean energy switch you just turned on.

Optimized battery charging lets your iPhone know when and where you regularly charge your phone so it can work with clean energy charging to ensure you charge your phone at the best time.

Apple recommends tweaking some location services settings to ensure you get a carbon forecast for your current area. This means going to Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Location Services and making sure you have Location Services turned on. From there, you need to click on System Services to make sure System Customization is also turned on. Additionally, selecting System Services from the Location Services screen allows you to turn on important locations.

With all of these features enabled, clean energy charging should work as expected, with greener charging entirely in the background.

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 iOS 16 is finally here, and after spending a few weeks on Apple’s best iPhone operating system, we’ve discovered a lot more than the headlines Apple revealed. Yes, the lock screen overhaul is great, the added widgets are great, and so are the deeper integration of focus modes. However, iOS 16 offers more than that. Here are some of our favorite “secret” iOS 16 features you might have missed.

Extract subject from photo

If you’ve browsed your photo library in iOS 16, you might accidentally start dragging parts of your photo out of the background. That’s thanks to a new feature in iOS 16 that lets you drag subjects from Photos to move them to different apps. There are even apps that turn those photos into stickers for use in iMessage.

Change lock screen notification layout

You can show all notifications on the screen, or swipe them down to show only the most recent notifications. You can even hide all of them, leaving only a small section at the bottom of the screen. To do this, just drag the notification to the bottom of the screen.

Bypass captcha

iOS 16 allows users to skip captcha by essentially requesting a security token on their behalf. Go to settings, then your iCloud account and password and security. You’ll find the option to enable automatic verification at the bottom.

Tactile keyboard

The haptic keyboard setup in iOS 16 is great for providing feedback when you’re using your device’s haptic input.

To turn it on, open Settings, then select Sounds & Haptics, then Keyboard Feedback. Here, you can use the toggle switch to turn on haptics, sound, or both.

Clear your photo duplicates

While organizing your photo library isn’t the most enjoyable task, there’s a way to instantly identify duplicates and combine them into a single image.

To find it, open Photos and tap Albums at the bottom. Scroll all the way to the Utilities section at the bottom and tap Repeat. Here, you’ll see all your doubles and can merge them into each image, saving space on your device or iCloud account.

Use Face ID in landscape orientation

It’s a little touch you may not have noticed yet, but it’s certainly a welcome touch. Face ID has been around since the iPhone X, but it always works in portrait mode — which means you’ll often have to flip the phone over. Borrowing a trick from recent iPads, you can now also unlock your phone in landscape orientation.

Use Live Text in Video

Live Text is a great way to extract key data from images you take yourself or find online. iOS 16 brings this feature to video, with one caveat – it can only handle still images.

Custom Spatial Audio

If you have any Spatial Audio-enabled Apple headphones, connect them to your iPhone and open Settings. Tap Bluetooth, then tap the “i” icon next to the headset. Then head to the Personalize Spatial Audio option.

Your phone will need to scan your ear shape with the camera (it works much like the original Face ID setup process), and you’ll build your custom spatial audio profile in seconds.

Full screen audio player

If you’ve been wondering how to let the audio of your choice take over your lock screen, just tap the album art. Doing so maximizes it and matches the lock screen’s colors to whatever you’re listening to. Click it again to minimize it. It’s a nice feature that adds more variety to your lock screen, but it’s also easy to miss.

Added battery percentage indicator

When Apple unceremoniously removed it, iPhone users were just getting used to having a battery percentage indicator on the status bar.

Thankfully, it’s back with iOS 16, but not on all phones — some users report it’s not present on the iPhone 11, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 13 mini, or iPhone XR.

However, if your Face ID iPhone is not one of these models, go into your Settings app, tap Battery, and check the battery percentage option.

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