Apple has launched iOS 15.2, the company’s second significant upgrade to the iOS operating system since September. Several improvements that Apple stated would be included in iOS 15 but were ultimately postponed are now included in iOS 15.2. This guide highlights everything new that’s been added in the iOS 15.2 update.
One of the iOS 15 features that Apple demonstrated at WWDC was the App Privacy Report. It’s a privacy tool that lets users see how many times applications have accessed their permission-restricted data, including location, images, camera, microphone, and contacts, during the previous seven days.
Users can also view which applications have contacted other domains and how recently they’ve contacted them using App Privacy Report, allowing them to keep track of what apps are doing behind the scenes. You can view all of the trackers a website uses, for example, so you know where your data is going.
To get the App Privacy Report, open the Settings app, go to the Privacy section, and pick App Privacy Report. You may turn it on from there. After you’ve been using applications for a while, data will start to appear in this location.
Apple has a support document dedicated to the App Privacy Report function, which gives further details on how it works.
In iOS 15.2, the function that allows you to summon emergency services by pressing a succession of buttons has been upgraded. You may now commence by pressing the side button repeatedly, or by holding down the side button and the volume button simultaneously if you like.
Prior to the upgrade, the quick press functioned, but there was no way to hold both buttons down at the same time. If you have Auto Call activated, Apple has now introduced an eight-second countdown before placing a call, up from the previous three-second countdown.
The Apple Music Voice Plan, which was initially released in October, is now supported in iOS 15.2. The Voice Plan, which costs $4.99 a month, gives you access to all of Apple Music’s songs, playlists, and stations via Siri.
Because the experience is designed to be Siri-centric, there is just a limited on-device interface accessible. Users may ask Siri for music recommendations based on their listening history or likes and dislikes, and a “Play it Again” function allows them to browse a list of previously played tracks.
With Legacy Contacts, you may designate someone you trust to have access to your Apple ID and data (or “Digital Legacy”) after you pass away. Photos, messages, notes, files, contacts, calendar events, applications, device backups, and more are all accessible to the person you choose as your contact. iCloud Keychain passwords, as well as licenced material, remain unavailable.
By opening the Settings app, selecting “Password & Security,” and then selecting ” Legacy Contact ” from the list, you may access the Legacy Contact option. You can then choose a trusted individual to have access to your account after you die away. You can opt to share your special access key with an iPhone or Android user via Messages or by printing it out.
With this update, the Find My app can now track an iPhone in Power Reserve mode for up to five hours. Power Reserve mode is initiated when the iPhone’s battery runs out.
Apple has changed the look of the TV app in iPadOS 15.2. The TV app has a sidebar that makes it easier to navigate between the various areas of the app.
There’s a dedicated “Store” option in the TV app for iPhone users to access movies and TV series that may be purchased. The new design, as well as the addition of a Store tab, may assist customers to distinguish between Apple TV+ and premium content, as the previous design was confusing for some.
After installing the iOS 15.2 beta, you may utilise Hide My Email directly from the Mail app. To construct a random email address, just press on the “From” field and pick the “Hide My Email” option while creating an email.
Hide My Email is a handy option for concealing your email address that is available to anybody with an iCloud Plus account (priced beginning at $0.99 per month).
All emails sent to the Apple-created email account are sent to you so that you may react if necessary, but the recipient never sees your true email address. And if you start receiving spam emails from someone, you can simply remove the address and stop receiving them.
Apple promised a software update that would fix an iPhone 13 policy that rendered Face ID inoperable when a damaged display was repaired, and iOS 15.2 has that update.
The iPhone 13 contains a microcontroller that connects it to its display, and in previous versions of iOS, the microcontroller had to be coupled to the display using Apple’s tools while doing a display repair. Independent repair businesses were frustrated that they couldn’t simply do display repairs since they didn’t have access to such equipment.
Face ID was unavailable for iPhone 13 devices with switched screens due to a microcontroller pairing need, however, Apple has eliminated this requirement, allowing for independent display repairs.
Apple has enabled Communication Safety in Messages for minors in iOS 15.2. The tool is meant to check for nudity in incoming communications images on children’s devices and warn them that such images might be hazardous.
Communication Safety is an opt-in, privacy-focused feature that parents must enable. It’s confined to children’s accounts, with all detection done on-device, and it’s not the same as Apple’s anti-CSAM technology, which is still in development.
The deployed version of Communication Safety does not warn parents if their children open a nudity-containing photo, unlike prior versions stated by Apple. This function was withdrawn by Apple due to concerns that it may be hazardous in cases of parental abuse.
Apple is also adding new recommendations to Siri, Spotlight, and Safari Search to assist kids and parents avoid potentially dangerous situations online. Users who, for example, ask Siri how to report child exploitation will be given instructions on how to do so.
Macro mode now has a manual toggle in the shape of a flower icon that can be pressed to turn it off when the camera is near to an item in iOS 15.2.
Users must go to Settings, then Camera, then turn on “Macro Control” to receive the new toggle. The flower icon will appear in the camera app when you get near enough to an object. Macro mode may be enabled or disabled by tapping the icon.
For Macro Control, Apple has included a new Preserve Settings option. If Macro Control is turned off, the camera will automatically convert to Macro mode when it gets close enough to an item, therefore this feature is intended to provide users who dislike that feature greater control over when Macro mode is used.
In iOS 15.2, Apple modified Notification Summary, giving it a new design with a card-style approach that displays the key applications in the summary as overlapping cards, making it simpler to notice what’s included in the summary at a glance.
Several Siri commands that were eliminated in iOS 15 and were utilised by low vision and blind iPhone users have been reintroduced in iOS 15.2. Reviewing voicemail messages, playing the most recent voicemail, checking call history, and providing information on recent calls are all now functional.
The update provides a number of bug fixes for Siri, ProRaw, HomeKit, and CarPlay problems, which are listed below.
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