iOS 16 Release Date and Time

Apple will be releasing iOS 16 on September 12, 2022. With a bag full of new specifications and features, Apple has successfully released iOS 16 today. Also, the feature of SOS via satellite will also be activated in iPhone 16. Not just that but the previous iPhone launches can be connected with iOS 16 very easily. Although the Apple authorities have not yet revealed the real look of the iPhone 16, the authorities have revealed the features of the product. Let’s have a look at the features of the iPhone 16.

1. Several Lock Screens:

iPhone 16 can have several lock screens at the same time. You can just swipe right and your lock screen will change every time.

2. Notifications:

Only you can view all the notifications from the lock screen itself. You can also view the notifications in different styles.

3. Use Of The Focus:

One should connect her lock screen with the focus. This will help the phone understand and show you notifications that you want to see at that moment.

4. Messages:

We know that sending messages can’t be deleted or edited. But on iPhone 16 you can delete or edit any message. This feature is applicable to even already sent messages. But the only limit is you can only edit messages within 15 minutes of their sending.

5. Mail:

A very innovative feature that iPhone 16 will be having is ‘Attachments’. If while writing a mail you forget to insert an attachment, the phone will give you indications that you have forgotten to include your attachment. This is one of the most innovative features of the iPhone 16.

6. Safari:

The most helpful feature one could even ask for is ‘sharing tabs’. One can share any tab and can also receive any tabs from his friends.

7. iCloud:

Another new feature is you can share particular folders with five more people through iCloud. Not just albums, but you can also share separate pictures with your friends through iCloud.

These are the new features that you will be able to see on iPhone 16. Let’s wait for the reveal of the body and colors of the iPhone 16.

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For those who don’t know (or say for those who are living under a rock), PUBG Mobile is a scaled-down version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds from PUBG Corporation. It is a military-style shooter game that has a number of rivals such as Fortnite. While playing PUBG Mobile, the players are deployed on an island and in fact, there are one hundred players that are deployed on an island in a quest to fight and defeat others to win the title of the winner by outlasting everyone on the island. The game was earlier available on Xbox One and PC but in March as in the day when PUBG Corporation decided to leap to iOS and Android, the game become a craze in people across the globe excluding Japan, Korea, and China.

According to Vincent Wang, PUBG Mobile general manager, he thanked the development team at Quantum Studios and Lightspeed to offer such an immense support to the game while he thanked the players around the world who showed their dedication towards the mobile version of the game. He added that the PUBG Mobile is updated with new content very often which helps it attract more users while minting more profit out of it.

When it debuted on iOS and Android, the game didn’t have any in-game purchases compared to other games, however, it has since included a number of in-game purchases and upgrades that allowed it to mint around $50 million in revenue. The updated content allowed Tencent to increase purchases where it reported a hike of 365 percent after a premium progression pass was rolled out to the users. Further, the game has also included a number of events such as a crossover event with Tom Cruise’ Mission: Impossible – Fallout and more.

On the other hand, Fortnite is an uber-popular game available for iOS and has recently been made available on Samsung smartphones as beta. It is yet to be available for Android smartphones but there’s a catch. Epic Games, the developer of Fortnite has stated that the game won’t be available on Google Play Store and it will be available on its official website only. This could give PUBG Mobile an edge over Fortnite due to its strong presence on Google Play Store.

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Pricing is the biggest issue in India as even the cheapest iPhone SE in India cost around $300 while an average Indian customer spends around $150 for a smartphone at which, they can buy entry-level phones from Xiaomi, Oppo, and other brands. Moreover, Indian wholesalers and retailers are known to fluctuate their prices every day which means customers can wait for a longer duration to get the best deal.

But with the latest five-point plan, Apple might implement daily discounts and cashback offers to lure Indian customers. It will train the staff members who will teach customers how to use iPhones. The staff will be trained to approach customers more aggressive and Apple might cut off supplies to those retailers clocking below the targets in an attempt to increase iPhone recommendations. Further, Apple will overhaul the in-store displays and branding which could lure more potential customers and converts.

Moving further, Apple will introduce three Apple Stores in Mumbai, New Delhi, and Bengaluru, something which the Cupertino giant has been longing to do for years, however, with stringent rules and regulations imposed by Indian government asking companies to have at least 30% of the products manufactured in the country in order to gain access to stores. Apple is already churning out new iPhone SE and iPhone 6S in India which could help it achieve its goal to establish stores in India. This will also help lower the cost of an iPhone unit since those iPhones that aren’t manufactured in India attract a 20 percent import tax which elevates its retail cost in India.

There are a series of complaints and queries that Apple will have to resolve if indeed it wants to establish a strong foothold in India. Many iPhone users have claimed that Siri doesn’t work with local languages. Further, the Apple Maps are incapable of providing turn-by-turn directions and guidance on Indian roads which is something Google Maps have mastered while Amazon and Facebook have made their significant contributions too. People want Apple Pay support in India which is something Apple is already working on to increase its usage in India.

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For those smartphones that have signed up for Android Beta program including the latest OnePlus 6 and each flagship smartphone from HMD Global, Vivo, Essential, Sony Mobile, and Xiaomi will receive the update this fall followed by other smartphones. Android 9 Pie has some great improvements over the other Android OSes as it is more attuned to provide the highest level of security and privacy to the user along with facilitating smartphones to work faster while saving battery life which is a precious commodity.

Starting Monday, Google Pixel devices will start getting the update via OTA where they will get plenty of features like notch support which have become a norm after Apple iPhone X popularized the same last year. Soon, it was reiterated in Huawei, Xiaomi, Vivo, and a bunch of other smartphones and with Android Pie, the apps will work smoothly irrespective if the device has a notch or not. Apart from that, the Android P brings adaptive battery feature that works with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that scans and records the battery consumptions and provide the best output based on the analysis. It works towards accelerating the speed and efficiency of the device which is a great news of devices with entry-level specs.

Android Pie brings a number of AI tools along with such as smart replies which work with the help of AI which reads the context of the message and provides smart replies according to the message received. Further, AI helps pull out only the related information from the internet thereby eliminating the needs to go through tonnes of web pages and websites on the website to get the required information. Further, Android Pie brings newer gesture navigation similar to Apple iPhone X where a central button doubles as a home button, calls Google Assistant as well as open recent plus similar to how Apple iPhones work with just a single home button.

Android Pie has a feature that helps user combat tech addiction which is something Facebook and Instagram have come up with along with Apple that will roll out the said feature in its official iOS 12 release. Now that Google has officially rolled out its Android Pie, it depends on how smartphones manufacturers and carriers would response and provide the update to the users since Android updates follow a protocol called ‘fragmentation’ unlike Apple will rolls out updates to its devices directly and has already updated 81 percent of the iPhones and iPads to the latest iOS version.

On the other hand, Android Oreo has only 12.1 percent market share in terms of smartphones with Oreo while a massive 75 percent of the total devices have Lollipop, Marshmallow, and Nougat operating system where the oldest Lollipop OS was unveiled back in 2014.

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But it is not the first time Apple has teased an upcoming feature in its beta updates. Last year, a HomePod firmware update teased iPhone X’ screen design while the much acclaimed FaceID was teased in iOS 11 beta version along with AirPods, Animoji, etc. These are just a few features of the many that were teased in the beta updates even before Apple could officially announce it.

The iOS 12 beta 5 has also extended its support to the AirPower and new AirPods. A LED light has been added with the upcoming AirPod case dictating its battery status and thus, eliminating the need to open the case to know its status instead. The AirPower was launched last year in September with a shipping date of September 2018. It is just a few weeks away from today for which, people have been eagerly waiting so that they can enjoy wireless charging feature using the wireless charging mat or AirPower.

Apple will release three iPhone models including a 6.2” OLED iPhone X Plus and a smaller 5.8” OLED iPhone X and finally, a cheaper 6.1” LCD iPhone. All these devices are expected to be released at Apple’s event to be held this September.

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More than 1.5 billion users use WhatsApp on a monthly basis according to an official figure. WhatsApp states that this much-anticipated feature is engineered to work even in less-than-stellar network which means, as long as you can get yourself online, you can group call or group video call irrespective of how far the other users are without paying even a penny and all voice and video calls are end-to-end encrypted similar to the chats and other features offered by WhatsApp.

WhatsApp calling feature was announced in 2014 when people starting glowing to this lightweight and extremely efficient and fewer data consuming communication app. WhatsApp has seen a number of changes ever since it was first launched. It introduced its video calling feature in 2016 and then, end-to-end encryption and a lot of other features were incorporated. With the newly released group voice and video calling feature, WhatsApp will unarguably backtrack its rivals such as Skype with more than 1.5 billion users base and counting.

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Samsung and Xiaomi are two of the highest selling Android smartphone brand with a variety of models in-store which is one of the reasons which both these companies made it to the latest reports on worst-performing smartphones of Q4 2017. Samsung managed to decrease the failure rate of its various smartphone from 61% in Q2 2017 to 53% in Q3 2017. It managed to pull off the failure rate of 34% in Q4 2017. Xiaomi secured the second position with 13% while Motorola made it to the third position with a 9% failure rate.

Other smartphone brands included in this category are Lenovo, HMD Global, Infocus, ZTE, OnePlus and others. Huawei surprises everyone after being named as the eighth brand in this category with a 4% failure rate.

When it comes to individual models, Xiaomi Redmi 4 secured the first position with a 9% failure rate while Motorola Moto G (5S) Plus made it to the second position of 6%. The category of Top 10 Android models by failure rate in Q4 2017 was dominated by Samsung with five models tagged while Xiaomi had two different models along with one from HMD Global Nokia, Lenovo, and Motorola.

The reports also curated the failure rate according to the region. Android devices underwent failure rate of whopping 40% in Europe, 21% in Asia, and a fewer 9% in North America. For iOS devices, the failure rate in North America is 12%, 26% in Asia and 31% in Europe.

Further, the report named Apple iPhone 6 as the worst-performing smartphone with the highest failure rate of 26% among others in all Apple devices followed by iPhone 6S (14%), iPhone 6S Plus (9%). Interestingly, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone 5 suffered a failure rate of 2% as of Q4 2017.

The researchers studied the elements that are causing much irritation and annoying the users and found out 27% of the Android devices were affected by its various performance issues since the majority of Android smartphones are available at affordable price segment. Further, issues related to the camera (5%) followed by the microphone (4%), headset (4%), and speaker (3%) which the top 5 factors behind worst-performing Android smartphones.

When researchers studied the various iOS devices, they found no performance issues, however, they found issues that led to its failure i.e. Bluetooth (3%), Wi-Fi (3%), mobile data (2%), headset (2%), and receiver (1%). Performance of Apple iPhones has been incomparable to other smartphones because Apple exercised control over its hardware and software components which enables it to keep the optimum quality of output at all-time which isn’t the case with Android smartphones.

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Let’s take Video Chat feature on Instagram where the users can contact their friends and followers simply by sliding into the DMs. No need of phone number as Instagram will allow an IG account owner to do a video chat with anyone assuming that both the parties have involved in exchanging messages. What’s more? IG users can add up to four different members on the video chat feature so that users can enjoy on a conference video chat without any hassle.

Apart from the Video chat feature, Instagram will now offer new camera effects apart from those already available thus adding more to fun for its users. Instagram has roped in creators such as Ariana Grande, Buzzfeed, and others to create these new camera effects that you can augment in your photos and videos. You’ll have to follow these accounts to get new camera effects but even if you aren’t following them, Instagram got your back as it lets users to tap and save any camera effects that he/she likes without following any account. Love that new camera effect hosted by Ariana Grande? Simply tap on face icon located at the bottom right corner in her stories and save it for yourself.

Instagram has revamped its Explore page a lot of times as it is trying to perfect the art of providing content that its users can consume without feeling disappointed. Earlier, it was filled with random videos and photos but now, with the new update, Instagram has re-tuned the Explore page to be more topic-oriented where the users can find the content they want to consume as it will eventually increase their time spent on the platform. So, what are you waiting for? Grab the new Instagram update on your iOS and Android smartphone and get busy livin’. Let us know your experience in the comments below.

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The app shows new buttons, icons, and colorful tabs against a plain white background. The ‘Explore’ tab got new buttons, icons, colors, and features. Now, the user can check out nearby places such as museums, restaurants, malls, or select any category of interest in the same city or neighboring or any other city they wish to visit soon. The new update recommends restaurants, bars, and reviews from local experts which makes it easier for tourists or even locals to visit the place without further ado.

One of the coolest features on the Google Maps update is called ‘Your Match’ which is a machine learning technique-based feature that evaluates person’s location history and determines the percentage rating if the user will like the place (searching for) or not. You can also rate the places that will be further added to the machine learning for other users to follow.

If you are a foodie or someone who loves food, this new update is a powerful tool as it lets the user check out the restaurants and food joints trending in their cities or the place they are visiting under ‘For You’ tab which is now available for Canada, Japan, U.S., U.K, Australia and other countries will soon join the wagon. The app also tracks all the events and activities happening nearby so that you can things to do everytime you check out Google Maps. Google has unveiled the new update for Android devices and for iOS users too.

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