a new transparent, glassy material throughout the UI. Objects (controls, nav bars, widgets, icons) will reflect/refract their environment and react more dynamically to movement/light.
Visual Intelligence enables you to search or take action on what you're looking at across apps (e.g., recognizing an event and autocompleting adding it to calendar, or discovering similar images/products) Apple
Lock Screen & Home Screen become more personalized. Time adjusts to wallpaper space, wallpapers are allowed to have 3D/depth effects when you rock your iPhone.
Messages improvements: – Unknown senders’ messages go into a silenced folder until accepted. – Group chats: typing indicators, polls, custom backgrounds. 9to5Mac+1 – Apple Cash in group chats (request, send, receive)
Apple Music gets AutoMix (smooth transitions between songs, like a DJ) plus features like Lyrics Translation and Pronunciation.
YOU CAN TRANSLATED LYRICS IN ANY LANGUAGES WITH PLUS FEATURE.
Maps features: Visited Places (keeps track of places you’ve been, with privacy), detecting daily routes and offering preferred/alternate routes etc.
Wallet: refreshed boarding passes with Live Activities; better access to things like airport maps, tracking bags with Find My etc
CarPlay improvements small window for incoming call (so navigation is not obstructed), pinned conversations and tapbacks in Messages, widgets & Live Activities in CarPlay.
macOS Preview app now on iPhone: editing and annotating PDFs / images directly on the device. New power/battery modes: more intelligent battery saving (adaptive power) to give more life to the battery.