Apple today released iOS 16 beta 2 and more for developers to download and test.
Each beta update usually includes new features and tweaks, such as the recent changes we’ve seen to the Lock Screen wallpapers and user interface.
Below are iOS 16 beta 2 release notes as shared by Apple with developers. One new feature coming is the ability to back up your device over an LTE cellular connection, along with 5G and Wi-Fi.
Also notable is the mention of more support for Bluetooth and USB game controllers in macOS 13, iOS 16 and tvOS 16 and later. Recently, it was confirmed Nintendo Switch controllers were now supported on Apple devices.
iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 beta 2 release notes can be seen below, with a focus on new features:
Transaction and Promotion categories for improved organization. (95276296)price is included in Product. Use this property to format price values deriving from the product’s decimal price. (81480683)Product has new properties for localizing prices and subscription periods. For iOS 15, iPadOS 15, macOS 12, tvOS 15, and watchOS 8 or later use price to format numbers derived from price. Use subscription to format durations of time relating to a subscription period. On iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS 13, tvOS 16, and watchOS 9 or later use subscription to format single units of a subscription period. (93780442)Product and Transaction. It represents the server environment in which the Renewal and Transaction occurred, respectively. (85988753)App allows developers to cryptographically verify that the app was purchased on the App Store. (86739279)recent property is included in Product. It represents the date that marks the start of the most recent period of continuous subscription. A period is considered a continuous subscription if there’s no more than a 60-day gap between any two subscribed periods. (86599570)price property is included in Product. Use this property to format price values deriving from the product’s decimal price. (81480683)offer view modifier in your SwiftUI apps. (85321941)request environment value to get an instance of a Request. Then, call this instance to request to display a review prompt from your SwiftUI apps. (86739003)HKSample subclasses that allow developers to encapsulate prescriptions for glasses and contact lenses. Users of iPhone can directly store their prescription information from the Health app as well. Because most regions require the actual prescription document to purchase glasses and contacts, this feature also allows the storage of attachment files in Health. Due to the potential privacy concerns around sharing unintended additional details from the prescription, the Health framework has a new authorization API to allow users to authorize prescriptions on a per-sample basis. See header documentation in Health and watch the WWDC HealthKit session for more information. (82940646)= Allow developers to classify incoming SMS from unknown numbers into 12 new sub-categories within Transaction and Promotion categories for improved organization. (93898719)
Text in an Alert by using alert modifiers that accept a View. (64819930)control, Section, or other views that have a Label, the View content now automatically arranges and styles multiple views as hierarchical elements, such as title and subtitle. If the label views are intended to be arranged horizontally rather than hierarchically, wrap the views within an HStack. (85184563)Text supports multiline text. Use a Axis axis on a text field to allow rendering of multiple lines in contexts like forms, where text is expected to be short to medium length. For long-form text editing, continue to use a Text. (51463718)navigation modifier to change this. By default, a navigation bar only renders if it has content to display. If a navigation bar has no title, toolbar items, or search content, it’s automatically hidden. Use the navigation or the new .toolbar(.visible) modifier to explicitly show an empty navigation bar. (84996257)list supports Section footers. (78462739).window, windows created with SwiftUI set their resizable and fullscreen flags based on the size of their contents. (65791490)List separator insets can now be customized using Horizontal and Horizontal alignment guides. (74192080)list no longer uses UITable. (81571203)Symbol modifier. (85524479)list displays its label by default. To hide the label, use the labels modifier. (88228016)list default to the menu style. (89186618)text and image views now animate by default. Use .contents to disable this behavior. (89558882).scroll to restore the old behavior. (89588639)
