iOS 16.3 is available for all iPhones 8 and later with a couple of attention-grabbing options, together with bodily safety key help for Apple IDs. Extra importantly, it additionally comprises a number of bug fixes and safety updates that iPhone customers have been ready for.
In keeping with Apple’s launch notes, the iOS 16.3 replace “fixes a problem the place horizontal traces might briefly seem whereas waking up iPhone 14 Professional Max.” Over the previous a number of weeks, some iPhone 14 customers have complained about horizontal lines flashing across their screens. In keeping with studies on social media and discussion boards, the traces seem when the iPhone wakes up or restarts. Moreover, the discharge fixes some nagging bugs with the Lock Display screen, Siri, and CarPlay:
- Addresses a problem the place the wallpaper might seem black on the Lock Display screen
- Fixes a problem the place the Residence Lock Display screen widget doesn’t precisely show Residence app standing
- Addresses a problem the place Siri might not reply correctly to music requests
- Resolves points the place Siri requests in CarPlay will not be understood accurately
There are additionally a number of safety updates that would trigger main issues to your system if left unpatched. Probably the most regarding concerned Display screen Time, Apple’s parental management and display screen administration app. In keeping with the entry, iOS 16.3 fixes a problem the place an app “might be able to entry details about a consumer’s contacts.” The replace additionally features a handful of fixes that would result in arbitrary code execution.
The replace additionally will possible deliver again the brand new Residence structure that beforehand arrived in iOS 16.2. Simply earlier than the vacations, Apple pulled the feature, which improves reliability and effectivity, as a consequence of a sharing situation–however with out offering an replace on when it might be restored. The Residence structure improve re-appeared within the second iOS 16.3 beta, suggesting that Apple has mounted the difficulty. Nonetheless, there isn’t a point out of it within the launch notes, so it’d seem in some unspecified time in the future earlier than the launch of iOS 16.4.
