‘Significant’ iOS, iPadOS 16 updates reportedly coming at WWDC

With less than two months to go earlier than Apple unveils its newest iOS, iPadOS, and macOS updates at WWDC, we’re all attempting to determine what Apple is planning for our iPhones and iPads. A new Bloomberg report means that huge issues could possibly be on the way in which.

Mark Gurman experiences that Apple is planning “some pretty vital enhancements throughout the board,” for iOS, together with an replace to notifications and new health-tracking options. Gurman says he isn’t anticipating a significant iOS redesign, which has largely remained unchanged since iOS 7 in 2013.

In iOS 15, Apple modified the look of notifications and added a Notification Abstract, in addition to a number of well being options, together with information sharing, tendencies, and strolling steadiness.

He didn’t provide any specifics on what Apple is planning for notifications, however among the many most sought-after options are higher administration and extra granular controls for every app. And the Notification Heart is sort of outdated and unintuitive.

Elsewhere, Gurman expects main upgrades to exercise and well being monitoring in watchOS 9 and the potential of “a brand new iPadOS multitasking interface,” some of the criticized options. 

Gurman additionally drops the inner codenames for the varied OSes, which gained’t be used publicly: Sydney (iOS 16), Kincaid (watchOS 9), Rome (macOS 13) and Paris (tvOS 16) will clearly be the highlights of the convention.