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Regular Departments 38 Amp Up Your Mac
The best gear to deck out
your offi ce.
4 Editor's Message
6 Tech the iPhone Life Team Life & Tech
Is Loving
48 iView: The New Way to
Digitize Old Photos
iNews
16 New iPad Air: The Reviews
Are In!
What our team thinks of
42 Top 4 Health Wearables to Try
the 2022 iPad Air.
Bet your Apple Watch can’t
Great Gear track this.
Best Apps
47 Women at the Wheel
5 popular apps created by
women.
10 The Best of iOS 16
iUser
All our favorite features of
the iPhone’s new OS.
36 MagiMask Goggles Review
14 iPhone 14 Rumors What is extended reality? 46 Joshua Dennis
No notch? No mini? All the On using tech to help plug
buzz around the 14. leaks and sing opera.
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THE
HOW-TO
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GUIDE
2022
THE BEST OF
Top Tips to Make You an
Apple Expert iOS 16
21 iPhone Life’s How-To Guide
22 Staff Favorites
26 Customization
28 Productivity
30 Photography
32 Mac Navigation
34 Apple Watch
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Editor's Message
Don’t Be Fooled by the Sizzle Features
O ver the years, I’ve learned that a principle of house hunting applies to Readers Weigh In:
Apple events too—don’t fall for the sizzle features. Our CEO David
Averbach taught me this. Whether it’s a new home or an iPhone, he said,
you should look for the features that will improve your quality of life, not Re: What features are you most
just catch your attention. excited about in iOS 16?
“I wish Apple would have redone
Last time I was in the market for a home, I remember falling in love with the the Lock screen on the iPad like
marble fi replace and towel heating racks installed in every bathroom. After it did on the iPhone. Apple is only
moving in, I rarely warmed towels or lit fi res, but instead found long-term allowing the iPhone 8 and up to
satisfaction in the soft-close cabinets in the kitchen that stopped me from install iOS 16, but I have heard the
banging doors and the multi-zone thermostat that kept the upstairs and 8 isn’t going to be able to use all the
downstairs temps just right. features of the update.”
-Ross C.
Apple’s releases work much in the same way. While I got excited about the
iPhone 13’s Cinematic video mode last year, for instance, I almost forget it exists. Re: Do you allow contacts to see
Sometimes it’s the sensible features that make the most meaningful difference in when you’ve read their texts?
our lives. This year’s operating systems are marked by everyday upgrades, many “I vote for using Read Receipts only
of which we’ve long been begging for. At last, we’ll have the ability to customize for a spouse (or perhaps a loved one
our Lock screen and mark text messages as unread. The Weather app is fi nally such as a parent or sick person who
coming to the iPad, and iPadOS 16 will allow you to resize app windows for needs monitoring). My husband is
greater control of your workspace. always in meetings or on the phone
with clients. If I text him, I know he
While not the most sensational, these are features we’ve been sorely missing. saw my message. It makes it so
This fall, iOS 16 will roll out to anyone with an iPhone 8 or later. Learn more of the much easier for us to communicate.
best features coming your way by reading our iOS 16 roundup on page 10. We can make plans, and he can
reply without interrupting his
We don’t yet know what hardware Apple will release alongside the OSes come clients. It works great.”
September, but rumors are giving us some solid ideas. Analysts predict Apple will -Maryann C.
release an always-on display to show off the revamped Lock screen but will likely
wait another year before switching to a USB-C connector (page 14). Re: What are real-world uses for
FaceTime’s new Center Stage
No matter what Apple device you own, how much you benefi t from them feature?
depends on how well you know how to use them! That’s why we create our “Center Stage is more important
annual How-To Guide. Whether you’re looking for ways to be more productive if you have more than one person
with your iPhone, capture better photos and videos, or navigate your Mac faster in the picture. My wife and I often
with handy shortcuts, Managing Editor Amy Spitzfaden-Both will teach you some FaceTime our grandkids. It keeps
tricks to keep up your sleeve (page 21). both of us in the picture even
though we are close to the iPad
without having to fi nagle to get just
the right angle. If one of steps out
of the picture for a bit, it re-centers
the image so that the remaining
Donna Schill person is still centered. It also
Editor in Chief at iPhone Life makes it better if you move around
any at all.”
-Tim M.
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