Chance Miller
While iOS 17 speculation is already in full swing, there are
still a handful of features that Apple has announced, but not yet released
for iPhone and iPad users. There are new Apple Pay and Apple Card features
on the way, updates to Safari, and much more. Head below as we round up all
of the previously-announced features still coming for iPhone and iPad.
Apple Pay Later
Apple is ramping up its initiatives in the personal finance sector, and one
of its most anticipated new features in this category is something called
Apple Pay Later.
Announced at WWDC 2022, Apple Pay Later will allow you to split Apple Pay
purchases into four equal payments with zero percent interest, spread across
six weeks.
The Apple Pay Later feature is similar to competitors like Affirm and
Klarna, two of the companies leading a modern wave of "buy now, pay later"
platforms.
Apple, however, touts that its platform will be "seamless and secure," with
integration into the Apple Wallet application and zero fees.
When Apple Pay Later was announced at WWDC 2022, there was no clear timeline
for when it would be available to customers. The feature was not included in
the initial release of iOS 16 and hasn't been added with any of the
subsequent software updates.
Bloomberg reported that the feature faced "fairly significant technical and
engineering challenges."
Once it launches, Apple Pay Later will be "available everywhere Apple Pay is
accepted online or in-app" to "qualifying applicants in the United States."
Apple Card Savings Account
Continuing with the focus on financial services, Apple has also announced it
will integrate a high-yield savings account directly into the Wallet
application for Apple Card users. This feature was announced in October,
with Apple saying it would be available sometime "soon." Given that Apple
Card is only available in the United States, the new savings account will
also be limited to the US.
apple card savings account
Apple Card Savings Account will allow you to automatically deposit your
Daily Cash rewards into the account. It will fully integrate with the Apple
Wallet applications, allowing you to track the balance and growth of the
account over time and even make additional deposits via a linked bank
account.
Apple Card Savings Account will be operated in partnership with Goldman
Sachs, which is also Apple's partner for the Apple Card itself. There's no
word on what exact percentage rate the account will pay out in interest, but
Goldman's existing online savings account offers an annual percentage yield
of 3.30%.
Next-generation CarPlay
At WWDC, Apple unveiled what it described as the "next generation of
CarPlay." This is a feature, however, that even Apple acknowledged would not
be available for quite awhile, despite the initial announcement at WWDC
2022.
The new CarPlay interface is a dramatic overhaul compared to what is
currently offered. It will offer support for multiple screens within your
car and be able to deeply integrate with your car's hardware. Essentially,
this new CarPlay design can completely replace the manufacturer's own
digital interfaces:
. Speed, fuel level, temperature, and more on the instrument cluster
. Control the radio or change the climate directly through CarPlay
. Personalize the driving experience by choosing different gauge cluster
designs
. With widgets, users will have at-a-glance information from Weather and
Music right on their car's dashboard
This is a big undertaking by Apple, and it will require close cooperation
with automakers looking to adopt the new CarPlay interface. Apple says that
more information will be "shared in the future" and that we can expect the
first vehicles with support for the new CarPlay design sometime late this
year.
Apple Music Classical
Ah, yes, Apple Music Classical. This isn't necessarily a feature specific to
iOS 16, but it's something that Apple said would be available in 2022.and
wasn't. Apple acquired the classical music service Primephonic in 2021,
immediately removing the app from the App Store and integrating the content
into its own Music app.
Apple also promised, however, that it would release a "dedicated classical
music app" sometime in 2022, "combining Primephonic's classical user
interface with more added features." This didn't come to fruition in 2022,
and Apple is silent on when the app will launch.
At this point, we're starting to question whether Apple Music Classical has
been scrapped (or significantly scaled back in scope), given Apple's silence
on the matter. The good news is that references to the service have been
spotted in iOS code. Hopefully, we'll get an update soon.
Web push notifications
Here's something that has largely flown under the radar since it was
officially announced: support for web push notifications for Safari on iOS
and iPadOS.
This was announced at WWDC last year, with Apple saying that Safari on iPad
and iPhone would support push notifications from websites for the first
time.
iOS 16 notification settings
Support for web notifications in Safari has been available on the Mac for
several years but has remained notably absent on iPhone and iPad. What
jogged our memory on this feature was a post on Mastodon from Jen Simmons,
who works as an Apple Evangelist on the company's Web Developer Experience
team.
In the post, Simmons asked users to share their "favorite web apps" that
they've added to the Home Screen of their iPhone. This could signal Apple's
continued work on web push notifications for iPhone and iPad, as well as
maybe some other improvements to how progressive web apps work on Apple's
platforms.
Apple says that support for web notifications on iPhone and iPadOS will be
available sometime in 2023. The feature hasn't yet materialized in betas of
iOS 16.
iMessage Contact Key Verification
Finally, there's one security and privacy-focused feature that Apple has
already announced is coming sometime this year. iMessage Contact Key
Verification is designed for "users who face extraordinary digital threats,"
including journalists, human rights activists, and members of government.
The feature works by giving those users a way to further verify that they
are messaging with the people they intend. Apple explains:
" The vast majority of users will never be targeted by highly sophisticated
cyberattacks, but the feature provides an important additional layer of
security for those who might be. Conversations between users who have
enabled iMessage Contact Key Verification receive automatic alerts if an
exceptionally advanced adversary, such as a state-sponsored attacker, were
ever to succeed breaching cloud servers and inserting their own device to
eavesdrop on these encrypted communications. And for even higher security,
iMessage Contact Key Verification users can compare a Contact Verification
Code in person, on FaceTime, or through another secure call".
iMessage Contact Key Verification will be available "globally" sometime in
2023, Apple says.
iOS 16.4 likely coming soon.
iOS 16.3 was released to everyone this past week with a handful of features
and changes, specifically targeting the HomePod. Now that this update has
been released, we expect the company to begin beta testing of iOS 16.4 soon
- potentially within the next few days.
Whether or not iOS 16.4 includes any of these features remains to be seen,
but here's hoping it does.
9to5Mac.
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