HACKER Q&A
📣 gnicholas

Have You Upgraded to iOS 16?


Does anyone know how stable the recent beta builds of iOS 16 were? These are usually a pretty good predictor of whether there will be issues with the public release.

Also, what are some favorite features? I don't expect to care much about the lock screen stuff, and until the update is widely adopted the Messages editing capability won't matter much. Is there much to be excited about?


  👤 melling Accepted Answer ✓
I always upgrade.

Apple is really great about moving people forward. It’s refreshing change from the constant “I don’t want to upgrade. It does everything I want it to do “ mentality

Onward


👤 trcarney
I usually wait until the '.1' update. There are always some fixes that need to occur with the first rollout and they do a pretty good job of fixing those in the first update.

👤 teekert
I did, I like the lockscreen features. It’s just a shame that my main use-case is to switch to sleep focus and then it completely blurs that beautiful earth or moon image. I think it would be cool to go to sleep knowing where the day is turning into night.

Oh and with darkmode I had a bright lockscreen and a dark startscreen picture, that seems impossibly now? Where are the dark stock images?

And you can’t reorder the lockscreens, that’s not handy.


👤 thebitstick
Have been using it since the developer betas were first released.

Multistop routing for Maps should have not taken so long to be added, Family Album is nice, Dictation is a lot better, 'Copy subject' is an awesome addition to the native image viewing, new lock screen is pretty nice and while I don't care for medication tracking, my mom surely will.


👤 runjake
Been running it since Public Beta 1. Now running the release build. It is fine.

👤 hahnchen
Going to today. Looking forward to PassKeys

👤 hollywood_court
I always join the beta program. I experienced no problems.

My most used feature is definitely the medication reminders.

Adding medicines and vitamins was simple.


👤 warrenm
I updated yesterday

So far the only major difference I've seen is in how you get to 'hidden' notifications


👤 ir77
Can someone help - somehow with the iOS 15 - when watching videos the buttons to skip ahead etc. were on the bottom so when skipping ahead they wouldn’t obscure the picture, now they’re dead in the middle?

👤 themadturk
No complaints here, I've been running it since around public beta 2. I like the new lock screen features best. It's been very stable and didn't have much, if any effect on battery life on my iPhone 13 Pro.

👤 janekg
now downloading the update, will test it later :)

👤 SanjayMehta
Upgraded this morning. No surprises or crashes etc.

The lockscreen features left me cold. Keyboard haptic feedback is great.


👤 lolive
Not on my 6s. Thanks, Apple, for that.

👤 Dimidium-07
Yes, so far now issues.