New features available with iPadOS 16.
iPadOS 16 has new features to make iPad more intuitive, more customizable, and more capable.
iPadOS 16 has new features to make iPad more intuitive, more customizable, and more capable.
Share a separate iCloud photo library with up to five other people.
Share all your past photos, or use setup tools to contribute specific photos based on start date or people.
Contribute photos manually, or use smart features to make sharing seamless, like a switch in Camera, automatic sharing using Bluetooth proximity, and sharing suggestions in For You.
Everyone has equal permissions to add, edit, favorite, caption, and delete.
Enjoy shared photos in Memories, Featured Photos, and the Photos widget.
You can edit a message for up to 15 minutes after sending it.1
Unsend any message for up to 15 minutes after sending it.
Mark messages as unread when you don’t have time to respond but want to be sure to reply to the sender later.
You can recover recently deleted messages for up to 30 days after deleting them.2
Share synchronized activities like movies, music, workouts, games, and more with friends while chatting in Messages.
Developers can build a Shared with You section into their app, so when someone sends you a video or article that you don’t have time to check out at the moment, it will be easy to find the next time you open the app.
Send an invitation to collaborate on a project in Messages, and everyone on the thread will automatically be added to the document, spreadsheet, or project. Compatible with Files, Keynote, Numbers, Pages, Notes, Reminders, and Safari, as well as third‑party apps.
When someone makes an edit, you’ll see activity updates at the top of the Messages thread. Tap the updates to get back to the shared project.
Developers can integrate their app’s collaboration experiences with Messages and FaceTime, making it easy to initiate and manage collaboration from the places where you’re communicating with your collaborators.
Intelligent search improves your results by correcting typos and using synonyms for your search terms.3
See a richer view of shared content and more from the moment you begin to search for email messages.
Get notified if you forget to include an important part of your message, like an attachment or a recipient.3
Easily unsend an email message that you just sent before it reaches the recipient’s inbox.4
Schedule email to be sent at the perfect moment.
Move sent email messages to the top of your inbox so you can quickly send a follow‑up.3
Never forget about an email that you opened but didn’t get back to. Select a date and time to have messages resurface in your inbox.
Add rich links that give your email messages more context and details at a glance.
Share a set of tabs with friends. Everyone can add their own tabs and see the Tab Group update instantly as you work together.
Tab Groups have dedicated start pages that you can customize with a background image and favorites.
Customize your Tab Groups with pinned tabs for each group.
Enables developers to create more kinds of Safari web extensions.
Adds support for opt‑in notifications on iPadOS. Coming in 2023.
See available extensions from your other devices listed in Safari preferences. Once installed, an extension will sync so you only have to turn it on once.
Settings you’ve set for specific websites, like page zoom and automatic Reader view, will sync across devices.
Added support for Turkish, Thai, Vietnamese, Polish, Indonesian, and Dutch in Safari web page translation.
Added support for translating text in images using Live Text.
Gives developers more power and control over styling and layout of web pages to enable more engaging content.
Edit strong passwords suggested by Safari to adjust for site‑specific requirements.
Find and manage your Wi‑Fi passwords in Settings. Reference and share passwords or delete old ones.
Passkeys replace passwords with an easier and safer sign‑in method.
Passkeys never leave your device and are specific to the site you created them for, making it almost impossible for them to be phished.
Your private key is never kept on a web server, so you don’t have to worry about website leaks compromising your accounts.
Sign in to websites or apps on other devices, including non‑Apple devices, with your saved passkey by scanning the QR code with your iPhone or iPad and using Face ID or Touch ID to authenticate.
Passkeys are end‑to‑end encrypted and sync across your Apple devices through iCloud Keychain.
Resize your windows to make them the perfect size for your task. You can even move them to the stage.
Focus on the app you’re working with without going full screen. The app is positioned prominently in the center, at a size that makes it easy to work with.
The window of the app you’re working in is displayed prominently in the center, and your other apps are arranged on the left side in order of recent use.
Full external display support comes to iPad Pro with the M1 chip, with resolutions up to 6K. Now you can work with different apps on your iPad and external display.
Access your favorite apps and the ones that you used recently from the Dock, or use App Library to find the app you want faster.
Create overlapping windows of different sizes in a single view, giving you the control and flexibility to arrange your ideal workspace.
Drag and drop windows from the side or open apps from the Dock to create app sets that you can always tap to get back to.
Drag and drop files and windows from your iPad Pro to your external display, and vice versa.
Enables the 12.9‑inch iPad Pro with Liquid Retina XDR display to deliver reference color for popular color standards and video formats.6
Use iPad Pro as a secondary reference display for your Mac.6
The Weather app comes to iPad, with a design optimized for the larger display, including immersive animations, detailed maps, and tappable forecast modules.
Get a notification when a severe weather alert has been issued near you.
Tap any module in the Weather app to reveal a deeper set of data such as hourly temperature and precipitation over the next 10 days.
Enjoy thousands of variations of animated backgrounds that represent the sun position, clouds, and precipitation.
Monitor air quality using a color‑coded scale that displays the air quality level and category. Easily see if air quality is better or worse than the previous day. View air quality on a map and see related health recommendations, pollutant breakdown, and more.
See the most important weather information in a smart layout that adjusts to the current conditions.
View weather maps showing precipitation, air quality, and temperature. Explore the map alongside the location view or in full screen.
See your friends’ play activity and achievements all in one place on the redesigned Game Center dashboard and profile.
Games that use Game Center multiplayer support have SharePlay integration. You can start playing automatically with friends on a FaceTime call.*
Contacts shows your friends’ Game Center profiles. Tap through to see what they are playing and accomplishing in games.*
Text is completely interactive in paused video frames, so you can use functions like copy and paste, lookup, and translate. Live Text works in Photos, Quick Look, Safari, and more.
Data detected in photos and videos is actionable with a single tap. Track flights or shipments, translate foreign languages, convert currencies, and more.
Live Text adds recognition of Japanese, Korean, and Ukrainian text.
You can now run shortcuts with Siri as soon as you download an app, no setup required.8
Skip the confirmation step when sending messages. You can enable this feature in Settings.
Insert emoji when sending messages with Siri.9
Discover Siri capabilities in iPadOS and apps by asking “Hey Siri, what can I do here?” You can also inquire about a specific app by saying, for example, “Hey Siri, what can I do with iRobot?”10
You can now hang up a call completely hands free. Just say “Hey Siri, hang up” during a call (those on the call will hear you). This request is supported in Phone and FaceTime. You can enable this feature in Settings.10
Siri processes more types of requests offline without an internet connection, including Home Control (HomeKit), Intercom, and Voicemail.10
The Home app has an all-new design that makes it easier to navigate, organize, view, and control all your accessories. Improvements to the underlying architecture enhance your smart home’s performance and make it more efficient and reliable.
See your entire home at a glance in the redesigned Home tab. Rooms and favorite accessories are integrated into the app’s main tab, giving you easier access to accessories you use most.
Categories for Lights, Climate, Security, Speakers and TVs, and Water let you quickly access all the relevant accessories organized by room, along with more detailed status information.
An updated sidebar layout includes categories and rooms so you can get to them quickly.
Up to four camera views are displayed front and center in the Home tab, and with just a scroll, you can see any additional camera views in your home.
Accessory tiles have been redesigned so the different accessories are more visually recognizable through shape and color. Accessories can be controlled directly from their tiles by tapping the tile’s icon, or you can tap the accessory name for more detailed controls.
Enhancements to the underlying architecture enable faster, more reliable performance, especially for homes with many smart accessories. Communicate with and control connected accessories more efficiently from multiple devices at the same time using the Home app.11
Matter is a new smart home connectivity standard that will enable compatible accessories to work together seamlessly, across platforms. Matter will allow you to choose from even more compatible smart home accessories and control them with the Home app and Siri on Apple devices.12
Set up an account for a child with the right parental controls, right from the start, including easy‑to‑use, age‑appropriate suggestions for media restrictions.
Use Quick Start to easily set up a new iOS or iPadOS device for your child with all the appropriate parental controls already in place.
Screen Time requests from your kids now appear in Messages, so it’s easy to approve or decline a request.
Family Checklist gives you helpful tips and suggestions like updating a child’s settings as they get older, turning on location sharing, or just reminding you that you can share your iCloud+ subscription with everyone.
Customize toolbars to display the buttons for the actions you use most often in your apps so you can quickly access them.
Revised icons make actions like look up, translate, and share, as well as navigation within apps, easier to use.
A search field appears consistently in the same location and size across apps. It’s coupled with an instant search experience that shows results as you type.
A context menu shows common actions such as close, save, and duplicate, making it easy to edit documents and files in apps like Pages and Numbers.
When you select multiple items, new context menus appear that let you apply actions to all of them at once.
Find and replace are available in apps across the system, including Mail, Messages, Reminders, and Swift Playgrounds. The search field is positioned directly above the keyboard, making it easier to find, move, and replace all instances of a word.
A consistent inline undo and redo experience is available in Files, Photos, and Calendar.
Copy or drag contact cards to an email and easily share contact information.
When you create meetings in Calendar, a visually rich and easy‑to‑use design shows mutual availability of invited participants.
See autocomplete suggestions inline when creating tables in Numbers.
Sort your contacts into different lists so you can easily find them later, and send email to everyone on the list at once.
Contacts looks for duplicate entries and merges them into single contact cards, making it easier to find all the information about a contact.
Freeform’s canvas is perfect for diagramming new projects, aggregating important assets, or just brainstorming on a board limited only by your imagination.
With real‑time collaboration, you can view others’ contributions as they add content and make edits, just as if you were together, standing in front of a real whiteboard.
Freeform leverages the Messages Collaboration API so you can see updates from your collaborators right in your conversation in Messages. And you can jump on a FaceTime call with them with just a tap in Freeform.
With full support for Apple Pencil, Freeform is designed to provide a great whiteboard experience. Write or draw anywhere on the canvas, then select and move your text or drawings around as needed.
Embed images, video, audio, PDFs, documents, and web links. You can add virtually any kind of file to the canvas and preview it inline, without leaving your board.
Apps need your permission before accessing the pasteboard to paste content from another app.
Stream video directly from devices that support non‑AirPlay streaming protocols without having to provide Bluetooth or local network access permission.
The Hidden and Recently Deleted albums are locked by default and can be unlocked using your iPad authentication method: Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode.
Get important security improvements to your devices even faster. These improvements can be applied automatically between standard software updates.
Get rich descriptions of your surroundings with a new Magnifier mode that contains Door Detection, People Detection, and Image Descriptions.13
Locate a door, read signs or labels around it, and get instructions for how to open the door.13
Combine inputs from multiple game controllers into one so your care provider or friend can support you in getting to the next level in your game.
Use Siri to end a phone call when you’re ready to hang up.
Use Voice Control to end a phone call when you’re ready to hang up.
Hover Text is now available on iPad. Easily read input fields, menu items, button labels, and other text.
Transcriptions are generated automatically in real time for users who are deaf or hard of hearing so they can follow along more easily with conversations, audio, and video.14
See automatically transcribed dialogue integrated into your FaceTime video calls. With speaker attribution, it’s easy to follow along with group conversations.14
New themes and customization options such as bolding text, adjusting line, character, and word spacing, and more.
VoiceOver and Spoken Content are now available in over 20 additional languages and locales, including Bengali (India), Bulgarian, Catalan, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. You can also select from dozens of new voices optimized for assistive features.
Use Siri to announce iPad notifications on your Made for iPad hearing devices.
Adjust how long Siri waits for you to finish speaking before responding to your request.
Ask Siri to switch auto‑answer for phone and FaceTime calls on or off.
Dictate names, addresses, or other custom spellings letter by letter using Voice Control spelling mode.15
Save your preferred Magnifier controls, including camera, brightness, contrast, filters, and more, for recurring tasks and situations.
Train iPad to listen to sounds that are specific to your environment, such as the beeping sound of an electrical appliance in your kitchen, the precise ring of the doorbell in your home, and more.
Find and download more immersive App Clips with a 50 percent larger size limit.
Use Live Activities with your App Clips.*
See nearby suggested App Clips with increased location precision in Spotlight and the Siri Suggestions widget.
The audiobook player has been redesigned with revamped player controls and a mini-player that makes it easy to keep listening as you browse the store. Continue listening to any audiobook you are previewing by purchasing the book directly in the player.
The new reader introduces options that allow you to customize the reading experience for your needs. Choose reading themes for different environments and moods or change font, spacing, text size, and other settings.
While dictating on device, you can move fluidly between voice, touch, and Apple Pencil. Type with the keyboard or write with Scribble, tap in the text field, move the cursor, and insert QuickType suggestions, all without needing to stop Dictation.16
Dictation inserts commas, periods, and question marks for you as you dictate.17
Insert emoji using your voice while dictating on device.9
In Messages, the Dictation icon is now available in the text entry field.
Easily stop Dictation by tapping the new cursor popover.
Seven new bilingual dictionaries are available: Bangla–English, Czech–English, Finnish–English, Hungarian–English, Kannada–English, Malayalam–English, and Turkish–English.
Move FaceTime calls seamlessly from your iPad to your iPhone or Mac, and vice versa. When you hand off a call, your connected Bluetooth headset transitions to the new device simultaneously.
See which of your installed apps support SharePlay and open them from the FaceTime controls, or browse new experiences you can share with friends from the App Store.
When you’re collaborating in Files, Keynote, Numbers, Pages, Notes, Reminders, Safari, and supported third-party apps, you can start a FaceTime call with your collaborators with a tap.
See automatically transcribed dialogue integrated into your FaceTime video calls. With speaker attribution, it’s easy to follow along with group conversations.14
Navigation buttons make file‑related actions more organized and easier to find and let you skip up nested folders.
Sorting file types are located right on the column headers, making it easier to find what you’re looking for.
The Files app offers a unified view of Open and Save menus, which makes it easy to save files with related files and rename folders inline to better organize your files. A sidebar shows your external drive and cloud providers in a single place so you can open your files from any location.
You can now change file extensions by renaming them.
You can view the storage size of a folder and all enclosed folders and files.
iPadOS suggests Home Screen pages with apps and widgets that are most relevant to the Focus you’re setting up.
Set boundaries within Apple apps like Calendar, Mail, Messages, and Safari* to draw boundaries for each Focus you enable. For example, choose a set of Tab Groups to show up in Safari while in the Work Focus, or hide your work calendar when you’re using the Personal Focus.
With the new Focus filter API, developers can use the signal that you’re using to enable Focus to hide distracting content.
Have a Focus turn on automatically at a set time or location or while using a certain app.
Get started with Focus with a personalized setup experience for each option.
When you’re setting up a Focus, select apps and people you want to receive notifications from by either allowing them or silencing them.
Hide My Email is integrated directly into QuickType keyboard suggestions, so you can keep your personal email address private in third‑party apps.
Share your custom domain with people outside your Family Sharing group, purchase a new domain, or enable catch‑all aliases right from iCloud Mail settings.
Choose your term of address for French, Italian, and Portuguese to make your device feel more personal. In Language & Region settings you can choose how you would like to be addressed throughout the system: feminine, masculine, or neuter.
An additional layout called Changyong is now available for Shuangpin users.
QuickPath is now supported for typing Traditional Chinese using Pinyin.
Users can now input Cantonese words and phrases using Jyupting and other phonetic methods.
Type words and phrases in Sichuanese more easily when using the Simplified Chinese Pinyin keyboard.
Autocorrect supports three new languages: English (New Zealand), English (South Africa), and Kazakh.
Search for emoji in 19 new languages including Albanian, Armenian, Azeri, Bangla, Burmese, Estonian, Filipino, Georgian, Icelandic, Khmer, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Marathi, Mongolian, Punjabi, Tamil, Urdu, and Uzbek (Latin).
Keyboard layouts are now available for Apache, Dzongkha, Samoan, and Yiddish.
Plan a driving route with multiple stops on your iPad and it will automatically sync to your iPhone when you’re ready to go.
See how much your journey will cost with transit fares.
Memoji stickers include six new expressive poses.
All Memoji stickers can be used as contact pictures, and there are three new contact sticker poses to choose from.
Choose from 17 new and updated hairstyles, including new curly styles, updates to tight curl styles, box braids, and boxer braids.
Style your Memoji with a bonnet.
Choose from more nose options when you customize your Memoji.
Customize your Memoji with more options for a neutral lip color.
Keep track of the artists you care about most with new music notifications and improved recommendations.
Follow your favorite teams, leagues, and athletes in Apple News. Customize your My Sports feed to see the latest stories, watch highlights, and get scores, schedules, and standings for the teams and leagues you love.
Get more in‑depth coverage from your local city and top newspapers with home pages.
Local news is available in more markets, and you can find local stories in Top Stories and the Today widget.
Quickly access the channels and topics you care about most with a customizable Favorites group in the sidebar.
Automatically organize notes in a Smart Folder based on powerful new filters. Create rules for Date Created, Date Modified, Shared, Mentions, Checklists, Attachments, Folder, Quick Notes, Pinned Notes, and Locked notes.
Encrypt locked notes end‑to‑end with your iPad passcode.
Notes are grouped by chronological categories like Today and Yesterday for easy reference in your list and gallery views.
Insert simple shapes like boxes and arrows into the drawing area using your finger or Apple Pencil.
Add typed text in editable text boxes within the drawing area of your note.
Add screenshots to your Quick Note with a tap from the share menu.
Select handwriting in a note and automatically straighten it for neater written notes.
Rotate images added to the drawing area.
Share notes that allow anyone with the link to join.
Choose whether to filter for any or all of the criteria in a Smart Folder or the Tag Browser.
Photos identifies duplicate photos in Albums > Utilities so you can quickly clean up your library.
The Hidden and Recently Deleted albums are locked by default and can be unlocked using your iPad authentication method: Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode.
Copy the edits you’ve made to a photo and paste them onto another photo — or a batch of photos.
Sort your People album alphabetically.
Undo and redo multiple edit steps in your photos.
When a video is playing in a memory, tap to restart the video and play it from the beginning while the music continues to play.
New memory types for This Day in History and children playing.
Disable Memories and Featured Photos from appearing in Photos and in the Photos widget.
New, customizable sidebar menu designed specifically for iPad. Find the right podcast and browse the catalog with improved navigation.
Pin your favorite lists to get to them quickly.
Save a list as a template to reuse it for routines, packing lists, and more. Create a link to publish and share a template with others, or download templates that others have shared.
View all your completed reminders in one place, along with details like time of completion.
Time- and date-based grouping makes it easier to view and add reminders. The Today List is grouped by Morning, Afternoon, and Tonight to help divide your day. The Scheduled List has new week and month groups to help with longer‑term organization.
Tap a group to see a combined view of the lists and reminders it contains.
Get notifications when tasks are added to or completed in your shared lists.
Create bullets and underline, bold, or strike through text when adding notes to your reminders.
Choose whether to filter for any or all of the criteria in a Custom Smart List or the Tag Browser.
Now you can draw your favorite emoji using Apple Pencil, and Scribble will automatically convert it to an emoji.
Recents searches allow you to quickly revisit a result. Siri Suggestions now consider your context, so you can do things faster like navigating to your next meeting or checking the status of your upcoming flight.
Spotlight uses information from images in Messages, Notes, and Files to enable searching by locations, people, scenes, or even things in the images, like text, a dog, or a car.18
Use Spotlight to quickly take action. Start a timer, turn on a Focus, find the name of a song with Shazam, run any shortcut, and more. Search for an app’s name to see shortcuts available for the app, or create your own using the Shortcuts app.
Receive rich results when searching for businesses and sports leagues and teams.
See the date for a company’s upcoming earnings report and add it to your calendar.
Create multiple custom watchlists to organize the tickers you follow. Group symbols using any criteria you choose, such as sector, asset type, ownership status, and more.
Use a new two‑column layout in the medium‑size and large Stocks widgets to see even more symbols.
DriverKit provides developers with a modern, secure way to build support for audio, USB, and PCI hardware devices connected to iPad.
iPad storage can be used to expand the available memory for all apps and delivers up to 16 gigabytes of memory for the most demanding apps.19
New system languages include Bulgarian and Kazakh.
You can now access collections by theme and interest.
Translate text around you using the camera in the Translate app. Pause the view to get translations overlaid on text in a photo and zoom in to get a closer look, or translate text in photos from your Photos library.
The Translate app and system‑wide translation add support for Turkish, Thai, Vietnamese, Polish, Indonesian, and Dutch.
When you can’t watch your favorite sports matchups, Live Activities allow you to follow along right on your Lock Screen with scores and play by play.
Rich video previews at the top of the Apple TV+ tab help you discover your next favorite Apple Original.
The latest generation of high dynamic range technology is now supported in the Apple TV app.
Lift the subject from an image or isolate the subject by removing the background. This works in Photos, Screenshot, Quick Look, Safari, and more.20
Visual Look Up adds recognition of birds, insects, and statues.21
When you check out with Apple Pay, you can now split your Apple Pay purchase into four equal payments over six weeks.22