When iOS 16.4 comes out next week, there will be a few features that will immediately catch your eye. But after you’ve gone through the new emoji and set up push notifications for your web app, there are a few extra features you might not notice if you don’t know where to look.
Voice isolation for calls
A feature that popped up in the release notes of the release candidate, Voice Isolation for mobile calls “prioritizes your voice and blocks out ambient noise around you.” Apple says Voice Isolation is already available for FaceTime and can be used “when you want your voice to be heard clearly in a FaceTime call and other noises filtered out.”
To enable the feature, you must make or receive a call. Then you can open Control Center, tap Mic modeand select Speech isolation. It won’t be as good as the noise canceling feature of the second generation AirPods Pro, but it should make a big difference if you’re calling in a noisy room.
Apple Books page ‘curl’ animation
iOS 16.4 brings back the curling page animation and we couldn’t be happier.
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For some reason, Apple decided to remove Apple Books’ delightful curling animation when turning pages in iOS 16. Good news, book lovers: It’s back in iOS 16.4. When you go to the Apple Books settings, you will see a new one Page turning animation tab with three options: Scroll, Curl, and None. Crane Curl to change it from the stock iOS 16 and make your iPhone feel like a little book again.
Duplicate detection in iCloud shared photo library
When iOS 16 launched, it brought with it a new feature that automatically detected duplicates and put them in their own album, so you could decide if you wanted to merge them into one to clean up your camera roll. However, the setting was only for individual libraries, meaning it didn’t apply to iCloud Shared Photo libraries. In iOS 16.4, yes. To find it, switch to your shared library, then go to the Album tab, scroll down to Utilitiesand select Duplicates.
