The new rules for Xcode, the tool developers use to create apps for Apple platforms including iOS and macOS, will go into effect on April 25, 2023, when the App Store will no longer accept apps developed with older versions of Xcode, and will apply to new submissions and updates to apps already on shelves. Apple also “strongly recommends” that developers update their apps to take advantage of the latest features available on systems like iOS 16 and iPadOS 16.

On its developer website, Apple says:

Beginning April 25, 2023, iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS apps submitted to the App Store must be developed using Xcode 14.1 or later. The latest version of Xcode 14 includes the latest SDKs for iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and watchOS 9 and is available for free download from the Mac App Store.

When developing your app, we highly recommend that you take advantage of the latest features offered by iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and watchOS 9.

iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 provide developers with many new APIs, such as Live Activities on iPhone, App Intents, Metal 3, and an improved iPad app interface. watchOS 9, on the other hand, provides richer and more sophisticated features for dials, support for VoIP calls, and more.

It’s worth noting that Xcode 14 is free to download from the Mac App Store and requires a Mac running macOS Monterey 12.5 or later, or you can download the latest version of Xcode from Apple’s developer site.

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The data shows how many iPhones and iPads are running iOS 16 and iPadOS 16, as measured by devices transacted on the App Store on February 14. iOS 16 is compatible with iPhone 8 and newer models, while iPadOS 16 is compatible with all iPad Pro and some iPad Air, iPad mini and entry-level iPad models released since 2017. iPad mini and entry-level iPad models.

Apple’s website says iOS 16 is installed on 72 percent of iPhones and 81 percent of iPhones launched in the last four years. According to Apple, 20 percent of iPhones are still running iOS 15, while 8 percent of iPhones are running iOS 14 or earlier.

Adoption of iPadOS 16 is 50 percent overall and 53 percent across all iPad models introduced in the last four years, according to Apple. Adoption of iPadOS 15 remains fairly high at 35 percent across all compatible iPad models, while 13 percent are still running iPadOS 14 or earlier.

Apple shared the first iOS 15 install rate statistics in January 2022, while this iOS 16 data was released in February, so the timing difference does not allow for direct comparison. Broadly speaking, however, the adoption of iOS 16 is similar to that of iOS 15.

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Viticci writes: “Stage Manager is like an alien alternative model that is tacked onto existing iPad apps, disabled by default, narrowed in scope, and loaded with bugs. It’s frustrating to see Apple mess up a feature that was an opportunity to improve the operating experience so badly”.

Viticci shared a long list of bugs, technical issues and challenges he has encountered with Stage Manager that are still present in version 16 of iPadOS, which was released to the public this week. For example, there are keyboard-related errors when enabling QuickType predictions, layout errors when switching the iPad from portrait to landscape, incorrect resizing of full-screen app windows, and more.

While he believes that the window management features on iPadOS are still useful, the entire implementation of Apple’s development and testing on Stage Manager has been wrong so far.

He writes: “There was the seed of a valid idea behind Stage Manager: to create an intermediary between the Mac and iPad that would allow advanced users to go beyond what iPadOS has offered so far. But this idea is paired with the worst implementation of multitasking technology I’ve seen in my years of using and writing about the iPad. Hopefully, Apple will be open to feedback and continue to iterate on Stage Manager in future versions of iPadOS 16.”

He also hopes that Apple will release an API for developers next year that will enable apps to better support multitasking capabilities.

Stage Manager supports managing and switching between up to four apps on the iPad’s built-in screen, while another four apps will be supported on the external display on iPad models with the M1 chip and newer versions. However, Apple has delayed external display support for Stage Manager and said the feature will return in a software update later this year.

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Both updates bring many features to Apple iPhone and iPad users, but according to Apple’s official instructions, there are still five features that will be delayed until the end of the year.

iPadOS 16: external display support
One of the signature features of Apple’s iPadOS 16 is Tabletop Scheduler, but Tabletop Scheduler support for external displays has been delayed until later in 2022. This feature supports resolutions up to 6K, allowing users to organize their workspace in an ideal way, running up to four apps each on iPad and the external display at the same time.

Play games together with SharePlay
SharePlay on Apple iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 will receive a new feature later this year that will enable users to use SharePlay to play games with friends and family over FaceTime.

This feature is available for games with Game Center integration and multiplayer support. In iOS 16 and iPad 16, Apple has extended SharePlay to be built into apps such as iMessage.

Infinity Notes
Apple will launch Freeform, a productivity app that allows users to write, draw, jot down inspiration or add anything they need, later this year. iPadOS and macOS.

SOS via satellite
Exclusive to Apple’s iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro series, emergency SOS via satellite will be available in November, enabling users to make emergency SOS calls via satellite communications on iPhone. Emergency SOS via satellite will initially only be available in the US and Canada and will be free to users for the first two years, with pricing not yet announced thereafter.

Apple Music Classical
In August 2021, Apple acquired Primephonic, a streaming service focused on classical music, and in that announcement, Apple said it would release a dedicated Apple Music Classical app designed and tailored specifically for classical music in 2022.

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iPadOS 16 brings major updates to the Messages App, new tools in Mail and Safari, a new Weather App, live text in images and video and more ways to interact, plus a variety of powerful productivity features to further enhance the iPad Pro experience.

Front Desk Scheduling brings a new multitasking experience that automatically organises apps and windows to make it easier to switch between tasks quickly.

With support for external displays, which will not be available on 25 October and will officially be available “later this year”, Front Desk Scheduler supports resolutions up to 6K, allowing users to organise their workspace in an ideal way, with up to four apps running on each iPad and external display.

The Desktop App brings a range of new features optimised for the iPad Pro display, making the App even more powerful with new elements and new interaction modes, including system-wide Undo and Redo, a redesigned Find and Replace experience, a new version of the Documents menu, customisable toolbars, the ability to change file extensions and view folder sizes in the Files App.

With Reference Mode, the 12.9-inch iPad Pro with Liquid Retina XDR display meets the requirements of workflows that require high levels of colour accuracy and uniform image quality, such as review and approval, colour correction and compositing. This means that pro-level users such as photographers and videographers can edit HDR images and videos in all their lifelike detail on a device they can hold in their hands, while cinematographers on set can preview content in the same colour profile as the final film.

Apple iPadOS 16 is compatible with iPad (5th generation and later), iPad mini (5th generation and later), iPad Air (3rd generation and later), and all iPad Pro models.

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MacRumors has rounded up 10 new features coming to iPhone and iPad later this year. Many of these features are part of the iOS 16.1 Beta currently underway, but some are not expected until later this year.

iCloud Shared Photo Library
iCloud Shared Photo Library will make it easier for users to share photos with family or friends in the Photos app. The feature allows up to five people to add, edit or delete photos in a shared library accessible through iCloud.

Apple has delayed the launch of iCloud Shared Photo Library and now says it will be available later this year.

Real-time activity in third-party apps
iOS 16.1 will extend Live Activity to third-party apps in the App Store. This feature allows iPhone users to stay on top of real-time events, such as sports games or food delivery orders, on the lock screen or in Dynamic Island.

Live Events appears at the bottom of the lock screen on iPhone 13 and earlier models, as well as iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus. On iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, Live Activity appears in the Dynamic Island when the device is unlocked and on the Lock screen when the device is locked or in AOD display mode.

Once the iOS 16.1 release candidate is available, developers will be able to submit apps with live activity to the App Store.

The feature will also support specific sports leagues in the Apple TV app, including MLB games in the US, Canada, Australia, the UK, Brazil, Mexico, Japan and Korea, as well as the NBA and Premier League in the US and Canada only.

Emergency SOS via satellite
All four iPhone 14 Series models include the new Emergency SOS via Satellite feature, which will be available in the US and Canada in November.

Emergency SOS via Satellite is designed to allow iPhone 14 models to connect directly to a satellite, allowing users to send a text message to emergency services from outside the range of their phone and Wi-Fi. When launched in the US and Canada, the service was free for the first two years, suggesting that Apple may plan to charge for the service at some point in the future.

Apple says that a message can take 15 seconds to send via satellite in “ideal conditions with a direct view of the sky and horizon”, but that a message can take more than a minute to send “in trees with light or medium density foliage”.

Apple Music classical app
In August 2021, Apple announced the acquisition of the classical music service Primephonic, at which time it said it planned to launch a dedicated classical music app in 2022, combining Primephonic’s user interface with other features.

Apple continues to prepare for the launch of the Apple Music Classical app, but details and exact release date are still unknown.

Clean Energy Charging
iOS 16.1 includes a new Clean Energy Charging feature that Apple says is “designed to reduce the carbon footprint of iPhone by optimizing charging times when the grid is powered by clean energy”. This feature is only available in the US.

Apple Fitness + services without Apple Watch
Starting with iOS 16.1, iPadOS 16.1 and tvOS 16.1, iPhone users without an Apple Watch will be able to use Apple Fitness + services. However, without an Apple Watch, iPhone users will not be able to see real-time metrics such as heart rate and calories burned during workouts.

Launched in December 2020, Apple Fitness + has a library of over 3,000 workout and meditation videos, with new content added weekly. The subscription-based service is available in 21 countries through the Fitness app on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV and is priced at $9.99 per month or $79.99 per year in the US.

Freeform
Apple said it will release Freeform, a new digital whiteboard app for iPhone and iPad, later this year. Described as a “flexible canvas”, the app will allow users to “view, share and collaborate in one place without worrying about layout and page size” and will fully support the Apple Pencil.

Freeform will allow users to start a session from FaceTime and see updates from others directly in the iMessage conversation thread.

Matter accessories in the Home app
The matter is an upcoming connectivity standard that will enable compatible smart home accessories to work seamlessly across multiple platforms, including Apple HomeKit, Amazon Alexa and Google Home. on iPhone, iPad and Mac, Apple says Matter support will be available in an update to the Home app later this year.

Controlling Matter accessories with the Home app and Siri requires HomePod, HomePod mini, Apple TV 4K or Apple TV HD to run as a Home Hub.

More iPhone phones support the battery percentage icon
Apple has finally made battery percentage visible again in the status bar on the iPhone, no longer requiring a swipe down. This optional feature is being extended to iPhone 11, iPhone XR, iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 13 mini devices starting with iOS 16.1.

More iPad Pro support for front-of-stage scheduling
Apple recently announced that iPadOS 16.1 will extend front-of-the-counter scheduling to older iPad Pro models in the 2018 (A12X chip) and 2020 (A12Z chip) models.

Front Desk Scheduling will not support external displays on older iPad Pro models, and the feature limits the use of four apps to the built-in display. Apple has also delayed external display support for Front Desk Scheduling on iPad Pro and iPad Air models with the M1 chip and said the feature will be reimplemented in a software update later this year.

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But unfortunately, it’s limited to iPad devices with the M1 chip, including the 11/12.9-inch iPad Pro in May 2021 and the iPad Air with the M1 chip earlier this year.

In the latest developer preview of iPadOS, Apple has tweaked it to open up front-of-the-stage scheduling for some older iPad models. This feature will be available on the 11-inch iPad Pro (first generation and successor models) and the 12.9-inch iPad Pro (third generation and successor models).

In particular, the feature will be devolved to 2018 models (using the A12X) and 2020 models (A12Z). There are still sacrifices, however, as the scheduling feature is limited to the iPad’s built-in screen and cannot be extended to external displays until these older iPads are on stage.

Apple has also said that iPadOS 16 Developer Beta 5, will remove the external display feature from the Front of House schedule for the M1 iPad models. This is a feature that has been present since the first beta release of iPadOS 16. But foreign media speculate that Apple may reintroduce the feature later this year.

Obviously, we’ll need to try Stage Manager on an older iPad Pro before we can say how well it works, but the A12X and A12Z chips are still very powerful, so hopefully, the experience isn’t any different from that on the M1 iPad. It’s a shame that external display support isn’t included, but it’s still good news for anyone who’s bought Apple’s most expensive iPad in the last few years.

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Unfortunately, Stage Manager has a number of issues that may have forced Apple to delay the official iPadOS 16 updates. On the plus side, there’s a new rumor floating around about Project Irvine that could bring a layer of improvement to this multitasking feature.

Twitter user Majin Bu learned from an anonymous source that Apple is moving forward with Project Irvine, an upgraded version of “front-end scheduling.” The new version is expected to arrive with iPadOS 17 in 2023.

In its current state, Front Desk Scheduling appears to be a mess, with MacStores Federico Viticci’s editor-in-chief saying in an earlier tweet that he has disabled the feature on the iPad Pro because it requires numerous bug fixes. Problems encountered ranged from crashes every few minutes to difficulty using multiple windows for the same application. Also, he mentioned UI glitches everywhere.

This may be the reason why Apple delayed the release of iPadOS 16. Due to the many problems with “pre-stage scheduling”, Apple may be forced to redesign the function, which is the original intention of Project Irvine. Additionally, Apple has excluded previous-generation 2018-2020 iPad Pro users from the Stage Manager upgrade, and Craig Federighi, senior vice president of software engineering, said the experience users would get on the older version won’t be as great.

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According to the concept diagram, the iPad 10 front change is not much, still has a large bezel screen, the bottom still maintains the physical Home button, integrated fingerprint recognition, which is the last Apple still insists on using the physical Home button products.

The back change is more significant, is the series for the first time with the metal integration scheme, and synchronized with the right-angle bezel design.

Since then, the entire iPad series has been using the right-angle bezel solution.

In addition, the rear camera, although still a single camera, is integrated with the flash in a module, creating a false sense of a dual camera.

It is worth mentioning that previously there was a leak that the iPad 10 will also be replaced with a Type-C interface, which means that the entire iPad series has completed the replacement of Lightning.

At the same time, it is also believed that the iPhone 15 series will be replaced with Type-C interface hope.

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But ever since the MWC22 event, the stable update of the iOS 16 and the iPad’s update are still in the pipeline. Apple has officially come out to say that this update (iPadOS 16) will not be available until after their coming launch event. Hence, we should not expect iPad’s stable update until next month or even beyond.

Read also: Apple September launch event will bring more than the iPhone 14 series.

According to Apple, the stable update to iPads will come after iPhones have got the stable release of iOS 16. Possibly, the release of this update to the iPad community will come during Apple’s October event. In this second launch event, Apple will launch two new iPads, so this update may follow through.

Currently, the beta version of Apple’s operating system is still lacking in certain areas and testers are expressing dissatisfaction. When the iPadOS 16 stable release is available, the issues will be taken care of. For the iOS 16 stable updates, it will be available during the Apple launch event on September 6.

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