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CTOnews.com October 25, Apple announced today that iPadOS 16 will be officially released today. IPadOS 16 brings new and powerful efficiency and collaboration capabilities to further enhance the versatility of iPad.

CTOnews.com has learned that iPadOS 16 has further improved the versatility of iPad, bringing major updates to email App, iCloud sharing galleries, new collaboration functions between common keys and Safari browsers, weather App, reference mode and zoom display, as well as a new multi-tasking experience-front scheduling. IPadOS 16 was officially released today as a free software update.

New ways of sharing and contacting Information App the new features of App make it easy for users to edit and undo messages, mark conversations as unread, and take the daily information experience to the next level.

Email App launches new smart tools email App launches new tools to help users improve their efficiency easily. Users can set reminders later to process an email later, receive automatic follow-up reminders when they do not receive an email reply, or receive prompts when they forget to add recipients or email attachments. The user can also cancel the delivery of the email before it reaches the other party's inbox and arrange for the email to be sent at the right time. The most significant update to the search function over the years allows email App to provide more relevant, accurate and complete search results with state-of-the-art technology.

Review the good memories with the new iCloud shared gallery, provide families with a new way to seamlessly share photos through an independent iCloud library, allowing up to six users to manage, upload, share and appreciate photos. Users can easily share all the photos in their personal gallery, or they can share specific photos by setting a start date or specifying a person. Users will receive intelligent reminders to share photos of gallery members and other selected people. Each member can add, delete, edit or collect shared photos and videos, which appear in each member's "memories" and "selected photos" to ensure that all members can recall more complete family memories.

With iCloud shared gallery, family members can seamlessly share photos through a separate iCloud gallery, allowing up to six users to collaborate to manage, upload and share photos.

Safari browsers usher in new collaboration and security features to make browsing in Safari browsers more secure using common keys, a new generation of credentials that cannot be phished or compromised, more secure and easier to use. The passkey can replace the password, use touch ID or face ID for biometric identification, and use iCloud keychain to encrypt and synchronize securely, which can be used among Apple devices such as iPad, iPhone and Mac. As a result of joint efforts with the FIDO Alliance, Google and Microsoft, the access key will apply to a variety of App and websites, where users can log on to their iPad or App on non-Apple devices.

Safari browsers have also added shared tab groups to share the site in bulk with friends and family, making tagging easier and seeing what others are viewing.

By sharing tab groups, users can share a series of sites with friends and relatives in a Safari browser, easily add tabs, and see which sites others are visiting.

Boundless App to create a real-time collaboration space, which will be released later this year with iPadOS 16 updates, is a powerful and efficient App that allows users to view, share and collaborate in one place through a flexible canvas without worrying about layout and page size, while fully supporting the use of Apple Pencil. Users can see other people's changes when adding content or editing, and enjoy real-time collaboration. Users can add any type of files, such as pictures, video, audio, PDF, documents and web links, to the boundless canvas and preview them in real time without leaving the whiteboard.

The boundless canvas is particularly suitable for charting new projects, aggregating important material, or brainstorming on boundless whiteboards.

IPad Welcome Weather App is tailor-made to make full use of beautiful screens, while Weather App brings immersive animation, detailed maps and interactive weather forecasting modules to iPad. With a single click, users can view the most critical weather information, as well as precipitation, air quality and temperature through the maps. Users are notified when an inclement weather warning is issued in their area, and they can also check the air quality level through color coding.

The dynamic background of weather App shows the position of the sun, cloud cover and precipitation.

The live text ushered in a powerful update. Users can tap and hold down the main body of the picture to remove it from the background and place it in App such as information.

Using the device-side intelligent technology, the live text can recognize the text in the image in the system, this function can now be applied to the video, and the text in the paused video screen can also interact. Click on the video screen to quickly copy and paste, translate a foreign language or convert currency.

With the help of the live text function, the text in the video pause screen can be fully interacted, such as copy, paste, query, or translation. This feature is suitable for photo App, Quick View and Safari browsers.

Professional functions make it easier to deal with complex workflows the new and powerful features brought by iPadOS 16 make iPad Pro an indispensable tool for creative professionals. The reference mode enables the color performance of the iPad Pro with a 12.9-inch Liquid retinal XDR display to meet the requirements of workflows that require high color accuracy and image quality, such as auditing, color blending and compositing.

The zoom display function, driven by the powerful performance of M1 and M2 chips, allows users to increase the pixel density on the display to view more content in the App, which is especially useful when browsing in separate screens. With the virtual memory swapping function, iPad can expand the available memory for all App and provide up to 16 GB of memory for App with high performance requirements, making multi-task work smoothly.

The reference mode enables the color performance of the iPad Pro with a 12.9-inch Liquid retinal XDR display to meet the requirements in workflows that require high color accuracy and image quality, such as the audit, blending and compositing of App such as Frame.io.

Front-stage scheduling and full support for external displays bring powerful multi-task processing capabilities. Front-stage scheduling is a new multi-task experience that automatically manages App and windows, allowing users to switch between different tasks quickly and easily. For the first time, iPad users can create overlapping windows of different sizes in the same view, drag and drop windows from the side, or open App from the program dock to set up different App groups for faster and more flexible multitasking. The App window that the user is using is displayed in the center, while the other open App and windows are arranged on the left in the most recently used order.

In the update for iPad models with M1 and M2 chips later this year, the front scheduling will fully support external displays with a resolution up to 6K, allowing users to arrange an ideal workspace to use up to 4 App on iPad and external monitors at the same time.

Later this year, on iPad models with M1 and M2 chips, the front schedule will fully support external displays with a resolution of up to 6K.

Other features of iPadOS 16's dictation bring a new device-side experience, allowing users to switch between voice, touch, and handwriting with Apple Pencil. Without interrupting dictation, users can still use the keyboard or "handwriting" to type, tap the text bar, move the cursor, or insert quick input suggestions. Dictation also has the function of automatically adding punctuation marks and dictation emoticons.

The shortcut instruction can be run immediately after Siri downloads the App without having to set it up separately. Users can add emoticons when they ask Siri to send a message, or send a message without confirmation, or hang up on a phone or FaceTime call with a voice command, simply by saying "Hey Siri, hang up."

Home App is newly designed to make it easier to browse, organize, view and control smart home accessories. At the same time, it supports the new smart home standard Matter, which can be compatible with accessories from different platforms to work together, bringing more choices of home accessories and a wider range of interoperability, while ensuring the highest degree of security.

New features in desktop-level App are optimized for display on iPad, from system elements and interaction modes to a variety of new features available on Mac, including cross-system consistent undo and redo, redesigned find and replace, new document menu, customizable toolbar, change file extension and view file App folder size and other functions.

Memo App automatically regulates handwriting, creating clearer notes for users, encrypting personal notes with iCloud passwords, inserting screenshots in quick memos, and using powerful smart folders and filtering features to further organize notes.

Game Center's panel has been redesigned to make it easy for users to play or compete with friends, showing their game activities and achievements visually.

The FaceTime call relay allows users to start an FaceTime call on one Apple device and then seamlessly transfer it to another nearby Apple device. When transferring to another Apple device, the Bluetooth connection of the headset is also transferred so that the call can proceed smoothly.

New accessibility features include a new amplifier mode that describes the environment in more detail; hover text function that allows users to easily read text such as input boxes, menu bars and button labels on the iPad; additional support for more than 20 languages; and more excellent features.

Home App is newly designed to make it easier to navigate, organize, view and control accessories.

The launch time iPadOS 16 is available as a free software update from today on for iPad (fifth generation) and subsequent models, iPad mini (fifth generation) and subsequent models, iPad Air (third generation) and subsequent models, and all iPad Pro models. The functionality may change. Some features are only applicable to some regions or languages.

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The message App user can edit the message within 15 minutes after it is sent, and can withdraw it within 2 minutes after the message is sent. The user can edit a message up to 5 times, and the recipient will be able to see the editing record of the message.

Message App users can cancel sending the message within 30 seconds after clicking send, or set the time for the message to be in the outbox. In addition, the undo sending function can also be turned off by itself.

Front scheduling is suitable for 12.9-inch iPad Pro (third generation) and subsequent models, 11-inch iPad Pro (first generation) and subsequent models, iPad Air (fifth generation).

Up to 4 app functions for both iPad and external monitors will be available later this year with software updates for 12.9-inch iPad Pro (third generation) and subsequent models, 11-inch iPad Pro (first generation) and subsequent models, iPad Air (fifth generation).

The dictation function is suitable for iPad models equipped with A12 bionic or subsequent chips. The voice model needs to be downloaded. Supports Arabic, Cantonese (Chinese mainland, Hong Kong), English (Australia, Canada, India, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States), French (France), German (Germany), Italian (Italy), Japanese (Japan), Korean (Korea), Chinese Putonghua (Chinese mainland, Taiwan), Russian (Russia), Spanish (Mexico, Spain, United States) and Turkish (Turkey).

Functions such as "Hey Siri, hang up" are suitable for iPad models equipped with A12 bionic or follow-up chips.

The Matter accessories of the family App need to use the HomePod device as the home center.

Auxiliary amplifier mode describes the surrounding environment, the amplifier door detection and person detection mode requires the use of lidar scanners for 12.9-inch iPad Pro (fourth generation) and subsequent models, 11-inch iPad Pro (second generation) and subsequent models. In environments that may cause injury to users and in high-risk or emergency situations, users should not rely on door detection or use this feature for navigation.

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