IPhone customers with iOS 16.1 will have the ability to subscribe to and entry Apple Health+ even when they do not have an Apple Watch.

Health+ is a subscription service with guided exercises and meditations that prices $9.99 per 30 days or $79.99 per yr. Apple is providing three months of Health+ free with the acquisition of a new iPhone, iPad or Apple TV.

In the event you work out on Health+ with out an Apple Watch, you will not have the ability to see metrics like energy burned, or your real-time coronary heart charge.

The iOS 16.1 update will even embody Clear Vitality Charging. Apple says this can let customers optimize charging for when cleaner vitality sources can be found, serving to to lower your iPhone’s carbon footprint.

Clear Vitality Charging is an possibility you possibly can choose in Settings > Battery > Battery Well being & Charging. Below the Clear Vitality Charging possibility, Apple says, “In your area, iPhone will attempt to scale back your carbon footprint by selectively charging when decrease carbon emission electrical energy is accessible. iPhone learns out of your every day charging routine so it may possibly attain full cost earlier than it’s worthwhile to use it.”

IOS 16.1 will allow you to create an iCloud Shared Photograph Library as a substitute of a regular shared iCloud album.

This can can help you invite as much as 5 different individuals, or six in whole, to a library the place you possibly can all add, delete, edit or favourite pictures and movies.

The Digital camera app will provide a new toggle that permits customers to decide on to ship pictures to the shared library mechanically. So, when you’re on trip and taking a bunch of images on the seaside with a gaggle of associates, everybody can snap photos with this selection turned on and see the entire pictures within the shared album.

When you update to iOS 16.1 your lock display screen will characteristic Reside Actions, which exhibits data from sports activities video games, ride-sharing apps like Uber, or updates on a meals supply order. So, you may see how lengthy it’s going to take for dinner to reach at your home, with data on how quickly it’s going to arrive. Or, because the screenshot beneath exhibits, the rating, inning and rely of a baseball sport with updates on performs. It’s going to be most helpful on the iPhone 14 Professional and iPhone 14 Professional Max, which have always-on shows so you possibly can look to see new data. You may begin to see some apps on Monday but it surely requires developer adoption, so further apps will come later.

Here’s what it seems to be like: