IOS / IPadOS 16.5 now available

My Sports tab: iOS 16.5 brings the highly-requested My Sports tab to Apple News. You can follow your favorite sports, teams, leagues, and athletes there. It’s also possible to access scores, schedules, and standings for the top professional and college leagues..

Siri improvements: While users can ask for quite some time for Siri to take a screenshot of the iPhone screen, iOS 16.5 makes it possible for the assistant to start a screen recording for the first time. Users must say, “Hey Siri, start screen recording,” and the screen recording will begin..

Pride wallpaper: iOS 16.5 includes the recently-announced Pride celebration wallpaper for the iPhone. It has some interesting UI tweaks.. see https://bgr.com/tech/ios-16-5-and-ipados-16-5-now-available-...

Updated an iPhone X without apparent problems.

Thank you. I'll be updating later tonight.

No issues apparent

Here are Apple’s official release notes on iOS 16.5 new features and bug fixes. The build number for today’s update is 20F66.

- A new Pride Celebration wallpaper for the Lock Screen to honor the LGBTQ+ community and culture
- Sports tab in Apple News gives easy access to stories, scores, standings, and more, for the teams and leagues you follow
- My Sports score and schedule cards in Apple News take you directly to game pages where you can find additional details about specific games
- Fixes an issue where Spotlight may become unresponsive
- Addresses an issue where Podcasts in CarPlay may not load content
- Fixes an issue where Screen Time settings may reset or not sync across all devices

Mark

Which iPhones can run iOS 16.5?

If you have an iPhone released in late 2017 or later, you’re golden. Apple iOS 16.5 runs on all iPhones from the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X onwards, and this update includes features relevant to all those handsets.

Today’s release of iOS 16.5 is the latest whole-point software update before Apple moves on to iOS 17, which will be unveiled at WWDC on Monday, June 5.

What’s in the release

You can take Pride in this new release. That’s because there’s a new Pride Celebration wallpaper. This is new. Apple releases a Pride Apple Watch band each year, sometimes two, with several related Watch faces, but an iPhone wallpaper is a change. Perhaps this seemed like the year to do it, thanks to the iOS 16 capability to have multiple lock screens on the go. It’s a fetching and colorful look.

Apple News app now has a Sports tab so that you can easily access information related to your favorite teams and leagues, while My Sports score and schedule cards in the same app will take you to game pages, which is handy.

This update fixes a Podcasts issue with CarPlay not loading content and sorting out an issue where Spotlight froze. The third fix is about Screen Time and relates to a situation where settings did not reset or sync as they should.

This update includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

A new Pride Celebration wallpaper for the Lock Screen to honour the LGBTQ+ community and culture
Sport tab in Apple News gives easy access to stories, scores, rankings and more, for the teams and leagues you follow
My Sports score and fixture cards in Apple News take you directly to match pages where you can find additional details about specific matches
Fixes an issue where Spotlight may become unresponsive
Addresses an issue where Podcasts in CarPlay may not load content
Fixes an issue where Screen Time settings may reset or not sync across all devices
Some features may not be available in all regions or on all Apple devices. For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit this website: support.apple.com/kb/HT201222

Trying iOS 16.6 beta today.

While Apple usually avoids discussing details about security improvements bundled into an iOS update, so maybe those are worth getting, the feature updates and bug fixes in 16.5 are not compelling for me.

Maybe I'll just wait now for iOS 17 in June, unless of course Apple insists on doing an overnight update.