Apple to release iOS 15 Monday. Here's what we know about the new features in the iPhone update

Are you counting down the minutes until you tin download the caller iOS to your iPhone and iPad?

Apple's iOS 15 arrives Monday, the yearly autumn contented that brings new features to Apple's iPhone up of the motorboat of its latest smartphone.

Apple revealed the archetypal details of iOS 15 during an online keynote code successful June during its yearly Worldwide Developers Conference. Last week, the tech elephantine said the escaped bundle update volition beryllium disposable starting Sept. 20 arsenic it introduced the iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Mini and iPhone 13 Pro during a virtual lawsuit astatine its office successful Cupertino, California.

Among the different devices unveiled successful the Sept. 14 live-streamed event: A revamped fund iPad, an updated mentation of its iPad Mini, and the caller Apple Watch Series 7 with a bigger display.

The motorboat of iOS 15 comes a week aft Apple released an exigency bundle patch, iOS 14.8, for iPhones and iPads.

Here's everything we cognize astir iOS 15:

What clip volition iOS 15 beryllium released?

Apple said the caller operating strategy volition beryllium disposable Sept. 20, days earlier the Sept. 24 motorboat of the caller iPhone 13 devices. Most years, the caller bundle is disposable astatine 10 a.m. PT oregon 1 p.m. ET but galore radical unreserved to download arsenic soon arsenic the update is available, which tin pb to longer download times.

Last year, iOS 14 was disposable connected Sept. 16. But 2020 was an unusual twelvemonth (for evident reasons), and Apple launched the iPhone 12 successful October.

For the iPhone 11 and iOS 13, Apple released the iPhone connected Sept. 20, 10 days aft its uncover event, portion iOS 13 launched the time before.

Which iPhones volition enactment iOS 15?

This update goes each the mode backmost to the iPhone 6s, truthful if you person that iPhone exemplary oregon immoderate mentation aft that, you're set.

Will each iPhones enactment each caller feature?

The cardinal origin deciding which features you'll get connected your iPhone is the processing chip. Phones without the A12 spot oregon aboriginal miss retired connected features specified arsenic Portrait Mode oregon spatial audio connected FaceTime, immersive walking directions, and Live Text, which lets users hunt wrong photos oregon screenshots for text.

So which phones don't person the A12 chip? Every exemplary betwixt the iPhone 6s and the iPhone X.

How to update your iPhone oregon iPad with iOS 15

The champion mode to cheque is to caput to Settings, past General, past Software Update. Your iPhone volition archer you whether iOS 15 is acceptable to roll.

When it is available, plug successful your instrumentality oregon marque definite your instrumentality has 50% artillery beingness oregon more. Then pat "Install Now."

Some older phones should let users to update by plugging successful to a laptop and going done iTunes, if you similar a tethered option.

What features volition look with iOS 15?

The astir notable alteration with iOS 15 is an update to FaceTime. Users besides get a Focus mode to assistance negociate distracting notifications, upgrades to the Weather and Map apps, and the enactment to adhd your authorities recognition oregon idiosyncratic driver's licence to your Apple Wallet, though that diagnostic won't get astatine launch.

There are besides changes to messaging, unrecorded substance successful photos, caller Memoji and more.

FaceTime calls with Android and Windows devices

With the update to FaceTime, you get a grid presumption to spot everyone connected a FaceTime call, the enactment to instrumentality calls successful Portrait Mode, and you tin enactment successful a FaceTime telephone done an Android oregon Windows device.

Apple said users with non-Apple devices tin "join utilizing the latest mentation of Chrome oregon Edge."

But don't get excessively excited: You request to cognize idiosyncratic with an iPhone who tin commencement the telephone and nonstop you a nexus to join.

iPhone notifications alteration with Focus

Apple attempts to destruct the clutter by tweaking however you tin power notifications connected your phone.

The caller Focus app is portion of iOS 15 and with it you'll person notifications summaries that you tin get successful the greeting oregon afternoon. The notifications are ordered by priority, utilizing on-device quality to fig retired which app alerts substance most.

With the Focus app, you tin tailor which notifications you get astatine circumstantial times of the day. For example, users tin acceptable modes specified arsenic personal, work, oregon fittingness that volition supply notifications connected the apps you privation and soundlessness the others.

The Focus app besides adds a connection erstwhile idiosyncratic tries to substance you that notes you person "notifications silenced with Focus." Apple says "for genuinely urgent messages, there's inactive a mode for radical to notify you."

Weather and Maps apps get upgrades

The 2 Apple apps get important upgrades. For Weather, information and layouts volition alteration based connected the forecast, including graphics and animated backgrounds.

For example, if it's raining, you'll spot rainfall pouring successful the inheritance arsenic you reappraisal the forecast. The app volition besides enactment afloat screen, high-resolution upwind maps with details specified arsenic aerial prime and precipitation.

Maps volition see customized designed landmarks and a nighttime mode with moonlit glow. Maps volition besides diagnostic much item specified arsenic the determination of crook lanes and wherever crosswalks are spotted to assistance spot postulation conditions much easy and fig retired the close lane to join.

Maps besides get transit upgrades, including the enactment to presumption directions connected Apple Watch. You tin besides soon usage augmented world to constituent toward the close absorption erstwhile exiting a transit station. The AR diagnostic tin seizure images of adjacent buildings, past supply ocular directions connected wherever to go.

SharePlay diagnostic not coming Monday

Want to ticker TV shows oregon movies during a FaceTime call? Apple says this volition beryllium imaginable with SharePlay.

"SharePlay is an wholly caller mode to person experiences with household and friends, nary substance the distance," Apple said.

But the caller enactment won't beryllium disposable erstwhile iOS 15 debuts. Apple says it is coming "later this fall."

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