MAGAZINE READERS SAVE 30% Fall 2022 Regular Departments 38 Amp Up Your Mac The best gear to deck out your offi ce. 4 Editor's Message 6 Tech the iPhone Life Team Life & Tech Is Loving 48 iView: The New Way to Digitize Old Photos iNews 16 New iPad Air: The Reviews Are In! What our team thinks of 42 Top 4 Health Wearables to Try the 2022 iPad Air. Bet your Apple Watch can’t Great Gear track this. Best Apps 47 Women at the Wheel 5 popular apps created by women. 10 The Best of iOS 16 iUser All our favorite features of the iPhone’s new OS. 36 MagiMask Goggles Review 14 iPhone 14 Rumors What is extended reality? 46 Joshua Dennis No notch? No mini? All the On using tech to help plug buzz around the 14. leaks and sing opera. iPhone Life Sponsors DidemA/shutterstock DivinHX/Shutterstock.com Vector Icon Systems/Shutterstock.com 2 iPhone Life Fall 2022 THE HOW-TO PAGE 14 GUIDE 2022 THE BEST OF Top Tips to Make You an Apple Expert iOS 16 21 iPhone Life’s How-To Guide 22 Staff Favorites 26 Customization 28 Productivity 30 Photography 32 Mac Navigation 34 Apple Watch PAGE 10 Editor's Message Don’t Be Fooled by the Sizzle Features O ver the years, I’ve learned that a principle of house hunting applies to Readers Weigh In: Apple events too—don’t fall for the sizzle features. Our CEO David Averbach taught me this. Whether it’s a new home or an iPhone, he said, you should look for the features that will improve your quality of life, not Re: What features are you most just catch your attention. excited about in iOS 16? “I wish Apple would have redone Last time I was in the market for a home, I remember falling in love with the the Lock screen on the iPad like marble fi replace and towel heating racks installed in every bathroom. After it did on the iPhone. Apple is only moving in, I rarely warmed towels or lit fi res, but instead found long-term allowing the iPhone 8 and up to satisfaction in the soft-close cabinets in the kitchen that stopped me from install iOS 16, but I have heard the banging doors and the multi-zone thermostat that kept the upstairs and 8 isn’t going to be able to use all the downstairs temps just right. features of the update.” -Ross C. Apple’s releases work much in the same way. While I got excited about the iPhone 13’s Cinematic video mode last year, for instance, I almost forget it exists. Re: Do you allow contacts to see Sometimes it’s the sensible features that make the most meaningful difference in when you’ve read their texts? our lives. This year’s operating systems are marked by everyday upgrades, many “I vote for using Read Receipts only of which we’ve long been begging for. At last, we’ll have the ability to customize for a spouse (or perhaps a loved one our Lock screen and mark text messages as unread. The Weather app is fi nally such as a parent or sick person who coming to the iPad, and iPadOS 16 will allow you to resize app windows for needs monitoring). My husband is greater control of your workspace. always in meetings or on the phone with clients. If I text him, I know he While not the most sensational, these are features we’ve been sorely missing. saw my message. It makes it so This fall, iOS 16 will roll out to anyone with an iPhone 8 or later. Learn more of the much easier for us to communicate. best features coming your way by reading our iOS 16 roundup on page 10. We can make plans, and he can reply without interrupting his We don’t yet know what hardware Apple will release alongside the OSes come clients. It works great.” September, but rumors are giving us some solid ideas. Analysts predict Apple will -Maryann C. release an always-on display to show off the revamped Lock screen but will likely wait another year before switching to a USB-C connector (page 14). Re: What are real-world uses for FaceTime’s new Center Stage No matter what Apple device you own, how much you benefi t from them feature? depends on how well you know how to use them! That’s why we create our “Center Stage is more important annual How-To Guide. Whether you’re looking for ways to be more productive if you have more than one person with your iPhone, capture better photos and videos, or navigate your Mac faster in the picture. My wife and I often with handy shortcuts, Managing Editor Amy Spitzfaden-Both will teach you some FaceTime our grandkids. It keeps tricks to keep up your sleeve (page 21). both of us in the picture even though we are close to the iPad without having to fi nagle to get just the right angle. If one of steps out of the picture for a bit, it re-centers the image so that the remaining Donna Schill person is still centered. It also Editor in Chief at iPhone Life makes it better if you move around any at all.” -Tim M. 4 iPhone Life Fall 2022 Around the Office T E C H T H E I P H O N E L I F E T E A M I S LO V I N G Duolingo (Free) “I decided to pick up some Italian basics in anticipation of a trip to Europe. Within minutes of downloading Duolingo, I was learning and having fun while doing it! 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It works seamlessly in tandem with your spending a few minutes working iPhone and the whole family can dim the lights with my brain.” the TREATLIFE app. It’s been a game changer for -Brian Peters, Feature Writer relaxing outside on a nice evening!” -Rachel Needell, Feature Writer SANDMARC iPhone Anamorphic Lens ($139.99) “The line of SANDMARC iPhone lenses greatly expands my toolkit for photos and videos. With excellent build quality and a clean look, I trust these lenses to up my game. 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