{"id":37882,"date":"2022-12-13T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=37882"},"modified":"2025-02-22T01:08:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T06:08:17","slug":"ios-16-2-and-ipados-16-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/13\/ios-16-2-and-ipados-16-2\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 16.2 and iPadOS 16.2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Juli Clover<\/a> (security<\/a>, developer<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Today’s iOS 16.2 and iPadOS 16.2 updates bring several notable features to iOS 16 and iPadOS 16, including the Freeform app, which is a sort of digital whiteboard that you can use for anything, while also working collaboratively with friends and colleagues.<\/p>

It includes the Apple Music karaoke feature called “Sing,” it introduces Advanced Data Protection for end-to-end encryption for more iCloud features, plus more. On the iPad, the update brings support for external displays on M1 and M2 iPads.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Federico Viticci<\/a>:<\/p>\n

With today’s release of iPadOS 16.2, the idea behind Stage Manager achieves the full vision first presented in June, while its design and technical implementation remain stuck in an unpolished, half-baked state. Which is to say: conceptually, I love<\/em> that Stage Manager in iPadOS 16.2 allows me to extend my iPad to an external display and put four additional windows on it; I’ve waited years for this feature<\/a>, and it’s finally here. Technically speaking, however, the performance of this mode leaves a lot to be desired, with frequent crashes on my iPad Pro and an oft-confusing design that, I will reiterate, needs a rethinking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Jason Snell<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Freeform is fun. It’s got a bunch of rough edges that I hope can be sanded out over time as it grows and evolves, but I love the idea that Apple decided that its collaboration tools (and, by extension, its platforms) really needed a free space for individuals and groups to use as an infinite sheet of Internet-connected note paper.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

My complaints about Freeform are mostly about how it frequently just didn’t do what I wanted it to do. Sometimes tapping an object and dragging would move it on the canvas, while other times it would lift a copy of the item for me to drag around… but when I dropped it elsewhere in the app, nothing would happen. Sometimes I could drag an image on a shape to automatically use the shape as a mask for the image… other times it just didn’t work. I can crop imported photos, but not videos.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n