Dan Pražák As Apple promised during today's premiere of the new iPad Pro, Mac mini and MacBook Air, it happened. The Californian company released the new iOS 12.1 for all users a little while ago, which brings several important innovations. The update also includes bug fixes and other improvements.
You can download iOS 12.1 on iPhone and iPad in Settings -> In general -> Software update. For the iPhone XR, the installation package is 464,5 MB in size. The new software is available to owners of compatible devices, which are all iPhones, iPads and iPod touches that supported iOS 12.
Among the main news of iOS 12.1 are group video calls and audio calls via FaceTime for up to 32 participants. With the update, the iPhone XS, XS Max and iPhone XR will receive the expected support for two SIM cards, i.e. the implementation of eSIM, which is supported by T-Mobile on the Czech market. All three of this year's iPhone models also get the new Real-Time Depth Control function, which allows you to adjust the depth of field for portrait photos already during shooting. And let's not forget more than 70 new emoticons.
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List of new features in iOS 12.1:
Group FaceTime call
- Support for video calls and audio calls for up to 32 participants
- End-to-end encryption to keep conversations private
- Launch group FaceTime calls from group conversations in Messages and join an ongoing call at any time
Emoticons
- More than 70 new emoticons including new characters with red, gray and curly hair or no hair at all, more emotional smileys and more emoticons in the categories of animals, sports and food
Dual SIM support
- With eSIM, you can now have two phone numbers on one device on iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR
Other improvements and bug fixes
- Depth of field settings on iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR
- Cellular connectivity improvements for iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR
- Ability to change or reset the Screen Time code for your child using Face ID or Touch ID
- Fixes an issue that caused front-facing camera photos to not always have the sharpest reference image selected on iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR
- Fixes an issue that caused messages from two users signed in with the same Apple ID on two different iPhones to be merged
- Addressed an issue that prevented some voicemail messages from being displayed in the Phone app
- Addresses an issue in the Phone app that could cause phone numbers to be displayed without the user's name
- Fixed an issue that could have prevented Screen Time from showing visits to some websites in the activity report
- Addresses an issue that could prevent adding and removing Family Sharing members
- New disableable power management to prevent iPhone X, iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus from unexpectedly shutting down
- The Battery Health feature can now notify users that iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR cannot be verified to have a genuine Apple battery
- Improved VoiceOver reliability in Camera, Siri, and Safari
- Fixed an issue that could cause some enterprise users to see an invalid profile error message when enrolling a device in MDM
