Ondrej Holzman A new version of the iOS 9 operating system has been released for iPhones, iPads and iPod touch. Apple released the second major update, which does not bring any major news, but fixes a large number of errors and improves existing functions. In iOS 9.2 we will find even better Apple Music and the Safari View Controller has also received positive changes.
Safari View Controller is new in iOS 9 that developers can deploy in their third-party apps to have Safari integrated into them. iOS 9.2 takes the functionality of the Safari View Controller a little further and allows the use of third-party extensions. In this way, you can run various advanced actions in the browser and in other applications than just in the built-in Safari.
As with basic Safari, third-party apps can now request a full view of the page as we would see it on desktop, and hold down the refresh button to reload the page without content blockers.
Additionally, iOS 9.2 brings improvements and bug fixes, including the following:
- Improvements in Apple Music
- When adding a song to a playlist, you can now create a new playlist
- When adding songs to playlists, the most recently changed playlist is now displayed at the top
- Albums and playlists can be downloaded from your iCloud Music Library by tapping the iCloud download button
- A new download indicator for songs in My Music and Playlists shows which songs have been downloaded
- When browsing classical music in the Apple Music catalog, you can look at works, composers and performers
- New Top Stories section in the News app to keep you up-to-date on the most important events (available in the US, UK and Australia)
- Mail Drop service in Mail for sending large attachments
- iBooks now supports 3D Touch gestures with peek and pop preview actions on content pages, notes, bookmarks, and search results in a book
- iBooks now supports listening to audiobooks while browsing the library, reading other books, and browsing the iBooks Store
- Support for importing photos and videos to iPhone using the USB Camera Adapter accessory
- Safari stability improvements
- Stability improvements to the Podcasts app
- Fixed an issue that prevented some users with POP accounts from accessing mail attachments
- Addressing an issue that caused attachments to overlap the text of mail messages for some users
- Fixed an issue that could cause Live Photos to be disabled after restoring from a previous iCloud backup
- Addresses an issue that could prevent search results from appearing in Contacts
- Resolved an issue that could prevent all seven days from being displayed in the Calendar week view
- Fixed an issue that could cause the screen to go black when trying to record video on iPad
- Addressing an issue that could cause the Activity app to become unstable when displaying the Daylight Savings Time transition day
- Fixed an issue that could prevent data from being displayed in the Health app
- Fixed an issue that could prevent Wallet updates and notifications from showing on the lock screen
- Addresses an issue that could prevent notifications from starting during an iOS update
- Fixed an issue that prevented some users from signing in to Find My iPhone
- Fixed an issue that prevented manual iCloud backups from completing in some cases
- Resolves an issue that could cause text selection mode to accidentally launch when using the iPad keyboard
- Improved keyboard responsiveness for quick replies
- Improved punctuation input on 10-key Chinese keyboards (pinyin and wu‑pi‑chua) with new expanded display of punctuation symbols and better predictions
- Fixed an issue on Cyrillic keyboards that caused the Caps lock key to turn on when typing in URL or email fields
- Accessibility improvements
- Fixed VoiceOver issues when using Face Detection in the Camera app
- Support for waking the screen with VoiceOver
- Support for invoking the app switcher using a 3D Touch gesture in VoiceOver
- Fixed an issue with Assisted Access when trying to end phone calls
- Improved 3D Touch gestures for Switch Control users
- Fixed a reading speed issue when using the Read Screen content feature
Siri support for Arabic (Saudi Arabia, UAE)
Finally, I hope they fixed the bug in iHealth, because of which I haven't used it for over half a year. If I'm lucky, maybe they'll remove the random deletion of Apple Music Offline files, when I play for a week, do nothing with the iPhone, and then get in the car and the same album tells me it needs wifi :-)
PS: All bugs reported…
ihealth works normally for me, where is the error?
The fault will probably be between the keyboard and the chair...
Practically I needed to restore data and I had only one good backup in iTunes, but it was unencrypted and unfortunately it does not hide iHealth data (which I only found out later when I had iHealth empty), anyway after that restore data from an unencrypted iTunes backup it crashed iHealth so much that I don't collect anything there. For example, I put the height, add data, enter the height and it is not added. Syncing between Fitbit and iHealth via 3rd party app also doesn't work (can't find iHealth at all)
I've been dealing with Apple practically since the beginning, the last time they wrote to me that it was fixed in 9.1, but it wasn't, so I made a new ticket a while ago...
Such vicissitudes that I am not able to make an encrypted backup to iTunes again (I click the hack button and put the backup phone), that is a secondary issue that I have also been dealing with since then :-(
I'm the same with the music. Unbelievable irritation
I know this. I also wanted to have everything offline. Or at least the majority. I don't even mind the stream via 3G, I have a decent fup. but quite often I am on the historical edge. For another, you can't put a song in a video in iMovie. If it's not fixed offline, I cancel apple music.
that deletion is not a bug…. that "allegedly" is on purpose.... it deletes unused sync music to save space…. AppleTV does it too... it downloads what it needs and when you don't use it, it deletes it again and then downloads it when it's needed...
Unfortunately, it deletes the music I play often and the music I have there and play once a month, so it doesn't delete it :-(
Ah... maybe try reinstalling it... I'm only missing music that I don't use...
Ugh, reinstalling has always been a bad word for me with Apple :-( Anyway, I don't know, 3 weeks ago I reset the settings with keeping the apps, so we'll see what it does after the upgrade...
It always screams for me to connect to wifi :-( If it was going via 3G, but maybe it's a setting... After all, only on the highway Prague -> Liberec is 3G most of the way :-)
It happened to me again in the last week that I couldn't play music on Apple Music that I had in offline mode, nor add or delete any album, they didn't help me with support and today with this update everything is working again
So the update deleted all the music from my iPhone, so I was sucking 10GB all night and draining 50% of the battery.
So I just checked it, I probably deleted something, but most of it remained and every album and every song got a sexy icon that it is on the phone (phone icon and tick). I tried things I listen to often, which is about 4 albums.
I have the same problem with the music?
I read the whole list only to find that my iPad mini 2 will still be the same slow. Gold iOS 8.4.
So for me there is absolutely nothing beneficial in iOS 9.2. It doesn't even make sense to download it, just that some bugs will appear again, as in recent years with each new version of the system. I'll wait for some 9.2.2 ;-)
I don't see a fix for the problem on the 6s anywhere (I don't know if it's sw or in combination with HW, but I know of 3 6s phones on which it works), sometimes a black image after starting the photo for about 5 seconds, especially when live photo is turned on. Another problem is the keyboard getting stuck when changing orientation - the application rotates, the keyboard remains "hanging".
Wow, after the update, the option to choose between LTE, 3G and 2G disappeared again. Now I can only turn LTE off or on (for Voice and Data or only Data) but I can't force 2G =(
It stayed there for me. iP5S and TM.
Does anyone have experience with how the search for contacts works now after the "repair"?
Far better. Hopefully Spotlight will now work properly ;-)
My camera stopped focusing at short distances... hopefully they will fix it. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. And FR didn't help either.