In touch.
In the moment.
iOS 15 is packed with new features that help you connect with others, be more present and in the moment, explore the world and use powerful intelligence to do more with iPhone than ever before.
With iOS 15.4, you can use Face ID while wearing a mask. Easily unlock your iPhone and authorise apps and passwords. Even when your mouth and nose are covered, your iPhone can now recognise you by analysing the unique characteristics around your eyes.1
Staying in touch is more essential than ever. With SharePlay, you can watch together, listen together and share your screen right inside FaceTime.2 FaceTime calls also sound and feel more natural. And Messages makes it even easier to find and enjoy the great content shared from friends and family.
Keep FaceTime conversations going as you watch TV shows and movies, listen to music or share your screen. SharePlay is an entirely new way to have experiences with family and friends, no matter the distance.
Get together and listen to an album with friends. The whole group can see what’s next and add songs to a shared queue with synced playback and easy-to-use controls.
Individual voices sound like they’re coming from the direction in which each person is positioned on your screen, helping conversations flow more naturally.3
Grid view shows people on your FaceTime call in the same-sized tiles, so you can have better conversations with a large group. The speaker is automatically highlighted so you always know who’s talking.
Inspired by Portrait mode in Camera, this new video effect puts the focus on you, not what’s behind you.3
Now you can send friends and family a link to connect on FaceTime — even if they’re using Windows or Android.2 And it’s still end-to-end encrypted, so your call is as private and secure as any other FaceTime call.
Now the links, images and other content shared with you in Messages are featured in a new Shared with You section in the corresponding app. You can even reply right from the app you’re enjoying it in — without going back to Messages.
Shared with You is built into Photos, Safari, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts and the Apple TV app.
Now you can choose outfits for your Memoji and express yourself with new stickers. Represent your look and style with multi-coloured headwear. And accessibility customisations now include cochlear implants, oxygen tubes and soft helmets.
Multiple photos in Messages now appear as a collage or an elegant stack of images that you can swipe through. Tap to view them all as a grid or add a quick Tapback. And save them to your library with just a few taps.
A powerful new set of tools gives you more control over how you prioritise your time and attention. So you can find balance and stay focused on whatever you’re doing in the moment.
Focus helps you stay in the moment when you need to concentrate or step away. Choose from a list of Focus options or create your own to allow only the notifications you want — you can get work done while you’re in the zone or enjoy a distraction‑free dinner.
Stepping away is easier if others know you’re busy. So when you’re using Focus, your status will be automatically displayed in Messages and other communication apps you allow. And for truly urgent messages, there’s still a way for people to notify you.
Notifications have a new look, including contact photos and larger app icons to make them easier to identify.
Quickly catch up with a helpful collection of your notifications delivered daily, based on a schedule you set. The summary is intelligently ordered by priority, with the most relevant notifications at the top.
Exploration has never looked better. Maps delivers incredible new details that go beyond simply taking you from point A to point B. Safari offers even more ways for you to explore online. And Wallet provides a single, secure place to store your keys.
Explore cities with unprecedented detail for roads, neighbourhoods, trees, buildings and more. Visit amazing 3D landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge in both the day and dark mode maps.3
Maps now offers drivers incredible road details and a new dedicated driving map that helps you see current incidents and traffic conditions at a glance.
Save and organise your tabs in the way that works best for you and switch between them easily. Tab Groups sync across devices so you have access to your tabs from anywhere.
Now you can install Safari extensions on your iPhone. And just like on Mac, you can choose when the extensions will be active.
Now your iPhone can unlock your home, your hotel room and even your workplace.4
There is so much rich information in your photos, from memorable places you’ve visited to handwritten family recipes. iOS 15 uses secure on-device intelligence to help you discover more in your photos, quickly find what you’re looking for and relive special moments.
Live Text also works in the Camera app, so you can point your iPhone camera at text on the go and quickly take action on useful information.
Live Text understands seven different languages: English, Chinese, French, Italian, German, Portuguese and Spanish. And with system-wide translation, you can simply tap and translate.
Learn more about the objects in your photos. Visual Look Up highlights objects and scenes it recognises so you can get more information about them.6
With Visual Look Up, you can quickly learn more about art, landmarks, nature, books and pets simply by tapping a photo on your device or on the web.
Spotlight shows you more information at a glance with new rich search results for artists, entertainers, TV shows and movies, as well as your contacts. And you can now search your photos in Spotlight, and even search based on text in your photos by using Live Text.
Memories introduces a new interactive, immersive interface, along with new Memory mixes that let you personalise the look and feel of your story with a song and vibe to match.
Updates to the Health app give you new ways to share data with your loved ones, a metric to assess your risk of falling and trend analysis to help you understand changes in your health.
Great features should not have to come at the expense of your privacy. iOS 15 provides increased visibility into how apps access your data, protects you from unwanted data collection and gives you more control over what you choose to share.
See how apps are using the permissions you’ve granted them, which domains they contact and how recently they made contact.
iCloud has always kept your important information — like photos, documents and notes — safe, up to date and accessible across all of your devices. Now iCloud+ takes that experience a step further, with an all-new subscription that will replace today’s storage plans.9
Get everything you already love about iCloud — and new features including iCloud Private Relay, Hide My Email and expanded HomeKit Secure Video support.10
Customise display and text size settings for each app. Bold or enlarge text, increase contrast, invert colours and more for only the apps you want. Explore people, objects, text and tables within images in more detail with VoiceOver. Navigate receipts and nutrition label values in logical order. And move your finger over a photo to discover a person’s position relative to other objects in the image.
A fresh new look includes graphical displays of weather data and beautifully redesigned animated backgrounds — along with air quality and temperature maps — that make Weather more engaging and powerful than ever.12
Productivity updates in Notes enable you to organise with tags and collaborate in new ways with mentions and an Activity view.
System-wide translation lets you translate text that you select, even in many third-party apps. In the app, Auto Translate and face to face view improve conversation flow and make it easier to follow along.
Enjoy all-new widgets for Find My, Game Center, App Store, Sleep, Mail and Contacts
See your family’s and friends’ locations with continuous updates. Locate your devices using the Find My network if they’ve been erased, or for up to 24 hours even after they’ve been turned off.
Account Recovery Contacts makes resetting your password and maintaining access to your account easier than ever. And a new Digital Legacy programme lets you designate people as Legacy Contacts so they can access your account in the event of your death.
You can now ask Siri to share items onscreen like photos, web pages, news and more. If the item can’t be shared, Siri will offer to send a screenshot instead.