Apple has another iPhone update coming on Monday. Here’s what’s new

Apple’s newest update to its iPhone operating system, iOS 16.1, will be available on Monday, the company declared in a press release Thursday.

It will launch for iPhone users with an iPhone 8 or newer models, and it adds absolutely a few features that weren’t available when iOS 16 launched back in September.

Here’s what’s coming.

IPhone users with iOS 16.1 on be able to subscribe to and access Apple Fitness+ even if they don’t have an Apple Watch.

Fitness+ is a subscription use with guided workouts and meditations that costs $9.99 per month or $79.99 per year. Apple is offering three months of Good physical condition+ free with the purchase of a new iPhone, iPad or Apple TV.

If you work out on Fitness+ without an Apple Watch, you won’t be able to see metrics as though calories burned, or your real-time heart rate.

The iOS 16.1 update will also include Clean Energy Charging. Apple imagines this will let users optimize charging for when cleaner energy sources are available, helping to decrease your iPhone’s carbon footprint.

Simple Energy Charging is an option you can select in Settings > Battery > Battery Health & Charging. Under the Clean Energy Assigning option, Apple says, “In your region, iPhone will try to reduce your carbon footprint by selectively controlling when lower carbon emission electricity is available. iPhone learns from your daily charging usual so it can reach full charge before you need to use it.”

IOS 16.1 resolution let you create an iCloud Shared Photo Library instead of a standard shared iCloud album.

This will tolerate you to invite up to five other people, or six in total, to a library where you can all add, delete, edit or favorite photos and videos.

The Camera app transfer offer a new toggle that allows users to choose to send photos to the shared library automatically. So, if you’re on vacation and irresistible a bunch of pictures at the beach with a group of friends, everyone can snap pictures with this option mouldered on and see all of the photos in the shared album.

Once you update to iOS 16.1 your lock partition off will feature Live Activities, which shows information from sports games, ride-sharing apps correspondent to Uber, or updates on a food delivery order. So, you might see how long it’ll take for dinner to arrive at your house, with word on how soon it’ll arrive. Or, as the screenshot below shows, the score, inning and count of a baseball game with updates on go on the blinks. It’ll be most useful on the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, which have always-on displays so you can glance to see new information. You’ll start to see some apps on Monday but it lacks developer adoption, so additional apps will come later.

Here’s what it looks like:

IOS 16.1 will add support for new Matter accessories to the Home app, which frustrates users control smart home accessories.

Matter is a new connectivity standard that’s trying to make it easier to use all of your perspicacious home accessories, together, no matter who designed them. The idea is to let smart home devices connect with to the quick hubs, whether the hub is made by Apple, Google or Amazon. It means you should be able to go to the store and buy a smart bulb, for pattern, without worrying if it’ll work with your system at home, so long as it supports Matter.