Yesterday Apple released the first beta version of iOS 15.2 and iPadOS 15.2, along with its sister updates of tvOS 15.2 and watchOS 8.3, with several interesting new features. News such as the app privacy report, which allows us to know where the apps we use connect, settings in emergency call mode and more.
New app privacy report
The main novelty of this version 15.2, at least in the first beta, is the inclusion of the app privacy report. This function allows us to know, with total precision, to which domains the apps we use connect, the websites we visit and what resources (location, contacts, photos, etc.) our applications use.
We can find all this information within the app Settings coming into Privacy and then in App privacy report. The information is divided into three sections: Access to data and sensors, App network activity, Website network activity and most connected domains.
Changes in the emergency call system
IPhones come with an emergency call feature that can be invoked by pressing certain buttons. Now, with iOS 15.2, Apple has made changes to how to trigger this call. We can choose between press the side button for five times in a row, press and hold the side button and one of the volume buttons or both methods.
The countdown, which may or may not make a sound, is now eight seconds, compared to the previous three seconds. A measure designed to avoid involuntary calls to the service.
Notifications summary redesign
The notification summary function allows us to defer notifications from certain apps to be able to see them, all together, at a specific moment of the day, in a summarized way. This is a feature that came with iOS 15 and has now been resigned and polished in the first beta of iOS 15.2.
The summary itself, as we see it in the following image published in 9to5mac, it is displayed in a much more visual way. With information bubbles for the different apps and notifications.
After the news that have arrived, officially, in iOS 15.1, Apple goes a step further with the evolution of the operating system. An operating system that arrives loaded with news. For the dates we meet we can wait for iOS 15.2 to arrive before christmas holidays. After all, it is a version with relatively few new features that would not require, we estimate, a long beta phase.
So we would leave other important changes for the spring update, such as the arrival of Universal Control, for example. Changes that, based on previous years, will almost certainly come with the odd surprise.
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