Apple is rolling out iOS 12.2 around the world.
The company has dropped a new version of iOS 12 that supports the new Apple News+ subscription service, as well as new improvements for Siri on Apple TV.
Apple did not announce iOS 12.2 at the keynote presentation, although as Apple News+ was due to launch the same day, it was clear that a release was coming.
Apple has also been beta testing iOS 12.2 for the past couple of weeks with developers.
“Apple News+ is a new subscription service that extends the Apple News experience with hundreds of magazines and top newspapers,” Apple says in the release notes for iOS 12.2. “Our editors handpick top articles and magazine issues, and you also get personalized recommendations on the topics most interesting to you. Automatic downloads make it easy to read magazine issues offline.”
What’s new on iOS?
As well as support for Apple News+, iOS 12.2 introduces a new feature, allowing you to Ask Siri on your iPhone or iPad to play video onto your Apple TV.
The update also introduces four new Animoji (owl, boar, giraffe and shark; on supported iPhone X/XS/XS Max and iPad Pro devices only), as well as new AirPlay controls for TV in Control Center, and new Apple Pay and Wallet capabilities.
There have also been some slight tweaks and improvements to the Screen Time and Safari apps, iOS now offers support for AirPods 2, and some bugs have been fixed.
The new release even supports AT&T’s “5GE” branding, which has been criticized by customers as ‘confusing’ and ‘misleading’.
If you want to update to iOS 12.2 right away, head to Settings on your iPhone or iPad and click through to General > Software Update. Most iPhones and iPads should update automatically if auto-updates are turned on, so you may already be running iOS 12.2.
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