Month: May 2023

Apple has patented plenty of foldable displays, but there’s still only rumors that a folding iPhone is in the works.

Samsung, Motorola and even Google have introduced foldable phones like the Galaxy Z Fold 4, Motorola Razr reboot and Pixel Fold, respectively. As the niche becomes increasingly crowded with Android folding phones, Apple still hasn’t come out with its own foldable, despite evidence mounting for years that the company seems to be tinkering with one, possibly called the iPhone Flip. But rumors say Apple may not launch its own flexible screen device until 2025.

Years ago in 2017, folks predicted that a foldable iPhone could launch in the near future of 2020 — which didn’t happen. Analysts and leakers have been kicking the release date down the road ever since, and rumors and wish lists have hung around as phone fans keep their hopes up. Absent any confirmed details from Apple, here’s everything we know so far about the company’s future foray into foldables.

Release date: The iPhone Flip launch could be in 2025
It seems to be an open secret that Apple is working toward a foldable iPhone. The company has been registering patents for foldable technologies for almost a decade now, and while there’s no guarantee that one will come out even after all that research (remember AirPower?), there’s still been buzz and possible release dates floated for years — though still not one solid enough to get excited about.

Early rumors pointed to 2021 as a potential target date, but the year passed with no foldable iPhone in sight. A March 2021 report from longtime Apple analyst Ming Chi Kuo (via MacRumors) suggested 2023 might be more realistic, if it ever happens. According to Kuo, Apple still needs to figure out technology and mass production issues before bringing a device like this to market, hence the wait. Speculation later in 2021 from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman aligned with Kuo’s predictions: In his Power On Newsletter, Gurman said that the foldable iPhone may not arrive for another two to three years.

But since then, new rumors have pointed to an even later release. Reliable display analyst Ross Young said in February that the foldable iPhone has been pushed back to 2025, and Kuo revised his predictions to 2025 in a tweet on Friday.

“Apple may launch its first foldable product in 2025 at the earliest, which may be a foldable iPad or a hybrid of iPad & iPhone,” Kuo wrote in the tweet.

The rumor mill quieted down since then, and it doesn’t look like we’ll get an iPhone foldable to arrive this year alongside the iPhone 15 expected to launch later this year. But that still leaves two years before Kuo’s prediction could possibly become reality.

You can expect Google’s Android 14 software update to arrive later this year.

AI may have taken center stage at last week’s Google I/O event, but Dave Burke, VP of engineering at Google, did touch on a few new customization options coming to the lock screen on Android 14.

Android 14 was first announced back in February, with the release of its first Android 14 developer preview. In April, Google released the first public beta version of Android 14, and the second shortly after Google I/O, which you can download right now (as long as you have a compatible phone, like the new Pixel 7A or Pixel Fold).

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The public and beta versions of Android 14 so far have brought improvements to privacy and security, like the ability to disable PIN animations to make it safer when unlocking your phone in public, and new features to accessibility, with larger font sizes for the visually impaired and flash notifications for those that are hard of hearing.

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More customization options for your lock screen
A few customization options to the lock screen are coming to Android 14 later this year, demoed at the Google I/O keynote.

You now have the ability to add your own personalized clock to the lock screen on Android 14, choosing the font, color, size and design. There are also new shortcuts, which allow you to quickly jump into your most frequent activities, like turning on your flashlight, opening your wallet for payment or launching your camera to scan a QR code — directly from your lock screen.

Emoji and cinematic wallpapers
Android also has a couple new wallpaper options, including emoji and cinematic wallpapers, coming to Android, but not exclusive to Android 14.

The emoji wallpaper feature lets you choose up to fourteen different emoji, browse through various patterns and select a colors pattern to create a unique wallpaper for your home and lock screen. Emoji wallpapers are interactive, so the emoji will react any time you touch them.

With the cinematic wallpaper feature, you can turn any photo in your camera roll into a 3D image with motions effects to add as your backdrop. A sparkle icon button will give your photos a parallax effect as you tilt your device.

There are also generative AI wallpapers
Don’t have a wallpaper you’re happy with? Google has a new feature in Android that allows you to create a unique wallpaper with generative AI. To start, you choose a theme — for example classic art or mystical botanicals — and then a wallpaper is created. At the bottom of each wallpaper is a prompt that can be edited to further customize the existing wallpaper. Each prompt will also have several options you can swipe through.

A major update to Find My Device
Google is taking a page out of Apple’s playbook by improving how you find your missing devices, leveraging the millions of Android devices out there. For example, if you leave your Google Pixel buds at the airport, you can use any nearby Android devices to help you better locate your Android-powered phone. And if you have any third-party trackers, like Tile, on other items you own, you’ll be able to track them via Find My Device as well. This feature isn’t unique to Android 14, but will come to Android around the same time as the latest mobile operating system.

Unknown tracker alerts
Another feature coming to Android this summer is the ability to receive automatic notifications if your phone senses an unknown tracker following you. Apple and Google are working together to give people the information they need to quickly find out if they’re being possibly tracked by a stalker or thief — something that has been happening in the last few years. These unknown tracker alerts allow you to view a rogue tracker device, like an AirTag, on a map and force it to play a sound so that you can find it. You’ll even get instructions on how to disable the tracker completely, in case you’re concerned about your safety.

SwiftKey now also has the capacity to compose text for you using AI.

Microsoft is marking 100 days since launching artificial intelligence-powered search on Bing with a few updates to the system. One of those is adding a chatbot widget for phone screens across both iOS and Android.

“This week, we’re launching a new Bing Chat widget,” Microsoft said in a blog post Tuesday. “Soon, you’ll be able to click the Bing icon to land directly in the new Bing Chat experience, or click the microphone icon to verbally ask a question.”

Microsoft in February unveiled Bing search powered by the large language tech behind ChatGPT, saying its search engine is now an “AI-powered co-pilot for the web.” Search results began incorporating info from OpenAI as well as Bing adding a chat window to help you with things like making shopping lists, summarizing PDFs, generating LinkedIn posts and giving advice to your queries.

The Bing AI chatbot was opened to everyone with a Microsoft account in early May, though it was limited to the Edge browser on computers, phones and tablets and the Bing app.

Tuesday’s news means it’s now available as a widget too.

Microsoft also announced it has brought AI-powered Bing to the Compose feature in the SwiftKey keyboard, “which will now draft text for you according to the parameters you suggest — not just the subject matter but also the message tone, format and length.”

It’s also improved the quality of chats in other languages than English and added the ability to continue your chatbot conversation between your mobile device and your desktop.

How to add the Bing widget to your Android phone
Download the Bing Chat app.
On your home screen, touch and hold on an empty space until your home screen zooms out.
Tap Widgets.
Scroll through the list or use the search function to find the Bing AI chat widget.
Touch and hold on the widget.
Slide it to where you want to place it on the Home screen.
Lift your finger, and the widget will be in place.
How to add the Bing widget to your iPhone
Download the Bing Chat app.
On your home screen, touch and hold an empty space until your apps jiggle.
Tap the add (+) button, located in the upper left corner.
Select the Bing AI chat widget.
Choose the size you want the widget to be.
Tap Add Widget.
Tap Done.
After Microsoft introduced the Bing AI chatbot in February, rival Google followed with AI Bard in March. CNET has broken down ChatGPT as well as Bing and Google Bard to work out which is the most helpful chatbot.

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The next iOS update is expected to be out this week.

Apple on Monday came out with an updated version of the iOS 16.5 release candidate for developers and beta testers. An Apple news release last week pointed to the tech giant making the iPhone update available to the public this week. The beta versions of iOS 16.5 bring more security patches and improvements to the OS, like a new Pride wallpaper section and a sports tab in Apple News, to public beta users as well as developers.

New iOS features can be fun, but we recommend downloading a beta only on a device other than your primary phone, just in case the new software causes problems. Apple also provides beta testers with an app called Feedback, which they can use to notify the company about any issues in the new software. That way, problems can be addressed before general release.

Here are the new features developers and beta testers can try now ahead of the release of iOS 16.5.

Pride Celebration wallpapers

In the iOS 16.5 release candidate, Apple added two new preloaded Pride Celebration wallpapers to a new Pride wallpaper section. The wallpaper section was introduced in iOS 16.5 beta 4.

The Pride wallpaper section is “designed with the colors of the Pride flag to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community,” the section’s description reads.

You can access the new section by tapping Settings > Wallpaper > +Add New Wallpaper.

Apple News gets some sports upgrades
The Apple News app launched in 2015, and the first iOS 16.5 beta brought a Sports tab to the app for the first time. The tab can be found in the toolbar across the bottom of your screen when you open the app. Before, the toolbar displayed tabs for Today, News Plus, Audio, Following and Search. The iOS 16.5 beta 1 got rid of the Search tab to make room for the Sports tab.

The iOS 16.5 release candidate also updated the My Sports scores and schedule cards in Apple News. Now, when you tap the three dots (…) in the bottom-right corner of one of these cards you’ll see an option for Go to Game. Tapping this option will bring up more details about that game.

Here are the release notes for the updated version of the iOS 16.5 release candidate.

This update includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

• A new Pride Celebration wallpaper for the Lock Screen to honor the LGBTQ+ community and culture.

• Sports tab in Apple News gives easy access to stories, scores, standings and more, for the teams and leagues you follow.

• My Sports score and schedule cards in Apple News take you directly to game pages where you can find additional details about specific games.

• Fixes an issue where Spotlight may become unresponsive.

• Addresses an issue where Podcasts in CarPlay may not load content.

• Fixes an issue where Screen Time settings may reset or not sync across all devices.

There’s no guarantee these beta features will be released with iOS 16.5, or that these will be the only new features to come out with the update.

For more, check out what to know about iOS 16.4.1 (a) and Rapid Security Responses and what you may have missed with iOS 16.4. And there’s how to become an Apple beta tester so you can try new iOS features before other folks.

The next update will likely land soon, but iOS 16.4 brought plenty of new features to your iPhone.

Apple is set to release iOS 16.5 soon, and though that update will likely bring a few new features to your iPhone, you may’ve missed some of the added features that iOS 16.4 brought.

Your iPhone is in need of an update if you still haven’t downloaded iOS 16.4 — not to mention iOS 16.4.1 (a) or iOS 16.4.1. Apple released iOS 16.4.1 (a), the company’s first rapid System Response update, and iOS 16.4.1 to patch security vulnerabilities and squash some bugs. These updates didn’t have any added features, but their predecessor, iOS 16.4, includes several new features in addition to updates and security fixes.

Below are some of the biggest additions to your iPhone with iOS 16.4. And here’s how to download and install the update if you haven’t already. For more, here’s everything to expect from the next major iPhone update, iOS 16.5.

31 new emoji
The iOS 16.4 update brings 31 new emoji to your iOS device. The new emoji include a new smiley; new animals, like a moose and a goose; and new heart colors, including pink and light blue.

The new emoji all come from Unicode’s September 2022 recommendation list, Emoji 15.0.

Voice Isolation comes to cellular calls
Voice Isolation was introduced with iOS 15 in 2021, and at the time it worked only on FaceTime calls. Now with iOS 16.4, you can use the feature on your cellular calls too.

When enabled, Voice Isolation can help the person you’re on a call with hear you more clearly by muffling background sounds, like kids playing in the other room or construction outside your window. It could therefore cut back on the number of times you have to repeat yourself in a phone call because the other person can’t hear you.

Easily find photo duplicates across shared albums
In iOS 16.4, you can easily find duplicate photos in shared albums in Photos. If you share photos with family or friends via iCloud, iOS 16.4 will show you all the duplicates across albums. You can also Merge these duplicate photos.

Support for PlayStation 5 controller
According to MacRumors, iOS 16.4 adds support for the PlayStation 5 DualSense Edge Wireless Controller. You can use the controller to play controller-enabled games from services like Apple Arcade — a CNET Editors’ Choice award pick — on your iPhone.

Apple Books update
The page-turn curl animation is back in Apple Books with iOS 16.4, after it was removed in a previous iOS update. Before, when you turned a page in an ebook on your iPhone, the page would slide to one side of your screen or it would vanish and be replaced by the next page. You can still choose these other page-turn animations in addition to the curl animation.

Music app changes
The Kid Cudi album Man On the Moon artwork with the track list below
A small banner appears at the bottom of the screen when you choose to play a song next in Apple Music in iOS 16.4.
Zach McAuliffe/CNET
The Music interface has been slightly modified in iOS 16.4. When you add a song to your queue, a small banner appears near the bottom of your screen instead of a full-screen pop-up like in previous iOS versions.

Also, if you go into your Library in Music, you can organize your Library by Artist and tap into an artist, across the top of your page you will see an icon for that artist. A search bar used to be at the top of this page. Tap the artist’s icon and you will be taken to that artist’s Music page.

Apple Podcasts updates
Apple Podcasts also gets an update with iOS 16.4. Now you can access a Channels tab in your Library, which shows you different networks you follow. Tap into each channel and you can see the shows you subscribe to and other shows that channel produces.

See who and what is covered under AppleCare
With iOS 16.4, you can go to Settings > General > About > Coverage to check who and what devices are covered on your AppleCare plan. That way, if your AirPods break, you can easily check whether they’re covered. You can manage your coverage from here too.

Focus Mode filters added
If you have an iPhone 14 Pro or Pro Max, iOS 16.4 lets you enable or disable the always-on display option with certain Focus Modes. When creating a new filter, scroll down to the bottom of the edit page, tap Focus Filter, then tap Always-On Display to enable or disable the display for that Focus Mode.

New Apple Wallet features
You can add three new order-tracking widgets for Apple Wallet to your home screen with iOS 16.4. Each widget displays your tracking information on active orders, but the widgets are different sizes: small, medium and large.

More accessibility options
The update also adds new accessibility options. One new option is called Dim Flashing Lights, and it can be found in the Motion menu in Settings. The option’s description says video content that depicts repeated flashing or strobing lights will automatically be dimmed. Video timelines will also show when flashing lights will occur. VoiceOver support has also been expanded to the maps and Weather apps.

Apple ID and beta software updates

With iOS 16.4, developers and beta testers can check whether their Apple ID is associated with the developer beta, public beta or both. If you have a different Apple ID, like one for your job, that has access to beta updates, iOS 16.4 also lets you switch to that account from your device.

New keyboards, Siri voices and language updates
This iOS 16.4 update also adds keyboards for the Choctaw and Chickasaw languages, and there are new Siri voices for Arabic and Hebrew. Language updates have also come to Korean, Ukrainian, Gujarati, Punjabi and Urdu.

Here are Apple’s release notes for iOS 16.4.

This update includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

• 21 new emoji including animals, hand gestures, and objects are now available in emoji keyboard.

• Notifications for web apps added to the Home Screen.

. • Voice Isolation for cellular calls prioritizes your voice and blocks out ambient noise around you.

• Duplicates album in Photos expands support to detect duplicate photos and videos in an iCloud Shared Photo Library.

• VoiceOver support for maps in the Weather app.

• Accessibility setting to automatically dim video when flashes of light or strobe effects are detected.

• Fixes an issue where Ask to Buy requests from children may fail to appear on the parent’s device.

• Addresses issues where Matter-compatible thermostats could become unresponsive when paired to Apple Home.

• Crash Detection optimizations on iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro models.

Curious about what else is new with Apple? check out what might be coming to your iPhone with iOS 16.5 and how t

WhatsApp’s first smartwatch app is also coming to Wear OS, bringing texting and voice calls without needing a phone.

Google’s Wear OS 3 is getting new features from Google itself along with third-party apps and — later this year — a major update to Wear OS 4. Announced Wednesday during Google I/O, the watch operating system will be getting more integrations with Google services like Gmail, Calendar and Google Home. Many of these improvements, which include battery life improvements, will arrive on Wear OS 3 watches like Google’s own Pixel Watch and the Samsung Galaxy Watch series.

The updated Google Home app will allow for remotely unlocking your door and checking Nest doorbell notifications. Gmail and Calendar’s Watch OS updates will add quick replies to emails along with access to schedules, event RSVPs and the ability to update a task status from a watch.

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Third-party apps are also part of Google’s Wear OS announcements, with chat service WhatsApp planning to launch its first native watch app on the operating system. WhatsApp’s Wear OS app — currently in beta — plans to include texting alongside voice calls directly from a Wear OS watch. Google also announced that Spotify and Peloton will be including watch tiles in their Wear OS apps, both of which will provide faster access to music playlists and workout details respectively.

When Wear OS 4 becomes available later this year, Google says the software will bring battery life improvements, a faster text-to-speech experience and backup support. That latter feature will make it easier to transfer data and settings from an old watch to a new one, much like Google’s current Android phone setup process.

The Wear OS announcements come as Google’s I/O keynote takes a big focus on AI announcements. These include the PaLM 2 language model, an AI-powered version of Google’s search engine and the public release of the Bard AI chatbot.

As production ramps up across its autonomous electric tractors, Foxconn is looking to produce more EVs.

Foxconn, one of Apple’s key suppliers for the iPhone, is pushing further into electric vehicles as consumer interest ramps up.

Electric vehicle sales are expected to increase by 35% in 2023, and stricter emissions standards in the US are predicted to drive a near tenfold increase in EV sales by 2032.

Foxconn last month completed the first five “driver optional” electric smart tractors as part of its partnership with Monarch in Ohio. In its first-quarter earnings announced Thursday, Foxconn said production on the autonomous agricultural tractors has “begun smoothly” and that it is preparing to produce other vehicle models in 2024.

Foxconn added more on its EV hopes: “The goal is to find the next potential leading automaker, use more innovative and efficient processes to build vehicles, and provide customers with the most competitive production model to accelerate the trend toward electromobility.”

Foxconn’s EV goals didn’t come out of nowhere. The tech manufacturer had announced in October 2020 that it was looking to diversify its business and enter the EV market. It unveiled the Foxtron EV brand and three EVs in October 2021: the Model C electric SUV, Model E luxury sedan and Model T electric bus.

Foxconn then bought a former GM manufacturing plant at the end of 2021 to help produce the Endurance electric pickup and formed a partnership in mid 2022 to build Fisker’s Project Pear electric SUV and added the Model V electric pickup truck to its prospective portfolio.

Foxconn in January also announced a partnership with Nvidia to use Nvidia Drive Orin processors in its electric vehicles, as well as Nvidia’s AI Drive Hyperion sensor suite.

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The pivot from being mainly just an iPhone supplier to producing electric vehicles comes as Foxconn reported a plunging first-quarter net profit of T$12.8 billion ($415.9 million) on Thursday, down 56% from the T$29 billion ($942 million) reported for the same quarter last year.

Foxconn laid the blame on a T$17.3 billion ($565 million) write-down of its 34% stake in Japanese electronics company Sharp. Sharp on Thursday reported a $1.9 billion loss for the full year due to writing down the value of its panel display business and other assets, according to Reuters.

Much of the AI technology we use today runs in hulking data centers operated by cloud computing giants like Amazon, Microsoft and Google. But with a technology called WebGPU that Google is now building into its Chrome browser, web apps can take advantage of AI processing more directly.

Google announced the WebGPU adoption at its Google I/O conference Wednesday. With WebGPU, web apps on phones or laptops can better tap into the kinds of artificial intelligence software that’s sweeping everything from creative tools to health apps.

“WebGPU makes the web AI-ready,” said Matt Waddell, who leads Chrome’s developer and consumer focused work, in an exclusive interview ahead of the conference. At Google I/O, the company plans to demonstrate a web app running Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion software for turning text prompts into images, he said.

The move reflects the growing pervasiveness of AI technology that’s been used behind the scenes for years but that’s become much more prominent with new generative AI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Bing, Google’s Bard and Adobe’s Firefly. Google — caught flat-footed by ChatGPT despite CEO Sundar Pichai declaring Google an AI-first company in 2016 — is racing to capitalize on the excitement.

Although phone and laptop hardware is much less powerful than data center server hardware, being able to run AI locally on a device sidesteps network problems and can help you control your data. That could be useful for businesses with sensitive data or health apps whose results you want to keep private, Waddell said.

WebGPU’s origins date back years to projects at Google, Apple and others that brought a video game hardware revolution to the web. That let web apps tap into the raw power of graphics processing units, or GPUs, that previously only graphics-heavy video games might use. The computing industry discovered those GPUs are pretty good at accelerating AI, too.

AI software also can run in apps running natively on a device, as indeed they do with software like Adobe’s Lightroom and Photoshop image editing apps. But speeding up AI in web apps means developers have a better chance at taking advantage of the universality of the web platform.

“We think about a more capable and powerful web platform all the time,” Waddell said.

Less browser compatibility hassle
The web’s universality has come with problems, though, including fragmented efforts to add new browser abilities programmers can use. That undermines the ease of developing a website or web app that’ll work the same on many devices without complicated workarounds.

But also at Google I/O, the company announced a partnership with Mozilla’s Firefox, Apple’s Safari and Microsoft’s Edge to detail a new effort called Baseline to flag the web features developers can rely on all browsers supporting, Waddell said.

Baseline 2024 should arrive at the end of this year and then be continuously updated as new compatible features arrive.

Moving Android apps to the web faster
Another programming change emerging at Google I/O is expanded web technology called WebAssembly — Wasm for short — that promises to speed up web apps. Wasm lets programmers translate native software to run within web browsers, powering the web version of Adobe Photoshop and Autodesk’s AutoCAD design software.

At Google I/O, the company plans to announce developers can now convert apps written in the Kotlin language to Wasm. Since Kotlin is the most widely used language to write Android apps, that could help Android developers reach new users on other platforms more easily.

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Steve Wozniak tells the BBC that “bad actors” will abuse the technology.

Artificial intelligence may make it more difficult for you to spot and avoid scams. That’s according to Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who told the BBC on Monday that the technology could be corrupted by bad actors. He called for industry leaders to impose more regulation.

Wozniak is dubious that generative AI will replace humans — a common concern in the debate over the future uses of the tech — but he’s convinced AI-powered tools could sound like humans. By using large language model programs like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, bad actors can easily create seedy scams and run rampant online, Wozniak said.

“AI is so intelligent it’s open to the bad players, the ones that want to trick you about who they are,” he told the BBC. He wants strict industry standards to hold companies developing AI accountable, but he’s dubious that regulators will get it right. “I think the forces that drive for money usually win out, which is sort of sad,” he said.

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Since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT last year, companies have released a deluge of generative AI software that can do things like create code, plan a vacation, write poems and answer all sorts of questions for you. Google unveiled its own AI chatbot, Bard, in February, shortly after Microsoft launched a new AI-powered Bing search. Social media companies Meta and Twitter have also teased that their own AI products are coming soon.

In March, more than 1,000 AI, tech and other industry leaders, including Wozniak and Elon Musk, signed a petition to halt the development of AI programs beyond ChatGPT 4 due to the “profound risk” these systems may pose without any industry regulation.

“Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth? Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we risk loss of control of our civilization?” the letter asks.

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The update patches a security issue, and Apple said everyone should download it.

Apple released its first iPhone Rapid Security Response update, called iOS 16.4.1 (a), on May 1. The company said the update is recommended for all users and it applies important security fixes to iPhones, but Apple didn’t release security notes associated with the update.

To download the update, go to Settings > General > Software Update, tap Install Now and follow the onscreen prompts.

Some users saw an error message when installing iOS 16.4.1 (a) on their devices. The message read, “Unable to Verify Security Response,” and it said they were no longer connected to the internet. If you see this error message, you can immediately retry downloading the update or try again later.

Rapid Security Response updates are a new type of device update Apple introduced alongside iOS 16.2 in December. According to Apple, Rapid Security Response updates provide users with important security fixes more frequently. These updates can help you mitigate iPhone security issues in real time, rather than make you wait for the release of a larger iOS update. Rapid Security Response updates are designated with a letter to differentiate them from other updates.

Apple didn’t immediately respond to CNET’s request for comment.

For more iOS news, check out what features could be coming to your iPhone with iOS 16.5 and what was included in iOS 16.4.1 and iOS 16.4.