With iOS 16, Apple added a new feature for AirPods users called Personalized Spatial Audio. According to Apple, “with Personalised Spatial Audio, the AirPods listening experience is even more immersive,” as you perceive sound individually, based on the size and shape of your head and ears.

Personalized Spatial Audio does this by using the TrueDepth camera on an ‌iPhone‌ to analyze the shape of your ears in three dimensions and use this mapping to create a personal sound profile that's tuned just for you. In this podcast, Thomas Domville talks us through and demonstrates the process of mapping your face and ears.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville discusses and demonstrates the relocation of the audio messages function in iOS 16. This is now accessed by a iMessage app in the Messages app dock, rather than a button next to the text field where you type your message.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville introduces us to The Klaxo Radio Hour, a free audio-based interactive narrative experience for iOS set in a 1940s radio.

Description:

Pull up a chair and grab a friend for radio's newest detective: Sandra McCall as Kat Keene, Investigator! Kat is a woman with a knack for finding trouble... and she'll need your help to get out of it! You can navigate the branching story by tuning to different radio channels. Can you help Kat crack her case? Only true sleuths will discover what lurks on the 'empty' channels... and how to solve the radio's curse!

Now offering a rare chance to be a part of radio history! Presented by Klaxo effervescent tablets. If life's got you down, you might as well be six feet under... without a Klaxo!

In this month's edition of AppleVis Unleashed, Thomas Domville, Randy Rusnak, and Mike Malarsie discuss recent Apple news and other topics of interest. Topics featured in this podcast include:

• Post Discussion on the Apple Far Out Event (00:11:42)
• Apple October Event: New iPad Pro, iPad 10, M2 Macs, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura (00:22:55)
• Thoughts on the iOS 16 and other iOS News (00:29:56)
• iPhone hardware subscription service still in the works by Apple, could launch later this year (00:40:50)
• Apple Pay Later could be delayed to 2023 as it faces ‘significant technical and engineering challenges’ (00:44:08)
• Mailbag (00:46:24)
• What's in this month AppleVis News (01:00:21)

Links:

• Here’s everything Apple announced at its ‘Far Out’ iPhone event
• Upcoming Apple product announcements could come as press releases, not an October Event
• Apple October Event: New iPad Pro, iPad 10, M2 Macs, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura
• What's New in iOS 16 Accessibility for Blind and Deafblind users
• The Accessibility Bugs Introduced and Resolved in iOS 16 for Blind and Low Vision Users
• Apple Releases iOS 16.0.2 With Bug Fixes for iPhone 14 Pro Camera Vibration, Copy/Paste Issue and More
• Apple Releases iOS 12.5.6 Update for Older iPhones and iPads With Vulnerability Fixes
• iPhone hardware subscription service still in the works by Apple, could launch later this year
• Apple Pay Later could be delayed to 2023 as it faces ‘significant technical and engineering challenges’
• Three Apple headsets reportedly in development, first product to be called ‘Apple Reality Pro’
• Pitch Black A Dusk light Story

You can email the Unleashed team with feedback or questions at [email protected]

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In this podcast, Thomas Domville takes us deep in to Focus, an iOS feature that helps you reduce distractions and set boundaries. When you want to concentrate on a specific activity, you can customize one of the provided Focus options—for example Work, Personal, or Sleep—or create a custom Focus. You can use Focus to temporarily silence all notifications, or allow only specific notifications—ones that apply to your task, for example—and let other people and apps know you’re busy.

More information on Focus is available from this Apple Support page.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville demonstrates how in iOS 16 you are now able to recover deleted conversations in the native iOS Messages app. Note that this will only be possible for up to approximately 30 days after the conversation was deleted.

1. Open the Messages app and double-tap the Edit button.
2. From the menu that appears, double-tap Show Recently Deleted.
3. Select at least one conversation.
4. Double-tap the Recover button.
5. Double-tap Recover Messages from the confirmation dialog.
6. Double-tap the Done button.

Alternatively, the VoiceOver rotor can be used to recover or permanently delete a conversation.

With the release of iOS 16, when sending messages using Siri, you can now skip the confirmation step. In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how this works and how to enable it.

With Always On Display, your iPhone 14 Pro or later pro-model iPhone will dim the Lock Screen while still showing information, such as the time, widgets and wallpaper, all while using new technologies that make the display power efficient.

There is likely to be no utility to this feature for blind and some low vision users, so in this episode Thomas Domville shows us how to disable it.

To disable Always On Display, go to Settings > Display & Brightness > Always On Display, and double-tap the "Always On Display" switch. This Apple support page provides more information on Using Always-On display with your pro-model iPhone.

In this episode, Thomas Domville shows us how to turn on the Mac-like startup and shutdown chimes that are available on all iPhone 14 and newer models. To do this, go to Settings > Accessibility > Audio & Visual, and double-tap the "Power on and off sounds" toggle.

Note that as this option is facilitated by the iPhone's boot rom, the read-only code responsible for starting the iPhone and initializing iOS, it is limited to the iPhone 14 and newer devices. See this article for more information: How to enable the iPhone 14 boot chime

On iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, Apple has replaced the ‘notch’ that's been a feature of Face ID-equipped iPhones since the iPhone X with what it calls the Dynamic Island. The Dynamic Island is a small area of display pixels surrounding the pill-shaped cutout. It appears whenever your iPhone is unlocked, and changes size and shape to accommodate various types of alerts, notifications, and interactions such as music that’s playing, your timer, an AirDrop connection, and directions from Maps.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how VoiceOver users locate the Dynamic Island and its contents.