iOS 16.2: All the best new features coming to your iPhone

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Apple has just released iOS 16.2 beta 1 for developers. Additionally, the company made available the first betas of iPadOS 16.2, macOS Ventura 13.1 and watchOS 9.2.

Here's everything we can find out about these new operating system updates.

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Free form It's a blank slate that iOS 16.2, iPadOS 16.2, and macOS Ventura 13.1 users will be able to take advantage of when those operating systems become available in the near future.

It was introduced during the WWDC 2022 keynote, and at that time, Apple said it would release this feature in late 2022.

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Apple calls this app “a powerful new collaboration app with a flexible canvas that gives users the ability to view, share, and collaborate in one place without worrying about page layouts and sizes, and with full support for the Apple Pencil.

In addition to Freeform, iPadOS 16.2 brings external monitor support again. This feature was supposed to be available with the release of Stage Manager, but due to bugs and user complaints, Apple decided to release Stage Manager without support for an external display with iPadOS 16.1.

Beta testers can now experience Stage Manager with an external display on M1 and M2 iPads again.

myPhoneup will update this article as soon as we know more about iOS 16.2 beta 1 and what's new in this operating system.