Yesterday, Apple released the first beta of iOS 15.2 and iPadOS 15.2, along with its sister updates to tvOS 15.2 and watchOS 8.3, with several exciting new features. News such as the app privacy report, which lets us know where the applications we use connect, emergency call mode settings 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 privacy report of the application. This function allows you to know, with full precision, to which domains the applications we use connect, the websites we visit and the resources (location, contacts, photos, etc.) used by our applications.
We can find all this information in the app Settings come in confidentiality and then in Application privacy report. The information is divided into three sections: Access to data and sensors, Application network activity, Website network activity and most connected areas.
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 changed the way this call is triggered. We can choose between press the side button 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 sound, is now eight seconds, compared to the previous three seconds. A measure designed to prevent unintentional service calls.
Redesign of the summary of notifications
The notification summary function allows us to defer notifications from certain applications be able to see them, all together, at a specific time of the day, in a summary way. This is a feature that came with iOS 15 and has now been resigned and refined in the first beta of iOS 15.2.
The summary itself, as we see in the following image posted in 9to5mac, it is displayed in a much more visual way. With info bubbles for different apps and notifications.
After the news that officially arrived in iOS 15.1, Apple is going even further with the evolution of the operating system. An operating system loaded with news. For the dates we meet, we can wait for the arrival of iOS 15.2 before the Christmas holidays. In the end, this is a version with relatively few new features that we do not believe would require a long beta phase.
We would therefore leave other important changes for the spring update, such as the arrival of Universal Control, for example. Changes which, based on previous years, will almost certainly come with a strange surprise.
Image | Jeremy Bézanger
