The Music app now lets you create a playlist when adding
the first song. More useful, however, is that the most recently changed
playlist is listed at the top when adding new songs to a playlist. This
lets you create new playlists a lot faster. Albums and playlists can be
downloaded from your iCloud Music Library. But custom playlists created
on your device requires Apple’s paid iTunes Match service to let you
upload a playlist to the iCloud Music Library. If you download a song
from your library, a tiny checkbox now appears in between the song title
and the song time length. And if you enjoy classical music, you can
finally see works, composers, and performers while browsing that genre
in the Apple Music catalog.
Apple’s
News app, which was introduced with iOS 9.0, gained a Top Stories
section (at least if you are in the US, UK, or Australia). The News app
will ask you if you want to add Top Stories to your Favorites when you
launch the app after updating to iOS 9.2. If you have a lot of
categories in your Favorites, you will have to scroll down until you
find “News Top Stories.” If Apple considers this a destination section,
it should have bubbled it up to the top of the list.
Mail Drop is a
feature that was reportedly available during beta testing of iOS 9, but
pulled out before the final 9.0 release. Now it’s back, and lets you
send large file attachments by storing the large file in iCloud instead
of directly attaching it to the mail message. The file does not count
against your iCloud storage quota. The attachment stored in iCloud
expires after 30 days (Ref: Apple Support HT203093 Mail Drop limits).
If
you have an iPhone 6s or 6s Plus, iBooks now lets you use 3D Touch to
peek and pop out pages from the table of contents. The iBook app also
lets you listen to an audiobook while performing other activities within
the app, such as browsing your library, looking through the store for a
new book, or even reading a book.
iOS 9.2 lets you connect Apple’s $29 Lightning to USB Camera Adapter
directly to your digital camera to import photos. If you look at the
comments section for this product in Apple’s Store, you’ll find some
people have also been using this adapter to connect USB microphones and
MIDI keyboards.
The iOS 9.2 update also includes a large number of
improvements and bug fixes related to Safari, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi,
AirDrop, and more. One fix is particularly interesting to me. It is
described as “Fixing an issue that prevented some manual iCloud Backups
from completing.” Although backing up to iCloud works from my iPhone 6
Plus, my aging-but-still-useful iPad 2 has not been able to backup to
iCloud since upgrading to iOS 9.0. We will see if this update fixes this
specific problem.
12/09/2015
Apple iOS 9.2 boosts Music, News, Mail, iBooks, and connecting digital cameras
Apple released iOS 9.0 on
September 16, 2015. Less than three months later, they released its
second major point update. Here’s a summary of what’s new and what’s
fixed:
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