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iOSCENTRAL i OS 15: 10 HIDDEN FEATURES YOU NEED TO KNOWThis will record a 7-day summary of
exactly when and how often all your apps
access things like your microphone or
microphone, or which web domains they
visit. Just come back to this screen a week
later for a full report.
You can even tap Save App Activity to
export a JSON file of all the data if you’re
into that kind of thing.
- GET REAL-TIME
PRECIPITATION ALERTS
The Weather app and widget get some
nice improvements in iOS 15, but the one
we’re really excited about is next-time
precipitation notifications.
This was one of the marquee features
of Dark Sky, an app and service Apple
acquired in 2020 (fave.co/3jR3hS7).
To enable this, open the Weather app
and tap the icon for the list of locations in
the lower right. Then tap the “more” button
(three dots) in the upper right, and select
Notifications. You’ll be able to toggle
notifications for your current location and
each saved location independently.
With this enabled, you’ll get a
notification whenever rain or snow is going
to start or stop within the next hour.- SHARE WITH SIRI
Sometimes it’s a pain to share that cool
thing you found online. You have to copy
URLs or images, switch to Messages, hold
down to paste, and hope it works.
With iOS 15, you can finally just ask Siri.
Simply say “Hey Siri, share this with name”
(or something similar like “send this to
name”), and Siri will share the
content on the screen to that
person using Messages.
Items like images, web
pages, Apple Music or
Podcasts, Apple News
stories, and Maps locations
will share the actual content
(or a link to it). For content Siri
can’t share, it will warn you
that it can only send a
screenshot—but Siri will still
automatically take that
screenshot and drop it in a
(^3) Message to that person.