Redesigned notifications now roll in from the bottom to offer a clear view of the Lock Screen, and users can choose to view notifications in an expanded list, stacked, or as a count view. Users can also create unique designs with their favourite emoji and colour combinations, and with multiple Lock Screens, users can switch between their favourites with just a swipe. Apple collections include iconic imagery from Apple Pride and Unity wallpapers a Weather wallpaper to see live weather conditions as they change throughout the day and an Astronomy wallpaper for views of the Earth, moon, and solar system. Users can choose an intelligently suggested photo from their personal library that will look great on the Lock Screen, or a dynamic set of photos that shuffle throughout the day. The new Lock Screen gallery features a range of options. New widgets on the Lock Screen make it easy to get helpful information at a glance like upcoming calendar events, battery levels, alarms, time zones, Activity ring progress, and more. Now users can add a depth effect to their Lock Screen photo, artfully displaying the photo subject in front of the time, and they can even customise the font and type style. The Lock Screen gets reimagined, offering deeper personalisation.
iOS 16 is available today as a free software update.Ī More Personal, Beautiful, and Helpful Lock Screen
The commands Alexa can understand will probably increase a few thousand percent over the next few years, and there are also third-party “skills” you can add to the Echo, so please see that page for more information about Alexa “skils.IOS 16 brings the biggest update ever to the Lock Screen, the ability to edit and collaborate in Messages, new tools in Mail, and more ways to interact with photos and video with Live Text and Visual Look Up. Some of these commands come from Amazon’s Meet Alexa web page. Here are some of the most recent “skills”: More from AmazonĪmazon keeps sending me lists of questions that Alexa/Echo can respond to. See that link for possible new Echo sleep sounds.
The Echo works with the Fire TV, so I’ll repeat some of the Fire TV commands here as well: If you have a video device, you can also ask the Echo/Alexa to do different things with videos: Here’s a link to Amazon’t Alexa + Fire TV page. I currently only use Netflix and Amazon Prime Videos, but you can also use other commands with networks and channels: Play from beginning, watch from beginning.Turn off Fire TV (or, “Turn Fire TV off”).
One key to knowing how to play music on the Amazon Echo is knowing that you need to use names like TuneIn, Pandora, and iHeartRadio when talking to Alexa. dinner party music (i.e., “Play dinner party music”).Here are some of the Echo/Alexa commands you can use to play and control music, audiobooks, and podcasts: Echo/Alexa Music, Books, and podcast commands I also don’t put question marks after each question you can ask Alexa (because it’s easier to read all of these commands without a bunch of extra question marks). Note that in the following list of Echo/Alexa commands, I assume that you say “Alexa” before each command, so I didn’t type “Alexa” before each command. As a result, I just spent a little time scouring the internet for common Echo/Alexa commands, and put them here in a little bit of an organized list. I got an Amazon Echo Dot along with a Fire TV stick for Christmas, and as I learned when I wrote SARAH, one of the hard parts about talking to an Alexa Echo is knowing what commands the Echo can understand.