Apple iOS 9.2 review - all the new features

Apple iOS 9.2 review - all the new features
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One of the best things about owning an Apple product is that you get free upgrades to the latest operating system for years to come. So, with iOS 9, which is available now, you can get it for products as old as the iPhone 4S and iPad 2; of course, it's available for the newer handsets, too. Not all features are available on all phones, although the bottom of Apple's iOS 9 page explains everything.
As with all operating systems, iOS is really a work in progress, with regular updates released throughout the year, building to the next version of the OS, iOS 10. Most recently, it was the launch of iOS 9.2, which introduces several bug fixes with battery such as Apple A1175 Battery, Apple A1185 Battery, Apple M9324 Battery, Apple M8403 Battery, Apple M7318 Battery, apple PowerBook G3 Battery, Apple PowerBook G4 Battery, Apple PowerBook G4 15 inch Battery, Apple A1012 Battery, Apple M8511 Battery, Toshiba PA3285U-1BRS Battery, Toshiba PA3191U-1BRS Battery, including fixing the issue where mail attachments appear over text and where updating iOS can prevent an alarm going off. There's also the same raft of improvements to the OS. You can read the full list of features on Apple's iOS 9 support page, but I'm going to focus on the most important ones in this review.
MailDrop is a feature that's been available on OS X since Yosemite. When sending large attachments, it lets you store the attachment in iCloud (up to 5GB), giving the receiver a link to download the file or, if they're running iOS 9.2 or OS X Yosemite or above, the seamless appearance that the file is really attached. As with the OS X version, MailDrop just automatically works: when you attach a large file (20MB or larger) and tap Send, you get a pop-up message asking if you'd like to send the file using MailDrop. You can add attachments from your iCloud drive and from Photos. It's easy to use, but there are a couple of strange features. If you send a video by inserting it in the mail, iOS compresses the video first; sending from Photos doesn't compress.
It's a nice feature to have, particularly if you're working using an iPad Air 2 or iPad Pro, as it makes them both much more powerful business devices, letting you do pretty much everything that you can do on a regular laptop.
Although the Music app had been improved in some ways, in others it was a little clunky. With iOS 9.2 the app gets a much-needed overhaul. Top of that list is that you can now download tracks stored in your iCloud Music Library by tapping the iCloud download button. This effectively means that you shouldn't have to connect your phone to iTunes to transfer songs anymore. A handy indicator (an iPhone with a tick in it), shows you if you've downloaded a track, so you can easily see which files are local and which ones are in the cloud.
Playlists have been given a minor tweak, too, so you can now create a new playlist while adding a song. That certainly saves a little frustration and it's good to see this addressed.
Although Apple's News app launched in the US, iOS 9.1 brought it to the UK, with iOS 9.2 adding a Top Stories section. It's best described as a Flipboard-style app, bringing you customised stories from the publications and topics that you favourite. It's typically slick, as I've come to expect from Apple, with articles loading quickly in-app, not requiring you to visit the publication directly. The main issue at the moment is content and there aren't as many publications on there as you might expect. Nor are there the range of topics that you might expect: Technology, for example currently only has Gadgets, Apple Inc. Google, Hybrid vehicles, Facebook, Productivity software, Wearable technology, Social media and Driverless cars listed. That's a little strange, as the main page also lists additional topics, such as Apple Watch and iOS. In fact, if you use Search, it's possible to find additional topics that are listed in the Explore option.
This makes it a little harder than I'd expect to filter options to only get the news stories that I wanted to see; Flipboard, in comparison makes browsing topics a lot easier. I'd expect Apple to improve this in the future, but for now it's not as useful as it could be.