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Apple released iOS 16.3 in January, and the update includes some bug fixes and\u00a0security updates<\/a>\u00a0to make your iPhone run smoother. The update also brings some useful new features to your iPhone, like security keys and an update to emergency SOS via satellite.\u00a0<\/p>\n The iOS 16.3 update was released alongside updates for other Apple software, too, like iPadOS, Safari and previous versions of iOS. The latest iOS update arrived about a month after the release of\u00a0iOS 16.2<\/span>.<\/p>\n Here are the new features landing on your iPhone with iOS 16.3.<\/p>\n Users can now use third-party security keys instead of two-factor authentication for their Apple ID.\u00a0<\/p>\n Security keys are a lot like keys to your home. You still use passwords, but this extra layer of security can help protect you against phishing scams and hackers.<\/p>\n Security keys add more protection to your device.<\/p>\n <\/span> “Hardware security keys are very, very secure,” Diya Jolly, chief product officer of authentication service company Okta, told\u00a0CNET’s Stephen Shankland<\/span>.<\/p>\n Apple’s security keys feature only works with FIDO Alliance-certified security keys.<\/p>\n Apple’s iOS 16.3 software will support the second-generation HomePod<\/span>, which is set to be released on Feb. 3 for $299 (\u00a3299, AU$479). Apple announced the release of the new HomePod four days before the latest iOS software was made available. <\/p>\n The latest iOS update includes a new iPhone wallpaper as part of Apple’s\u00a0Black Unity Collection<\/a>. The collection celebrates Black History Month with a special-edition Apple Watch Black Unity Sport Loop, a mosaic watch face and the new iPhone wallpaper. Apple also plans to release a selection of Black History Month content for\u00a0Apple TV<\/a>,\u00a0Fitness Plus<\/a>, Music, Maps, Books, Podcasts and the App Store as part of the collection. <\/p>\n Emergency SOS via satellite was introduced at\u00a0Apple’s event in September<\/span>. In iOS 16.3, the\u00a0Call with Hold<\/strong>\u00a0option has been replaced with\u00a0Call with Hold and Release<\/strong>. If you enable\u00a0Call with Hold and Release<\/strong>, you can hold the side button and a volume button to initiate a countdown and an alarm. After the countdown, you release the buttons and your iPhone will call emergency services on its own. Before with\u00a0Call with Hold<\/strong>, pressing the side button and a volume button would first bring up the Emergency SOS call slider. If you continued to hold the buttons, a countdown started and an alarm would go off. After the countdown ended, your phone would make an emergency call. <\/p>\n There’s also an option to\u00a0Call Quietly<\/strong>\u00a0in Emergency SOS. By enabling this option, when you try to make an emergency SOS call, your phone won’t start flashing or making an alarm sound.<\/p>\n Here is the list of new features and changes included in iOS 16.3. <\/p>\nSecurity keys come to Apple ID<\/h2>\n
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\n <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Support for the second-gen HomePod <\/h2>\n
New Unity wallpaper for Black History Month <\/h2>\n
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\n <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n New ways to use Emergency SOS via satellite <\/h2>\n
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