Classical music, App Store purchases… The first beta of iOS 15.5 is already full of new features!
A few weeks following deployment for all users ofiOS 15.4 and a few days following the long-awaited fix 15.4.1, Apple is already focusing on the new features that will come with the next OS, namely version 15.5. An update which, we hope, will not once once more reduce the autonomy of our smartphones, but rather bring new features.
And that’s good, since the first beta has been available since Tuesday. If it does not, strictly speaking, bring new features, it does however announce the features that might land in the coming weeks. In all likelihood, iOS 15.5 might also be deployed at the time of the WWDC, namely June 6.
The official launch of Apple Classical?
Remember. In September 2021, Apple acquires a company specializing in classical music, Primephonic. A purchase that echoes the poverty of the Apple Music catalog in terms of classical music. Thus, Apple would like to catch up in this area by expanding the musical styles offered. References to “Apple Classical” have been found in the code for iOS 15.5, so this would finally be the launch of this new offering.
A new offer which would actually take the form of a new application, therefore called Apple Classical. For the moment, it is impossible to know what form the application will take or whether it will be available for free. Apple Music subscribers might very well have access to the application, while it is also possible that Apple will launch a new subscription to access the app.
An Apple Account in the Wallet app
In 2014, Apple launched the iTunes Pass, a virtual card that can be recharged in an Apple Store or an authorized store allowing you to make purchases on iTunes or the App Store. The service had fallen by the wayside in the most total silence a few years later, the success not being visibly at the rendezvous. According to the first lines of code of the new OS, it seems that Apple wants to give this virtual card a second chance and give it a new name, the Apple Account.
It is 9To5Mac who is the source of the info. Currently, we can check our iTunes balance by going through the App Store and checking our account. The Apple Account would therefore return to its original form, that is to say a “card” in the Wallet application that you just have to present to an Apple employee so that he can recharge it for you.
HomePod Wi-Fi signal now visible
If the HomePod is very popular and sells extremely well, the Home application of the iPhone and iPad remains relatively lacking in functionality for the connected speaker. One of the criticisms that might be made in particular regarding the application concerned the impossibility of knowing the quality of the Wi-Fi signal received by the HomePod, and therefore of finding the ideal place for it for the best possible reception.
With iOS 15.5, Apple now lets you know the quality of the signal received by the HomePod by going to the Home application. In HomePod’s settings, the Wi-Fi quality is listed next to the name of the network it’s connected to.
Apple warns of the dangers of external purchases from the App Store
For several months, Apple has been embroiled in a lawsuit once morest Epic Games over the problem of in-app purchases in Fortnite. Apple was then criticized for closing its ecosystem too much, the impossibility for users to subscribe to a subscription without going through the App Store and the excessive commission received by Apple.
Recently, Apple changed its tack slightly by authorizing external links in “Reading” applications (Netflix, Spotify, Audible, etc.) leading to a subscription page. Thus, from the Netflix app on iPhone, it is possible to be redirected to the page of the streaming giant to subscribe to a subscription, which Apple did not allow until then. But the Apple does not seem ready to let go of the matter so far and intends to dissuade the user from going through a store other than the App Store.
With iOS 15.5, when users click on a link to an external store, they will receive an alert message on their iPhone. In addition, if they were to remove an application that supports this type of payment, Apple will explain that the app offers a subscription that cannot be canceled or managed from the App Store.
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