iOS 9.2 now available with Apple Music improvements, a Top Stories section in News, Mail Drop in Mail

Apple on Tuesday launched iOS 9.2 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, packing in a number of of new features including improvements to Apple Music related to playlists, saving songs, and browsing content, as well as other new functions and bug fixes.

iOS 9.2 is now available to download from the Software Update section of the iOS Settings app. According to Apple, the update contains improvements and bug fixes, including:

Apple Music improvements:
- You can now create a new playlist when adding a song to a playlist
- Your most recently changed playlist is now listed at the top when adding songs to playlists
- Download albums or playlists from your iCloud Music Library by tapping the iCloud download button
- See which songs have been downloaded with the new download indicator next to each song in My Music and Playlists
- See works, composers and performers while browsing Classical music in the Apple Music catelog

A new Top Stories section in News so you can stay up to date with the most important news of the day

Mail Drop in Mail for sending large attachments

iBooks now supports 3D Touch to peek and pop pages from the table of contents, your notes and bookmarks, or from search results inside a book

iBooks now supports listening to an audiobook while you browser your library, read other books, or explore the iBooks Store

iPhone support for the USB Camera Adapter to import photos and videos

Improved stability of Safari

Improved stability of Podcasts

Fixing an issue that caused mail attachments to be inaccessible for some users with POP email accounts

Resolving an issue for some users that caused attachments to overlap text in mail

Fixing an issue where Live Photos could have turned off after restoring from a previous iCloud backup

Addressing an issue that could cause search in Contacts to display no results

Resolving an issue that could have prevented Calendar from displaying all seven days in week view

Fixing an issue where Camera screen on iPad could be black when attempting to capture video

Addressing an issue that could cause instability in the Activity app when viewing the day of Daylight Savings Time transition

Fixing an issue that could prevent data from appearing in Health

Fixing an issue that could prevent Wallet updates and Lock screen alerts from displaying

Addressing an issue where updating iOS could prevent an alarm from going off

Fixing an issue where some users were unable to login to Find my iPhone

Fixing an issue that prevented some manual iCloud Backups from completing

Addressing an issue where using the iPad keyboard could unintentionally trigger text selection mode

Improved keyboard responsiveness when using Quick Reply

Improved punctuation input on the 10-key Chinese (Pinyin & Stroke) keyboards with new expanded view of punctuation symbols and better predictions

Fixing an issue on Cryllic keyboard where caps lock would be enabled when typing in URL or email fields

Accessibility improvements

Fixing issues with VoiceOver when using Camera face detection
Adding support for VoiceOver to wake up the screen
Adding support for VoiceOver to invoke app switcher with 3D Touch gesture
Fixing an issue with Guided Access when trying to end phone calls
Improved functionality for Switch Control users when using 3D Touch
Fixing an issue with speech rate of Speak Screen

Siri support for Arabic (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates)

Apple issued four betas of the update to developers and the public, the first on Oct. 27, the last on Nov. 18. iOS 9.1 was officially released on Oct. 21, and brought with it over 150 new emoji characters, as well as a critical fix to Live Photos on the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, using motion sensing to prevent the feature from recording a person raising or lowering their device.

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23 Comments

appledapple 57 comments · 9 Years

About 8 years ago

What about the camera app stalling upon opening? It's super annoying. Takes 2-3 seconds at least sometimes more. There's a support thread on it. Maybe it's in the fix but too small to mention?

iapple1 1 comment · 9 Years

What about skipping to next song during unlimited play selection for a single song?

astrofish 31 comments · 16 Years

Seems I got in before the rush and managed to get iOS 9.2 installed on my iPhone 6 (it came in at 265MB).

Top Stories evident in News - didn't even realise there wasn't one :blush:

The Apple Music download indicator is a neat touch to show what's actually on your phone - indeed it's a little iPhone with a tick in it - if you have downloaded.

melgross 33607 comments · 20 Years

appledapple said:

What about the camera app stalling upon opening? It's super annoying. Takes 2-3 seconds at least sometimes more. There's a support thread on it. Maybe it's in the fix but too small to mention?

It opens instantly. I just tried it. Are you talking about opening from the lock screen? I haven't tried that yet, but I will.

Nope, opens instantly there too. This is on an iPad Pro. I haven't updated anything else yet. I will shortly.

Just upgraded my 6+. From the lock screen, the Photo's app takes maybe 1 second to open. The first time you do it after the upgrade, it takes 2 to 3 seconds. But after that, no more than 1 second.

From the app itself, it's almost instant.