Paste issue fixed & battery indicator refined in new iOS 16.1 beta

Apple's iOS 16.1 developer beta released on Tuesday fixes a bug relating to pasting permissions, as well as makes revisions to how the battery indicator works.

Apple released the second developer beta for iOS 16.1 on Tuesday, and early exploration of the release reveals a few interesting additions to the iPhone operating system.

The first is a bug that has plagued iOS 16 users with prompts whenever they go to copy and paste data from one app into another. The repeated prompts have annoyed users, and Apple did confirm on Monday that it would be looking into the matter.

In the iOS 16.1 beta, it seems that Apple has fixed the bug that has caused the problem.

Another is a change to the battery indicator. In iOS 16, Apple added an option that allowed a percentage to be shown in the battery indicator instead of a visually depleting battery icon, on most currently-used iPhones. The new beta appears to combine the two concepts together.

The old filled battery icon (left), the new beta indicator (right)

Seen in the beta, the indicator now takes the form of the battery percentage, complete with the battery in the background. However, the battery now depletes its white color to give a visual representation of battery level, with the rest of the indicator turning grey.

More details of changes Apple has made to the beta are still being searched for, and will most likely surface over the coming days.

8 Comments

ladunn454 2 Years · 1 comment

About 2 years ago

Bug fixed that had disabled swiping through Home Screen multi page folders.

Ladunn454

JinTech 9 Years · 1061 comments

ladunn454 said:

Bug fixed that had disabled swiping through Home Screen multi page folders.
Ladunn454

I noticed in Control Center, that there is no "control" for my HomeKit enabled light unless I click on Home first. If I go into Settings, toggle "Show Home Control" then open Control Center with the Settings open it will show up, but as soon as I close Settings, it disappears again. This is surely a big bug! It operated like normal in the last version of iOS 15 and it's pretty irritating that I have to go through three screens just to turn on or off my light.

mike1 10 Years · 3437 comments

Glad to see the updated the battery indicator. I actually went back to the old style. At a quick glance, it always looked fully charged.

JFC_PA 7 Years · 947 comments

the battery indicator change is a good one: sometimes I just want to glance at it and not focus enough attention to read the small numbers.

So this is less distracting.

dewme 10 Years · 5775 comments

Yeah, it's kind of nice to have the tiny number back on the home screen, but a more readable numerical value has always been just a swipe away.

What would be truly interesting for me would be if Apple used its machine learning and predictive logic prowess from its neural processing engine to give iPhone, iPad, and MacBook users the option of displaying an "estimated battery life remaining" in hours and minutes instead of displaying the battery percentage.

This estimate would be based not only on the remaining battery charge, the battery load imposed by currently running apps, OS services, active hardware components (radios, cameras, haptics, image stabilizers, etc.) but also your historical use of the device for a given combination of day-of-week, time-of-day, focus mode, charging patterns, use of power saving mode, scheduled events, etc.

Again, this would still be an estimate and an optional feature, but a smart estimate that is weighted by your historical battery usage and battery charging patterns over time, location, and other significant contextual qualifiers - all those variables seeding the machine learning algorithms. It would of course dynamically adapt to real time and in situ conditions, like poor cellular signals that cause the radios to crank-up their power, or you suddenly engaging in a lengthy video recording session. The real value here is that the phone could provide better insight and advice into when you should consider looking for a charging opportunity or engaging low power mode.

With the current state of the iPhone and its battery percentage indicator you are implicitly doing these sort of estimations in your brain to a large extent. You basically have to monitor that tiny little indicator (or swipe to the alternate view) to provide input into your neural processing so you can take action as needed. Having the phone do some of this processing proactively on your behalf, so you don't have to stare down that tiny battery percentage indicator would be helpful. The phone could remind you to bring your charger when you leave your home or make sure your phone is charged to at least a certain level before you start your weekly virtual meeting with your team over Zoom or FaceTime if you are not plugged into a power source.