Complete guide to updating your device to version 15

Finally, the iOS 15 update began to appear for all users, this is the update you are waiting for, which will provide us with new features for free and break the boredom of the previous system and improve our experience with the wonderful iOS system, now it is available for you to upgrade your device to the latest operating system, which carries version 15.

In the following lines, we will provide you with a complete guide to update to this version as you used to from us previously and every year so that it is considered as a basic reference for you and an assistant in making the steps of the update process a success to its end.

Contents of the guide:

• Devices that this update applies to
• What's new in iOS 15
• Essential notes before updating
• Basic steps before updating
• Automatic update steps
• Manual update steps
• Questions and answers
• After the update

Devices that the update applies to:

IOS 15 will work on the following devices:

What's new in iOS 15, according to Apple

Face time

• Spatial audio makes people's voice sound like it's coming from the direction the person is on the screen during group FaceTime calls
• Sound isolation eliminates background noise to make your voice crystal clear
• Broadband Inputs all background noise into the call
• Portrait mode adds a blurry effect to the background and puts the focus on you
• Display tiles Displays up to six people at a time in group FaceTime calls in equal-sized squares with the current speaker box highlighted.
• Facetime Links allows you to invite friends to a Facetime call, even friends using Android or Windows devices can join from their browser

Messages and Memoji

• Shared with You displays content sent to you by friends in Message conversations in a new section in Photos, Safari, Apple News, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, or the Apple TV app
• Pinned content makes the shared content of your choice more visible in Shared with you, search in Messages, and view details in conversation
• When you send multiple photos in Messages, they are displayed in a quick collage or scrollable stack
• More than XNUMX Memoji outfit options and up to three different colors to customize the clothes and headgear in Memoji Stickers

concentration

• Focus allows you to automatically filter notifications based on what you're currently doing, such as fitness, sleeping, playing, reading, driving, work or personal time.
• Focus uses on-device AI during setup to suggest apps and people to allow notifications from while in focus
• Home screen pages can be personalized to make apps and widgets conform to a specific focus pattern
• Contextual Suggestions intelligently suggest focus pattern based on your current context, using cues like location or time of day
• Status appears to your contacts in message conversations to indicate that notifications have been muted to you using Focus

Notices

• New look showing people's contact photos and bigger app icons
• Notification Summary Provides a useful set of notifications on a daily basis based on a schedule you set
• Notifications from any app or thread can be muted for the next hour or throughout the day

Maps

• Detailed city maps display elevation, trees, buildings, landmarks, footpaths, turning lanes, XNUMXD views to navigate complex road intersections, and more in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, and London, with more cities to come in the future
• New driving features include a new map that highlights details such as traffic and traffic events, and a route planner that lets you view your next trip by choosing when to leave or arrive in the future.
• Immersive Walking Directions displays step-by-step augmented reality directions
  The updated transit experience provides one-click access to your nearest departure stations, makes it easy to view and interact with your route with one hand, and notifies you when you're approaching your stop
• Interactive XNUMXD globe showing enhanced detail of mountain ranges, deserts, forests, oceans and more
• Redesigned place cards make it easier to identify and interact with places, and a new guides site neatly curates the best suggestions for places you'll love

Safari

• The bottom tab bar is easier to access and helps you move between tabs by swiping right or left
• Tab groups help you save, organize, and easily access your tabs on all devices
• Show tabs preview boxes Displays open tabs
• The start page can be customized with a background image and new sections like Privacy Report, Siri Suggestions, and Share with You
• iOS web extensions help you customize your browsing experience and can be downloaded from the App Store
• Voice search allows you to search the web using your voice

Portfolio

• Home keys allow you to press to unlock a supported home or apartment door lock
• Hotel keys allow you to press to unlock your room at participating hotels
• Office Keys allow you to click to unlock your office doors in the offices of participating companies
• Ultra Wide Range Car Keys help you lock, unlock and start your supported vehicle without having to take your iPhone out of your bag or pocket.
• The remote keyless entry functions available in your car keys allow you to lock, unlock, sound the horn, heat the car, or open the trunk on supported vehicles.

live text

• Live Text makes text interactive in your photos so you can copy, paste, search and translate in Photos, Screenshot, Quick Preview, Safari, and live previews using the camera
• Live Text data sensors recognize phone numbers, email addresses, dates, street addresses, and more in photos so you can take action
• The Live Text feature is available from the keyboard, allowing you to insert text from the camera viewfinder directly into any text field

Spotlight

• Rich results collect all the information you're looking for related to contacts, actors, musicians, movies and TV shows
• You can search for photos in the photo library by locations, people, scenes, text written in photos, or other things in photos, such as a dog or a car.
• Web image search allows you to search for images of people, animals, memorials, and more

Pictures

• A new look for Memories featuring a new interactive interface, animated cards with adaptive smart titles, animation and transition styles, and multiple photo collages
• Apple Music can be added to Memories for Apple Music subscribers, and personalized song suggestions combine expert recommendations with your music tastes and what's in your photos and videos
• Memories Mix allows you to set the mood by choosing from different songs and a memory theme to go with it
• New memory types include additional international holidays, child-focused memories, time-honored trends, and enhanced pet memories.
• The Information pane now displays rich information about the image, such as the camera, lens you took, shutter speed, file size, and more

My health

• Sharing allows you to choose which health data, alerts and performance levels to share with the people who are important to you or who look after you
• Performance levels let you know how well you've progressed on a particular health metric over time, and can notify you when a new performance level is discovered.
• Walking stability A new metric that can assess how likely you are to fall and let you know if your walking stability is low
• Verifiable Health Records allows you to download and store verifiable versions of COVID-19 vaccinations and lab results

weather

• A new design that displays the most important weather information for this location and includes new map modules
• Weather maps can be viewed in full screen mode, showing precipitation, temperature and air quality information for supported countries
• Next hour chance of rain notifications alert you if rain or snow is about to start or stop in Ireland, UK and US
• New animated wallpapers more accurately represent the position of the sun, clouds and precipitation

Siri

• On-device processing means that the voice with which you make your requests does not leave your device by default, and means that Siri can process many requests while you are offline
• Sharing items with Siri lets you send items on your screen — like photos, web pages, and locations in Maps — to any of your contacts
• Siri can use on-screen context to refer contacts on the screen to send them a message or call them
• On-device personalization improves Siri's recognition and understanding of speech with privacy in mind

Privacy

• Mail Privacy Protection protects your privacy by preventing email senders from learning about your mail activity, your IP address, or whether you opened the email
• Safari's Intelligent Tracking Prevention now also prevents known trackers from collecting identifying information about you using your IP address

iCloud+

• It is a subscription cloud service that provides you with exceptional features and additional iCloud storage
• Masking your address with iCloud (beta) sends your requests through two separate online transfers and encrypts internet traffic leaving your device so you can browse in Safari in a safer and more private way
• Hide My Email allows you to create a unique random email address that forwards messages to your personal inbox, so you can send and receive email without having to share your real email address
• HomeKit Secure Video supports connecting more security cameras without using your iCloud storage quota
• Dedicated email domain personalizes your iCloud email address and allows you to invite family members to use the same domain

Facilitation of use

• Explore images with VoiceOver lets you get more details about people and objects, and learn about text and table data in images.
• VoiceOver image descriptions in Markup allow you to add descriptions of your own images, which can then be read by VoiceOver
• “Settings by app” allows you to customize the display settings and text size for only the apps you want
• Background Sounds Plays balanced, bright or dark noises, ocean sounds, rain and water flow continuously in the background to mask environmental or outdoor noise
• Voice Actions in Switch Control lets you control your iPhone with simple sounds from your mouth
• Audiograms can be imported into Settings so you can customize the headphone facilities according to the results of your hearing tests.
• New voice control languages ​​include Mandarin Chinese (Mainland China), Cantonese (Hong Kong), French (France), and German (Germany)
• Memoji options include a cochlear implant, oxygen tubes, and a soft helmet

This release also includes other features and improvements:

• Tags in the Notes and Reminders apps help you quickly sort items into categories to make them easier to find, and you can use smart folders and custom smart lists to automatically collect notes and reminders based on rules you can define
• Flags in the Notes app let you notify others about important updates in shared notes, and an all-new Activity view is available that shows all recent changes made in the note in one list
• Spatial audio with dynamic head tracking in Apple Music delivers a more immersive Dolby Atmos music experience with AirPods Pro and AirPods Max
• System-wide translation allows you to select text throughout the system and translate it with one click, even in images
• New tools include location, contacts, app store, sleep, game center, and mail
• The drag-and-drop functionality across apps allows you to move photos, documents, and files from one app to another
• Keyboard magnifying glass magnifies text when you move the cursor
• The Apple ID recovery contacts feature allows you to choose one or more people you trust to help you reset your password and regain access to your account
• iCloud Temporary Storage gives you as much iCloud storage space as you need to create a temporary backup of your data — free of charge — for up to three weeks when you buy a new device.
• Walk-away alerts in Find My let you know when a supported device or item is left behind, and Find My will give you directions to your item
• Highlights can be saved for up to 5 seconds of gameplay using joysticks such as the Xbox Series X|S Wireless Controller or the Sony PSXNUMX DualSense™ Wireless Controller
• With In-App Events in the App Store, you can discover real-time events within apps and games, such as a game competition, movie premiere, or live-stream experience.

Some features may not be available in all regions or on all Apple devices. 

Update directly from the device

Open Settings, then General, then Software Update. It will appear to you that there is a new update like the following image. Just click on Download and Install (requires a space of up to 5 GB on some devices)

All you have to do is press "Download and Install" as you always do for any update.

Update via iTunes:

The difference between Restore and Update:

Before we start the update, we must give an overview of the difference between the Restore and Update processes and their actual impact on the iPhone.

Update: It is the process of updating the device automatically without your interference, as iTunes downloads the update file from the Apple website and updates your device, and it does not result in losing any data (it is assumed that, but a backup copy must be taken as previously mentioned to ensure that no accidental problems occur).

RestoreIt is to download a completely new version as if you bought the phone again, and some prefer it when updating, which is mandatory if you have a jailbreak and want to update

Update steps:

1

 Connect your device to the computer, open iTunes, and hit the Check For Update button - sometimes iTunes knows that Update is present.

2

A message will appear informing you that there is an update for your device, which is iOS 15, so press Download And Update (an error message may appear and the reason for this will be pressure on Apple's servers)

3

A message will appear informing you of the new features that have been added in iOS 15, and you can read it, then click Next

4

A User Agreement message will appear, Agree accept it

5

Now you will start the process of downloading the file and updating your device, but you should note that the download and update process will take some time.

Manual update:

This method is preferred by some and it suits everyone, especially those who currently have a jailbreak, but it will delete all the contents of the device so A backup copy is required So that you can recover what was erased.

You can do a manual update by downloading the update file through the following links, depending on the type of your device, as shown:

* The update is large in size, and it is possible that your connection will be disconnected before downloading it all, so use a download manager application. We will update the article in the next hours to add the links.

You can download the system file from here

Then, after the download is complete, connect your device to the computer, then go to iTunes and press the Restore button with the Options button on the Mac or the Restore button with the Shift for Windows and the keyboard. (Make sure that the file extension is IPSW, if not, just change the extension manually to IPSW) A window will appear for you to choose the downloaded file and then start the update process for iPhone.

FAQs:

After updating my device battery is dying quickly

• This is normal after any update, the system performs several tasks in the background and makes some updates, this will continue for a day or two, just make sure that your device is charged frequently because this process requires the device to be charging.

Will it wipe all my software and device contents if i update

• No, you have to review the explanation again, there is a difference between Update and Restore, and in the end if you have a backup you can restore everything.

I had a beta version of iOS 15?

• You can delete the profile of the beta version, but if you have the latest beta version, it is the version available to everyone today, if you do not want to subscribe to the beta again, just delete the beta ID from the device settings

I can't upgrade I tried everything and the update is still not showing up, or waiting to update

• Just wait a few hours, try shutting down and reopening the device, and make sure you have an internet connection.

After the update:

Applying the previous steps will ensure the success of the update, God willing, and it should be noted that the first synchronization process between the iPhone and the device between the end of the update process will take time as the data stored in your device will be transferred to the iPhone, and upon its completion you will notice that even the safari pages on the iPhone previously opened before The update remains the same, and so does the data and other features. Then it can be said that the update process was successful.