There’s already numerous nice stuff in iOS 16, however one of the vital promising options — Stay Actions — has taken a bit longer than we had anticipated to achieve its full potential, however fortunately it seems like we might lastly be getting there.
Lots of the new capabilities that arrive in main iOS updates annually require builders to really reap the benefits of them by including options to their apps. It’s the “for those who construct it, they are going to come” method, however not each developer is fast to leap on board. Some, in reality, might be glacially gradual in terms of adopting new iPhone options.
Such has been the case with Stay Actions, a brand new framework that permits notifications to seem in your Lock Display screen that may replace in actual time. When Apple unveiled iOS 16 final June, it confirmed off notifications from apps like Starbucks and Uber that would provide you with an energetic view of when your experience was going to reach or when your espresso can be prepared, plus integration with new iOS 16 sports activities options to ensure you know the scores to your favorite video games.
This bought much more thrilling when Apple unveiled the iPhone 14 Professional and iPhone 14 Professional Max with a brand new Dynamic Island that would additionally show these Stay Actions on the high of your show whereas utilizing your iPhone usually.
To be truthful, Apple didn’t flip the change on Stay Actions till iOS 16.1 arrived in October, and it took till iOS 16.2 in December earlier than Apple’s TV app launched assist for reside sports activities scores. Nonetheless, many third-party builders haven’t been fast to reap the benefits of this new function both.
Uber is Arriving Now
Regardless of being one of many apps highlighted throughout final 12 months’s Worldwide Builders Convention (WWDC), Uber solely started testing the function in December in a restricted rollout to chose customers in just a few cities. Now, after practically three months of testing, it’s prepared to show the important thing and roll the function out globally.
The Stay Actions function comes as a part of a significant replace to the Uber app that incorporates a massive redesign with a brand new dwelling display screen and personalised locations and experience choices to make reserving your journey faster and simpler than earlier than.
For instance, the Uber app will now use your preferences and previous journeys to determine your more than likely vacation spot and experience choices, placing these on the high of the checklist. The app may also share personalised suggestions for methods to enhance your journeys primarily based on the way you sometimes use Uber.
When you’re working the newest model of iOS 16 — and you actually must be — then you definately’ll additionally have the ability to see particulars in your driver and once they’re anticipated to reach proper in your Lock Display screen, somewhat than having to repeatedly unlock your iPhone and open the Uber app each few seconds as you’re busy on the brink of head out.
If in case you have an iPhone 14 Professional or iPhone 14 Professional Max, you’ll additionally see the driving force’s present ETA within the Dynamic Island. Faucet and maintain on, and also you’ll get an expanded view displaying the car and driver particulars. It’s a useful technique to keep watch over when your experience is coming when you’re catching up in your electronic mail and even simply enjoying a recreation to cross the time.
Sadly, it seems like these new options are restricted to ride-hailing in the principle Uber app for now. Whilst you can monitor your Uber Eats orders in the principle Uber app, Stay Actions to your meals deliveries aren’t out there — at the very least not but. The corporate says it’s engaged on it, and the function ought to arrive within the subsequent few months.