

This feature is hidden in the Accessibility section of your settings. If you do hit the side button accidentally, your screen will go to sleep, but you'll stay on your phone call, uninterrupted. In Settings, go to Accessibility > Touch and toggle off Lock to End Call to prevent the side button from ending your calls. If that's something you've encountered in the past, iOS 16 finally allows you to prevent that from happening. The side/power button on the side of your iPhone allows you to quickly sleep and wake up your device, but if you accidentally hit it during a phone call, you'll prematurely end your call. Keep from accidentally ending your own phone calls Once Show Featured Content is turned off, featured photos and memories across your device should disappear. All featured content will no longer appear across your device - instead, it'll only be available in your photo library and albums. To block these tailored photos, launch the Settings app, go into Photos and toggle off Show Featured Content. With iOS 16, you can now prevent Featured Photos, as well as curated collections known as Memories, from appearing in photo widgets on your home screen and the Search and For You sections in Photos. Stop unexpected (and embarrassing) photo popups on your iPhone screenĪpple's artificial intelligence helps surface photos and videos in various places across your iPhone, as a reminder of family vacations, couple photos and holidays - but you may not always want your personal pictures to pop up unexpectedly, especially if they're private, embarrassing or inappropriate. The Search bubble should disappear, replaced by a few small dots representing your various home screens.Įven if you remove the Search button, you can still access the feature by swiping down from anywhere on your home screen. Simply launch the Settings app, go to Home Screen and toggle off Show on Home Screen to remove the search button from your home screen. However, the new search button is easy to accidentally trigger, because it's near where your thumb might go when you swipe between your various home pages.īut, like many new features on iOS 16, you can turn this setting off.

With iOS 16, Apple adds another way to access Search from the home screen, via a small button right above your dock.
