The Ultimate iOS 15 Walkthrough: Guides and How Tos for Every New Feature

While iOS 15 was in the beta testing phase, we here at MacRumors wrote up a series of in-depth feature guides to highlight everything that's new in the update, along with how tos to walk you through using those features.

This is a comprehensive guide with all of our coverage, and it's a great resource for casual users who haven't had a chance to test out ‌iOS 15‌ prior to its launch. Everything is organized by app or feature to make it easy to find what you might be looking for.

Overview

Just Install iOS 15? Here's Where to Start

iOS 15 Features: Our Top 10 Picks

Safari

Everything New With Safari in iOS 15: Redesign, Tab Groups, Live Text, Privacy Updates and More

How to Hide Your IP Address From Trackers in Safari

How to Switch Back to the Original Safari Design

How to Turn Off Website Tinting in Safari

iOS 15: How to Quickly Refresh a Webpage in Safari

iOS 15: How to Download and Install Safari Web Extensions

iOS 15: How to Customize Your Safari Start Page

How to Use Tab Groups in Safari

Messages

Everything New in the iOS 15 Messages App: Shared With You, Photo Collages, Memoji Updates and More

How to See All the Photos People Have Shared With You in Messages

How to See All the Web Links Shared With You in Messages

FaceTime

Everything That's New in the iOS 15 FaceTime App: SharePlay, Android Support, Spatial Audio and More

How to Invite Android Users to a FaceTime Call

How to Block Background Noise in FaceTime With Voice Isolation

How to Enable Voice Isolation Mode in FaceTime

How to Enable Wide Spectrum Audio on a FaceTime Call

How to Blur Your Background on a FaceTime Call

How to Share Your Screen on a FaceTime Call (Delayed)

How to Watch Movies Together Using FaceTime (Delayed)

Photos

Everything New in the iOS 15 Photos App: Metadata Editing, Memories Improvements, Live Text, Visual Lookup and More

How to Adjust the Date and Time of PhotosHow to View EXIF Metadata in the Photos App

How to Add Apple Music Songs to Your Memories in Photos

How to Enhance Photos App Memories With 'Memory Looks'

How to Select the Images That Appear in a Photos Memory

How to Copy and Paste Text From Photos

How to Translate Text in Photos

How to Use Visual Lookup in Photos to Identify Landmarks, Plants, and Pets

How to Get the Photos App to Feature a Person Less Often

How to Use Spotlight to Search for Photos

How to Correct Errors in the Photos People Album

How to Turn Off Automatic Night Mode on iPhone

How to Drag and Drop Screenshots

Focus Mode

iOS 15's Focus Mode Helps You Stay on Task

How to Create a Focus

How to Schedule and Automate Focus Modes

How to Customize a Focus

How to Delete a Focus

How to Activate a Focus

How to Allow Time Sensitive Notifications to Bypass Focus Mode

How to Adjust Home Screen and Lock Screen Settings in Focus Mode

How to Enable Smart Activation for Focus Modes

Mail

How to Prevent Emails From Tracking You With Mail Privacy Protection

How to Use Hide My Email

How to Create a 'Hide My Email' Private Address

How to Deactivate or Delete a 'Hide My Email' Private Address

How to Change Where 'Hide My Email' Addresses Forward

Notifications and Home Screen

iOS 15: What's New With Notifications

How to Rearrange and Delete Home Screen Pages on iPad

How to Hide App Notification Badges on the Home Screen

Maps

Everything New in the iOS 15 Maps App: Updated Details, AR Walking Directions, Globe View and More

How to Set Leaving and Arrival Times for Driving Directions in Apple Maps

How to Use the Interactive Maps Globe

How to Filter Search Results in Maps

How to Find User Settings in Maps

How to Get AR Walking Directions in Maps

How to Find Transit Stations Near You in Apple Maps

How to Find Fun Things to Do With the Apple Maps Guide Home

Siri

Everything New With Siri in iOS 15: On-Device Processing, Offline Support, Sharing, Improved Context and More

How to Share Whatever's On Your Screen Using Siri

How to Ask Siri to Control Your HomeKit Devices at a Specific Time

How to Use Siri Offline

How to Have Siri Announce Your Notifications

How to Use On-Device Siri

Find My

What's New With Find My in iOS 15: Offline iPhone Tracking, Live Locations, Locate After Erase and More

How to Get Notified If You Leave an AirTag or Apple Device Behind

Privacy

iOS 15 Privacy Guide: Private Relay, Hide My Email, Mail Privacy Protection, App Reports and More

How to Enable and Disable iCloud Private Relay

How to Adjust iCloud Private Relay IP Address Settings

Spotlight Search

iOS 15 Spotlight Improvements: Rich Results, Web Images, Photos Search, Lock Screen Access and More

Wallet App

What's New With the iOS 15 Wallet App: ID Support, Home Keys, Car Keys, Archived Passes and More

Translation Features

Everything New With Translation in iOS 15: System-Wide Support, Live Text Translation and More

How to Turn on Auto-Translate in the Translate App

Weather

Everything New in the iOS 15 Weather App

How to Use Apple's New Weather Maps

How to Get Weather Notifications on Your iPhone

HomeKit

What's New With HomeKit in iOS 15

Notes and Reminders

Everything New With the iOS 15 Notes and Reminders Apps

iPadOS 15: How to Use Quick Notes

Accessibility

How to Use Background Sounds to Minimize Distractions and Stay Focused

Downgrading

How to Downgrade From iOS 15 to iOS 14

Guide Feedback

Have a question that we didn't cover here, know of a feature that we left out, or want to offer feedback on the content of this guide? Send us an email here.Related Roundups: iOS 15, iPadOS 15Related Forum: iOS 15This article, "The Ultimate iOS 15 Walkthrough: Guides and How Tos for Every New Feature" first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums