Is iOS 15 the boring non-update that many claim? Absolutely not. It’s packed with great new features, so let’s take a look at them.

iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 are mostly about improving what’s already here, but they also pack a number of significant new features. We’ve been using the betas all summer, and we thought we’d share the most interesting, exciting, and useful new sections of Apple’s latest updates.

Please note that you can install iOS 15 on most, if not all, devices that can run iOS 14. However, you may not get access to some of the more advanced features.

Live Text recognizes text in photos and lets you select and use it just like text in any other app. Once you get used to it, it’s pretty wild. For example, you could take a photo of a complex password from the bottom of a Wi-Fi router, copy it by swiping your finger across the photo, then paste it into the password field.