If you’re like most people, you probably have an iPhone. And if you’re like most people, you probably use it to do things like check email, make phone calls, and play games. But there are a lot of great things you can do with your iPhone that you might not have thought of. Here are a few examples:

  1. You can use your iPhone to control your home theater system. If you have an Apple TV, you can use it to watch TV shows and movies on your phone. You can also use it to control the sound in your home theater system.
  2. You can use your iPhone to take pictures and videos of things that interest you. If you have an iPad or other tablet device, you can take pictures and videos of things that interest you using the touch screen or camera on your phone.
  3. You can use your iPhone to make calls from anywhere in the world without having to wait for someone else to answer the call. You can also make calls using the built-in speaker on your phone or using a Bluetooth connection with another device.

Apple says an internal memo, “there is a known issue for iOS 16 that may impact device activations on open Wi-Fi networks,” according to MacRumors. That impacts any iPhones or iPads shipping with iOS 16 out of the box, which includes the iPhone 14 series.

There is a fix, though. When you are asked to connect to a Wi-Fi network, press “Connect to a Mac or to a PC with iTunes,” then return to the previous screen and try Wi-Fi again. Apple has also released an iOS 16.0.1 update for the iPhone 14 series with a few fixes, but you can’t update the phone until after the activation process unless you connect it to a Mac or PC.

Even after you get past the initial setup bug (or don’t run into it at all), Apple notes in a support document that you may not be able to receive iMessages or FaceTime calls from your phone number. The solution for that is also updating to iOS 16.0.1, which thankfully doesn’t require a tethered computer once the phone is working.

Source: MacRumors, Apple