Best iOS 16 features, email tracking, WhatsApp privacy update

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Here are all the new iOS 16 features you didn’t know about. Plus, how to make strangers read your emails, secret AR setting in Google Maps, WhatsApp may soon let you hide your online status, what happens to your Google account when you die and how to stop email tracking.

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