Apple’s unveiling of iOS 18 has excited users and developers alike with a slew of new features and improvements aimed at making the iPhone experience more intuitive, powerful and personalized.
Here’s a rundown of the most notable updates:
Customizable home screen
Building on the popularity of home screen widgets, iOS 18 allows for even more customization.
The home screen is customizable and offers a more flexible placement of icons. In dark mode, app icons will take on a darker tone to make them easier on your eyes.
Apple Intelligence and upgraded Siri
Apple revealed new AI features (compiled Apple Intelligence) for iOS 18. iOS will now be able to prioritize notifications more intelligently, showing users what’s most important before going through the full list of things they’ve missed.
Apple’s Siri assistant will support more natural interactions and can answer a much wider range of questions.
Siri can also take action within iPhone apps for you. It can be asked to take photos, edit images or move items in various applications.
Improved privacy features
iOS 18 also increases privacy by allowing users to require authentication for any app they choose โ or hide it entirely until their phone knows it’s you. And now you can specifically control which contacts third-party apps can access.
Smarter messages
In the Messages App, users will be able to use any emoji in a Tapback reply โ and there will be new formatting for bold, underline, delete, and italics.
Improved photo and camera features
The Photos app has been optimized to handle growing user libraries. The app now has the ability to sort by faces as well as the ability to pin collections to the top for faster access.
Photos will also do a better job automatically grouping people and pets into collections that users can access through the app’s new carousel view.
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