Apple’s unveiling of iOS 18 has excited users and developers with a host of new features and enhancements aimed at making the iPhone experience more intuitive, powerful, and personalized.
Here’s a summary of the most notable updates:
Customizable Home Screen
Building on the popularity of home screen widgets, iOS 18 allows for even greater customization.
The home screen is customizable and offers a more flexible icon placement. In dark mode, app icons will take on a darker tone to go easier on your eyes.
Apple Intelligence and Upgraded Siri
Apple unveiled new AI features (dubbed Apple Intelligence) for iOS 18. iOS will now be able to prioritize notifications more smartly, showing users what’s most important before they move on to 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 on your behalf. It can be asked to pull up photos, edit images, or move items across various apps.
Improved Privacy Features
iOS 18 also increases privacy by allowing users to require authentication for any app they choose — or hide them altogether until their phone knows it’s you. And you can now specifically control which contacts third-party apps can access.
Smarter Messaging
On the Messages app, users will be able to use any emoji in a Tapback response — and there will be new formatting for bolding, underlining, strikethrough, and italicizing.
Enhanced Photos and Camera Features
The Photos app has been optimized to handle the growth of libraries of users. The app now features the ability to sort by faces as well as the ability to pin collections to the top for quicker access.
Photos will also do a better job of automatically grouping people and pets into collections that users can access via the app’s new carousel view.
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