Apple has just announced the next major software upgrade for the iPhone: iOS 18. During the company’s WWDC Keynote, the Vice-President of the Craig Federighi software has demonstrated a series of new improvements to the own Apple applications and the operating system itself. And as expected, iOS 18 puts a major emphasis on artificial intelligence and the characteristics generating AI. Like iPad and Mac, iPhones will win Apple Intelligence When the new software update deploys this fall. Apple positions this as a huge moment, promising that its new complete AI features will help you send emails, save time and express yourself with invites that are easy to use.
But the company began its presentation with more traditional changes. The first was a more customizable home screen which finally offers a more flexible icon placement. In dark mode, the application icons will take a darker tone to go more easily in your eyes. And a new theme engine will allow you to universally apply a color chosen on the grid of your application for deeper customization.
The control center also becomes more advanced; You can slide between several pages of commands and tips for your most important features – yes, there are a lot of “Android did it first” today – with media and intelligent home controls that get a placement prominent. Third -party applications will be able to provide integration of the control center for the first time. And iOS 18 also allows you to replace the default camera and flashlight icons on the locking screen with the switch to the control center you prefer.
IOS 18 also increases confidentiality by allowing you to require authentication for any application that you choose – or to hide them completely until your phone knows that it is really you. And you can now specifically control the contacts that third -party applications can access.
The Messages application becomes more expressive: you can use any emoji in a response from Tapback – and there will be a new formatting for fat, underline, strikethrough and italics. Apple also extends satellite communications from the iPhone to Authorize messaging via satellite. But what fascinates me the most is the option of planning messages, which Google Messages already offers. And yes, Apple confirmed that RCS arrives at messages With iOS 18. I look forward to the sharing of best quality images and video with Android devices.
Improvements of the Apple integrated messaging application include better categorization, with automatic Gmail type sorting for transactions, updates and promotions. For the moments when you focus more on games than productivity, the new game mode of iOS 18 minimizes substantive activity for the best performance and the lowest latency with gamepades or connected airpods.
Apple promises the greater renovation of the photo application with iOS 18 while the company competes with Google Photos on Android. More importantly, the application is now optimized to manage the libraries constantly increasing that many of us have accumulated over the years. It includes facial sorting and the possibility of pinning collections at the top for faster access. The photos will also do a better job to automatically group people and pets in collections to which you can access via the new carousel view of the application.
With regard to AI’s features, Apple says that Apple Intelligence – and by iOS 18 extension – will understand and the personal context to a higher degree than other services. Among its many system scale capacities, you can easily generate images in messages. IOS will now be able to prioritize notifications more intelligently, showing you what is most important before moving on to the full list of things you have missed. Apple Siri Assistant Support more natural interactions And can answer a much wider range of questions.
Siri can also act in iPhone applications on your behalf. You can ask him to take photos, modify images or move items on various applications. For example, Apple said that Siri can take a photo of your driving license, automatically enter the number and paste it in a form. Lighter use cases include the option to essentially create any emoji you can imagine, a feature that Apple calls “Genmoji”.
The MEMOS vocal application will include transcriptions and the telephone application can now record calls and transcribe them automatically. (The one who is on the other side of a call will be informed that he is recorded.) Apple Intelligence will be launched in beta this fall in iOS 18, iPados 18 and MacOS Sequoia, with the integration of chatgpt to come “more late this year “.