Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc., speaks during Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference at Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, U.S., Monday, June 10, 2024.
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Apple on Monday released a preview version of its major iPhone update.
The iOS 18 Public Preview is a beta version of the software that will be released alongside new iPhones this fall, allowing Apple fans and developers to test out the newest features ahead of their official release and identify bugs before all iPhone users install the new software.
This year, however, the most important new service isn’t in public beta: Apple Intelligence. In June, Apple announced that some of its newest devices could access Apple’s artificial intelligence service, which can intelligently answer questions, control the iPhone and even generate images.
Apple has announced that Apple Intelligence will be released in beta this fall, with users able to try it out this summer. Some of the promised Apple Intelligence features, such as ChatGPT integration and some Siri improvements, are not expected to be released until later this year.
However, there are still plenty of changes in this version of iOS that will change the way iPhones look and feel and might surprise users when they first install the software. Apple has updated several of the device’s core user interface elements, including the lock screen, home screen, and Control Center to support a wider range of colors and customization.
Popular apps like Photos have been redesigned. Messages is more colorful and supports emoji reactions. Users can even change all of their app icons to the same color.
Many of these appearance features have been available to Android users for years, but will be new to longtime iPhone users and are part of a multi-year process in which Apple is opening up the iPhone’s previously rigid software design to greater visual customization, after last year’s release redesigned the device’s lock screen.
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- Users can now place icons anywhere on the home screen – for example, you can place all your apps around the edge of the screen so you can better see your wallpaper.
- App icons can be switched to dark mode, or iOS can change all of your app icons to the same color.
- Apple’s Control Center menu (accessed by swiping down from the top-right corner) is more customizable, with multiple pages of screens, and offers new types of controls.
- Users can swap the camera and flashlight shortcuts on the lock screen for other apps.
- Apple’s Photos app has been updated with a new design. The app now uses artificial intelligence to organize photos into trips or albums, which appear on the first page when you open the app.
- Apple’s Messages app can now add bold or italics to text. Users can also react to messages with any emoji. These so-called “tapbacks” are now displayed in color in the Messages app.
Apple’s iOS 18 changes the look and feel of many of the iPhone’s most-used features
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- iOS 18 users with recent devices can send text messages via satellite if there is no Wi-Fi or cellular service.
- Safari will summarize news and other web articles, and even generate tables of contents. These features can be accessed via the button on the left side of Safari’s URL bar.
- Apple has put all of its password management features into one new app: Passwords.
- Users can link one iPhone to another iPhone to transfer digital money quickly.
- iPhones can now generate transcripts of calls or recordings.
- Siri animation now fills the entire iPhone screen.
Siri updates during Apple’s WWDC2024 in Cupertino, California on June 10, 2024.
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- Make sure your phone can run the latest software. It must have been released in 2018 or later.
- Please update to the latest public version of iOS.
- Gonna Settings > General > Software Update. Select iOS 18 Public Beta from the drop-down menu.
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