Apple introduced plenty of new options and updates onstage throughout its keynote handle at its Worldwide Developer Convention (WWDC) this week, together with updates to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, VisionOS, and the introduction of Apple Intelligence.
Now that persons are utilizing developer betas and exploring the periods on the occasion, extra options that weren’t introduced on stage are surfacing. Here’s a non-exhaustive checklist of these options:
Messaging
- Apple didn’t point out the help of Wealthy Messaging Service (RCS) on stage, however it briefly confirmed the characteristic in a tile whereas displaying the iOS characteristic collage. RCS help implies that Android customers will be capable of ship and obtain high-quality media whereas chatting with their associates utilizing Apple merchandise. RCS will even allow typing indicators and browse receipts. Nonetheless, all RCS-enabled messages will nonetheless be inexperienced bubbles — in order that battle shouldn’t be getting over.
- One other messaging-related replace is that on iOS 18, you possibly can see who hit tapback on what emoji.
- Plus, you can too add textual content results to emoji whereas sending them.
Design
- Customers have the choice to cover icon textual content by making them giant via the customization menu.
- Apple has mentioned that it’s going to present an API to builders to customise app icon tints.
- iOS 18 permits customers to swap out lock display screen motion buttons. Via API-based integrations, builders can now get customers to entry their digicam apps straight from the lock display screen — in a method making them the default digicam app.
- Safari has a brand new tab group creation UI while you swipe proper from the tab switcher display screen.
- A tool requesting Bluetooth permission has a brand new UI displaying the map with the present location of the system.
- Apple launched the brand new Management Middle with a multi-page interface and higher customization. Together with that, the corporate additionally added a helpful button to show off the system straight. So, customers don’t must lengthy press the ability + quantity button.
- There’s a new Apps menu in Settings, which replaces all listed apps on the primary web page.
- Search in settings now exhibits Highlight-style strategies.
- Apple has mentioned that there will likely be Cell system administration (MDM) controls for admins to show off AI-powered options corresponding to ChatGPT and Math Notes.
- The iCloud web page in settings has a brand new design.
Language and enter
- Multilingual keyboards are a brand new characteristic now. This implies you possibly can sort in a number of scripts and languages with out altering keyboards.
- Reside Textual content now helps Arabic.
- Apple is including inline completions in French and Spanish.
- The corporate has added Hindi as a language choice within the translation app.
Utility
- The Climate app has a brand new House and Work location setting.
- The Climate app exhibits a visible graph of Precise vs “Seems like” temperatures. Plus, there’s a visible indicator of how a lot “Seems like” is making a distinction from the precise temperature in the primary app.
- The Voice Memo app will allow you to document in stereo.
- Now you can outline the really helpful charging restrict within the settings.
- The brand new replace will let you know in case you are linked to a gradual charger.
- Calendar now has a multi-day and checklist view to simply offer you an thought about upcoming occasions.
- You may pinch to zoom on the Calender app’s month-to-month view to take a look at your schedule at a look.
- Notes app lastly helps you to assign totally different colours to the textual content.
- Now you can share Wi-Fi credentials as a QR code via the brand new password app.
Images
- The Images app now has a wallpaper strategies album.
- There are new utility varieties within the Images app together with Receipts, Handwriting, QR Codes, Paperwork, and Map Illustrations. Together with this, there are different classes corresponding to Lately Considered, Lately Edited, and Lately Shared.
- The edit button for a photograph has been moved to the underside bar from the highest proper.
Accessibility
- iOS 18 now has movement cues with dots on the display screen to cut back movement illness whereas sitting in a car.
- The brand new replace additionally lets individuals set Eye Monitoring to allow them to management the units via eye motion.
- iOS 18 permits you to outline vocal shortcuts. Meaning while you communicate a customized phrase, your iPhone will carry out an motion associated to that. For instance, you possibly can outline a phrase to go to the house display screen, open the digicam, set off a shortcut, or invoke a Siri request.
- Moreover, you possibly can outline sound actions via the Contact menu to map actions to feels like Click on, Clukc, Eh, La, oo, and Sh.
- iOS 18 will permit customers to expertise music via haptics corresponding to faucets, textures, and refined vibrations that match the observe’s audio.
That is in all probability only a set of options that folks utilizing the beta within the early days, together with us, have discovered. We’ll hold updating this story as extra options crop up.
If you wish to spotlight some options discovered within the developer betas of the brand new Apple platform updates, you possibly can attain out to this reporter at im@ivanmehta.com.