Customizable home and lock screens
iOS 18 lets you customize your home screens apps and layout, not only this now you will be able customize your phones lock screen functions too.
Furthermore, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, showed how iOS allows you to arrange your iPhones apps and widgets on your home screen according to your own preference.
Moreover, earlier these icons only let you fill your home screen but now with iOS 18 you will be able to arrange your icons around your background and whatever way you want, something which Android has offered us for many years.
No only these, you can also customize according to your needs and choice of your apps icons such as, dark mode filter, or tint your icons to match your wallpaper.
And the most significant one is it lets you swap out the camera and flashlights on your iPhones lock screen.
New Camera settings
The most awaited one for the photogenic people is that Apple introduces a new setting for your iPhones camera app with iOS 18. The new setting is called Controls Menu. To find it, go to Settings, camera , Preserve Settings.
“Now, rather than showing the whole list vod camera tools ,” what you can do is preserve the previously used camera tool when expanding the controls menu.
Lastly, you can now record video and play music at the same time through your iPhone. The quality of audio is not that good but the audio quality on screen recordings is quite far better.
Updated Control Center
Now with the help of WWDC that is iOS 18 through you can update your iPhones Control Center. You can change which apps you see, as well as their size, so you can quicker access to the buttons you see.
For instance with the operating system, you can now access more controls for things.
Not only this, you can also add an Instagram control to your Control Center so that you can easily access the social media app. Other third party apps will likely follow suit.
Messages gets a Lot of upgrades
Now with iOS 18,you can schedule messages to send later, react to messages with more Tapbacks and format messages and specially integrated words in your messages with text effects. If you want to highlight the importance of your text, you can just bold it, underline or use other effects of your choice to get your point across.
Apple also introduces the feature to help people for emergency purposes through Apple’s Emergency SOS is for making an emergency call even if you don’t have a signal, but Messages via satellite will allow you to connect and call with anyone even if you’re in a network prone area or without a signal at all.
For example, if you went for hiking or trips in a network prone area now with iOS 18 all your worries will vanish, and you can message your spouse or parents to let them know how your campaign trip is going.
Lock and hide certain apps
We all know how it feels when someone borrows our iPhone, because at some point you don’t want others to see or access certain apps. But with iOS 18 all your worries will go away because it lets you lock and hide apps.
If you lock your app, it will require your Face ID or passcode to unlock and access. If you don’t want someone to know that you have a certain app on the iphone, you can gradually just stash it in a hidden apps folder in your app library so that no one is able to see it.
More ways to organize Mail
Now, with iOS 18 you will be able to organize your emails in a better way, that is your app can have new categories for things like receipts, newsletters and more.
Through this method you don’t have to search through your emails and find a meeting schedule from your company.
Tap to Cash
Through iOS 18 you can send Apple Cash directly to others just by bringing your iPhones close so that you can quickly airdrop your photos or messages to someone of your contact.
AirPods and hands- free Siri interactions
With iOS 18, you will be able to interact with Siri just by nodding or shaking your head, without even disturbing others, you can keep Siri working without saying a single word
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