iOS 18 - Top 10 BIGGEST Features!

iOS 18 comes packed with a ton of huge upgrades some of which were leaked and some of which that weren't and out of literally hundreds of changes there are 10 specific ones that I'm looking forward to the most and just like how I'm looking forward to later today when we'll be launching our beautiful Serene summer wallpaper pack by Hannah if you're looking for some perfect handdrawn wallpapers for the summer season we've got you covered with 10 beautiful simple and pastel designs simply search for wallpapers in the app store or the play store or click the link below okay so my number 10 IOS 18 feature is actually something very simple that I don't get how Apple took this long to implement and that is reassigning the lock screen toggles Apple first introduced this with iOS 11 back in 2017 and I've been complaining about this for years how I wasn't a fan of having that camera toggle there as number one it is slower than just swiping to the left to launch the camera and number two the iPhone 15 Pro introduced the action button that I was using myself to launch the camera anyways so I didn't need three ways of launching a camera from the lock screen well that's now fixed as you can literally have any toggle that you want on the home screen whether that's a first- party toggle or a thirdparty one you can change these however you see fit then at number nine this is a fairly small change but I do quite love it you can now customize the summary tab in the activity app on the iPhone and have pretty much any layout that you wish with whatever info that you want to see the most the activity app is something that I myself use quite often and I even have it as a set widget on my home screen but I feel like every year Apple keeps making these big UI changes to the activity app and in iOS 17 I was honestly not a fan of the redesign they just merged everything into the summary page and if I simply wanted to just take a look at my upcoming Awards they were buried all the way to the bottom well now you can just make it your own which is great and you can even have specific training sessions and stats in there as you see fit so it's fully fully customizable which I absolutely love my eighth favorite feature is the new Siri now I know it's quite low on my list and that's because I don't really use Siri almost at all and I don't really see that changing that much especially with you know the broader capabilities of Apple intelligence which I'll be covering soon now Siri does have a new look with a border now surrounding your content which I think looks great than has a far better approach than the Siri that we have now you can also type to Siri which is a feature that was previously hidden in the accessibility settings now this is standard and way easier to find so the major sir upgrade here is contextual awareness so for example if you ask Siri about the weather and a location and then in the next sentence you ask her to schedule a trip there Siri will actually understand what there means from the previous sentence and Siri can also interact with whatever is on your screen so you can actually save an address from let's say say a message directly to your address book by just asking her and while sir has improved significantly Apple intelligence which I'll be discussing soon that's the far bigger upgrade okay now my seventh favorite feature is in messages more specifically we get a ton of new things here but by far the best one in my opinion is the ability to now use satellite SOS for sending normal messages to your friends too so if you're on a hike and you've literally got no signal but you want to make your family and friends know that safe and everything is going well you'll be able to send them a message now and the best part is that it doesn't even have to be via iMessage this works via simply SMS to you can also schedule a message to be sent later which I absolutely love and you also get far more text effects than ever before which are now word-based rather than sentence-based which does make me want to use them even more but yeah there are just way more messages changes which I'll be going over in our Deep dive Hands-On video uh these were just my top ones okay and number six you can now lock specific apps under face ID or touch ID so if you've got some sensitive info in some apps let's say that you like writing some passwords in your notes app or you have some important work planning or journaling in notion you can lock those apps behind face ID just like you already can in some financial apps right now and I absolutely love that which brings me to my top five feature which is male categories now to some of you this may seem like nothing special oh we've got automatic grou grouping into primary transactions updates and promotions something that Gmail Outlook spark and literally every other male client has had for years but you see what Apple does really well here is that it gives you a lot of control over those categories so let's say that you constantly get a lot of spam from the same Advertiser sure you can unsubscribe from that Advertiser which means that moving forward you won't get any spam emails but you still have all the ones that you've received so far well in Apple's new mail you can just delet all the emails from that same Advertiser with eats as you can now View and manage emails grouped by the cender 2 per each of those categories okay at number four the new control center has received its biggest update yet and I'm all for it it Now features multiple pages that you can swipe for your favorite controls like music home and more you can also reposition and resize toggles as you like but I think the best part is something called control contr Gallery where you can easily add collections of controls without going into settings and developers can also create templates for the controls gallery and all of these can be picked as toggles for the action button if you've got an iPhone 15 Pro so that action button now becomes even more powerful this way now as for my top three change we've got customizable icons and this got leaked before although I do think that we ended up with something even better so if you want you can now change the color of all of your icons so if you've got this nice red wallpaper and you want all of your icons to match that theme you can out change all of your icons to have a red background to them without the need for you to use a thirdparty icon or anything like that and what's quite surprising to me is that if you use dark mode you can now enable dark mode for your icons as well which means that now is the perfect time to start getting into customization apps wink wink wallpapers I think you guys are absolutely going to love some of the latest wallpapers in our app okay at number two I've got the new customizable home screen which yes also got leaked before and yes Apple's implementation is better than in the leaks because unlike the leaks which weren't very clear on how these empty spaces would be created as they were referring to the possibility of having to create some blank spaces in iOS 18 you can just place them anywhere you want in a natural way which means that if you've got a wallpaper with a pet like our Puppy Paradise back right here you can just have your icons placed around it and then keep the middle uh of the screen empty to be able to see your wallpaper in its entirety and I feel like especially since we've now got custom icons and we can place our apps anywhere we want iOS is the closest it's ever been to Android and I don't think that's a bad thing let me know if you guys agree which brings me to my top feature the one that I'm excited for the most and that is Apple intelligence back in April I predicted that Apple would be giving their AI a very specific specific name which I guessed as Apple intelligence and it looks like my guess was correct and unlike jgpt which is a single app Apple intelligence Works across all of Apple's apps and even third party apps too now one of my favorite Apple intelligence features is the ability to rewrite text in a friendlier or more professional way similar to co-pilot but Apple intelligence Works anywhere in Apple's notes in Apple's Mail and More it can also be used to summarize text so for example if you get a long email you can just press here and summarize it in a second you can even see a summarized preview of the email which is so so good and this feature does extend to other apps as well including third party ones so Apple's intelligence connects all of your apps and then it also enhances series capabilities for example Siri can now arrange to pick up your mom from the airport and it can recognize previous text messages and create an itinerary based on those messages you can also find some very specific photos and then email them to the right person in just one sentence so yeah the essence of Apple intelligence is its contextual awareness helping you in everything you do by understanding your natural language as well as all the apps that you use and it also offers some fun features like the ability to create AI emojis or even avatars but a catch is that it only works on the a17 pro chip or any M1 chip device so that means I 15 Pro or newer or M1 iPad Pro or Mac or newer but yeah stay tuned for a Hands-On video with the beta as we'll be testing out a lot of these changes as well as some secret changes that Apple has not talked about at the event I'm Daniel this is me Tech and I'll see you guys in the next one so tag signing out cheers [Music]

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Published: Tue Jun 11 2024