IOS 18 :
Another new version of iOS is coming to an iPhone near you.
So, I have been testing the latest version of iOS 18 on my iPhone for a few weeks.
Now it is in beta, and now that the public beta is out, you can also test it on an iPhone, before it will be available to everyone in September, but there are some interesting things in this version.
Now, last year, I remember talking about how almost every one of these new features, was based on a great ecosystem.
For example, they would depend on having a friend with an iPhone, or having another Apple device in your life, but it’s kind of the opposite with these.
Number five, the new Control Center, so I have this at number five, because even though there is a good amount of new stuff, I don’t know if I like all the new changes.
So, when you come down from the corner, the new Control Center is, first of all, a little more colorful, and it is paged, it is three pages long.
Honestly, I will probably never really use the second two pages, but they are a full-page viewer, for all media played.
And then a list of all those one-touch toggles for your basic connectivity.
But in fact, it turns out that this full-page list is actually just an extended version, of what you already had on the first page, so you can get there with a few more clicks.
But okay, so on the first page, if you press the plus button in the corner, it displays a grid, then you can play with the size, and the placement of everything that has a tab in that bottom corner.
So, they all kind of have these predefined sizes, between which they transform.
So you can have fun with you, basically know how to design your perfect layout, for your control screen.
You can add new controls, and there’s a huge list of them to go through, and to bring up things that you do often.
And at the moment, these are basically all the controls of the Apple application, what interests me the most, however, is I mean, these are all controls, as I said, not widgets.
So, they are used to control things very directly, such as turning on wifi, or increasing the brightness, and therefore Apple has said that third-party applications will also be able to integrate controls.
So, there aren’t any here now, but I’m really looking forward to turning on the air conditioning, with one touch in the car or opening the barcode scanner, with one touch in my tracking app, calories or something like that.
So, just having more control surface, it’s going to be pretty nice.
We also noticed this new flashlight control, which when you click on it, allows you to control both the intensity, and the beam width of the torch for some reason.
The intensity part definitely works, the beam width, I don’t know if I’m as convinced on that one, but I guess it’s still a really cool UI.
Oh, also, there is a new button, to turn off your phone, a bit like Android added some time ago in the settings, but also, you can finally change the controls of your lock screen.
Now, starting from the default, which has been the flashlight and the camera forever, you can hold down, customize, lock the screen, enter it and go to the city.
The fourth best new iOS 18 feature, and that’s the Passwords app, you know from time to time, there’s just a new update that installs a new app on everyone’s phones, and just drops it on your home screen.
So, this is one of them, but essentially it’s just a matter of removing all the password tools, which were previously buried in the phone settings, and turning it into an application. So, your iPhone has been saving your passwords for a while.
Now saves the wifi access codes, remembers all this.
This application is just a very simple way to find everything in one place, search for these elements and make sense of them.
In addition, it also supports new features, so there is two-factor authentication and password keys, and then there are a few more additional elements, which may be enough to allow you to switch from the password management application that you use on your iPhone, to the Apple Passwords application.
So, on the bottom left, you can create shared passwords, and transmit keys within a group of trusted contacts, works with other people with iPhones, anyway. And then, when you sign up for a new account somewhere, it will do the same thing it always does, it offers a super secure password and then offers to memorize it for you.
But what I found interesting is that it doesn’t really have a master password, it just seems that the iPhone defaults to using Face ID.
have face ID on your iPhone, it will ask you for it to log in, no master password.
They created a Mac app, and they also created a Chrome extension, which is interesting, but yeah, no Android app, and I’m still logging into a bunch of stuff on Android, so it’s not for me.
But number three will have to be the new customization of the home screen.
Some of you may have expected it to be higher, like number one or number two, but I have my reasons, so, the day has finally arrived.
New customization elements are available, for the iPhone home screens, in a way.
I mean, there are some good things and also some weird stuff, I’ll start with the stuff I like.
Here’s the easy part, iPhone users can now place their icons anywhere, on their home screens that they want.
Now everything still clings to the grid, of course, but now you can actually place icons on the right side, or at the bottom of your home screen, where they will actually be accessible, and they won’t have to go back up, first, they give you widgets.
But now, okay, if you want to customize even more, you hold anywhere on the home screen, and there’s a little edit button at the top.
You press it, then you press Customize, and then that’s it, that’s the whole customization menu of the home screen.
Now for the iPhone, so you can switch to dark mode, which tints your wallpaper a little darker, and then sets your icons that have a dark mode version, to dark mode.
Or you can set the lighting mode, which is the opposite, it puts your icons in the light, and it tints the light of your wallpaper, and they are automatic.
But there is also a big button, which simply enlarges all your icons, but also removes the text.
Honestly, pretty clean, I’m not going to lie. But then there is a tinted pimple, which looks a little cursed.
So, this is already a kind of strange icon, when you click on it, it allows you to tint the color of all the icons on your home screen, in a single corresponding color.
Which seems pretty cool, in theory to match your wallpaper, and in fact, there is even a color picker to drop exactly the same color, as the one you use on your wallpaper as a tint color.
But there’s just something about this shade that I can’t seem to figure out, like, I didn’t get any combinations, to really look that good at all.
Now there have been some updates on this since the first beta version, it still doesn’t look great, like, it looks better than before, but here’s what I think.
There are some applications that are, like fairly simple and high contrast icons that look good.
For example, some of them are Apple applications, some of them are third-party applications, and especially Apple widgets.
Like, the weather widget, it looks great, it looks really solid with that nice accent color, because it keeps everything really readable.
But there are also icons, and widgets from third-party applications, which seem completely unreadable.
For example, they may have to be updated to support this shade, in a more contrasting way, so it is the mixture of these two.
I will also say that Google also tried this with Material You in Android, and it also got a little weird in its own different, and unique way.
Basically, it would set all the icons to a monochrome version, but if an application didn’t support it, it just didn’t change.
So a lot of people had a mix of monochrome icons and colored icons, which doesn’t look good at all.
So, I guess the dyeing method, could be considered as a workaround.
I’m sure people will play with it more, the icons will continue to receive updates, I’m sure one day maybe it will look great, for some people, but I haven’t seen that yet.
But okay, number two, for me, is the little things.
Again, there are a bunch of little things and little features that individually are not huge, but they will feel like they add up to a bunch of useful things in the end.
We know, that when a game is open, it gives it CPU priority, and minimizes Bluetooth latency for all headphones, or wireless controllers, it’s a very simple thing, but it’s nice.
The Photos app has also received a redesign, but I am also more impressed, by the intelligent search inside the photos.
It works much better, so if I search like “license plate”, for example, it not only recognizes and finds all the photos in your gallery with license plates, but it also gives you these suggestions to refine it to find the exact one, which you are looking for, and it actually works.
I also noticed that they added a bunch of shortcuts to Shazam everywhere, including a preset action button as one of the new settings, by default from the Settings app.
It wasn’t there before, I found it interesting, and then I googled it, and apparently Apple bought Shazam, not too long ago, which I totally forgot about.
So there you have it, and RCS support finally seems to be online on the iPhone in 2024, it’s going very well.
Now, as I predicted, it’s still a green bubble, but you can finally send SMS, between any modern Android phone, and an iPhone and get high quality media.
I sent myself a three-megabyte image file from the iPhone, and I got a three-megabyte full-quality image on Android.
And there are also now typing indicators, and read receipts, now the reactions seem to be working fine, so it is not fully integrated into a blue bubble iMessage, as some may have hoped.
The number one best new feature of iOS 18 is a calculator.
This is actually the calculator, Now you may have thought, that this was only an iPad problem, because we have all seen this demonstrated during the keynote in iPadOS 18, but it is also the case on the iPhone.
So by default you open the Calculator app, it looks like a basic calculator, it sounds very familiar.
But at the bottom left, there is this little toggle where you can switch to a scientific calculator.
Okay, classic enough, or you can move on to this new thing called Math Notes.
And now it basically looks like a notes app. So, you can create a new note, and literally start writing mathematical notes by hand.
Literally, you can write an equation, and if you happen to write that equal sign, it can automatically solve that equation for you, and keep it updated while you keep writing or typing.
There are also all kinds of other things, that it can do, from variables to graphs, it basically does everything I’ve been asking Wolfram/Alpha to do lately.
But an underestimated part of this, is the way it seems very well considered, and it’s also the synchronization between devices just, like a bunch of notes.
So, your calculator has somehow won, a notes section.
So if you add a bunch of things to the notes on your iPhone, the iPad with the calculator has all the same notes, and you can edit them on the other device.
And if you happen to redefine a variable further down in the same note, then it actually knows from that moment on to treat this variable, as the new value you gave it, but retains the old value, for everything that is above.
It’s very well thought out in an impressive way.
Now, obviously, this thing is going to be easier with a larger screen, and with an Apple Pencil, but, I was doing all this at school with a paper notebook and a TI-84.
So, at the risk of sounding a little old, I really wish I had something like this when I was at school, it’s very impressive, it does so many things.
It’s recognizing my handwriting, it’s obviously answering the equations that I ask him, but it’s also writing the answers in my own handwriting, and then it straightens everything.
And that makes everything searchable, and indexable not only through this math notes app on all devices, but on my entire phone.
So this is pretty sick, it impresses me more than anything I’ve seen in iOS 18.
Conclusion :
That’s why this is my number one feature in iOS 18.
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