iOS 18 All New Features_Sept

New features available with iOS 18

Apple Intelligence

Writing Tools

Rewrite

Create multiple versions of your text that

maintain your tone. Easily swap in an

option you prefer and continue writing or

refining, or go right back to your original.

Style

Rewrite your text in a new style, such as

“professional,” “concise,” or “friendly.”

Proofread

View suggested improvements to what

you’re writing, like grammar fixes and

language refinements. Quickly accept

all suggestions with a tap or view the

explanations to better understand the

changes and accept the ones you want.

Summarize

Select text wherever you’re writing and

generate a high-quality summary.

Summarize content of all kinds like

documents, articles, or communications to

quickly understand the important points.

Describe

The text field in Writing Tools lets you

describe a more specific change you want

to make to your text. Make it read like a

poem, simplify the vocabulary, or even

turn it into a formal letter.

Compose

Ask ChatGPT to create original content

from scratch. You can also use ChatGPT’s

image generation capabilities to add

images alongside your written content.

Image Playground

Image Playground app

Have fun and experiment with all the

features of Image Playground in a new

app. You can easily create new images,

access all the images you’ve previously

created, remix previous images, and

share your creations with friends and

family using your favorite social and

communication apps.

Create Images with Concepts

Choose from a range of concepts to

addthem to your playground from

categories like themes, costumes,

accessories, and places.

Create Images with People You Know

Create an image of your friend on the

moon or a family member on a surfboard

with Image Playground thanks to Apple

Intelligence’s understanding of people in

your photo library.

Create Images with Characters

Easily define a character to add to your

images in Image Playground by choosing

their gender and skin tone, and by

providing a short description.

Create Images with Photos

Create images inspired by a photo by

taking one, selecting one from your

photolibrary, or dragging one into

ImagePlayground.

Create Images with Text

When you want to create a more

specificimage, you can add descriptions

to your playground to shape the images

you create.

Suggested Concepts

Image Playground offers intelligent

suggestions to add to your image that

are related to previous concepts you

selected, the context of a messages

thread in Messages, or your notes in the

Notes app.

Quick Previews

Quickly see a selection of previews as you

add concepts, and choose the one you like

to create it with more detail and at a higher

resolution and save it to your Image

Playground library.

New features available with iOS 18

Preview history

Freely experiment with different concepts

without worrying about losing any previous

previews you liked. When you remove a

concept you previously added, Image

Playground remembers what previews

were created before you added it and

canquickly bring them back for you.

Image Playground library

When you create an image, it’s saved to

your Image Playground library and synced

across your devices with iCloud. You can

access your library from Messages to

easily share your creations, and you can

revisit and remix your images in Image

Playground as well.

Animation style

Create fantastical creatures, expressive

animals, exaggerated human figures, and

more, all against immersive and detailed

environments with rich textures using a

modern, 3D-animated style.

Illustration style

Create uplifting and playful compositions

with stylized and exaggerated characters

against minimal backgrounds using a

contemporary illustration style defined by

simple shapes, clean lines, and flat color

blocking with a diverse color palette.

Sketch style

Produce delightful drawings perfect for

Notes using an academic and highly

detailed sketch style with vibrant colors

and a technical line style.

Messages experience

Create a fun image to share with friends

using the new experience in Messages.

When you first open Image Playground in

Messages, it will suggest concepts related

to your most recent conversation. You can

also create a new image from scratch, or

just select one of your previously created

images from your Image Playground

library.

Deep integrations

Create images in Notes, Pages, Numbers,

Keynote, and Freeform to elevate your

documents, spreadsheets, presentations,

or boards with delightful images.

Siri

Personal context understanding

With the on-device semantic index

provided by Apple Intelligence, Siri can

understand emails, messages, photos,

calendar events, files, and more, and can

provide answers to questions that are

personal to you. For example, when you

say “What was that movie that Jamie told

me I should check out?” Siri will dig up the

message from last week. And when you’re

filling out a form and say “Add my passport

number here,” Siri can extract the number

from a saved photo of your passport and

drop it in.

In-app actions

Siri can take hundreds of new actions on

your behalf, in both first- and third-party

apps. The next time you’re editing photos,

you’ll be able to say “Make this photo

warmer,” and Siri will make adjustments

using the Photos app. Siri can take actions

across apps too, so after you’re done

editing that photo, say “Add this to my

ratatouille recipe note” and Siri will jump

from the Photos app to the Notes app to

take care of it.

Onscreen awareness

Siri will be able to understand and take

action with things on your screen, so when

a friend texts you recommending a new

coffee shop in the neighborhood, you can

simply say “How long would it take me to

walk there from home?” and Siri will

understand just what you mean.

More resilient request handling

If you stumble over your words or change

your mind mid-sentence, Siri will still

follow along. For example, you might say

“Siri, set an alarm—wait no, sorry, I meant

atimer for 10 minutes—actually, let’s make

that 15.”

New features available with iOS 18

Maintains conversational context

Siri remembers what you talked about in

recent requests, so if you ask when the

Warriors are playing next and then say

“Add that to my calendar,” Siri will know

just what you mean.

Product knowledge

Siri can answer thousands of questions

about the features and settings on your

Apple products by drawing on large

language models that are trained on

Applesupport documentation.

Glowing edge light

You’ll now see an elegant glowing light

that wraps around your screen when

youspeak to Siri. The new edge light

responsively animates with the sound of

your voice and makes it possible to keep

scrolling, typing, or otherwise navigating

your device while you talk to Siri.

Type to Siri

You now have the option to type to Siri at

any time, and you can ask Siri all the same

things by text as you can ask by voice. You

can switch fluidly between text and voice,

so you can communicate in whatever way

feels right for the moment.

Predictive text in Siri keyboard

As you type a request to Siri, you’ll see

predictive text that helps you complete

your request faster. The Siri keyboard

features a predictive text model designed

specifically to help accelerate Siri

requests.

Suggestions in Siri keyboard

Suggested requests appear above

thekeyboard as you type, giving you

ultrafastaccess to actions that Siri

canhelp you with.

More natural voice

Siri sounds more natural, expressive,

and clear, and is now synthesized entirely

on device by Apple Intelligence new

language models.

More visually rich responses

Responses that draw upon information

from within an app have been redesigned

to be even more closely aligned to the look

and feel of the app they are referencing.

So when Siri responds to your question

about the weather, the response looks

likeit was plucked straight out of the

Weather app.

ChatGPT integration

Siri can tap into ChatGPT to help you with

certain requests when it determines

ChatGPT can provide a helpful answer.

You can also ask questions about photos

and documents including PDFs and

presentations. You will be asked before

requests or information are sent to

ChatGPT. Siri then presents you the

answer directly.

New features available with iOS 18

Focus

Reduce interruptions

Focus understands the contentof your

notifications and selectively surfaces only

the ones that might need immediate

attention, like a text about today’s daycare

pickup or a last-minute invite to dinner

tonight.

Intelligent Breakthrough & Silencing

Your device will determine if a notification

is important enough to break through with

the Intelligent Breakthrough & Silencing

option. It can be turned on for any Focus

mode, so you don’t miss your food delivery

when you’re in Do Not Disturb.

Genmoji

Generate unique, emoji-style stickers

rightfrom the keyboard. In the sticker

creator, just type what you want to create,

like “dog on a surfboard,” and see your

creation appear in seconds.

Mail

Priority messages

Know what to prioritize as soon as you

open Mail with priority messages at

the top of your inbox that are based on

what’s most urgent.

Preview summaries

Know the key information before you even

open the thread with brief summaries that

appear in the email preview instead of the

first few lines of that email.

Thread summaries

When you open an email thread, tap to

see a detailed summary that helps you

get the gist of a lengthy email or several

emails in the same thread.

Smart Reply

Based on the content of the email you

received, Mail will show you smart options

to quickly choose from that add detail to

the reply, like answering specific questions

you were asked. When you make your

selections, your Smart Reply incorporates

your choices into the generated draft so

it’s ready to send.

Messages

Smart Reply

Quickly respond to messages with

generated options that appear right in the

prediction bar when you tap the text field

to respond. Messages will understand the

content of the conversation and offer

options that are relevant to the context.

Summaries

Previews of messages in your

conversation list will show brief summaries

instead of the beginning of your most

recent messages, so at a glance you

knowthe key information before you

evenopen the chat.

Notes

Transcription summaries

Get an intelligently created summary of

key points from your audio recording, so

you can review what happened without

going through the entire transcript.

Image Wand

Select Image Wand from your tool palette

to select a drawing and create an image

from it. You can modify what you create by

adding text or drawing on top of the

original image. You can even circle blank

space in your note to have Image Wand

create an image from nearby text.

New features available with iOS 18

Notifications

Priority notifications

Immediately see the things that may

require your attention, like a work

message about a deliverable due that

day, with priority notifications that are

based on what’s most urgent and appear

at the top of your notifications.

Notification summaries

Multiple notifications from a single app

aregrouped in a stack with a glanceable

summary on top that lets you know the

most important information. For many

communication apps like Mail and

Messages, the content of your

notifications will be summarized so you

can get all the key information without

tapping the notification to open theapp.

Announce Notifications support

Announce Notifications can read aloud

your notification summaries when using

AirPods or CarPlay.

Phone

Call summaries

Recall key details at a glance with

intelligently generated call summaries.

Photos

Natural language photo and video

Search supports natural language queries

and expanded understanding, so you can

search for just what you mean, like “fluffy

white dog on a green couch.” You can also

search for an action that happened within

a video, and Photos will take you to the

correct segment.

Create your own Memories

Create a memory about the specific

story you want to see, just by typing a

description. Photos writes a storyline,

complete with unique chapters, and

selects a great set of photos and videos

to create your movie, complete with a

perfectly paired song.

Clean Up tool

Remove distracting elements from your

photos with the Clean Up tool for those

times when an unwanted object spoiled

the moment.

Apple Intelligence is available in beta on iPhone 15 Pro models, iPhone 16 and later models with Siri and

device language set to U.S. English. It is coming to iOS 18 as a free software update this fall. Some features,

additional languages, and platforms will be coming over the course of the next year.

New features available with iOS 18

Key features

Customization

More flexible placement

Place app icons and widgets in any open

position on the Home Screen to create

theideal layout. Arrange them along the

bottom, right above the dock, for quicker

reach. Or off to the side, so that your

favorite wallpaper can shine through.

Unique page layouts

With the option to place app icons and

widgets wherever you’d like, you can

organize each Home Screen page with

unique layouts that are most helpful

foryou.

Dark icons

Customize app icons and widgets to

automatically adjust to a new darker

aesthetic when your phone enters

DarkMode, or set them to always

appear dark. They make your Home

Screen look even more sleek.

Tinted icons

Give app icons your own personal touch

with color. With the new customization

sheet, tint the app icons and widgets on

your Home Screen with the color of your

choice. iOS will even suggest a color

tohelp you get started. Match your

wallpaper, set a mood, or go for that

minimalist monochromatic look.

Larger icons

Make all the app icons and widgets on

your screen appear even larger, removing

the name underneath, for a new

streamlined look.

Control Center

Redesigned Control Center

Control Center is redesigned with

convenient groups of controls, the ability

to arrange controls just the way you want,

and support for new controls from third-

party apps.

Groups of controls

Continue swiping from the right edge

tojump quickly to convenient groups

ofcontrols, including your most used

controls, including Home controls,

MediaPlayback, and Connectivity.

Controls gallery

The new Controls gallery displays the full

set of available controls, including new

controls from third-party apps, that you

can drop right into the group you choose,

or build out entirely new groups too.

Rearrange and resize your controls

Customize how your controls are laid out

and resize them into the ideal view.

Controls on your Lock Screen

Swap out the controls at the bottom of

the Lock Screen for something else from

the Controls gallery, including those from

your favorite apps. Quickly capture the

moment for your social media the instant

you pull iPhone out of your pocket. Or

remove thementirely for the ultimate

minimalist LockScreen.

Controls with the Action button

Quickly access controls from the Controls

gallery with the Action button as well. It’s

yet another way iPhone can help you

accomplish an important task in an instant.

Available on iPhone 15 Pro and later

models and iPhone 16 models.

New features available with iOS 18

Photos

Biggest-ever design update

The new Photos design is gorgeous, easy

to use, and customizable. A simplified,

unified app layout puts everything you

need in a single view, with the familiar

photo grid at the top and automatically

organized collections below.

Collections

Your library is automatically organized into

helpful new collections of photos so you

can browse and find content in your library

by themes—without having to organize

your entire library into albums.

Recent Days

View your recent events and activities

without the clutter, so you can easily show

a friend the photos from last Sunday’s epic

ride—and share the photos with a tap.

Groups in People & Pets

People & Pets now includes groups of

yourfavorite people, like you with your

partner, you and your pet, or you with your

best friends.

Trips

Trips organizes your adventures in one

place, so you can relive your travels.

Quickly jump to a specific year to see

your trips from that year.

Wallpaper suggestions

Find your next perfect wallpaper, complete

with style suggestions.

Collection view options

There are multiple options to view

and enjoy each group of photos—in a

beautiful editorial view, in a grid, as a

memory, or on a map.

Pinned Collections

Keep your frequently accessed content

types right at your fingertips, like Favorites,

Recently Saved, Places, Videos, your

favorite custom albums, screenshots,

Recently Edited photos, or your pet or a

group of people.

Hide screenshots from your library

A new button in the grid helps you reduce

clutter by filtering to specific media types,

your favorites, or by hiding screenshots

from the view.

Months and Years highlights

From Grid view, tap Months to see

highlighted events, or Years to see a

highlight from each month in your library,

so you can quickly jump back in time.

Expanded content types in Utilities

Utilities includes new content types

like documents, receipts, handwriting,

illustrations, and QR codes, and content

you’ve recently accessed like Recently

Added, Viewed, Edited, and Shared.

Customize the Photos app

Personalize the Photos app just how

you like it by customizing the order of

Collections, and choose Pinned

Collections to keep at your fingertips.

Clean Up tool*

Remove distracting elements from your

photos with the Clean Up tool for those

times when an unwanted object spoiled

the moment.

Edit albums in folders

Add or remove existing albums in folders.

Album attribution

View which custom albums a photo has

been added to in the Info pane.

Edit in light or dark mode

Choose to edit your photos with a dark or

light background, or default to the system

appearance.

Smart copy and paste edits

Edit similar images quickly by choosing

whether to include the crop aspect ratio,

and match exposure and white balance

across photos when copying and

pastingedits.

Video speed control

Adjust the playback speed of high frame

rate video for dramatic slowed-down

effects, and choose in and out points.

New features available with iOS 18

Creative stories

Photos creates a montage with

unique chapters for you, in addition to

chronological stories. It picks out the best

photos and videos and arranges them into

chapters that match the story arc. Lastly,

iteven picks out a great title and song

tomatch.

Smart suggestions

Don’t worry about writer’s block—you

can create a memory by selecting a

suggested description, provided by

Photos, based on recent events, trips,

and people that you’ve photographed.

Messages

Tex t ef fe c ts

Add dynamic, animated effects like

Explode or Ripple to any letter, word,

or phrase in iMessage to bring your

conversations to life.

Tex t fo r ma tt in g

Add text formatting like bold, underline,

italics, and strikethrough to any letter,

word, or phrase in iMessage to better

express your tone.

Messages via satellite

Message your friends and family directly

from the Messages app when you are off

the grid and without cellular or Wi-Fi

coverage. When going off the grid, you are

immediately prompted to connect to the

nearest satellite right from the Messages

app to begin messaging over satellite.

iMessage over satellite

Send end-to-end encrypted texts, emoji,

Tapbacks, and replies with iMessage

oversatellite.

SMS over satellite

Connect with friends and family who are

not on iPhone with SMS over satellite.

Satellite connection in Dynamic Island

A Live Activity in Dynamic Island will

always let you know that you are

connected to satellite. Dynamic Island

will even help you reconnect when

connection is lost.

Emoji and sticker Tapbacks

Tapback with any emoji or sticker, giving

you infinite ways to react to a message.

Multiple Tapbacks on a single bubble

are spread out to let you better view the

three most recently added.

Send Later

Compose a message now and schedule

itto send later for the times when it’s late

and you don’t want a message to send

until the morning, or when you don’t want

to forget to celebrate an important

birthday or other milestone.

RCS (Rich Communication Services)

Message your friends and family who don’t

use iMessage over RCS, which brings

support for richer media and more reliable

group messaging than SMS/MMS as well

as delivery and read receipts.

Low Quality Image Mode improvements

Send images in Messages as their original

size or compressed with minimal quality

loss while in Low Quality Image Mode.

High-quality Images

Send most images up to 100MB at full

resolution over iMessage, depending on

device and network conditions.

Mail

Transactions category*

Reference your confirmations,

receipts,shipping, and travel information

inone place.

Updates category*

Catch up on news, newsletters, and social

updates.

New features available with iOS 18

Promotions category*

Browse your marketing, coupons, and

sale emails.

Time sensitive

Mail from Transactions, Updates, and

Promotions that is time sensitive lands in

Primary so you can act on it straight away.

You can identify these emails in Primary by

their category icon next to the message.

Grouped by sender

Mail in Transactions, Updates, and

Promotions is grouped by sender,

making it faster to find mail from a

particular business or organization.

Quick action

Perform actions like mark as read, delete,

and archive on a sender group.

Recategorization

Easily move an email sender into a

different category. All past emails from

thatsender will be moved and new

messages will automatically sorted

intothe new category.

Safari

Highlights

Discover helpful information about a web

page like a summary, a location, aperson,

music, movies, and TV shows.

Location highlights

Check the location and get directions and

phone number to a restaurant, hotel, or

landmark from a location highlight.

Summary highlights

Review a summary of an article before

reading on with a summary highlight.

Music highlights

Listen to an artist’s song or album in your

favorite streaming app from a music

highlight.

Movie and TV show highlights

Check out a movie or TV show from

amovie or TV show highlight.

Person highlights

Learn more about someone featured on a

web page from a person highlight.

Redesigned Reader

5,6

Reader offers even more ways to enjoy

articles with a streamlined view of the

article you’re reading, a summary, and

atable of contents for longer articles.

Distraction Control

Hide items on a web page that you find

distracting. You can easily revert the

changes later if you change your mind.

Passwords

Passwords app

See all your passwords, passkeys,

verification codes, Wi-Fi passwords,

andSign in with Apple credentials for

websites and apps in one place.

Passwords and passkeys

Easily save your passwords and passkeys

and autofill them into websites and apps,

either by saving them during account

creation or manually adding them later.

See what apps and websites you’ve

used Sign in with Apple or Hide My Email

to sign in. You can also now add Sign in

with Apple credentials to shared

password groups.

Wi-Fi passwords

Access Wi-Fi passwords you’ve saved so

you can easily refer to them or share with

others.

Verifications codes

Set up two-factor verification codes right

in Passwords and easily copy them or

autofill into Safari without even opening

the app.

Sorting

Sort accounts alphabetically, or by

recently created, to quickly find accounts

you’re looking for.

New features available with iOS 18

Syncing

Your accounts saved in Passwords sync

seamlessly with iCloud so you can access

them on your other Apple devices.

End-to-end encryption

iCloud syncing is backed by incredibly

secure end-to-end encryption.

Windows support

Access your passwords on Windows in

theiCloud Passwords app.

Maps

Hiking and walking

Maps brings all-new topographic maps,

hikes, and route creation to make it easy

for you to adventure using Maps.

To po gr ap hi c ma ps

Explore stunning topographic maps with

contour lines, hill shading, hiking trails,

andmore on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Hikes

Browse a selection of thousands of hikes

available across all U.S. national parks.

Save them to your device and access

them while offline when you’re in the park.

Create and save walking and hiking

routes

Easily create custom walking and hiking

routes with just a few taps. Save your

custom routes so you can easily access

them—even while offline. You can create

custom routes for hikes in the park, regular

exercise routines in your neighborhood,

walking tours while on vacation, and more.

Turn-by-turn navigation

Get turn-by-turn trail navigation with

voice guidance that helps you stay on

track.

Discover and save places

Quickly discover and compare places by

browsing photos, ratings, price level, and

more, all without leaving search. Easily

save places with just a tap, and add a note

on what you want to remember about a

place or why you like it. Easily access all

your saved places, guides, and hiking

routes in the all-new Places Library.

Gaming

Game Mode

Provides a more immersive gaming

experience by improving the

responsiveness with wireless accessories

and minimizing background activity to

sustain the highest frame rates.

Wallet

Event tickets

Enjoy a richer fan experience with a

beautiful new design and great new

features, including support for Live

Activities and a smart event guide that

combines helpful information about your

event with recommendations from your

favorite Apple apps.

Pay with installments

Get access to installment financing

options from your bank or card provider

foryour credit and debit card purchases,

right when you check out with Apple Pay

online and in apps. For developers and

merchants, this requires no integration—it

just works using the standard Apple Pay

implementation.

New features available with iOS 18

Pay with Rewards

View your card rewards balance in Wallet

and Pay with Rewards when you check out

with Apple Pay online and in apps.

Your

rewards are automatically converted into

dollars that you can use to put towards

your purchase. For developers and

merchants, this requires no integration—

it just works using the standard Apple Pay

implementation.

Apple Pay on Chrome and Windows PC

Enable Apple Pay as a payment option for

online transactions on third-party

browsers and PCs.

Ta p t o Ca s h

Exchange Apple Cash quickly and

privately, without sharing phone numbers

or email addresses, just by holding your

phones together.

Ta p t o pr ov i si o n

Easily add eligible credit or debit cards to

Wallet by tapping your card to the back of

your iPhone.

AirPods

Siri Interactions

Respond to Siri announcements with

AirPods by simply nodding your head

yes or shaking your head no.

Voice Isolation

For the best call quality with AirPods,

Voice Isolation enables you to take calls

even in windy conditions or places with

loud background noise.

Personalized Spatial Audio for gaming

Puts you in the middle of the action like

never before with a new API that makes it

easy for developers to deliver the most

immersive audio experience with AirPods.

Reduced gaming audio latency

For high-fidelity audio while streaming

with your audience or chatting with friends

while gaming, audio quality is now leveled

up to 16 bits, 48 kHz.

In-game voice quality

For high-quality in-game audio, quality

isnow leveled up to 16 bits, 48 kHz,

whilestreaming or chatting with friends

whilegaming.

Notes

Audio recording

Record audio sessions right from your

note, and keep them with related

comments, checklists, and documents.

You can even edit your note while

recording, so you’re always able to jot

down something important.

Live transcription

Get a live transcription of audio in a

conversation or lecture from your

recordings. Transcript text stays in sync

with your audio, so it’s quick to scrub

through a transcript to find just the

moment you’re looking for in a recording.

Transcripts are also searchable, so you

canalways find what you need.

Phone call transcription

Capture a phone conversation as text

and audio.

Math in Notes

Enter expressions and equations in your

note to have them solve instantly. You

haveall of the functionality of Math Notes

in any note, including variables, graphs,

and more.

Access Math Notes from Calculator

Work on the Math Notes you created in

Calculator when you’re in Notes—they

automatically sync to your Math Notes

folder.

Collapsible sections

Clean up extra-long notes by hiding text

under new collapsible section headers.

New features available with iOS 18

Highlighting

Make text in your note stand out using

highlighting with five different color

options.

PDF inline search

Find words in PDFs and document scans

with an improved search experience that

takes you to what you’re looking for within

the document.

Journal

State of Mind integration

Log your state of mind right from within

Journal and see your previously logged

emotions or mood included in Journaling

Suggestions.

Log mindful minutes

Automatically add the time you spent

writing in Journal as mindful minutes

inHealth.

Insights view

Keep track of your journaling goals with

the all-new insights view that shows

writing streaks, fun stats, and a calendar

toeasily find past entries.

Streaks

See how many days or weeks in a row

you’ve added entries to your journal.

Calendar

Each day that you’ve written is marked on

the Insights calendar. Simply tap to view

entries for a given day.

Stats

See how many entries and how many

words you’ve written over time, and what

places you’ve written about most.

Search and sort

Easily find past entries with the ability to

search exactly what you’re looking for.

Youcan also choose how your journal is

sorted—by entry date or moment date.

Export and print

Export your entire journal or print

individual entries to save a digital copy.

Widgets

Add a widget to your Home Screen or

LockScreen with writing prompts that

change throughout the day, so you can

reflect on what’s going on in the moment.

Quick Actions

Touch and hold the Journal icon to see

your suggestions, quickly start a new

entry, or even record your voice.

Audio transcription

Audio recorded into a journal entry will

beautomatically transcribed to help you

remember the moment.

More formatting options

Express yourself with new options to

format your text, including lists, quotes,

and various text styles.

Shortcuts

Make shortcuts that create a new journal

entry for you. You can even include photos

and your location, start a new audio

recording, and more.

Apple TV

InSight

See real-time actor and music information

that complements the action onscreen,

while enjoying Apple TV+ Original movies

and shows. Select an actor to learn more

about them or easily add a song to an

Apple Music playlist.

Enhance dialogue

Hear what’s being said onscreen more

clearly, especially during scenes with

music and loud effects.

New features available with iOS 18

More dynamic subtitles

Subtitles will automatically appear at

justthe right times, like when the content

language doesn’t match your device

language, when you mute the audio,

orwhen you skip back while watching

aprogram.

Home

Hands-free unlock with home keys

Unlock the door to your home as you

approach, without taking your iPhone

outof your bag or pocket.

Guest access

Provide time-based access to locks,

garage doors, and alarm systems for up

to 29 guests in the Home app. Guest

activity will be logged into Activity History,

displaying up to 30 days of activity

including time, the accessory used, and

the name of the person, if applicable.

Pair Matter accessories without a hub

Add and locally control Wi-Fi based Matter

accessories to the Home app without

needing a home hub. Thread-based

accessory management is available with

iPhone 15 Pro and later.

Control robot vacuum cleaners in the

Home app*

Robot vacuum cleaners can participate in

automations and scenes and listen for Siri

requests, just like other accessories in

your home. Matter-compatible robot

vacuum cleaners can be added and

controlled in the Home app.

Electricity usage and rates

Easily access and understand your home

electricity information right from the

Homeapp. Eligible Pacific Gas and Electric

Company customers can connect their

utility account to the Home app to view

their electricity usage and rate plan

information.

Privacy & Security

Improved Contacts preferences

Empowers you to choose what contacts

to share with an app, and you can add

more over time.

Redesigned Privacy & Security settings

More easily manage how much information

you are sharing with apps. Each data type

now shows how many apps are accessing

that data, making it easier for you to

find where you are sharing the most

information with apps. Settings will now

note the level of access that apps have

to Photos, Calendar, and Contacts.

Accessory Setup Kit

Developers can now seamlessly pair

accessories without accessing

information about nearby Bluetooth

devices or devices on your network.

Blocking sensitive content for children

Communication Safety will require a

Screen Time password for children to view

or send sensitive content.

New features available with iOS 18

Even more

Accessibility

Eye Tracking

Navigate the entire iPhone experience with

just your eyes, including Dwell Control to

tap. And it works with all your favorite

apps, no additional hardware required.

Music Haptics

Matches the iPhone Taptic Engine with the

rhythm of songs so people who are deaf or

hard of hearing can enjoy the Apple Music

catalog.

Vocal Shortcuts

Create custom utterances to activate

shortcuts and complete tasks on iPhone

like setting a timer or taking a screenshot.

Vehicle motion cues

New experience for iPhone that can help

reduce motion sickness for passengers

inmoving vehicles. Dots appear on your

iPhone screen and use built-in sensors to

move with the vehicle to reduce sensory

conflict, without interfering with your

content.

AirPlay

Spatial Audio

Experience the sense of being surrounded

in music, including support for Dolby

Atmos, when using AirPlay to stream from

iPhone to HomePod and select third-party,

AirPlay-compatible audio equipment.

Apple Account

Share Sign in with Apple credentials

Share access to your Sign in with Apple

credentials with trusted friends and family

members in the new Passwords app. This

makes it easy to share the credentials just

once, similar to setting up a shared family

passwords list.

Calculator

Math Notes

With a new Math Notes calculator, you

canevaluate expressions, assign variables,

and even create graphs by simply typing

out math.

Typed math

Type out mathematical expressions in

Math Notes, and see them instantly solved

right inline.

Variables

Easily assign values to variables and

then use those variables in expressions

you solve. For example, you can assign

“x=10” and then type “x + 20 =“ to get

an answer.

Graphing

Type out an equation, and with a tap you

can insert a graph. Zoom in or out, or pan

around the graph, and resize it to get it just

right. You can even add multiple equations

on the same graph to see how they relate

to one another.

Adjust numbers

Quickly adjust any number you type in

Math Notes by tapping it, then swiping

your finger across the slider to increase

or decrease it. You’ll see the number and

related equations and graphs update in

real time.

Works with Notes

Access all of your Math Notes in the Notes

app, and even solve math in any of your

other notes.

New features available with iOS 18

Math Results

Type out a mathematical expression in

apps like Messages and Mail, and you’ll

see Math Results as suggestions so you

can easily add them in.

Editable expressions

Enter an expression in the basic and

scientific calculators, and you’ll see the

fullexpression before you solve it. You

canalso easily delete characters with

thebackspace button.

History

Keep track of previous calculations in

thebasic and scientific calculators, copy

their results to use in other apps, and tap

results to go back to keep working

onthem.

Unit conversions

Convert length, weight, currencies, and

more while using the basic and scientific

calculators, or convert typed units using

Math Notes.

Portrait scientific calculator

Access all the capabilities of the scientific

calculator on iPhone in portrait orientation.

Calendar

View reminders in Calendar

Stay organized and view all your

scheduled reminders from the Reminders

app right in Calendar along with all your

other events.

Edit reminders in Calendar

Mark reminders as complete from

Calendar as you move through your

day,move them to schedule them for

adifferent date or time, or even edit all

theirdetails.

Create reminders in Calendar

Create scheduled reminders right from

Calendar just like you would create an

event. This makes it easy to separate

events from tasks and keep your tasks

synced to the Reminders app.

Updated Month view

See your month at a glance with a

redesigned Month view that shows you

event details on each day. Pinch open

toexpand the view to see more detail,

orpinch closed to see less.

Refreshed look

Updates to typography and consistent

event details across Day, Week, and Month

views make your events easier to read.

Camera

5-second timer

Choose to use a 5-second timer in

Camera in addition to 3- and 10-second

timers.

Continue playing music when taking

aphoto

Music will continue to play via Bluetooth

connections when capturing a photo or

video.

Adjust flash settings via touch and hold

Access camera flash settings via the touch

and hold gesture.

Next-gen Portraits enhancements

Adds Portrait Lighting controls and Night

mode portrait when capturing portraits in

Photo mode.

New features available with iOS 18

CarPlay

Spatial Audio

Drivers can now listen to Spatial Audio

songs and albums available in Apple Music

and third-party apps while connected to

CarPlay. Vehicles with multichannel audio

capabilities can enable an immersive

sound experience. Spatial Audio with

support for Dolby Atmos can also be

implemented in compatible vehicles.

Accessibility

Color Filters, Bold Text, Voice Control, and

Sound Recognition accessibility settings

are now available in CarPlay, providing a

consistent experience between iPhone

and the vehicle.

Continuity

Continuity Camera with Apple TV 4K

Dedicate an iPhone to be always

connected to your Apple TV 4K. Perfect

forevening FaceTime calls with the

grandparents, showing off your latest

dance moves with Apple Music Sing, and

supporting video conference rooms with

apps like Webex and Zoom.

Family Sharing

Family Sharing invitations

Now it’s even easier to accept an invitation

to join a Family Sharing group. As soon as

you’re invited, the invitation will appear at

the top of Settings. Plus, family organizers

can immediately see who’s accepted and

easily send a reminder or follow-up to

those who haven’t.

Recommended for your family

Quickly and easily set up new items for

your family like a shared calendar, grocery

list, and passwords list. Once created,

everyone in the family can contribute to

the shared items, making it easy to keep

the entire family in the loop.

Files

Desktop and documents in the

Cloudsetup

When you set up a third-party cloud

account on your device, you will be invited

to sync desktop and documents to the

cloud. This can also be set up later in

Settings.

Keep downloaded

Choose the iCloud files you always want

access to on your device, and changes you

make to your file while offline will sync with

iCloud whenever you are back online.

Expanded external drive file formats

Touch and hold to format external drives

toAPFS, exFAT, or MS-DOS (Fat32) file

formats on iPhone with USB-C.

Erasing an external drive

To erase a mounted external drive in Files,

touch and hold the drive and tap “Erase.”

Fitness+

For You in Summary

When you launch the Fitness app,

you’llsee personalized Fitness+

recommendations, or what’s up next

inyour Custom Plan, right in the

Summarytab.

For You

The new For You space is personalized

with helpful suggestions for just the

activities that you like to do.

Explore

See everything Fitness+ has to offer in

thenew Explore space. Designed for

easynavigation and maximum discovery,

Explore shows you the full breadth of

activities in Fitness+ and highlights

newofferings.

Library

Your library has everything you’ve saved

and downloaded in Fitness+, and now it’s

one-tap easy to access.

New features available with iOS 18

Enter an activity, trainer, duration, or

typeof music, and search returns

matching results.

Awards

When you open Fitness+, you’ll get a

motivating reminder of how your workout

streak is going, or of your progress

towards a Fitness+ award. Tap the

reminder to go to the awards page, where

you’ll see suggestions for activities to get

you closer to that next achievement.

Freeform

Scenes

Create scenes to organize sections of

aboard by topic or to make it easy to

present your content by moving around

quickly.

Send a copy

Share your ideas with as many people as

you want by sending a copy with a link

thatanyone can use to open the board on

their device.

Snap to Grid

Align content on your board precisely

withSnap to Grid.

Handwriting recognition

Handwritten text on your board can be

searched, translated, and copied as text.

Improved diagramming

Join objects together with magnetic

connection lines that can be anchored

anywhere, making it easier to create

diagrams and relate your ideas.

Math Results

Write out a basic or scientific expression

with an equals sign and you’ll see results

inserted or suggested inline on your board.

iCloud

Settings redesign

iCloud settings have been redesigned to

make it easy to see how iCloud keeps

content from across your device backed

up and synced. Quickly see if your device

backup is up to date, enable premium

features, customize your experience,

andtake action on personalized

recommendations.

iCloud Mail

iCloud Mail cleanup

Stay even more in control of your inbox

with a new collection of powerful cleanup

tools accessible from the Mail app,

iCloud.com, and iCloud Mail settings.

Unsubscribe and delete

Remove unwanted senders you don’t want

to hear from anymore. iCloud Mail will help

you unsubscribe from senders in bulk, and

any future emails from those senders will

go to Trash.

Manage old email

Create time-based rules that help you

manage your inbox and help you save

iCloud storage by removing emails that are

no longer needed. These rules leverage

the new mail categories to enable cleanup

actions like automatically deleting or

archiving promotional emails that are

unread and over one year old.

New features available with iOS 18

Keyboard

Unified picker

The emoji keyboard and sticker drawer

arecombined into a unified picker, making

it even easier to find just what you’re

looking for.

Inline stickers and Memoji

Stickers and Memoji can be inserted inline

with text, just like emoji.

Searchable stickers

In addition to emoji, stickers are also now

searchable in the unified picker.

Multilingual keyboard

Seamlessly switch between two languages

in a single keyboard for a bilingual

predictive typing experience. The

multilingual keyboard also supports

QuickPath.

Language detection

The multilingual keyboard recognizes the

language you were last using in messages

and switches automatically, so if you

weremessaging a friend in Hindi and your

family in Marathi, you can pick up right

where you left off.

Locked and Hidden

Apps

Locked apps

Touch and hold an app to lock it,

protecting its contents from being

accessed by others.In addition, the

contents of the app are not surfaced

outside the locked app, such as in

search or notifications. 

Hidden apps folder

When you choose to hide an app, it is

moved to a locked hidden apps folder

thatrequires Face ID, Touch ID, or a

passcode to open.

Hidden apps

For additional privacy, you can also hide

a locked app. In addition to the protections

of locking, the app icon and name won’t

show up on the Home Screen or when

yousearch. And you won’t receive

notifications from the app on the Lock

Screen or Home Screen, so the app won’t

be inadvertently revealed to others who

can see your screen.

Seamless authentication

Seamlessly open any app you’ve locked

with Face ID, Touch ID, or a passcode.

Move to iOS

Faster migration

Move to iOS has been redesigned making

it faster and easier to migrate your data to

your new iPhone. There are more ways to

connect, new migration categories and

helpful information to guide you though

the process.

Cabled migration

Connect your current phone directly to

your new iPhone with a USB-C or USB-C

to Lightning cable to migrate your data

more quickly.

Improved Wi-Fi migration

Wi-Fi migration is faster with support for

speeds up to 5GHz and the option to use

Wi-Fi on your iPhone to connect to

connect to your Android phone.

Tips during migration

Find your way around your new iPhone

during migration with a set of Tips that

help you discover new gestures and the