iOS 18

iPhone Settings has become busier and busier over the years and iOS 18 looks to solve that with a redesign. It keeps the main attributes of the historical UI, but the new Settings in iOS 18 offers a reorganized and simplified experience with improved search.

For more than a decade, it’s taken jailbreaking or other workarounds to customize iPhone apps with a unique look. Now, iOS 18 includes the ability to change iPhone app colors and more natively. Here’s how it works.

iPadOS 18 comes with a ton of powerful customization tools. But overall, it’s not exactly the biggest release for iPad power users. There are no changes to multitasking or Stage Manager. But if you care about file management, there’s a significant Files app upgrade that solves a major pain point. Here’s what you should know.

iOS 18 is a big release with a ton of new features. Some enhancements to the Home app, like support for robot vacuum cleaners, aren’t coming until later. But there’s one update available now that could save you time and frustration. Building your smart home of the future just got easier than ever in iOS 18’s Home app.

Update: iOS 18.0.1 for iPhone resolves the issue as mentioned in the release notes.

There’s an unfortunate bug in Apple’s latest software update that you should know about. The bug occurs in the Messages app on iOS 18. For now, the fix could require data loss. However, you can avoid potential data loss before a fix is in place if you know how to avoid it.

Today, Apple has announced even more languages that Apple Intelligence will support over the course of the next year.

The first Apple Intelligence features will launch exclusively in US English, in October with the release of iOS 18.1. Additional languages and more capabilities will roll out over the next year. Here’s what we know so far as to the announced language support …

Yesterday’s release of iOS 18 brought many new improvements and enhancements to the iOS Home Screen. The update includes a few subtle changes but also features fundamental changes to iOS design paradigms that have been around since the iPhone’s inception.

iOS 18 was just released, enabling you to personalize your iPhone experience like never before. There are new tools for arranging apps and widgets, changing your app icon colors, customizing Control Center, replacing the flashlight and camera buttons, and more. Apple has even made several of its individual apps newly customizable, like Photos. Get ready to customize your iPhone like never before in iOS 18. Here’s how.

Dark Noise, the powerful ambient noise app, has been updated to take advantage of iOS 18. This includes new dark and tint mode icons, as well as deep integration with the all-new Control Center experience in iOS 18.

It’s been a long time since Apple has been working on a system to let users wirelessly recover and restore the firmware of their devices. This was first introduced for Apple Watch with iOS 15.4 and watchOS 8.5, and then expanded to Apple TV with iOS 17 and tvOS 17. Now with iOS 18, Apple is finally bringing this system to the iPhone 16 lineup.

Following the official launch of iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 on Monday, Apple has begun rolling out updates to its iWork suite of productivity apps.

The newly released iOS 18 has tons of new features to offer. But there are also lots of features it doesn’t include, that are coming later. Apple Intelligence, the new Siri, Apple Mail upgrades, and a whole lot more won’t hit your iPhone until future updates. Here’s everything coming in iOS 18.1 or later.

One of the biggest changes in iOS 18 is the all-new Photos app, which has been redesigned from the ground up. Apple says the new Photos design is meant to make it easier than ever to “find and relive special moments.”

One of my favorite parts of the new Photos app in iOS 18, however, is that it’s completely customizable.

Despite the fact that most Apple Intelligence features are being held back for later, iOS 18 is still a pretty big update as it stands – as our full video run-through shows.

Having been using the beta for some time, I’ve highlighted below what I consider to be the top 10 iOS 18 features available today …

Apple just released iOS 18, bringing a ton of new features to iPhone users. But some users may be hesitant about upgrading for fear of encountering bugs and performance issues. If you’re planning on waiting until iOS 18.1 comes out before updating, here’s what you should know.

iOS 18 brings a major update to Control Center that expands both capabilities and customization. The quick access controls go from a single page to multiple ones that you can smoothly slide through, third-party integration, and more. Here’s how to customize and use Control Center in iOS 18.

Apple Music takes a significant-if-subtle step forward in iOS 18, with the New tab. ‘New’ is more than just a new name for the previous ‘Browse’ tab.

Each user will see a different curated collection of music in the New tab, based on their personal listening preferences …

iOS 18 includes a couple of notable changes to iPhone battery health and charging settings. Apple has added more charging limit settings for iPhone 15 users, along with information about when you’re using a slow charger.

As reported back in June, iOS 18 and tvOS 18 add an option that finally lets users choose an Apple TV or HomePod as their preferred Home Hub to control HomeKit and Matter accessories remotely. These updates are now available to the public, but choosing a preferred Home Hub can be a bit tricky.

iOS 18 brings a big change to Control Center on your iPhone. With iOS 18, Control Center has a bunch of new controls and now flows over multiple pages. This includes changes to the Connectivity widget, which puts the Bluetooth toggle behind a second tap.

By default, to access Bluetooth settings, you must first tap on the corner of the 2×2 widget to open a full-screen group of toggles. You can then change Bluetooth. However, if you want a Bluetooth toggle available at the top level, toggleable with a single tap just like iOS 17, you can add it back yourself. Here’s how.

A long-requested feature for Android users switching to iPhone is the addition of T9 dialling. This is a shortcut to dialling phone numbers from your address book, by typing in letters on the keypad.

For instance, to call John you’d press 5 6 4 (for J O H). On many Samsung and other Android phones, this would search for the closest alphabetical match to a person’s name in your contacts. iPhone has not had this feature … until now with iOS 18.