“It’s time to shine” is this year’s theme for Apple’s annual hardware event on Monday.
Apple CEO Tim Cook debuted the iPhone 16, the first iPhone designed to power generative artificial intelligence — the same technology that enables ChatGPT to respond to the most nuanced commands from users.
With a new iPhone comes the “biggest ever” software update. First introduced to the world in June, iOS 18 was officially unveiled at the event alongside the new iPhone 16, Plus, Pro and ProMax.
iPhone 16 uses a wide range of iOS18’s new artificial intelligence generation capabilities, which they have called Apple Intelligence.
Here are some of the key iOS 18 features that were highlighted at today’s event:
Better green bubble messages
As part of the update, RCS Support — Rich Communication Services, the successor to SMS and MMS — is coming to text messaging on iPhone 16.
RCS support will introduce several iMessage features that are already available to blue bubble users in texts between iPhone and Android users, including messaging over Wi-Fi, improved encryption compared to SMS, location sharing within threads of text and photos and videos with higher resolution.
Most excitingly, iPhone users who send messages to non-iPhone users will now be able to receive read receipts and write indicators from the other person, as well as audio voice messages. There are also improved group chats, including the ability for iPhone users to leave a conversation that has Android users in it.
Users will be able to send messages via satellite to stay connected offline when cellular and Wi-Fi are unavailable.
Make your own emojis
There are also updates coming for emoji. Now, you can send custom AI-generated emojis.
Advanced Emergency Response
In an improvement to security features, iPhone users can now share live video with 911 dispatchers using iOS 18 through Emergency SOS.
Siri just got smarter
“Apple Intelligence ushers in a new era for Siri and makes it more natural, contextually relevant and more personal to you with richer language understanding,” said Craig Federighi, Apple SVP. for software engineering, during the event.
Siri can now also pull from friends’ text messages and remind you of recommendations sent to you, such as an album someone told you to listen to or a TV show you promised you’d watch.
Siri can read information from many apps to help you prepare for anything. For example, if you have an important meeting, it can retrieve the time and location information from your calendar, summarize important information in your email, and tell you the weather so you know what to wear.
Pro level photos
If you want to quickly send someone a bunch of photos from an event, Siri can help you do that easily.
“You’ll be able to just say, ‘Sent Erica the photos from Saturday’s barbecue,’ and Siri will dig up the photos and send them right away,” Federighi explained.
The redesigned Photos app can automatically organize your photos into collections. The iOS 18 photo gallery also allows for customizable and customizable collections.
Say it better
Using Apple Intelligence, Siri can also help when it comes to texting and texting. Writing tools that can help draft texts and emails come with the phone.
These writing tools will help you rewrite simple notes on an invitation or tailor the tone of your Slack messages to your boss.
Command with a glance
iOS 18 will allow users to control their iPhone with their eyes.
iPhone Eye Tracking will allow you to navigate the screen, open apps and perform tasks without touching your screen.
To enable the feature, you will need to go to the accessibility settings and select “Eye tracking”. The phone will then take you through a calibration process to learn your eye movements.
Apps for your eyes only
The new iOS will allow users to “lock down” certain apps so that they can only be opened using Face ID, Touch ID or a passcode.
Users can also “hide” apps, meaning they won’t appear on the home screen and no media will appear anywhere else system-wide.
Save every word
iPhone users will be able to record and transcribe their calls in real-time with iOS 18 – right inside the Phone app.
All parties will be notified when the call is recorded.
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