a new iPhone is here and perhaps more importantly with it a new version of iOS
that I am pretty excited about iOS 18
let's take a look at some of the biggest changes starting with control center
where Apple has decided to make things much more customizable not only are you
no longer forced to have certain buttons in the control center at all but you can
take the ones you do want and rearrange them however you want even resizing them
and if you need more space than just the control Center's main screen you can now
also add additional screens up to 15 of
them if you want to stay hyper organized by dedicating different screens to
different groups of shortcuts connectivity has also been broken out
into a separate screen which kind of makes sense with so many options for
them and you can even put shortcuts for thirdparty apps in the control center
now as long as developers support it Wahoo another similar but again major
change is to the home screen where I has
finally caught up to Android stop me if you've heard that one before by allowing
you to move your icons wherever you'd like instead of having them all snap up
to the top left so if you want to leave gaps between your icons or align them to
the right or the bottom Edge you are totally free to do that Additionally you
can resize your icons and choose between light dark or tinted themes with the
latter allowing you to pick a theme color similar to Google's material U
design language but but as important as these visual changes are we know that
you probably want a closer look at the new capabilities we'll tell you more
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that Apple's pushing hard is Apple intelligence which okay it's an AI
platform to compete with the likes of Google Gemini and Galaxy Ai and as you
would expect it does many of the typical AI tasks uh summarizing long passages of
text and the contents of group chats adjusting the tone of something you've
written and generating quote original
unquote content including both text and
images but while these can be useful functions they're hardly unique to the
iOS ecosystem so why don't we instead talk about how thanks to AI Siri might
start being less of a how you say complete dumpster fire Apple says that
with the help of AI Siri will give more relevant results help edit photos
perform actions inside third party apps and even speak in a more natural voice
the forecast is calling for clear skies in the morning Siri can also utilize
chat GPT to expand its capabilities but
you will have to opt in as Apple's brand messaging has been pretty big on telling
customers that their sensitive data stays on their device and that clearly
won't be the case if your prompts are being sent to open AI the bad news about
all of this is if you're excited about Apple intelligence you're going to have
to wait a while since it isn't rolling out until next month and even then and
it will only come for iPhone 15 Pro users and later as part of the version
18.1 release there are also some less obvious but still important changes RCS
has now been fully implemented which will give you a more fully featured chat
platform even if the person on the other end isn't using iMessage and this is
cool there's a new game mode that delivers a onew punch to smooth out the
mobile gaming experience it limits background activity so that more of the
CPU and GPU power can go toward driving graphically intense titles at the
highest possible frame rates while also reducing the latency for airpods and
Bluetooth game controllers meaning less of a delay between pressing a button and
seeing the result on your screen or hearing it in your ears perhaps the most
interesting feature that isn't being discussed as much though is messages via
satellite if you've got an iPhone 14 or later you can still use iMessage or SMS
even if you don't have a Wi-Fi signal or any cell service at all now we don't
have time to get into every feature of the new iOS without turning this video
into a PhD dissertation Apple's official list of new features is 22 pages long
but these were our highlights is there a feature we didn't mention that you're
excited about like math notes or maybe
one you think is overhyped let us know down in the comments and if you'd like
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