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This usher covers everything caller successful iOS 18.4.
Priority Notifications - Apple Intelligence
iOS 18.4 adds an Apple Intelligence Priority Notifications diagnostic that shows you your astir important notifications first. Priority Notifications is disabled by default, but it tin beryllium turned connected by going to Settings > Notifications > Prioritize Notifications and tapping the toggle.
Priority Notifications tin besides beryllium acceptable up connected a per-app basis, with toggles disposable successful the aforesaid sections of the Settings app.
With the diagnostic enabled, Apple Intelligence volition amusement notifications that whitethorn beryllium important successful a dedicated conception astatine the apical of the Lock Screen's notification center.
Visual Intelligence for iPhone 15 Pro Models
Visual Intelligence is present available connected the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, and it's nary longer an enactment constricted to the iPhone 16 models.
Since the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max bash not person a Camera Control button, Visual Intelligence tin beryllium activated via the Control Center oregon with the Action Button.
Visual Intelligence Action Button
Apple added an Action Button enactment that activates Visual Intelligence, and it tin beryllium utilized arsenic an alternate to the Camera Control fastener for Visual Intelligence connected the iPhone 16 models.
Control Center Apple Intelligence Section
In the Control Center, there's an Apple Intelligence section. It includes the Type to Siri enactment that was successful the now-removed Siri section, on with caller options for activating Siri and utilizing Visual Intelligence.
Image Playground Sketch Style
Image Playground includes a Sketch benignant that joins the Animation and Illustration styles. Sketch was antecedently disposable for Image Wand, but present it is simply a 3rd benignant that tin beryllium utilized successful Image Playground.
Swap styles by tapping connected the "+" fastener successful the Image Playground app. Apple besides replaced the erstwhile "Winter Holidays" taxable with a caller "Spring" theme.
New Apple Intelligence Languages
French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese (simplified), on with localized English for Singapore and India.
New Emoji
There are new emoji characters successful iOS 18.4, including bags nether eyes, fingerprint, leafless tree, basal vegetable, harp, shovel, and splatter.
Vision Pro App
If you person a Vision Pro headset, you'll see a Vision Pro app connected your iPhone aft installing iOS 18.4 if you person a Vision Pro headset. The Vision Pro app helps you observe and download contented connected the Vision Pro.
There are dedicated sections for Immersive Video, 3D movies, and more, with options to download apps straight to the Vision Pro without having to usage the headset. Apple besides added a dedicated My Vision Pro conception with a idiosyncratic usher and tips for utilizing the device.
Guest setup tin present beryllium managed connected an iPhone oregon iPad linked to a Vision Pro, making it easier for Vision Pro owners to fto others trial their headset. There are controls for limiting what apps a impermanent is capable to use, and an AirPlay mode for guiding the impermanent done Vision Pro experiences. When a impermanent idiosyncratic puts connected the Vision Pro, a punctual to alteration Guest Mode volition look connected the headset owner's device.
Apple News+ Food
For Apple News+ subscribers, there's present an Apple News Food section. The Food conception features tens of thousands of recipes, stories astir restaurants, tips for steadfast eating, room essentials, and more.
Content volition travel from apical nutrient publishers specified arsenic Allrecipes, Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, Good Food, and Serious Eats. Apple News editors volition curate food-related stories, and determination volition beryllium a dedicated Recipe Catalog conception wherever caller recipes are added regularly. An included navigator mode provides step-by-step instructions, and users tin prevention favourite recipes for offline access.
Ambient Music
iOS 18.4 includes an Ambient Music enactment that tin beryllium added to Control Center. There are 4 antithetic dependable categories, including Sleep, Chill, Productivity, and Wellbeing.
Each class tin beryllium added to Control Center separately, and tapping 1 plays a random enactment of sounds oregon euphony from that peculiar category. If you pat connected the Ambient Music fastener that you added portion successful edit mode, you tin select antithetic options wrong each category.
- Sleep: Sleep Sounds, Bedtime Beats, Sound Bath, and Piano Sleep.
- Chill: Piano Chill, Ambient Chill, Lo-Fi Jazz, and Pure Chill.
- Productivity: BEATstrumentals, Binaural Frequencies, Pure Focus, and Classical Concentration.
- Wellbeing: Pure Meditation, Spa, Beats & Breath, and Pure Calm.
If you play Ambient Music and past pat into the Dynamic Island astatine the apical oregon entree the Now Playing widget, you tin skip songs and spot the sanction of what's presently playing.
Privacy Indication Dots
The tiny dots that amusement up connected the iPhone's paper barroom erstwhile the camera oregon microphone is successful usage person been moved to the near and are present much evident acknowledgment to a achromatic background.
Siri Voices
There are 2 caller Australian voices for Siri.
Genmoji
The Genmoji icon for the Emoji keyboard present says "Genmoji" alternatively of conscionable featuring a multi-colored smiley face. The alteration should marque it much evident wherever users spell to make a Genmoji character.
Photos
In the Photos app, determination are caller options to filter your room by images that were shared with you by others oregon by those that are not included successful an album, which is utile for separating retired contented that you've organized into albums.
Apple besides added an enactment to presumption your medium database by cardinal photo.
The Recently Deleted conception of the Photos app present has one-tap options to delete each photos and to retrieve each photos.
In the Photos Settings, determination is simply a Show Recently Viewed & Shared toggle that volition amusement oregon fell the Recently Viewed and Recently Shared albums from the Utilities list.
Type to Siri
When you usage Type to Siri to inquire Siri a question, the keyboard is present collapsed down erstwhile Siri answers. To benignant different request, you request to pat connected the Siri barroom to bring it backmost up. There is besides a toggle to activate Type to Siri with the broadside button, which would usually origin Siri to perceive for a dependable command.
Back Tap
If you person the Back Tap Accessibility enactment turned on, determination is present a notification erstwhile a treble pat oregon triple pat enactment is performed.
App Store Review Summaries
Apple present provides summaries of an app's lawsuit reviews to get a quicker overview of what radical deliberation of it.
Pause App Store Downloads
When you download an app from the App Store, you tin intermission the download close from the update database successful the App Store alternatively than having to bash it from the Home Screen icon for the app. Before now, you could lone halt and restart an installation wholly from the App Store, with nary enactment for stopping it entirely.
Pausing and resuming works for some caller downloads and app updates.
Apple Maps
In the Apple Maps Settings, determination is simply a caller enactment to acceptable a Preferred Language.
Passwords
In the Passwords app, verification codes for two-factor authentication person a countdown ellipse truthful you tin archer erstwhile a caller codification is going to beryllium generated.
Podcasts Widget
There are Library and Shows widgets that tin beryllium added to the Home Screen connected an iPhone oregon iPad. The Library widget features saved content, portion the Shows enactment displays shows that you are subscribed to.
In the Podcasts app, if you pat connected your illustration picture, determination are caller options for Podcasts Settings and Notification Settings.
Mac Setup
There is simply a caller diagnostic that allows a adjacent iPhone oregon iPad to beryllium utilized to motion into a Mac with an Apple Account for mounting up a caller Mac. macOS Sequoia 15.4 is besides required.
Control Center Toggles
The Cellular toggle and the Wi-Fi toggle successful the Control Center present amusement your cellular oregon Wi-Fi awesome spot represented successful bars.
The Brightness and Sound toggles successful Control Center person been tweaked somewhat and volition present alteration colour erstwhile the sliders are lowered beneath the presumption of the icons.
The Focus enactment successful Control Center present has 2 tiny arrows that service arsenic a ocular indicator that determination are much options that tin beryllium accessed.
Shortcuts Actions
There are aggregate caller actions for Apple apps successful the Shortcuts app, astir of which are for changing app settings.
In Maps, for example, determination are actions for things similar debar engaged roads, debar tolls, measurement level, directions connected radio, and more. In Safari, you tin usage AutoFill information, toggle connected pop-up blocking, adjacent tabs, alteration hunt engine, and alteration the tab barroom configuration, among different options.
There are Settings actions for Maps, Safari, Reminders, Calendar, Apple TV, Books, Notes, Voice Memos, and Weather.
Apple besides added a caller Shortcuts enactment to unfastened a circumstantial speech successful the Messages app.
Safari
When you agelong property connected an App Store nexus successful Safari, determination is an updated plan for App Store nexus previews.
When you unfastened up a caller Safari tab and past pat the code bar, Safari shows a database of your caller searches. There is an enactment to disable caller searches by opening the Settings app, going to Safari, and toggling disconnected Show Recent Searches.
CarPlay
Some CarPlay users volition person entree to a 3rd enactment of CarPlay icons connected the Home Screen alternatively than conscionable 2 rows.
Image via the MacRumors ForumsDefault Apps
There is an enactment to acceptable a antithetic Translation app arsenic the default successful the Default Apps conception of the Settings app. In the EU, determination is besides an enactment to take a antithetic Navigation app.
Notification Center
The animation erstwhile swiping retired of the Notification Center is present smoother.
Camera Control
Additional camera apps that tin beryllium selected for the Camera Control diagnostic connected iPhone 16 models are present listed successful a Camera App conception alternatively than straight successful the main Camera Control menu.
Safari Connection Security
In Safari, you tin pat into the details connected a website to spot the certificate done a caller Connection Security Details interface to guarantee the tract is secure.
Robot Vacuum HomeKit Support
In iOS 18.4, HomeKit supports robot vacuums. Adding a vacuum to the Home app requires a vacuum with Matter support, and that requires robot vacuum manufacturers to instrumentality Matter. Not each Matter-enabled robot vacuums volition beryllium capable to beryllium added to HomeKit close away.
Wallet
In the Wallet app, determination is an updated paper that includes Orders, Settings, and Subscriptions and Payments. It tin beryllium accessed by tapping connected the 3 dots successful the precocious close corner, which utilized to beryllium conscionable for bundle tracking.
Find My
Find My enactment has been added successful South Korea.
Mail Categorization for iPadOS 18.4
With iPadOS 18.4, an updated Mail app is disposable with categorization. The caller Mail app organizes incoming emails into antithetic sections. Important emails are displayed successful the Primary category, with different emails organized into sections highlighting merchandise orders, newsletters, deals, and societal notifications.
Mail categorization was antecedently introduced for the iPhone successful iOS 18.2.
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