iOS 18/iPadOS 18: Eight new features worth paying attention to

You may have upgraded to iOS 18 for iPhone or iPadOS 18 for iPad and are curious about some new features. Apart from numerous minor improvements, the following eight features are particularly eye-catching:

1. Dark Mode Icons and Parts/Color Adjustment: The color adjustment function of dark mode and icons and parts allows you to further personalize the visual effects of the home screen. Press and hold the home screen, tap Edit in the upper left corner, and select Custom to access the tone and color sliders. The color adjustment feature can even reduce the visual impact of the annoying red application corner mark, making it less conspicuous.

2. Interference control in Safari browser: annoying cookie prompts, GDPR popups, news subscription popups, and ads that occupy the entire screen have seriously affected the modern web browsing experience. Interference control features in Safari browsers are designed to improve this problem. Click the reader button in the URL bar (similar to a rectangle with two irregular lines), select "Hide interference element", then click the content you want to remove, and then click "Hide". Repeat this until you are satisfied.

3. Setting Photos to Show Recently Added Photos: The new Photos app is puzzling to redesign. If you want your recently added photos to appear at the bottom of the photos (this is the default setting in the older version), you'll love this feature. Scroll up in the Photos app, find a button that looks like two opposite arrows, click it and select "Sort by recent addition". This makes the photo application behave more like the popular "camera roll" view.

4. Custom Control Center: The Control Center is an excellent place to customize quick access switches and various functions and applications. In iOS 18, you can move, add, or delete items in Control Center at will, and even create multiple Control Center pages. The operation method is similar to the home screen, press and hold the Control Center until the switch starts to shake, and then you can move, delete, or add items.

5. Password app: The dedicated password app allows you to access saved login information, Wi-Fi passwords, keys, security codes, etc. more easily. It makes more sense to centralize this information into a dedicated application than to bury it in a setup application before.

6. Message Scheduling: Being able to schedule messages to be sent later is a highly anticipated feature in iOS 18 (and iPadOS 18 and macOS Sequoia 15), which will surely improve your messaging experience. Just write the message, then click the “ ” button, select “Send later” and set the date and time. Please note that this feature is limited to sending messages to other iMessage users only.

7. iPhone with Mac Mirror: iPhone Mirror is one of the best features of iOS 18, allowing you to control the iPhone screen completely from your Mac using your mouse and keyboard, but this requires a Mac running macOS Sequoia 15. You need to install and run macOS Sequoia 15.0 or later to use this feature.

8. Change the lock screen flashlight and camera button: If you never use the lock screen flashlight or camera button, you can now remove or replace it with other features such as calculator or memos, etc. Press and hold the lock screen, then click "Custom" to start adjusting the lock screen button.

About Apple Intelligence AI features: Apple Intelligence AI features are not included in iOS 18.0 or iPadOS 18.0. These features will debut in iOS 18.1 later, and more features will be launched later. Apple Intelligence also has strict system requirements and is only available for iPhone 15 Pro or higher (sorry, iPhone 15 users!) or any iPad or Mac equipped with M1 or higher.

What do you think about iOS 18 for iPhone and iPadOS 18 for iPad? What is your favorite feature? Please share your thoughts in the comments.

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