**Introducing the New Emoji: A Fun and Customizable Feature**

Apple has just introduced a new emoji feature that is sure to bring a smile to your face. This new emoji, which we'll call "Mii," is not only cool but also allows you to customize your own character based on what you look like. To access this feature, simply tap the "New Emoji" button and then browse through the customization options. You can choose from a wide range of skin tones, hairstyles, age, and even add some cool eyewear or headwear. Once you've customized your Mii to your liking, you can use it in iMessage by tapping on the emoji icon and finding your newly created character.

**Taking Photos with Your New Emoji**

One of the coolest features of this new emoji is that you can take photos with it. When you open up your camera app, you'll see a little icon that says "Emoji." Tap on it to pull up the front-facing camera, and then tap on the "Emoji" icon again to start recording. You can choose from either the Mii or man emojis, and when you're done, you can edit your photo by adding filters, text, and other effects. This feature is a great way to add some fun to your photos and share them with friends and family.

**Screen Time: A New Feature to Help You Be More Mindful of Your Phone Use**

Apple has also introduced a new feature called "Screen Time" that aims to help us be more mindful of our phone use. This feature allows you to see exactly how much time you spend on your phone per day, as well as throughout the week. When you go into the Settings app, you'll see a section labeled "Screen Time." Tap on it, and you'll get a summary of your screen time, including the longest session you've had, the amount of times you've picked up your phone per hour, and the hours in which you've picked it up the most. You can also see how much time was spent on each app.

**Downtime: A New Feature to Help You Unplug**

One of the coolest features of Screen Time is Downtime. This feature allows you to set specific times when you don't want to be able to access certain apps on your phone. For example, if you get home from work at 7 p.m. and don't want to check email or social media until the next morning at 7 a.m., you can go into the Screen Time section and toggle on Downtime. Then, when you're in that time period, any apps you've added to the list will be disabled, except for phone calls, which are always allowed.

**Pomodoro's: A Feature to Help You Stay Focused**

Another feature of Screen Time is Pomodoro's, a tool that helps you stay focused on your work or studies. When you add an app to this section, you can set a specific time limit for how long you want to use it. For example, if you're studying for a test, you might set the time limit to 25 minutes, followed by a 5-minute break. This feature can help you stay focused and avoid distractions.

**iOS 12: A Developer Beta Available Now**

If you're interested in trying out iOS 12 before it's released to the public later this summer, you can download the developer beta on your device by purchasing a developer's account through Apple's website. The official version of iOS 12 will be available later this fall, and for more information and updates on iOS 12, be sure to check out Digital Trends.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enApple has officially released its latest operating system iOS 12 and while it's currently in beta we're going to showcase some key features and changes to the new OS so one thing you'll notice that's a little bit different iOS 12 is the notifications on your lockscreen normally when you receive a ton of notifications you have to scroll and scroll all the way through to see all of your text messages and your tweets and your email alerts now it's grouped together by category so all of your Instagram notifications are together in one group all of your tweets are together in one group and that way you can easily search through them without having to scroll through this long list of crazy notifications so if you want to see all of your tweets for instance all you would do is tap on the group of tweets and you can either scroll through all of them and clear or view specific ones or you can just clear them all by tapping on the X what you can also do is manage specific ones so this is a really cool feature that will also allow for Less notifications if you feel like you're getting a ton from one specific app that you don't really care as much about if you swipe on a group you'll see the manage button and this will allow you to do one of two things you can either turn them off completely so that you don't receive the notification at all or you can choose Stila very quietly this means that it'll bypass the lock screen you'll still receive the notification but just won't show up in iOS 11 the only things they could really do with the Do Not Disturb feature is toggle it on when you don't want to receive notifications and toggle it back on when you do but in iOS 12 you're now able to do a little bit more so there's a new bedtime mode feature that you can toggle on and and you can also set the times from which you go to bed and you wake up so we set ours to 10 p.m. and wake up at 7 a.m. and then when you toggle it on you won't receive any notifications on your lock screen between those hours and it will also dim the lock screen for you as well that way when you wake up in the middle of the night you're not scrolling through tons of notifications on this extremely brightly lit screen the client hours can also apply to any moment throughout the day that you know you don't want to receive notifications you can just set different times instead and that way when you toggle on the Do Not Disturb feature from your control center it automatically knows when to turn it off and when you'll be done so that you don't have to manually do it yourself a new app that Apple introduced in iOS 12 is a measure which lips do measure the dimensions of any object by just pointing your camera at it so once you calibrate your device it will recognize the object and give you all of the different measurements what you can also do is measure specific points by just moving your phone to where you want and then tapping on the screen and then what you can also do is screen shop the dimensions which will save to your photo album so you can reference it later also included in the measure app is a level when you need to hang up photos or portraits once it's leveled correctly it will indicate by highlighting it in green Apple has added a few new characters to its an emoji lineup so now we have the tiger a koala a dinosaur and also the ghost and there's also a really cool tongue detection feature so every time you stick out your tongue the an emoji is able to easily recognize it there's also an emoji which is a bit similar to Samsung this IR emoji and also bitmoji but you can customize your own character based on what you look like it's really easy and really fun to use all you have to do is tap new emoji and then you're brought to this menu of different customization options you can choose your skin tone based on a wide range of colors you can also give yourself a cool hairstyle and other options include age you can change the shape of your chin I color so there's a lot of fun things that you can do with it there's even some eyewear that you can add so if you wear glasses you can add some cool frames even for sunglasses you can change the darkness of the lens and there's also head wear add a cute little hat or just keep it simple so when you're ready to use your Mii emoji you just tap on the iMessage window have on the an emoji icon and then find them emoji that you want to use I'm gonna go with this one you have to make sure that your face is aligned up with the camera and then you hit record hey Andy just recording a video for digital trends showing them how cool the me emoji feature is hope you're having fun in New York and then you send it so another cool thing that you can do an iMessage with me moto G and an emoji is you can take photos with it so when you open up your camera app you're gonna see this little icon that you tap on and it's going to pull up the front-facing camera so all you have to do is tap on the an emoji icon you can either pick your Mii emoji or even man emoji and then you can take a photo with it you can also edit it any way you want by adding filters can also add text similar to the way you can do in snapchat and Instagram and then when you're all done very able to send it a new feature that Apple has added to its settings is screen time which is supposed to help us be on our phones a little bit less and it also gives us a summary of exactly how much time we spend on our phones per day as well as throughout the week so here we can see the longest session we've had the amount of times we've actually picked up phone per hour and the hours in which we've picked it up the most other things that you could see is how much time was spent on each app as well you can expand it to show even more apps you can also go into a new feature called downtime so what downtime does is it doesn't allow you to access specific apps depending on the times that you choose so say you get home from work at 7 p.m. and you don't want to be on your phone again until the next morning at 7 a.m. you go into the always allowed section and you pick specific apps that you want to be able to access so this can be anywhere from social media apps to news apps and all you do is you just tap on it and then it's added to the list so that way when you toggle on the downtime setting you're still able to access it in downtime the only thing that you're not able to toggle off is phone calls so you will always be able to receive phone calls and make them even when downtime is toggled on one feature that's available in screen time is a Plymouth's so this allows you to set specific time limits on how long you can use each app here we've added social networking and this allows you to choose anywhere between hours at a time and minutes you can also add even more depending on the category so there's entertainment which Netflix Hulu or any other music streaming apps there's also health and fitness apps that you can choose from so there's a large variety once you pick a specific category you tap add and then you choose how long you want to limit your app usage for go back to a planets so when you do go into a specific social networking app and your time is up what you're going to see is this window where it says time limit you've reached your time then on Facebook what you can do is you can either ignore the limit and have it remind you again in about 15 minutes or you can just completely ignore the limit for today you enter your password and then it allows you back on Facebook iOS 12 is currently available as a developer beta which you can download on your device by purchasing a developer's account through Apple's website otherwise you're going to have to wait until later this summer for the public beta the official version of iOS 12 will be available later this fall and for more Apple and iOS 12 coverage be sure to check out Digital TrendsApple has officially released its latest operating system iOS 12 and while it's currently in beta we're going to showcase some key features and changes to the new OS so one thing you'll notice that's a little bit different iOS 12 is the notifications on your lockscreen normally when you receive a ton of notifications you have to scroll and scroll all the way through to see all of your text messages and your tweets and your email alerts now it's grouped together by category so all of your Instagram notifications are together in one group all of your tweets are together in one group and that way you can easily search through them without having to scroll through this long list of crazy notifications so if you want to see all of your tweets for instance all you would do is tap on the group of tweets and you can either scroll through all of them and clear or view specific ones or you can just clear them all by tapping on the X what you can also do is manage specific ones so this is a really cool feature that will also allow for Less notifications if you feel like you're getting a ton from one specific app that you don't really care as much about if you swipe on a group you'll see the manage button and this will allow you to do one of two things you can either turn them off completely so that you don't receive the notification at all or you can choose Stila very quietly this means that it'll bypass the lock screen you'll still receive the notification but just won't show up in iOS 11 the only things they could really do with the Do Not Disturb feature is toggle it on when you don't want to receive notifications and toggle it back on when you do but in iOS 12 you're now able to do a little bit more so there's a new bedtime mode feature that you can toggle on and and you can also set the times from which you go to bed and you wake up so we set ours to 10 p.m. and wake up at 7 a.m. and then when you toggle it on you won't receive any notifications on your lock screen between those hours and it will also dim the lock screen for you as well that way when you wake up in the middle of the night you're not scrolling through tons of notifications on this extremely brightly lit screen the client hours can also apply to any moment throughout the day that you know you don't want to receive notifications you can just set different times instead and that way when you toggle on the Do Not Disturb feature from your control center it automatically knows when to turn it off and when you'll be done so that you don't have to manually do it yourself a new app that Apple introduced in iOS 12 is a measure which lips do measure the dimensions of any object by just pointing your camera at it so once you calibrate your device it will recognize the object and give you all of the different measurements what you can also do is measure specific points by just moving your phone to where you want and then tapping on the screen and then what you can also do is screen shop the dimensions which will save to your photo album so you can reference it later also included in the measure app is a level when you need to hang up photos or portraits once it's leveled correctly it will indicate by highlighting it in green Apple has added a few new characters to its an emoji lineup so now we have the tiger a koala a dinosaur and also the ghost and there's also a really cool tongue detection feature so every time you stick out your tongue the an emoji is able to easily recognize it there's also an emoji which is a bit similar to Samsung this IR emoji and also bitmoji but you can customize your own character based on what you look like it's really easy and really fun to use all you have to do is tap new emoji and then you're brought to this menu of different customization options you can choose your skin tone based on a wide range of colors you can also give yourself a cool hairstyle and other options include age you can change the shape of your chin I color so there's a lot of fun things that you can do with it there's even some eyewear that you can add so if you wear glasses you can add some cool frames even for sunglasses you can change the darkness of the lens and there's also head wear add a cute little hat or just keep it simple so when you're ready to use your Mii emoji you just tap on the iMessage window have on the an emoji icon and then find them emoji that you want to use I'm gonna go with this one you have to make sure that your face is aligned up with the camera and then you hit record hey Andy just recording a video for digital trends showing them how cool the me emoji feature is hope you're having fun in New York and then you send it so another cool thing that you can do an iMessage with me moto G and an emoji is you can take photos with it so when you open up your camera app you're gonna see this little icon that you tap on and it's going to pull up the front-facing camera so all you have to do is tap on the an emoji icon you can either pick your Mii emoji or even man emoji and then you can take a photo with it you can also edit it any way you want by adding filters can also add text similar to the way you can do in snapchat and Instagram and then when you're all done very able to send it a new feature that Apple has added to its settings is screen time which is supposed to help us be on our phones a little bit less and it also gives us a summary of exactly how much time we spend on our phones per day as well as throughout the week so here we can see the longest session we've had the amount of times we've actually picked up phone per hour and the hours in which we've picked it up the most other things that you could see is how much time was spent on each app as well you can expand it to show even more apps you can also go into a new feature called downtime so what downtime does is it doesn't allow you to access specific apps depending on the times that you choose so say you get home from work at 7 p.m. and you don't want to be on your phone again until the next morning at 7 a.m. you go into the always allowed section and you pick specific apps that you want to be able to access so this can be anywhere from social media apps to news apps and all you do is you just tap on it and then it's added to the list so that way when you toggle on the downtime setting you're still able to access it in downtime the only thing that you're not able to toggle off is phone calls so you will always be able to receive phone calls and make them even when downtime is toggled on one feature that's available in screen time is a Plymouth's so this allows you to set specific time limits on how long you can use each app here we've added social networking and this allows you to choose anywhere between hours at a time and minutes you can also add even more depending on the category so there's entertainment which Netflix Hulu or any other music streaming apps there's also health and fitness apps that you can choose from so there's a large variety once you pick a specific category you tap add and then you choose how long you want to limit your app usage for go back to a planets so when you do go into a specific social networking app and your time is up what you're going to see is this window where it says time limit you've reached your time then on Facebook what you can do is you can either ignore the limit and have it remind you again in about 15 minutes or you can just completely ignore the limit for today you enter your password and then it allows you back on Facebook iOS 12 is currently available as a developer beta which you can download on your device by purchasing a developer's account through Apple's website otherwise you're going to have to wait until later this summer for the public beta the official version of iOS 12 will be available later this fall and for more Apple and iOS 12 coverage be sure to check out Digital Trends\n"