**Setting Up Your Home with iOS 18**

One of the first features to enable on your iPhone or iPad running iOS 18 is vehicle motion cues. If you go into your Control Center, you can see that this feature has already been added for you. However, if you don't have it, you can tap on the Plus icon in the top left corner, go to Add Control, and search for "motion" to enable it. Once enabled, you can press on the icon to permanently turn it on or off. This feature uses animated dots around the screen to represent changes in vehicle motion, helping to reduce sensory conflict without interfering with the main content on your page.

**Accessibility Settings**

If you're watching Apple TV on your phone or iPad, you'll want to know about this next setting. Go into your Settings, then Accessibility, and scroll down until you reach "Audio/Visual." From there, scroll down further to find a new toggle called "Add Voice Isolation." This is disabled by default, but it's worth enabling if you're watching shows frequently. If you tap on the three dots in the top right corner of your screen, go into Audio, and then under "Enhance Dialogue," you'll see an option for "Isolate" dialogue. This will isolate everything except for the voices, allowing you to hear voices extra clearly.

**Setting Up Guest Access**

To set up guest access within your home, tap on the three dots in the top right corner of your screen and go into Home Settings. Look for the option for "Guest" and follow the prompts to invite someone over. Once you've invited someone, you can set their schedule so that they can only unlock the front door on certain days and at certain times. For example, if you have a pet sitter who only comes from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM on Monday and Friday, you can set those hours in the Guest Access settings.

**Home Hubs and Bridges**

Another setting you'll want to change is related to your Home Hubs. Go into Home Hubs and Bridges and look for the option to deselect "Automatic Selection." If you want to choose a preferred Home Hub instead of using Apple TV or another device, you can select that here. This will allow you to customize your home's hub settings.

**Downloading Maps for Offline Use**

If you have an Apple Watch running iOS 18, you'll want to take advantage of this new feature: downloading specific hikes to use offline. Go into the Maps app and download a hike that interests you. Once downloaded, it will be available for you to use offline, even without cell service. This is especially useful when venturing into areas where signal strength may be weak.

**Enabling RCS Messaging**

Finally, there's one more setting you'll want to enable: RCS messaging. Go into your Settings and navigate to Messages, then toggle on "RCS" under the Text Messaging section. This will allow you to send messages with all the features of iMessage, including group chats and Android users' ability to receive them in real-time.

**Additional Resources**

For more settings like this one, check out another video about your desk setup. It's a great resource for those interested in optimizing their home setup for iOS 18.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: eniOS 18 is loaded with hundreds of new features but it also includes several new settings that you probably didn't even know existed so in this video I'm going to show you 27 settings that you need to change immediately after installing iOS 18 on your iPhone so first off I'm sure you've been there you have music playing and then you open up the camera application and it's on video so your music pauses iOS 18 fixes that go into your settings go to camera and then into record sound and right here we have a brand new toggle in iOS 18 called allow audio playback and having this enabled will allow you to play music while you're recording a video and it will also prevent The Accidental pausing of music when you open up your camera accidentally and while we're in the camera I want to show you another setting you need to change which by the way we could also now pause video recordings in iOS 18 so that's a new feature right there but that's not what I'm showing you so now in iOS 18 if you have a video that you recorded at 60 FPS or maybe 120 FPS if you have an iPhone 16 Pro if you go to edit that video you'll see a new Option up in the top right that little speedometer icon if you tap on that this will allow you to change the playback speed after you record the video so before in iOS 17 you could only change the playback speed if you were in slow-mo mode but now in iOS 18 you can do it when you record normally in video mode so if I take this down to 30 FPS I can choose with a slowmo like interface down here where I want the video to play at 30 FPS instead of 60 FPS so there's no denying the fact that the photos application is very confusing and very overwhelming at first because if you go down here there's just a lot to see there's a lot of different albums a lot of different sections it can be very confusing so the next setting you want to change is down here under customize and reorder so all the way at the bottom of the photos application we now have customize and reorder and you want to deselect the albums that you do not want to see in the photos application so I just deselected everything I do not want showing up on the home screen of the photos application but maybe I want the utilities to be higher up I want to be able to see that right underneath of my pinned collections I can move that around so you want to not only deselect some of these but also move them around to how often you think you're going to actually want to see those different you know collections or albums whatever the case may be so now if I go out of here you can see everything is in the order that I like and it's also a lot less overwhelming there's a lot less to see now it's just what I actually want to see now the next thing you need to change are your lock screen shortcut buttons so if you have to press on your lock screen and go to customize and then go to your lock screen you can see that you can now customize the quick controls down here so if you tap on the minus that will eliminate them which will give you a really clean look on your lock screen you can see what that looks like here especially if I go out of the Focus mode very clean however if you tap on plus you have several different options to choose from including opening up applications straight from the lock screen so if you go to choose right here you can choose any of your applications you have installed to open up straight from the lock screen so the next setting you need to change has to do with scheduling messages so this is a new feature in iOS 18 where you can now schedule an iMessage to send at a later date now this is kind of hidden so if you tap on the plus to the left of the messages box there's nothing here that's new however if you swipe down you'll see that we have a new send leader option and if you tap on that this will allow you to schedule an iMessage you can tap right here and choose the time and you can send whatever you want and you can choose the time that it will send so we'll do 12:00 p.m. and we'll go ahead and send and you can see it will show the date and time it's set to send at we could also edit that message if we would like to so if you plan on using this more than once you need to tap and hold on send later and drag up and move this into your main section in your messages so you can access it easier so if you don't like how we have this blue blinking cursor when you're not typing you can actually disable that now with iOS 18 so I didn't realize how big of an annoyance this is to some people so if you go into your settings and go to accessibility go to motion and then down here we have a new toggle that you might want to turn on which is off by default called prefer non-blinking cursor and when you enable that and go back the cursor just stays solid it does not blink any longer next up you need to adjust the view of your calendar so with iOS 18 you have multiple different sizes for your calendar here so if I zoom in like so you can see that I have this view now you can kind of just pinch to change the view of your calendar and it will stay like that until you change it so if I force quit out of here and then I go back in to the calendar you'll notice it stays that view so just change this to whatever size you prefer so so with iOS 18 you're now allowed to interrupt Siri in the middle of it giving a response to you however sometimes that can cause issues where you say something and it stops Siri from giving you the response well now you can change that so head into your settings go to accessibility and then go down to the bottom and go to Siri and then in here we have a new toggle that is disabled by default called require Siri for interruptions if you turn that on you'll have to say either Siri or heyes to interrupt a Siri response so you'll no longer be able to just talk over Siri when she's giving you a response you will have to say one of the trigger words now so this can help with any inadvertent interruptions to Siri while giving you a response and we may as well talk about this one since we're right here so we also have listen for atypical speech so this is also disabled by default but if you have any type of speech impediment or if you have different speech patterns that are maybe hard for Siri to pick up on you can enable this and Siri will try to get better at listening and understanding you now let's talk about the battery so if you go into your settings and go to battery and then into the charging section you'll see that we have a brand new charge limit interface so before in iOS 17 you only had the option to set your charge limit to 80% or 100% that was it now you can set it to anything in between in 5% increments and what this does is it will only charge your phone up to that given percent so it will only charge my phone up to 90% in this example no matter how long it's on the charger so I would recommend staying between 80 and 90% that's just better for your battery long term but you do have the flexibility here to go up to 95% if you want but just keep in mind the optimized battery charging is only available when you have this set to charge the full 100% if you have it set to even 95% that will gray out optimized battery charging and now that we don't need optimized battery charging anymore you might want to go in and disable a potential battery drainer and this one is pretty well known here on the channel so if you go to your settings and go down to privacy and security and into location services and then down to the bottom go to system services and then in here go down to significant locations so once again this is on by default because it does help with recommendations and also once again significant locations is required in order for optimized battery charging to work which in the past that was always a musthave feature optimized battery charging was good for the battery so most people would only enable significant locations so that the optimized battery charging feature would work properly but now once again if you have an iPhone 15 you can feel free to go in here and turn this off and just to clarify significant locations is a feature that uses your location frequently to learn places that are significant to you and will help you with you know recommendations and your maps and your Spotlight all of that so it does help but it does also potentially cause battery drain and it could also cause you know a lot of tracking so if you're not a fan of tracking and if you're not a fan of potential battery drain you might want to turn this off but even unrelated to optimized battery charging or even if you don't have an iPhone 15 or newer it's good to know that this setting exists now this next setting is going to be a game changer for those who speak more than one language so if you go into your settings and go to General and then go down to keyboard go into keyboards and then go into English us or whatever your first language is and then right here under languages we have the option to add language and when you do that we can now add another language to our keyboard so for example I'll choose Portuguese Brazil right here and now we have two different languages here and now if you go into your keyboard you'll see in the bottom right hand corner of the space bar it will show the two languages that you have set up and now you can actually have a bilingual keyboard so you can type two different languages at the same time and get suggestions for each language at the same time so for for example if I start typing in English you can see that all of my predictions are in English but if I replace that and I start talking in Portuguese you can see it will give me suggestions in Portuguese as well using the same keyboard this next one is for all of my iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16 users with an action button so if you go into your settings and go to action button if you never found use for it before you might find use for it with iOS 18 because we not only have this new section here for controls so you can access different controls like you might see in the control center for example like my favorite one here is dark mode so I can turn my device into dark mode and out of dark mode with just a press of the action button but you could also use it for some of your connectivity settings you have utilities wallet watch all of that right here so just explore the controls Tab and then also there is the recognize music action now for the action button so if you're somebody who uses Shazam a lot you always are out and about and you hear music that you might not know that can be convenient to have linked to the action button now next up you need to change which applications actually show up on your device and what I mean by that is that now with iOS 18 you can not only lock applications with face ID but you could also hide them completely from your device so let's say for example I don't want anybody getting into my Discord application we can haptic press on that and we have a new Option here called require face ID if you do that you might want to select hide and require face ID not just require face ID so if you do that that will scan your face real quick and you will get this menu that says hide Discord and it will tell you basically that you're not going to get any notifications and it will be completely obscured so tap on hide app and now it's gone you will not see it even if I search up here for it it will not show up however if you go all the way over to your app library and then go all the way down to the bottom there's a new folder called hidden and you can tap on that and scan your face and it will show you your hidden applications and by the way if you want to reference these settings later on or you just prefer a written format I've created a PDF companion guide for this video and you can download it plus all of my past and future guides along with Hefty discounts on my wallpapers for just $6 a month or if you only want this one there is also a onetime payment option available as well so click on the link in the description or scan the QR code on the screen for more details now if you have IOS 18 and the airpods pro too you need to change this next setting so if you go into your airpod settings right here and then scroll down under the audio section and look for adaptive audio go into that menu and that's where you'll see this a new way to customize adaptive audio to either let in less noise or more noise so adaptive audio if you don't know is basically a mix of active noise cancellation and transparency mode so if you want more noise to be able to come in from transparency mode you can have that set or if you want less noise from transparency mode to come in you can have it set to less if you're not satisfied with the default setting and here's another airpods setting that you need to change and this applies to the airpods Pro 2 and the airpods 4 so if you go down here you'll notice that we have a new section called Head gestures so if you turn this on that will allow you to shake your head up and down to accept a phone call or shake your head side to side like you're saying no to decline the phone call so this can be very beneficial if you're in a quiet place like a library or an elevator and you're getting a phone call you don't have to tell Siri yes you could just shake your head up and down or side to side and this does also work for replying or dismissing notifications and you can go ahead in here and change the setting as well if you would like to so if you want to reverse this you can if you want to shake your head side to side to say yes instead of no you can do that as well now here's a setting you might want to change that's related to the music application and also Apple music classical so you'll see that we have this new glyph icon underneath of the now playing bar in music now and that is for music haptics and what this does is it gives you the haptic to the Beat of the Music so you can actually feel the vibrations coming from the back of the phone to the Beat of the Music which is awesome if you're deaf hard of hearing or if you just like the way that this feels and the feature in general especially if you know the lyrics it's really cool to be able to feel the Beat of the Music and you can kind of sing along since you already know the lyrics and if you use this feature a lot and you want to be able to turn it on on the Fly you can add it as a control inside of the control center now the next thing you need to change in iOS 18 is your browsing experience so in Safari we have a brand new feature called distraction control and this is essentially an ad blocker but for different elements on a website so if we tap on the reader icon in the address bar there's a new option for hide distracting items if you tap on that you will get this interface now where it just says to select an item so for example for cookie banners this is probably the best example so we'll select the cookie banner and then click on hide and now it's gone with that Thanos snap animation same with this little hand icon down here if we never want to see that again on this website we could just go ahead and select that and then press again and it's gone so this allows you to remove annoying elements on a web page and they stay hidden after a refresh as long as the element doesn't change so for ads for example Dynamic ads those will still come back so if we go to this website you'll see that we have multiple ads and if we go ahead and hide those they will disappear they will be hidden for our current session but if we were to go to another web page or reload this web page they will just reappear here because they change dynamically on the website so this feature only works for hiding elements that do not change elements that are static not Dynamic but still it does make a big difference for hiding some of the more annoying things on a website such as the full page banners you know the Google signin forms all those things that don't typically change very often so hiding distracting items is cool but there's another great feature in Safari and iOS 18 that you need to make sure is enabled so if you go into your settings and go to Safari and then scroll down down all the way down here you'll want to make sure that highlights is turned on this is a great feature in iOS 18 that allows you to see summaries of Articles so you can see when you go into the reader viiew we have the summary of that article right there it also works for showing information about people so we have Ben Affleck right here and you can see that when I press the reader view it shows me a summary of who he is and it shows me up here you know who it is as well and if I tap on that it will take me to his Wikipedia page or even if you go to a hotel restaurant website and tap right here it will show you the location and sometimes it will even show you their phone number up here as well so just makes everything easier to see previews and to see more information about the web page that you're on so definitely make sure that highlights is enabled so iOS 18 introduced the passwords application which is an excellent application for keeping track of your passwords pass Keys Wi-Fi networks and so on however you need to change some settings and before we get to the settings you do also need to go into into one of these folders so whether that be all pass Keys Wi-Fi whatever go into here and go down to these sorting options and you'll want to change this from the default so by default this is set to show everything in alphabetical order but I don't know about you I like seeing my most recent passwords first so you can do that right here by changing this setting to date edited or even date created so this will only show the passwords I created in the last week and if I go to date edited this will show me any of the you know passwords that I edited within the past week and it will be in order of the dates and then if you go into the passwords settings we do have some settings in here that you might want to change as well so we have show accounts as you can change that from titles and websites we have detect compromised passwords you will probably want to have that enabled suggest strong passwords and allow automatic Pass Key upgrades I would recommend keeping all of these enabled and then also if you go into view autofill settings I noticed that with iOS 18 this setting right here which is a very important setting that I love was disabled even though it was enabled before the update the delete after use for Verification codes was disabled so if that also happened to you I would recommend going ahead and turning this back on this is also in a new area in settings now with iOS 18 so if you want to automatically delete your two Factor authentication codes once you receive them you can select this and it will auto delete those tofa codes and messages and in mail after they are used that is very help ful for getting rid of those messages that no longer serve a purpose and there is also this setup codes in setting as well so if you have another application that you want to set up Verification codes in you can set that right there okay so next up let's reduce some of the tracking that happens on our device so if you go into your settings and go to Wi-Fi and then tap on the I next to your Wi-Fi network that you're connected to and then in here we have private Wii address and if this is not on rotating you might want to consider changing this to rotating and Apple describes what this does right here so this will help reduce tracking by changing your Wi-Fi address at various times and keep in mind that this is separate from limit IP address tracking this changes the MAC address whereas this changes the IP address for mail and Safari so you can have both enabled at the same time and they'll do two separate things now we also have a privacy and security setting we need to change so if you go into your settings and then go down here to privacy and security and then scroll down until you get to contacts because this has a change in iOS 18 so you can now give applications limited access to your contacts instead of giving them full access so before an iOS 17 you had no option you either gave an application full access to your contacts or you gave them no access at all but now with iOS 18 you can give applications limited access and you can continue to add on to that limited access as time goes on and we'll add our test contact right here and then when we go back we have an edit selected contacts option right here where we can add on to that list if we would like to and by the way if you're finding this video useful be sure to hit that subscribe button below these type of videos are my specialty and you'll stay in the know about new iPhone features before all of your friends if you subscribe now this next setting is kind of hidden if you don't know about it and that is vehicle motion cues so if you go into your control center you can see I have it added right here but if you do not you can tap on the Plus in the top left go to add control and just search for motion and you will see vehicle motion cues and if you have to press on this icon this will allow you to automatically enable this in a vehicle turn it on permanently or turn it off and you can see what it looks like here with the black dots around the screen that's how this feature works so what this does is use these animated dots on the edges of the screen to represent changes in vehicle motion to help reduce sensory conflict without interfering with the main content on your page that you're looking at if you watch Apple TV on your phone or iPad you'll definitely want to know this next setting so go into your settings go to accessibility and then go down till you get to audio and visual right here and then scroll down and we have a new toggle called add voice isolation this is disabled by default but you might want to enable this so if you're watching a show and you tap on the three dots right here and then go into audio and then under enhance dialogue this will add a new setting there called isolate and this will isolate everything except for the voices so you'll be able to hear voices extra good so this is even better than enhancing the dialogue if you isolate the dialogue it will really allow you to hear pretty much everything going on in the scene it will drain out some of the music and some of the background noise so you won't get the full effect of the show but it is really nice to at least have as an option so next you need to set up guest access within your home so if you tap on the three dots up in the top right and then go to home settings we have the option for guest right here and if you go go to that after you invite somebody you can set their schedule so they can only for example unlock the front door on certain days and at certain times so for example if I have a pet sitter for example and they only come from 9: to 11:00 on certain days of the week I can set their time there and then go to every week and deselect the days that the pet sitter does not come so maybe the pet sitter only comes on Monday and Friday and they only need to be there for a couple of hours I can set that and then we can go to done and again it's just to get in and out of the front door and then we can invite them and then also in our home settings another thing you need to change has to do with your home hubs so if you go to home hubs and bridges right here you might want to deselect automatic selection if you want to choose a preferred home hub so you can set that up if you want something else in your house to be the home hub instead of maybe the Apple TV if you want it to be a homepod instead you can change that right there now here's a setting you need to change especially if you have an Apple Watch so in iOS 18 you can not only download Maps but you can also now download specific hikes to use offline so these are areas where you typically will lose signal so you can add this to your library now and it will download the route for you so you don't get lost and here's the setting you need to change so if you go down there's a new toggle here for sync with Apple watch and this says that new maps you download to your iPhone will also download to your watch so you're going to want to enable that if you have an Apple Watch and I'm just going to include this as a bonus you need to enable RCS so this is on by default that's why I did not count it in this list but you need to enable RCS if it was somehow disabled because this is a big change in iOS 18 so you'll see RCS right there but if you go into your settings and go to messages you'll see under text messaging we have RCS messaging you want to go into here and make sure that is enabled that is going to make your experience messaging Android users or if you're in a group chat with Android users a lot more enjoyable so be sure to enable that so you'll get all the benefits pretty much all the benefits that you get with imessage so those are some of the first settings that you need to change on iOS 18 so if you found yourself changing at least one setting throughout this video I would appreciate if you gave this video a thumbs up and if you want to see the first settings to change in Mac OS Aqua you can check that out on the screen right now along with another video I think you'll like about my desk setup anyways thanks for watching and I'll see you sooniOS 18 is loaded with hundreds of new features but it also includes several new settings that you probably didn't even know existed so in this video I'm going to show you 27 settings that you need to change immediately after installing iOS 18 on your iPhone so first off I'm sure you've been there you have music playing and then you open up the camera application and it's on video so your music pauses iOS 18 fixes that go into your settings go to camera and then into record sound and right here we have a brand new toggle in iOS 18 called allow audio playback and having this enabled will allow you to play music while you're recording a video and it will also prevent The Accidental pausing of music when you open up your camera accidentally and while we're in the camera I want to show you another setting you need to change which by the way we could also now pause video recordings in iOS 18 so that's a new feature right there but that's not what I'm showing you so now in iOS 18 if you have a video that you recorded at 60 FPS or maybe 120 FPS if you have an iPhone 16 Pro if you go to edit that video you'll see a new Option up in the top right that little speedometer icon if you tap on that this will allow you to change the playback speed after you record the video so before in iOS 17 you could only change the playback speed if you were in slow-mo mode but now in iOS 18 you can do it when you record normally in video mode so if I take this down to 30 FPS I can choose with a slowmo like interface down here where I want the video to play at 30 FPS instead of 60 FPS so there's no denying the fact that the photos application is very confusing and very overwhelming at first because if you go down here there's just a lot to see there's a lot of different albums a lot of different sections it can be very confusing so the next setting you want to change is down here under customize and reorder so all the way at the bottom of the photos application we now have customize and reorder and you want to deselect the albums that you do not want to see in the photos application so I just deselected everything I do not want showing up on the home screen of the photos application but maybe I want the utilities to be higher up I want to be able to see that right underneath of my pinned collections I can move that around so you want to not only deselect some of these but also move them around to how often you think you're going to actually want to see those different you know collections or albums whatever the case may be so now if I go out of here you can see everything is in the order that I like and it's also a lot less overwhelming there's a lot less to see now it's just what I actually want to see now the next thing you need to change are your lock screen shortcut buttons so if you have to press on your lock screen and go to customize and then go to your lock screen you can see that you can now customize the quick controls down here so if you tap on the minus that will eliminate them which will give you a really clean look on your lock screen you can see what that looks like here especially if I go out of the Focus mode very clean however if you tap on plus you have several different options to choose from including opening up applications straight from the lock screen so if you go to choose right here you can choose any of your applications you have installed to open up straight from the lock screen so the next setting you need to change has to do with scheduling messages so this is a new feature in iOS 18 where you can now schedule an iMessage to send at a later date now this is kind of hidden so if you tap on the plus to the left of the messages box there's nothing here that's new however if you swipe down you'll see that we have a new send leader option and if you tap on that this will allow you to schedule an iMessage you can tap right here and choose the time and you can send whatever you want and you can choose the time that it will send so we'll do 12:00 p.m. and we'll go ahead and send and you can see it will show the date and time it's set to send at we could also edit that message if we would like to so if you plan on using this more than once you need to tap and hold on send later and drag up and move this into your main section in your messages so you can access it easier so if you don't like how we have this blue blinking cursor when you're not typing you can actually disable that now with iOS 18 so I didn't realize how big of an annoyance this is to some people so if you go into your settings and go to accessibility go to motion and then down here we have a new toggle that you might want to turn on which is off by default called prefer non-blinking cursor and when you enable that and go back the cursor just stays solid it does not blink any longer next up you need to adjust the view of your calendar so with iOS 18 you have multiple different sizes for your calendar here so if I zoom in like so you can see that I have this view now you can kind of just pinch to change the view of your calendar and it will stay like that until you change it so if I force quit out of here and then I go back in to the calendar you'll notice it stays that view so just change this to whatever size you prefer so so with iOS 18 you're now allowed to interrupt Siri in the middle of it giving a response to you however sometimes that can cause issues where you say something and it stops Siri from giving you the response well now you can change that so head into your settings go to accessibility and then go down to the bottom and go to Siri and then in here we have a new toggle that is disabled by default called require Siri for interruptions if you turn that on you'll have to say either Siri or heyes to interrupt a Siri response so you'll no longer be able to just talk over Siri when she's giving you a response you will have to say one of the trigger words now so this can help with any inadvertent interruptions to Siri while giving you a response and we may as well talk about this one since we're right here so we also have listen for atypical speech so this is also disabled by default but if you have any type of speech impediment or if you have different speech patterns that are maybe hard for Siri to pick up on you can enable this and Siri will try to get better at listening and understanding you now let's talk about the battery so if you go into your settings and go to battery and then into the charging section you'll see that we have a brand new charge limit interface so before in iOS 17 you only had the option to set your charge limit to 80% or 100% that was it now you can set it to anything in between in 5% increments and what this does is it will only charge your phone up to that given percent so it will only charge my phone up to 90% in this example no matter how long it's on the charger so I would recommend staying between 80 and 90% that's just better for your battery long term but you do have the flexibility here to go up to 95% if you want but just keep in mind the optimized battery charging is only available when you have this set to charge the full 100% if you have it set to even 95% that will gray out optimized battery charging and now that we don't need optimized battery charging anymore you might want to go in and disable a potential battery drainer and this one is pretty well known here on the channel so if you go to your settings and go down to privacy and security and into location services and then down to the bottom go to system services and then in here go down to significant locations so once again this is on by default because it does help with recommendations and also once again significant locations is required in order for optimized battery charging to work which in the past that was always a musthave feature optimized battery charging was good for the battery so most people would only enable significant locations so that the optimized battery charging feature would work properly but now once again if you have an iPhone 15 you can feel free to go in here and turn this off and just to clarify significant locations is a feature that uses your location frequently to learn places that are significant to you and will help you with you know recommendations and your maps and your Spotlight all of that so it does help but it does also potentially cause battery drain and it could also cause you know a lot of tracking so if you're not a fan of tracking and if you're not a fan of potential battery drain you might want to turn this off but even unrelated to optimized battery charging or even if you don't have an iPhone 15 or newer it's good to know that this setting exists now this next setting is going to be a game changer for those who speak more than one language so if you go into your settings and go to General and then go down to keyboard go into keyboards and then go into English us or whatever your first language is and then right here under languages we have the option to add language and when you do that we can now add another language to our keyboard so for example I'll choose Portuguese Brazil right here and now we have two different languages here and now if you go into your keyboard you'll see in the bottom right hand corner of the space bar it will show the two languages that you have set up and now you can actually have a bilingual keyboard so you can type two different languages at the same time and get suggestions for each language at the same time so for for example if I start typing in English you can see that all of my predictions are in English but if I replace that and I start talking in Portuguese you can see it will give me suggestions in Portuguese as well using the same keyboard this next one is for all of my iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16 users with an action button so if you go into your settings and go to action button if you never found use for it before you might find use for it with iOS 18 because we not only have this new section here for controls so you can access different controls like you might see in the control center for example like my favorite one here is dark mode so I can turn my device into dark mode and out of dark mode with just a press of the action button but you could also use it for some of your connectivity settings you have utilities wallet watch all of that right here so just explore the controls Tab and then also there is the recognize music action now for the action button so if you're somebody who uses Shazam a lot you always are out and about and you hear music that you might not know that can be convenient to have linked to the action button now next up you need to change which applications actually show up on your device and what I mean by that is that now with iOS 18 you can not only lock applications with face ID but you could also hide them completely from your device so let's say for example I don't want anybody getting into my Discord application we can haptic press on that and we have a new Option here called require face ID if you do that you might want to select hide and require face ID not just require face ID so if you do that that will scan your face real quick and you will get this menu that says hide Discord and it will tell you basically that you're not going to get any notifications and it will be completely obscured so tap on hide app and now it's gone you will not see it even if I search up here for it it will not show up however if you go all the way over to your app library and then go all the way down to the bottom there's a new folder called hidden and you can tap on that and scan your face and it will show you your hidden applications and by the way if you want to reference these settings later on or you just prefer a written format I've created a PDF companion guide for this video and you can download it plus all of my past and future guides along with Hefty discounts on my wallpapers for just $6 a month or if you only want this one there is also a onetime payment option available as well so click on the link in the description or scan the QR code on the screen for more details now if you have IOS 18 and the airpods pro too you need to change this next setting so if you go into your airpod settings right here and then scroll down under the audio section and look for adaptive audio go into that menu and that's where you'll see this a new way to customize adaptive audio to either let in less noise or more noise so adaptive audio if you don't know is basically a mix of active noise cancellation and transparency mode so if you want more noise to be able to come in from transparency mode you can have that set or if you want less noise from transparency mode to come in you can have it set to less if you're not satisfied with the default setting and here's another airpods setting that you need to change and this applies to the airpods Pro 2 and the airpods 4 so if you go down here you'll notice that we have a new section called Head gestures so if you turn this on that will allow you to shake your head up and down to accept a phone call or shake your head side to side like you're saying no to decline the phone call so this can be very beneficial if you're in a quiet place like a library or an elevator and you're getting a phone call you don't have to tell Siri yes you could just shake your head up and down or side to side and this does also work for replying or dismissing notifications and you can go ahead in here and change the setting as well if you would like to so if you want to reverse this you can if you want to shake your head side to side to say yes instead of no you can do that as well now here's a setting you might want to change that's related to the music application and also Apple music classical so you'll see that we have this new glyph icon underneath of the now playing bar in music now and that is for music haptics and what this does is it gives you the haptic to the Beat of the Music so you can actually feel the vibrations coming from the back of the phone to the Beat of the Music which is awesome if you're deaf hard of hearing or if you just like the way that this feels and the feature in general especially if you know the lyrics it's really cool to be able to feel the Beat of the Music and you can kind of sing along since you already know the lyrics and if you use this feature a lot and you want to be able to turn it on on the Fly you can add it as a control inside of the control center now the next thing you need to change in iOS 18 is your browsing experience so in Safari we have a brand new feature called distraction control and this is essentially an ad blocker but for different elements on a website so if we tap on the reader icon in the address bar there's a new option for hide distracting items if you tap on that you will get this interface now where it just says to select an item so for example for cookie banners this is probably the best example so we'll select the cookie banner and then click on hide and now it's gone with that Thanos snap animation same with this little hand icon down here if we never want to see that again on this website we could just go ahead and select that and then press again and it's gone so this allows you to remove annoying elements on a web page and they stay hidden after a refresh as long as the element doesn't change so for ads for example Dynamic ads those will still come back so if we go to this website you'll see that we have multiple ads and if we go ahead and hide those they will disappear they will be hidden for our current session but if we were to go to another web page or reload this web page they will just reappear here because they change dynamically on the website so this feature only works for hiding elements that do not change elements that are static not Dynamic but still it does make a big difference for hiding some of the more annoying things on a website such as the full page banners you know the Google signin forms all those things that don't typically change very often so hiding distracting items is cool but there's another great feature in Safari and iOS 18 that you need to make sure is enabled so if you go into your settings and go to Safari and then scroll down down all the way down here you'll want to make sure that highlights is turned on this is a great feature in iOS 18 that allows you to see summaries of Articles so you can see when you go into the reader viiew we have the summary of that article right there it also works for showing information about people so we have Ben Affleck right here and you can see that when I press the reader view it shows me a summary of who he is and it shows me up here you know who it is as well and if I tap on that it will take me to his Wikipedia page or even if you go to a hotel restaurant website and tap right here it will show you the location and sometimes it will even show you their phone number up here as well so just makes everything easier to see previews and to see more information about the web page that you're on so definitely make sure that highlights is enabled so iOS 18 introduced the passwords application which is an excellent application for keeping track of your passwords pass Keys Wi-Fi networks and so on however you need to change some settings and before we get to the settings you do also need to go into into one of these folders so whether that be all pass Keys Wi-Fi whatever go into here and go down to these sorting options and you'll want to change this from the default so by default this is set to show everything in alphabetical order but I don't know about you I like seeing my most recent passwords first so you can do that right here by changing this setting to date edited or even date created so this will only show the passwords I created in the last week and if I go to date edited this will show me any of the you know passwords that I edited within the past week and it will be in order of the dates and then if you go into the passwords settings we do have some settings in here that you might want to change as well so we have show accounts as you can change that from titles and websites we have detect compromised passwords you will probably want to have that enabled suggest strong passwords and allow automatic Pass Key upgrades I would recommend keeping all of these enabled and then also if you go into view autofill settings I noticed that with iOS 18 this setting right here which is a very important setting that I love was disabled even though it was enabled before the update the delete after use for Verification codes was disabled so if that also happened to you I would recommend going ahead and turning this back on this is also in a new area in settings now with iOS 18 so if you want to automatically delete your two Factor authentication codes once you receive them you can select this and it will auto delete those tofa codes and messages and in mail after they are used that is very help ful for getting rid of those messages that no longer serve a purpose and there is also this setup codes in setting as well so if you have another application that you want to set up Verification codes in you can set that right there okay so next up let's reduce some of the tracking that happens on our device so if you go into your settings and go to Wi-Fi and then tap on the I next to your Wi-Fi network that you're connected to and then in here we have private Wii address and if this is not on rotating you might want to consider changing this to rotating and Apple describes what this does right here so this will help reduce tracking by changing your Wi-Fi address at various times and keep in mind that this is separate from limit IP address tracking this changes the MAC address whereas this changes the IP address for mail and Safari so you can have both enabled at the same time and they'll do two separate things now we also have a privacy and security setting we need to change so if you go into your settings and then go down here to privacy and security and then scroll down until you get to contacts because this has a change in iOS 18 so you can now give applications limited access to your contacts instead of giving them full access so before an iOS 17 you had no option you either gave an application full access to your contacts or you gave them no access at all but now with iOS 18 you can give applications limited access and you can continue to add on to that limited access as time goes on and we'll add our test contact right here and then when we go back we have an edit selected contacts option right here where we can add on to that list if we would like to and by the way if you're finding this video useful be sure to hit that subscribe button below these type of videos are my specialty and you'll stay in the know about new iPhone features before all of your friends if you subscribe now this next setting is kind of hidden if you don't know about it and that is vehicle motion cues so if you go into your control center you can see I have it added right here but if you do not you can tap on the Plus in the top left go to add control and just search for motion and you will see vehicle motion cues and if you have to press on this icon this will allow you to automatically enable this in a vehicle turn it on permanently or turn it off and you can see what it looks like here with the black dots around the screen that's how this feature works so what this does is use these animated dots on the edges of the screen to represent changes in vehicle motion to help reduce sensory conflict without interfering with the main content on your page that you're looking at if you watch Apple TV on your phone or iPad you'll definitely want to know this next setting so go into your settings go to accessibility and then go down till you get to audio and visual right here and then scroll down and we have a new toggle called add voice isolation this is disabled by default but you might want to enable this so if you're watching a show and you tap on the three dots right here and then go into audio and then under enhance dialogue this will add a new setting there called isolate and this will isolate everything except for the voices so you'll be able to hear voices extra good so this is even better than enhancing the dialogue if you isolate the dialogue it will really allow you to hear pretty much everything going on in the scene it will drain out some of the music and some of the background noise so you won't get the full effect of the show but it is really nice to at least have as an option so next you need to set up guest access within your home so if you tap on the three dots up in the top right and then go to home settings we have the option for guest right here and if you go go to that after you invite somebody you can set their schedule so they can only for example unlock the front door on certain days and at certain times so for example if I have a pet sitter for example and they only come from 9: to 11:00 on certain days of the week I can set their time there and then go to every week and deselect the days that the pet sitter does not come so maybe the pet sitter only comes on Monday and Friday and they only need to be there for a couple of hours I can set that and then we can go to done and again it's just to get in and out of the front door and then we can invite them and then also in our home settings another thing you need to change has to do with your home hubs so if you go to home hubs and bridges right here you might want to deselect automatic selection if you want to choose a preferred home hub so you can set that up if you want something else in your house to be the home hub instead of maybe the Apple TV if you want it to be a homepod instead you can change that right there now here's a setting you need to change especially if you have an Apple Watch so in iOS 18 you can not only download Maps but you can also now download specific hikes to use offline so these are areas where you typically will lose signal so you can add this to your library now and it will download the route for you so you don't get lost and here's the setting you need to change so if you go down there's a new toggle here for sync with Apple watch and this says that new maps you download to your iPhone will also download to your watch so you're going to want to enable that if you have an Apple Watch and I'm just going to include this as a bonus you need to enable RCS so this is on by default that's why I did not count it in this list but you need to enable RCS if it was somehow disabled because this is a big change in iOS 18 so you'll see RCS right there but if you go into your settings and go to messages you'll see under text messaging we have RCS messaging you want to go into here and make sure that is enabled that is going to make your experience messaging Android users or if you're in a group chat with Android users a lot more enjoyable so be sure to enable that so you'll get all the benefits pretty much all the benefits that you get with imessage so those are some of the first settings that you need to change on iOS 18 so if you found yourself changing at least one setting throughout this video I would appreciate if you gave this video a thumbs up and if you want to see the first settings to change in Mac OS Aqua you can check that out on the screen right now along with another video I think you'll like about my desk setup anyways thanks for watching and I'll see you soon\n"