**New Features and Updates in iOS 18**

The latest update to iOS, iOS 18, has brought several exciting new features and improvements that will make using your iPhone even more efficient and enjoyable. One of the most significant changes is the ability to specify multiple conditions for if statements in Shortcuts. Previously, users had to go to "Otherwise" and add another if statement, but now they can tap on a plus icon next to their if statement to add more conditions without having to add additional if statements.

This feature has been particularly useful for users who want to create complex shortcuts that require multiple conditions to be met. For example, a user might want to create a shortcut that checks the time of day and only runs an action when it's between 7am and 9am. With the new feature, they can easily add multiple conditions without having to resort to workarounds.

Another new feature in iOS 18 is the ability to search for specific words or phrases within Notes. This has been made possible by the integration of the Math Notes feature, which allows users to write math problems and have them solved automatically. Additionally, if a user searches for a word or phrase that appears in their handwriting, it will recognize it and allow them to copy and paste it as text.

**FreeForm App Updates**

The FreeForm app has also received several updates in iOS 18. One of the most significant changes is the addition of the "Scene" feature, which allows users to move between different parts of a board while presenting. This makes it much easier to navigate through complex presentations and can help reduce eye strain.

To create a new scene, a user simply needs to go up to the three dots at the top right corner of their screen and tap on "Add Scene" or go to the "Scene Navigator". From there, they can select from a list of existing scenes or create a new one. The scenes can be customized by adjusting settings such as zoom level and layout.

Another useful feature in FreeForm is the ability to snap objects together using Magnetic connection lines. This makes it easy to arrange objects on a board in a logical and visually appealing way. Additionally, the math notes feature has been integrated into FreeForm, allowing users to write math problems and have them solved automatically.

**Other Features**

In addition to Shortcuts and FreeForm, iOS 18 also includes several other new features and improvements. One of these is the ability to create folders in the Files app more easily. Users can now simply drag and drop files into a folder to create it, rather than having to go through a series of steps.

Another useful feature is the ability to search for specific words or phrases within messages. This has been made possible by the integration of speech recognition technology, which allows users to dictate their messages and have them transcribed automatically.

**Dual SIM Support**

iOS 18 also includes improved dual SIM support, making it easier for users to switch between two different phone plans. Users can now easily manage multiple SIMs, including switching between different plans or carriers.

**Voice Memo Migration**

The update also includes a feature that allows users to migrate their Voice Memos from one iPhone to another when transferring data via Wi-Fi. This makes it easy to take notes and recordings on the go and then transfer them to a new iPhone.

**Wi-Fi Migration**

Speaking of Wi-Fi migration, iOS 18 has made several improvements to this process. The update now uses 5 GHz frequency bands for faster and more reliable migrations. Additionally, users can now migrate data via a wired connection using a USB-C to USB-C cable or a USB-C to Lightning adapter.

**Dual SIM Labels**

iOS 18 also includes dual SIM labels when transferring data, making it easy to identify which SIM is being transferred.

**Voice Memo Tips**

The update includes several voice memo tips that will be shared during the migration process. These tips provide users with helpful information and guidance on how to get the most out of their iPhone and iOS updates.

**iPhone 15 Series Support**

Finally, the update specifically mentions support for the iPhone 15 series and newer devices, which now receive a new feature: the ability to see the time when the phone is dead. This is only available on these latest models, however.

**Conclusion**

Overall, iOS 18 has brought several exciting new features and improvements that will make using your iPhone even more efficient and enjoyable. From the addition of multi-condition if statements in Shortcuts to the integration of math notes and dual SIM support, there's something for everyone in this update. Whether you're looking to streamline your workflow or simply want to experience a faster and more reliable Wi-Fi migration process, iOS 18 is definitely worth checking out.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: eniOS 18 is the most significant update in years and I'm going to be showing you more than 500 new features and changes to prove it to you and as tradition this is a fulllength film so grab your snacks grab your popcorn throw this video up on the TV and if you enjoy it give this video a thumbs up let's jump in okay so throughout this video I'm going to have IOS 17 on the left iOS 18 on the right let's start with the lock screen so what do you notice is missing an iOS 18 yes it's the quick actions down below the lock screen shortcuts can not only now be removed but they can be customizable so before it was limited to just the flashlight and the camera but now you can change that so if you have to press on your lock screen and go to customize and then go to your lock screen you'll see that we now have these two plus arrows at the bottom and when you tap on that you can customize the actions so let's say for example we want to open an app from our lock screen we can go to open app right here and then we can choose what application we want to open up so if I ever want to quickly go into YouTube I could just select YouTube and now you'll see that we get this little YouTube icon down there now we're going to add another one over here let's do silent mode so now when we go to our lock screen we can just press one of these two quick actions at the bottom to either open up YouTube or go into silent mode so we have to press right there and you can see I'm toggling between that mode and you can see the different animations there and same with YouTube all I have to do is long press on that and it will open up YouTube for me and the quick action controls that you choose will stay sticky to that specific wallpaper so if you were to go to a different wallpaper you will see different actions because again you can customize them on a per wallpaper basis but as I showed in the beginning if you have a really nice lock screen wallpaper like this one from the rewind wallpaper pack it looks really good and just really clean if you completely remove those quick actions there's also a new color for the clock up here so if you go to the clock you can see that we have a new gradient here in iOS 18 that was not there in iOS 17 so you can see kind of what that looks like when it's thick and thin you cannot change the gradient it's just stuck with those colors and if you tap on the globe icon in the top left corner you'll notice that we have several additional languages for the clock now and also all of the languages are alphabetically sorted we have a new Dynamic wallpaper for iOS 18 so this shows up when you add a new wallpaper you can see all of the different colors here however it might actually just shuffle through all those colors if you set it to Dynamics you can see when you add it to your lock screen you can kind of toggle between the different colors but if you go to the very beginning it will change to Dynamic and this will actually change colors throughout the day also on the lock screen if you get a message while in a focus mode it will just say messages now instead of who actually sent the message before an iOS 17 instead of saying messages it would just say the name of the contact okay so now let's talk about the home screen and this is where we're going to have a mass massive change from IOS 17 so take a look at iOS 17 and take a look at iOS 18 and tell me which one you would choose now you might choose the light icons and that's fine but I personally like the dark icons a lot so you'll notice that most of the thirdparty applications and first party applications now have a dark mode variant but this is not enabled by default you need to haptic press on your home screen and now you see that we have an edit button up in the top leftand corner whereas before that was a plus icon up there and if you tap on that we have a change here as well so before if you press that it would just pull up the widgets that you can add but now we get a menu here so there's add widget there's customize and there's edit pages so if you go into customize this is where we get the menu down here in this bottom tray and this is where you can change the icons from light mode which will be on by default once you update to iOS 18 but if you want to change it to dark mode you just simply select dark and you'll also notice that your wallpaper got darker you can tap on that to you know return the wallpaper to its original state but you can put that in kind of a darker mode there as well if you would like to there's also an automatic mode which will change of course based on you know the sunrise and the sunset and then we also have tinted now tinted is really cool because you can see it kind of just adds this really nice tint to your icons and also to your widgets you'll see this throughout everything on your home screen so it's really neat but there's more to this than meets the eye so if you go back to customize and go to tinted you can see you can change the Hue of it right here you can change the opacity of the color and my personal favorite part is that we have a Color Picker here so if you go to the Color Picker you can now match it to a certain part of your wallpaper for a more precise you know color and to get it matching perfectly so if I go right here you can see how that looks uh maybe I'm not a big fan maybe I want it to be more of the blue color there we go we can do that and maybe we want it to be a little bit lighter we can kind of just adjust this to our liking and by the way if you want to get any of these wallpapers I will leave them linked down in the description below and here's another example of how cool your home screen can look with those colored icons so with those tinted icons and you'll notice that when you change to a different lock screen the those icons also stick with that wallpaper so here's another example you can see just like the lock screen anytime you change the app icons those will persist those will stick with the specific wallpaper and this is just one of the reasons I think iOS 18 is such an awesome update because you can finally you know customize your iPhone to your liking like you can just keep the classic white icons if you want to but at least you have more flexibility now to do a lot more than you previously could and if you want an ultra clean setup you can also set your app icons right here from small to large so if you select large the app icons will get larger and it will remove the text underneath of the apps so the app labels are gone and that just gives you a really clean look on your home screen now you've probably been wondering how I have this empty section up here in the top right of my home screen and that's because now in iOS 18 you can move app icons outside of the traditional grid so if you have to press on your home screen to go into jiggle mode take a look at this I can move these app icons wherever I want not necessarily wherever I want it still has to be you know in the grid somewhere but they do not have to be next to each other anymore you going to essentially move these app icons to pretty much wherever you want and this gives you so much customizability for the home screen and this is another reason I think that everybody's home screen after iOS 18 is going to look so different there's also a really nice change to widgets in iOS 18 so an iOS 17 if I wanted to change the size of this music widget I would just have to remove it and then add a new one with the correct size but now in iOS 18 you'll notice that we have this little dragger icon in the bottom right that's because we can now drag that to change the size on the Fly we no longer need to remove the entire widget and add a new one we can change this to whatever size we would like and you can see how smooth and fluid it is and you can even make a widget from an app icon on your home screen without ever even going into jiggle mode so for example for podcast if I have to press on podcasts you can see that we now have a new menu there for changing the size of this app icon which means that we can make it into a widget just by tapping right there boom and that also means that you can change a widget back into an app icon so if I have to press on any of my widgets I can just go ahead and press right there and it will turn it into an app icon same with this one right here press it and boom it's into a music app icon now here is a feature I've been waiting on for over a decade now in iOS 18 you can hide and lock applications so if you have to press on an app icon you'll now get a new menu option that says require face ID if you tap on that it gives you a prompt after that that says do you want to just require face ID or do you want to also hide the application so if you press require face ID it does just what you would think so if I press that it will scan my face and boom so now if we try to open up Snapchat it lets me but you can see that you do have to enter in your passcode right once you go into the application however if you don't want somebody even knowing that the application is on your device you can go to hide and require face ID so when you do that it will scan your face and now you get this prompt that says hide Snapchats and it says that it will be obscured and you will get no notifications calls or alerts from that application so if you tap on hide application it will do that and boom it's gone and you'll notice that if you go all the way over to the app library and go all the way to the bottom there's now a new folder called hidden and if you tap on that it will ask to scan your face and you will see the two hidden applications that I have right there and if you go into your settings and go down to the apps section and then go all the way down to the bottom this is also where you'll see a menu option for hidden application so if you go into here this is where you can see the settings for those hidden apps and going back to the app Library there's a minor change here so the background is no longer blurred so before it used to blur the home screen wallpaper now it is unblurred and this will be very hard to portray through the video but also in iOS 18 Parallax icons are back so this will lightly shift your wallpaper your apps and your alerts as you to your iPhone and kind of move it around this was removed in iOS 16 and stayed absent on iOS 17 but now it's come back with iOS 18 and if you want to disable this you just need to turn on reduce motion and I had to change my wallpaper to something lighter for this next feature but this is something that is so subtle but it's what makes Apple Apple so take a look at what happens when I press on the buttons you see that little animation there's this little animation that kind of comes out from the bezel of the iPhone and it's super subtle but it's just so cool and it's so fluid and so nice it also works on the side button over here as well and also for the camera control button if you have the iPhone 16 really small detail but I love it so we all know what the control center looks like in iOS 17 well take a look at iOS 18 which control center do you like better because I think iOS 18 looks so much better with the circular icons but it's not just the shape of the icons down here it's also the extreme amount of customizability that you can do do here it's a complete redesign and rethinking of the control center so first things first let's not forget these top buttons up here so you do have a little plus icon which will allow you to add controls so you no longer need to go into settings to add a control to the control center also up in the top right we have a power button where you can havep to press on that to power down your phone and just like with the widgets on the home screen you can also resize all of your control center icons so I have these all set up how I like it so I'm just going to scroll down because you also have multiple pages so you can have multiple pages of control center icons so let's just go to add a control and you'll notice that we get a vast selection of controls to choose from you have everything from connectivity to your focus modes homekit now playing remote you have your utilities you have accessibility Vision accessibility you have pretty much anything you can think of in here and plus you can also add shortcuts in here as well which we'll talk about that in a moment but that's an option in there as well now going back to the main control center page here once you add your control center icons you can also resize them just like you can with widgets on the home screen so you have multiple different sizes for every widget or at least most widgets and you can just you know change them around move them around to wherever you would like and you can make them larger and you can see that the widgets around it just kind of move out of the way it's really fluid and really really nice and again so customizable now also we do have multiple Pages as I mentioned so after you get past the main control center you know Pages where you can customize we do also have a media page which by the way even though these are there by default you can customize these even further as well so if you wanted to make this you know a little bit smaller and turn that into you know another page like the first one you can do that but by default it is large like this and then below that we have our homekit area so we have our home devices in a separate area now on a separate page which is very convenient that way you don't accidentally press something when you pull down your control center all the time maybe it was just me but if you go down to the end we also have a connectivity tab where you have all your connectivity options such as airplane mode airdrop Wi-Fi and so on and here's just a side by side of the difference between the two so before if you wanted to get into the connectivity area like this on iOS 17 you just had to haptic press right there and everything was just smaller and just so bundled together everything was just very congested in iOS 17 now you have so much space in iOS 18 and so much customizability to set the control center to your life and another way to navigate through the control center is just to haptic press in this section and you can kind of see this little animation and how each section kind of pops out there so this is an easier way than just going through and scrolling and maybe accidentally pressing something so just haptic press over here and you get a really nice fluid animation to go along with the switching of pages and this is also like the home screen where nobody's Control Center is really going to look the same and that's just awesome because that's not something that we're familiar with on iOS normally everybody's iPhone kind of looks the same but now with the customizability on the lock screen the home screen and now the control center pretty much nobody's iPhone is going to look the same which I think is a big win for iOS we also have a change to the Shazam glyph icon so it looks a little bit different here in iOS 18 and also if you have to press on that we have a change here as well so it doesn't just show your history by default you can have it set to recognize music and then also the option to show history and there's also several changes to the glyph icons so the flashlight glyph icon it looks a little bit different the flashlight is a tiny bit smaller the calculator glyph icon has the new look for the updated calculator in iOS 18 the screen recording icon looks different so the outline is less opaque and it's also a little bit thicker low power mode also has a change so it's less opaque Also the battery percentage inside of the glyph icon shows as lower than it was in iOS 17 the camera icon has a thicker Circle through the middle the screen mirroring glyph icon has a change as well so it's very similar to the other ones and pretty much every icon has been changed and also the little glyph inside of the circle is a little bit larger than it was on iOS 17 as well and orientation lock is also different on iOS 18 both when it's enabled and disabled now if we activate the flashlight you can see a massive difference in the UI here so the UI kind of lives up in the dynamic Island now in iOS 18 and also in iOS 17 the only thing you could customize was the intensity of the flashlight beam but now in iOS 18 you can not only increase the intensity by swiping up right here but also the spread of it so if you move your finger side to side you can change the spread of the flashlights along with the intensity and you can see the really nice animation there when you go up and also when you go and change the you know width of the beam for your flashlight so really awesome try it out and also check out the animation when we turn the flashlight off really nice and by the way when you turn the flashlight off in iOS 17 it just turns straight off as you can see just straight off but in 18 the flashlight Fades out it doesn't just go straight off it kind of Fades out so if you go to the control center and add the background sounds control we have new background sounds if you have to press on that we have two new ones down here so KN and fire and by the way like I mentioned earlier you can add a shortcut into the control center so if you wanted to open up an application quickly from the control center you can now do that by adding a shortcut so you can either use the pre-made open app or you can choose your own custom made shortcuts so for example I have one right here that will open up X when I tap on it so I tap on it and boom it opens up the application that I wanted and same right here if I press on this it will open up messages for me to compose a new text message which is very convenient on the Fly and speaking of control center toggles if you have an action button so if you have a 15 Pro or an iPhone 16 and you go to your action button settings if you go over to controls we now can quickly access your favorite control via the action button which is really nice if if you want to quickly trigger dark modee if you want to quickly you know scan a QR code quickly go into airplane mode any of these that you want you can do that by simply pressing and holding on the action button you can even ping your watch from there and there's also a new recognized music toggle as well so if you have to press on that you can see the animation up there it will listen for the music and tell you what it is and by the way if you go into your focus modes there is going to be a new reduce interruptions Focus mode if you have an apple intelligence compatible iPhone IP IP ad or Mac and you've upgraded to iOS or iPad OS 18.1 or Mac OS 15.1 so this is the new you know Apple intelligence Focus mode which is really awesome so if we go into our settings and go to focus you will see reduce interruptions even though I don't technically have that feature yet on my device so if you get a message from somebody that may be important it will break through your focus mode and show you this little notification up here with a really nice animation that's very Apple intelligence esque and while we're talking about Focus modes and Siri let's go into our Siri settings so it's now Siri and not Siri and search or if you're on iOS 18.1 you'll see apple intelligence and Siri and if you go into those settings you'll notice that we have a couple of changes here so first off it now says Siri requests instead of ask Siri also there's no more press side button for Siri on this main page it's now under the talk to Siri section so if you go into talk to Siri we now have the Press side button for Siri right there and if you go into accessibility and then down to Siri and then scroll down you'll notice that we have some changes here as well so before it said always listen for s or hey s now it just says always listen for S also there's a new setting here called require Siri for interruptions so it says when this is on you have to say Siri or hey s to interrupt a Siri response and then below that we have another new option for listen for a typical speech so this will expand the speech patterns that Siri will listen for and it will help improve speech recognition so if Siri had a hard time understanding you in the past enabling this might help Siri understand you better the messages application gets quite a few changes this year that I think you're going to love so number one if we go to tap back on a message we have multiple changes here so you can see iOS 17 on the left iOS 18 on the right multiple changes right away so we have more colorful reactions up top and we have additional reactions that we can give so we have a recently used Emoji right there and we could also add any emoji that we would like so if we scroll over we can see some of our recently used emojis and if you tap on the emoji icon you can choose from the keyboard which Emoji you would like to select as a reaction and you can even react to a message with a sticker also in group chats if multiple people react to the same message it now has them separated whereas in iOS 17 they were all stacked together if you tap and hold on that message it also shows the individual so if there's two ha pause it will show both individuals right there underneath of it whereas before it just showed two and you had to tap on it to see who the other person was who reacted with the haha in this instance you can now send multiple stickers in a single message and you can combine stickers with Emojis so you can see I have a sticker and an emoji there and iOS 17 that was not possible you would it would send the sticker as an image and then the Emoji would be separate and same with stickers you could only send one sticker at a time it would ask you to replace it if you tried to select two but now you can send multiple stickers and even combine them with Emojis if you start typing out a message you'll notice a new a icon right here to the far right in the predictive text field if you tap on that you can see that you now have the option to send text effects for individual words or characters so before an iOS 17 you could do similar you know effects right there but it was only if you tapped and held on the send button and then you had the option to send the whole message with an effect but now you can do that for individual words so if I wanted to maybe make best stand out in this message I can do let's just do explode so now you can see it will send like that so if I go ahead and send that here's what it looks like when it does that little animation so that's pretty awesome but it goes even further because we also have the option to format so we now have text formatting in the messages application which means that we can bold items we can italicize items so if we go over here and italicize that we can underline so if we go here and underline and we can also strike through so you can do them all in the same message as well if you would like to and it will show up that way for the recipient as long as they're on iOS 18 now here is a feature I've been waiting on for a long time now with iOS 18 you can schedule iMessages to send up to 2 weeks in advance so maybe if you just remembered that it's somebody's birthday and you don't want to forget in 2 weeks you can now schedule to send that message on your behalf so once you type out the message just tap the plus icon to the left of the text field and look for the send later option if you don't see that you could just scroll down and it should show up right here so once you select send later you get the option to choose your date and again this goes up to 2 weeks in advance and you can really narrow this down to the exact time that you want to send it now once you select the time that you want just hit send right there and you will see that we now have a send later option above that and it will show it and if you tap on edit you have the option to send it right away you can edit the time or you can delete the message and the best part about this feature is that even if your device is turned turned off or if you don't have signal it will still send to that person because it is currently being stored in the iMessage servers if a link is shared in iMessage it will now adopt the dominant color of the content and it will fill in the gray areas with that color so they look a lot cleaner now in iOS 18 compared to iOS 17 you also get more control over how the links are viewed how they're formatted in messages so if you go and paste a link in here and then you tap on that link we have multiple options now so you can customize that so if it's supported you can choose between two different looks for how that link will look in line in the message and you also have the option to convert to text link that way it only sends it as the text and not the embed of the video so easily the biggest change coming to messages this year is RCS support So now with iOS 18 we officially have RCS support which means means that we can text with Android users and get pretty much all of the benefits that we get with imessage users aside from their bubbles remaining green so we now have text indicators you can now see typing indicators when somebody on Android is typing you now have read receipts so if they have that enabled you will now see when they read your messages but the best part is that you won't receive videos like this anymore this really grainy super low reses video video that we used to see when videos were sent from Android to iPhone over MMS so now MMS is a thing of the past now the videos will show up in their full resolution normal size and they won't be super Grinny and unwatchable like they were in the past which is huge audio messages are also possible on RCS so if you tap on the plus right here and go to audio it will actually allow you to send an audio message to somebody that is on Android there's also no character limit so you can type out as much as you want just like on iMessages you can also react to messages with Emojis and the person on the Android phone will see your reaction just as you do and you can also Now text somebody on Android over WiFi just like you can with imessage so if you're like me and you have that one group chat where there's only one or two people in there with an Android phone and it completely ruins the experience group chats are about to get a lot better and more bearable with iOS 8 thanks to RCS and if you go into your settings and go to messages there's also a new option for RCS messaging right here so if you go into that there is a toggle to turn that on and if you go down to the very bottom we have business messages and in here you can turn Apple messages for business on and RCS will work for business messaging as well if you're messaging with Microsoft and it will show their full name and photo now you can now send images up to 100 megabytes at full resolution in iMessage so you can see this size of this file right here is 105 megabyte and I was able to send that to another iPhone via iMessage meanwhile I tried that on iOS 17 and it failed it just said not delivered so you can now send images at Full Resolution up to 100 mbes but on the other end of the spectrum if you go into your settings and then go all the way down to the bottom for messages the lowquality image mode has been enhanced with iOS 18 so if you have this on to send compressed images it has improved for retaining more detail the new math notes feature which we'll talk about later on Works in messages so how this works in the messages app is you can just type out a math problem and once you type in equals it will solve that for you so you can see that you can either just insert the answer only or you can insert right here to have the full equation with the Sol solution so if I go back and I just select the solution you could also select to only have that entered in as well but where this is really useful is with currency conversion so if you're texting somebody from another country and you type in the dollar amount and just put $97 and then you put equals you can see instantly that that is 8665 so you can now send it that way this update also brings messages via satellite so you can now send messages if you're off the grid and you have no signal now this does require the iPhone 14 or later but there's a new section in settings so you can learn how this works we have the satellite connection demo if you go ahead and enable that you can see this really cool animation here it's trying to get a clear view of the sky to connect with a satellite and take a look at this so it's looking for signal and it found a satellite behind me so you have to point it at that satellite and it basically is showing you you know if you were in this position what you're going to do so now we can tap on in demo and this is what the interface looks like in here so you can not only message you know emergency contacts but you can also request roadside assistance and if you go into there it says if you need help with your vehicle you can contact a roadside service provider when Wi-Fi and cellular are not available so this can quite literally it will quite literally save lives so we had emergency SOS before where you can make phone calls and send messages before but now it gets a little bit more advanced with iOS 18 also new in carplay is that the iMessage notifications now include contact photos they didn't show photos in iOS 17 in the phone application we now have T9 dialing so if I wanted to type out Apple we have a under two p is seven two P's and then we have L for five and then three for e and you can see that we can see apple right here so these are different Apple contacts and if we go to four more it will show all of the results right there so I have multiple people from Apple in the contacts and we also have new options over here on the right for calling or FaceTiming them and if you start typing in somebody's number and you want to add them to contacts before an iOS 17 we just had a simple add number text beneath the number but now in iOS 18 we have a little glyph icon up in the top left and if we press on that we now have new glyph icons in here as well to the right of create new contact and and next to add to existing contact if you go to your recents tab we now have a search bar so you can now search for any recent calls that you've had there's a new live voicemail UI so the whole interface has been updated in iOS 18 so we have IOS 17 on the left iOS 18 on the right so we now have more details about what is actually showing here so it gives you information about the live voicemail and then after it's done you can see an iOS 17 it just said that a voicemail has been left it didn't give you any more context you just got a notification saying that there is a voicemail but now in iOS 18 after the live voicemail ends you'll notice that you have a new notification that shows up and it looks very similar to a text message but it shows the full transcript of what was said in that voicemail or at least the first part of it now here's a feature I've been waiting on for a very long time and I think you guys have been waiting on this forever as well now with iOS 18 you you can record phone calls and those phone calls can be transcribed to reflect on later so if I make a phone call to somebody you'll notice that we have a new icon up in the top right hand corner so I'm going to go ahead and mute myself so when you're in a phone call in iOS 18 you'll see this new glyph icon up in the top left that has some waveforms and a record button now if you tap on that that says this call will be recorded and the audio prompt gets sent to the other person so the person on the other line will be indicated that they are being recorded this call will be recorded now you'll also see this new UI pop up right here that shows it's being recorded along with a stop button so if I unmute and we can hear myself this will transcribe everything that I'm saying or what's being heard on the other end so it actually pick up both sides of the phone call so you can hear yourself and you can hear the person on the other end of the phone so if I hang up take a look at what happens and now shows a view saved calls so that pops up and you can tap on that and it will take you straight into the Notes application and you can see this call recording right here so you can play it from there you could also tap into here to see the full transcript and you can even summarize that transcript and if you go back into notes and go to your folders there's a new folder here for call recordings so if you go into here you can see you know everything that was being said in these different phone calls so here's an example of a phone call I had with Tim Cook for 5 minutes and from here you can get a summary so if you tap on summary you can see a summary of that phone call you could also search the transcript so if you swipe up you'll see a search button down here where you can search and you have these three dots right here where you have additional options and you could also search inside of the phone application for transcribed voicemails there's a new UI for swapping calls so if you have somebody on hold while you're on the other line you get this new UI uptop and if you have two SIM cards set up on your device you can go into the control center onto the toggle or just go to the cellular data toggle and haptic press and you can switch between your two different lines Apple also mentions a live caller ID lookup has come to iOS 18 so these are new apis that allow developers like truecoler to fetch information from their servers and provide live caller ID for incoming calls in the FaceTime application we have a big change to screen sharing so if you're somebody who likes to help out your parents or your grandparents with troubleshooting on their iPhone your life and their life is about to get a whole lot easier thanks to share play remote control so how this works is if the recipient shares their screen this works for you as well but in this instance if the recipient shares their screen you will now be able to write on and control that person's screen so for example we're going to go here and you can see that I have the other person's screen pulled up right here on this device and now we have new options down in the bottom of this section so we have the zoom but down here in the bottom right pay attention to this if we tap on that we now have remote control so the other person will have to accept this it does not work right away and here's what that will look like on the other person's device they do have to allow for you to be able to take control of their iPhone so if you tap on allow now on my device I will be able to control the recipient's device so for example I can scroll over and you can see I'm controlling this person's phone and on the other person's phone it will say down here at the bottom that remote control is active and you do have the option to stop it right there so if your grandparents don't understand what you're saying on the phone you can just remote into their device and control it from here now Apple thought about this because you can see that certain sections will be blocked out so sections like iCloud changing passwords paying for things all of that is blocked out to protect maybe some older folks who you know may fall for something and get scammed by somebody controlling their phone so you can't do everything but you can do the basics here which I think is pretty cool if you want to remote in and control somebody's phone for troubleshooting purposes now it gets even better because you can also draw on the other person's phone so if you don't need to take full control you can just draw on the phone so we'll end the remote control here so the other person is still sharing their screen with me and from here I can just simply draw on their phone they will see that and it will disappear here after a few seconds so I'm not controlling their phone I'm just simply drawing on it so there are two different levels if maybe the person doesn't trust you to remote into their device you could just circle or point to things that they may be missing also the video effects UI has been updated it looks much better in iOS 18 so in iOS 17 we had these two Big Blocks above these platters and control center for video effects and mic mode you would just haptic press on those and that's how you could change everything right there for both but now in iOS 18 it's combined with this top section for privacy so before it just showed those two random items for privacy but now in iOS 18 everything is combined into this one section and the UI for video effects and mic mode looks significantly better and then also before in iOS 17 when you want to change the intensity you had to tap on these three dots and change the depth but now in iOS 18 it's this little drop down right here and you have a new little UI for the depth along with a description of exactly what you're changing and the same for Studio light also for mic modes you can see we now have this new animated UI right here and we have not only standard voice isolation and wide spectrum but now with iOS 18 we also have an option for automatic so it will automatically determine which mode you should be in also in iOS 17 if you chose the low data mode option here under your cellular settings for the data mode your face Face Time calls would reduce the quality in order to save data but now in iOS 18 FaceTime will use more data for improved call Quality even when you're in low data mode if the network speed is good enough to you know handle it and by the way if you're enjoying this iOS 18 video so far be sure to give it a thumbs up okay so let's talk Apple intelligence because this is undoubtedly going to be a big deal in iOS 18 and future versions of iOS so Apple intelligence is only compatible with the iPhone 15 Pro or the iPhone 16s and later now this is coming the first batch of apple intelligence features are coming in iOS 18.1 so I will be touching on those here but I will touch on a lot more detail in my 18.1 what's new video since it's not out at the time of recording this so first off as you can see we do have the new Siri UI which looks absolutely beautiful especially if you have a dark background the colors just really pop and it goes all the way throughout the screen there's also another way to access Siri so you can double tap at the bottom now and that will pull up this menu right here and you can now type to Siri so if I want to ask so I'll just type in weather in San Fran question mark and it will give me the weather for that location now also Siri will have improved contextual understanding so it's not quite Siri 2.0 yet but the contextual awareness is a little bit better than what we had in Siri and previous versions what's the weather in San Francisco show me some nearby restaurants to there and there you go you can see on iOS 17 it pulled up my local restaurants here in iOS 18 it pulled up restaurants that are actually in the area I just asked Siri about so the contextual awareness is definitely better with iOS 18 and it will only improve even more once we get Siri 2.0 at a later date and then also the chat GPT integration is coming at a later date in a future update where you will be able to ask chat PT questions but my personal favorite Apple intelligence feature is summarized notification so what this does is it will summarize all notifications from a specific app so you can see I have 10 notifications from one application here so instead of having to tap in there and see every single notification read through each of them it will summarize it by default right here telling me you know what is actually included in those notifications so we'll be able to read through the content and give you an understanding of what was being said so you can see right here it shows you know certain stocks have moved above the 30-day move moving average this one for music shows me two new songs that are out without me having to go into here and see you know all the specific details about it it breaks it down and makes it much easier to read and this also shows up in the messages application so this doesn't only show up on the lock screen you'll also see this inside of the messages in the mail application so it will give me kind of a summary of what was being said in these different messages here's what some emails look like on the lock screen but here's what they look like inside of the mail application with apple intelligence so it giv gives us a preview right there and we also have a priority inbox right here as well which will again Apple intelligence will read the content and determine if these are priority emails that need a direct response and it will keep them up top until I respond and here's another awesome feature that will help a lot of people and save a lot of people some time so we now have a feature called cleanup so if you have a photo where you have a subject and then you have some people in the background that you maybe want to remove you can now remove them from the photos application so all you have to do is go into edit and you'll see a new Option down here that's titled cleanup if you go there it will kind of dissect the image real quick and then it will highlights what objects it detects by default that you can erase so you can zoom into there and it shows that this person I might want to clean up or remove so I can tap on them and you can see boom they're gone now it doesn't do a perfect job and you can also Circle if it didn't do a good job and try to remove more of that person so there we go that's not bad and again if you are you know not pixel peeping if you actually like Zoom out you will not really be able to tell that it's not a perfect image there so obviously this is not the best I mean it's really just going to use content aware fill it's not a generative fill feature so it's not going to fill in that area with what it thinks should be there it's just going to fill it in with everything around it so again it's content fill not generative fill at least not yet and here's probably a better example so this lady peeking out in the background I can tap on her and there you go you can see I did a much better job of that person now another kind of hidden feature here is that you can Circle a face and it will blur that face out so that one just removed my hat so let me find one of my face without glasses on okay so here's a picture of myself and if I Circle my face take a look at what happens you could also blur faces Now using the cleanup tool and then we also have writing tools so if you select text anywhere throughout your device this does not have to be in messages this can be in email this can be in your notes anywhere if you select it you will see that we have an apple intelligence button right there or you could always go up here in this little section and go to writing tools it will pull up this little panel so from here we can proofread we can rewrite we can change the tone to Friendly professional or concise and you could also if you have something long you can summarize it you can get the key points out of that and you could also create a list or a table from that content it's actually pretty neat so if I go to rewrite for example it will attempt to rewrite that and you can see it shows it there if you don't like it you can retry and you can also revert back to the original and speaking of the mail application we also have a summarized op option now so you can summarize an email if it's maybe like a newsletter or a you know more lengthy email you can summarize that and it will show you the text right there and you could also share your feedback if it was good or bad but my favorite feature in mail with apple intelligence is smart reply so if I go to reply to this email which ask me if I want the red or carbon fiber case and if it's okay to ship out now if I go to reply here take a look at this right away we get this cool little animation down here that reads the message and understands that either red case ship now or carbon fiber case ship later so if I just do carbon fiber case ship later take a look at this it will write the email for me it even says hi there I'd like the carbon fiber case but please hold off on shipping it for now that's pretty close to what I'd actually say so this is actually a lot better in my opinion than some of the other riding Tools in iOS 18 with apple intelligence so again there's more to come and I will touch on Apple intelligence a lot more in my iOS 18.1 what's new video we have multiple changes in the music application so starting off with the tabs at the bottom before it was browse now in iOS 18 it's been renamed to new and there are a couple of minor changes in here so if you go down to the just updated section that looks different and a few of these other sections look a little bit different than they did in iOS 17 in the now playing section if you go into the queue we have multiple changes here so right up top you can see that we now have a different position for Shuffle repeat and autoplay so before they were over here really small icons to the right but now they're front and center and much easier to press in iOS 17 it said playing next now it says continue playing and also the font is bigger than it was before we also have more space over here to the right before the queue begins now if we scroll down to the bottom of the queue we have this new little glyph here for 524 more songs where it's before it did not show anything now if you swipe down you will get the history of what you've played previously so it will show all the songs that I was playing previously we also have the option to clear our queue history with one tap we also have a fundamental change to the way that the queue Works in iOS 18 so it now works much more similar to Spotify so now when you add a song to the queue it adds that song to the end of the previous iously cued songs so for example you can see that we're currently playing the tunes playlist I just press Shuffle on that but if we go to a separate album or a separate playlist and we go to add a song to the queue first off you can see that we now no longer have play next and play last it's play next and then play after tunes for example so just go to play next on both of these and then if we add another song it now says add to Q instead of play last and when we do that take a look at what happens in our queue we now have a standalone queue and it does not get added to our existing queue or the existing playlist and also both of those songs play back to back instead of when I press play last it would just add it to the very bottom of this playlist which was you know a lot of songs deep since it was a playlist so the que is significantly better in iOS 18 and it works a lot more like Spotify which I love now you also notice that we can now clear the queue so there's now a clear all button for the queue with iOS 18 when you tap on that you can press again to clear the entire queue also the airplay platter has finally been revamped so if you tap on airpl in the bottom and now has a much better look a more modern look also the animation is different before it was kind of janky now an iOS 18 it's more smooth it's also a lighter shade it's more rounded off than it was before and it doesn't take up pretty much the entire screen anymore and you'll also notice how it doesn't show every single device it just says show more if there are more devices to show which I like that much better we also don't have the speakers and TV text anymore and this line is thicker than it was previously we had these little thin lines now it's a much thicker line AirPlay now supports playing spatial audio when airplaying to a homepod and also over carplay the Crossfade feature has also been improved with iOS 18 so it will now Fade Into the next song a little bit better it will be a little bit smoother than what we saw with iOS 17 you can also now remove multiple songs from a playlist at once so if you tap on the three dots up in the top right and go to edit we now have a new UI for editing the playlist so you can see before you can only remove songs on a one by one basis but now with iOS 18 you can select multiple songs and remove them at the same time and we also have a trash icon in the bottom left and a plus icon to add in the bottom right we didn't have that before and if you go into an album it now shows the full song title instead of cutting it off so you can see for track 2 Mamita it shows the full song with the features same with track five it cuts it off in iOS 17 it shows the full thing and iOS 18 and you can see for track 8 it does the same thing so now the full title of the song shows up in iOS 18 on the album view the text underneath of the artist is larger more bold than it was in iOS 17 and also down here where it shows the release date and all the other information that is also more bold than it was in iOS 17 also you can now scroll over on the featured on Section to see everything that this artist was featured on whereas before you'd have to go into this menu to see everything if you go into the songs section before an iOS 17 the filters and the sort bu options were combined but now in iOS 18 they are separate so you have your filter right there for all songs and favorites and then you have the three dots here if you want to change the Sorting View and it also now says date added instead of recently added so a minor word change there and you'll also notice that when you're sorting by title we now have the letter that separates the songs whereas before it was kind of hard you'd really have to pay attention to see when that letter changed so from P to Q you can see there's no Gap in iOS 17 but in iOS 18 it makes it clear and you can see the letter head right there and the left along with an underline anytime it goes to a new letter oh and also up here in the search bar you can see it now just says search whereas before it said find in songs you can now share play outside of just being in the car so if you airPlay your music to a homepod or anything else you now have the share play option down in the bottom of the now playing View and you can tap on the share play icon to bring up the QR code where somebody can scan that where they can discover you nearby and they can control the queue as well add songs into the queue and Skip and everything like that and you might have also notice this little glyph icon right here that is music haptics so this is a really cool accessibility feature where the haptics on the phone will vibrate to the Beat of the Music so this is great for accessibility users who are maybe deaf or hard of hearing that way you can feel the music on your hand while you're holding it so if you go into your settings and go to accessibility and then scroll down and you'll see that we have a new option for music haptics you want to turn this on if you want to try this out and you'll notice that this works in apple music classical as well and what's neat about this is that you can control it from the lock screen as well so you can tap right there to enable or disable music haptics there is also a toggle for this in the control center if you go here and add a control and you just search for music haptics you will see it pop up right here so you can control it easily in the control center as well in the podcast application we have a few small changes and a few large changes so first off on the now playing screen we have multiple small UI tweaks so first off where it shows the date above the title of the episode it's now a little bit more opaque and also we now have the full date so it shows the year at the end also underneath of the scrub bar the font size for the timestamps is larger and you'll also notice that over here on the right where it shows the time remaining in the episode we no longer have a minus to the left of that number also on the now playing screen if you start scrubbing through the episode you will see the Tim stamp right above where your finger is scrubbing so you can get a lot more granular with how far you're advancing or going back in this podcast episode and you can see that also the numbers to the left and right now light up white whereas before they did not light up at all they just stayed gray and the same size so they also get larger you can see there's kind of an animation there on the left and the right side in iOS 18 you'll also get the Tim stamp above when you tap on the quick controls to go back or forward in 15 or 30 second intervals in my case and it also shows you how fast you're scrubbing through the episode so you can see if you're going slow if you're scrubbing slowly through a certain section it will say underneath find speed scrubbing if you go a little bit faster it will say quarter speed scrubbing and if you scrub even faster it will say half speed scrubbing and if you go into a podcast episode that has chapters you will now see the chapter name above where you are scrubbing so here's what it looks like in iOS 18 we have breakes in the scrub bar kind of like you see on YouTube with chapters that now shows up here in iOS 18 along with the title of that chapter right above it whereas before in iOS 17 we didn't have any of that you'll also notice that the chapter name shows up in the now playing section on the lock screen or up in your notification center so instead of just showing the whole episode title like an iOS 17 it will now show that specific chapter and it will change based on you know which chapter you're in next and if you go to the show notes of a podcast episode and they have timestamps those are now clickable and they will open up this little menu here where you can play or share from that specific Tim stamp whereas in iOS 17 these were just not clickable whatsoever it also looks like the formatting of the show notes has been cleaned up a little bit and if you tap on these three dots here in the now playing View and go to share episode you'll notice that we have a new section up top here so before an iOS 17 you could just share the podcast episode and that was that but now with iOS 18 you can not only share the episode but you get the op option to share the episode from a specific point in time similar to what you can do with YouTube videos so if you tap on from start this is where you get the option to share a link either just from the start or if you want somebody to hear only a certain part of the podcast you can share it from that specific point in time where you tapped on the share button or from where you are paused in the search tab we no longer have as much heading up top so search isn't so far down from the top of the screen like it was an iOS 17 also we have our profile picture over here on the top right that just takes you to this section about your account and then more importantly when you go to search for something first off you'll see that you have recently searched so you now have recently searched queries also the search in general is faster Apple calls this instant search results with iOS 18 so if I start typing in ESPN for example you can see that it doesn't have to think for nearly as long as it did in iOS 17 and it didn't even show everything right away we still have to search it just gives us some recommended search results so then when we press on that and then we can eventually get to what we've already seen for a while here in iOS 18 so search is significantly enhanced in iOS 18 and you can see that even the results show up differently it's more relevant and you can see that they got rid of the whole purple top results shows episodes section it's now just much more streamlined and simple and you can also search within your library as well not just all podcasts and you'll even notice that a few of these relevant related search results stay a top we also have some changes to the airpods so if you go into your airpods settings we have multiple changes right here so first off you'll notice that we have an adaptive audio section and when you go in here you can change the adaptive audio to have less noise no or more noise and then a little bit further down we have a new section called Head gestures and this is pretty amazing so this allows you to move your head up and down or side to side to accept or decline phone calls when your airpods are in your ears so this allows you to be completely hands-free when using airpods and this also works for notifications as well if you want to reply or dismiss notifications you can do that with an up and down or a side to side head gesture as well and you can change these in here if you would like and we also have personalized spatial audio with dynamic head tracking for gaming and this works for the airpods 3 and the airpods pro and airpods Max Apple did also just receive FDA approval for its hearing aid feature in airpods Pro 2 and this is going to be a massive deal because this is the fda's first authorization of over-the-counter hearing aid software so this is coming to All airpods Pro 2 as long as you're on iOS 18 and you have the latest airpods update which as of the time of 18.0 coming out it is not currently released yet but it will be out soon since it now has FDA approval in the camera application we now finally have the ability to play music while recording a video so this is not on by default but if you go into your settings and go into camera it's up top here in iOS 18 it's all the way down here in iOS 17 and then if we go into record sound and you can see that before that did not show up here so that was just under record stereo sound and that was it but now in iOS 18 we have this new option right here that says allow audio playback and it says that this will not pause automatically when recording video so this is great not only for playing music while you're recording a video but it's also great because when you accidentally open the camera your music will not stop that was one of my biggest pet peeves before but now if you accidentally open the camera while you're playing music it will not pause automatically and also in this section you can now choose to record your vide sound in either stereo or mono mode and on the iPhone 15 and later you now get portrait lighting controls from the regular photo mode so you don't have to be in portrait mode anymore to get these Studio light effects or any of these effects for portrait shots now you just have to be in the regular photo mode we can also now adjust the flash by tapping and holding on the option up in the top leftand corner and we get the quick menu there to turn it on or off before you had to go into here and go to flash down here you had no option to long press on this option up top now here is a groundbreaking feature that even Android does not have we can now pause video recordings while recording a video on our iPhone so you can see the pause icon down there you can pause it you have a stop button and you can see the flashing UI up here to indicate that you are paused along with the paused text and then you can just resume by tapping right there again and now you have you know no need to cut out certain parts of dead spots in your videos and by the way I was being sarcastic I know that Androids had that forever now here's something really cool so if I record a video in let's just say 60 FPS and I just shoot this little video here and 60 FPS everything is fine you know but maybe I want to slow down a certain part of that video well before you had to be in slow mode to be able to do that or you just had to have a video editing software well now if we go into that video and you go to the edit button right here you'll see that we have a new glyph icon up in the top right corner that looks like a speedometer so this will allow you to change the playback speed AKA you can change the frame rate so we can knock this down to 50% which of course takes 60 FPS down to 30 FPS so if we choose that we can now choose what part of the video we want to be in 30fps and the UI here is very similar to the slow mode UI that you have but again you don't have to be in slow mode that's the big benefit here and you can do this like if you shoot in 120 FPS you can knock that down to 60 or knock that down 230 it's really nice to have that control here now also in the camera application if we swipe up and go to our timer we have a couple of changes here so first off the font size appears to be slightly larger by a couple of points and also the text is a little bit thicker as well but the main difference here is that we now have a 5c timer option and we're not just limited to 3 and 10 seconds also the timer icon to the far left appears to have a slightly darker background and the white stands out a little bit more it might even be a little bit brighter than what we had in iOS 17 also thirdparty applications can now offer spatial video recording support if you have a compatible device okay so now let's go into the photos application and man I'm sure that you were not expecting this the photos application has a complete revamp in iOS 18 that you're probably going to hate at first but bear with me because I think you'll love it after I show you how customizable it is so first off the whole UI has been completely changed so before we had a lot of white space but now we can see that our photos take up the majority of the screen screen which I love also before we were able to swipe over and see different albums and everything like that and we had the shared albums people and pets and all of this down here at the bottom but now it's basically a onepage UI in iOS 18 and you can see that everything shows up right here we have a lot of visuals whereas before we really just had a lot of text and also if you go all the way down here it shows our media types our utilities and down here we can customize and we'll get to that in a second but there's a lot to uncover here so let's talk about everything else first so number one before if you went into the recents tab that's essentially what the main page of photos is now but there are multiple differences so first off you can see up in the top left it now shows photos along with the total amount of items in photos underneath of it and then to the right before we had select and those three dots up in the top right but now we have our profile picture in the top right and then we have a search bar to the left of the select button and if you tap on that we get a completely new search UI so before in iOS 17 we just had a standalone option over here to search and when you went into that it just showed this right here and then you were able to search for whatever you wanted and the results were not great so for example if I search for cat you can see that we now have top results along with the full amount of results and it even recognized one of my pets as a cat and and it shows it in a card up top we also have C all as a button up here whereas before it showed up down here as just text but search gets much better in iOS 18 as well because you can search for very specific queries like cat and chair and it will show me all the instances where a cat is sitting in a chair whereas before in iOS 17 I searched for the same thing and we have no results even though I have the same photo library on both phones so you can see it's going to show show me any time that a cat was in or around a chair pretty neat you can also filter your search results by tapping on the up and down arrow right there and you have the Sorting options you can filter and you can also change the aspect Photo Grid the ratio of the photo grid and then the last thing I'll talk about with search is that it shows our recent queries right here along with some AI generated queries that it thinks that you might want to look for and then we also have a recently viewed recently edited and recently shared right up here as well and you can clear those recent search queries if you would like to and if we tap on our profile picture up in the top right we have this new view right here that shows our profile picture and our name up top along with our total photos and videos we have any shared album invitations right here we have for your shared Library we have all the photos that were shared with you either via text or if somebody was nearby we also have the library view options and we just have a bunch of different options in here in this new section and basically the equivalent to this was just tapping on the three dots up in the top right before because that's where you could change the libraries and all of these other options but now they have their own full menu in iOS 18 now if you swipe down on the photos View and go to view more photos in your library you will see this new tab bar appear at the bottom that shows multiple options so we have an X over here now and a filter option but but we also have years and months whereas before we had years months and days and also the UI looks different so if we tap on months for example you can see that this view has changed so it shows a little bit more detail and it shows a lot more in the frame from these months and same with years so years has a different background it's not just a white background and also these appear to be a little bit more rounded off on the edges and if you tap on the filter button down here in the bottom leftand corner you can sort by recently added or by date captured you can change which Library you're looking at so either personal shared or both and if we go to filter you can filter by different options so if you want to only show favorites that are videos you can do that so if you tap on favorites this menu stays up and then you can select videos as well whereas before in iOS 17 once you selected one item you can see that menu disappeared and you had to go into this you know filter option up in the top and then from here you had to select in this only show menu whatever else you wanted to be added and it would show how many results were there but it wouldn't actually show them whereas now in iOS 18 this menu stays up and it shows everything in real time as you select or deselect these options and if you go to view options from here you can not only zoom in zoom out or change the aspect ratio for the grid but you can also now hide screenshots so if you're like me and you hoard a bunch of screenshots and you don't delete them as often as you should and they just clutter up your photo library you can now hide screenshots so you can see those more important photos that you're looking for and there's also a new option for showing shared with you whereas before that was not in here now the reason we no longer have a days option right here in this menu is because with iOS 18 we now have this recent Days album so now when you go into this it will show this kind of you know grid View of all of your days and it will break down and show you what photos were taken on that day so if I go to Saturday for example it will show me everything that was taken on that Saturday and you can even create a movie from that day which is pretty neat so if I tap on movie it will create a movie with sound from that day and then we also have a new album in iOS 18 called trips and this is really awesome and something that I wish we had a long time ago because this will take all your photos from a trip and put them into one album without you needing to do that manually so if you go into the trips view right here you can even break it down by the year so if I only want to see 2024 I can go into Universal Orlando resort for example and it will show me all of the photos that were taken or videos that were taken during this trip and it will even show the days right here so we could also filter this if we would like to we could tap on this button to see a summary or just show all of the photos and videos taken and we could also create a movie from that trip as well and then if we scroll down even further we have multiple changes so media types now has this little arrow next to it so you can go in to see all of the media types just like so also the text is now black instead of blue it's inside of this little gray box and the text is much smaller and more compact you can swipe over on this section to continue seeing other media types also we have utilities right underneath of that so down Below in iOS 17 we just had these utilities right here but now in iOS 18 we have more utility album so first off you can see receipts that is a new album so if you go into that it will show any of the receipts that you've taken and put them all into this utility album and if we go over we have more so we have handwriting so this will show any photos that have handwriting on them not just handwriting from an apple pencil but any handwriting we have illustrations and we also have recently edited that's new recently shared that's also new also recently viewed so if you recently viewed a photo and then you lost it we now have a recently viewed utility album also if you go into your recently deleted or hidden albums there are some changes here as well so before it would try to scan your face ID right away but now in iOS 18 you have to tap on view album for it to trigger face ID before you put your passcode in also the section is different so the use face ID to view this album is smaller the text is smaller also recently deleted up in the top left is larger and we have an x to the right now whereas before we just had a back to albums in the top left in the recently deleted album we have a change to the delete and recover options so we have that oval gray background along with glyph icons to the left of the delete and recover text and also that text is now more bold now if you're not a big fan of how everything looks when you open up the photos application you can customize your experience so now if you go down to the bottom we have a customize and reorder option when you tap on that this allows you to not only reorder where everything shows up on your main page but you can also hide sections so you can see if I don't want to see for example trips or if I don't want to see shared albums I can simply unselect those and now when I go back they just simply will not show up it really cleans up the photos application and gets rid of all of those albums that used to always just be there in iOS 17 even though you did not want to see them when you went into the photos application and by the way wallpaper suggestions is also a new album in iOS 18 and this will show you you know what a photo would look like on your lock screen if you set it as a wallpaper so this is pretty neat and it works pretty well and the changes continue when you go into an individual photo so before an iOS 17 it would show the date and the time and the location in the top middle in that small little text now it's more prominent in iOS 18 and it's up in the top left and the location is bold to the right of that we now have the three dots and an X whereas before we had the edit button up in the top right that edit button has now been moved down here to the bottom and it looks like that now so we'll get to that in a moment you'll also notice a change to the shared albums icon right here down at the bottom we have some changes so we now have a light gray circle behind the share option and the trash icon they're also more inset inside of the application they're not you know near the edge of the screen like they were in iOS 17 also in the middle we now have these three buttons combined so we have the favorite button we have info and we have the new edit option so again edit used to be up in the top right now when you want to edit you just tap on this and you get a new UI here as well so if we go to edit and iOS 17 here's what it looked like and the first thing you'll notice is that we have a light view but you can change that if you tap on the three dots up in the top right we have a new appearance option where we can change the appearance to show as system dark or light so if I change that to dark it will look more similar to what we saw in iOS 17 and by the way here's what the options menu looked like in iOS 17 when you tapped on those three dots and now it's a popped out you know more modern looking menu and down here you'll notice that the background of the magic wand looks different also the tip of the magic wand used to be filled now an iOS 18 that's flipped so the bottom part of the wand is filled the top is not and once you make edits to a photo if you tap on the three dots up in the top right hand corner you can see the big difference and what shows up here so before basically the only option we had in iOS 17 was to copy the edits or paste the edits that was it even if you go to add action that's all that showed there but now in iOS 18 we have multiple options so we can undo the auto enhance that we just did so you can undo and redo different effects we can now choose exactly what we want to copy over so in this instance it only shows adjust but if you made multiple edits you can only copy certain edits before pasting them and if you go into a video we now have a new video player so before in iOS 17 we just had this view right here where it would show the video player at the bottom and it was kind of just built into this Bottom bar but now with iOS 18 we have that native video player look like we see in Safari and on our Mac so we can go back and forth here and you can see that we have the time stamps on the left and the right right there and you'll also notice a change because the video will now Loop so before an iOS 17 when a video ended it would just end it would just stay there and you would have to press play again but now in iOS 18 the videos Auto Loop and you can also control the volume easier as well because it's over here to the right of the play and pause on the menu bar and you'll also notice that the whole video fits in frame in iOS 18 whereas an iOS 17 to see everything I would have to tap to just see the full view otherwise these menu options up top and bottom would cover it up and that goes for photos as well so if you have a photo that's really tall like the aspect ratio is tall on that photo like this photo for example you can see that an iOS 18 it will show me that full screenshot without anything obstructed whereas an iOS 17 if I wanted to see you know the top up here where it says software update for example I would have to tap and hide that and now I can see everything in that screenshot so in iOS 18 it makes viewing full images easier from this little preview window right here also in iOS 18 there's a new prompt when you go to add a photo to an an album and it will prompt you to add that photo to the last album that you added a photo from your main library too so the last photo I added to an album was in the wallpapers album so now when I tap the share sheet and go to add a photo to an album it will prompt me to add a photo to the last album that I selected and if you swipe up on a photo it will now show you what albums that specific photo is included in so this is included in wallpapers I and tap on that and it will take me into the wallpapers album and if you have a photo that was sent to you by somebody in messages it will now show a new interface along with their profile picture down here at the bottom and when you tap on that it will take you into that specific messages thread we also have a change to the album so if you have to press on any album you'll see that we have additional options here so before you could only rename the album from here but now in iOS 18 you can edit title and photos so that name has been changed and you could also edit the photos from in here so before you had to go into the actual album and then go up here to edit or go to select and then you had to choose whether you wanted to delete or add different photos but now you can edit the key photo up here and you could also tap right here to add additional photos to this album and if you go to add an album to a folder there's a new UI so before it was just this plus right up here in the top left now it says add and if you select new album you can see that this UI has also been changed so before you had to enter a name for the album and that was it but now once again you can change the name of the album and also add you know the photos for the album right in the same interface and you can also now add or remove existing albums in folder so if you have to press on the album inside of this folder you can remove from folder before you only had the option to delete the entire album if you switched your browser from Safari to something else you might be coming back with iOS 18 because Safari gets some pretty incredible changes with iOS 18 first off we have a feature called distraction control or what I like to call the Thanos snap feature so what this does is it allows you to hide distracting or annoying elements in Safari think of it like an ad blocker but for elements on a web page and not ads so for example there's nothing I hate more than these full screen popups that you cannot get out of unless you tap on you know something on that popup so I want to get rid of that every single time I visit this web page so to do that we're going to tap on this icon to the left of the address bar and you'll see that we have a new option that says hide distracting items now when we tap on that we get prompted to select an item so we're going to select this and now we can just go ahead and tap hide and now we will no longer see that again now same with this little let's chat button down there I do not like how websites have this little chat icon so we can tap on that and tap on hide and we get that Thanos snap animation and it's gone for good unless something changes and so if we go ahead and refresh you can see that we no longer see that popup down there and we do not get that full screen ad and here's another example we have the cookie banners that pop up and nobody likes seeing those cookie banners every time they go on a website so we can just go to that and double tap again and we will hide that item now seeing with this little hand right here we'll double tap that and it will go away same with this question mark we'll double tap that and it goes away and you can see that anytime I refresh the page or if I go to this web page in the future those elements that I hid will remain hidden and you'll see this little blue eye in the bottom and if you tap on that this will allow you to show the hidden items again so if you want to revert those settings you can do that and you could also report a distraction control issue now the key thing to keep in mind here is that the elements will only stay hidden in if the content stays the same if the content changes dynamically like every time the web page reloads like ads for example you will have to rehid that element every time you reload or every time you go to a new page on that website so again elements like cookie banners Google sign-in popups newsletter signup forms things like that typically do not change so they will remain hidden during future visits but for display ads from Google for examp example those change on every refresh so they will not remain hidden and they will not persist after a refresh we also have a new highlights feature in iOS 18 so you can see before on the bottom left we had these two A's but now we have this icon right here to replace those two A's and if you see these purple Sparkles that means that a summary highlight is available so if you tap on that you will now get an AI generated summary of that web page and if tap on show reader it will show this section up top where it has summary and if you tap into that it will show you a short summary of that article and summarizing articles doesn't always work on every website but where this is really useful is for finding directions hours menus and phone numbers on websites such as hotel websites restaurant websites you name it so for example I have a hotel website pulled up here and you can see we have the purple Sparkles now on iOS 17 if you wanted to find the address or the phone number for this place we'd probably have to scroll down I'm still not seeing it still not seeing it okay there we go down at the bottom or you might have to go in the menu well now in iOS 18 if you tap on this icon it will show you the address along with a map it will show the hours if they're available along with a phone number up here if available as well so I find the highlights feature to be much more useful in instances like this and this whole menu has just been improved in iOS 18 like you can see that we have this play all animations option we have the manage extensions down at the bottom now whereas before it was up top we have the option to translate to Spanish now that's new also the find on page is down here in the bottom leftand corner whereas before in iOS 18 that was in the share sheet so you had to go to share and then it was down here find on page so it's now much easier to access that from this menu also when you want to change the text size that now pops up like this whereas before it was just like this we had the percentage in the middle but now the percentage only shows up after you change it bigger or smaller it doesn't show the whole time and it's also a much better animation now and of course we have these three dots down here in the bottom right where we have a full page menu where we can change up our different tab actions we can edit these as well so if you want to change the order or add something to the favorites that's all right here now in this section we have have a new look for the tab view so if you go into some tabs you can see that we now have a more flat look before we had these kind of bubbles here to indicate what tab groups that we were in but now it's more built in to this bottom menu it's also disconnected from this bottom section so it now has a line instead of all being connected beforehand the personal tab group used to have a personal glyph icon down there but now that does not show up it just shows the three lines also when you go to the top of a tab group it now shows the title of it up in the top leftand Corner along with a share button when you have to press on the amount of tabs that are open you now get more options so you can manage tab groups you can arrange tabs by either the website or the title you can copy the links or you can add bookmarks for all nine tabs before you could only just copy links that was it in iOS 17 you can also easily create a new tab Group by swiping over to the left so before if you did that nothing would happen but now if we swipe left you can see we can use that gesture to create a new tab group and we also have a new UI here when you add a new tab group and we get the option to name it right there along with the trash icon in the top right when you haptic press on one of the tabs that you have open we now have a new option for move tab before it just said move to tab group so now you get that option and you can see a slight difference here as well because new tab group is at the bottom whereas before it was up top and if you go over to Private Browsing we have a new glyph icon up here and it also now says private browsing instead of private browsing mode and also you can see a difference in the font color and the font sizing iOS 18 introduces a brand new application called passwords and this is very simple and it's not completely new because this application essentially lived within the settings passwords section but now we have our own Standalone application and if you go into here you will see a nice new interface so we have all passwords we also have pass Keys we have our codes Wi-Fi passwords security and deleted we also have our shared groups down here so if you share password groups with others those will all show down here you can also search for passwords and you also have a plus icon in the bottom rightand corner where you can instantly add a website app or label right there and insert a user name and it will also recommend you a password and you get the option to add to a group and add notes instantly if you go into one of the passwords it shows the website right here underneath of password whereas before it was all the way down here for some reason also the security Now shows up like this so we get a glyph icon and it says strong password and you also get the option to set up a verification code whereas before set up verification code was underneath of account options and it didn't tell you if the password was strong or not also if you tap on the website before you only got the option to copy website now you get the option to open websit copy website or edit websites so you can also add a website for a password so this is another nice new feature if you have the same username and password you can add a additional website where that username and password will pop up I think this is more so for adding additional variations of a URL like maybe Gmail and mail.google.com so that's just an example if you have multiple variations of a website you can add them all to one password also when you enter in a username and a password and then you try to go to a different web page or refresh before you would get a popup that looked like this it would say save password never for this website or not now it would pop up from the bottom but now we have a new popup UI in iOS 18 it does the same thing just a different look and also the wording is a little bit different as well and if you go into your settings and go to autofill and passwords you now have the option to autofill from the passwords App instead of Google but you can switch that right there as well and we also have a new default for setup codes so you can set that to be in passwords if it's not already there by default and then of course if you go into your settings you will have a settings menu for the passwords application where you can disable and enable certain settings like detecting compromise passwords suggest strong passwords and allow automatic Pass Key upgrades now a pretty cool feature in passwords is that you can create a QR code with your Wi-Fi password so if you go into the Wi-Fi section and then go into one of your Wi-Fi networks you can see that we have the option to Show Network QR code so now when you tap on that it will automatically generate a QR code so that others can scan it and get the password for that Wi-Fi network and one last little tidbit I wanted to mention is that if you created an account with the signin with Apple on a website that can now be shared through password groups so you can now add those passwords if you sign in with apple into groups you can change the Sorting order of your passwords by tapping on these two arrows right here you could also see the date edited the date created all of that if I go to date created for example it allows me to you know see the this week previous 30 days 2024 and so on you'll also get a new UI when you go to autofill your password on a website so this is the new look here and the new webkit update for Safar 18 add supports for using pass Keys across related Origins so this lets websites use the same Pass key access across a limited number of domains which share a credential back end and by the way you could also access the passwords application on Windows via the iCloud passwords app you can also now see every website you used the sign in with apple service so if you go to your settings and go to your Apple account up top there's a new section here that says sign in with apple and from here you'll be able to see every account that was created using this service and when you go in there it will show the Apple account and the email that was used so if you need to reference the hide my email address that you used you can now see that right here and it could also copy it from here as well if you have to press on it we have some changes in the files application so number one we now have a awesome new feature that allows you to keep a file downloaded inside of the files application that way you don't need to redownload it in the future and you don't have to worry about it getting Auto deleted on accident so if you have to press we now have that new option for keep downloaded and you'll know when a file is permanently saved to your files app when it has that glyph icon to the right of the file name also when you have to press on a file we now have quick actions for copy move and share so now these are much easier to access and it makes maneuvering around the files app so much quicker whereas before you'd have to go all the way down here and they were all just three separates you know in a vertical view but now they're up top in a horizontal View and it makes life much easier and you'll also notice a change in the order of pretty much everything on this menu and then for quick actions we now have a settings gear glyph icon instead of this little magic wand like we had before MP3 files now show the album artwork in files if you tap on the three dots up in the top right hand corner before under view options used to have this little drop down that would show Group by and show all extensions but now there's no drop down but we have our own menu here so you can now sort by group buy change the icon in list style and you also have the ability to show or hide file name extensions and then also in the files app you can now format external drives so this is great especially for iPad users on iPad OS 18 the calendar application gets perhaps the biggest change ever with iOS 18 and this change is apparent immediately after you open up the application so first off on the month view we can see that August now shows up big in the top left whereas before it just showed an abbreviation and it was this small red text right here we also have three different views so before in iOS 17 if you tapped right here you just got the option to see like your events for the day and that was it but now in iOS 18 that same section up there is smaller and when you tap on that you get the option to change between a compact view a stacked view a details view and also a list view so if you tap on list that's what we saw before on iOS 17 it just looks a little bit different but now if we go back to compact you can see how stacked looks so it gets a little bit bigger and then you can also tap on details to see the details of what's in your calendar now you can also change the UI by simply pinching so this is very intuitive and you also get haptic feedback to go along with it so you can pinch in and pinch out depending on how big or how small you want your month view in the calendar to look and here's the full amount that you can zoom in so you basically get a big week view when you zoom in this much and then here's what it looks like when you zoom all the way out and in iOS 17 if you had an event you just had to tap on the day to be able to see that event that was it you couldn't see it any other way but now with iOS 18 if you want to see you know what that event is number one it's not color coordinated instead of just being all gray but also you can kind of just zoom in and get a quick glance of what's due that day or what you have coming up that day and then Zoom back out if you would like to you don't have to necessarily tap on it but even if you do tap into it you'll notice some differences here as well so first off you can see the date looks different underneath of the week view so it shows the day and there's a slash between Monday and the date right there it's also more bold also down here you can see on the left hand side all of the times look different so the font is bigger so the number stands out more and the AM or PM is over to the right a little bit further and then also for the actual event for that day it shows the time underneath of it whereas before you only saw the time from looking over on the left- hand side when you go to create a new event in the calendar it now just says new instead of new event and that's because now with iOS 18 the calendar application is fully integrated with the reminders application so from the calendar you can either create an event or you can create a reminder and you can set the date of it right here you can even add it to a specific list that you have set in the reminders app and if you go to details you can even change all of these other options as well so you can add a location you can add tags you could add the priority you can add an image you can do all that without even going into the reminders application and the best part about the reminders integration is that you could actually complete the reminder straight from calendar as well you don't need to go into reminders for that if you tap on the calendars option down in the bottom middle iCloud and other the text right here the headers are larger and more bold than they were previously also before in iOS 17 it just said hide all but now we have a little drop down and an animation instead before we had show declined events and we had this little circle that we could check and uncheck but now we have a kill switch for that along with the option to show completed reminders and if you tap on the I on one of your iCloud calendars or any of your calendars under shared with we now have a new glyph icon to the left of add person and also that text is a little bit bigger by the way if you find this video useful be sure to subscribe these type of videos are my specialty and you'll stay in the know about all of the new iPhone features before all of your friends okay so now let's talk about the Standalone reminders application because yes we have the full integration where we can create edit and complete reminders in the calendar app but we also have changes in the reminders app itself so if you go into a smart list and you have a task with subtasks you can see that they now show up as blue and you can tap on that to see the subtasks within that task whereas before you could not do that there's also now a recently deleted folder in the reminders application and if you go into here you can see all of your recently deleted reminders from the past 30 days and if you want to bring one of them back you just simply tap on it and you can recover that reminder you can also now edit reminder requests right after asking Siri so for example remind me today to do the dishes actually make that tomorrow at 12:00 there we go whereas before in iOS 17 remind me today to do the dishes actually remind me tomorrow at 12 and you can see it does not understand what I'm saying also the UI looks different when you ask Siri to add a reminder Remind me tomorrow to eat good food you can see that the UI looks way better here in iOS 18 compared to iOS 17 when asking via Siri and if you go into the reminders settings you'll see multiple differences in here so first off the whole header is new so it now gives us a description along with an image reminders accounts is what it is now whereas before it was just accounts the allow reminders to access is now at the top and if we go down to the bottom we also have a new section for grocery category Iz ation so you can now add an additional language to automatically place grocery items in two categories we also have multiple new shortcut actions here in reminder so this whole other section is new and then also the open Smart list you can open a specific smart list and here's what that looks like when you add it to your shortcut the Notes application gets some major changes with iOS 18 and some of these I've been waiting on forever so the first one is the ability to record audio notes and also transcribe that audio so if you go to the paperclip icon you'll see that we have a brand new option for record audio if you tap on that it will bring up a very voice memos like UI and you will see this little playhead right here and also this little annotation glyph which indicates that you have transcription turned on so there's no transcript right now so we are going to just go ahead and press record and it will start recording what I'm saying and since I have the transcript button pressed it will start transcribing everything that I saying but you can turn that off and you will see the waveforms right there as well you also have these three dots where you can rename while editing or while recording I should say if you would like to now you do not have to stay on this screen either you can go out of here you can start typing something else you can lock your device so you can continue recording as you can see right here I am still recording while I'm on the lock screen so this is great if you maybe go for walks and you want to put your phone in your pocket or in your waistband while you're talking on your airpods to record a you know note and audio note you can go ahead and do that while the device is locked so once you're done recording you can just go into here you could also pause from this section if you would like to but we're going to go into here and we will pause and from here you can go ahead and tap on done and you can see we get this new card now inside of the Notes application that is you know pretty rich so it shows the dates it shows the length of time there's a play button and also a short snippet of the transcript and when you tap on that it will show you the entire transcript right here you can even search within the transcript and also now when you press on the three dots in the top right you get the option to add the transcript to the note so it will add everything into the note right there and you can see that the player is now this floating bar which is really nice okay so now that we have some text in this note I want to show you some additional features here so we can now highlight the text different colors so if you go into the formatting menu you'll notice a couple of changes in here so we now have the new highlight button down in the bottom right hand corner here so you can choose your color so choose whatever color you would like to highlight so we'll just choose we'll just stick with purple for now and you can see that you press this button to highlight the text so if I want to highlight that let's just say we want to highlight menu options as well and there we go those are highlighted and they stand out a lot more and you can see I tried to treat the transcript and menu options as kind of headers for the text that came after it and before in iOS 17 that's really all you could do but now in iOS 18 you can take that a step further and make it more like notion for example because we have collapsible headers so all you have to do is just select the text and then change the format to heading and you will see that we have a little down arrow to the left of that that appears and when you press on that that will you will see the text under it collapses so let's go ahead and press on that again and now if we want to make menu options its own separate heading we can just simply make that a heading option as well and now you'll notice that not everything gets collapsed when I press the transcript down arrow so if we press that you can see it's kind of hard to press sometimes there we go and menu options is right there as well so this works a lot better on the Mac because you can click on it and you can you have much easier access to press on those arrows but that is how it works now with iOS 18 it's much better and it really feels a lot more like a professional note-taking application maybe like a notion or obsidian or some of the other great note taking apps out there and if you have an iPad there's now refine handwriting so this makes your text more legible when handwriting especially with an apple pencil this is very useful now also in notes we do have the math notes feature which I will talk about this more in depth in the calculator section but you should know that you now have a folder over here for math notes and just for the basics of math notes I will show you how this works you can just put in a math problem like so and it will give you the solution pretty much right away as you're still typing you know out the problem here so it will show you the results and real time which is pretty awesome you can also do this with your own handwriting with an apple pencil the PDF inline search has been improved so you can now search PDFs and document scans better with iOS 18 also these settings for notes looks a lot better with the graphic up top along with the header the description and notes accounts is up at the top Now versus being under the allow section before by the way this video is sponsored by me and my new wallpaper collection vant which I think you will love it's a big collection of both light and dark themed wallpapers that go perfectly with light icons dark icons or tinted icons in iOS 18 it was actually built with iOS 18 in mind so it's carefully crafted for this update and of course we do have some color matching colors for the iPhone 16 as well so if you got an iPhone 16 that's just a double bonus for this wallpaper collection so check it out it is linked down in the description below and use code special I'll just make that up on the spot use code special for 25% off this wallpaper collection I think you will love it send me some screenshots of your home screen on X or Instagram now we also have iPhone mirroring which does require Mac OS Sequoia as well so if you have a Mac and an iPhone running the latest software you will be able to mirror your iPhone to your Mac this allows you to control your iPhone from your Mac including typing on there and just using the mouse to navigate through your iPhone on your computer and you can also see your notifications on your Mac now without ever needing to pick up your iPhone we have some changes in the voice memos application when you go to start recording a voice memo and you go ahead and stop it you'll see some changes here so the UI for the actual player looks different so number one you can see that the recording appears below the player whereas before it appeared above the player we also now have a waveform glyph icon versus before where we just had these little switches for the options and if you go into there you'll see some differences as well so we have a whole new menu here whereas before that was not the case we just had these little options right there and that was it even if you tapped on the three dots you didn't really get any options but now in iOS 18 again it's very similar to what we saw in the Notes application but we have multiple options so up here in the top right hand corner if you press on that that gives you easy access to trim this voice note and you can see you can trim it you can delete you could also preview the trim right there we also have voice memos transcriptions now so in the bottom left hand corner you can see the little annotation icon if you tap on that that allows you to see the transcriptions but it gets even better because if you select something right here you can see that you can replace it as well so if you select that and then just tap on replace it will erase that sentence and you can say what you meant to say and then if you go ahead and press on that and then press on done you now have the option to either save or save as so you can now save this as a new recording as well so we'll go ahead and press that and now the original was there it stays there but we now just created a new document or a new voice memo and by the way you could also Now record your voice memos in Stereo so if you go into your voice memos settings we now have the option for stereo recording it's not just limited to Mono if you have an iCloud mail account if you use your own domain on iCloud there's new cleanup tools there's also the ability to manage old emails via time-based rules so for example you can remove emails that are no longer needed to save storage so if you had like an old unopened newsletter from over a year ago it will auto delete that if you set it up and there's also unsubscribe and delete so this will send future emails from those senders to the trash automatically iOS 18 also brings a bilingual keyboard to iOS for the first time so now inside of our keyboard you'll notice in the bottom right hand corner it says en n and Es and that means that I have Spanish and I also have English as my keyboard so that means if I were to type something in English you can see that nothing gets corrected now if I switch to Spanish you can see that it will autocomplete what I meant to say and it will not treat it as if it were wrong and it will even give me predictions for what I want to say next in that other language while I'm still typing in English as well so I can interchange how I type so if you want to set this up just go into your settings go to General and then go down to keyboard and then go to keyboards up in the very top and from here go to your primary language keyboard so for me that's English us I'm going to go into that and for from here you'll see under languages we now have an option to add language before in iOS 17 you had the same option but when you went into your language you just had the option to choose the keyboard layout and that was it but now with iOS 18 once again we could have a bilingual keyboard so we go into add language and from here we can choose whatever language we would like to anything that is supported so Spanish for example I can go ahead and set that and now it shows that it will be added to the multilingual keyboard and that's what we saw here and messages also the quick path feature which is where you swipe to type that now supports more languages and if you don't like seeing the math results here in the keyboard you could also turn that off here as well so this is under the all keyboard section and then just turn off show math results we also have some changes in the weather application so first off the top font is less opaque than it was on iOS 17 especially the current condition down here so where it says cloudy right now that's just a lot less opaque it's kind of more trans arent than it was an iOS 17 also the font in general looks a little bit skinnier by maybe a point and you can see the high and the low also look a tad bit different here and if you tap on the conditions either in the 10day forecast or just the hourly up here just to pull up this graph here you will notice some differences as well so first off underneath of this section right here we now have the actual and feels like temperatures so before that was not a toggle and you'll see when you tap on this icon right here as well it shows under conditions that we have temperature and feels like now and the main difference here that you'll notice is that feels like is just no longer its own separate section it's combined in with temperature and that's what makes the conditions module now that's what makes the conditions graph so if we keep going down there are some additional changes as well so under chance of precipitation and now shows today's chance along with a percentage it never said that before the graph looks a little bit different here in iOS 18 also we don't have that percentage up top and underneath of the line it's a little bit less opaque than it was before and now says the daily chance of precipitation tends to be higher than the chance for each hour I didn't say that before and if we scroll down past the precipitation graph we now have some changes here as well so UV index is no longer the first box that appears it's now the feels like the conditions menu we have some changes to the wind section so before we had a big font for the number the miles per hour for wind and for gusts but now in iOS 18 it shows wind gusts and directions and it's a lot smaller and less opaque those numbers don't stand out as much which I like it also shows the direction now right here as a number whereas before it just had a compass pointing in a direction and nobody really knew you know what that direction was so it shows that now and now the little Compass shows the miles per hour instead of just saying it's East and you'll also notice more pronounced detail in the compass especially the little notches that go around it and it's also a little bit smaller than it was in iOS 17 you can also now have it set to show your home and work locations by default so you can see that we have these two new glyph icons that show if it's home or work and if you go into your settings you can turn this on or off as well so if you go into the weather settings under locations we have a home and work section and it uses the addresses from the contacts now the calculator application gets a massive update with ios8 and you can see some small changes right away in terms of the UI but there are also fundamental changes to the calculator with this update so starting with the UI changes you can see that we have a difference in color right away so before we used to have a light gray color up here now it's a darker shade of gray and you can see that the font size is also different so the numbers are slightly larger than they were with iOS 17 and the font is also thinner on the buttons than what we had in iOS 17 meanwhile when we typee in up top right here the font is thicker it's also smaller and more bold and here's where you'll start to see some additional differences so before we just had a clear button if we wanted to backspace and correct something we had to swipe our finger over which was kind of hidden and a lot of people didn't even know you could do that but now in iOS 18 we have a proper backspace so now we can backspace on our buttons and if we were to make this into a problem if we type in plus three you can see that before an iOS 17 it would make the first number disappear so we cannot see that it's 99 + 3 we just see what we typed in last but now in iOS 18 we can see the full expression like if I keep going for example we could do that again and you could see the difference there and if we press on equals we can see another big difference because now in iOS 18 it shows us the original expression the original problem and then the answer and it's even better than that because you could also tap on the original expression and change it or if you want to add on to that you can and the equals button is also final now so if you press on equals after you get the solution nothing happens whereas before in iOS 17 you could keep the you know solution going you can keep adding on to that Solution by pressing the equals button and by the way if you want to clear this faster than just pressing on backspace multiple times you can just press and hold that and it will clear all and you're also no longer limited on space so on iOS 17 you were limited to just nine digits in portrait mode and if you went into landscape mode you could add more but you still had a limit and you can see that right there but in iOS 18 the limit is infinite because you can see you can now scroll on this page right here and you can put in as many numbers seemingly as you would like I've not been able to find a limit to this now also up in the top left you'll see that we have these three lines with dots if you press on that that will give you the history so now with iOS 18 you have a calculation History Section and you can go into here you can even see the previous 30 days so it goes back quite a ways and we can tap on one of these and it will put that right back into our calculator here you could also tap and press or press and hold on one of these and you can copy the expression or copy the results or delete it from your history and there's also an edit button up here as well where you can delete all or you can just select what you would like to delete and you probably already noticed this but instead of the long zero at the bottom like an iOS 17 we now have a new calculator button down here in the bottom left and when you tap on that that gives you the ability to change modes so we can now go into scientific mode so before an iOS 17 you could only get into the scientific calculator if you put the device in landscape mode and if you put iOS 18 in landscape mode we also have a few changes here so the typical UI changes over on the right but we also have a new position for the degrees and radians so if you press on that it will switch between degrees and radians it's just in a new position it was all the way over here in the bottom left in iOS 17 now also in iOS 18 it will give you a little notification up here if you are in radians or degrees so when you tap on that it will show radians if you're in degrees it doesn't show it but it just shows rad up there if you are in radian mode but there's a lot more to it because if we go to our calculator here we also have a conversion calculator so I'm going to get out of scientific modes you can see you can also combine the modes here so you can be in scientific mode and also in conversion mode at the same time so we're going to go back to the basic calendar just so I can show you how this works so we now have conversions built into the calculator and it's not just for money or simple things like that which by the way you can see how quick it reacts to everything everything is instant when you do these conversions and that's really going to be the benefit of using this over something like you can find on Google or another application there's no loading nothing everything happens on device and very very quickly so anyways if you want to change this just go and tap on these dots right here and you will see that you can convert pretty much anything that you can imagine anything that you're thinking about you can convert it here it's pretty wild how they've thought of everything to put in here I mean we're talking time weight volume temperature speed length fuel power force pretty much everything like I said you can go ahead and convert in here so highly useful but the biggest change in the calculator is going to be math node not and this is a feature that allows you to basically write out math problems and it will answer it for you instantly so if I go ahead and type out whatever I want times whatever I want so you can see that the equals pops up right there and we also have in our predictive text here different things that we can enter so if you only want to insert in the solution we could just go and tap on that and there you go it only inserts the solution now you might be wondering why would I do that if I have a built-in calculator where I could just type in the numbers well well the reason being is because it's not just meant for simple problems like that like this is best used for things like graphs as well so if you want to put Y = 5x + 7 for example you can see that a little popup will show up here saying insert graph and when you tap on that it will do the graph for you just based off of what you typed in and you can also reference variables so for example I wrote out a grocery list with the price of each item and each one of these are going to be considered a variable as long as I type them in at the bottom of this so if I go ahead and type in let's just say yogurt plus and you can see it's already giving me you know the price of that right there it's referencing it and it also has this little animation where it turns orange rice so you can see it's starting to Highlights rice right there as well so you know you're referencing that variable we can do coffee it will reference that and then we can do let's just do one more and there we go and now we have the solution to that problem by referencing those different variables from my grocery list so pretty awesome and this gets a lot more complex especially if you're using an iPad with iPad OS 18 and the apple pencil so you can see all the problems I did here with graphs and everything so I did make a full dedicated video on this for the iPad so I will leave that link up in the cards and down in the description below if you want to learn more about it and you'll also notice that we have a new app icon for the calculator app we also have some changes in the maps application so first off you can see just a couple of UI changes here here you'll notice that the path right here is a lot more prominent in iOS 18 also the point of Interest here the upper yo7 trail head has a white outline around it it also has a more of a kind of gradient logo there it looks a lot more alive and less flat than it looked in iOS 17 you could see that for pretty much all the points of interest as well so Camp 4 down there also has a similar style where the text is bigger and the POI icon there has a white outline around around it and if you look right here we have this little plus button and that will add this to your library so before you had to add to favorites that was all the way down here at the bottom but now it's up here along with an animation when you press on that and if you look closely at The X and the share buttons they appear to be slightly larger than an iOS 17 also up here these buttons right up here in the top right appear to be slightly taller and kind of bigger as well and if we go down we have a couple of changes in here as well so you can see you can now add a note so it says only you see what you write so you can add a note to this place and if you go down a little bit further we have our first major change here with maps in iOS 18 and that is the ability for hikes and the ability to set custom routes for hikes so before we had this section called Trails but if you went onto that if you tapped onto that it would basically just take you to the trail and that was kind of it you didn't really have much going on there you just had photos and just basic directions but now an iOS 18 are much improved so if we go to this white wolf right here if we go ahead and tap on that you can see that we get the topographic map right here and you have a lot more details about the actual hike it's not just like a GPS like anything else would show you so this is awesome it'll show you you know how long it is how long it'll take the elevation and you can just kind of see the graph as well as in terms of your elevation along that hike and if you tap on the more button right here it will show you all of the hikes in that area area and it will also show them right here so if you zoom out it will show you more and they will be numbered and that will correspond to this section you also get some quick details about those hikes as well like if we go to top of yosity Falls which I've done that hike by the way it was awesome but you can see we get the you know mapped out version of that now again you can also create custom routes for these hikes so to do that you just tap on the more button right here and you'll see that we have a new option for create a custom route and when you go there you'll get this nice new little animation that says create a custom route and it says tap the map to add points to your route so if you want to choose you know where you start and kind of where you go you could just add these different points and you can see sometimes it will say you know it's impossible to go cut across there so you will have to put it on the actual path so you can see the white is the actual path but if maybe it's split off in two ways you can choose one of two ways to go back you could also reverse out and back and close loop so you can kind of have some options for your custom route as well and this down here updates in real time as well when you tap it so you can see everything updates in terms of the elevation the amount of time and the distance and you can also undo so if you messed up you could just press that to undo and you can just save this right here or just open up the directions and if you try to ex out of that without saving you will get a alert here so you do not delete your route on accident so this is excellent if you are into hiking and if you start typing in hikes in Sequoia for example you can see a small difference in the color here as well so the glyph icons to the left are now brighter in iOS 18 compared to what they were in iOS 17 and if we go into here you can see a difference in the results as well so an iOS 17 it just showed you these results here that were kind of just you know scraped from the web but now it's a lot more refined in iOS 18 and before you could only search by best match distance and rating but you can see now you have a lot more options in iOS 18 in terms of which hikes you want to go on so you can choose the length you can choose the route type and you could also filter it by elevation gain so if you only wanted to see hikes that are 2,000 ft or more in terms of elevation you can see those show up right here on the map so a lot more granular control over what you see when you search for hikes and apple says that this feature works for thousands of hikes across national parks it's not just in California you can see this in other national parks as well and you could also create custom routes for walking anywhere it doesn't have to be in a national park or for a hike and like I mentioned earlier we do have topographic maps in iOS 18 now so you can see the topography here in iOS 18 versus nothing in iOS 17 so a lot more detail there when you have mountains and if you download a map for offline use we have a change here as well so first off you can see under automatic updates we now have a description underneath of it also before the last updated was in a different section underneath of this but now it is right underneath of update all in this main section here and the offline maps can also now sync with your Apple watch which is a really big benefit if you wear an Apple Watch especially on a hike and if you search for something in maps like gas station or Mexican food in this example and you want to see what's nearby you can see a couple of changes here as well so first off the bubbles now have a slightly different color so it's slightly lighter it's kind of less saturated than it was on iOS 17 also if you look at the UI here that's different so you can now type in to Mexican food right there you can add on to it whereas before you had to tap on edit search and it was a whole debacle there to edit the search so it open up this full menu it was a lot less it was kind of more clunky than it used to be and you can see it just got rid of my search right there so that was annoying in iOS 17 much better here in iOS 18 also this menu looks a lot better and you can you know have more options to filter the search results and you'll also see a difference in the cards as well so now it's better fitted on the screen so before it just went across the entire screen it wasn't really structured but now we have a white background and it's more structured and clean on the screen also the Yelp reviews look better so everything is a clean gray whereas before we had these really ugly orange stars that showed up right here and it also said on Yelp now it just says Yelp and a small change you'll notice notice here as well is that before if something was closed like if a restaurant was closed it would just say closed and that was it but now in iOS 18 it tells you when they open in the red font so you don't have to read the hours afterwards it just shows you in the red text there that says close till 11:00 a.m. close till 12:00 p.m. and so on also the pictures over here are larger than they were in iOS 17 and if you zoom out a little bit you can see we have a new search here button so now you know it won't get rid of everything but you can go ahead and tap on search here if you want to you know confirm that decision to zoom out right there so it searches automatically but if you go you know down and Away you will have the option to search here and it will keep all those results up there and just to compare an iOS 17 if you did that you can see it would always just go with you wherever you went so you couldn't really look around without it changing you know your results so now you can kind of look around the area and not lose all the results you had there and we do also have a new app icon for the maps application so in the settings application we have a lot of changes so first off right away when you open up settings the search bar shows up by default before you had to swipe down for that to show up and then right below that we have the section for our Apple account and we have more padding on the top and bottom of this section also our name is now bold and then underneath of that it now says Apple account instead of Apple ID and it no longer says media and purchases it just says says and more also that font is a different color it's a gray color instead of being black and matching the name of our account and then the family text is a little bit further to the left than it was in iOS 18 now if we go into our Apple accounts we have even more changes so first off if we go into the iCloud section this has been completely redesigned so pretty much everything as you can see has been changed here for the better in my opinion so we now have an iCloud subscriber if you are subscribed to iCloud you'll get this new little badge up in the top right you have your storage 1.3 tabt out of 2 terabytes we have our saved to iCloud section right here which is very convenient before we just had this little section that said apps using iCloud and if you went into show all you just had an on or off switch now it shows by default like at a glance everything that's saved to iCloud along with the amount of space that it takes up or how many items are in there and if you go into that section this has also been changed so before it was apps using iCloud now it's just saved to iCloud and you can see the difference here as well because it will show the amount of storage it takes up whereas before it did not say that it would just tell you what it is and if it was on or off and then if you went into there that's when you could finally see how much storage it took up and then if you go down to the iCloud backup you can see at a glance if that failed or if that was successful based on the color of the button so it's red which meant it failed and if it was succeeded if you succeeded on the iCloud backup it would be green so again it's just easy to see everything at a glance now with iOS 18 in the iCloud section and you'll also notice here that we have the sign in with apple section where you can see every app you've used the signin with apple functionality now if you go down past that you'll start to see some other big changes so we now have easier access to some of our most used sections in the settings so for example battery is now in the first page of the menu so the first section of the menu has battery in it which is huge because before you had to scroll all the way down here and apple knows that battery is one of the most used sections in settings so they move that close to the top now another great example of that is camera camera has always been way down here I don't know why camera is another section that everybody goes in pretty frequently that used to be all the way down here not even in the first or second or third section it was all the way down here for some reason but now Apple move that all the way up here to the second section the fourth option down and you'll notice that throughout settings and if you go into dark mode you'll notice that all of the app icons change to their dark mode variant including the apps section so if you have any thirdparty apps with a dark mode icon they now show up in settings and speaking of apps that's another big change in iOS 18 in settings because if you go all the way down you'll notice that we now have an apps section before an iOS 17 if you want wanted to get to some of your third party apps you would just have to keep scrolling and keep scrolling and keep scrolling based on how many apps you had and everything just showed up on this one page but now it's more simplified because we have our own apps section and then from here you can search for apps and you also have an app Library esque section over here where you can sort an alphabetical order you can just tap or you know slide your finger over here to go based on the alphabetical order of those applications if you tap on search at the top of settings you now get suggestions up here so maybe suggestions for settings that you might want to enter but more importantly we have recents so you can now see recent menus that you've been within which is very beneficial and very helpful if you were deep in a settings pane like for example iCloud we had to get there by going to apps contacts contacts accounts iCloud that's deep in the settings that's multiple button presses but now you can get there with a tap because it's saved under recents now let's go back to battery because we have a big change in in the battery settings here so nothing looks different at first but if you have an iPhone 15 series and you go into the charging section right here we now have a change to the charge limit so before you could only turn on you know 80% charging or just 100% but now with iOS 18 you have more granular control over what your phone charges to so if you want to charge to 90% you can now do that if you want to charge to 95% you can now do that so you don't have the option of just 80% or 100% you now have three additional options and also in the battery section we now have an update finishing and background prompt so if you update your software you will now see this prompt under battery to let you know that you know the recent software update could take a toll on your battery life at first so it says that battery life and thermal performance May improve once finished so once the update finishes you know syncing everything in the background and this also shows up as a new section in your battery usage as well so it shows up as device setup and updates if it's impacting your battery life after an updates you'll also now get a recommended charge limit notification and also if you're using a slow charger like a 5 wat charger you'll now get a warning and it will show up a different color in your graph when you are using that slow charger and you might have also noticed this right here under insights and suggestions if you have your auto lock set to never we have a new warning underneath that says it's currently turned off you can save battery by turning it on and you have the option to turn it on right from this section here we also have some big changes to a lot of the menus so if you go into general for example we now have a big glyph icon up top along with the SE name of the section and the description of that section also we have multiple glyph icons in here now for pretty much everything in this menu whereas before it looked so boring here on the left it just does it looks like an old old version of iOS compared to iOS 18 so everything looks a lot better since we have those glyph icons to the left it's crazy how big of a difference that makes and then also if you go into the fonts section right here you can see that we now have a new setup for this so we have system fonts and my fonts whereas before if you didn't have anything installed it would just say open app store so I don't have anything installed here but we now have this new little picker here this new menu so now you no longer need to go into the App Store you can just go right here and download those fonts and once again if we go into some of our settings like Bluetooth for example you can see Bluetooth we have the big glyph icon up top along with the description underneath if we go into accessibility same thing up there we also have several glyph icon changes here as well so voiceover it's now black same with Zoom versus a like dark gray before spoken content has a new glyph icon face ID and attention is now a little bit darker than it was beforehand and if you go into privacy and security again we have the big glyph icon up top but also you can see a little bit more about each section before going into the actual menu so for example I can take a glance at photos and see that 10 applications have full access one has limited access and three have Adon access before I even go into there before an iOS 17 you had to go in to see any of that and even then it didn't show you the full amount of applications that had access and that really makes a difference especially for location services you can see the number there before going in which can be really helpful now also if you go into contacts before in iOS 17 you just had this either something had full access to all your contacts or it had no access at all well now with iOS 18 if you go in here there's a big change so if you go into Fantastical you can now limit the application's access to your contacts so if you tap on that you will be able to choose what contacts you want the application to have access to and you can also edit the selected contacts as well it's no longer just either full access or or none you have more control now and if you go down we have this new accessories option right here we also have some slight changes once again to the glyph icons and if you go down further we now have glyph icons for everything so the analytics advertising the app privacy report so it has transparency logs above it and also a glyph icon it also now says that it's on to the right and then also under security we now have glyph icons for stolen device protection and for lockdown mode and by the way yes that's a location for stolen device protection that used to be under face ID and passcode also if you go into safety check we now have a new glyph icon right here so a slightly tweaked glyph icon along with a new description underneath it also shows if stolen device protection is turned on we also have a new UI for Bluetooth and network access so they both look just like this there's a new UI with a map and it shows the surrounding devices in the Wi-Fi section we have the Wi-Fi glyph along with the description of it and if tap on the eye next to your connected Network we have a couple of changes here as well so first up up top in the top left the back arrow no longer has Wi-Fi text next to it it also appears to be slightly smaller than on iOS 17 and then down here we have private Wi-Fi address so before that was just a kill switch to turn on or off but now we can go into there and we have the option to change this between off fixed and rotating and if you set this to rotating will rotate your Wi-Fi address and it basically does the same thing as iOS 17 it's just a different naming scheme and a different way to enable it and you'll notice that there's also a description underneath as well that gives you more information about what a rotating private address does so that will reduce tracking by periodically changing the device's Wi-Fi address on the network and if you go into screen time and go to communication safety and you turn this on we also have a change here as well because this now requires the screen time password for children to view and send sensitive content this update also includes a new repair assistant feature that allows you to configure thirdparty replacement parts as genuine after a repair so you might see this in your about page it shows configuration available for the battery and you get the option to restart and finish the repair so basically what this does is if you ever replaced the iPhone's battery from a third party if you didn't go through Apple it would always show up as a third party part in your setting but now you can configure it as a genuine Apple part after the device runs through the tests with this new repair assistant feature and if you get a part replaced after installing iOS 18 that will now show up in your settings you go into General about there will be a section in here called parts and service and there's even activation lock for the iPhone parts now after updating to iOS 18 so Apple says that Parts such as the battery cameras and display are now linked to your Apple account based on their individual serial numbers and Apple's goal for this is to put an end to the market for selling parts from stolen iPhones there's a new UI if you have an Apple Watch syncing so it looks kind of like a dynamic Island animation at the top of your phone now also in the spotlight search you just have a lot more detail here so for example if you search for a menu inside of settings like sounds and haptics it will now show a description underneath of that section for settings it will also have the corresponding glyph icon that shows up in settings not just the basic settings icon and it also shows you know the app that it's inside right there it has little settings in the bottom right corner of that glyph icon and you'll notice that that corresponds throughout iOS 18 as well like you can see with epidemic sound right there it shows the little wallet application in the bottom right because in iOS 17 that little glyph icon in the bottom right popped up in certain areas but not in every area like it does in iOS 18 now heading into the books application we have a couple of changes here including a long awaited feature so if we go into our settings you can see that this menu looks a little bit different so it's a little bit more Compact and we also have smaller buttons down here at the bottom because we do also have an additional button down there which if you tap on this this will enable the line guide which will basically just highlight certain sections of the page and you can just tap to go to the next line so this helps if you don't want to be overwhelmed by a page you could just read line by line and if you tap on this again you will get options to dim the background more or you can lower the background dimming as well but the long awaited change is inside of the themes and settings section and if you go to customize we now have a new option if you go to customize right here to change the margins so before you were not able to adjust the margins inside of the books application which never made any sense but now you can do that and you can see the live preview up top of what it looks like when you increase or decrease the margins and then if you head into the bookstore tab you'll notice that up top it now says sections instead of browse sections and if you go into that section you'll see it's changed up in the top left as well now if we go into the top charts here you'll see up in the top right we also have a change in how the charts are viewed so before we just had the ability to browse charts and when you tap on that it shows the same things but now we just have this little drop down and it also just says charts now instead of browse charts and if you actually go into a book there's a big difference here in the UI so the UI looks a lot more modern now you can see that the background is you know a different color and if we go to the next one you can see that the backgrounds are different they're much better looking so we'll stay on this one right here for example and then if you scroll down you'll see that we have book and audio book so they're separated in a really nice way it also shows the amount of pages the you know length and who it's narrated by all right there with big buttons to sample and pre and purchase whereas before it just looked like this on the left it was very mundane and if you scroll down it used to say publisher description now it says from the publisher we also have a different color of text and if you tap on that it opens up in its own modal here so it's its own little section instead of just taking up all this you know real estate on this actual screen here and the customer reviews are also richer so it shows an image right there and specifies that it's the book that the person is rating and not the audiobook and it also has a different color for the Stars it's no longer as dark as it was in iOS 17 and you'll also notice that before up top the sticky little header that would follow you used to have the purchase price in the top left and an X in the top right now the x is in the top left and over in the top right we have a plus which allows you to add it to your want to read list and then if you tap on the three dots you get all of these additional options here as well and by the way when you go to your want to read read section you will now get notifications if discounts are available for those books that you added to this list and moving over to the audiobooks tab again we have a very similar theme here it now says audiobook store instead of audiobooks so just a minor tweak there and it also says sections now instead of browse sections and if you go into an audiobook you'll see that we have that new UI here as well like we saw for the books also if you start playing an audiobook or even a sample you can see that the now playing bar at the bottom is no longer full screen it's more you know just in this little section right here it looks a little bit more modern and better and then if you go to the search tab it now shows a trending genre and the books that are trending in that genre and then the final change is under the home section if you go down to the very bottom we now have books read this year so it shows that three more books are needed to reach my goal and you can tap on that and you can adjust the goal for how many books you want to read in a year we have quite a few changes in the wallet application so if you tap on the plus icon here and go to add a debit or a credit card and go to continue you might see a new UI for adding a card where you can use NFC to just tap your iPhone to the card and it will insert your information without you having to scan it or enter your details manually and if you go to your Apple cash card and you go to send or request we have a new Option called tap to cache and this allows you to Simply tap another phone to send them money so it works very similar to how we have name drop where you can just you know exchange contact information or exchange photos by just putting two phones together well you can now do that in iOS 18 for paying somebody so if you want to pay somebody 10 bucks you can do that tap next and then you can go ahead and you know put your phones together and you will pay them via tap to cash and by the way you can also add tap for cash in the control center so you can now access that and pay somebody easily by simply tapping on this button also now with Apple pay if you go to pay for something and you want to change your payment method there's now an option for change payment method whereas before you had to tap on the card so now if you tap on Apple card you just get the option to change the billing address not the payment method and just a quick shout out to the rewind wallpapers as well if you want to get these classic looking wallpapers this is where you can grab them on Brandon but.com I'll leave it linked in the description below as well they're pretty awesome wallpapers if I do say so myself and if you buy tickets for a game or a concert that now has a new UI in apple wallet it shows the stadium details recommended Apple music playlists and more and if you have an apple card there's a nice new change that's coming with iOS 18 it's a small one but a nice quality of life change and you will see this right away so when you go to let's just go to our month view right here you'll see that we now have up and down arrows along with how much more or how much less we spent based on the previous period so under total spending you can see we have an up arrow and it shows I spent $97 more than last month at this time and if it go down it gets even more specific under categories so it shows which categories you were spending more or less on this is very helpful when budgeting and here's a better example of an entire month so you can see that before we did have the up arrow that said plus 20% over last month but we didn't have the specifics right here like it shows now and again it didn't show everything under categories now if you go to the widgets and go to add an apple card widget you'll notice that we have a new Option here at the end for connected accounts so you can now add a connected account widget to your home screen and when you go onto this you can go ahead to edit and choose the account that you want to be there if you have a connected account also with iOS 18 you have access to more financing options so if your bank supports it you can now redeem your rewards points and also you can Access Loan installments directly from the wallet but again that's going to depend on your specific bank and here's another interesting feature in iOS 18 so there's a new fraud prevention feature for adding digital ID so if you go to plus right here and you go to driver's license or state ID if you have a compatible State there are now new preventive measures to ensure you are not you know claiming or somebody body you're not so before you had to scan the front and back of your physical ID and also capture a video of your face you know turning left and right but now in iOS 18 to make it even more fraud prooof you have to capture a live photo instead of or in addition to a submitted video so you might have to shoot a live photo and a video just to ensure you're who you say you are since this is basically a driver's license it's a serious deal much more serious than say a credit card this update also brings a nice change to the journal application which is one of the most underrated Apple apps by far so I know it's pretty new but still it doesn't get talked about as much it's pretty awesome so you'll notice right away the big difference here between iOS 17 and iOS 18 and that is up top we now have stats so it feels like you're being more productive when you write in your Journal it actually makes a big difference in terms of just mentally feeling like you know you're doing something good by writing down in your Journal it'll show that we have eight entries this year we've written 766 words and we've journaled for 13 days so you have your stats up there you'll also notice up top we have a search bar and then these three dots where we can sort by and we also have other options here as well and before if you tapped on that section in ios7 which looked a little bit different you only had the option to search for bookmarked photos videos and you can see the rest so now we have more options we have a new way to sort by and we also have glyph icons next to all of these options and by the way if we go into insights right here you'll see that we have our streaks so again just things that make you feel better about writing in the journal application like you're accomplishing something which you should feel when you're doing this so it shows insights right here it shows your stats how many days you've journaled how many times you've you know traveled or visited somewhere and you can even see a calendar here as well with a little dot underneath of it based on when you entered in something into your Journal now if you go to add a new journal entry you'll see a couple of changes here as well so first off we now have a title so it starts off with a title and then you could start writing underneath of that also down here we have a couple of changes in this little tab bar so the first thing you'll notice is that we have these two A's on the far left if you tap on that we now have formatting options inside of Journal so you can kind of see an example of some of the formatting that I've done here now of course we can also bold things so we can make certain things bold so if you want to make kind of like a a little header with in your journal entry you can do that right there we can also italicize underline strike through and we also have these other options as well we can change the text color as well of just a specific word and you can just do a lot more it's just so much more rich now than iOS 17 and then the other big change is on the far right so on the far left and the far right are where we have our two new options and this is for logging your state of mind so previously You Could Only log your State of Mind in the health application or on your Apple watch but now you can do that straight from within the journal application and also it will count towards your you know mindful minutes in the health application so the amount of time you spend typing in the journal will count towards your mindful minutes in health which is awesome so we can go ahead and do we'll just do Pleasant for today and we'll just do excited and we'll just do done right there and now we get the animation it's logged and it goes and it's kind of tied with this journal entry now and as you probably saw earlier when you tap on done you can see this from the main view as well so you can also see all the Bold the different colors all the markup options there from this view as well and I did mention it briefly but we do also have the search right here and when you go into that you can break down if you want to search for you know bookmarked places Reflections whatever or you can just search for groceries for example and the search is really good in journal you could also record a voice note inside of your Journal application and it will transcribe it for you as well so you can see what that looks like up here and if you tap on that and go to The annotation button down here it will show you the transcription and if you ever wanted to export and print your journal entries you can do that as well by tapping on the three dots and then going to print and you get the typical print view right here and you can see what that journal entry will look like when printed out and then we also get new home screen widgets for the journal application so you can now quickly tap on a widget from your home screen to enter in a a new entry so you have two views for new entry and then we also have my personal favorite which is streaks so this will show the number of days the streak you're on and also a quick button below to add a new entry from there as well and it opens up in this View and here's something that Apple doesn't do every year we have a big change to the fitness application on iOS 18 so first off you can see up in the top right here it used to say Activity but now it's activity rings and it's in a little widget now smaller and also the wording is kind of connected here whereas before it was outside of that little you know Circle that it's in and that's because we now have a change to the entire summary view so before we were just kind of stuck with this View and there was nothing you could really do about it but now in iOS 18 it will show our step count step distance our sessions trainer tips all of that and I've actually tweaked this I've actually made this look how I want it to look and you can do that as well by going down to the bottom and going to edit summary and this allows you to have a very widget esque screen here for the summary view now we also have the ad button up in the top left so if you tap on that you will get the option to choose any of these new cards so I have pretty much all of them added here you can see we have different versions of each of these cards as well so you could add those from there so let's just say we want to add training load for example I'll go ahead and add this card and it will now show up right here at the bottom and you can also tap on any of these to see if there are variations because there will be different variations of these widgets different type of views that you can you know we made that smaller right there for the awards for example so of sessions if we want to make sessions bigger let's see if we can do that yes we can so we can do that and we can swap that card and make it a little bit bigger we could also move these around as well so it's much more customizable than it's ever been and down here we have C all categories if you go into that you can now see all of your categories in one list view which is very helpful and if you go into the activity Rings we now have these new options to the right of move exercise and stand and this allows you to change the goal for today or change your schedule so you could adjust the goal for today which you could do that before you could see there's a minor change here in the UI it now says today's move goal instead of your daily move goal and also a change to the text below that also the card down here has green text instead of white and we no longer have that little you know by line at the bottom there but the big change in iOS 18 and this is also for watch OS 11 as well is that you can change your goal schedule so now you could have it set that every Saturday and Sunday in my example I only have to hit 310 calories instead of 500 calories so if I don't want to work as much on a certain day you know I can do that I can set that right there so I don't have to exercise as much on the weekends so we can set that and you can see you can do it for exercise and for stand as well and then also down here is another big change and that is the ability to pause your rings so if you get injured or if you get sick you can now pause your rings for a set amount of time up to 90 days and this will allow you to retain your streaks so you don't lose them while you're sick or injured and also down at the bottom we now have an ad to your rings section that shows you some suggested workout apps now if we head over to the Apple Fitness Plus tab we have a CH here as well so before this is what the UI looked like but now with iOS 18 we have this top tab bar so before we just had these little options here but now we have a dedicated nav bar up top where we can go to for you we can go to explore library and also search in this nice little bar up here before that was kind of just hidden all the way down here at the bottom and if you go to the library view you can see that we now have recently added and also the downloaded glyph icon is slightly different so the cloud used to be filled in now it is not and you could also Now search so if you know exactly what you want to search for in terms of a workout or a trainer you can search for that right here now moving on to the health application we have several changes in here as well we also have a pretty fundamental change to the way that the summary view works on this front page here so you'll notice right away that we have a text change so it used to be favorites now it's pinned and that's because now when you tap on edit you no longer select your favorites and they just go in whatever order of the alphabet they're in you now pin different activities or different things that you want to track like your body measurements cycle tracking and so on and you can move them around so if I add swimming strokes for example and I go here I can move where that shows up on my summary View and even from the summary view you can move these around as well kind of like their widgets again very similar to what we just saw in the Fitness application because in iOS 18 let's say I wanted cycling distance to be at the very top if I favored it right here and I go back in it will never be at the top as long as I have activity there because everything shows up in alphabetical order so it was not very customizable at all in iOS 17 but now it is an iOS 18 with the addition of pinning now we also have some changes in the activity so if we go into our activity right here if you look closely underneath of this section you'll see that the move exercise in stand textt is now outside of the box whereas before it was inside of one big box so these are all three separated now and the text is outside of them and the same goes with the text over here as well for the calories minutes and hours and if you tap your profile picture up in the top right and you go into medical ID this has been redesigned so before it looked like this on the left now in iOS 18 up top we have emergency access and share during emergency call so both of those are up top now and then below that we have a much better you know kind of way to just view your information so before it just showed like this now we have a much more Rich card here for showing our personal information for medical ID and up top you'll notice that the medical ID text is smaller and it's all red now whereas before medical ID was in black and it's also just easier now to add allergies conditions and notes and also delete your medical ID whereas before you had to go into the edit screen and this is how it looked just a lot better in iOS 18 in the health records screen we have a slight redesign here so up top we have a smaller card with a much smaller get started button and also a new glyph over there to the left underneath of that it now says apps instead of apps and services and if you go into organ donation you can see that this is also a smaller card with a smaller and a slightly new design for the sign up with Donate Life button and you'll also see down here that apps and services is now just apps so Apple has changed the wording for that and if you go into your health details section we have a new button here for setup pregnancy in cycle tracking so if you're currently pregnant you can add this and you'll be able to track your pregnancy symptoms and this will also display your gestational age along with an analysis of these symptoms that you record and we also get some additional widgets for the lock screen so if you go here you can see that we now have the these two sizes for overnight vitals and weekly vitals and the medications and State of Mind options have changed places and also if you go into the vitals section you can see that we now have our new vitals right here so we have a new application on watch OS 11 called vitals and this will track your you know nightly vitals as long as you're wearing your Apple watch to bed so it will show you if something is high typical or low and what may have caused that so it will show if you have an outlier and you can see right here we had an outlier so we can tap on that to see more information so it looks like sleep duration was my outlier and if you tap on that it will give you an explanation for what might have caused that to be an outlier and if you go over my last 6 months you can see that I've had seven outliers for Sleep duration and one outlier for heart rate so if I tap on the heart rate for example it will tell me factors that may cause an increase and may cause a decrease and you can see also on the chart you know that was it looks like it was right here and if you're wondering how this works I did explain this in my watchos video but it tells you right here so it's a collection of measurements such as your heart rate respiratory rate and wrist temperature that are taken by your Apple watch as you sleep and they will combine all that together to basically form a medium and it will determine you know if you're going above or below your median or I should say a baseline range as Apple calls it and something else that's in watch OS 11 but I'll mention it here because this is also in the health application is that we now have this little Gap that you'll see here in the Sleep section in your health and that signifies a moment where your watch was tracking your sleep even though you were not in a sleep schedule and not in a sleep Focus mode so basically if you fall asleep before you mean to or if you take a nap throughout the day those will now be logged and will count towards your amount of sleep that you're getting it just won't be able to track you know your Rim core deep sleep and so on it's just going to show this big little bar here to indicate and at least give you credit for sleeping and then here's a potentially life-saving feature that's coming in iOS 18 and this is emergency SOS live video so this allows you to share context through streaming video and recorded media so Apple says that in the middle of an emergency call participating emergency dispatchers can send a request for you to share a live video or media from your camera roll over a secure connection again using emergency SOS and these satellites so that is amazing just picture somebody is stuck or trapped you know in a mountain and it's daytime and maybe you know they can't describe what they're seeing around them if they can take a live video maybe the emergency Personnel can determine where they're at so in addition to kind of you know their GPS location so that's a potentially life-saving feature that's also coming with iOS 18 now if you're an accessibility user you are going to love iOS 18 because we get several big new additions to accessibility so first off you can see in the settings menu we now have that typical big glyph and the description underneath whereas before we just had nothing we have a slight change to the spoken content glyph icon and then the first new Option you'll see down here is ey tracking so now in iOS 18 you have ey tracking and this allows you to control your device using just your eyes which is pretty incredible now it doesn't work as good as The Vision Pro don't expect it to work as good as that but it's still pretty amazing so I'm just going to go ahead and enable this and show you that this is how you set it up so you just have to follow your eyes on the screen so follow the dot with your eyes only so if you move your eyes of course you do need to bring your face into view so you'll see this new popup there if you do that so I'm just going to run through this okay so now you can see that I'm controlling my iPhone with just my eyes so I do have to hold it at this view so that the front-facing camera has a visual on my eyes but for for example if I want to pull down the control center up here I could just go look over with just my eyes and keep holding and you will notice that we have that little drop down there so this is going to actually take me to my home screen so we're going to go back so you can use your hands at the same time you don't have to just use your eyes but you can just use your eyes if you would want to and you also have the option for smoothing you have snap to item zoom on keyboard Keys dwell control and autohide so we're going to turn dwell control right back on you can also press this button Buton right here and this will pull up you know your options for notification center Siri device control center all of that now another feature that I think will be more useful for the majority of people is going to be under speech and that is vocal shortcuts so this allows you to choose a custom phrase to perform a Siri request or a shortcut action and this can be very powerful so for example if you turn this on which by the way when you turn this on you will always see that orange Dot and your Dynamic Island and that's because you know you are using the microphone at all times now I have been testing this to see if it drains battery and I have not found any indication that it drains battery while having this on so for example you can see I have three different actions set up so take a look at what happens when I just say screenshot you can see it will take a screenshot so it does have a slight delay depending on what you do now for example if I say you know show time it will turn on all my lights or if I say undo it will basically mimic a shake on the device so let's say I type out something and then I delete it on accident but I want to undo that all I have to do is say undo and you can see it will undo that typing just from saying that and I didn't even have to say Siri or anything else I just set that up as an action right here so to do this just go to add actions and it says set up vocal shortcut so we're going to go to continue and now you get to choose what you want to do do so again you can have a Siri request so let's just say that our Siri request which is what you would basically say to Siri anytime you want to perform an action on your phone you basically just put it in writing right here so if I would were to tell Siri set a 15-minute timer I'm just typing that out here as my Siri request so we're going to type that out and now we're going to add our custom phrase so I'll just say timer for example so now when we tap on go we will have to say that three times there we go and it says action is ready and you can add another one but we're just going to try this out real quick so let's try it here timer and you can see it will set that timer you will even see the Siri pop up right here to indicate that it performed that Siri request for you pretty awesome so let's go and add an even more advanced one so you could also choose from shortcut so if you want to choose an action to run a shortcut you can do that or also you can go down here to below this and we have different system functions so if you get past your shortcuts you'll see we have accessibility you have all these accessibility options and my favorite right here is under system because you can mimic system actions like pressing the action button you can mimic that with your voice flashlight home mute notification center series Spotlight you name it so I already showed you the screen shot so let's try something else let's try Control Center and one thing I've learned after testing this out for a couple of months is that you do not want to add in a phrase that you say all the time like I'm just adding some simple ones just for demo purposes but you want to add something like control or something that you don't say very often that way you can avoid accidental triggers so I'll say controllable that's not something I say all the time so that can be what I say to pull down the control center with just my voice controllable and it will pull down my Control Center and you can see up top it does say you know the phrase that we said to invoke that we also have music haptics so this will allow you to get haptic feedback for music both in the music application and in apple music classical so if you're you know hard of hearing or if you are deaf you can now hear the music instead of just listening to it especially if you cannot actually listen to it so that is an awesome feature you can also access that from the control center as well so here's what that icon looks like now if you go into the motion section right here we have a really awesome new feature as well called show vehicle motion cues so this is a new feature that will basically help if you get motion sick in a car so if you go into here you have the option to turn this to AO automatic so it will automatically turn on if a vehicle motion is detected like if it detects if you're in a vehicle especially in the back seats or you could always have it turned on or always turned off so if I turn this on you will see that we get this badge up top and now we have these little black dots around the screen that will help with you know motion sickness so I don't get motion sick myself but if you know for people that do they've said that this actually does help with you know reducing the amount of motion sickness while in a car so we do also have a control center toggle for that right here and you can see kind of what that looks like along with the little glyph icons to the right and in the motion section in accessibility you can see a couple of changes here as well so dim flashing lights has been moved up and also the autoplay items here are all together now whereas before they were separated two up here and then one way down here so now they're separated and also in a different order and there's also a new option for prefer nonblinking cursor so before you know this already but you can see that you have a blinking cursor when you're waiting to type but if you turn this on you will not have that it will not blink it will just be a solid line there even after you type and inside of the audio and visual tab we have a new option for add voice isolation and this is mainly for the Apple TV application and when you're using the enhanced dialogue feature so this will add an additional option to enhance dialogue and it will basically isolate the dialogue from like an action scene for example so you hear the voices just as good as you hear the action in the background if not better there's a slight change to the glyph icon for audio descriptions same with face ID and attention the switch control icon is darker it's like black now instead of being gray we no longer have the Apple TV remote keyboards and airpods section underneath of physical and motor those have been moved down here to their own menu labeled accessories the audio and visual glyph icon has been changed so the ey is to the right now instead of underneath and we also no longer have the little waves coming out of the speaker the background of live captions is now black instead of gray same with live speech and also down here with guided access it's now black instead of a dark gray and if you go into voiceover we now have a new button for voiceover tutorial and also the speaking rate has been moved down now as far as voiceover goes we have multiple changes in iOS 18 so I'm going to separate this from accessibility since this is the most accessibility feature this is going to have its own section here so we have multiple changes here so let's start in the speech tab so you'll notice that now we have our primary voice up here and it says Samantha and it says enhanced so if you go into that right here if you go into this option we have the ability to change the voice you can just see the overall layout is so much better now in iOS 18 and if we were to go into Samantha before that is what it looked like here's what it looks like in iOS 18 before this is all you can change but now you have the option to change the rate the pitch and the volume for that specific voice you also have an equalizer down here so you can change the ultra lows lows mids and highs and you have the option to preview this voice by tapping the play button up in the top right corner and you also have an option to reset voice settings down here which will revert everything back to default you can also now have additional voices in additional languages as well so for example if you have a primary voice right here you could add a secondary voice that's also in English maybe just a different you know person a different tone or you could have it set to be in a different language so if I go down here and just choose Croatian for example I can choose one of these to add as my secondary language so now if we go back we have Elena underneath of additional voices and if you ever want to rename one of these voices you can do that very easily by tapping right here and going to rename and if you go down here to pronunciations you can go ahead and add a pronunciation and you will notice that there's a change in this section as well so you have your phrase and your substitution along with an enhanced description underneath so slightly different description and then also apply to all apps is selected by default but you also have the option now to see all of the applications down here and you can tap on a specific application to only apply it to those applications as well so for some reason it does not uncheck apply to all applications when you do that but this whole menu now shows up with without having to disable apply to all apps now as far as Braille goes we have multiple changes to braille as well so up top you can see that the glyph icon to the left is now smaller and it's also blue below that we have a new option for matching input and output tables so if you go into Braille tables for example you can see how that looks right there so if we go to our selected one you now have the option to choose between any of these there's a new option for automatic translation so everything will be translated automatically if you go into Braille ra screen inputs we have multiple new changes here as well so before we just had uncontracted and contracted Braille and reverse do positions but now we have all of these different settings so you can use activation gestures you can start automatically when editing text keep active until dismissed you can reverse the dot positions you get visual text feedback if you turn this option on and we also have different things down here as well like our typing feedback mode announcements and choosing a braille table from this menu and there are multiple other specific changes to braille as well so if you go to what's new in voiceover right here if you tap on that under the main voiceover page and go down we have a section here for what's new with Braille and iOS 18 so you can see things like Japanese kanji conversion you can see the sound haptics six. cells with Braille screen inputs all of that right here and then moving on to voiceover recognition we have a big change here because we have live recognition so this will use your iPhone to describe objects and environments around you in real time so if you go into here you could have it recognize people doors scenes point and speak text and Furniture this can also be triggered with a four-finger triple tap under that we can see that verbosity and audio have now been added to this menu instead of being separated and if you go into the audio tab audio ducking is no longer just a kill switch you can go into here and customize that so you can have it set to be off when speaking or or always and you can also change the voiceover speech volume and there's also a couple of new rotor items as well so toggle live regions and announcements is new as is live recognition we have some nice changes to the home application so if you have a homekit lock you will see this pop up that says home key and express mode so this allows you to basically unlock your lock without having to tap your phone or your Apple watch up against it it will detect you coming using Ultra wide B technology now keep in mind this does require the lock to also support uwb so if it doesn't have Ultra wideband it's not going to work but this will still pop up for it for some reason like my lock doesn't have Ultra wideband but I still got this pop up now here's a nice new change in iOS 18 if you tap on the three dots up in the top right and go to home settings right here underneath of people when you go to invite people we have a new option for guest so now with iOS 18 you can give guests temporary access to your smart locks your garage door opener and your alarm systems at select times so if you go to guest right here you will be able to add in their phone number or name from the contacts let me do that so there we go we have our guest and when you go to next you can now customize their access so let's say that we have Mary the petsitter who's coming to watch our dog and she comes twice a week so now you can give Mary access to the front door just those two days of the week so you can go to the guest schedule here and you can go to specific days and times so if we go to times for example we can deselect all day and we can choose only the hours that Mary will be coming to and leaving the house so let's say that she comes every morning at 9:00 a.m. and then leaves at 5:00 p.m. let's just say that she's watching the dog for 2 days while somebody's at work and we can set that to be only for specific days of the week so if you go to every week you can repeat this on let's just say Monday and Thursday so we'll deselect everything else so now Monday and Thursday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Mary has access to my lock and you could also add more times as well if maybe somebody else comes you know at the same time or if you need to add another day or whatever else to Mary's schedule you can do that right there and now you can see you have that set up and then you can just send the invite link so this is going to make your homekit experience a lot better when it comes to guests who come to your house frequently now here's another big change in the home application and this has to do with hom hubs so now in iOS 18 you can choose your Preferred Home Hub so if you go into the home hubs and bridges section we have a new kill switch here for automatic selection so it shows that right now my Apple TV is the active home hub but if we disable this we can choose what our Preferred Home Hub is so you can see that all of our homepods show up right here and it chose the Apple TV which is probably the right choice but if you wanted to change that you can you could also now pair matter accessories without a hhub via thread now when it comes to energy if you go to the energy section right here we have a new option to connect your energy account so this allows you to connect to your Energy company for specific uses data and statistics so right now this is only available for select you know carriers right now it's only for Pacific Gas and Electric but this will be rolling out to more in the future so you can see pg& right here is the only one that's available but this can be pretty awesome and then we also have a change when it comes to adding accessories so now with iOS 18 apps are able to offer in airpods like pairing for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi accessories so they'll be able to have where it just pops up you know you don't need to add an accessory you don't need to scan anymore now developers will be able to offer that instant popup where when you take it out of the box it will pop up like airpods and you'll be able to set it up and later this year you'll also be able to have robot Vacuums in the home application so if you have a homekit enabled Robot vacuum that will be controllable from the home app in the clock application if you set a stopwatch you can see that it now shows up as a dynamic Island little animation here so if you go go ahead and haptic press on that you can add a lap by doing like that you can pause it you can cancel and you can resume from here as well and of course this does also show up here on the lock screen this update also brings a game mode so if you go into a game let's go into Call of Duty for example you can see up top we now have a little alert that says game mode and you can also access this by pulling down the control center and tapping right here and you will see the kill switch for game mode so it's on by default but you can turn that off if you would like to and it says when game mode is on background activity is reduced to optimize the performance of this game now also when you have game mode on that will improve latency with connected airpods and Bluetooth controller so it is recommended to stay on also your in-game voice quality is going to improve if you use airpods when gaming online so that's been improved to 16bit 48 khz the Translate application has a few changes and that's starts with the app icon so we now have a new app design for the Translate application and if we go into there we have some changes here as well so first off we now have support for the Hindi language so you can now translate to and from Hindi and then if you go to the translate icon in the control center we now have this animation up top for all devices that have a dynamic Island it's not just for the action button devices so this was limited to the 15 Pro and newer before but now it works on any device with a dynamic Island we also have Live tech support for Arabic and Thai the Slovenian language is supported and you can now set that as your primary language and the live text feature is now available in Arabic and Thai we have some changes in the Apple TV application so you can see that underneath of the title The text right here is a little bit thicker and it's also a different shade of gray and if you go down and tap on one of the cast members it will show this right here and you can see it now says the name of the person so Adam Scott up in the top middle whereas before it was a big header in the top left and you can also just see we have a new animation when we go into there so it kind of pops out instead of just sliding over like we had in iOS 17 and then if you're watching something and you tap on the three dots right here you can see that the menu has changed so before it was playback speed languages and subtitles now it's playback speed audio and subtitles and if we go into audio we now have the ability to enhance dialogue and if you drop that down we have isolate so now you can set enhance dialogue for isolate boost or enhance but what's even better is that now we have a new feature called Insight so this shows up at the bottom when you're watching a show or a movie and if you tap on that that will show you who's currently on screen so for example it shows the actor and the actress who are currently showing on screen and of course if they if that seen changes this will update in real time now if music is playing it will also show that music so let me show you an example of that so when there's music playing you will see this little card down here that shows the name of the song along with the album artwork and you could also press on plus to add it to your Library without ever even having to leave the TV application that is awesome also these subtitles will automatically turn on if you mute the movie or the show and then we also have a minor change on the episode page so once again the text underneath the name of the episode title is a little bit thicker than before and it also looks like the resume episode button is slightly larger as well in the shortcuts application we have a new UI when you go to create a new shortcut so if we tap on the plus there this UI looks a lot better A lot more modern so before you had to click on ADD action basically that whole button was there you could search and pull this up but it was kind of hidden and out of the way so Apple has made that easier to find the search actions button and there's no longer a add action blue button right here so also the text up here has been changed and there's no next action suggestions because nothing has been added yet so I feel like apple is trying to make shortcuts a lot less confusing than it already is which is a good thing so you also notice up top new shortcut is now in Black instead of in Gray like it was in iOS 17 and if you tap on that drop down we have a new glyph icon for choose icon before it was like a photos glyph now it's this dotted square and then when it comes to actually adding actions before we had a little favorites menu but now we no longer have that but we can pin items so if we find something that we like we could just go ahead and press on the I right here and we can pin that to the top so that's already pinned so let's just find something else we'll just find books for example and if we go ahead and tap on books and then let's just say play audiobook is something that we use frequently we can pin that to the top so now when we go to add any shortcuts you can see that play audio book will always be up there at the top so makes it easier to access frequently used actions and now if you want to search for an action from a specific application like settings for example you can see that the icon shows up bigger and when you tap on it this whole menu kind of remains whereas before it would create a whole new window just overwhelming you with all of the options for settings so you can also search within settings so if I want to search for calls for example you can see I can search within that so search is so much better now and you'll also notice that we have a few additional actions here as well to add to your shortcuts there's also a couple of new additions for reminders including being able to add to a specific list there's some small changes to the books actions like search the books app instead of saying search in books and then also open default collection instead of just open collection but in my opinion the best change in shortcuts is the ability to specify multiple conditions for if statements so I have an if statement here added and you can see before in iOS 17 if you added an if statement basically just had to go to otherwise and you know add another if statement but now you can see that we have this little plus icon next to our if statement and you can tap on that and that will give you more conditions you can continue adding conditions based on you know whatever you're linking this to so you can add all these different conditions without adding additional if statements and of course if you tap on any you can change that to all as well so you can really specify what you're trying to do here there's also some new shortcut actions so we have a create folder action we have the add shortcut to home screen create iCloud link for shortcut and then three new actions for journal to create audio entry create a message with a title and search the journal there's a few changes in the free Form application so first off we have a new feature called scene so this makes it easier to move around a board when presenting so if you go up to the three dots right here you can either add a scene or you can go to the scene Navigator so if you go to scene Navigator it will show you all the different scenes you've set up and a scene is essentially just a movement to another part of the board so if I was presenting and I was talking about test right here but then I wanted to go to this is a slide next I wouldn't want to sit here and slide my finger all the way over here I would want this to be set up so that when I tapped on the next Arrow it would automatically take me to where I want to be so let me show you an example and our first scene is going to be this right here and then our second scene is going to be this slide right here but maybe we want to be zoomed out a little bit more we can zoom out a little bit more and then set that as a scene as well so we'll go to add scene and then maybe for the third one we want to zoom out a lot so we have all three of these sticky notes included in that scene so we'll go ahead again to right here and add scene so this was our first scene here's our second scene and then here is our third scene we also have snap to grid as you'll see this Square snapping to the grid lines there's improved diagramming so you can now join objects together with Magnetic connection lines the math notes feature is integrated into free forms if you put equals next to a math problem it will solve it for you and of course it will write the result in your own handwriting now also if you go up here and go to find you can search for five for example and it will recognize your handwriting now so you can search for handwritten text it could also be translated and copied as text and lastly we can also send a link to a free form board to anybody and they can open it up in free form on their device and if you plan on switching over from an Android to an iPhone soon iOS 18 will make that transfer process easier so they say that the move to iOS interface has been updated and enhanced Wi-Fi migration is faster using 5 GHz you can now transfer data via wired connection using a USBC to USBC cable or USBC to lightning there's also dual SIM labels when transferring along with voice memo migration and iOS tips will be shared during the migration process and I know this video has been long so if your phone is about to die you should also know that the final feature in iOS 18 I want to mention is that you can now see the time when your iPhone is dead but this only applies to the iPhone 15 series and newer so that is IOS 18 and this was the movie so hope you guys enjoyed it this is my longest video to date the most effort I've ever had to put into a video so I would appreciate if you gave this video a thumbs up and if you want to support don't leave a super chat on this video just buy some of my wallpaper packs I want you guys to get some value in return as well so check out our new wallpaper collection here vant and also all of my other wallpaper collections like rewind and opulent so that's the best way to support if you want to do that and you'll get some of the awesome wallpapers that I always use in my videos and if you're looking for more videos to watch check out my desk tour setup right here that video was amazing and also check out this Mac OS Aqua video as well showing everything new in that software update anyways I need some sleep now so thanks again for watching guys and I'll see you sooniOS 18 is the most significant update in years and I'm going to be showing you more than 500 new features and changes to prove it to you and as tradition this is a fulllength film so grab your snacks grab your popcorn throw this video up on the TV and if you enjoy it give this video a thumbs up let's jump in okay so throughout this video I'm going to have IOS 17 on the left iOS 18 on the right let's start with the lock screen so what do you notice is missing an iOS 18 yes it's the quick actions down below the lock screen shortcuts can not only now be removed but they can be customizable so before it was limited to just the flashlight and the camera but now you can change that so if you have to press on your lock screen and go to customize and then go to your lock screen you'll see that we now have these two plus arrows at the bottom and when you tap on that you can customize the actions so let's say for example we want to open an app from our lock screen we can go to open app right here and then we can choose what application we want to open up so if I ever want to quickly go into YouTube I could just select YouTube and now you'll see that we get this little YouTube icon down there now we're going to add another one over here let's do silent mode so now when we go to our lock screen we can just press one of these two quick actions at the bottom to either open up YouTube or go into silent mode so we have to press right there and you can see I'm toggling between that mode and you can see the different animations there and same with YouTube all I have to do is long press on that and it will open up YouTube for me and the quick action controls that you choose will stay sticky to that specific wallpaper so if you were to go to a different wallpaper you will see different actions because again you can customize them on a per wallpaper basis but as I showed in the beginning if you have a really nice lock screen wallpaper like this one from the rewind wallpaper pack it looks really good and just really clean if you completely remove those quick actions there's also a new color for the clock up here so if you go to the clock you can see that we have a new gradient here in iOS 18 that was not there in iOS 17 so you can see kind of what that looks like when it's thick and thin you cannot change the gradient it's just stuck with those colors and if you tap on the globe icon in the top left corner you'll notice that we have several additional languages for the clock now and also all of the languages are alphabetically sorted we have a new Dynamic wallpaper for iOS 18 so this shows up when you add a new wallpaper you can see all of the different colors here however it might actually just shuffle through all those colors if you set it to Dynamics you can see when you add it to your lock screen you can kind of toggle between the different colors but if you go to the very beginning it will change to Dynamic and this will actually change colors throughout the day also on the lock screen if you get a message while in a focus mode it will just say messages now instead of who actually sent the message before an iOS 17 instead of saying messages it would just say the name of the contact okay so now let's talk about the home screen and this is where we're going to have a mass massive change from IOS 17 so take a look at iOS 17 and take a look at iOS 18 and tell me which one you would choose now you might choose the light icons and that's fine but I personally like the dark icons a lot so you'll notice that most of the thirdparty applications and first party applications now have a dark mode variant but this is not enabled by default you need to haptic press on your home screen and now you see that we have an edit button up in the top leftand corner whereas before that was a plus icon up there and if you tap on that we have a change here as well so before if you press that it would just pull up the widgets that you can add but now we get a menu here so there's add widget there's customize and there's edit pages so if you go into customize this is where we get the menu down here in this bottom tray and this is where you can change the icons from light mode which will be on by default once you update to iOS 18 but if you want to change it to dark mode you just simply select dark and you'll also notice that your wallpaper got darker you can tap on that to you know return the wallpaper to its original state but you can put that in kind of a darker mode there as well if you would like to there's also an automatic mode which will change of course based on you know the sunrise and the sunset and then we also have tinted now tinted is really cool because you can see it kind of just adds this really nice tint to your icons and also to your widgets you'll see this throughout everything on your home screen so it's really neat but there's more to this than meets the eye so if you go back to customize and go to tinted you can see you can change the Hue of it right here you can change the opacity of the color and my personal favorite part is that we have a Color Picker here so if you go to the Color Picker you can now match it to a certain part of your wallpaper for a more precise you know color and to get it matching perfectly so if I go right here you can see how that looks uh maybe I'm not a big fan maybe I want it to be more of the blue color there we go we can do that and maybe we want it to be a little bit lighter we can kind of just adjust this to our liking and by the way if you want to get any of these wallpapers I will leave them linked down in the description below and here's another example of how cool your home screen can look with those colored icons so with those tinted icons and you'll notice that when you change to a different lock screen the those icons also stick with that wallpaper so here's another example you can see just like the lock screen anytime you change the app icons those will persist those will stick with the specific wallpaper and this is just one of the reasons I think iOS 18 is such an awesome update because you can finally you know customize your iPhone to your liking like you can just keep the classic white icons if you want to but at least you have more flexibility now to do a lot more than you previously could and if you want an ultra clean setup you can also set your app icons right here from small to large so if you select large the app icons will get larger and it will remove the text underneath of the apps so the app labels are gone and that just gives you a really clean look on your home screen now you've probably been wondering how I have this empty section up here in the top right of my home screen and that's because now in iOS 18 you can move app icons outside of the traditional grid so if you have to press on your home screen to go into jiggle mode take a look at this I can move these app icons wherever I want not necessarily wherever I want it still has to be you know in the grid somewhere but they do not have to be next to each other anymore you going to essentially move these app icons to pretty much wherever you want and this gives you so much customizability for the home screen and this is another reason I think that everybody's home screen after iOS 18 is going to look so different there's also a really nice change to widgets in iOS 18 so an iOS 17 if I wanted to change the size of this music widget I would just have to remove it and then add a new one with the correct size but now in iOS 18 you'll notice that we have this little dragger icon in the bottom right that's because we can now drag that to change the size on the Fly we no longer need to remove the entire widget and add a new one we can change this to whatever size we would like and you can see how smooth and fluid it is and you can even make a widget from an app icon on your home screen without ever even going into jiggle mode so for example for podcast if I have to press on podcasts you can see that we now have a new menu there for changing the size of this app icon which means that we can make it into a widget just by tapping right there boom and that also means that you can change a widget back into an app icon so if I have to press on any of my widgets I can just go ahead and press right there and it will turn it into an app icon same with this one right here press it and boom it's into a music app icon now here is a feature I've been waiting on for over a decade now in iOS 18 you can hide and lock applications so if you have to press on an app icon you'll now get a new menu option that says require face ID if you tap on that it gives you a prompt after that that says do you want to just require face ID or do you want to also hide the application so if you press require face ID it does just what you would think so if I press that it will scan my face and boom so now if we try to open up Snapchat it lets me but you can see that you do have to enter in your passcode right once you go into the application however if you don't want somebody even knowing that the application is on your device you can go to hide and require face ID so when you do that it will scan your face and now you get this prompt that says hide Snapchats and it says that it will be obscured and you will get no notifications calls or alerts from that application so if you tap on hide application it will do that and boom it's gone and you'll notice that if you go all the way over to the app library and go all the way to the bottom there's now a new folder called hidden and if you tap on that it will ask to scan your face and you will see the two hidden applications that I have right there and if you go into your settings and go down to the apps section and then go all the way down to the bottom this is also where you'll see a menu option for hidden application so if you go into here this is where you can see the settings for those hidden apps and going back to the app Library there's a minor change here so the background is no longer blurred so before it used to blur the home screen wallpaper now it is unblurred and this will be very hard to portray through the video but also in iOS 18 Parallax icons are back so this will lightly shift your wallpaper your apps and your alerts as you to your iPhone and kind of move it around this was removed in iOS 16 and stayed absent on iOS 17 but now it's come back with iOS 18 and if you want to disable this you just need to turn on reduce motion and I had to change my wallpaper to something lighter for this next feature but this is something that is so subtle but it's what makes Apple Apple so take a look at what happens when I press on the buttons you see that little animation there's this little animation that kind of comes out from the bezel of the iPhone and it's super subtle but it's just so cool and it's so fluid and so nice it also works on the side button over here as well and also for the camera control button if you have the iPhone 16 really small detail but I love it so we all know what the control center looks like in iOS 17 well take a look at iOS 18 which control center do you like better because I think iOS 18 looks so much better with the circular icons but it's not just the shape of the icons down here it's also the extreme amount of customizability that you can do do here it's a complete redesign and rethinking of the control center so first things first let's not forget these top buttons up here so you do have a little plus icon which will allow you to add controls so you no longer need to go into settings to add a control to the control center also up in the top right we have a power button where you can havep to press on that to power down your phone and just like with the widgets on the home screen you can also resize all of your control center icons so I have these all set up how I like it so I'm just going to scroll down because you also have multiple pages so you can have multiple pages of control center icons so let's just go to add a control and you'll notice that we get a vast selection of controls to choose from you have everything from connectivity to your focus modes homekit now playing remote you have your utilities you have accessibility Vision accessibility you have pretty much anything you can think of in here and plus you can also add shortcuts in here as well which we'll talk about that in a moment but that's an option in there as well now going back to the main control center page here once you add your control center icons you can also resize them just like you can with widgets on the home screen so you have multiple different sizes for every widget or at least most widgets and you can just you know change them around move them around to wherever you would like and you can make them larger and you can see that the widgets around it just kind of move out of the way it's really fluid and really really nice and again so customizable now also we do have multiple Pages as I mentioned so after you get past the main control center you know Pages where you can customize we do also have a media page which by the way even though these are there by default you can customize these even further as well so if you wanted to make this you know a little bit smaller and turn that into you know another page like the first one you can do that but by default it is large like this and then below that we have our homekit area so we have our home devices in a separate area now on a separate page which is very convenient that way you don't accidentally press something when you pull down your control center all the time maybe it was just me but if you go down to the end we also have a connectivity tab where you have all your connectivity options such as airplane mode airdrop Wi-Fi and so on and here's just a side by side of the difference between the two so before if you wanted to get into the connectivity area like this on iOS 17 you just had to haptic press right there and everything was just smaller and just so bundled together everything was just very congested in iOS 17 now you have so much space in iOS 18 and so much customizability to set the control center to your life and another way to navigate through the control center is just to haptic press in this section and you can kind of see this little animation and how each section kind of pops out there so this is an easier way than just going through and scrolling and maybe accidentally pressing something so just haptic press over here and you get a really nice fluid animation to go along with the switching of pages and this is also like the home screen where nobody's Control Center is really going to look the same and that's just awesome because that's not something that we're familiar with on iOS normally everybody's iPhone kind of looks the same but now with the customizability on the lock screen the home screen and now the control center pretty much nobody's iPhone is going to look the same which I think is a big win for iOS we also have a change to the Shazam glyph icon so it looks a little bit different here in iOS 18 and also if you have to press on that we have a change here as well so it doesn't just show your history by default you can have it set to recognize music and then also the option to show history and there's also several changes to the glyph icons so the flashlight glyph icon it looks a little bit different the flashlight is a tiny bit smaller the calculator glyph icon has the new look for the updated calculator in iOS 18 the screen recording icon looks different so the outline is less opaque and it's also a little bit thicker low power mode also has a change so it's less opaque Also the battery percentage inside of the glyph icon shows as lower than it was in iOS 17 the camera icon has a thicker Circle through the middle the screen mirroring glyph icon has a change as well so it's very similar to the other ones and pretty much every icon has been changed and also the little glyph inside of the circle is a little bit larger than it was on iOS 17 as well and orientation lock is also different on iOS 18 both when it's enabled and disabled now if we activate the flashlight you can see a massive difference in the UI here so the UI kind of lives up in the dynamic Island now in iOS 18 and also in iOS 17 the only thing you could customize was the intensity of the flashlight beam but now in iOS 18 you can not only increase the intensity by swiping up right here but also the spread of it so if you move your finger side to side you can change the spread of the flashlights along with the intensity and you can see the really nice animation there when you go up and also when you go and change the you know width of the beam for your flashlight so really awesome try it out and also check out the animation when we turn the flashlight off really nice and by the way when you turn the flashlight off in iOS 17 it just turns straight off as you can see just straight off but in 18 the flashlight Fades out it doesn't just go straight off it kind of Fades out so if you go to the control center and add the background sounds control we have new background sounds if you have to press on that we have two new ones down here so KN and fire and by the way like I mentioned earlier you can add a shortcut into the control center so if you wanted to open up an application quickly from the control center you can now do that by adding a shortcut so you can either use the pre-made open app or you can choose your own custom made shortcuts so for example I have one right here that will open up X when I tap on it so I tap on it and boom it opens up the application that I wanted and same right here if I press on this it will open up messages for me to compose a new text message which is very convenient on the Fly and speaking of control center toggles if you have an action button so if you have a 15 Pro or an iPhone 16 and you go to your action button settings if you go over to controls we now can quickly access your favorite control via the action button which is really nice if if you want to quickly trigger dark modee if you want to quickly you know scan a QR code quickly go into airplane mode any of these that you want you can do that by simply pressing and holding on the action button you can even ping your watch from there and there's also a new recognized music toggle as well so if you have to press on that you can see the animation up there it will listen for the music and tell you what it is and by the way if you go into your focus modes there is going to be a new reduce interruptions Focus mode if you have an apple intelligence compatible iPhone IP IP ad or Mac and you've upgraded to iOS or iPad OS 18.1 or Mac OS 15.1 so this is the new you know Apple intelligence Focus mode which is really awesome so if we go into our settings and go to focus you will see reduce interruptions even though I don't technically have that feature yet on my device so if you get a message from somebody that may be important it will break through your focus mode and show you this little notification up here with a really nice animation that's very Apple intelligence esque and while we're talking about Focus modes and Siri let's go into our Siri settings so it's now Siri and not Siri and search or if you're on iOS 18.1 you'll see apple intelligence and Siri and if you go into those settings you'll notice that we have a couple of changes here so first off it now says Siri requests instead of ask Siri also there's no more press side button for Siri on this main page it's now under the talk to Siri section so if you go into talk to Siri we now have the Press side button for Siri right there and if you go into accessibility and then down to Siri and then scroll down you'll notice that we have some changes here as well so before it said always listen for s or hey s now it just says always listen for S also there's a new setting here called require Siri for interruptions so it says when this is on you have to say Siri or hey s to interrupt a Siri response and then below that we have another new option for listen for a typical speech so this will expand the speech patterns that Siri will listen for and it will help improve speech recognition so if Siri had a hard time understanding you in the past enabling this might help Siri understand you better the messages application gets quite a few changes this year that I think you're going to love so number one if we go to tap back on a message we have multiple changes here so you can see iOS 17 on the left iOS 18 on the right multiple changes right away so we have more colorful reactions up top and we have additional reactions that we can give so we have a recently used Emoji right there and we could also add any emoji that we would like so if we scroll over we can see some of our recently used emojis and if you tap on the emoji icon you can choose from the keyboard which Emoji you would like to select as a reaction and you can even react to a message with a sticker also in group chats if multiple people react to the same message it now has them separated whereas in iOS 17 they were all stacked together if you tap and hold on that message it also shows the individual so if there's two ha pause it will show both individuals right there underneath of it whereas before it just showed two and you had to tap on it to see who the other person was who reacted with the haha in this instance you can now send multiple stickers in a single message and you can combine stickers with Emojis so you can see I have a sticker and an emoji there and iOS 17 that was not possible you would it would send the sticker as an image and then the Emoji would be separate and same with stickers you could only send one sticker at a time it would ask you to replace it if you tried to select two but now you can send multiple stickers and even combine them with Emojis if you start typing out a message you'll notice a new a icon right here to the far right in the predictive text field if you tap on that you can see that you now have the option to send text effects for individual words or characters so before an iOS 17 you could do similar you know effects right there but it was only if you tapped and held on the send button and then you had the option to send the whole message with an effect but now you can do that for individual words so if I wanted to maybe make best stand out in this message I can do let's just do explode so now you can see it will send like that so if I go ahead and send that here's what it looks like when it does that little animation so that's pretty awesome but it goes even further because we also have the option to format so we now have text formatting in the messages application which means that we can bold items we can italicize items so if we go over here and italicize that we can underline so if we go here and underline and we can also strike through so you can do them all in the same message as well if you would like to and it will show up that way for the recipient as long as they're on iOS 18 now here is a feature I've been waiting on for a long time now with iOS 18 you can schedule iMessages to send up to 2 weeks in advance so maybe if you just remembered that it's somebody's birthday and you don't want to forget in 2 weeks you can now schedule to send that message on your behalf so once you type out the message just tap the plus icon to the left of the text field and look for the send later option if you don't see that you could just scroll down and it should show up right here so once you select send later you get the option to choose your date and again this goes up to 2 weeks in advance and you can really narrow this down to the exact time that you want to send it now once you select the time that you want just hit send right there and you will see that we now have a send later option above that and it will show it and if you tap on edit you have the option to send it right away you can edit the time or you can delete the message and the best part about this feature is that even if your device is turned turned off or if you don't have signal it will still send to that person because it is currently being stored in the iMessage servers if a link is shared in iMessage it will now adopt the dominant color of the content and it will fill in the gray areas with that color so they look a lot cleaner now in iOS 18 compared to iOS 17 you also get more control over how the links are viewed how they're formatted in messages so if you go and paste a link in here and then you tap on that link we have multiple options now so you can customize that so if it's supported you can choose between two different looks for how that link will look in line in the message and you also have the option to convert to text link that way it only sends it as the text and not the embed of the video so easily the biggest change coming to messages this year is RCS support So now with iOS 18 we officially have RCS support which means means that we can text with Android users and get pretty much all of the benefits that we get with imessage users aside from their bubbles remaining green so we now have text indicators you can now see typing indicators when somebody on Android is typing you now have read receipts so if they have that enabled you will now see when they read your messages but the best part is that you won't receive videos like this anymore this really grainy super low reses video video that we used to see when videos were sent from Android to iPhone over MMS so now MMS is a thing of the past now the videos will show up in their full resolution normal size and they won't be super Grinny and unwatchable like they were in the past which is huge audio messages are also possible on RCS so if you tap on the plus right here and go to audio it will actually allow you to send an audio message to somebody that is on Android there's also no character limit so you can type out as much as you want just like on iMessages you can also react to messages with Emojis and the person on the Android phone will see your reaction just as you do and you can also Now text somebody on Android over WiFi just like you can with imessage so if you're like me and you have that one group chat where there's only one or two people in there with an Android phone and it completely ruins the experience group chats are about to get a lot better and more bearable with iOS 8 thanks to RCS and if you go into your settings and go to messages there's also a new option for RCS messaging right here so if you go into that there is a toggle to turn that on and if you go down to the very bottom we have business messages and in here you can turn Apple messages for business on and RCS will work for business messaging as well if you're messaging with Microsoft and it will show their full name and photo now you can now send images up to 100 megabytes at full resolution in iMessage so you can see this size of this file right here is 105 megabyte and I was able to send that to another iPhone via iMessage meanwhile I tried that on iOS 17 and it failed it just said not delivered so you can now send images at Full Resolution up to 100 mbes but on the other end of the spectrum if you go into your settings and then go all the way down to the bottom for messages the lowquality image mode has been enhanced with iOS 18 so if you have this on to send compressed images it has improved for retaining more detail the new math notes feature which we'll talk about later on Works in messages so how this works in the messages app is you can just type out a math problem and once you type in equals it will solve that for you so you can see that you can either just insert the answer only or you can insert right here to have the full equation with the Sol solution so if I go back and I just select the solution you could also select to only have that entered in as well but where this is really useful is with currency conversion so if you're texting somebody from another country and you type in the dollar amount and just put $97 and then you put equals you can see instantly that that is 8665 so you can now send it that way this update also brings messages via satellite so you can now send messages if you're off the grid and you have no signal now this does require the iPhone 14 or later but there's a new section in settings so you can learn how this works we have the satellite connection demo if you go ahead and enable that you can see this really cool animation here it's trying to get a clear view of the sky to connect with a satellite and take a look at this so it's looking for signal and it found a satellite behind me so you have to point it at that satellite and it basically is showing you you know if you were in this position what you're going to do so now we can tap on in demo and this is what the interface looks like in here so you can not only message you know emergency contacts but you can also request roadside assistance and if you go into there it says if you need help with your vehicle you can contact a roadside service provider when Wi-Fi and cellular are not available so this can quite literally it will quite literally save lives so we had emergency SOS before where you can make phone calls and send messages before but now it gets a little bit more advanced with iOS 18 also new in carplay is that the iMessage notifications now include contact photos they didn't show photos in iOS 17 in the phone application we now have T9 dialing so if I wanted to type out Apple we have a under two p is seven two P's and then we have L for five and then three for e and you can see that we can see apple right here so these are different Apple contacts and if we go to four more it will show all of the results right there so I have multiple people from Apple in the contacts and we also have new options over here on the right for calling or FaceTiming them and if you start typing in somebody's number and you want to add them to contacts before an iOS 17 we just had a simple add number text beneath the number but now in iOS 18 we have a little glyph icon up in the top left and if we press on that we now have new glyph icons in here as well to the right of create new contact and and next to add to existing contact if you go to your recents tab we now have a search bar so you can now search for any recent calls that you've had there's a new live voicemail UI so the whole interface has been updated in iOS 18 so we have IOS 17 on the left iOS 18 on the right so we now have more details about what is actually showing here so it gives you information about the live voicemail and then after it's done you can see an iOS 17 it just said that a voicemail has been left it didn't give you any more context you just got a notification saying that there is a voicemail but now in iOS 18 after the live voicemail ends you'll notice that you have a new notification that shows up and it looks very similar to a text message but it shows the full transcript of what was said in that voicemail or at least the first part of it now here's a feature I've been waiting on for a very long time and I think you guys have been waiting on this forever as well now with iOS 18 you you can record phone calls and those phone calls can be transcribed to reflect on later so if I make a phone call to somebody you'll notice that we have a new icon up in the top right hand corner so I'm going to go ahead and mute myself so when you're in a phone call in iOS 18 you'll see this new glyph icon up in the top left that has some waveforms and a record button now if you tap on that that says this call will be recorded and the audio prompt gets sent to the other person so the person on the other line will be indicated that they are being recorded this call will be recorded now you'll also see this new UI pop up right here that shows it's being recorded along with a stop button so if I unmute and we can hear myself this will transcribe everything that I'm saying or what's being heard on the other end so it actually pick up both sides of the phone call so you can hear yourself and you can hear the person on the other end of the phone so if I hang up take a look at what happens and now shows a view saved calls so that pops up and you can tap on that and it will take you straight into the Notes application and you can see this call recording right here so you can play it from there you could also tap into here to see the full transcript and you can even summarize that transcript and if you go back into notes and go to your folders there's a new folder here for call recordings so if you go into here you can see you know everything that was being said in these different phone calls so here's an example of a phone call I had with Tim Cook for 5 minutes and from here you can get a summary so if you tap on summary you can see a summary of that phone call you could also search the transcript so if you swipe up you'll see a search button down here where you can search and you have these three dots right here where you have additional options and you could also search inside of the phone application for transcribed voicemails there's a new UI for swapping calls so if you have somebody on hold while you're on the other line you get this new UI uptop and if you have two SIM cards set up on your device you can go into the control center onto the toggle or just go to the cellular data toggle and haptic press and you can switch between your two different lines Apple also mentions a live caller ID lookup has come to iOS 18 so these are new apis that allow developers like truecoler to fetch information from their servers and provide live caller ID for incoming calls in the FaceTime application we have a big change to screen sharing so if you're somebody who likes to help out your parents or your grandparents with troubleshooting on their iPhone your life and their life is about to get a whole lot easier thanks to share play remote control so how this works is if the recipient shares their screen this works for you as well but in this instance if the recipient shares their screen you will now be able to write on and control that person's screen so for example we're going to go here and you can see that I have the other person's screen pulled up right here on this device and now we have new options down in the bottom of this section so we have the zoom but down here in the bottom right pay attention to this if we tap on that we now have remote control so the other person will have to accept this it does not work right away and here's what that will look like on the other person's device they do have to allow for you to be able to take control of their iPhone so if you tap on allow now on my device I will be able to control the recipient's device so for example I can scroll over and you can see I'm controlling this person's phone and on the other person's phone it will say down here at the bottom that remote control is active and you do have the option to stop it right there so if your grandparents don't understand what you're saying on the phone you can just remote into their device and control it from here now Apple thought about this because you can see that certain sections will be blocked out so sections like iCloud changing passwords paying for things all of that is blocked out to protect maybe some older folks who you know may fall for something and get scammed by somebody controlling their phone so you can't do everything but you can do the basics here which I think is pretty cool if you want to remote in and control somebody's phone for troubleshooting purposes now it gets even better because you can also draw on the other person's phone so if you don't need to take full control you can just draw on the phone so we'll end the remote control here so the other person is still sharing their screen with me and from here I can just simply draw on their phone they will see that and it will disappear here after a few seconds so I'm not controlling their phone I'm just simply drawing on it so there are two different levels if maybe the person doesn't trust you to remote into their device you could just circle or point to things that they may be missing also the video effects UI has been updated it looks much better in iOS 18 so in iOS 17 we had these two Big Blocks above these platters and control center for video effects and mic mode you would just haptic press on those and that's how you could change everything right there for both but now in iOS 18 it's combined with this top section for privacy so before it just showed those two random items for privacy but now in iOS 18 everything is combined into this one section and the UI for video effects and mic mode looks significantly better and then also before in iOS 17 when you want to change the intensity you had to tap on these three dots and change the depth but now in iOS 18 it's this little drop down right here and you have a new little UI for the depth along with a description of exactly what you're changing and the same for Studio light also for mic modes you can see we now have this new animated UI right here and we have not only standard voice isolation and wide spectrum but now with iOS 18 we also have an option for automatic so it will automatically determine which mode you should be in also in iOS 17 if you chose the low data mode option here under your cellular settings for the data mode your face Face Time calls would reduce the quality in order to save data but now in iOS 18 FaceTime will use more data for improved call Quality even when you're in low data mode if the network speed is good enough to you know handle it and by the way if you're enjoying this iOS 18 video so far be sure to give it a thumbs up okay so let's talk Apple intelligence because this is undoubtedly going to be a big deal in iOS 18 and future versions of iOS so Apple intelligence is only compatible with the iPhone 15 Pro or the iPhone 16s and later now this is coming the first batch of apple intelligence features are coming in iOS 18.1 so I will be touching on those here but I will touch on a lot more detail in my 18.1 what's new video since it's not out at the time of recording this so first off as you can see we do have the new Siri UI which looks absolutely beautiful especially if you have a dark background the colors just really pop and it goes all the way throughout the screen there's also another way to access Siri so you can double tap at the bottom now and that will pull up this menu right here and you can now type to Siri so if I want to ask so I'll just type in weather in San Fran question mark and it will give me the weather for that location now also Siri will have improved contextual understanding so it's not quite Siri 2.0 yet but the contextual awareness is a little bit better than what we had in Siri and previous versions what's the weather in San Francisco show me some nearby restaurants to there and there you go you can see on iOS 17 it pulled up my local restaurants here in iOS 18 it pulled up restaurants that are actually in the area I just asked Siri about so the contextual awareness is definitely better with iOS 18 and it will only improve even more once we get Siri 2.0 at a later date and then also the chat GPT integration is coming at a later date in a future update where you will be able to ask chat PT questions but my personal favorite Apple intelligence feature is summarized notification so what this does is it will summarize all notifications from a specific app so you can see I have 10 notifications from one application here so instead of having to tap in there and see every single notification read through each of them it will summarize it by default right here telling me you know what is actually included in those notifications so we'll be able to read through the content and give you an understanding of what was being said so you can see right here it shows you know certain stocks have moved above the 30-day move moving average this one for music shows me two new songs that are out without me having to go into here and see you know all the specific details about it it breaks it down and makes it much easier to read and this also shows up in the messages application so this doesn't only show up on the lock screen you'll also see this inside of the messages in the mail application so it will give me kind of a summary of what was being said in these different messages here's what some emails look like on the lock screen but here's what they look like inside of the mail application with apple intelligence so it giv gives us a preview right there and we also have a priority inbox right here as well which will again Apple intelligence will read the content and determine if these are priority emails that need a direct response and it will keep them up top until I respond and here's another awesome feature that will help a lot of people and save a lot of people some time so we now have a feature called cleanup so if you have a photo where you have a subject and then you have some people in the background that you maybe want to remove you can now remove them from the photos application so all you have to do is go into edit and you'll see a new Option down here that's titled cleanup if you go there it will kind of dissect the image real quick and then it will highlights what objects it detects by default that you can erase so you can zoom into there and it shows that this person I might want to clean up or remove so I can tap on them and you can see boom they're gone now it doesn't do a perfect job and you can also Circle if it didn't do a good job and try to remove more of that person so there we go that's not bad and again if you are you know not pixel peeping if you actually like Zoom out you will not really be able to tell that it's not a perfect image there so obviously this is not the best I mean it's really just going to use content aware fill it's not a generative fill feature so it's not going to fill in that area with what it thinks should be there it's just going to fill it in with everything around it so again it's content fill not generative fill at least not yet and here's probably a better example so this lady peeking out in the background I can tap on her and there you go you can see I did a much better job of that person now another kind of hidden feature here is that you can Circle a face and it will blur that face out so that one just removed my hat so let me find one of my face without glasses on okay so here's a picture of myself and if I Circle my face take a look at what happens you could also blur faces Now using the cleanup tool and then we also have writing tools so if you select text anywhere throughout your device this does not have to be in messages this can be in email this can be in your notes anywhere if you select it you will see that we have an apple intelligence button right there or you could always go up here in this little section and go to writing tools it will pull up this little panel so from here we can proofread we can rewrite we can change the tone to Friendly professional or concise and you could also if you have something long you can summarize it you can get the key points out of that and you could also create a list or a table from that content it's actually pretty neat so if I go to rewrite for example it will attempt to rewrite that and you can see it shows it there if you don't like it you can retry and you can also revert back to the original and speaking of the mail application we also have a summarized op option now so you can summarize an email if it's maybe like a newsletter or a you know more lengthy email you can summarize that and it will show you the text right there and you could also share your feedback if it was good or bad but my favorite feature in mail with apple intelligence is smart reply so if I go to reply to this email which ask me if I want the red or carbon fiber case and if it's okay to ship out now if I go to reply here take a look at this right away we get this cool little animation down here that reads the message and understands that either red case ship now or carbon fiber case ship later so if I just do carbon fiber case ship later take a look at this it will write the email for me it even says hi there I'd like the carbon fiber case but please hold off on shipping it for now that's pretty close to what I'd actually say so this is actually a lot better in my opinion than some of the other riding Tools in iOS 18 with apple intelligence so again there's more to come and I will touch on Apple intelligence a lot more in my iOS 18.1 what's new video we have multiple changes in the music application so starting off with the tabs at the bottom before it was browse now in iOS 18 it's been renamed to new and there are a couple of minor changes in here so if you go down to the just updated section that looks different and a few of these other sections look a little bit different than they did in iOS 17 in the now playing section if you go into the queue we have multiple changes here so right up top you can see that we now have a different position for Shuffle repeat and autoplay so before they were over here really small icons to the right but now they're front and center and much easier to press in iOS 17 it said playing next now it says continue playing and also the font is bigger than it was before we also have more space over here to the right before the queue begins now if we scroll down to the bottom of the queue we have this new little glyph here for 524 more songs where it's before it did not show anything now if you swipe down you will get the history of what you've played previously so it will show all the songs that I was playing previously we also have the option to clear our queue history with one tap we also have a fundamental change to the way that the queue Works in iOS 18 so it now works much more similar to Spotify so now when you add a song to the queue it adds that song to the end of the previous iously cued songs so for example you can see that we're currently playing the tunes playlist I just press Shuffle on that but if we go to a separate album or a separate playlist and we go to add a song to the queue first off you can see that we now no longer have play next and play last it's play next and then play after tunes for example so just go to play next on both of these and then if we add another song it now says add to Q instead of play last and when we do that take a look at what happens in our queue we now have a standalone queue and it does not get added to our existing queue or the existing playlist and also both of those songs play back to back instead of when I press play last it would just add it to the very bottom of this playlist which was you know a lot of songs deep since it was a playlist so the que is significantly better in iOS 18 and it works a lot more like Spotify which I love now you also notice that we can now clear the queue so there's now a clear all button for the queue with iOS 18 when you tap on that you can press again to clear the entire queue also the airplay platter has finally been revamped so if you tap on airpl in the bottom and now has a much better look a more modern look also the animation is different before it was kind of janky now an iOS 18 it's more smooth it's also a lighter shade it's more rounded off than it was before and it doesn't take up pretty much the entire screen anymore and you'll also notice how it doesn't show every single device it just says show more if there are more devices to show which I like that much better we also don't have the speakers and TV text anymore and this line is thicker than it was previously we had these little thin lines now it's a much thicker line AirPlay now supports playing spatial audio when airplaying to a homepod and also over carplay the Crossfade feature has also been improved with iOS 18 so it will now Fade Into the next song a little bit better it will be a little bit smoother than what we saw with iOS 17 you can also now remove multiple songs from a playlist at once so if you tap on the three dots up in the top right and go to edit we now have a new UI for editing the playlist so you can see before you can only remove songs on a one by one basis but now with iOS 18 you can select multiple songs and remove them at the same time and we also have a trash icon in the bottom left and a plus icon to add in the bottom right we didn't have that before and if you go into an album it now shows the full song title instead of cutting it off so you can see for track 2 Mamita it shows the full song with the features same with track five it cuts it off in iOS 17 it shows the full thing and iOS 18 and you can see for track 8 it does the same thing so now the full title of the song shows up in iOS 18 on the album view the text underneath of the artist is larger more bold than it was in iOS 17 and also down here where it shows the release date and all the other information that is also more bold than it was in iOS 17 also you can now scroll over on the featured on Section to see everything that this artist was featured on whereas before you'd have to go into this menu to see everything if you go into the songs section before an iOS 17 the filters and the sort bu options were combined but now in iOS 18 they are separate so you have your filter right there for all songs and favorites and then you have the three dots here if you want to change the Sorting View and it also now says date added instead of recently added so a minor word change there and you'll also notice that when you're sorting by title we now have the letter that separates the songs whereas before it was kind of hard you'd really have to pay attention to see when that letter changed so from P to Q you can see there's no Gap in iOS 17 but in iOS 18 it makes it clear and you can see the letter head right there and the left along with an underline anytime it goes to a new letter oh and also up here in the search bar you can see it now just says search whereas before it said find in songs you can now share play outside of just being in the car so if you airPlay your music to a homepod or anything else you now have the share play option down in the bottom of the now playing View and you can tap on the share play icon to bring up the QR code where somebody can scan that where they can discover you nearby and they can control the queue as well add songs into the queue and Skip and everything like that and you might have also notice this little glyph icon right here that is music haptics so this is a really cool accessibility feature where the haptics on the phone will vibrate to the Beat of the Music so this is great for accessibility users who are maybe deaf or hard of hearing that way you can feel the music on your hand while you're holding it so if you go into your settings and go to accessibility and then scroll down and you'll see that we have a new option for music haptics you want to turn this on if you want to try this out and you'll notice that this works in apple music classical as well and what's neat about this is that you can control it from the lock screen as well so you can tap right there to enable or disable music haptics there is also a toggle for this in the control center if you go here and add a control and you just search for music haptics you will see it pop up right here so you can control it easily in the control center as well in the podcast application we have a few small changes and a few large changes so first off on the now playing screen we have multiple small UI tweaks so first off where it shows the date above the title of the episode it's now a little bit more opaque and also we now have the full date so it shows the year at the end also underneath of the scrub bar the font size for the timestamps is larger and you'll also notice that over here on the right where it shows the time remaining in the episode we no longer have a minus to the left of that number also on the now playing screen if you start scrubbing through the episode you will see the Tim stamp right above where your finger is scrubbing so you can get a lot more granular with how far you're advancing or going back in this podcast episode and you can see that also the numbers to the left and right now light up white whereas before they did not light up at all they just stayed gray and the same size so they also get larger you can see there's kind of an animation there on the left and the right side in iOS 18 you'll also get the Tim stamp above when you tap on the quick controls to go back or forward in 15 or 30 second intervals in my case and it also shows you how fast you're scrubbing through the episode so you can see if you're going slow if you're scrubbing slowly through a certain section it will say underneath find speed scrubbing if you go a little bit faster it will say quarter speed scrubbing and if you scrub even faster it will say half speed scrubbing and if you go into a podcast episode that has chapters you will now see the chapter name above where you are scrubbing so here's what it looks like in iOS 18 we have breakes in the scrub bar kind of like you see on YouTube with chapters that now shows up here in iOS 18 along with the title of that chapter right above it whereas before in iOS 17 we didn't have any of that you'll also notice that the chapter name shows up in the now playing section on the lock screen or up in your notification center so instead of just showing the whole episode title like an iOS 17 it will now show that specific chapter and it will change based on you know which chapter you're in next and if you go to the show notes of a podcast episode and they have timestamps those are now clickable and they will open up this little menu here where you can play or share from that specific Tim stamp whereas in iOS 17 these were just not clickable whatsoever it also looks like the formatting of the show notes has been cleaned up a little bit and if you tap on these three dots here in the now playing View and go to share episode you'll notice that we have a new section up top here so before an iOS 17 you could just share the podcast episode and that was that but now with iOS 18 you can not only share the episode but you get the op option to share the episode from a specific point in time similar to what you can do with YouTube videos so if you tap on from start this is where you get the option to share a link either just from the start or if you want somebody to hear only a certain part of the podcast you can share it from that specific point in time where you tapped on the share button or from where you are paused in the search tab we no longer have as much heading up top so search isn't so far down from the top of the screen like it was an iOS 17 also we have our profile picture over here on the top right that just takes you to this section about your account and then more importantly when you go to search for something first off you'll see that you have recently searched so you now have recently searched queries also the search in general is faster Apple calls this instant search results with iOS 18 so if I start typing in ESPN for example you can see that it doesn't have to think for nearly as long as it did in iOS 17 and it didn't even show everything right away we still have to search it just gives us some recommended search results so then when we press on that and then we can eventually get to what we've already seen for a while here in iOS 18 so search is significantly enhanced in iOS 18 and you can see that even the results show up differently it's more relevant and you can see that they got rid of the whole purple top results shows episodes section it's now just much more streamlined and simple and you can also search within your library as well not just all podcasts and you'll even notice that a few of these relevant related search results stay a top we also have some changes to the airpods so if you go into your airpods settings we have multiple changes right here so first off you'll notice that we have an adaptive audio section and when you go in here you can change the adaptive audio to have less noise no or more noise and then a little bit further down we have a new section called Head gestures and this is pretty amazing so this allows you to move your head up and down or side to side to accept or decline phone calls when your airpods are in your ears so this allows you to be completely hands-free when using airpods and this also works for notifications as well if you want to reply or dismiss notifications you can do that with an up and down or a side to side head gesture as well and you can change these in here if you would like and we also have personalized spatial audio with dynamic head tracking for gaming and this works for the airpods 3 and the airpods pro and airpods Max Apple did also just receive FDA approval for its hearing aid feature in airpods Pro 2 and this is going to be a massive deal because this is the fda's first authorization of over-the-counter hearing aid software so this is coming to All airpods Pro 2 as long as you're on iOS 18 and you have the latest airpods update which as of the time of 18.0 coming out it is not currently released yet but it will be out soon since it now has FDA approval in the camera application we now finally have the ability to play music while recording a video so this is not on by default but if you go into your settings and go into camera it's up top here in iOS 18 it's all the way down here in iOS 17 and then if we go into record sound and you can see that before that did not show up here so that was just under record stereo sound and that was it but now in iOS 18 we have this new option right here that says allow audio playback and it says that this will not pause automatically when recording video so this is great not only for playing music while you're recording a video but it's also great because when you accidentally open the camera your music will not stop that was one of my biggest pet peeves before but now if you accidentally open the camera while you're playing music it will not pause automatically and also in this section you can now choose to record your vide sound in either stereo or mono mode and on the iPhone 15 and later you now get portrait lighting controls from the regular photo mode so you don't have to be in portrait mode anymore to get these Studio light effects or any of these effects for portrait shots now you just have to be in the regular photo mode we can also now adjust the flash by tapping and holding on the option up in the top leftand corner and we get the quick menu there to turn it on or off before you had to go into here and go to flash down here you had no option to long press on this option up top now here is a groundbreaking feature that even Android does not have we can now pause video recordings while recording a video on our iPhone so you can see the pause icon down there you can pause it you have a stop button and you can see the flashing UI up here to indicate that you are paused along with the paused text and then you can just resume by tapping right there again and now you have you know no need to cut out certain parts of dead spots in your videos and by the way I was being sarcastic I know that Androids had that forever now here's something really cool so if I record a video in let's just say 60 FPS and I just shoot this little video here and 60 FPS everything is fine you know but maybe I want to slow down a certain part of that video well before you had to be in slow mode to be able to do that or you just had to have a video editing software well now if we go into that video and you go to the edit button right here you'll see that we have a new glyph icon up in the top right corner that looks like a speedometer so this will allow you to change the playback speed AKA you can change the frame rate so we can knock this down to 50% which of course takes 60 FPS down to 30 FPS so if we choose that we can now choose what part of the video we want to be in 30fps and the UI here is very similar to the slow mode UI that you have but again you don't have to be in slow mode that's the big benefit here and you can do this like if you shoot in 120 FPS you can knock that down to 60 or knock that down 230 it's really nice to have that control here now also in the camera application if we swipe up and go to our timer we have a couple of changes here so first off the font size appears to be slightly larger by a couple of points and also the text is a little bit thicker as well but the main difference here is that we now have a 5c timer option and we're not just limited to 3 and 10 seconds also the timer icon to the far left appears to have a slightly darker background and the white stands out a little bit more it might even be a little bit brighter than what we had in iOS 17 also thirdparty applications can now offer spatial video recording support if you have a compatible device okay so now let's go into the photos application and man I'm sure that you were not expecting this the photos application has a complete revamp in iOS 18 that you're probably going to hate at first but bear with me because I think you'll love it after I show you how customizable it is so first off the whole UI has been completely changed so before we had a lot of white space but now we can see that our photos take up the majority of the screen screen which I love also before we were able to swipe over and see different albums and everything like that and we had the shared albums people and pets and all of this down here at the bottom but now it's basically a onepage UI in iOS 18 and you can see that everything shows up right here we have a lot of visuals whereas before we really just had a lot of text and also if you go all the way down here it shows our media types our utilities and down here we can customize and we'll get to that in a second but there's a lot to uncover here so let's talk about everything else first so number one before if you went into the recents tab that's essentially what the main page of photos is now but there are multiple differences so first off you can see up in the top left it now shows photos along with the total amount of items in photos underneath of it and then to the right before we had select and those three dots up in the top right but now we have our profile picture in the top right and then we have a search bar to the left of the select button and if you tap on that we get a completely new search UI so before in iOS 17 we just had a standalone option over here to search and when you went into that it just showed this right here and then you were able to search for whatever you wanted and the results were not great so for example if I search for cat you can see that we now have top results along with the full amount of results and it even recognized one of my pets as a cat and and it shows it in a card up top we also have C all as a button up here whereas before it showed up down here as just text but search gets much better in iOS 18 as well because you can search for very specific queries like cat and chair and it will show me all the instances where a cat is sitting in a chair whereas before in iOS 17 I searched for the same thing and we have no results even though I have the same photo library on both phones so you can see it's going to show show me any time that a cat was in or around a chair pretty neat you can also filter your search results by tapping on the up and down arrow right there and you have the Sorting options you can filter and you can also change the aspect Photo Grid the ratio of the photo grid and then the last thing I'll talk about with search is that it shows our recent queries right here along with some AI generated queries that it thinks that you might want to look for and then we also have a recently viewed recently edited and recently shared right up here as well and you can clear those recent search queries if you would like to and if we tap on our profile picture up in the top right we have this new view right here that shows our profile picture and our name up top along with our total photos and videos we have any shared album invitations right here we have for your shared Library we have all the photos that were shared with you either via text or if somebody was nearby we also have the library view options and we just have a bunch of different options in here in this new section and basically the equivalent to this was just tapping on the three dots up in the top right before because that's where you could change the libraries and all of these other options but now they have their own full menu in iOS 18 now if you swipe down on the photos View and go to view more photos in your library you will see this new tab bar appear at the bottom that shows multiple options so we have an X over here now and a filter option but but we also have years and months whereas before we had years months and days and also the UI looks different so if we tap on months for example you can see that this view has changed so it shows a little bit more detail and it shows a lot more in the frame from these months and same with years so years has a different background it's not just a white background and also these appear to be a little bit more rounded off on the edges and if you tap on the filter button down here in the bottom leftand corner you can sort by recently added or by date captured you can change which Library you're looking at so either personal shared or both and if we go to filter you can filter by different options so if you want to only show favorites that are videos you can do that so if you tap on favorites this menu stays up and then you can select videos as well whereas before in iOS 17 once you selected one item you can see that menu disappeared and you had to go into this you know filter option up in the top and then from here you had to select in this only show menu whatever else you wanted to be added and it would show how many results were there but it wouldn't actually show them whereas now in iOS 18 this menu stays up and it shows everything in real time as you select or deselect these options and if you go to view options from here you can not only zoom in zoom out or change the aspect ratio for the grid but you can also now hide screenshots so if you're like me and you hoard a bunch of screenshots and you don't delete them as often as you should and they just clutter up your photo library you can now hide screenshots so you can see those more important photos that you're looking for and there's also a new option for showing shared with you whereas before that was not in here now the reason we no longer have a days option right here in this menu is because with iOS 18 we now have this recent Days album so now when you go into this it will show this kind of you know grid View of all of your days and it will break down and show you what photos were taken on that day so if I go to Saturday for example it will show me everything that was taken on that Saturday and you can even create a movie from that day which is pretty neat so if I tap on movie it will create a movie with sound from that day and then we also have a new album in iOS 18 called trips and this is really awesome and something that I wish we had a long time ago because this will take all your photos from a trip and put them into one album without you needing to do that manually so if you go into the trips view right here you can even break it down by the year so if I only want to see 2024 I can go into Universal Orlando resort for example and it will show me all of the photos that were taken or videos that were taken during this trip and it will even show the days right here so we could also filter this if we would like to we could tap on this button to see a summary or just show all of the photos and videos taken and we could also create a movie from that trip as well and then if we scroll down even further we have multiple changes so media types now has this little arrow next to it so you can go in to see all of the media types just like so also the text is now black instead of blue it's inside of this little gray box and the text is much smaller and more compact you can swipe over on this section to continue seeing other media types also we have utilities right underneath of that so down Below in iOS 17 we just had these utilities right here but now in iOS 18 we have more utility album so first off you can see receipts that is a new album so if you go into that it will show any of the receipts that you've taken and put them all into this utility album and if we go over we have more so we have handwriting so this will show any photos that have handwriting on them not just handwriting from an apple pencil but any handwriting we have illustrations and we also have recently edited that's new recently shared that's also new also recently viewed so if you recently viewed a photo and then you lost it we now have a recently viewed utility album also if you go into your recently deleted or hidden albums there are some changes here as well so before it would try to scan your face ID right away but now in iOS 18 you have to tap on view album for it to trigger face ID before you put your passcode in also the section is different so the use face ID to view this album is smaller the text is smaller also recently deleted up in the top left is larger and we have an x to the right now whereas before we just had a back to albums in the top left in the recently deleted album we have a change to the delete and recover options so we have that oval gray background along with glyph icons to the left of the delete and recover text and also that text is now more bold now if you're not a big fan of how everything looks when you open up the photos application you can customize your experience so now if you go down to the bottom we have a customize and reorder option when you tap on that this allows you to not only reorder where everything shows up on your main page but you can also hide sections so you can see if I don't want to see for example trips or if I don't want to see shared albums I can simply unselect those and now when I go back they just simply will not show up it really cleans up the photos application and gets rid of all of those albums that used to always just be there in iOS 17 even though you did not want to see them when you went into the photos application and by the way wallpaper suggestions is also a new album in iOS 18 and this will show you you know what a photo would look like on your lock screen if you set it as a wallpaper so this is pretty neat and it works pretty well and the changes continue when you go into an individual photo so before an iOS 17 it would show the date and the time and the location in the top middle in that small little text now it's more prominent in iOS 18 and it's up in the top left and the location is bold to the right of that we now have the three dots and an X whereas before we had the edit button up in the top right that edit button has now been moved down here to the bottom and it looks like that now so we'll get to that in a moment you'll also notice a change to the shared albums icon right here down at the bottom we have some changes so we now have a light gray circle behind the share option and the trash icon they're also more inset inside of the application they're not you know near the edge of the screen like they were in iOS 17 also in the middle we now have these three buttons combined so we have the favorite button we have info and we have the new edit option so again edit used to be up in the top right now when you want to edit you just tap on this and you get a new UI here as well so if we go to edit and iOS 17 here's what it looked like and the first thing you'll notice is that we have a light view but you can change that if you tap on the three dots up in the top right we have a new appearance option where we can change the appearance to show as system dark or light so if I change that to dark it will look more similar to what we saw in iOS 17 and by the way here's what the options menu looked like in iOS 17 when you tapped on those three dots and now it's a popped out you know more modern looking menu and down here you'll notice that the background of the magic wand looks different also the tip of the magic wand used to be filled now an iOS 18 that's flipped so the bottom part of the wand is filled the top is not and once you make edits to a photo if you tap on the three dots up in the top right hand corner you can see the big difference and what shows up here so before basically the only option we had in iOS 17 was to copy the edits or paste the edits that was it even if you go to add action that's all that showed there but now in iOS 18 we have multiple options so we can undo the auto enhance that we just did so you can undo and redo different effects we can now choose exactly what we want to copy over so in this instance it only shows adjust but if you made multiple edits you can only copy certain edits before pasting them and if you go into a video we now have a new video player so before in iOS 17 we just had this view right here where it would show the video player at the bottom and it was kind of just built into this Bottom bar but now with iOS 18 we have that native video player look like we see in Safari and on our Mac so we can go back and forth here and you can see that we have the time stamps on the left and the right right there and you'll also notice a change because the video will now Loop so before an iOS 17 when a video ended it would just end it would just stay there and you would have to press play again but now in iOS 18 the videos Auto Loop and you can also control the volume easier as well because it's over here to the right of the play and pause on the menu bar and you'll also notice that the whole video fits in frame in iOS 18 whereas an iOS 17 to see everything I would have to tap to just see the full view otherwise these menu options up top and bottom would cover it up and that goes for photos as well so if you have a photo that's really tall like the aspect ratio is tall on that photo like this photo for example you can see that an iOS 18 it will show me that full screenshot without anything obstructed whereas an iOS 17 if I wanted to see you know the top up here where it says software update for example I would have to tap and hide that and now I can see everything in that screenshot so in iOS 18 it makes viewing full images easier from this little preview window right here also in iOS 18 there's a new prompt when you go to add a photo to an an album and it will prompt you to add that photo to the last album that you added a photo from your main library too so the last photo I added to an album was in the wallpapers album so now when I tap the share sheet and go to add a photo to an album it will prompt me to add a photo to the last album that I selected and if you swipe up on a photo it will now show you what albums that specific photo is included in so this is included in wallpapers I and tap on that and it will take me into the wallpapers album and if you have a photo that was sent to you by somebody in messages it will now show a new interface along with their profile picture down here at the bottom and when you tap on that it will take you into that specific messages thread we also have a change to the album so if you have to press on any album you'll see that we have additional options here so before you could only rename the album from here but now in iOS 18 you can edit title and photos so that name has been changed and you could also edit the photos from in here so before you had to go into the actual album and then go up here to edit or go to select and then you had to choose whether you wanted to delete or add different photos but now you can edit the key photo up here and you could also tap right here to add additional photos to this album and if you go to add an album to a folder there's a new UI so before it was just this plus right up here in the top left now it says add and if you select new album you can see that this UI has also been changed so before you had to enter a name for the album and that was it but now once again you can change the name of the album and also add you know the photos for the album right in the same interface and you can also now add or remove existing albums in folder so if you have to press on the album inside of this folder you can remove from folder before you only had the option to delete the entire album if you switched your browser from Safari to something else you might be coming back with iOS 18 because Safari gets some pretty incredible changes with iOS 18 first off we have a feature called distraction control or what I like to call the Thanos snap feature so what this does is it allows you to hide distracting or annoying elements in Safari think of it like an ad blocker but for elements on a web page and not ads so for example there's nothing I hate more than these full screen popups that you cannot get out of unless you tap on you know something on that popup so I want to get rid of that every single time I visit this web page so to do that we're going to tap on this icon to the left of the address bar and you'll see that we have a new option that says hide distracting items now when we tap on that we get prompted to select an item so we're going to select this and now we can just go ahead and tap hide and now we will no longer see that again now same with this little let's chat button down there I do not like how websites have this little chat icon so we can tap on that and tap on hide and we get that Thanos snap animation and it's gone for good unless something changes and so if we go ahead and refresh you can see that we no longer see that popup down there and we do not get that full screen ad and here's another example we have the cookie banners that pop up and nobody likes seeing those cookie banners every time they go on a website so we can just go to that and double tap again and we will hide that item now seeing with this little hand right here we'll double tap that and it will go away same with this question mark we'll double tap that and it goes away and you can see that anytime I refresh the page or if I go to this web page in the future those elements that I hid will remain hidden and you'll see this little blue eye in the bottom and if you tap on that this will allow you to show the hidden items again so if you want to revert those settings you can do that and you could also report a distraction control issue now the key thing to keep in mind here is that the elements will only stay hidden in if the content stays the same if the content changes dynamically like every time the web page reloads like ads for example you will have to rehid that element every time you reload or every time you go to a new page on that website so again elements like cookie banners Google sign-in popups newsletter signup forms things like that typically do not change so they will remain hidden during future visits but for display ads from Google for examp example those change on every refresh so they will not remain hidden and they will not persist after a refresh we also have a new highlights feature in iOS 18 so you can see before on the bottom left we had these two A's but now we have this icon right here to replace those two A's and if you see these purple Sparkles that means that a summary highlight is available so if you tap on that you will now get an AI generated summary of that web page and if tap on show reader it will show this section up top where it has summary and if you tap into that it will show you a short summary of that article and summarizing articles doesn't always work on every website but where this is really useful is for finding directions hours menus and phone numbers on websites such as hotel websites restaurant websites you name it so for example I have a hotel website pulled up here and you can see we have the purple Sparkles now on iOS 17 if you wanted to find the address or the phone number for this place we'd probably have to scroll down I'm still not seeing it still not seeing it okay there we go down at the bottom or you might have to go in the menu well now in iOS 18 if you tap on this icon it will show you the address along with a map it will show the hours if they're available along with a phone number up here if available as well so I find the highlights feature to be much more useful in instances like this and this whole menu has just been improved in iOS 18 like you can see that we have this play all animations option we have the manage extensions down at the bottom now whereas before it was up top we have the option to translate to Spanish now that's new also the find on page is down here in the bottom leftand corner whereas before in iOS 18 that was in the share sheet so you had to go to share and then it was down here find on page so it's now much easier to access that from this menu also when you want to change the text size that now pops up like this whereas before it was just like this we had the percentage in the middle but now the percentage only shows up after you change it bigger or smaller it doesn't show the whole time and it's also a much better animation now and of course we have these three dots down here in the bottom right where we have a full page menu where we can change up our different tab actions we can edit these as well so if you want to change the order or add something to the favorites that's all right here now in this section we have have a new look for the tab view so if you go into some tabs you can see that we now have a more flat look before we had these kind of bubbles here to indicate what tab groups that we were in but now it's more built in to this bottom menu it's also disconnected from this bottom section so it now has a line instead of all being connected beforehand the personal tab group used to have a personal glyph icon down there but now that does not show up it just shows the three lines also when you go to the top of a tab group it now shows the title of it up in the top leftand Corner along with a share button when you have to press on the amount of tabs that are open you now get more options so you can manage tab groups you can arrange tabs by either the website or the title you can copy the links or you can add bookmarks for all nine tabs before you could only just copy links that was it in iOS 17 you can also easily create a new tab Group by swiping over to the left so before if you did that nothing would happen but now if we swipe left you can see we can use that gesture to create a new tab group and we also have a new UI here when you add a new tab group and we get the option to name it right there along with the trash icon in the top right when you haptic press on one of the tabs that you have open we now have a new option for move tab before it just said move to tab group so now you get that option and you can see a slight difference here as well because new tab group is at the bottom whereas before it was up top and if you go over to Private Browsing we have a new glyph icon up here and it also now says private browsing instead of private browsing mode and also you can see a difference in the font color and the font sizing iOS 18 introduces a brand new application called passwords and this is very simple and it's not completely new because this application essentially lived within the settings passwords section but now we have our own Standalone application and if you go into here you will see a nice new interface so we have all passwords we also have pass Keys we have our codes Wi-Fi passwords security and deleted we also have our shared groups down here so if you share password groups with others those will all show down here you can also search for passwords and you also have a plus icon in the bottom rightand corner where you can instantly add a website app or label right there and insert a user name and it will also recommend you a password and you get the option to add to a group and add notes instantly if you go into one of the passwords it shows the website right here underneath of password whereas before it was all the way down here for some reason also the security Now shows up like this so we get a glyph icon and it says strong password and you also get the option to set up a verification code whereas before set up verification code was underneath of account options and it didn't tell you if the password was strong or not also if you tap on the website before you only got the option to copy website now you get the option to open websit copy website or edit websites so you can also add a website for a password so this is another nice new feature if you have the same username and password you can add a additional website where that username and password will pop up I think this is more so for adding additional variations of a URL like maybe Gmail and mail.google.com so that's just an example if you have multiple variations of a website you can add them all to one password also when you enter in a username and a password and then you try to go to a different web page or refresh before you would get a popup that looked like this it would say save password never for this website or not now it would pop up from the bottom but now we have a new popup UI in iOS 18 it does the same thing just a different look and also the wording is a little bit different as well and if you go into your settings and go to autofill and passwords you now have the option to autofill from the passwords App instead of Google but you can switch that right there as well and we also have a new default for setup codes so you can set that to be in passwords if it's not already there by default and then of course if you go into your settings you will have a settings menu for the passwords application where you can disable and enable certain settings like detecting compromise passwords suggest strong passwords and allow automatic Pass Key upgrades now a pretty cool feature in passwords is that you can create a QR code with your Wi-Fi password so if you go into the Wi-Fi section and then go into one of your Wi-Fi networks you can see that we have the option to Show Network QR code so now when you tap on that it will automatically generate a QR code so that others can scan it and get the password for that Wi-Fi network and one last little tidbit I wanted to mention is that if you created an account with the signin with Apple on a website that can now be shared through password groups so you can now add those passwords if you sign in with apple into groups you can change the Sorting order of your passwords by tapping on these two arrows right here you could also see the date edited the date created all of that if I go to date created for example it allows me to you know see the this week previous 30 days 2024 and so on you'll also get a new UI when you go to autofill your password on a website so this is the new look here and the new webkit update for Safar 18 add supports for using pass Keys across related Origins so this lets websites use the same Pass key access across a limited number of domains which share a credential back end and by the way you could also access the passwords application on Windows via the iCloud passwords app you can also now see every website you used the sign in with apple service so if you go to your settings and go to your Apple account up top there's a new section here that says sign in with apple and from here you'll be able to see every account that was created using this service and when you go in there it will show the Apple account and the email that was used so if you need to reference the hide my email address that you used you can now see that right here and it could also copy it from here as well if you have to press on it we have some changes in the files application so number one we now have a awesome new feature that allows you to keep a file downloaded inside of the files application that way you don't need to redownload it in the future and you don't have to worry about it getting Auto deleted on accident so if you have to press we now have that new option for keep downloaded and you'll know when a file is permanently saved to your files app when it has that glyph icon to the right of the file name also when you have to press on a file we now have quick actions for copy move and share so now these are much easier to access and it makes maneuvering around the files app so much quicker whereas before you'd have to go all the way down here and they were all just three separates you know in a vertical view but now they're up top in a horizontal View and it makes life much easier and you'll also notice a change in the order of pretty much everything on this menu and then for quick actions we now have a settings gear glyph icon instead of this little magic wand like we had before MP3 files now show the album artwork in files if you tap on the three dots up in the top right hand corner before under view options used to have this little drop down that would show Group by and show all extensions but now there's no drop down but we have our own menu here so you can now sort by group buy change the icon in list style and you also have the ability to show or hide file name extensions and then also in the files app you can now format external drives so this is great especially for iPad users on iPad OS 18 the calendar application gets perhaps the biggest change ever with iOS 18 and this change is apparent immediately after you open up the application so first off on the month view we can see that August now shows up big in the top left whereas before it just showed an abbreviation and it was this small red text right here we also have three different views so before in iOS 17 if you tapped right here you just got the option to see like your events for the day and that was it but now in iOS 18 that same section up there is smaller and when you tap on that you get the option to change between a compact view a stacked view a details view and also a list view so if you tap on list that's what we saw before on iOS 17 it just looks a little bit different but now if we go back to compact you can see how stacked looks so it gets a little bit bigger and then you can also tap on details to see the details of what's in your calendar now you can also change the UI by simply pinching so this is very intuitive and you also get haptic feedback to go along with it so you can pinch in and pinch out depending on how big or how small you want your month view in the calendar to look and here's the full amount that you can zoom in so you basically get a big week view when you zoom in this much and then here's what it looks like when you zoom all the way out and in iOS 17 if you had an event you just had to tap on the day to be able to see that event that was it you couldn't see it any other way but now with iOS 18 if you want to see you know what that event is number one it's not color coordinated instead of just being all gray but also you can kind of just zoom in and get a quick glance of what's due that day or what you have coming up that day and then Zoom back out if you would like to you don't have to necessarily tap on it but even if you do tap into it you'll notice some differences here as well so first off you can see the date looks different underneath of the week view so it shows the day and there's a slash between Monday and the date right there it's also more bold also down here you can see on the left hand side all of the times look different so the font is bigger so the number stands out more and the AM or PM is over to the right a little bit further and then also for the actual event for that day it shows the time underneath of it whereas before you only saw the time from looking over on the left- hand side when you go to create a new event in the calendar it now just says new instead of new event and that's because now with iOS 18 the calendar application is fully integrated with the reminders application so from the calendar you can either create an event or you can create a reminder and you can set the date of it right here you can even add it to a specific list that you have set in the reminders app and if you go to details you can even change all of these other options as well so you can add a location you can add tags you could add the priority you can add an image you can do all that without even going into the reminders application and the best part about the reminders integration is that you could actually complete the reminder straight from calendar as well you don't need to go into reminders for that if you tap on the calendars option down in the bottom middle iCloud and other the text right here the headers are larger and more bold than they were previously also before in iOS 17 it just said hide all but now we have a little drop down and an animation instead before we had show declined events and we had this little circle that we could check and uncheck but now we have a kill switch for that along with the option to show completed reminders and if you tap on the I on one of your iCloud calendars or any of your calendars under shared with we now have a new glyph icon to the left of add person and also that text is a little bit bigger by the way if you find this video useful be sure to subscribe these type of videos are my specialty and you'll stay in the know about all of the new iPhone features before all of your friends okay so now let's talk about the Standalone reminders application because yes we have the full integration where we can create edit and complete reminders in the calendar app but we also have changes in the reminders app itself so if you go into a smart list and you have a task with subtasks you can see that they now show up as blue and you can tap on that to see the subtasks within that task whereas before you could not do that there's also now a recently deleted folder in the reminders application and if you go into here you can see all of your recently deleted reminders from the past 30 days and if you want to bring one of them back you just simply tap on it and you can recover that reminder you can also now edit reminder requests right after asking Siri so for example remind me today to do the dishes actually make that tomorrow at 12:00 there we go whereas before in iOS 17 remind me today to do the dishes actually remind me tomorrow at 12 and you can see it does not understand what I'm saying also the UI looks different when you ask Siri to add a reminder Remind me tomorrow to eat good food you can see that the UI looks way better here in iOS 18 compared to iOS 17 when asking via Siri and if you go into the reminders settings you'll see multiple differences in here so first off the whole header is new so it now gives us a description along with an image reminders accounts is what it is now whereas before it was just accounts the allow reminders to access is now at the top and if we go down to the bottom we also have a new section for grocery category Iz ation so you can now add an additional language to automatically place grocery items in two categories we also have multiple new shortcut actions here in reminder so this whole other section is new and then also the open Smart list you can open a specific smart list and here's what that looks like when you add it to your shortcut the Notes application gets some major changes with iOS 18 and some of these I've been waiting on forever so the first one is the ability to record audio notes and also transcribe that audio so if you go to the paperclip icon you'll see that we have a brand new option for record audio if you tap on that it will bring up a very voice memos like UI and you will see this little playhead right here and also this little annotation glyph which indicates that you have transcription turned on so there's no transcript right now so we are going to just go ahead and press record and it will start recording what I'm saying and since I have the transcript button pressed it will start transcribing everything that I saying but you can turn that off and you will see the waveforms right there as well you also have these three dots where you can rename while editing or while recording I should say if you would like to now you do not have to stay on this screen either you can go out of here you can start typing something else you can lock your device so you can continue recording as you can see right here I am still recording while I'm on the lock screen so this is great if you maybe go for walks and you want to put your phone in your pocket or in your waistband while you're talking on your airpods to record a you know note and audio note you can go ahead and do that while the device is locked so once you're done recording you can just go into here you could also pause from this section if you would like to but we're going to go into here and we will pause and from here you can go ahead and tap on done and you can see we get this new card now inside of the Notes application that is you know pretty rich so it shows the dates it shows the length of time there's a play button and also a short snippet of the transcript and when you tap on that it will show you the entire transcript right here you can even search within the transcript and also now when you press on the three dots in the top right you get the option to add the transcript to the note so it will add everything into the note right there and you can see that the player is now this floating bar which is really nice okay so now that we have some text in this note I want to show you some additional features here so we can now highlight the text different colors so if you go into the formatting menu you'll notice a couple of changes in here so we now have the new highlight button down in the bottom right hand corner here so you can choose your color so choose whatever color you would like to highlight so we'll just choose we'll just stick with purple for now and you can see that you press this button to highlight the text so if I want to highlight that let's just say we want to highlight menu options as well and there we go those are highlighted and they stand out a lot more and you can see I tried to treat the transcript and menu options as kind of headers for the text that came after it and before in iOS 17 that's really all you could do but now in iOS 18 you can take that a step further and make it more like notion for example because we have collapsible headers so all you have to do is just select the text and then change the format to heading and you will see that we have a little down arrow to the left of that that appears and when you press on that that will you will see the text under it collapses so let's go ahead and press on that again and now if we want to make menu options its own separate heading we can just simply make that a heading option as well and now you'll notice that not everything gets collapsed when I press the transcript down arrow so if we press that you can see it's kind of hard to press sometimes there we go and menu options is right there as well so this works a lot better on the Mac because you can click on it and you can you have much easier access to press on those arrows but that is how it works now with iOS 18 it's much better and it really feels a lot more like a professional note-taking application maybe like a notion or obsidian or some of the other great note taking apps out there and if you have an iPad there's now refine handwriting so this makes your text more legible when handwriting especially with an apple pencil this is very useful now also in notes we do have the math notes feature which I will talk about this more in depth in the calculator section but you should know that you now have a folder over here for math notes and just for the basics of math notes I will show you how this works you can just put in a math problem like so and it will give you the solution pretty much right away as you're still typing you know out the problem here so it will show you the results and real time which is pretty awesome you can also do this with your own handwriting with an apple pencil the PDF inline search has been improved so you can now search PDFs and document scans better with iOS 18 also these settings for notes looks a lot better with the graphic up top along with the header the description and notes accounts is up at the top Now versus being under the allow section before by the way this video is sponsored by me and my new wallpaper collection vant which I think you will love it's a big collection of both light and dark themed wallpapers that go perfectly with light icons dark icons or tinted icons in iOS 18 it was actually built with iOS 18 in mind so it's carefully crafted for this update and of course we do have some color matching colors for the iPhone 16 as well so if you got an iPhone 16 that's just a double bonus for this wallpaper collection so check it out it is linked down in the description below and use code special I'll just make that up on the spot use code special for 25% off this wallpaper collection I think you will love it send me some screenshots of your home screen on X or Instagram now we also have iPhone mirroring which does require Mac OS Sequoia as well so if you have a Mac and an iPhone running the latest software you will be able to mirror your iPhone to your Mac this allows you to control your iPhone from your Mac including typing on there and just using the mouse to navigate through your iPhone on your computer and you can also see your notifications on your Mac now without ever needing to pick up your iPhone we have some changes in the voice memos application when you go to start recording a voice memo and you go ahead and stop it you'll see some changes here so the UI for the actual player looks different so number one you can see that the recording appears below the player whereas before it appeared above the player we also now have a waveform glyph icon versus before where we just had these little switches for the options and if you go into there you'll see some differences as well so we have a whole new menu here whereas before that was not the case we just had these little options right there and that was it even if you tapped on the three dots you didn't really get any options but now in iOS 18 again it's very similar to what we saw in the Notes application but we have multiple options so up here in the top right hand corner if you press on that that gives you easy access to trim this voice note and you can see you can trim it you can delete you could also preview the trim right there we also have voice memos transcriptions now so in the bottom left hand corner you can see the little annotation icon if you tap on that that allows you to see the transcriptions but it gets even better because if you select something right here you can see that you can replace it as well so if you select that and then just tap on replace it will erase that sentence and you can say what you meant to say and then if you go ahead and press on that and then press on done you now have the option to either save or save as so you can now save this as a new recording as well so we'll go ahead and press that and now the original was there it stays there but we now just created a new document or a new voice memo and by the way you could also Now record your voice memos in Stereo so if you go into your voice memos settings we now have the option for stereo recording it's not just limited to Mono if you have an iCloud mail account if you use your own domain on iCloud there's new cleanup tools there's also the ability to manage old emails via time-based rules so for example you can remove emails that are no longer needed to save storage so if you had like an old unopened newsletter from over a year ago it will auto delete that if you set it up and there's also unsubscribe and delete so this will send future emails from those senders to the trash automatically iOS 18 also brings a bilingual keyboard to iOS for the first time so now inside of our keyboard you'll notice in the bottom right hand corner it says en n and Es and that means that I have Spanish and I also have English as my keyboard so that means if I were to type something in English you can see that nothing gets corrected now if I switch to Spanish you can see that it will autocomplete what I meant to say and it will not treat it as if it were wrong and it will even give me predictions for what I want to say next in that other language while I'm still typing in English as well so I can interchange how I type so if you want to set this up just go into your settings go to General and then go down to keyboard and then go to keyboards up in the very top and from here go to your primary language keyboard so for me that's English us I'm going to go into that and for from here you'll see under languages we now have an option to add language before in iOS 17 you had the same option but when you went into your language you just had the option to choose the keyboard layout and that was it but now with iOS 18 once again we could have a bilingual keyboard so we go into add language and from here we can choose whatever language we would like to anything that is supported so Spanish for example I can go ahead and set that and now it shows that it will be added to the multilingual keyboard and that's what we saw here and messages also the quick path feature which is where you swipe to type that now supports more languages and if you don't like seeing the math results here in the keyboard you could also turn that off here as well so this is under the all keyboard section and then just turn off show math results we also have some changes in the weather application so first off the top font is less opaque than it was on iOS 17 especially the current condition down here so where it says cloudy right now that's just a lot less opaque it's kind of more trans arent than it was an iOS 17 also the font in general looks a little bit skinnier by maybe a point and you can see the high and the low also look a tad bit different here and if you tap on the conditions either in the 10day forecast or just the hourly up here just to pull up this graph here you will notice some differences as well so first off underneath of this section right here we now have the actual and feels like temperatures so before that was not a toggle and you'll see when you tap on this icon right here as well it shows under conditions that we have temperature and feels like now and the main difference here that you'll notice is that feels like is just no longer its own separate section it's combined in with temperature and that's what makes the conditions module now that's what makes the conditions graph so if we keep going down there are some additional changes as well so under chance of precipitation and now shows today's chance along with a percentage it never said that before the graph looks a little bit different here in iOS 18 also we don't have that percentage up top and underneath of the line it's a little bit less opaque than it was before and now says the daily chance of precipitation tends to be higher than the chance for each hour I didn't say that before and if we scroll down past the precipitation graph we now have some changes here as well so UV index is no longer the first box that appears it's now the feels like the conditions menu we have some changes to the wind section so before we had a big font for the number the miles per hour for wind and for gusts but now in iOS 18 it shows wind gusts and directions and it's a lot smaller and less opaque those numbers don't stand out as much which I like it also shows the direction now right here as a number whereas before it just had a compass pointing in a direction and nobody really knew you know what that direction was so it shows that now and now the little Compass shows the miles per hour instead of just saying it's East and you'll also notice more pronounced detail in the compass especially the little notches that go around it and it's also a little bit smaller than it was in iOS 17 you can also now have it set to show your home and work locations by default so you can see that we have these two new glyph icons that show if it's home or work and if you go into your settings you can turn this on or off as well so if you go into the weather settings under locations we have a home and work section and it uses the addresses from the contacts now the calculator application gets a massive update with ios8 and you can see some small changes right away in terms of the UI but there are also fundamental changes to the calculator with this update so starting with the UI changes you can see that we have a difference in color right away so before we used to have a light gray color up here now it's a darker shade of gray and you can see that the font size is also different so the numbers are slightly larger than they were with iOS 17 and the font is also thinner on the buttons than what we had in iOS 17 meanwhile when we typee in up top right here the font is thicker it's also smaller and more bold and here's where you'll start to see some additional differences so before we just had a clear button if we wanted to backspace and correct something we had to swipe our finger over which was kind of hidden and a lot of people didn't even know you could do that but now in iOS 18 we have a proper backspace so now we can backspace on our buttons and if we were to make this into a problem if we type in plus three you can see that before an iOS 17 it would make the first number disappear so we cannot see that it's 99 + 3 we just see what we typed in last but now in iOS 18 we can see the full expression like if I keep going for example we could do that again and you could see the difference there and if we press on equals we can see another big difference because now in iOS 18 it shows us the original expression the original problem and then the answer and it's even better than that because you could also tap on the original expression and change it or if you want to add on to that you can and the equals button is also final now so if you press on equals after you get the solution nothing happens whereas before in iOS 17 you could keep the you know solution going you can keep adding on to that Solution by pressing the equals button and by the way if you want to clear this faster than just pressing on backspace multiple times you can just press and hold that and it will clear all and you're also no longer limited on space so on iOS 17 you were limited to just nine digits in portrait mode and if you went into landscape mode you could add more but you still had a limit and you can see that right there but in iOS 18 the limit is infinite because you can see you can now scroll on this page right here and you can put in as many numbers seemingly as you would like I've not been able to find a limit to this now also up in the top left you'll see that we have these three lines with dots if you press on that that will give you the history so now with iOS 18 you have a calculation History Section and you can go into here you can even see the previous 30 days so it goes back quite a ways and we can tap on one of these and it will put that right back into our calculator here you could also tap and press or press and hold on one of these and you can copy the expression or copy the results or delete it from your history and there's also an edit button up here as well where you can delete all or you can just select what you would like to delete and you probably already noticed this but instead of the long zero at the bottom like an iOS 17 we now have a new calculator button down here in the bottom left and when you tap on that that gives you the ability to change modes so we can now go into scientific mode so before an iOS 17 you could only get into the scientific calculator if you put the device in landscape mode and if you put iOS 18 in landscape mode we also have a few changes here so the typical UI changes over on the right but we also have a new position for the degrees and radians so if you press on that it will switch between degrees and radians it's just in a new position it was all the way over here in the bottom left in iOS 17 now also in iOS 18 it will give you a little notification up here if you are in radians or degrees so when you tap on that it will show radians if you're in degrees it doesn't show it but it just shows rad up there if you are in radian mode but there's a lot more to it because if we go to our calculator here we also have a conversion calculator so I'm going to get out of scientific modes you can see you can also combine the modes here so you can be in scientific mode and also in conversion mode at the same time so we're going to go back to the basic calendar just so I can show you how this works so we now have conversions built into the calculator and it's not just for money or simple things like that which by the way you can see how quick it reacts to everything everything is instant when you do these conversions and that's really going to be the benefit of using this over something like you can find on Google or another application there's no loading nothing everything happens on device and very very quickly so anyways if you want to change this just go and tap on these dots right here and you will see that you can convert pretty much anything that you can imagine anything that you're thinking about you can convert it here it's pretty wild how they've thought of everything to put in here I mean we're talking time weight volume temperature speed length fuel power force pretty much everything like I said you can go ahead and convert in here so highly useful but the biggest change in the calculator is going to be math node not and this is a feature that allows you to basically write out math problems and it will answer it for you instantly so if I go ahead and type out whatever I want times whatever I want so you can see that the equals pops up right there and we also have in our predictive text here different things that we can enter so if you only want to insert in the solution we could just go and tap on that and there you go it only inserts the solution now you might be wondering why would I do that if I have a built-in calculator where I could just type in the numbers well well the reason being is because it's not just meant for simple problems like that like this is best used for things like graphs as well so if you want to put Y = 5x + 7 for example you can see that a little popup will show up here saying insert graph and when you tap on that it will do the graph for you just based off of what you typed in and you can also reference variables so for example I wrote out a grocery list with the price of each item and each one of these are going to be considered a variable as long as I type them in at the bottom of this so if I go ahead and type in let's just say yogurt plus and you can see it's already giving me you know the price of that right there it's referencing it and it also has this little animation where it turns orange rice so you can see it's starting to Highlights rice right there as well so you know you're referencing that variable we can do coffee it will reference that and then we can do let's just do one more and there we go and now we have the solution to that problem by referencing those different variables from my grocery list so pretty awesome and this gets a lot more complex especially if you're using an iPad with iPad OS 18 and the apple pencil so you can see all the problems I did here with graphs and everything so I did make a full dedicated video on this for the iPad so I will leave that link up in the cards and down in the description below if you want to learn more about it and you'll also notice that we have a new app icon for the calculator app we also have some changes in the maps application so first off you can see just a couple of UI changes here here you'll notice that the path right here is a lot more prominent in iOS 18 also the point of Interest here the upper yo7 trail head has a white outline around it it also has a more of a kind of gradient logo there it looks a lot more alive and less flat than it looked in iOS 17 you could see that for pretty much all the points of interest as well so Camp 4 down there also has a similar style where the text is bigger and the POI icon there has a white outline around around it and if you look right here we have this little plus button and that will add this to your library so before you had to add to favorites that was all the way down here at the bottom but now it's up here along with an animation when you press on that and if you look closely at The X and the share buttons they appear to be slightly larger than an iOS 17 also up here these buttons right up here in the top right appear to be slightly taller and kind of bigger as well and if we go down we have a couple of changes in here as well so you can see you can now add a note so it says only you see what you write so you can add a note to this place and if you go down a little bit further we have our first major change here with maps in iOS 18 and that is the ability for hikes and the ability to set custom routes for hikes so before we had this section called Trails but if you went onto that if you tapped onto that it would basically just take you to the trail and that was kind of it you didn't really have much going on there you just had photos and just basic directions but now an iOS 18 are much improved so if we go to this white wolf right here if we go ahead and tap on that you can see that we get the topographic map right here and you have a lot more details about the actual hike it's not just like a GPS like anything else would show you so this is awesome it'll show you you know how long it is how long it'll take the elevation and you can just kind of see the graph as well as in terms of your elevation along that hike and if you tap on the more button right here it will show you all of the hikes in that area area and it will also show them right here so if you zoom out it will show you more and they will be numbered and that will correspond to this section you also get some quick details about those hikes as well like if we go to top of yosity Falls which I've done that hike by the way it was awesome but you can see we get the you know mapped out version of that now again you can also create custom routes for these hikes so to do that you just tap on the more button right here and you'll see that we have a new option for create a custom route and when you go there you'll get this nice new little animation that says create a custom route and it says tap the map to add points to your route so if you want to choose you know where you start and kind of where you go you could just add these different points and you can see sometimes it will say you know it's impossible to go cut across there so you will have to put it on the actual path so you can see the white is the actual path but if maybe it's split off in two ways you can choose one of two ways to go back you could also reverse out and back and close loop so you can kind of have some options for your custom route as well and this down here updates in real time as well when you tap it so you can see everything updates in terms of the elevation the amount of time and the distance and you can also undo so if you messed up you could just press that to undo and you can just save this right here or just open up the directions and if you try to ex out of that without saving you will get a alert here so you do not delete your route on accident so this is excellent if you are into hiking and if you start typing in hikes in Sequoia for example you can see a small difference in the color here as well so the glyph icons to the left are now brighter in iOS 18 compared to what they were in iOS 17 and if we go into here you can see a difference in the results as well so an iOS 17 it just showed you these results here that were kind of just you know scraped from the web but now it's a lot more refined in iOS 18 and before you could only search by best match distance and rating but you can see now you have a lot more options in iOS 18 in terms of which hikes you want to go on so you can choose the length you can choose the route type and you could also filter it by elevation gain so if you only wanted to see hikes that are 2,000 ft or more in terms of elevation you can see those show up right here on the map so a lot more granular control over what you see when you search for hikes and apple says that this feature works for thousands of hikes across national parks it's not just in California you can see this in other national parks as well and you could also create custom routes for walking anywhere it doesn't have to be in a national park or for a hike and like I mentioned earlier we do have topographic maps in iOS 18 now so you can see the topography here in iOS 18 versus nothing in iOS 17 so a lot more detail there when you have mountains and if you download a map for offline use we have a change here as well so first off you can see under automatic updates we now have a description underneath of it also before the last updated was in a different section underneath of this but now it is right underneath of update all in this main section here and the offline maps can also now sync with your Apple watch which is a really big benefit if you wear an Apple Watch especially on a hike and if you search for something in maps like gas station or Mexican food in this example and you want to see what's nearby you can see a couple of changes here as well so first off the bubbles now have a slightly different color so it's slightly lighter it's kind of less saturated than it was on iOS 17 also if you look at the UI here that's different so you can now type in to Mexican food right there you can add on to it whereas before you had to tap on edit search and it was a whole debacle there to edit the search so it open up this full menu it was a lot less it was kind of more clunky than it used to be and you can see it just got rid of my search right there so that was annoying in iOS 17 much better here in iOS 18 also this menu looks a lot better and you can you know have more options to filter the search results and you'll also see a difference in the cards as well so now it's better fitted on the screen so before it just went across the entire screen it wasn't really structured but now we have a white background and it's more structured and clean on the screen also the Yelp reviews look better so everything is a clean gray whereas before we had these really ugly orange stars that showed up right here and it also said on Yelp now it just says Yelp and a small change you'll notice notice here as well is that before if something was closed like if a restaurant was closed it would just say closed and that was it but now in iOS 18 it tells you when they open in the red font so you don't have to read the hours afterwards it just shows you in the red text there that says close till 11:00 a.m. close till 12:00 p.m. and so on also the pictures over here are larger than they were in iOS 17 and if you zoom out a little bit you can see we have a new search here button so now you know it won't get rid of everything but you can go ahead and tap on search here if you want to you know confirm that decision to zoom out right there so it searches automatically but if you go you know down and Away you will have the option to search here and it will keep all those results up there and just to compare an iOS 17 if you did that you can see it would always just go with you wherever you went so you couldn't really look around without it changing you know your results so now you can kind of look around the area and not lose all the results you had there and we do also have a new app icon for the maps application so in the settings application we have a lot of changes so first off right away when you open up settings the search bar shows up by default before you had to swipe down for that to show up and then right below that we have the section for our Apple account and we have more padding on the top and bottom of this section also our name is now bold and then underneath of that it now says Apple account instead of Apple ID and it no longer says media and purchases it just says says and more also that font is a different color it's a gray color instead of being black and matching the name of our account and then the family text is a little bit further to the left than it was in iOS 18 now if we go into our Apple accounts we have even more changes so first off if we go into the iCloud section this has been completely redesigned so pretty much everything as you can see has been changed here for the better in my opinion so we now have an iCloud subscriber if you are subscribed to iCloud you'll get this new little badge up in the top right you have your storage 1.3 tabt out of 2 terabytes we have our saved to iCloud section right here which is very convenient before we just had this little section that said apps using iCloud and if you went into show all you just had an on or off switch now it shows by default like at a glance everything that's saved to iCloud along with the amount of space that it takes up or how many items are in there and if you go into that section this has also been changed so before it was apps using iCloud now it's just saved to iCloud and you can see the difference here as well because it will show the amount of storage it takes up whereas before it did not say that it would just tell you what it is and if it was on or off and then if you went into there that's when you could finally see how much storage it took up and then if you go down to the iCloud backup you can see at a glance if that failed or if that was successful based on the color of the button so it's red which meant it failed and if it was succeeded if you succeeded on the iCloud backup it would be green so again it's just easy to see everything at a glance now with iOS 18 in the iCloud section and you'll also notice here that we have the sign in with apple section where you can see every app you've used the signin with apple functionality now if you go down past that you'll start to see some other big changes so we now have easier access to some of our most used sections in the settings so for example battery is now in the first page of the menu so the first section of the menu has battery in it which is huge because before you had to scroll all the way down here and apple knows that battery is one of the most used sections in settings so they move that close to the top now another great example of that is camera camera has always been way down here I don't know why camera is another section that everybody goes in pretty frequently that used to be all the way down here not even in the first or second or third section it was all the way down here for some reason but now Apple move that all the way up here to the second section the fourth option down and you'll notice that throughout settings and if you go into dark mode you'll notice that all of the app icons change to their dark mode variant including the apps section so if you have any thirdparty apps with a dark mode icon they now show up in settings and speaking of apps that's another big change in iOS 18 in settings because if you go all the way down you'll notice that we now have an apps section before an iOS 17 if you want wanted to get to some of your third party apps you would just have to keep scrolling and keep scrolling and keep scrolling based on how many apps you had and everything just showed up on this one page but now it's more simplified because we have our own apps section and then from here you can search for apps and you also have an app Library esque section over here where you can sort an alphabetical order you can just tap or you know slide your finger over here to go based on the alphabetical order of those applications if you tap on search at the top of settings you now get suggestions up here so maybe suggestions for settings that you might want to enter but more importantly we have recents so you can now see recent menus that you've been within which is very beneficial and very helpful if you were deep in a settings pane like for example iCloud we had to get there by going to apps contacts contacts accounts iCloud that's deep in the settings that's multiple button presses but now you can get there with a tap because it's saved under recents now let's go back to battery because we have a big change in in the battery settings here so nothing looks different at first but if you have an iPhone 15 series and you go into the charging section right here we now have a change to the charge limit so before you could only turn on you know 80% charging or just 100% but now with iOS 18 you have more granular control over what your phone charges to so if you want to charge to 90% you can now do that if you want to charge to 95% you can now do that so you don't have the option of just 80% or 100% you now have three additional options and also in the battery section we now have an update finishing and background prompt so if you update your software you will now see this prompt under battery to let you know that you know the recent software update could take a toll on your battery life at first so it says that battery life and thermal performance May improve once finished so once the update finishes you know syncing everything in the background and this also shows up as a new section in your battery usage as well so it shows up as device setup and updates if it's impacting your battery life after an updates you'll also now get a recommended charge limit notification and also if you're using a slow charger like a 5 wat charger you'll now get a warning and it will show up a different color in your graph when you are using that slow charger and you might have also noticed this right here under insights and suggestions if you have your auto lock set to never we have a new warning underneath that says it's currently turned off you can save battery by turning it on and you have the option to turn it on right from this section here we also have some big changes to a lot of the menus so if you go into general for example we now have a big glyph icon up top along with the SE name of the section and the description of that section also we have multiple glyph icons in here now for pretty much everything in this menu whereas before it looked so boring here on the left it just does it looks like an old old version of iOS compared to iOS 18 so everything looks a lot better since we have those glyph icons to the left it's crazy how big of a difference that makes and then also if you go into the fonts section right here you can see that we now have a new setup for this so we have system fonts and my fonts whereas before if you didn't have anything installed it would just say open app store so I don't have anything installed here but we now have this new little picker here this new menu so now you no longer need to go into the App Store you can just go right here and download those fonts and once again if we go into some of our settings like Bluetooth for example you can see Bluetooth we have the big glyph icon up top along with the description underneath if we go into accessibility same thing up there we also have several glyph icon changes here as well so voiceover it's now black same with Zoom versus a like dark gray before spoken content has a new glyph icon face ID and attention is now a little bit darker than it was beforehand and if you go into privacy and security again we have the big glyph icon up top but also you can see a little bit more about each section before going into the actual menu so for example I can take a glance at photos and see that 10 applications have full access one has limited access and three have Adon access before I even go into there before an iOS 17 you had to go in to see any of that and even then it didn't show you the full amount of applications that had access and that really makes a difference especially for location services you can see the number there before going in which can be really helpful now also if you go into contacts before in iOS 17 you just had this either something had full access to all your contacts or it had no access at all well now with iOS 18 if you go in here there's a big change so if you go into Fantastical you can now limit the application's access to your contacts so if you tap on that you will be able to choose what contacts you want the application to have access to and you can also edit the selected contacts as well it's no longer just either full access or or none you have more control now and if you go down we have this new accessories option right here we also have some slight changes once again to the glyph icons and if you go down further we now have glyph icons for everything so the analytics advertising the app privacy report so it has transparency logs above it and also a glyph icon it also now says that it's on to the right and then also under security we now have glyph icons for stolen device protection and for lockdown mode and by the way yes that's a location for stolen device protection that used to be under face ID and passcode also if you go into safety check we now have a new glyph icon right here so a slightly tweaked glyph icon along with a new description underneath it also shows if stolen device protection is turned on we also have a new UI for Bluetooth and network access so they both look just like this there's a new UI with a map and it shows the surrounding devices in the Wi-Fi section we have the Wi-Fi glyph along with the description of it and if tap on the eye next to your connected Network we have a couple of changes here as well so first up up top in the top left the back arrow no longer has Wi-Fi text next to it it also appears to be slightly smaller than on iOS 17 and then down here we have private Wi-Fi address so before that was just a kill switch to turn on or off but now we can go into there and we have the option to change this between off fixed and rotating and if you set this to rotating will rotate your Wi-Fi address and it basically does the same thing as iOS 17 it's just a different naming scheme and a different way to enable it and you'll notice that there's also a description underneath as well that gives you more information about what a rotating private address does so that will reduce tracking by periodically changing the device's Wi-Fi address on the network and if you go into screen time and go to communication safety and you turn this on we also have a change here as well because this now requires the screen time password for children to view and send sensitive content this update also includes a new repair assistant feature that allows you to configure thirdparty replacement parts as genuine after a repair so you might see this in your about page it shows configuration available for the battery and you get the option to restart and finish the repair so basically what this does is if you ever replaced the iPhone's battery from a third party if you didn't go through Apple it would always show up as a third party part in your setting but now you can configure it as a genuine Apple part after the device runs through the tests with this new repair assistant feature and if you get a part replaced after installing iOS 18 that will now show up in your settings you go into General about there will be a section in here called parts and service and there's even activation lock for the iPhone parts now after updating to iOS 18 so Apple says that Parts such as the battery cameras and display are now linked to your Apple account based on their individual serial numbers and Apple's goal for this is to put an end to the market for selling parts from stolen iPhones there's a new UI if you have an Apple Watch syncing so it looks kind of like a dynamic Island animation at the top of your phone now also in the spotlight search you just have a lot more detail here so for example if you search for a menu inside of settings like sounds and haptics it will now show a description underneath of that section for settings it will also have the corresponding glyph icon that shows up in settings not just the basic settings icon and it also shows you know the app that it's inside right there it has little settings in the bottom right corner of that glyph icon and you'll notice that that corresponds throughout iOS 18 as well like you can see with epidemic sound right there it shows the little wallet application in the bottom right because in iOS 17 that little glyph icon in the bottom right popped up in certain areas but not in every area like it does in iOS 18 now heading into the books application we have a couple of changes here including a long awaited feature so if we go into our settings you can see that this menu looks a little bit different so it's a little bit more Compact and we also have smaller buttons down here at the bottom because we do also have an additional button down there which if you tap on this this will enable the line guide which will basically just highlight certain sections of the page and you can just tap to go to the next line so this helps if you don't want to be overwhelmed by a page you could just read line by line and if you tap on this again you will get options to dim the background more or you can lower the background dimming as well but the long awaited change is inside of the themes and settings section and if you go to customize we now have a new option if you go to customize right here to change the margins so before you were not able to adjust the margins inside of the books application which never made any sense but now you can do that and you can see the live preview up top of what it looks like when you increase or decrease the margins and then if you head into the bookstore tab you'll notice that up top it now says sections instead of browse sections and if you go into that section you'll see it's changed up in the top left as well now if we go into the top charts here you'll see up in the top right we also have a change in how the charts are viewed so before we just had the ability to browse charts and when you tap on that it shows the same things but now we just have this little drop down and it also just says charts now instead of browse charts and if you actually go into a book there's a big difference here in the UI so the UI looks a lot more modern now you can see that the background is you know a different color and if we go to the next one you can see that the backgrounds are different they're much better looking so we'll stay on this one right here for example and then if you scroll down you'll see that we have book and audio book so they're separated in a really nice way it also shows the amount of pages the you know length and who it's narrated by all right there with big buttons to sample and pre and purchase whereas before it just looked like this on the left it was very mundane and if you scroll down it used to say publisher description now it says from the publisher we also have a different color of text and if you tap on that it opens up in its own modal here so it's its own little section instead of just taking up all this you know real estate on this actual screen here and the customer reviews are also richer so it shows an image right there and specifies that it's the book that the person is rating and not the audiobook and it also has a different color for the Stars it's no longer as dark as it was in iOS 17 and you'll also notice that before up top the sticky little header that would follow you used to have the purchase price in the top left and an X in the top right now the x is in the top left and over in the top right we have a plus which allows you to add it to your want to read list and then if you tap on the three dots you get all of these additional options here as well and by the way when you go to your want to read read section you will now get notifications if discounts are available for those books that you added to this list and moving over to the audiobooks tab again we have a very similar theme here it now says audiobook store instead of audiobooks so just a minor tweak there and it also says sections now instead of browse sections and if you go into an audiobook you'll see that we have that new UI here as well like we saw for the books also if you start playing an audiobook or even a sample you can see that the now playing bar at the bottom is no longer full screen it's more you know just in this little section right here it looks a little bit more modern and better and then if you go to the search tab it now shows a trending genre and the books that are trending in that genre and then the final change is under the home section if you go down to the very bottom we now have books read this year so it shows that three more books are needed to reach my goal and you can tap on that and you can adjust the goal for how many books you want to read in a year we have quite a few changes in the wallet application so if you tap on the plus icon here and go to add a debit or a credit card and go to continue you might see a new UI for adding a card where you can use NFC to just tap your iPhone to the card and it will insert your information without you having to scan it or enter your details manually and if you go to your Apple cash card and you go to send or request we have a new Option called tap to cache and this allows you to Simply tap another phone to send them money so it works very similar to how we have name drop where you can just you know exchange contact information or exchange photos by just putting two phones together well you can now do that in iOS 18 for paying somebody so if you want to pay somebody 10 bucks you can do that tap next and then you can go ahead and you know put your phones together and you will pay them via tap to cash and by the way you can also add tap for cash in the control center so you can now access that and pay somebody easily by simply tapping on this button also now with Apple pay if you go to pay for something and you want to change your payment method there's now an option for change payment method whereas before you had to tap on the card so now if you tap on Apple card you just get the option to change the billing address not the payment method and just a quick shout out to the rewind wallpapers as well if you want to get these classic looking wallpapers this is where you can grab them on Brandon but.com I'll leave it linked in the description below as well they're pretty awesome wallpapers if I do say so myself and if you buy tickets for a game or a concert that now has a new UI in apple wallet it shows the stadium details recommended Apple music playlists and more and if you have an apple card there's a nice new change that's coming with iOS 18 it's a small one but a nice quality of life change and you will see this right away so when you go to let's just go to our month view right here you'll see that we now have up and down arrows along with how much more or how much less we spent based on the previous period so under total spending you can see we have an up arrow and it shows I spent $97 more than last month at this time and if it go down it gets even more specific under categories so it shows which categories you were spending more or less on this is very helpful when budgeting and here's a better example of an entire month so you can see that before we did have the up arrow that said plus 20% over last month but we didn't have the specifics right here like it shows now and again it didn't show everything under categories now if you go to the widgets and go to add an apple card widget you'll notice that we have a new Option here at the end for connected accounts so you can now add a connected account widget to your home screen and when you go onto this you can go ahead to edit and choose the account that you want to be there if you have a connected account also with iOS 18 you have access to more financing options so if your bank supports it you can now redeem your rewards points and also you can Access Loan installments directly from the wallet but again that's going to depend on your specific bank and here's another interesting feature in iOS 18 so there's a new fraud prevention feature for adding digital ID so if you go to plus right here and you go to driver's license or state ID if you have a compatible State there are now new preventive measures to ensure you are not you know claiming or somebody body you're not so before you had to scan the front and back of your physical ID and also capture a video of your face you know turning left and right but now in iOS 18 to make it even more fraud prooof you have to capture a live photo instead of or in addition to a submitted video so you might have to shoot a live photo and a video just to ensure you're who you say you are since this is basically a driver's license it's a serious deal much more serious than say a credit card this update also brings a nice change to the journal application which is one of the most underrated Apple apps by far so I know it's pretty new but still it doesn't get talked about as much it's pretty awesome so you'll notice right away the big difference here between iOS 17 and iOS 18 and that is up top we now have stats so it feels like you're being more productive when you write in your Journal it actually makes a big difference in terms of just mentally feeling like you know you're doing something good by writing down in your Journal it'll show that we have eight entries this year we've written 766 words and we've journaled for 13 days so you have your stats up there you'll also notice up top we have a search bar and then these three dots where we can sort by and we also have other options here as well and before if you tapped on that section in ios7 which looked a little bit different you only had the option to search for bookmarked photos videos and you can see the rest so now we have more options we have a new way to sort by and we also have glyph icons next to all of these options and by the way if we go into insights right here you'll see that we have our streaks so again just things that make you feel better about writing in the journal application like you're accomplishing something which you should feel when you're doing this so it shows insights right here it shows your stats how many days you've journaled how many times you've you know traveled or visited somewhere and you can even see a calendar here as well with a little dot underneath of it based on when you entered in something into your Journal now if you go to add a new journal entry you'll see a couple of changes here as well so first off we now have a title so it starts off with a title and then you could start writing underneath of that also down here we have a couple of changes in this little tab bar so the first thing you'll notice is that we have these two A's on the far left if you tap on that we now have formatting options inside of Journal so you can kind of see an example of some of the formatting that I've done here now of course we can also bold things so we can make certain things bold so if you want to make kind of like a a little header with in your journal entry you can do that right there we can also italicize underline strike through and we also have these other options as well we can change the text color as well of just a specific word and you can just do a lot more it's just so much more rich now than iOS 17 and then the other big change is on the far right so on the far left and the far right are where we have our two new options and this is for logging your state of mind so previously You Could Only log your State of Mind in the health application or on your Apple watch but now you can do that straight from within the journal application and also it will count towards your you know mindful minutes in the health application so the amount of time you spend typing in the journal will count towards your mindful minutes in health which is awesome so we can go ahead and do we'll just do Pleasant for today and we'll just do excited and we'll just do done right there and now we get the animation it's logged and it goes and it's kind of tied with this journal entry now and as you probably saw earlier when you tap on done you can see this from the main view as well so you can also see all the Bold the different colors all the markup options there from this view as well and I did mention it briefly but we do also have the search right here and when you go into that you can break down if you want to search for you know bookmarked places Reflections whatever or you can just search for groceries for example and the search is really good in journal you could also record a voice note inside of your Journal application and it will transcribe it for you as well so you can see what that looks like up here and if you tap on that and go to The annotation button down here it will show you the transcription and if you ever wanted to export and print your journal entries you can do that as well by tapping on the three dots and then going to print and you get the typical print view right here and you can see what that journal entry will look like when printed out and then we also get new home screen widgets for the journal application so you can now quickly tap on a widget from your home screen to enter in a a new entry so you have two views for new entry and then we also have my personal favorite which is streaks so this will show the number of days the streak you're on and also a quick button below to add a new entry from there as well and it opens up in this View and here's something that Apple doesn't do every year we have a big change to the fitness application on iOS 18 so first off you can see up in the top right here it used to say Activity but now it's activity rings and it's in a little widget now smaller and also the wording is kind of connected here whereas before it was outside of that little you know Circle that it's in and that's because we now have a change to the entire summary view so before we were just kind of stuck with this View and there was nothing you could really do about it but now in iOS 18 it will show our step count step distance our sessions trainer tips all of that and I've actually tweaked this I've actually made this look how I want it to look and you can do that as well by going down to the bottom and going to edit summary and this allows you to have a very widget esque screen here for the summary view now we also have the ad button up in the top left so if you tap on that you will get the option to choose any of these new cards so I have pretty much all of them added here you can see we have different versions of each of these cards as well so you could add those from there so let's just say we want to add training load for example I'll go ahead and add this card and it will now show up right here at the bottom and you can also tap on any of these to see if there are variations because there will be different variations of these widgets different type of views that you can you know we made that smaller right there for the awards for example so of sessions if we want to make sessions bigger let's see if we can do that yes we can so we can do that and we can swap that card and make it a little bit bigger we could also move these around as well so it's much more customizable than it's ever been and down here we have C all categories if you go into that you can now see all of your categories in one list view which is very helpful and if you go into the activity Rings we now have these new options to the right of move exercise and stand and this allows you to change the goal for today or change your schedule so you could adjust the goal for today which you could do that before you could see there's a minor change here in the UI it now says today's move goal instead of your daily move goal and also a change to the text below that also the card down here has green text instead of white and we no longer have that little you know by line at the bottom there but the big change in iOS 18 and this is also for watch OS 11 as well is that you can change your goal schedule so now you could have it set that every Saturday and Sunday in my example I only have to hit 310 calories instead of 500 calories so if I don't want to work as much on a certain day you know I can do that I can set that right there so I don't have to exercise as much on the weekends so we can set that and you can see you can do it for exercise and for stand as well and then also down here is another big change and that is the ability to pause your rings so if you get injured or if you get sick you can now pause your rings for a set amount of time up to 90 days and this will allow you to retain your streaks so you don't lose them while you're sick or injured and also down at the bottom we now have an ad to your rings section that shows you some suggested workout apps now if we head over to the Apple Fitness Plus tab we have a CH here as well so before this is what the UI looked like but now with iOS 18 we have this top tab bar so before we just had these little options here but now we have a dedicated nav bar up top where we can go to for you we can go to explore library and also search in this nice little bar up here before that was kind of just hidden all the way down here at the bottom and if you go to the library view you can see that we now have recently added and also the downloaded glyph icon is slightly different so the cloud used to be filled in now it is not and you could also Now search so if you know exactly what you want to search for in terms of a workout or a trainer you can search for that right here now moving on to the health application we have several changes in here as well we also have a pretty fundamental change to the way that the summary view works on this front page here so you'll notice right away that we have a text change so it used to be favorites now it's pinned and that's because now when you tap on edit you no longer select your favorites and they just go in whatever order of the alphabet they're in you now pin different activities or different things that you want to track like your body measurements cycle tracking and so on and you can move them around so if I add swimming strokes for example and I go here I can move where that shows up on my summary View and even from the summary view you can move these around as well kind of like their widgets again very similar to what we just saw in the Fitness application because in iOS 18 let's say I wanted cycling distance to be at the very top if I favored it right here and I go back in it will never be at the top as long as I have activity there because everything shows up in alphabetical order so it was not very customizable at all in iOS 17 but now it is an iOS 18 with the addition of pinning now we also have some changes in the activity so if we go into our activity right here if you look closely underneath of this section you'll see that the move exercise in stand textt is now outside of the box whereas before it was inside of one big box so these are all three separated now and the text is outside of them and the same goes with the text over here as well for the calories minutes and hours and if you tap your profile picture up in the top right and you go into medical ID this has been redesigned so before it looked like this on the left now in iOS 18 up top we have emergency access and share during emergency call so both of those are up top now and then below that we have a much better you know kind of way to just view your information so before it just showed like this now we have a much more Rich card here for showing our personal information for medical ID and up top you'll notice that the medical ID text is smaller and it's all red now whereas before medical ID was in black and it's also just easier now to add allergies conditions and notes and also delete your medical ID whereas before you had to go into the edit screen and this is how it looked just a lot better in iOS 18 in the health records screen we have a slight redesign here so up top we have a smaller card with a much smaller get started button and also a new glyph over there to the left underneath of that it now says apps instead of apps and services and if you go into organ donation you can see that this is also a smaller card with a smaller and a slightly new design for the sign up with Donate Life button and you'll also see down here that apps and services is now just apps so Apple has changed the wording for that and if you go into your health details section we have a new button here for setup pregnancy in cycle tracking so if you're currently pregnant you can add this and you'll be able to track your pregnancy symptoms and this will also display your gestational age along with an analysis of these symptoms that you record and we also get some additional widgets for the lock screen so if you go here you can see that we now have the these two sizes for overnight vitals and weekly vitals and the medications and State of Mind options have changed places and also if you go into the vitals section you can see that we now have our new vitals right here so we have a new application on watch OS 11 called vitals and this will track your you know nightly vitals as long as you're wearing your Apple watch to bed so it will show you if something is high typical or low and what may have caused that so it will show if you have an outlier and you can see right here we had an outlier so we can tap on that to see more information so it looks like sleep duration was my outlier and if you tap on that it will give you an explanation for what might have caused that to be an outlier and if you go over my last 6 months you can see that I've had seven outliers for Sleep duration and one outlier for heart rate so if I tap on the heart rate for example it will tell me factors that may cause an increase and may cause a decrease and you can see also on the chart you know that was it looks like it was right here and if you're wondering how this works I did explain this in my watchos video but it tells you right here so it's a collection of measurements such as your heart rate respiratory rate and wrist temperature that are taken by your Apple watch as you sleep and they will combine all that together to basically form a medium and it will determine you know if you're going above or below your median or I should say a baseline range as Apple calls it and something else that's in watch OS 11 but I'll mention it here because this is also in the health application is that we now have this little Gap that you'll see here in the Sleep section in your health and that signifies a moment where your watch was tracking your sleep even though you were not in a sleep schedule and not in a sleep Focus mode so basically if you fall asleep before you mean to or if you take a nap throughout the day those will now be logged and will count towards your amount of sleep that you're getting it just won't be able to track you know your Rim core deep sleep and so on it's just going to show this big little bar here to indicate and at least give you credit for sleeping and then here's a potentially life-saving feature that's coming in iOS 18 and this is emergency SOS live video so this allows you to share context through streaming video and recorded media so Apple says that in the middle of an emergency call participating emergency dispatchers can send a request for you to share a live video or media from your camera roll over a secure connection again using emergency SOS and these satellites so that is amazing just picture somebody is stuck or trapped you know in a mountain and it's daytime and maybe you know they can't describe what they're seeing around them if they can take a live video maybe the emergency Personnel can determine where they're at so in addition to kind of you know their GPS location so that's a potentially life-saving feature that's also coming with iOS 18 now if you're an accessibility user you are going to love iOS 18 because we get several big new additions to accessibility so first off you can see in the settings menu we now have that typical big glyph and the description underneath whereas before we just had nothing we have a slight change to the spoken content glyph icon and then the first new Option you'll see down here is ey tracking so now in iOS 18 you have ey tracking and this allows you to control your device using just your eyes which is pretty incredible now it doesn't work as good as The Vision Pro don't expect it to work as good as that but it's still pretty amazing so I'm just going to go ahead and enable this and show you that this is how you set it up so you just have to follow your eyes on the screen so follow the dot with your eyes only so if you move your eyes of course you do need to bring your face into view so you'll see this new popup there if you do that so I'm just going to run through this okay so now you can see that I'm controlling my iPhone with just my eyes so I do have to hold it at this view so that the front-facing camera has a visual on my eyes but for for example if I want to pull down the control center up here I could just go look over with just my eyes and keep holding and you will notice that we have that little drop down there so this is going to actually take me to my home screen so we're going to go back so you can use your hands at the same time you don't have to just use your eyes but you can just use your eyes if you would want to and you also have the option for smoothing you have snap to item zoom on keyboard Keys dwell control and autohide so we're going to turn dwell control right back on you can also press this button Buton right here and this will pull up you know your options for notification center Siri device control center all of that now another feature that I think will be more useful for the majority of people is going to be under speech and that is vocal shortcuts so this allows you to choose a custom phrase to perform a Siri request or a shortcut action and this can be very powerful so for example if you turn this on which by the way when you turn this on you will always see that orange Dot and your Dynamic Island and that's because you know you are using the microphone at all times now I have been testing this to see if it drains battery and I have not found any indication that it drains battery while having this on so for example you can see I have three different actions set up so take a look at what happens when I just say screenshot you can see it will take a screenshot so it does have a slight delay depending on what you do now for example if I say you know show time it will turn on all my lights or if I say undo it will basically mimic a shake on the device so let's say I type out something and then I delete it on accident but I want to undo that all I have to do is say undo and you can see it will undo that typing just from saying that and I didn't even have to say Siri or anything else I just set that up as an action right here so to do this just go to add actions and it says set up vocal shortcut so we're going to go to continue and now you get to choose what you want to do do so again you can have a Siri request so let's just say that our Siri request which is what you would basically say to Siri anytime you want to perform an action on your phone you basically just put it in writing right here so if I would were to tell Siri set a 15-minute timer I'm just typing that out here as my Siri request so we're going to type that out and now we're going to add our custom phrase so I'll just say timer for example so now when we tap on go we will have to say that three times there we go and it says action is ready and you can add another one but we're just going to try this out real quick so let's try it here timer and you can see it will set that timer you will even see the Siri pop up right here to indicate that it performed that Siri request for you pretty awesome so let's go and add an even more advanced one so you could also choose from shortcut so if you want to choose an action to run a shortcut you can do that or also you can go down here to below this and we have different system functions so if you get past your shortcuts you'll see we have accessibility you have all these accessibility options and my favorite right here is under system because you can mimic system actions like pressing the action button you can mimic that with your voice flashlight home mute notification center series Spotlight you name it so I already showed you the screen shot so let's try something else let's try Control Center and one thing I've learned after testing this out for a couple of months is that you do not want to add in a phrase that you say all the time like I'm just adding some simple ones just for demo purposes but you want to add something like control or something that you don't say very often that way you can avoid accidental triggers so I'll say controllable that's not something I say all the time so that can be what I say to pull down the control center with just my voice controllable and it will pull down my Control Center and you can see up top it does say you know the phrase that we said to invoke that we also have music haptics so this will allow you to get haptic feedback for music both in the music application and in apple music classical so if you're you know hard of hearing or if you are deaf you can now hear the music instead of just listening to it especially if you cannot actually listen to it so that is an awesome feature you can also access that from the control center as well so here's what that icon looks like now if you go into the motion section right here we have a really awesome new feature as well called show vehicle motion cues so this is a new feature that will basically help if you get motion sick in a car so if you go into here you have the option to turn this to AO automatic so it will automatically turn on if a vehicle motion is detected like if it detects if you're in a vehicle especially in the back seats or you could always have it turned on or always turned off so if I turn this on you will see that we get this badge up top and now we have these little black dots around the screen that will help with you know motion sickness so I don't get motion sick myself but if you know for people that do they've said that this actually does help with you know reducing the amount of motion sickness while in a car so we do also have a control center toggle for that right here and you can see kind of what that looks like along with the little glyph icons to the right and in the motion section in accessibility you can see a couple of changes here as well so dim flashing lights has been moved up and also the autoplay items here are all together now whereas before they were separated two up here and then one way down here so now they're separated and also in a different order and there's also a new option for prefer nonblinking cursor so before you know this already but you can see that you have a blinking cursor when you're waiting to type but if you turn this on you will not have that it will not blink it will just be a solid line there even after you type and inside of the audio and visual tab we have a new option for add voice isolation and this is mainly for the Apple TV application and when you're using the enhanced dialogue feature so this will add an additional option to enhance dialogue and it will basically isolate the dialogue from like an action scene for example so you hear the voices just as good as you hear the action in the background if not better there's a slight change to the glyph icon for audio descriptions same with face ID and attention the switch control icon is darker it's like black now instead of being gray we no longer have the Apple TV remote keyboards and airpods section underneath of physical and motor those have been moved down here to their own menu labeled accessories the audio and visual glyph icon has been changed so the ey is to the right now instead of underneath and we also no longer have the little waves coming out of the speaker the background of live captions is now black instead of gray same with live speech and also down here with guided access it's now black instead of a dark gray and if you go into voiceover we now have a new button for voiceover tutorial and also the speaking rate has been moved down now as far as voiceover goes we have multiple changes in iOS 18 so I'm going to separate this from accessibility since this is the most accessibility feature this is going to have its own section here so we have multiple changes here so let's start in the speech tab so you'll notice that now we have our primary voice up here and it says Samantha and it says enhanced so if you go into that right here if you go into this option we have the ability to change the voice you can just see the overall layout is so much better now in iOS 18 and if we were to go into Samantha before that is what it looked like here's what it looks like in iOS 18 before this is all you can change but now you have the option to change the rate the pitch and the volume for that specific voice you also have an equalizer down here so you can change the ultra lows lows mids and highs and you have the option to preview this voice by tapping the play button up in the top right corner and you also have an option to reset voice settings down here which will revert everything back to default you can also now have additional voices in additional languages as well so for example if you have a primary voice right here you could add a secondary voice that's also in English maybe just a different you know person a different tone or you could have it set to be in a different language so if I go down here and just choose Croatian for example I can choose one of these to add as my secondary language so now if we go back we have Elena underneath of additional voices and if you ever want to rename one of these voices you can do that very easily by tapping right here and going to rename and if you go down here to pronunciations you can go ahead and add a pronunciation and you will notice that there's a change in this section as well so you have your phrase and your substitution along with an enhanced description underneath so slightly different description and then also apply to all apps is selected by default but you also have the option now to see all of the applications down here and you can tap on a specific application to only apply it to those applications as well so for some reason it does not uncheck apply to all applications when you do that but this whole menu now shows up with without having to disable apply to all apps now as far as Braille goes we have multiple changes to braille as well so up top you can see that the glyph icon to the left is now smaller and it's also blue below that we have a new option for matching input and output tables so if you go into Braille tables for example you can see how that looks right there so if we go to our selected one you now have the option to choose between any of these there's a new option for automatic translation so everything will be translated automatically if you go into Braille ra screen inputs we have multiple new changes here as well so before we just had uncontracted and contracted Braille and reverse do positions but now we have all of these different settings so you can use activation gestures you can start automatically when editing text keep active until dismissed you can reverse the dot positions you get visual text feedback if you turn this option on and we also have different things down here as well like our typing feedback mode announcements and choosing a braille table from this menu and there are multiple other specific changes to braille as well so if you go to what's new in voiceover right here if you tap on that under the main voiceover page and go down we have a section here for what's new with Braille and iOS 18 so you can see things like Japanese kanji conversion you can see the sound haptics six. cells with Braille screen inputs all of that right here and then moving on to voiceover recognition we have a big change here because we have live recognition so this will use your iPhone to describe objects and environments around you in real time so if you go into here you could have it recognize people doors scenes point and speak text and Furniture this can also be triggered with a four-finger triple tap under that we can see that verbosity and audio have now been added to this menu instead of being separated and if you go into the audio tab audio ducking is no longer just a kill switch you can go into here and customize that so you can have it set to be off when speaking or or always and you can also change the voiceover speech volume and there's also a couple of new rotor items as well so toggle live regions and announcements is new as is live recognition we have some nice changes to the home application so if you have a homekit lock you will see this pop up that says home key and express mode so this allows you to basically unlock your lock without having to tap your phone or your Apple watch up against it it will detect you coming using Ultra wide B technology now keep in mind this does require the lock to also support uwb so if it doesn't have Ultra wideband it's not going to work but this will still pop up for it for some reason like my lock doesn't have Ultra wideband but I still got this pop up now here's a nice new change in iOS 18 if you tap on the three dots up in the top right and go to home settings right here underneath of people when you go to invite people we have a new option for guest so now with iOS 18 you can give guests temporary access to your smart locks your garage door opener and your alarm systems at select times so if you go to guest right here you will be able to add in their phone number or name from the contacts let me do that so there we go we have our guest and when you go to next you can now customize their access so let's say that we have Mary the petsitter who's coming to watch our dog and she comes twice a week so now you can give Mary access to the front door just those two days of the week so you can go to the guest schedule here and you can go to specific days and times so if we go to times for example we can deselect all day and we can choose only the hours that Mary will be coming to and leaving the house so let's say that she comes every morning at 9:00 a.m. and then leaves at 5:00 p.m. let's just say that she's watching the dog for 2 days while somebody's at work and we can set that to be only for specific days of the week so if you go to every week you can repeat this on let's just say Monday and Thursday so we'll deselect everything else so now Monday and Thursday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Mary has access to my lock and you could also add more times as well if maybe somebody else comes you know at the same time or if you need to add another day or whatever else to Mary's schedule you can do that right there and now you can see you have that set up and then you can just send the invite link so this is going to make your homekit experience a lot better when it comes to guests who come to your house frequently now here's another big change in the home application and this has to do with hom hubs so now in iOS 18 you can choose your Preferred Home Hub so if you go into the home hubs and bridges section we have a new kill switch here for automatic selection so it shows that right now my Apple TV is the active home hub but if we disable this we can choose what our Preferred Home Hub is so you can see that all of our homepods show up right here and it chose the Apple TV which is probably the right choice but if you wanted to change that you can you could also now pair matter accessories without a hhub via thread now when it comes to energy if you go to the energy section right here we have a new option to connect your energy account so this allows you to connect to your Energy company for specific uses data and statistics so right now this is only available for select you know carriers right now it's only for Pacific Gas and Electric but this will be rolling out to more in the future so you can see pg& right here is the only one that's available but this can be pretty awesome and then we also have a change when it comes to adding accessories so now with iOS 18 apps are able to offer in airpods like pairing for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi accessories so they'll be able to have where it just pops up you know you don't need to add an accessory you don't need to scan anymore now developers will be able to offer that instant popup where when you take it out of the box it will pop up like airpods and you'll be able to set it up and later this year you'll also be able to have robot Vacuums in the home application so if you have a homekit enabled Robot vacuum that will be controllable from the home app in the clock application if you set a stopwatch you can see that it now shows up as a dynamic Island little animation here so if you go go ahead and haptic press on that you can add a lap by doing like that you can pause it you can cancel and you can resume from here as well and of course this does also show up here on the lock screen this update also brings a game mode so if you go into a game let's go into Call of Duty for example you can see up top we now have a little alert that says game mode and you can also access this by pulling down the control center and tapping right here and you will see the kill switch for game mode so it's on by default but you can turn that off if you would like to and it says when game mode is on background activity is reduced to optimize the performance of this game now also when you have game mode on that will improve latency with connected airpods and Bluetooth controller so it is recommended to stay on also your in-game voice quality is going to improve if you use airpods when gaming online so that's been improved to 16bit 48 khz the Translate application has a few changes and that's starts with the app icon so we now have a new app design for the Translate application and if we go into there we have some changes here as well so first off we now have support for the Hindi language so you can now translate to and from Hindi and then if you go to the translate icon in the control center we now have this animation up top for all devices that have a dynamic Island it's not just for the action button devices so this was limited to the 15 Pro and newer before but now it works on any device with a dynamic Island we also have Live tech support for Arabic and Thai the Slovenian language is supported and you can now set that as your primary language and the live text feature is now available in Arabic and Thai we have some changes in the Apple TV application so you can see that underneath of the title The text right here is a little bit thicker and it's also a different shade of gray and if you go down and tap on one of the cast members it will show this right here and you can see it now says the name of the person so Adam Scott up in the top middle whereas before it was a big header in the top left and you can also just see we have a new animation when we go into there so it kind of pops out instead of just sliding over like we had in iOS 17 and then if you're watching something and you tap on the three dots right here you can see that the menu has changed so before it was playback speed languages and subtitles now it's playback speed audio and subtitles and if we go into audio we now have the ability to enhance dialogue and if you drop that down we have isolate so now you can set enhance dialogue for isolate boost or enhance but what's even better is that now we have a new feature called Insight so this shows up at the bottom when you're watching a show or a movie and if you tap on that that will show you who's currently on screen so for example it shows the actor and the actress who are currently showing on screen and of course if they if that seen changes this will update in real time now if music is playing it will also show that music so let me show you an example of that so when there's music playing you will see this little card down here that shows the name of the song along with the album artwork and you could also press on plus to add it to your Library without ever even having to leave the TV application that is awesome also these subtitles will automatically turn on if you mute the movie or the show and then we also have a minor change on the episode page so once again the text underneath the name of the episode title is a little bit thicker than before and it also looks like the resume episode button is slightly larger as well in the shortcuts application we have a new UI when you go to create a new shortcut so if we tap on the plus there this UI looks a lot better A lot more modern so before you had to click on ADD action basically that whole button was there you could search and pull this up but it was kind of hidden and out of the way so Apple has made that easier to find the search actions button and there's no longer a add action blue button right here so also the text up here has been changed and there's no next action suggestions because nothing has been added yet so I feel like apple is trying to make shortcuts a lot less confusing than it already is which is a good thing so you also notice up top new shortcut is now in Black instead of in Gray like it was in iOS 17 and if you tap on that drop down we have a new glyph icon for choose icon before it was like a photos glyph now it's this dotted square and then when it comes to actually adding actions before we had a little favorites menu but now we no longer have that but we can pin items so if we find something that we like we could just go ahead and press on the I right here and we can pin that to the top so that's already pinned so let's just find something else we'll just find books for example and if we go ahead and tap on books and then let's just say play audiobook is something that we use frequently we can pin that to the top so now when we go to add any shortcuts you can see that play audio book will always be up there at the top so makes it easier to access frequently used actions and now if you want to search for an action from a specific application like settings for example you can see that the icon shows up bigger and when you tap on it this whole menu kind of remains whereas before it would create a whole new window just overwhelming you with all of the options for settings so you can also search within settings so if I want to search for calls for example you can see I can search within that so search is so much better now and you'll also notice that we have a few additional actions here as well to add to your shortcuts there's also a couple of new additions for reminders including being able to add to a specific list there's some small changes to the books actions like search the books app instead of saying search in books and then also open default collection instead of just open collection but in my opinion the best change in shortcuts is the ability to specify multiple conditions for if statements so I have an if statement here added and you can see before in iOS 17 if you added an if statement basically just had to go to otherwise and you know add another if statement but now you can see that we have this little plus icon next to our if statement and you can tap on that and that will give you more conditions you can continue adding conditions based on you know whatever you're linking this to so you can add all these different conditions without adding additional if statements and of course if you tap on any you can change that to all as well so you can really specify what you're trying to do here there's also some new shortcut actions so we have a create folder action we have the add shortcut to home screen create iCloud link for shortcut and then three new actions for journal to create audio entry create a message with a title and search the journal there's a few changes in the free Form application so first off we have a new feature called scene so this makes it easier to move around a board when presenting so if you go up to the three dots right here you can either add a scene or you can go to the scene Navigator so if you go to scene Navigator it will show you all the different scenes you've set up and a scene is essentially just a movement to another part of the board so if I was presenting and I was talking about test right here but then I wanted to go to this is a slide next I wouldn't want to sit here and slide my finger all the way over here I would want this to be set up so that when I tapped on the next Arrow it would automatically take me to where I want to be so let me show you an example and our first scene is going to be this right here and then our second scene is going to be this slide right here but maybe we want to be zoomed out a little bit more we can zoom out a little bit more and then set that as a scene as well so we'll go to add scene and then maybe for the third one we want to zoom out a lot so we have all three of these sticky notes included in that scene so we'll go ahead again to right here and add scene so this was our first scene here's our second scene and then here is our third scene we also have snap to grid as you'll see this Square snapping to the grid lines there's improved diagramming so you can now join objects together with Magnetic connection lines the math notes feature is integrated into free forms if you put equals next to a math problem it will solve it for you and of course it will write the result in your own handwriting now also if you go up here and go to find you can search for five for example and it will recognize your handwriting now so you can search for handwritten text it could also be translated and copied as text and lastly we can also send a link to a free form board to anybody and they can open it up in free form on their device and if you plan on switching over from an Android to an iPhone soon iOS 18 will make that transfer process easier so they say that the move to iOS interface has been updated and enhanced Wi-Fi migration is faster using 5 GHz you can now transfer data via wired connection using a USBC to USBC cable or USBC to lightning there's also dual SIM labels when transferring along with voice memo migration and iOS tips will be shared during the migration process and I know this video has been long so if your phone is about to die you should also know that the final feature in iOS 18 I want to mention is that you can now see the time when your iPhone is dead but this only applies to the iPhone 15 series and newer so that is IOS 18 and this was the movie so hope you guys enjoyed it this is my longest video to date the most effort I've ever had to put into a video so I would appreciate if you gave this video a thumbs up and if you want to support don't leave a super chat on this video just buy some of my wallpaper packs I want you guys to get some value in return as well so check out our new wallpaper collection here vant and also all of my other wallpaper collections like rewind and opulent so that's the best way to support if you want to do that and you'll get some of the awesome wallpapers that I always use in my videos and if you're looking for more videos to watch check out my desk tour setup right here that video was amazing and also check out this Mac OS Aqua video as well showing everything new in that software update anyways I need some sleep now so thanks again for watching guys and I'll see you soon\n"