iOS 18 has lastly land on your iPhones , and if you ’re in the summons of updating your software program , or you already have , there are a bunch of novel features worth getting to know .
From customising the feeling of your apps toRCS electronic messaging , there ’s a lot to like aboutiOS 18 – but with so much to do , where should you originate ?
We ’ve been using iOS 18 for the preceding few months good manners of the Public Beta , so we ’ve got a good idea of the first thing you should attempt once you ’ve installed the hotly anticipated computer software update .
1. Colour your App Icons
Apple finally allow us tailor-make our home screens properly in iOS 18 . One of the ways you’re able to do that is to use the samecolour and shade across all of your app iconsand thingmabob .
To do that just press and hold the Home Screen or on an app icon and you ’ll see an ‘ Edit ’ picture in the top left recession . rap that , and then tap ‘ Customise ’ in the free fall - down menu .
Now you ’ll see a little tab key slew up from the bottom of the video display . you could change the musical theme so that it ’s dark or light , but keeping the original colour , or if you take ‘ Tinted ’ you could pick out any gloss you need from a whole spectrum using the color and saturation sliders at the bottom .
If you tap the short sunlight button on the left nook it ’ll change your background wallpaper from light to darkness and if you tap the little ink dropper icon you’re able to take a specific colour from your wallpaper and use that as your color shade so that it matches your wallpaper precisely
2. Try the new Torch
The new torch feature in iOS 18 is pretty cagey . So if you switch on your torch or flashlight from your Lock Screen you ’ll see a customs blowlamp command appear around the Dynamic Island at the top of the screen . Alternatively , you’re able to get to the same menu by pressing and holding on the Torch ikon in the Control Center .
you could slide vertically , up and down to increase and minify the brightness , but if you abstract horizontally left or mightily you could increase the spread of the light so it cover a wider or narrow area .
3. Remove the Torch shortcut
In iOS 18 , you could remove the Torch Shortcut from the ignition lock screen and replace it with any other shortcut you want .
To do so , tapdance and hold your Lock Screen and tap the ‘ customise ’ choice at the bottom . Now pick out the Lock Screen from the two thumbnail views and then you ’ll see a subtraction near the torch shortcut . Tap that to remove it , and if you want to put something else there instead , pink the plus ikon that appear in the space where it was .
Now choose any shortcut you care to put there instead .
4. Set your charge limit
There ’s a raw set of tear optimisations in iOS 18 that lets you customise and set the shoot limit . The musical theme is that if you ’re not charging to 100 % every meter , it should help the battery last longer .
In old adaptation of the software system , it would only let you set the demarcation to 80 % , but now you could ready it in 5 % increments . Go to configurations > Battery and then tap ‘ charge ’ . On the next screen , you could sic it to any limit at 5 % increments between 80 % and 100 % .
What ’s more , iOS 18 will learn your behaviours and give you recommendation base on how you use your headphone . Select the terminus ad quem you want , and then tap ‘ Set Charge Limit ’ . And now when you punch it in to charge , it ’ll only charge to that limit and wo n’t go to 100 % .
5. Use the Action Button to recognise music
you could apply the Action Button on the side of the iPhone as a prompt Shazam clitoris . In older software , you had to do this via the Shortcuts app on the iPhone , but now there ’s a direct choice to use it for Shazam .
So point to lay > Action Button and on the next screen swipe across until you find the ‘ Recognise Music ’ . Now when you press the Action Button it ’ll automatically recognise the song playact in your area .
6. Hide any apps
In iOS 18 you canhide any apps you wantin its own lilliputian obscure folder that lives in the App Library concealment . To blot out an app just long - press the app image and you ’ll see a couple of options appear .
Tap the ‘ Require FaceI D ’ choice . Your next popup option asks if you want to just lock it behind a scan , or blot out it and lock it . Choose the hiding selection and it ’ll vanish , and make its way to a newfangled folder of Hidden apps in your library . you may access it any time by swiping across to your App Library and scrolling down until you find the hidden apps booklet .
7. Create a widget from an app icon
In iOS 18 , you could make widgets from apps without allow the Home Screen . you’re able to just tap and hold on an app ikon , and if it has widgets available you ’ll see these little squares and rectangle in the drop cloth - down menu .
Tap one , and it ’ll make a contrivance in the shape of the ikon that you select , whether that ’s a small public square , or a full - width rectangle .
8. Schedule Messages
In iOS 18 you’re able to finally schedule message for a set time . So if you work with or are in contact with someone in a different time geographical zone , or just desire to send a message for the next day in advance before you blank out , you’re able to schedule it for the appropriate time .
Just open your content and start typewrite the substance . When you ’re ready to schedule tapdance the positive image on the left , and in that list of options you ’ll see ‘ Send Later ’ .
Pick the clock time and date you want to schedule it for , and then delineate it up .
9. Power Off from the Control Centre
you may now switch off your iPhone without pressing any physical buttons . Just swipe your Control Centre down from the top of the screenland and you ’ll see a piffling power icon in the top correct quoin .
Tap that clit and hold it until you see the regular power menu appear . Swipe to power off . Simple .
10. Share your Wi-Fi network with a QR code
There ’s more than one way to share your Wi - Fi meshwork details in iOS , but one of them lets you generate a QR codification for easy sharing with others .
give the new Passwords app . Unlock it with a FaceID CAT scan and then choose the Wi - Fi choice and you ’ll see any redeem Wi - Fi meshing number , with your current connexion at the top . Tap it , then on the next screen tap ‘ Show web QR code ’ . Scan it from the other phone and it should connect you .
11. Transcribe your Voice Memos
So Voice Memos now has the power to transliterate your voice recordings , turning them into text on the screen .
Just launch the app and witness the recording you require to transcribe . Tap it , and then tap the three dots next to that transcription and choose ‘ edit transcription ’ , and then tap the little speech house of cards picture in the bottom left . Now it will transliterate that recording .
Any novel recordings should transliterate automatically as you record , so when you ’ve saved a fresh one , you’re able to rap that three - dot icon and tap ‘ persuasion transcript ’ in that menu .
12. Reorganise and customise the Control Centre
The newControl Center lets you customise grids , ikon and even make multiple sheets and Sir Frederick Handley Page of controls . To do so , just swipe down the command centre as common from the top of the concealment . Now intercept the plus image in the top left corner .
you could remove any live controls by tapdance the minus ikon next to any of them . Or if you require to resize , just cart that curving tab on the right side . Add new controls by tapping ‘ Add Control ’ at the bottom of the screen and pick out the control that you want to send on the cover .
To produce new control sheets , just swipe upwards until you get to a blank page and tap the add control option at the bottom . Using the resize tool you could even make full - screen controls like the music and media playback control . It ’s really flexible , so play around with it until it works for you .
The classics
Okay , prison term for some Graeco-Roman iPhone tips , which you may or may not already know , but have been in spot in the iOS software package for some meter , and which I continue to get useful almost every daytime I ’m using my telephone set .
13. Trackpad Keyboard
The keyboard trackpad characteristic is the absolute easiest room to move the cursor on sieve to exactly where you want it to be . And saves you having to rap on the text itself .
While type , just tap and hold up the space bar . The alphabetic character keys sort - of vanish , and it becomes a trackpad . Just abstract your ovolo or finger around and move the cursor precisely where you want it .
14. Backtap to screenshot
Backtap to screenshot is another I ’ve used regularly . Just simply tap doubly on the back of the phone near the Apple logotype can launch any number of functions and apps .
Head to preferences > Accessibility then ‘ Touch ’ and at the bottom you ’ll find ‘ Back pat ’ . Tap it and then on the next screen take the double tap option and then pick out screenshot from the tilt of choice .
15. Move multiple apps to folders
you could tot multiple apps into a folder together really quickly and easily using an onetime thaumaturgy . You just pink and harbour an app icon and start move it , as it ’s moving just tap all the other apps on the covert you need to group with it and let go when you ’re done .
No Apple Intelligence, yet
Sadly , since Apple Intelligence is n’t landing in iOS 18 until later in the year with iOS 18.1 , there ’s nothing for you to attempt there on that side of things . You ’re gon na have to await until December for that , in the UK at least .
