Apple new iOS 12 features and
updates
After beta version Apple rolls out the
new iOS 12 version in Phones. Its an update fixed many issues and become
smoothening. It's an update fixed with little tweaks, minor improvements,
subtle changes.
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iOS 12, the latest version of the most
advanced mobile operating system, is designed to make everyday tasks on iPhone
and iPad faster and more responsive. Available today as a free software update,
iOS 12 introduces new AR experiences, fun new features like Memoji, Siri
Shortcuts that open up a world of apps to work with Siri and new tools to help
people reduce interruptions and manage screen time for themselves and their
families, wrote in a blog post. The goal of iOS 12 was to make iPhone and iPad
faster and more responsive not just on current generation, 2017 hardware, but
on up to five generations going back to 2013.
Update Options go to Settings > General > Software Update.
Apple put performance and stability
first, and not just for its most recent hardware. The update, which is
compatible back to the iPhone 5S, has also been optimized to run faster and
more efficiently on older phones.
FaceTime updates make video chat far
more fun than it has ever been, and the augmented reality tools provide Apple's
perfect and trademark combination of joy and utility.
Improvements in Camera
The latest version of Apple's iPhone
and iPad operating system, iOS 12, arrived on Monday, which means devices as
old as the iPhone 5S can get a free upgrade. The new OS includes notable
additions like a standalone Measure app that's like a virtual tape measure,
tools to combat smartphone addiction, grouped notifications, and more.
One of the improvements in iOS 12 will be to portrait lighting, a camera feature for iPhone 8 Plus and above.
Photos
An all-new For You tab surfaces
favorite moments in one place, combining Memories and iCloud Shared Albums, and
introduces sharing suggestions to makes it easier to share photos with friends.
Friends who receive photos are prompted to share back any photos and videos
they have from the same trip or event. Search suggestions in Photos surface the
most relevant Events, People, Places, Groups, Categories and recent searches,
and new search functionality lets users combine multiple search terms to find
just the right photos.
Screen Timing - Do Not Disturb Modes
iOS 12 includes a comprehensive set of
built-in features that are designed to help you focus, limit distraction,
monitor your iOS device usage, and better understand how you are using your time throughout the day.
New tools built into iOS 12 help
customers understand and take control of the time they spend interacting with
their iOS devices. Screen Time provides users with detailed information and
tools to help them manage the time they spend with apps and websites, and
better understand and control where their child spends timeScreen Time also
gives parents access to their child’s Activity Report right from their own iOS
devices using Family Sharing in iCloud, and allows them to schedule times to
limit when a child’s iOS device can be used, such as during bedtime. Avoid disruptions with new Do Not Disturb
modes based on time, location or action.
New modes in Do Not Disturb
automatically end based on a specified time, location or action, and Do Not
Disturb during Bedtime helps people get a better night’s sleep by dimming the
display and hiding all notifications on the lock screen until prompted in the
morning.
To help reduce interruptions, iOS 12
gives users more options for controlling how notifications are delivered. They
can instantly manage notifications to be delivered quietly or turned off
completely. Grouped notifications make it easier to view and manage multiple
notifications at once.
Group FaceTime
That’s a nice professional upgrade and it’s good for families
too, but the feature wasn’t actually ready for the release of iOS 12.
If you still have been using FaceTime
to connect with friends and family, there’s some good news for you! Apple has
finally introduced Group FaceTime with a cool new interface that lets users of
the group chat know who is in control of the conversation. Participants can be
added or removed at any time during the call, and those cool Memoji and Camera
Effects can be used in here as well.
Face ID
Two Faced - finally Face ID can
support more than one face (two to be exact). Just navigate to Settings > Face
ID & Passcode > Set Up an Alternate Appearance.
Ignore Passcode - after several failed
Face ID unlocks you no longer have to enter your passcode, instead swipe up
from the bottom of the screen and you can try Face ID again.
Dynamic AR Experiences
Apple’s Siri Shortcuts app now available
Apple is making Siri a lot more
powerful in both iOS 12 and watchOS 5. Siri’s new Shortcuts feature is now
available to download for iOS 12 users, and it allows iPhone and Apple Watch
users to use Siri to step through multistep routines.
Siri takes a major step forward with
the introduction of Siri Shortcuts, allowing any app to now work with Siri.
With powerful on-device intelligence, Siri learns user routines and provides
suggestions at just the right time. Users can also use their voice to run any
Shortcut, making it even easier to use their favorite apps. The new Shortcuts
app goes even further, allowing users to create custom Shortcuts to streamline
frequent tasks. Popular apps like Instacart, Kayak, Hotels.com, Tile and Lose
it! support Siri Shortcuts and are available in the App Store started.
Memoji and Animoji Camera Effect
The most whimsical new feature in the
new version of iOS is called "Memoji." You'll need an iPhone X or one
of the forthcoming iPhone XS or XR phones. That's because Memoji uses Apple's
3D front-facing camera. To find Memoji, fire up Messages. The Animoji and
Memoji app is inside the app strip at the top of the keyboard. You create it by
tapping on the same icon above the keyboard, then picking the face you just
made. You'll need to keep your head fairly close to your phone.
People can create Memoji right within Messages
by choosing from a set of inclusive and diverse characteristics to form a
unique personality. The existing set of Animoji also expands with ghost, koala,
tiger and T. rex.
Animoji and Memoji now feature winks
and tongue detection to capture more expressions. New camera effects bring
Animoji, Filters, Text and Stickers to Messages and FaceTime. Filters like
comic book and watercolor add personality to photos and videos, new labels and
shapes let people add captions and titles to highlight parts of an image, and
stickers can be placed using iMessage sticker packs. Memoji are customizable
and fun to create right within Messages.
AutoFill gives password manager apps on your
iPhone
After years of steadily absorbing
features like suggesting strong passwords and remembering the ones you've got,
iOS 12 now gives back to password manager developers. The new AutoFill lets
your third-party password manager be on tap in more places and much more
easily. Apple's latest iPhone and iPad operating system includes an AutoFill
setting that, if you choose to accept it, will let your password manager of
choice be on tap everywhere. As long as you have all of your passwords securely
in a manager, then you can always refer to it. You can always go first to a
website or click on a shopping basket icon and then switch over to your
password manager to copy out the username, password, security codes or anything
else.
On your iOS device, go to Settings and scroll down to Passwords & Accounts.
Now tap on AutoFill Passwords, turn on
the AutoFill toggle.
It doesn't work. Not with every
website. It's going to take time for sites and developers to work in AutoFill
but already it's on major sites. Go to a website that you need to log into. Tap
into the username field and as soon as you do that, if it can be AutoFilled
then Safari will offer to fill in the password. Once you've set this up,
though, that offer is not from Apple's own iCloud Keychain system, it's from
your choice of LastPass, 1Password or Dashlane. Password managers are just
secure databases, buttoned-down lists of information, they're not executing
code that can interfere with each other. Yet Apple has set a limitation: only
one password manager at a time can be trusted with AutoFill.
You can always come back later and
switch to the other one but it would've been handy to see how each handles
AutoFill side by side.
Tracking and Privacy
Apple’s fight with ads and tracking
software continues with iOS 12, with enhanced Intelligent Tracking Prevention
that helps block social media “Like” or “Share” buttons and comment widgets
from tracking users without permission. Safari now also automatically creates,
autofills and stores strong passwords when users create new online accounts and
flags reused passwords so users can change them.
This section is basically the old
Restrictions section, and you can control everything you could before: music,
TV shows, apps, movies, web content, multiplayer games, and more. The iOS
default is Allow All, Unrestricted, and Explicit (for music), so if content is
a concern, you'll want to change those settings. In this section, you can also
turn off in-app purchases and location services, and prevent your kids from changing
your settings by locking them with a passcode.
Notification Control
There’s also a feature called “Instant
Tuning,” which lets you adjust notification settings directly from the
notification itself. You can change the app’s settings to “deliver quietly,”
which allows the notification to surface in Notification Center, but nowhere
else, or turn them off altogether.
Apple News
now comes with a redesign. It has been made more suitable for iPad use. You
will now see a new Browse tab, which according to Apple, will make it easier to
jump to favourites. Also, there is a new sidebar option.
With iOS 12 notifications are no longer displayed in chronological order, but are grouped by app or by multiple groups the app sets.
iOS 12 uses Grouped Notifications to
condense the display of an app’s notifications on the lockscreen and
notification center — and they can be dismissed as a group. Maintain your
on-screen visibility and offer better user experiences by setting up different
groups for major sections (business news, sports, celebrity) or for major
developing stories (the royal wedding, McCain, Russia investigation). It allows
users to easily swipe through each group to get all caught up or easily dismiss
notifications on a topic, leaving your other grouped notifications to consume.
Apple Books
is a new app that makes discovering and enjoying books and audiobooks
effortless, thanks to the new Reading Now tab, the Book Store tab that makes it
fun to browse all that Apple Books has to offer, the Library tab to easily
organize one’s full collection, and a dedicated Audiobooks tab.
Apple is introducing a new USDZ file
format developed alongside Pixar, which will allow AR assets to be used across
the system, in Safari, Messages, Mail, and more. USDZ will let you place 3D AR
objects into the real world within these apps. Apple is working with many
companies like Adobe to implement support for USDZ in unique ways.
iOS 12 is available as a free software
update for iPhone 5s and later, all iPad Air and iPad Pro models, iPad 5th
generation, iPad 6th generation, iPad mini 2 and later and iPod touch 6th
generation. For more information, visit apple.com/ios/ios-12.
Features are subject to change. Some features may not be available in all
regions or all languages.
