Apple Intelligence might be the new hotshot in town, but iOS 18 is offering many features beyond that. The company announced Monday at its iPhone 16 “Glowtime” event that the new software update for iPhones will arrive on September 16.
iOS has some notable aesthetic updates, including the ability to place icons anywhere on the home screens and leave blank spaces. Plus, you can change the color of icons and even make them larger. Using Siri will now light up the edges of the iPhone instead of appearing as a glowing orb at the bottom.
What’s more, the control center now has a multi-page layout with the ability to customize and add controls with support for third-party apps. You can also swap out the default flashlight and camera icons on the lock screen.
The update brings a dedicated passwords app and a redesigned Photos app. The new Photos app does away with the bottom bar and different tabs and adopts a single-page view. The app will surface old photos regularly through different carousels.
In terms of language-related updates, multilingual and multiscript keyboard, support for Hindi in the translate app, and support for Arabic in Live Text.
The call app gets a massive update that lets you search through call history and contacts. In Messages app, now you can schedule messages for later.
You will get the iOS 18 update if you have an iPhone XR or later, or iPhone SE (second gen) or later. Here is the full list of devices with iOS 18 support.
We will have a longer story about iOS 18 update and what you get out of it later this month.
You will get the iOS 18 update if you have an iPhone XR or later, or iPhone SE (second gen) or later.
The swift macOS Sequoia release deviates from Apple’s usual late September or October timeline for desktop OS updates.
When the upgraded Voice Memos app rolls out, you’ll be able to sing over a track you recorded earlier — a guitar track, say — by tapping on a new…
While consumers won’t get the full impact of the Siri upgrade until Apple Intelligence launches, Apple promises it will upend the user experience
The 16 Pro starts at $999, while the Pro Max runs $1,119 and up. Preorder opens Friday. The handsets start shipping on September 20.
Visual intelligence will launch along with other Apple Intelligence features in beta in October for U.S. English language users.
Pressing the button for the first time will open the camera app. You press it to take a photo and press and hold to start a video recording.
To nobody’s surprise, Apple today debuted its A18 system-on-a-chip, the successor to the A17 Pro chip it announced at its last iPhone event. If you recall, at that time, Apple…
Apple released a new version of its premium over-the-ear headphones, AirPods Max, on Monday during its 2024 Apple Event. The revamp replaces the AirPods Max’s lightning port with a USB-C…
Apple Intelligence was the star of this show, as the new iPhone 16 line joins last year’s iPhone 15 Pro models as the only members of the line that can…
Both the hearing aid feature for AirPods Pro 2 and the hearing test for iOS 18 will launch this fall via a software update in over 100 countries and regions.
At its Glowtime event on Monday, Apple announced that it’s adding a new Apple Watch feature that can alert users to sleep apnea, a health condition that causes you to…
Apple has announced new features for the latest version of watchOS, watchOS 11, including translation and an upgraded Smart Stack.
The AirPods 4 are available for preorder starting Monday. The base model runs $129, with the active noise canceling models hitting $179.
The Apple Watch Series 10 is up to 30% larger and 10% thinner than previous watches. It’s available for preorder Monday.
More than 90 nations, including the U.S. and China, will convene at a two-day summit in Seoul starting Monday to attempt to establish a blueprint for the use of AI…
Steve Brotman started Alpha Partners in 2014 with a novel idea at the time: investing alongside early-stage VCs to help preserve their ownership in promising companies as they transition to…
Automation and IT monitoring company Progress on Monday announced that it intends to acquire file management platform ShareFile for $875 million in cash and credit. Progress CEO Yogesh Gupta said…
We’re out-of-this-world excited to announce that we’ve finalized our dedicated Space Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. It joins Fintech, SaaS and AI as the other industry-focused stages — all under…
Apple is likely to unveil its iPhone 16 series of phones and maybe even some Apple Watches at its Glowtime event on September 9.
A flaw in the design of WhatsApp’s “View Once” privacy feature let’s anyone save pictures and videos that should be ephemeral.
Companies’ data architecture today looks nothing like it did 20 years ago, but monitoring and tracing tools haven’t followed suit, making it difficult for engineering teams to identify the root…
The SMB-focused bookkeeping, accounting and finance startup Finally has raised $50 million in a Series B round of funding and secured a $150 million credit line, TechCrunch is the first…
The car rental giant says personal information, credit card information, and driver’s license numbers were stolen in the August cyberattack.
It’s been an infamous year for software updates gone wrong. But what’s the worst-case scenario for a buggy update? Sonos may be trying to find the answer as its mobile…
Indian electric scooter manufacturer Ather Energy plans to raise about $370 million in an IPO.
Along with the ability to automatically adjust to the surface they’re traversing, the legs move faster and jump higher than their more standardized electric counterparts.
Atomico has historically leaned toward earlier funding rounds while dipping into later stages where it made sense; now it’s setting itself up to focus just as much on the later…
