How To Get All of the Best iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia Features Right Now

During WWDC 2024, Apple showed disconnected a clump of shiny caller features heading to iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia (and its different bundle platforms) aboriginal this year—but if you don’t privation to hold astir for these features to arrive, you tin get a batch of them close now.

Apple is well-known for adding caller features to its bundle that then ‘Sherlock’ functionality already being offered by third-party apps, and that’s the lawsuit again this year. Sometimes, the alternate options stay the best; you mightiness find that with a fewer of these.

Use ChatGPT for AI assistance

You tin already speech to ChatGPT connected iOS—and with respective voices.Screenshot: ChatGPT

Let’s commencement with 1 of the much evident ones: You don’t person to hold for Apple’s woody with OpenAI and ChatGPT to beryllium implemented successful iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia aboriginal this twelvemonth due to the fact that you tin instal dedicated ChatGPT apps for the iPhone and Macs close now.

A fewer features are lone disposable to paying users, but a batch of them aren’t ChatGPT Plus exclusives—including the newest GPT-4o exemplary and the dependable mode that lets you talk to ChatGPT arsenic you would with Siri. Find retired much astir what ChatGPT tin bash for you.

Customize iOS location surface icons

Besides switching to Android, you tin get customized icons for your iPhone’s location surface via Apple’s Shortcuts app. Create a caller shortcut, prime Add Action, and find the Open App script. Tap App to find the app you privation to alteration the icon of.

You past request to pat the drop-down paper astatine the apical and take Add to Home Screen. That lets you prime a customized representation for your caller shortcut, which tin past beryllium enactment connected the location surface (the archetypal shortcut doesn’t vanish but tin beryllium enactment successful the App Library).

Get AI penning assistance with Grammarly

Grammarly tin tweak your substance successful each kinds of ways.Screenshot: Grammarly

While nary third-party app volition beryllium capable to integrate with iOS and macOS, arsenic good arsenic the caller AI penning tools rolling retired arsenic portion of Apple Intelligence, plentifulness of alternatives are disposable if you privation assistance drafting and rewriting immoderate substance you request to produce.

One specified alternate is the freemium app Grammarly, which works crossed conscionable astir each instrumentality level and the web: It tin springiness you adjuvant feedback astir existing substance and alteration its tone, length, oregon style, arsenic good arsenic make marque caller substance utilizing prompts.

Categorize emails with Gmail

You whitethorn already cognize astir this one, but conscionable successful case, The auto-categorization options heading to Apple Mail connected iOS and macOS is thing that Gmail already does. You tin bid the automatic sorting algorithm arsenic you go, truthful it should amended implicit time.

The categories Gmail uses are Primary, Promotions, Social, Updates, and Forums. On the desktop interface, you tin take which ones get shown—plenty of different email clients with astute email prioritization, including SaneBox and Spark.

Use Copilot to make AI images

Need a dinosaur connected a surfboard? Copilot tin help.Screenshot: Copilot

Apple volition fto you make your ain AI creation successful iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia—for everything from personalized stickers to customized emojis—but galore tools already fto you make these pictures for free, including Microsoft Copilot.

Just benignant retired what you privation a representation of, and Copilot takes attraction of the rest—you tin specify the benignant of the representation too, to travel the Illustration oregon Sketch options Apple volition springiness you, and past further refine your creator instauration with immoderate follow-up prompts.

Manage passwords with LastPass

iOS and macOS already bash a decent occupation of managing passwords for you. Still, with the bundle upgrades coming soon, we’ll get a dedicated, standalone password manager—like the galore different password managers already available, including LastPass.

LastPass is 1 of the astir broad programs retired there, and of course, it works connected each benignant of device—not conscionable Apple ones. You tin usage the work for free, but to get the astir retired of it, you request to motion up for 1 of the premium plans.

Type to speech to Siri

You tin already benignant successful Siri if you privation to.Screenshot: iOS

Apple is making typing your Siri prompts much accessible with iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia. Still, you tin already bash this—it’s conscionable hidden distant successful the Accessibility settings connected your instrumentality alternatively than being thing you tin power to and from with a pat oregon click.

If you’re interacting with Siri connected an iPhone, unfastened Settings, past prime Accessibility and Siri to find the Type to Siri toggle switch. If you’re connected a Mac, unfastened System Settings, and you’ll besides find an Accessibility paper with a Siri introduction and a Type to Siri toggle switch.

Organise desktop windows with Magnet

Sequoia volition yet drawback up to Microsoft’s desktop operating system, enabling you to rapidly and easy pin unfastened windows to 1 broadside oregon adjacent one-quarter of the screen—very utile if you’re moving successful aggregate apps simultaneously.

You tin already bash this with respective third-party programs, including Magnet. It’ll acceptable you backmost $4.99, but it offers a wealthiness of antithetic options for arranging windows connected aggregate screens—and seems to