iOS 18 will launch next week with new ways to customize your home screen

1 week ago 9

But we’ll person a small longer to hold to summation entree to Apple Intelligence features and the upgraded mentation of Siri.

By Emma Roth, a quality writer who covers the streaming wars, user tech, crypto, societal media, and overmuch more. Previously, she was a writer and exertion astatine MUO.

Sep 9, 2024, 8:58 PM UTC

An iPhone 15 Plus held successful a hand.

Apple has revealed the motorboat day for iOS 18 — and it’s conscionable days away. The update, which volition adhd caller ways to customize your iPhone’s location surface and fastener screen, arrives connected September 16th.

In iOS 18, you tin freely rearrange apps and widgets connected your location surface and alteration their appearance. Apple is rolling retired a redesigned Control Center, too, on with a new password absorption app and enactment for satellite messaging. Some different updates see caller substance effects successful messages, a revamped Photos app, and caller ways to signifier your inbox successful the Mail app.

However, this update doesn’t see the Apple Intelligence features coming to the iPhone 15 Pro and across the iPhone 16 lineup. The upcoming tools volition assistance you rewrite and summarize substance and make images done the AI-powered Image Playground. Alongside a much conversational Siri, these features are going to commencement arriving successful the iOS 18.1 nationalist beta successful October.

Apple besides confirmed that macOS Sequoia, watchOS 11, and visionOS 2 are coming September 16th arsenic well. While macOS Sequoia adds iPhone mirroring, watchOS 11 comes with caller grooming features, and visionOS 2 includes an ultrawide virtual Mac display. There’s inactive nary connection connected tvOS 18.