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There Are 261 New Features Available in iOS 18

Apple has published a guide for all the new features available in iOS 18 – I made a reference doc, plus two outlines to share.

September 12, 2024

On the iOS 18 page on their website, Apple has linked to a document titled “New features available in iOS 18.” This document provides an in-depth look at all the categories of new features in iOS 18, grouped by “Apple Intelligence,” “Key Features,” and “Even More.”

When I come across detailed guides like this, I like to import all of the information into Craft, then use its grouping and backlinking features to create a more-digestible version with a complete table of contents – something I’ve done for the Shortcuts developer sessions and the latest WWDC keynote, for example.

With this iOS 18 guide, I’ve imported and grouped all the new features into a single doc in Craft for my own personal use, which I’ve also made available for members of my website to browse and peruse.

However, I wanted to share the full outline of iOS 18 features here as a public reference – plus you can still find all the details for each feature in Apple’s PDF.

Here’s that full list:

What’s new in iOS 18

Apple Intelligence

Writing Tools
1. Rewrite
2. Style
3. Proofread
4. Summarize
5. Describe
6. Compose
Image Playground
1. Image Playground app
2. Create Images with Concepts
3. Create Images with People You Know
4. Create Images with Characters
5. Create Images with Photos
6. Create Images with Text
7. Suggested Concepts
8. Quick Previews
9. Preview history
10. Image Playground library
11. Animation style
12. Illustration style
13. Sketch style
14. Messages experience
15. Deep integrations
Siri
1. Personal context understanding
2. In-app actions
3. Onscreen awareness
4. More resilient request handling
5. Maintains conversational context
6. Product knowledge
7. Glowing edge light
8. Type to Siri
9. Predictive text in Siri keyboard
10. Suggestions in Siri keyboard
11. More natural voice
12. More visually rich responses
13. ChatGPT integration
Focus
1. Reduce interruptions
2. Intelligent Breakthrough & Silencing
Genmoji
1. Genmoji
Mail
1. Mail Priority messages
2. Preview summaries
3. Thread summaries
4. Smart Reply
Messages
1. Smart Reply
2. Summaries
Notes
1. Transcription summaries
2. Image Wand
Notifications
1. Priority notifications
2. Notification summaries
3. Announce Notifications support
Phone
1. Call summaries
Photos
1. Natural language photo and video search
2. Create your own Memories
3. Clean Up tool

Key Features

Customization
1. More flexible placement
2. Unique page layouts
3. Dark icons
4. Tinted icons
5. Larger icons
Control Center
1. Redesigned Control Center
2. Groups of controls
3. Controls gallery
4. Controls on your Lock Screen
5. Controls with the Action button
Photos
1. Biggest-ever design update
2. Collections
3. Recent Days
4. Groups in People & Pets
5. Trips
6. Wallpaper suggestions
7. Collection view options
8. Pinned Collections
9. Hide screenshots from your library
10. Months and Years highlights
11. Expanded content types in Utilities
12. Customize the Photos app
13. Clean Up tool*
14. Edit albums in folders
15. Album attribution
16. Edit in light or dark mode
17. Smart copy and paste edits
18. Video speed control
19. Creative stories
20. Smart suggestions
Messages
1. Text effects
2. Text formatting
3. Messages via satellite
4. iMessage over satellite
5. SMS over satellite
6. Satellite connection in Dynamic Island
7. Emoji and sticker Tapbacks
8. Send Later
9. RCS (Rich Communication Services)
10. Low Quality Image Mode improvements
11. High-quality Images
Mail
1. Transactions category
2. Updates category
3. Promotions category
4. Time sensitive
5. Grouped by sender
6. Quick action
7. Recategorization
Safari
1. Highlights
2. Location highlights
3. Summary highlights
4. Music highlights
5. Movie and TV show highlights
6. Person highlights
7. Redesigned Reader
8. Distraction Control
Passwords
1. Passwords app
2. Passwords and passkeys
3. Sign in with Apple
4. Wi-Fi passwords
5. Verifications codes
6. Sorting
7. Syncing
8. End-to-end encryption
9. Windows support
Maps
1. Hiking and walking
2. Hikes
3. Turn-by-turn navigation
4. Create and save walking and hiking routes
5. Topographic maps
6. Discover and save places
Gaming
1. Game Mode
Wallet
1. Event tickets
2. Pay with installments
3. Pay with Rewards
4. Apple Pay on Chrome and Windows PC
5. Tap to Cash
6. Tap to provision
AirPods
1. Siri Interactions
2. Voice Isolation
3. Personalized Spatial Audio for gaming
4. Reduced gaming audio latency
5. In-game voice quality
Notes
1. Audio recording
2. Live transcription
3. Phone call transcription
4. Math in Notes
5. Access Math Notes from Calculator
6. Collapsible sections
7. Highlighting
8. PDF inline search
Journal
1. State of Mind integration
2. Log mindful minutes
3. Insights view
4. Streaks
5. Calendar
6. Stats
7. Search and sort
8. Export and print
9. Widgets
10. Quick Actions
11. Audio transcription
12. More formatting options
13. Shortcuts
Apple TV
1. InSight
2. Enhance dialogue
3. More dynamic subtitles
Home
1. Hands-free unlock with home keys
2. Guest access
3. Pair Matter accessories without a hub
4. Control robot vacuum cleaners in the Home app
5. Electricity usage and rates
Privacy & Security
1. Improved Contacts preferences
2. Redesigned Privacy & Security settings
3. Accessory Setup Kit
4. Blocking sensitive content for children

Even More

Accessibility
1. Eye Tracking
2. Music Haptics
3. Vocal Shortcuts
4. Vehicle motion cues
AirPlay
1. Spatial Audio
Apple Account
1. Share Sign in with Apple credentials
Calculator
1. Math Notes
2. Typed math
3. Variables
4. Graphing
5. Adjust numbers
6. Works with Notes
7. Math Results
8. History
9. Editable expressions
10. Portrait scientific calculator
11. Unit conversions
Calendar
1. View reminders in Calendar
2. Edit reminders in Calendar
3. Create reminders in Calendar
4. Updated Month view
5. Refreshed look
Camera
1. 5-second timer
2. Continue playing music when taking a photo
3. Adjust flash settings via touch and hold
4. Next-gen Portraits enhancements
CarPlay
1. Spatial Audio
2. Accessibility
Continuity
1. Continuity Camera with Apple TV 4K
Family Sharing
1. Family Sharing invitations
2. Recommended for your family
Files
1. Desktop and documents in the Cloud setup
2. Keep downloaded
3. Expanded external drive file formats
4. Erasing an external drive
Fitness+
1. For You in Summary
2. For You
3. Explore
4. Library
5. Search
6. Awards
Freeform
1. Scenes
2. Send a copy
3. Snap to Grid
4. Handwriting recognition
5. Improved diagramming
6. Math Results
iCloud
1. Settings redesign
iCloud Mail
1. iCloud Mail cleanup
2. Manage old email
3. Unsubscribe and delete
Keyboard
1. Keyboard Unified picker
2. Inline stickers and Memoji
3. Searchable stickers
4. Multilingual keyboard
5. Language detection
Locked and Hidden Apps
1. Locked apps
2. Hidden apps
3. Hidden apps folder
4. Seamless authentication
Move to iOS
1. Faster migration
2. Cabled migration
3. Improved Wi-Fi migration
4. Tips during migration
5. Dual SIM labels
6. Voice memo migration
Music
1. SharePlay on more devices
Phone
1. Call recordings
2. Call transcripts
3. Call history search
4. Keypad search
5. Live caller ID lookup
6. Live Voicemail
7. Dual SIM in Control Center
8. Automatic Mic Mode
Podcasts
1. Chapter scrubbing
2. Better playback control
3. Share from transcripts
4. Search suggestions as you type
Reminders
1. Calendar integration
2. Recently deleted list
3. Subtasks in Smart Lists
4. Multi-language grocery lists
SharePlay
1. Ask to share
2. Draw to highlight
3. Remote control
4. iPhone to iPhone, iPad to iPad
5. Privacy friendly
6. SharePlay on more devices
Tips
1. Tips sharing
Weather
1. Easier-to-find Feels Like temperature
2. Home and work locations
3. Prominent wind gusts and direction

261 Features Coming to iOS 18

Plus, for fun, I removed all the categories and groups to create a single-file list of all the features – assuming I didn’t miss anything, there’s 261 features coming to iOS 18 (according to the list Apple provided):