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Apple Intelligence
Writing Tools
Rewrite
Create multiple versions of your text that
maintain your tone. Easily swap in an
option you prefer and continue writing or
refining, or go right back to your original.
Style
Rewrite your text in a new style, such as
“professional,” “concise,” or “friendly.”
Proofread
View suggested improvements to what
you’re writing, like grammar fixes and
language refinements. Quickly accept
allsuggestions with a tap or view the
explanations to better understand the
changes and accept the ones you want.
Summarize
Select text wherever you’re writing and
generate a high-quality summary.
Summarize content of all kinds like
documents, articles, or communications
to quickly understand the important
points.
Describe
The text field in Writing Tools lets you
describe a more specific change you want
to make to your text. Make it read like a
poem, simplify the vocabulary, or even
turnit into a formal letter.
Compose
Ask ChatGPT to create original content
from scratch. You can also use ChatGPT’s
image generation capabilities to add
images alongside your written content.
Image Playground
Image Playground app
Have fun and experiment with all the
features of Image Playground in a new
app. You can easily create new images,
access all the images you’ve previously
created, remix previous images, and share
your creations with friends and family
using your favorite social and
communication apps.
Create Images with Concepts
Choose from a range of concepts to
addthem to your playground from
categories like themes, costumes,
accessories, and places.
Create Images with People You Know
Create an image of your friend on the
moon or a family member on a surfboard
with Image Playground thanks to Apple
Intelligence’s understanding of people in
your photo library.
Create Images with Characters
Easily define a character to add to your
images in Image Playground by choosing
their gender and skin tone, and by
providing a short description.
Create Images with Photos
Create images inspired by a photo by
taking one, selecting one from your
photolibrary, or dragging one into
ImagePlayground.
Create Images with Text
When you want to create a more
specificimage, you can add descriptions
to your playground to shape the images
you create.
Create Images with Drawings
Use Apple Pencil and Image Wand to
select drawings, images, and text in
Notesand open up Image Playground
to create an image.
Suggested Concepts
Image Playground offers intelligent
suggestions to add to your image that are
related to previous concepts you selected,
the context of a messages thread in
Messages, or your notes in theNotes app.
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Quick Previews
Quickly see a selection of previews as
youadd concepts, and choose the one
youlike to create it with more detail and
ata higher resolution and save it to your
Image Playground library.
Preview history
Freely experiment with different concepts
without worrying about losing any previous
previews you liked. When you remove a
concept you previously added, Image
Playground remembers what previews
were created before you added it and can
quickly bring them back for you.
Image Playground library
When you create an image, it’s saved to
your Image Playground library and synced
across your devices with iCloud. You can
access your library from Messages to
easily share your creations, and you can
revisit and remix your images in Image
Playground as well.
Animation style
Create fantastical creatures, expressive
animals, exaggerated human figures, and
more all against immersive and detailed
environments with rich textures using a
modern, 3D-animated style.
Illustration style
Create uplifting and playful compositions
with stylized and exaggerated characters
against minimal backgrounds using a
contemporary illustration style defined by
simple shapes, clean lines, and flat color
blocking with a diverse color palette.
Sketch style
Produce delightful drawings perfect for
Notes using an academic and highly
detailed sketch style with vibrant colors
and a technical line style.
Messages experience
Create a fun image to share with friends
using the new experience in Messages.
When you first open Image Playground in
Messages, it will suggest concepts related
to your most recent conversation. You can
also create a new image from scratch, or
just select one of your previously created
images from your Image Playground
library.
Deep integrations
Create images in Notes, Pages, Numbers,
Keynote, and Freeform to elevate your
documents, spreadsheets, presentations,
or boards with delightful images.
Siri
Personal context understanding
With the on-device semantic index
provided by Apple Intelligence, Siri can
understand emails, messages, photos,
calendar events, files, and more, and can
provide answers to questions that are
personal to you. For example, when you
say “What was that movie that Jamie told
me I should check out?” Siri will dig up
themessage from last week. And when
you’re filling out a form and say “Add my
passport number here,” Siri can extract
thenumber from a saved photo of your
passport and drop it in.
In-app actions
Siri can take hundreds of new actions on
your behalf, in both first- and third-party
apps. The next time you’re editing photos,
you’ll be able to say “Make this photo
warmer,” and Siri will make adjustments
using the Photos app. Siri can take actions
across apps too, so after you’re done
editing that photo, say “Addthis to my
ratatouille recipe note” andSiriwill jump
from the Photos app to the Notesapp to
take care of it.
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Onscreen awareness
Siri will be able to understand and take
action with things on your screen, so when
a friend texts you recommending a new
coffee shop in the neighborhood, you can
simply say “How long would it take me
towalk there from home?” and Siri will
understand just what you mean.
More resilient request handling
If you stumble over your words or change
your mind mid-sentence, Siri will still
follow along. For example, you might say
“Siri, set an alarm—wait no, sorry, I meant
atimer for 10 minutes—actually, let’s
make that 15.”
Maintains conversational context
Siri remembers what you talked about
inrecent requests, so if you ask when
theWarriors are playing next and then say
“Add that to my calendar,” Siri will know
just what you mean.
Product knowledge
Siri can answer thousands of questions
about the features and settings on your
Apple products by drawing on large
language models that are trained on
Applesupport documentation.
Glowing edge light
You’ll now see an elegant glowing light
that wraps around your screen when
youspeak to Siri. The new edge light
responsively animates with the sound of
your voice and makes it possible to keep
scrolling, typing, or otherwise navigating
your device while you talk to Siri.
Type to Siri
You now have the option to type to Siri
atany time, and you can ask Siri all the
same things by text as you can ask by
voice. Youcan switch fluidly between text
andvoice, so you can communicate in
whatever way feels right for the moment.
ChatGPT integration
Siri can tap into ChatGPT to help you with
certain requests when it determines
ChatGPT can provide a helpful answer.
You can also ask questions about photos
and documents including PDFs and
presentations. You will be asked before
requests or information are sent to
ChatGPT. Siri then presents you the
answer directly.
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Focus
Reduce interruptions
This new Focus understands the
contentof your notifications and
selectively surfaces only the ones that
might need immediate attention, like a
text about today’s daycare pickup or a
last-minute invite to dinner tonight.
Intelligent Breakthrough & Silencing
Your device will determine if a notification
is important enough to break through with
the Intelligent Breakthrough & Silencing
option. It can be turned on for any Focus
mode, so you don’t miss your food delivery
when you’re in Do Not Disturb.
Genmoji
Genmoji
Generate unique, emoji-style stickers
rightfrom the keyboard. In the sticker
creator, just type what you want to create,
like “dog on a surfboard,” and see your
creation appear in seconds.
Mail
Priority messages
Know what to prioritize as soon as you
open Mail with priority messages at the
top of your inbox that are based on what’s
most urgent.
Preview summaries
Know the key information before you even
open the thread with brief summaries that
appear in the email preview instead of the
first few lines of that email.
Thread summaries
When you open an email thread, tap to see
a detailed summary that helps you get the
gist of a lengthy email or several emails in
the same thread.
Smart Reply
Based on the content of the email you
received, Mail will show you smart options
to quickly choose from that add detail to
the reply, like answering specific questions
you were asked. When you make your
selections, your Smart Reply incorporates
your choices into the generated draft so
it’s ready to send.
Messages
Smart Reply
Quickly respond to messages with
generated options that appear right in the
prediction bar when you tap the text field
to respond. Messages will understand the
content of the conversation and offer
options that are relevant to the context.
Summaries
Previews of messages in your
conversation list will show brief summaries
instead of the beginning of your most
recent messages, so at a glance you
knowthe key information before you
evenopen the chat.
Notes
Transcription summaries
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Get an intelligently created summary of
key points from your audio recording, so
you can review what happened without
going through the entire transcript.
Image Wand
Select Image Wand from your tool palette
to select a drawing and create an image
from it. You can modify what you create by
adding text or drawing on top of the
original image. You can even circle blank
space in your note to have Image Wand
create an image from nearby text.
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Notifications
Priority notifications
Immediately see the things that may
require your attention, like a work message
about a deliverable due that day, with
priority notifications that are based on
what’s most urgent and appear at the top
of your notifications.
Notification summaries
Multiple notifications from a single app
aregrouped in a stack with a glanceable
summary on top that lets you know
themost important information. For
manycommunication apps like Mail
andMessages, the content of your
notifications will be summarized so you
can get all the key information without
tapping the notification to open theapp.
Announce Notifications support
Announce Notifications can read aloud
your notification summaries when
usingAirPods.
Photos
Natural language photo and
videosearch
Search supports natural language queries
and expanded understanding, so you can
search for just what you mean, like “fluffy
white dog on a green couch.” You can also
search for an action that happened within
a video, and Photos will take you to the
correct segment.
Create your own Memories
Create a memory about the specific
storyyou want to see, just by typing a
description. Photos writes a storyline,
complete with unique chapters, and
selects a great set of photos and videos
tocreate your movie, complete with a
perfectly paired song.
Clean Up tool
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Remove distracting elements from your
photos with the Clean Up tool for those
times when an unwanted object spoiled
the moment.
Apple Intelligence will be available in beta on iPad with M1 and later, with Siri and device language set to U.S. English.
It is coming to iPadOS 18 as a free software update this fall. Some features, additional languages,
and platforms will be coming over the course of the next year.
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Key features and
enhancements
Notes
Handwriting refinement
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Write quickly without sacrificing the
legibility of your handwritten text. As you
write withApple Pencil, your handwriting
will beautomatically refined in real time to
besmoother, straighter, and more legible.
Notes uses an on-device model to
re-create your writing style, all while
maintaining the look and feel of your
ownpersonal handwriting style.
Spell-check for handwritten words
4,5
The same spell checker you use with
typed text works with handwritten text as
well. Just tap an underlined word and
choose how you want to correct it—the
fix will appear in your own writing style.
Handwriting reflow
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Handwritten text is now as easy to adjust
as typed text. You can paste in the middle
of a paragraph, add some space, or
scratch out a sentence, and your written
text will automatically reflow to fit your
content.
Paste as handwriting
4,5
Copy text from a web page, document,
or email, and paste it in your own
handwriting. You can even paste it in the
middle of a paragraph just like you would
with typed text, and all your handwritten
notes will reflow to fit.
Audio recording
Record audio sessions right from
yournote, and keep them with related
comments, checklists, and documents.
You can even edit your note while
recording, so you’re always able to
jotdown something important.
Live transcription
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Get a live transcription of audio in a
conversation or lecture from your
recordings. Transcript text stays in sync
with your audio, so it’s quick to scrub
through a transcript to find just the
moment you’re looking for in a recording.
Transcripts are also searchable, so you
canalways find what you need.
Math in Notes
Type or write out expressions in your
noteto have them solve instantly.
Youalsohave all of the functionality
ofMath Notes in any note, including
variables, graphs, and more.
Access Math Notes from Calculator
Work on the Math Notes you created in
Calculator when you’re in Notes—they
automatically sync to your Math Notes
folder.
Collapsible sections
Clean up extra-long notes by hiding text
under new collapsible section headers.
Highlighting
Make text in your note standout using
highlighting with five different color
options.
PDF inline search
Find words in PDFs and document scans
with an improved search experience that
takes you to what you’re looking for within
the document.
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Calculator
Calculator app on iPad
Designed for the unique capabilities
ofiPad, the Calculator app delivers an
entirely new way to use Apple Pencil or
akeyboard to solve expressions.
Math Notes
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With a new Math Notes calculator, you can
evaluate expressions, assign variables, and
even create graphs by simply writing or
typing out math.
Written math
Write out a basic or scientific expression
using Apple Pencil just like you would
onapiece of paper, and Math Notes will
instantly solve your expressions inline
when you write an equals sign.
Vertical written math
Write out a list of numbers vertically, then
draw a line underneath them to add them
up. Add operators like a plus, negative,
multiplication, or division symbol next to
your numbers to have them calculated
from top to bottom.
Personalized handwritten results
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As you write in Notes and Math Notes,
iPad learns your handwriting style. So
when you write out math with Apple Pencil,
you’ll see results after the equals sign that
appear in handwriting like your own.
Typed math
Type out mathematical expressions in
Math Notes, and see them instantly solved
right inline.
Variables
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Easily assign values to variables and then
use those variables in expressions you
solve. For example, you can assign “x=10”
and then type or write “x + 20 =“ to get
ananswer.
Graphing
Write or type out an equation, and with a
tap you can insert a graph. Zoom in or out,
or pan around the graph, and resize it to
get it just right. You can even add multiple
equations on the same graph to see how
they relate to one another.
Adjust numbers
Quickly adjust any number you write or
type in Math Notes by tapping it and
swiping your finger across the slider to
increase or decrease it. You’ll see the
number and related equations and
graphsupdate in real time.
Works with Notes
Access all of your Math Notes in the
Notesapp, and even solve math in any
ofyour other notes.
Math Results
Type out a mathematical expression in
apps like Messages and Mail, and you’ll
see Math Results as suggestions so you
can easily add them in.
Basic and scientific calculators
Use the basic or scientific calculators you
know on iPad, optimized for iPad’s large
display and powerful multitasking.
Editable expressions
Enter an expression in the basic and
scientific calculators, and you’ll see the
fullexpression before you solve it. You
canalso easily delete characters with
thebackspace button.
History
Keep track of previous calculations in
thebasic and scientific calculators,
copytheir results to use in other apps,
andtap results to go back to working
onthem.
Unit conversions
Convert length, weight, currencies, and
more while using the basic and scientific
calculators, or convert typed or written
units using Math Notes.
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Customization
More flexible placement
Place app icons and widgets in any open
position on the Home Screen to create
theideal layout. Arrange them along the
bottom, right above the dock, for quicker
reach. Or off to the side, so that your
favorite wallpaper can shine through.
Unique page layouts
With the option to place app icons and
widgets wherever you’d like, you can
organize each Home Screen page with
unique layouts that are most helpful
foryou.
Dark icons
Customize app icons and widgets to
automatically adjust to a new darker
aesthetic when your phone enters Dark
Mode, or set them to always appear dark.
They make your Home Screen look even
more sleek.
Tinted icons
Give app icons your own personal touch
with color. With the new customization
sheet, tint the app icons and widgets on
your Home Screen with the color of your
choice. iPadOS will even suggest a color to
help you get started. Match your
wallpaper, set a mood, or go for that
minimalist monochromatic look.
Larger icons
Make all the app icons on your screen
appear even larger, removing the name
underneath, for a new streamlined look.
Controls
Redesigned Control Center
Control Center is redesigned with
convenient groups of controls, the ability
to arrange controls just the way you
want,and support for new controls from
third-party apps.
Groups of controls
Get quick access to new groups of your
most used controls, including Home
controls, Media Playback, and
Connectivity. Enter Control Center by
swiping from the top-right corner of the
Home Screen, and jump quickly right to
the group you want by continuing to swipe
down further.
Controls gallery
The new Controls gallery displays the full
set of available controls, including new
controls from third-party apps, that you
can drop right into the group you choose,
or build out entirely new groups too.
Controls for third-party apps
Add controls from third-party apps into
Control Center. Quickly unlock your
vehicle or jump right into capturing
content for social media—all from
oneplace.
Photos
Biggest-ever design update
The new Photos design is gorgeous, easy
to use, and customizable. A simplified,
unified app layout puts everything you
need in a single view, with the familiar
photo grid at the top and automatically
organized collections below.
Collections
Your library is automatically organized into
helpful new collections of photos so you
can browse and find content in your library
by themes—without having to organize
your entire library into albums.
Recent Days
View your recent events and activities
without the clutter, so you can easily show
a friend the photos from last Sunday’s epic
ride—and share the photos with a tap.
Groups in People & Pets
People & Pets now includes groups of
yourfavorite people, like you with your
partner, you and your pet, or you with
yourbest friends.
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Photos
Trips
Trips organizes your adventures in one
place, so you can relive your travels.
Quickly jump to a specific year to see
yourtrips from that year.
Wallpaper suggestions
Find your next perfect wallpaper, complete
with style suggestions.
Collection view options
There are multiple options to view and
enjoy each group of photos—in a beautiful
editorial view, in a grid, as a memory, or
ona map.
Pinned Collections
Keep your frequently accessed content
types right at your fingertips, like Favorites,
Recently Saved, Places, Videos, your
favorite custom albums, screenshots,
Recently Edited photos, or your pet or
agroup of people.
Hide screenshots from your library
A new button in the grid helps you reduce
clutter by filtering to specific media types,
your favorites, or by hiding screenshots
from the view.
Months and Years highlights
From Grid view, tap Months to see
highlighted events, or Years to see a
highlight from each month in your library,
so you can quickly jump back in time.
Expanded content types in Utilities
Utilities includes new content types
likedocuments, receipts, handwriting,
illustrations, and QR codes, and content
you’ve recently accessed like Recently
Added, Viewed, Edited, and Shared.
Customize the Photos app
Personalize the Photos app just how
youlike it by customizing the order
ofCollections, and choose Pinned
Collections to keep at your fingertips.
Clean Up tool*
Remove distracting elements from your
photos with the Clean Up tool for those
times when an unwanted object spoiled
the moment.
Edit albums in folders
Add or remove existing albums in folders.
Album attribution
View which custom albums a photo
hasbeen added to in the Info pane.
Edit in light or dark mode
Choose to edit your photos with a dark or
light background, or default to the system
appearance.
Smart copy and paste edits
Edit similar images quickly by choosing
whether to include the crop aspect ratio,
and match exposure and white balance
across photos when copying and
pastingedits.
Video speed control
Adjust the playback speed of high frame
rate video for cinematic and dramatic
slowed-down effects.
Creative stories
Photos creates a montage with
uniquechapters for you, in addition to
chronological stories. It picks out the best
photos and videos and arranges them into
chapters that match the story arc. Lastly,
iteven picks out a great title and song
tomatch.
Smart suggestions
Don’t worry about writer’s block—you can
start with a suggestion provided by Photos
based on recent events, trips, and people
that you’ve photographed.
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Messages
Tex t ef fe c ts
Add dynamic, animated effects like
Explode or Ripple to any letter, word,
or phrase in iMessage to bring your
conversations to life.
Tex t fo r ma tt in g
Add text formatting like bold, underline,
italics, and strikethrough to any letter,
word, or phrase in iMessage to better
express your tone.
Emoji and sticker Tapbacks
Tapback with any emoji or sticker, giving
you infinite ways to react to a message.
Multiple Tapbacks on a single bubble
arespread out to let you better view the
three most recently added.
Send Later
Compose a message now and schedule it
to send later for the times when it’s late
and you don’t want a message to send
until the morning, or when you don’t
wantto forget to celebrate an important
birthday or other milestone.
Low Quality Image Mode improvements
Send images in Messages as their original
size or compressed with minimal quality
loss while in Low Quality Image Mode.
High-quality Images
Send most images up to 100MB at full
resolution over iMessage, depending on
device and network conditions.
Gaming
Game Mode
Provides a more immersive gaming
experience by improving the
responsiveness with wireless accessories
and minimizing background activity to
sustain the highest frame rates.
Safari
Highlights
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Discover helpful information about a web
page like a summary, a location, aperson,
music, movies, and TV shows.
Location highlights
11
Check the location and get directions
andphone number to a restaurant, hotel,
or landmark from a location highlight.
Summary highlights
Review a summary of an article before
reading on with a summary highlight.
Music highlights
Listen to an artist’s song or album in
yourfavorite streaming app from a
musichighlight.
Movie or TV show highlights
Check out a movie or TV show from
amovie or TV show highlight.
Person highlights
Learn more about someone featured on
aweb page from a person highlight.
Redesigned Reader
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Reader offers even more ways to enjoy
articles with a streamlined view of the
article you’re reading, a summary, and
atable of contents for longer articles.
Distraction Control
Hide items on a web page that you find
distracting. You can easily revert the
changes later if you change your mind.
Passwords
Passwords app
See all your passwords, passkeys,
verification codes, Wi-Fi passwords,
andSign in with Apple credentials for
websites and apps in one place.
Passwords and passkeys
Easily save your passwords and passkeys
and autofill them into websites and apps,
either by saving them during account
creation or manually adding them later.
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Sign in with Apple
See what apps and websites you’ve
usedSign in with Apple or Hide My Email
to sign in. You can also now add Sign in
with Apple credentials to shared
passwordgroups.
Wi-Fi passwords
Access Wi-Fi passwords you’ve saved
soyou can easily refer to them or share
with others.
Verifications codes
Set up two-factor verification codes right
in Passwords and easily copy them or
autofill into Safari without even opening
the app.
Sorting
Sort accounts alphabetically, or by
recently created, to quickly find accounts
you’re looking for.
Syncing
Your accounts saved in Passwords sync
seamlessly with iCloud so you can access
them on your other Apple devices.
End-to-end encryption
iCloud syncing is backed by incredibly
secure end-to-end encryption.
Windows support
Access your passwords on Windows in
theiCloud Passwords app.
SharePlay
Ask to share
Ask someone to share their screen with
you right from Messages or while in a
FaceTime call, making it easier to provide
help when needed.
Draw to highlight
Tap and draw directly on the screen
beingshared with you, helping your
friends and family take the right actions
ontheir own screen.
Remote control
Ask for permission to remotely control
their device and take the actions yourself if
you need to assist someone more directly.
Privacy friendly
Screen share with peace of mind. Only a
known contact can request to control your
screen. Your actions on your device will
always take preference over remote ones.
iPhone to iPhone, iPad to iPad
Remote control works between iPhone
andiPhone, or between iPad and iPad.
SharePlay on more devices
Now it’s easier for everyone to control
themusic together, whether you’re
listening on HomePod, Apple TV, or a
Bluetooth speaker.
Freeform
Scenes
Create scenes to organize sections
ofaboard by topic or to make it easy
topresent your content by moving
aroundquickly.
Send a copy
Share your ideas with as many people as
you want by sending a copy with a link
thatanyone can use to open the board on
their device.
Snap to grid
Handwritten text on your board can be
searched, translated, and copied as text.
Handwriting recognition
Handwritten text on your board can be
searched, translated, and copied as text.
Improved diagramming
Join objects together with magnetic
connection lines that can be anchored
anywhere, making it easier to create
diagrams and relate your ideas.
Math Results
Write out a basic or scientific expression
with an equals sign and you’ll see results
inserted or suggested inline on your board.
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Apps on iPad
Redesigned tab bar
Stay focused on your app’s content and
easily switch between your favorite tabs
with the updated tab bar. When you need
to explore more of your app, the tab bar
elegantly morphs into a new sidebar
withmore.
Customizable tab bars
Put your favorite tabs within easy reach by
customizing the order and contents of the
updated tab bar.
Refined animations
Enjoy refined animations that make your
apps feel even more fluid and responsive
as you open and close sidebars,
documents, photos, and more.
Updated document browser
Access your documents in apps like
Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and Swift
Playgrounds with a new document
browser that gives each of your apps a
distinct look and feel.
AirPods
Siri Interactions
Respond to Siri announcements with
AirPods by simply nodding your head yes
or shaking your head no.
Voice Isolation
For the best call quality with AirPods,
Voice Isolation enables you to take calls
anywhere, even in windy conditions or
places with loud background noise.
Personalized Spatial Audio for gaming
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Puts you in the middle of the action like
never before with a new API that makes
iteasy for developers to deliver the most
immersive audio experience with AirPods.
Reduced gaming audio latency
13
To make sure you get the edge over the
competition, AirPods Pro now deliver
wireless audio latency approaching the
nearly imperceptible latency of the built-in
iPhone speaker, which is so important for
fast-paced gaming where every
millisecond counts.
In-game voice quality
13
For high-quality in-game audio, quality
isnow leveled up to 16 bits, 48 kHz,
whilestreaming or chatting with friends
whilegaming.
Privacy & Security
Improved Contacts preferences
Empowers you to choose what contacts
toshare with an app, and you can add
more over time.
Redesigned Privacy & Security settings
More easily manage how much information
you are sharing with apps. Each data type
now shows how many apps are accessing
that data, making it easier for you to
findwhere you are sharing the most
information with apps. Settings will now
note the level of access that apps have
toPhotos, Calendar, and Contacts.
Accessory Setup Kit
Developers can now seamlessly pair
accessories without accessing
informationabout nearby Bluetooth
devices or devices on your network.
Blocking sensitive content for children
Communication Safety will require a
Screen Time password for children to
viewor send sensitive content.
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Even more
Accessibility
Eye Tracking
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Navigate the entire iPad experience with
just your eyes, including Dwell Control to
tap. And it works with all your favorite
apps, no additional hardware required.
Vocal Shortcuts
Create custom utterances to activate
shortcuts and complete tasks on iPad like
setting a timer or taking a screenshot.
Vehicle motion cues
New experience for iPad that can help
reduce motion sickness for passengers in
moving vehicles. Dots appear on your iPad
screen and use built-in sensors to move
with the vehicle to reduce sensory conflict,
without interfering with your content.
AirPlay
Spatial Audio
15
Experience the sense of being surrounded
in music, including support for Dolby
Atmos, when using AirPlay to stream from
iPad to HomePod and select third-party,
AirPlay-compatible audio equipment.
Apple Account
Share Sign in with Apple credentials
Share access to your Sign in with Apple
credentials with trusted friends and family
members in the new Passwords app. This
makes it easy to share the credentials just
once, similar to setting up a shared family
passwords list.
Apple TV app
InSight
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See real-time actor and music information
that complements the action onscreen,
while enjoying Apple TV+ movies and
shows. Select an actor to learn more about
them or easily add a song to an Apple
Music playlist.
Enhance dialogue
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Hear what’s being said onscreen more
clearly, especially during scenes with
music and loud effects.
More dynamic subtitles
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Subtitles will automatically appear at just
the right times, like when the content
language doesn’t match your device
language, when you mute the audio, or
when you skip back while watching a
program.
New features available with iPadOS 18
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Calendar
View reminders in Calendar
Stay organized and view all your
scheduled reminders from the Reminders
app right in Calendar along with all your
other events.
Edit reminders in Calendar
Mark reminders as complete from
Calendar as you move through your
day,move them to schedule them for
a different date or time, or even edit
all theirdetails.
Create reminders in Calendar
Create scheduled reminders right from
Calendar just like you would create an
event. This makes it easy to separate
events from tasks and keep your tasks
synced to the Reminders app.
Refreshed look
Updates to typography and consistent
event details across Day, Week, and Month
views make your events easier to read.
Camera
5-second timer
Choose to use a 5-second timer in
Camera in addition to 3- and 10-second
timers.
Continue playing music when taking
aphoto
Music will continue to play via Bluetooth
connections when capturing a photo
orvideo.
FaceTime
Eye Contact
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FaceTime on iPad feels more natural by
helping you establish eye contact, even
when you’re looking at the screen instead
of the camera.
Family Sharing
Family Sharing invitations
Now it’s even easier to accept an invitation
to join a Family Sharing group. As soon as
you’re invited, the invitation will appear at
the top of Settings. Plus, family organizers
can immediately see who’s accepted and
easily send a reminder or follow-up to
those who haven’t.
Recommended for your family
Quickly and easily set up new items for
your family like a shared calendar, grocery
list, and passwords list. Once created,
everyone in the family can contribute to
the shared items, making it easy to keep
the entire family in the loop.
Files
Desktop and documents in the
Cloudsetup
When you set up a third-party cloud
account on your device, you will be
invitedto sync desktop and documents
tothe cloud. This can also be set up later
in Settings.
Keep downloaded
Choose the iCloud files you always want
access to on your device, and changes
youmake to your file while offline will sync
withiCloud whenever you are back online.
Expanded external drive file formats
Touch and hold to format external drives
toAPFS, exFAT, or MS-DOS (Fat32) file
formats on iPad USB-C.
Erasing an external drive
Erase a mounted external drive in Files
bylong pressing on the drive and
tapping“Erase.”
New features available with iPadOS 18
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Fitness+
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For You
The new For You space is personalized
with helpful suggestions for just the
activities that you like to do.
Explore
See everything Fitness+ has to offer in
thenew Explore space. Designed for
easynavigation and maximum discovery,
Explore shows you the full breadth of
activities in Fitness+ and highlights
newofferings.
Library
Your library has everything you’ve saved
and downloaded in Fitness+, and now it’s
one-tap easy to access.
Search
Enter an activity, trainer, duration, or
typeof music, and search returns
matching results.
Awards
You can now see your Fitness+ awards
oniPad, so it’s easier to stay motivated
nomatter what device you use to work
outor meditate.
Home
Guest access
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Provide time-based access to locks,
garage doors, and alarm systems for up
to29 guests in the Home app. Guest
activity will be logged into Activity History,
displaying up to 30 days of activity
including time, the accessory used, and
the name of the person, if applicable.
Pair Matter accessories without a hub
22
Add and locally control Wi-Fi–based
Matter accessories to the Home app
without needing a home hub. Thread-
based accessory management is available
with iPad Pro with M4 chip and iPad Air
with M2chip.
Control robot vacuum cleaners in the
Home app*
Robot vacuum cleaners can participate
inautomations and scenes and listen for
Sirirequests, just like other accessories
inyour home. Matter-compatible robot
vacuum cleaners can be added and
controlled in the Home app.
Electricity usage and rates
23
Easily access and understand your home
electricity information right from the Home
app. Eligible Pacific Gas and Electric
Company customers can connect their
utility account to the Home app to view
their electricity usage and rate plan
information.
iCloud
Settings redesign
iCloud settings have been redesigned to
make it easy to see how iCloud keeps
content from across your device backed
up and synced. Quickly see if your device
backup is up to date, enable premium
features, customize your experience, and
take action on personalized
recommendations.
New features available with iPadOS 18
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Keyboard
Unified picker
The emoji keyboard and sticker drawer
arecombined into a unified picker, making
it even easier to find just what you’re
looking for.
Inline stickers and Memoji
Stickers and Memoji can be inserted inline
with text, just like emoji.
Searchable stickers
In addition to emoji, stickers are also now
searchable in the unified picker.
Dictation actions
While dictating, you can make a variety
ofedits to your text using just your voice.
Forexample, say “change Saturday to
Sunday,” “delete ‘next Saturday’,” or just
“undo,” Dictation will intelligently make
those edits for you.
Multilingual keyboard
Seamlessly switch between two
languages in a single keyboard for a
bilingual predictive typing experience.
Multilingual predictive typing also
supports QuickPath.
Language detection
The multilingual keyboard recognizes the
language you were last using in messages
and switches automatically, so if you were
messaging a friend in Spanish and your
family in French you can pick up right
where you left off.
Alphabetical Indian keyboard layouts
New layouts provide everything you need
to type a language in one view with no
need to switch views while typing. Keys
are arranged in familiar alphabetical order
and the characters on the keyboard
change as you type to display the correct
combination of consonants and vowels,
making typing faster and easier. Available
in Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada,
Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil,
Telugu, and Urdu.
Locked and Hidden
Apps
Locked apps
Touch and hold an app to lock it,
protecting its contents from being
accessed by others.In addition, the
contents of the app are not surfaced
outside the locked app, such as in search
or notifications.
Seamless authentication
Seamlessly open any app you’ve locked
with Face ID, Touch ID, or a passcode.
Hidden apps
For additional privacy, you can also hide a
locked app. In addition to the protections
of locking, the app icon and name won’t
show up on the Home Screen or when you
search. And you won’t receive notifications
from the app on the Lock Screen or
HomeScreen, so the app won’t be
inadvertently revealed to others who
cansee your screen.
Hidden apps folder
When you choose to hide an app, it is
moved to a locked hidden apps folder
thatrequires Face ID, Touch ID, or a
passcode to open.
New features available with iPadOS 18
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Maps
Hiking and walking
Maps brings all-new topographic maps,
hikes, and route creation to make it easy
for you to adventure using Maps.
To po gr ap hi c ma ps
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Explore stunning topographic maps with
contour lines, hill shading, hiking trails,
andmore.
Hikes
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Browse a selection of thousands of hikes
available across all U.S. national parks.
Save them to your device and access them
when you’re in the park.
Create and save walking and hiking
routes
Easily create custom walking and hiking
routes with just a few taps. Save your
custom routes so you can easily access
them later. You can create custom routes
for hikes in the park, regular exercise
routines in your neighborhood, walking
tours while on vacation, and more.
Discover and save places
Quickly discover and compare places by
browsing photos, ratings, price level, and
more, all without leaving search. Easily
save places with just a tap, and add a note
on what you want to remember about a
place or why you like it. Easily access all
your saved places, guides, and hiking
routes in the all-new Places Library.
Music
SharePlay on more devices
Now it’s easier for everyone to control the
music together, whether you’re listening
on HomePod, Apple TV, or a Bluetooth
speaker.
Podcasts
Chapter scrubbing
Navigate the chapters of the episode
asyou're listening.
Better playback control
Reorder and remove episodes in
ContinueListening.
Share from transcripts
Share a link to a specific time from the
player or a transcript.
Search suggestions as you type
Start typing your search term and
suggested search terms, shows, and
episodes will appear automatically.
Reminders
Calendar integration
Your scheduled reminders now show in
theCalendar app alongside your events.
You can even create and edit your
reminders directly from Calendar, and they
sync right back to your Reminders lists.
Recently deleted list
Your deleted reminders stay in a recently
deleted section for easy reference or
retrieval.
Subtasks in Smart Lists
Your subtasks are now available in
Today,Scheduled, and other Smart Lists
forquick reference.
Multilanguage grocery lists
Enable other languages to categorize your
grocery lists in Settings.
Tips
Tips sharing
Share helpful hints and hidden gems
withothers from the Tips app.
New features available with iPadOS 18
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Translate
AirPods in conversations
Get in-ear translations that come through
your device microphone and respond with
your AirPods microphones so the other
person can hear the translated output
fromthe device speaker.
New language
Support for Hindi in Translate, systemwide
translation, and Safari web page
translation.
Wallet
Pay with installments
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Get access to installment financing
options from your bank or card provider
foryour credit and debit card purchases,
right when you check out with Apple Pay
online and in apps. For developers and
merchants, this requires no integration—
it just works using the standard Apple Pay
implementation.
Redeem Rewards
View your card rewards balance in Wallet
and when you check out with Apple Pay
online and in apps.
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Your rewards are
automatically converted into dollars that
you can use to put towards your purchase
to make that transaction more affordable.
For developers and merchants, this
requires no integration—it just works using
the standard Apple Pay implementation.
Apple Pay on Chrome and Windows PC
Enable Apple Pay as a payment option for
online transactions on third-party
browsers and PCs.
Weather
Easier-to-find Feels Like temperature
Prepare for outdoor conditions more
efficiently with a more prominently
displayed Feels Like temperature. Feels
Like appears near the actual temperature
when they differ significantly, and their
detail views are merged so you can
compare them more easily.
Home and work locations
Your home and work locations from
Contacts are brought into Weather.
Youcan search for them and add them
toyourlist.
Prominent wind gusts and direction
Conveniently learn about windy conditions
with wind speed, gusts, and direction.
*Coming in an update later this year.
1
Available in English (Australia), English (Canada), English (Ireland), English (New Zealand), English (South Africa), English
(United Kingdom), and English (United States).
2
Available on iPad Pro (M4), iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation and later), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th generation and later), iPad
Air (M2) and iPad Air (5th generation and later).
3
Clean Up will be available in beta on iPhone 15 Pro and later models, iPad with M1 and later, and Mac computers with
Apple silicon as part of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia this fall.
4
Available in English (Australia), English (Canada), English (India), English (Ireland), English (New Zealand), English
(Singapore), English (South Africa), English (United Kingdom), English (United States), French (Belgium), French (Canada),
French (France), French (Switzerland), German (Austria), German (Germany), German (Switzerland), Italian (Italy), Italian
(Switzerland), Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Spanish (Latin America), Spanish (Mexico) and Spanish (Spain).
5
Available iPad Pro (M4), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th generation and later) iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation and later) iPad Air
(M2), iPad Air (4th generation and later) iPad (10th generation) and iPad mini (6th generation).
6
Available in Cantonese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English (Australia), English (Canada),
English (India), English (Ireland), English (New Zealand), English (Singapore), English (South Africa), English (United
Kingdom), English (United States), French (Belgium), French (Canada), French (France), French (Switzerland), German
(Austria), German (Germany), German (Switzerland), Italian (Italy), Italian (Switzerland), Japanese, Korean, Portuguese
(Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish (Latin America), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Spain), Thai (Thailand),
Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
7
Available on iPad Pro (M4), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation and later), iPad Pro 10.9 inch, iPad Pro 11-inch (1st
generation and later), iPad (7th generation and later), iPad Air (M2), iPad Air (3rd generation and later), and iPad mini
(5thgeneration and later).
8
Available for math written using Western Arabic numerals and common mathematical symbols, or typed using Arabic
(Eastern & Western) and Devanagari numerals and common mathematical symbols.
9
Available with variables created using the Latin alphabet.
10
Available in English (United States).
11
Available in the United States.
12
Available on AirPods (3rd generation), AirPods Pro, and AirPods Max.
13
Available on AirPods Pro (2nd generation and later).
14
Available on iPad Pro (M4), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th generation and later), iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation and later), iPad
(10th generation), iPad Air (M2), iPad Air (3rd generation and later), iPad mini (6th generation and later).
15
Available with third party source app and receiving device to support Spatial Audio with AirPlay. Dolby Atmos is available
with compatible content and audio equipment.
16
Available with an Apple TV+ subscription. Title support subject to change.
17
Available with compatible content in supported apps when using built-in speakers, wired headphones, AirPods, and other
Bluetooth-connected speakers and headphones.
18
Works with compatible content in supported apps.
19
Available on iPad Pro (M4), iPad Air (M2), iPad (10th generation), and iPad mini (6th generation).
20
Available with an Apple Fitness+ subscription.
21
Available with a home hub, such as Apple TV or HomePod. Setting a schedule for guest access via hands-free unlock with
home keys, tap-to-unlock with home keys, or PIN codes requires a Matter lock that support schedules.
22
Available on a Thread-enabled home hub such as Apple TV 4K, HomePod (2nd generation), HomePod mini, or a
compatible third-party Thread border router. Thread-enabled devices are able to locally pair and manage Thread
accessories, which may require an update from the accessory manufacturer.
23
Eligible users include Pacific Gas and Electric Company customers who have residential electrical service, including areas
served by Community Choice Aggregators. Users must be the utility account owner or authorized user of the utility
account.
24
Available in United States and Japan.
25
Available on cards from participating banks and card providers in certain markets. Subject to eligibility and approval.