Apple released iPadOS 18 Beta 1 to developers on 10th June 2024 and here’s what’s new –
How to update – Open settings < general < software update and click download and install
Build Number – 22A5282m
Device installed on:
- iPad Pro 2018 11″
The update:
What’s new?
Place Apps Anywhere and Dark Mode for Icons:
iPhone users can now place app icons anywhere on the Home Screen, although they still must conform to an invisible grid. In other words, Apple now allows blank spaces, rows, and columns between app icons, which can reveal more of the wallpaper.
App icons can now have a dark or tinted appearance, with many color options available. Icons can be manually set to appear in dark or light mode, or they can automatically switch based on whether Dark Mode is turned on or off on the iPhone.
New Control Center Features Multiple Customizable Screens:
In iOS 18, the Control Center has been redesigned for easier access to daily tasks, offering enhanced customization and flexibility.
The update introduces new groups for frequently used controls, such as media playback, Home controls, and connectivity, with the ability to seamlessly swipe between them.
By swiping down from the top-right of your iPhone’s screen in iOS 18, you can continuously swipe to access additional Control Center screens. A new controls gallery allows you to customize which controls are displayed, including resizing buttons to highlight priorities. Developers can now integrate controls from their apps, offering quick access to features like remotely starting a car.
Apple’s new Controls API also lets you modify the controls on your iPhone’s lock screen, replacing the default flashlight and camera buttons with more convenient options. For iPhone 15 Pro users, Control Center buttons can also be assigned to the physical Action button.
Wallpapers:
iOS 18 adds 4 new stock wallpapers along with their dark mode versions
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Photos App Redesign:
- Biggest-ever redesign: Photos app gets its most significant update to date.
- Simplified single view: Displays a familiar grid for easy navigation.
- New collections: Automatically organizes content by themes without needing to create albums.
- Pinned collections: Allows users to pin favorite collections for quick access.
- Carousel view: Highlights update daily and feature favorite people, pets, places, and more.
- Autoplaying content: Brings photo libraries to life by autoplaying content throughout the app.
- Customisable experience: Users can organise collections, pin frequently accessed collections, and customise the carousel view to include what’s most important to them.
iMessage Updates:
iMessage receives all-new text effects that bring conversations to life by amplifying any letter, word, phrase, or emoji with dynamic, animated appearances. Users can better express tone by adding formatting like bold, underline, italics, and strikethrough. Tapbacks expand to include any emoji or sticker, and now users can compose a message and schedule to send it at a later time.
RCS:
When messaging contacts who do not have an Apple device, the Messages app now supports RCS for richer media and more reliable group messaging compared to SMS and MMS.
Messaging and SMS Via Satellite:
iOS 18 introduces Messages via satellite for the times when cellular and Wi-Fi connections aren’t available. Powered by the same groundbreaking technology as existing iPhone satellite capabilities, Messages via satellite automatically prompts users to connect to their nearest satellite right from the Messages app to send and receive texts, emoji, and Tapbacks over iMessage and SMS.3 With Dynamic Island, users always know when they are connected to a satellite. Because iMessage was built to protect user privacy, iMessages sent via satellite are end-to-end encrypted.
Redesigned Mail App:
Mail will introduce new ways for users to manage their inbox and stay up to date. On-device categorisation organises and sorts incoming email into Primary for personal and time-sensitive emails, Transactions for confirmations and receipts, Updates for news and social notifications, and Promotions for marketing emails and coupons. Mail also features a new digest view that pulls together all of the relevant emails from a business, allowing users to quickly scan for what’s important in the moment.
Safari:
- World’s fastest browser: Safari continues to hold the title of the world’s fastest browser.
- Enhanced web discovery: New features like Highlights and a revamped Reader experience make finding information easier.
- Machine learning capabilities: Safari uses machine learning to extract key details from webpages.
- Quick summaries: Users can quickly review summaries to understand the main points of an article.
- Location details: Easily view the location of restaurants, hotels, or landmarks directly from the webpage.
- Integrated media: Listen to an artist’s track directly from an article about the song or album.
- Improved Reader experience: The redesigned Reader offers a distraction-free reading experience.
- Additional features in Reader: Includes summaries and a table of contents for longer articles, enhancing readability and navigation.
Locking Apps and More Security Changes:
- Secondary authentication required: If someone tries to open a locked app on your phone, they’ll see a popup indicating that the app can’t be accessed without secondary authentication.
- How to lock an app: Long press on the app and select the “Require Face ID” option (or “Touch ID” on the iPhone SE).
- App lock limitations: Not all apps can be locked. Apple excludes innocuous apps like Maps, Clock, Calculator, and Stocks, but almost every other app, including third-party apps, can be locked.
- Hide locked apps: You can choose to hide locked apps, moving them to a locked, hidden apps folder that requires authentication to access.
- Search and notification exclusion: Locked or hidden apps are not only inaccessible but also hidden from search, notifications, and other system areas.
- Visibility of access permissions: Enabling a lock on an app shows which other apps have access to it, such as those writing images to the Photos app.
- No notifications for hidden apps: Hiding an app stops incoming notifications or calls from it, making it available only in a “Hidden” folder in the App Library.
- Disabling the lock: To turn off the locking feature, long press the app icon and select “Don’t Require Face ID.” This action requires a Face ID scan, ensuring the lock can’t be disabled without your knowledge.
- iPad compatibility: Locking and hiding apps is also supported on the iPad.
Calculator App:
iPadOS 18 also brings the Calculator app to the iPad for the first time, with new features like history and unit conversions. Math notes allows users to solve expressions when writing with the Apple Pencil.
Math notes enable users to hand-write expressions and automatically calculate the answer, displaying it in handwriting that’s like their own. Users can use basic or scientific math, and notes can be saved for later. Variables are supported, allowing you to solve algebraic equations. They can be edited to see results change in real time, and even generate a graph.
Notes has the same math capabilities from Calculator. Notes also gains new Smart Script capabilities that automatically improve your handwriting as you write.
Passwords App:
Built on the foundation of Keychain, which was first introduced over 25 years ago, macOS Sequoia introduces Passwords, a new app designed to streamline access to all your passwords, passkeys, Wi-Fi passwords, and other credentials in one convenient location. With secure end-to-end encryption, iCloud syncing ensures that your sensitive information remains protected. The Passwords app is optimized for seamless integration with Safari and effortlessly syncs across all your Apple devices. Additionally, it is compatible with Windows through the iCloud for Windows app, providing a consistent experience across different platforms.
More Flexible Handwritten Notes with Smart Script:
Apple’s Smart Script improves the experience of handwriting notes with the Apple Pencil. It can straighten and smooth your handwriting in real time, making it more readable without losing the feel of your personal handwriting. It also allows you to edit handwritten text easily, just like you would edit typed text. You can add space, scratch out text, or even paste typed content in your own handwriting, and the text will automatically reflow to accommodate the changes. Overall, Smart Script makes handwriting with the Apple Pencil more fluid, flexible, and easier to manage.
The Notes app brings enhancements to typed text, too. For added convenience, users can now organize the content of their notes by collapsing sections under headings or subheadings. And for information that needs to stand out, they can choose from five new text highlight colours.
A New Tab Bar Brings Easier Navigation:
iPads have a new redesigned tab bar that stays on top of the app content, allowing users to focus on the main content while still having easy access to their favorite tabs. This floating tab bar can also transform into the sidebar for a more comprehensive app experience. Users can easily add or reorder tabs from the sidebar for further customisation.
Additional Features in iOS 18:
Additional iPadOS 18 updates include:
- Built on the foundation of Keychain, Passwords is a new app that makes it easy to access credentials and have them securely stored in one place, including passwords, verification codes, and security alerts.
- SharePlay gets even better this year with powerful updates to screen sharing. Users can tap and draw on their screen to point out what should be done. And for more direct assistance, users can ask for permission to remotely control a device.
- With Freeform, bringing ideas to life becomes even easier. Users can create scenes to organize sections of a board by topic, or easily present content by moving around quickly.
- Gaming becomes even more immersive with features like Game Mode and Personalized Spatial Audio, which put players in the middle of the action in upcoming titles like Assassin’s Creed Shadows and RESIDENT EVIL 7 biohazard. And with Game Porting Toolkit 2, developers have new tools that make it easier to bring even more advanced games to iPad, iPhone, and Mac.
- Calendar becomes more helpful by showing both events and tasks from Reminders. Users can create, edit, and complete reminders right from Calendar.
- Reminders gets new tools, including the ability to view, create, and edit directly from the Calendar app; access a recently deleted list; and find subtasks in Smart Lists for quick reference.
- In Apple Maps, users can browse thousands of hikes across national parks in the United States and easily create their own custom walking routes, which they can access offline. Maps users can also save their favorite national park hikes, custom walking routes, and locations to an all-new Places Library and add personal notes about each spot.
- Accessibility features include Eye Tracking, a built-in option for navigating iPad with just eyes, and Vocal Shortcuts that enable users to perform tasks by making a custom sound.
That’s it for iPadOS 18 Beta 1!
Supported Devices:
Future Software:
iPadOS 18 Beta 2 – We can expect the 2nd Beta of iPadOS 18 to release within two weeks of the first beta being released
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