iOS 18 (2024)

Writing, focus, and communication.

New Writing Tools and language capabilities help you write, summarize longer text, and prioritize notifications.

Delightful images created just for you.

Create images to express yourself, craft Genmoji for conversations, or revisit favorite moments with your own memorymovies.

The start of a new era for Siri.

With richer language understanding and awareness of your personal context, Siri is more capable and helpful than ever.

Rearrange apps andwidgets

Place your apps and widgets right where you want them. Arrange them along the bottom for quicker reach, or off to the side to frame a favorite wallpaper. Or give each page of your Home Screen a unique layout that’s most helpful foryou.

New look for app icons

App icons and widgets appear even sleeker with a new Dark look. Tint them all with any color, or have iOS suggest a color that complements your wallpaper. You can also make apps and widgets appearlarger.

Locked and hidden apps

Two new ways to protect sensitive apps and the information inside them when others are using yourdevice.

Locked and hidden apps

Lock an app to require FaceID, TouchID, or your passcode for access. Information from the app won’t appear in other places across the system, including search and notifications, so others don’t inadvertently see sensitive information. And just as easily hide an app to move it into a hidden apps folder that’slocked.

A big update to ControlCenter

The redesigned ControlCenter features new groups of controls, which you can access more fluidly with a single, continuous swipe down on the HomeScreen.

Controls gallery

Add more controls from the Controls gallery, which displays all your options in one place, including new controls from your favoriteapps.

Rearrange and resize your controls

Customize how your controls are laid out, resize them, or build your own groups of controls so they’re always just a swipeaway.

Controls on your LockScreen

Swap out the controls at the bottom of the LockScreen for something else — like taking a note when an idea strikes or quickly capturing the moment for your social media. You can even use the Action button on all iPhone16 models and iPhone15Pro to access these newcontrols.

Biggest redesign ever

The new Photos app keeps your library organized and makes it supereasy to find photos fast. Its gorgeous yet familiar look puts everything you want right at your fingertips, so you can spend less time searching and more time enjoying yourmemories.

Browse by helpful topics

Collections automatically organizes your library by theme, so you can check out your recent days, people and pets, trips, andmore.

Customize Photos exactly how youlike

Reorder Collections and choose items to keep at your fingertips in Pinned Collections, so you can quickly get to the content you care about most, whether that’s photos of your dog or your friends, photos you’ve recently edited, or even screenshots orreceipts.

All-new ways to play with text

In addition to bold, italics, underline, and strikethrough, you can apply playful, animated effects to any letter, word, phrase, or emoji in iMessage — many of which are automatically suggested as youtype.

All-new ways to play with text

Whether you want to emphasize some major news, bring your emoji to life, or you’re just blown away, text effects give you new ways to visually amplify your texts. Some words and phrases automatically display a suggestion, and you can also add one of the many new effects to anytext.

Tapback with any emoji or sticker

Now you can send a Tapback with any emoji or sticker, including LiveStickers made from your own photos and stickers from your favorite sticker packs. Quickly access the ones you and your friends use the most with just aswipe.

Messages via satellite

With the satellite capabilities on iPhone14 or later,you can stay connected with friends and family over iMessage or SMS even without cellular or Wi-Fi service. When texting people on iMessage, you’ll also be able to use key features like sending and receiving messages, emoji, and Tapbacks. And all your iMessages sent over satellite are end-to-end encrypted.¹

Schedule a message with SendLater

Whether it’s too late at night or too important to forget, you can now schedule a message to send at a specifiedtime.

Support for RCS messaging

RCS (Rich Communication Services) messages bring richer media and delivery and read receipts for those who don’t useiMessage.

Categorization

Have it all sorted out foryou.²

Categorization

On-device categorization organizes your messages and helps you stay up to date across all your accounts. The Primary category includes your most essential emails — like those from people you know and time-sensitive messages. And the rest of your email will be organized into new categories like Transactions for receipts and order confirmations, Promotions for marketing and sales messages, and Updates for newsletters and everythingelse.

Get right to what matters most

The Primary category helps you focus on what matters most, like time-sensitive messages and emails from friends, family, orcolleagues.

Messages grouped for scanning

View snippets of messages like receipts, marketing emails, and newsletters grouped bysender.

Introducing Highlights

Safari will automatically detect relevant information on a page and highlight it as you browse. Highlights display helpful information like directions and quick links to learn more about people, music, movies, and TVshows.³

A smarter, redesigned Reader

With a table of contents and high-level summary, get the gist of an article before readingon.⁴

All your credentials in one place

From passwords to verifications and security alerts, find them all securely stored in the Passwordsapp.

All your credentials in one place

Backed by secure end-to-end encryption and seamless syncing, the Passwords app safely stores all your credentials. It lets you filter and sort accounts by recently created, credential type, or whether an account is in a shared group, to quickly find accounts you’re lookingfor.

Securely synced across devices andapps

Access the Passwords app on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and AppleVisionPro, and on Windows with the iCloud for Windows app. All the passwords sync securely across your devices, and if you use AutoFill, your passwords will automatically be added to the Passwordsapp.

Topographic maps and trail networks

Maps now features topographic maps with detailed trail networks and hikes, including all 63 U.S. national parks. Save maps to your device to access offline with turn-by-turn voice guidance, or create your ownhikes.

Save hikes for offline access

Browse thousands of hikes that you can save to your device — along with any notes you want toadd.⁶

Custom walking and hiking routes

Create and save custom walking and hiking routes with just a few taps. Choose different route options, including “one way,” “out and back,“ or aloop.

Maximize gameplay performance

GameMode minimizes background activity to sustain consistently high frame rates for hours of continuousgameplay.

More responsive AirPods andcontrollers

GameMode dramatically reduces audio latency with AirPods, and makes wireless game controllers incrediblyresponsive.⁷

More responsive AirPods andcontrollers

GameMode improves in-game responsiveness by doubling the Bluetooth polling rate with wireless controllers, giving you an edge you can feel right away. It also reduces audio latency when using AirPods.⁷ And Personalized SpatialAudio is enabling game developers to create an immersive soundstage, putting players in the middle of the action like neverbefore.⁸

Introducing Tap to Cash

Whether you’re at a garage sale or paying someone back for dinner, Tap to Cash makes in-person payments quick and easy without having to share phone numbers or email addresses. Securely authenticate with FaceID, TouchID, or passcode, then bring your devices together to send AppleCash.

Rewards and installments in ApplePay

View your rewards or points balance in Wallet and redeem points with ApplePay online and in apps. You can also easily access installment financing options from yourbank.

Event tickets and new eventguides

Redesigned event tickets bring new features, including an event guide combining helpful information about the venue with recommendations from Appleapps.¹¹

Hands-free Siri Interactions

With SiriInteractions on AirPodsPro2, you’ll have the ability to simply nod your head yes or gently shake your head no to respond to Siri.¹² So if you’re on the bus to work or at home while the baby is sleeping, you can keep Siri working in the background without having to speak outloud.

Voice Isolation on AirPodsPro

Sound crystal clear on calls, even in windy conditions or areas with loud background noise, through advanced computationalaudio.

Personalized SpatialAudio for gaming

The same immersive experience that has transformed music and movies puts you right in the middle of the action of your favoritegames.⁸

Personalized SpatialAudio for gaming

Game developers are already using the new API to bring this experience to games with advanced sound design — like Need for Speed: Mobile by Tencent Games and EA coming this fall. In addition, voice quality improvements for in-game chat and streaming deliver 16-bit, 48kHz audio and support for dynamic head tracking.⁷ And AirPodsPro now deliver our best wireless audio latency ever for mobile gaming, giving you even more of anedge.⁷

Live audio transcription

Record audio sessions within your note and generate live audio transcriptions you can search through or combine with other comments, checklists, ordocuments.¹³

Crunch numbers right in your note

Enter an expression and have it solved instantly while typing.¹⁴

Collapsible sections

Simplify and hide text with collapsible section headers, making it easy to manage your most text-heavynotes.

Highlighting

With the new highlight style feature, it’s easier to quickly mark up your notes and make text standout.

Journaling for wellbeing

Log your state of mind in the Journal app. You can also automatically add the time you spent journaling as mindful minutes in the Healthapp.

Track goals with Insights view

View your writing streaks, a calendar with existing entries, and other fun stats to stay on top of your journalinggoals.

Sort and search past entries

Easily find past entries with the ability to sort your journal and use Search to find exactly what you’re lookingfor.

HomeScreen or LockScreen widgets

It’s even easier to reflect on the present moment. Add a widget to your Home Screen or LockScreen with writing prompts that change throughout the day. Or add a widget to track your currentstreak.

A new way to watch AppleOriginal content

Select InSight in the AppleTV app to learn more about the actors and music as it all plays out onscreen.¹⁵ InSight will also be available when using iPhone as a remote control for AppleTV4K, perfect for when you’re watching withothers.

Stream Severance on the AppleTV app with asubscription.

Enhance Dialogue on iPhone

Grant specific controls with guestaccess

Guest access helps you manage how and when people can enter your home, providing access to the garage openers, alarm systems, and door locks you select, at the times youchoose.¹⁷

Hands-free unlock

Magically unlock doors as you approach, simply by carrying iPhone in a bag or pocket or wearing AppleWatch.¹⁸

Robot vacuum cleaner support

Coming later this year

Robot vacuum cleaner support

The Home app now supports the core functionality of robot vacuum cleaners, such as power control, cleaning mode, vacuum, mop, and charge status. They can also participate in automations and scenes, and respond to Siri requests. So you can add them to your cleaning routines — or tell Siri to do some spot cleaning in the livingroom.

View your home electricity use

Easily access and understand your home electricity usage right from the Home app. Eligible Pacific Gas and Electric Company customers can connect their utility account to view their electricity usage and rate planinformation.¹⁹

Control how you share contacts withapps

Decide which contacts to share with an app, rather than giving it access to all your contacts. Or give the app access only to those you message and callmost.

Redesigned Privacy and Security settings

An improved Privacy and Security settings menu makes it easier to manage how much information you’re sharing withapps.

Improved Bluetooth privacy

App developers will be able to offer an intuitive new way to pair accessories while protecting information about your nearby Bluetoothdevices.