Totally. Rewrites. Rules.
Explore new ways to work with ApplePencil, discover new experiences in apps, and customize iPad even further. And bring your ideas to life like never before with AppleIntelligence.
Available September 16thAvailable 9.16
On iPadPro and iPadAir models with M1 and later, iPadOS18 introduces AppleIntelligence, which draws on your personal context to give you intelligence that’s most helpful and relevant foryou.
Coming in beta this fall*
Writing, focus, andcommunication.
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.
Notes
Handwriting with Smart Script
Jot down thoughts fast. LetSmartScript smooth itout.
Handwriting with Smart Script
SmartScript in Notes uses a powerful, on-device machine learning model to re-create your handwriting style from your notes. Just jot down your thoughts as fast as you have them and SmartScript will refine them as you write to be smoother, straighter, and more legible.1 You can also paste typed text in your handwriting,1 correct spelling inline, touch and drag to reflow text2 for more space, and scratch out writing to removeit.
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.3
Highlighting
Make text stand out with color.
Highlighting
With the new highlight style feature, it’s easier to quickly mark up your notes and make text standout.
Collapsible sections
Simplify and hide text with collapsible section headers, making it easy to manage your most text-heavynotes.
Calculator
Math Notes with ApplePencil
Evaluate expressions, assign variables, and even plot graphs with ApplePencil — just as you would on paper — or with a keyboard.4 Calculator solves expressions inline as soon as you write or type an equalssign.5
Math Notes with ApplePencil
In addition to basic math, Math Notes can solve all the same functions as a scientific calculator. You can even assign variables, use them in equations and graphs, and then adjust them to see how they affect your results. And it’s easy to save a Math Note to revisit anytime, from either Calculator or the Notesapp.
Updated Calculator for iPad
Updated for the large iPad display, the basic and scientific calculators also introduce new tools like history and unitconversion.
Customization
Rearrange apps andwidgets
Personalize your Home Screen layout by placing apps and widgets right where you want them on each page to let your wallpaper shinethrough.
Rearrange apps andwidgets
Place your apps and widgets 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 iPadOS suggest a color that complements yourwallpaper. 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 your device.
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 and customization
Add more controls from the Controls gallery, which displays all your options in one place, including new controls from your favorite apps. You can also customize how these controls are laid out, resize them, or build your own groups ofcontrols.
Photos
Your entire library, organized just for you
With its biggest-ever redesign, the new Photos app automatically organizes your library by helpful topics and makes it supereasy to find photosfast.
Your entire library, organized just for you
The new Photos app puts everything you want right at your fingertips, so you can spend less time searching and more time enjoying your memories. Collections automatically organizes your library by topics like Recent Days, Trips, and People & Pets. And PinnedCollections gives you lightning-fast access to the collections or albums most important toyou.
Customize Photos exactly how you like
A customized view of your best moments.
Customize Photos exactly how you like
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.
Messages
All-new ways to play withtext
Type with tone, flair, and feeling.
All-new ways to play withtext
In addition to bold, italics, underline, and strikethrough, you can apply playful, animated effects to any letter, word, phrase, or emoji in iMessage. 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 orsticker
Express yourself in more ways than ever.
Tapback with any emoji orsticker
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.
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.
GameMode
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.6
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.6 And Personalized SpatialAudio is enabling game developers to create an immersive soundstage, putting players in the middle of the action like neverbefore.7
Safari
Quickly pull up a site’sHighlights
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.8
A smarter, redesignedReader
With a table of contents and high-level summary, get the gist of an article before readingon.9
Passwords app
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
Works across iPad, iPhone, Mac, Apple VisionPro, andWindows.
Securely synced across devices andapps
Access the Passwords app on iPad, iPhone, 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.
Freeform
Present and share your story
Scenes let you organize, label, and reorder content so you can present your board section by section. And you can send a copy to anyone with a link that opens the board on theirdevice.
Improved diagramming and layout
Connect shapes, images, and thoughts with an improved diagramming mode that makes it easier to form connections on your canvas. And align your board content just the way you like by snapping items to thegrid.
Apps on iPad
Redesigned tab bar in apps
Stay focused on the content that matters with a redesigned tab bar that floats above your app’scontent.
Redesigned tab bar in apps
The floating tab bar makes it easier to navigate to different parts of an app, such as in AppleTV or AppleNews. It elegantly morphs into the sidebar when you want to dive in deeper. And you can customize the tab bar to include your favoritetabs.
Updated Document Browser
An updated Document Browser for Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and Swift Playgrounds helps you jump back to your most recent documentsquickly.
AirPods
Hands-free SiriInteractions
Say yes with a nod, or no with ashake.
Hands-free SiriInteractions
With Siri Interactions on AirPodsPro2, you’ll have the ability to simply nod your head yes or gently shake your head no to respond to Siri.10 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 forgaming
The same immersive experience that has transformed music and movies puts you right in the middle of the action of your favoritegames.7
Personalized SpatialAudio forgaming
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. And AirPodsPro now deliver our best wireless audio latency ever for mobile gaming, giving you even more of anedge.6
Privacy and Security
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.
And so
much more.
Accessibility.
Eye Tracking makes it possible for people to control iPad and iPhone with just their eyes.11 And Vocal Shortcuts helps people with severe atypical speech record sounds that trigger specific actions on their iPad andiPhone.
Calendar.
Create, view, edit, and complete reminders from the Reminders app right in Calendar.
Maps.
View detailed trail networks with new topographic maps.12 Browse thousands of hikes and save them for offline access.13 And even create customroutes.
Fitness+.
A new design lets you jump right into a personalized selection of workouts or meditations. The For You tab elevates activities based on preferred trainers, durations, and music. And an all-new search feature makes it easy to find exactly what you love.
AppleTV app.
See real-time actor and music information for AppleOriginal movies and shows with InSight.14
Home app.
With guest access you can manage how and when people can enter your home.15 Add robot vacuum cleaners to the Home app, including in scenes, automations, and Siri requests.16 And easily access and understand your home electricity use with new Electricity Usage and Rates features.17
iPadOS18 is compatible with these devices.
- iPad Pro (M4)
- iPadPro 12.9-inch (3rdgeneration andlater)
- iPadPro 11-inch (1stgeneration andlater)
- iPad Air (M2)
- iPadAir (3rdgeneration andlater)
- iPad (7thgeneration andlater)
- iPadmini (5thgeneration andlater)
