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What’s New?
1. Image Playground
iOS 18.2 comes with a new app that lets you use concepts, descriptions and people from your photo library to create fun, playful images in multiple styles. Create images in Messages and freeform as well as third party apps.
2. Genmoji
Genmoji allows to create a custom emoji right from the keyboard
3. ChatGPT Support
ChatGPT from OpenAI can be accessed right from Siri or Writing tools after iOS 18.2 upgrade. Compose in writing tools allows you to create something from scratch with ChatGPT
4. Image Wand
Turns Sketches and handwritten or types notes into images in notes with iOS 18.2.
5. Camera Control(iPhone 16, 16 plus, 16 Pro, 16 Pro Max)
Visual intelligence with camera control helps you instantly learn about places or interact with information simply by pointing your iPhone at the object with the option to tap into Google search or ChatGPT.
Camera control two-stage shutter lets you lock focus and exposure in camera when light pressing the camera control
6. Mail
Mail Categorisation sorts your messages to help you prioritise the most important messages.
7. Photos
Video viewing improvements including the ability to scrub frame by frame and a setting to turn off auto looping video playback. Improvements when navigating collections views including ability to swipe right to go back to previous view
Recently viewed and recently shared album history can be cleared. Favourites album appears in the utilities collection in addition to pinned collections
8. Safari
New background images to customise safari start page. Import and export enables you to export your browsing data from safari and import browsing data from another app into safari
HTTPS priority upgrades URLS to HTTPS whenever possible
File download live activity shows the progress of a file download in the dynamic island and on you home screen
Other Updates
- Voice memos supports layered recording
- Share item location in Find My helps you locate and recover misplaced items by easily and securely sharing the location of Airtag or with trusted third parties such as airlines
- Natural language search in Apple Music and Apple TV app lets you describe what you’re looking for using any categories like genres, moods, actors, decades and more
- Favourite categories in podcast allows you to choose your favourite categories and get relevant show recommendations
- Personalised search page in podcasts highlights
- Sudoku for news+ puzzles provided in three difficulty levels and available for News+ subscribers
- Pre market price quotes in stocks lets you track NASDAQ and NYSE tickers prior to market open
- Fixes issue where recently captured photos do not appear immediately in All Photos grid has been fixed with iOS 18.2 upgrade.
- Fixes an issue where Night Mode photos in Camera could appear degraded when capturing exposures(iPhone 16 Pro, 16 Pro Max)
More details at https://www.apple.com/in/ios/ios-18/
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