If there is a Marquee feature for iOS 18.4, it is the expansion of Apple Intelligence to the EU along with Vision Pro Compatibility and new language support for French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. It is tens of thousands of millions of iPhone 16 owners who can finally use the feature that Apple says the new iPhones were “built for.” (However, we must point out that this release does not allow telephone mirroring on Macs in the EU due to problems in accordance with digital markets.)
For everyone else, there is no prominent function. Rather, iOS brings 18.4 lots of small adjustments, improvements and changes. Maybe you will stand out to you, like the thing you’ve been waiting for, or maybe the sum of them overall just makes your iPhone a little more comfortable to use. Here is a by-Means-Complete List of the little things you might appreciate this update.
iOS 18.4: 15 minor improvements that have a great influence
Visual intelligence can be triggered in the control center or action button. This makes it available on the iPhone 15 Pro and this means you can add control to your lock screen.
If you have AirPods MaxIf you get an upgrade (with a firmware update too, probably) to allow audio over USB-C, which will include 24-bit, 48 kHz lossless audio and ultra-low latency sound.
If you are a CarPlay User, you will appreciate the new third row of app icons on the home screen (if your display size is large enough) and a new API for sporting events allows custom experiences during live sporting broadcasts.
Talking about driving, Apple cards Will now include the location of NACS chargers (it is the so-called “Tesla Connector” that appears on many new EVs).
Do you have a Vision Pro? Along with support for Apple Intelligence on the headset there is a new Vision Pro iPhone -App It allows you to discover spatial experiences, download apps and games and get tips.
If you are a fan of making ShortcutsYou will love that there are now plenty of shortcut settings to change app settings. So you can get apps to behave differently based on location or time of day or whatever if you are good at making shortcuts.
You will notice that Safari Now the recent searches show when choosing the search/address bar, making it easy to repeat the search you just did earlier today. You can clear this as desired or prevent it from appearing at all by going to Settings> Safari > Show recent searches.
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There are several adjustments to Control center. Buttons that have more options when choosing them show chevrons, the cellular data that switches, show real signal strength and so on.
There are new ones CheckAlso, including four options for surrounding music: sleep, chill, productivity and well -being. Each one has several options for playlist or you can choose one of your playlists. Because they are control center controls, you can add them to the lock screen or trigger them with the action button.
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There is a brand new Apple Intelligence Function: Priority of messages. Go to Settings> Notifications > Prioritize messages To activate or disable it and you can choose which apps it works with. Once enabled, AI will try to determine if a review is particularly important and will show it to you in a separate group on top of all your other messages.
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Adjustments to Photos App includes a new “Key Photo” viewing mode for your albums, two new filters to view your photos library (Shared with you and Not in an album), and the opportunity to edit the order of the list of media types. Finally, I can choose screenshots without pushing three pages over!
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Image playground Is still a pretty bad experience, but at least it now has the sketch style that was demonstrated back on WWDC. For certain kinds of drawings, it’s the best choice.
We all love emojierAnd there are seven new ones in iOS 18.4: face with bags under eyes, fingerprints, harp, leafless wood, root vegetable, shovel and spray.
If you are a Apple News+ Subscriber, you want to check out the new food section that does an excellent job of presenting recipes from popular food publications. Look under Follow The tab to find the food section. Note that this is not Anyway available in the Apple News app on Macs.
You know how you can Set up A new iPhone or iPad by bringing another iPhone or iPad near it? Well, now it works to create a new Mac too! Of course, you need to update Mac to MacOS 15.4 or newer.
iOS 18.4: How to update
To update your iPhone to iOS 18.4, go over to the Settings app, then press GeneralAt SOFWARE -UPDATIONand follow the requests.