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Apple has unveiled all the new features heading to iPhones and iPads at its developer conference in San Francisco on Monday, including speed boost for even older devices, improved privacy and a host of new features. The new iOS 12 will be available for any device running iOS 11 now, which means any Apple smartphone from the iPhone 5S or newer, and any iPad from the iPad mini 2 and iPad Air or newer, plus the sixth generation iPod touch.
The developer version is available now, but the first public beta is due later in June, for those eager to test it as soon as possible. A final release will be available in September for everyone else.
Now let's get to what the new update brings for the users, Apple promised that iPhone users will see sizable speed improvements across the board, including for smartphones as old as 2013s iPhone 5S.
A considerable change has been made in Notifications on iOS. Apple is beginning to tackle the overloaded lock screen. Notifications can now be grouped together rather than users having to deal with 10 separate notifications for each app.
Following Googles footsteps, Apple is also making efforts to help people curb their addictions to their phones. New tools include Screen Time, which generates weekly Activity Reports showing app usage, how many notifications you receive and how often you pick up and use your phone. You can set App Limits, which are essentially timers for app usage. The new Do Not Disturb During Bedtime is designed to clear out your notification clutter hiding them till prompted in the morning.
Part of the phone addiction tools are new parental controls to perform the same monitoring and limiting of app usage on childrens iPhones.
iOS 12 is adding new Animoji available on the iPhone X, including a ghost, koala, tiger and T-rex. Users can now also generate custom emoji, similar to Samsungs AR emoji, called Memoji, which they can make look like themselves.
Apple is attempting to improve the privacy and security of user data on the iPhone through several additions to iOS 12. Safari will now stop Facebooks Like and Share buttons, other social widgets and advertisers from tracking your surfing patterns without permission.
Apple is coming up with its own built-in Photos app on iOS 12. In the new For You tab, Photos will now suggest sharing photos with the people caught in them so that group photos from events are easy to collate between iPhone users.
Apples Siri is still playing catch up with Googles Assistant and Amazons Alexa. One of the new features is custom commands called Siri Shortcuts that allow users to say a certain phrase and perform a certain function such as launching an app or function.
