iOS 12 is presented right now on the stage of the opening conference of WWDC 2018, the Apple company revealing to the whole world all the news of the operating system for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. We are currently at the beginning of a 3-month journey in which Apple will release many beta versions of iOS 12 to improve all the functions you see below, a lot of news being prepared for us.
iOS 12: THE NEWS, IMAGES AND THE RELEASE
iOS 12 has focused the attention of the Apple company on the performances that users receive after installation on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch this year.
All iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches that were able to install iOS 11 can also install iOS 12, so that even the iPhone 5S will be able to run all the new features offered.
Incredibly good performance
According to those from Apple, iOS 12 should allow the opening of applications up to 40% faster for users, the keyboard appearing up to 50% faster, while the camera opens up to 70% faster.
To achieve this, those from Apple have improved the way the processors work, offering better performance even when we need them.
Apple even managed to double the access to some functions of iOS 12 thanks to these changes, all improvements being offered on both old and new IDevices.
Applications should open 2 times faster when the processor is working at its maximum capacity, so we are talking about impressive performance for us.
Augmented reality
Apple is improving the augmented reality experience through ARKit, offering a new format called USDZ for developers of augmented reality applications.
Apple launches a new application called Measure, it allows measuring distances in the real world to improve the methods of creating augmented reality experiences.
This new application can automatically detect certain objects that are visible in front of the camera of our phones, all to facilitate the experience of augmented reality.
Apple also allows the creation of experiences for augmented reality using Adobe Creative Cloud, so we will have more interesting news on offer.
Apple announces ARKit 2, which improves the tracking of the user's face, can detect 3D objects and offers the possibility for several iDevices to see the same thing in applications, from different terminals.
Pictures with improved functions
iOS 12 will bring a major improvement to the way we can search using the Photos application, Apple saying that over 1000 billion photos are taken from the iPhone.
iOS 12 is going to present us in a section called Highlights suggestions for searches based on important events, important people, or important locations for us.
Now iOS 12 allows us to search for photos based on the locations where they were taken, but more than that, we can also search for photos based on the events we participated in at a given time.
If we want, we can also search based on what we did, that is, if we went to the beach, to football, and not only that.
Apple displays in the For You section important photos that we have taken in the past, or suggestions for creating animated clips, or applying portrait effects to available photos.
iOS 12 will also show us suggestions to share the pictures we have recorded together with various friends, or in certain locations where we have been.
When we share photos with friends, the Photos application will search their phones for other photos from the same location in order to discover all the photos taken there.
Siri smarter with more functions based on Shortcuts
iOS 12 brings Siri the ability to see shortcuts for various native and third-party apps, Apple calling this feature Shortcuts.
iOS 12 will allow you to add buttons with shortcuts for Siri, and there we can choose any kind of important actions for certain applications, as Google offers in Android.
iOS 12 will allow you to add shortcuts to control Siri, including on the lock screen, with the assistant also offering suggestions for shortening actions taken in applications.
iOS 12 will have a special application called Shortcuts, Apple's centralizing there all useful shortcuts, not only for Siri, but also for other functions.
This application called Shortcuts will be based on the applications we have available in iPhone and iPad, everything being done with a special editor that Apple has integrated into iOS.
iOS 12 has all these functions implemented thanks to the Automator application that Apple bought last year.
HomePod and Apple Watch will allow the use of these shortcuts as well.
Apple News, Voice Memos, Books, Stocks
Apple News has a new section called BRowser, which allows the discovery of new sources of information, on the iPad there is also a special sidebar for it.
Stocks, the Stock Exchange, has a new interface prepared by the Apple company to see the information more easily, adding graphs to find out more easily how the markets have evolved, Apple News being now integrated in this application.
The Stocks application also arrives on the iPad, along with information about stock prices even after the stock market closes.
Voice Memos has implemented the possibility to synchronize voice recordings via iCloud, the application reaching the iPad as well.
Books has an improved design to discover new books, and to read more easily what is already in our book library.
Apple also offers a section called Reading now, where we can go back to reading something we started and stopped for various reasons.
Carplay
Carplay will finally allow you to use third-party navigation applications, such as Waze and Google Maps, all of which will be available for cars that support this functionality.
Do Not Disturb
Do Not Disturb brings during the night the possibility to hide all the notifications that a phone receives during the night, they being visible only in the morning, when we wake up.
Do Not Disturb also offers more control over notifications, allowing it to be deactivated at a certain time, when we leave a location, or when we leave an event.
Grouped notifications and Instant Tuning
Instant tuning allows disabling notifications from being displayed in the LockScreen, iOS 12 allows sending them directly to the Notifications Center, to see them only there.
iOS 12 also allows notifications to be displayed in groups, depending on the application, or even their subject, deleting groups being extremely simple now.
Screen Time
Screen Time provides information in the form of graphs in which we see details about how we used the iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch.
Screen Time shows us how much we use various applications from iDevices, at night, during the day, or even from certain locations.
Screen Time tells us how many times an hour we look at our phone, in which applications, and which applications send us the most notifications daily.
AppLimits
iOS 12 will allow the display of notifications for the moments when we should stop using certain applications to focus on other things.
iOS 12 brings through Screen Time the possibility to limit children's access to iDevices by limiting the times of use of applications, in the case of children, browsing reports are also sent to parents to limit the time spent by children in applications.
Messages
iOS 12 brings new animojis for the Messages application that can now also identify when we take out our tongue, modified animations being implemented for those interested.
iOS 12 brings new Animoji in the form of ghosts, koala bears, a T-rex and a tiger.
iOS 12 also steals a function from Samsung Galaxy S9 through Memoji, that is, the possibility to create Animoji characters based on our faces.
Apple, like Samsung, will offer an extremely varied range of options to create these Memoji characters, although people criticized them in the Samsung Galaxy S9 phones.
iOS 12 brings to the Messages application the possibility to use special effects and filters in the Camera application to record interesting pictures and video clips.
FaceTime
iOS 12 brings to FaceTime the ability to make video calls in groups with up to 32 people, a huge number for such an application.
iOS 12 will allow the initiation of normal or group FaceTime calls, even through the Messages application, in groups shortcuts can be displayed for this.
In the case of video calls made in groups with many people, the FaceTime application will display in the foreground all the people talking, this being done automatically, but users have the possibility to bring in the foreground any people they want.
iOS 12 brings FaceTime and the possibility to use various filters or special effects during video calls.
iOS 12 and watchOS 5 will allow accepting FaceTime calls even from the Apple Watch.
Starting
iOS 12 will be released in beta today, while the release of the final version will take place in the fall.
more soon…
