The fifth beta of iOS 18 is now available with many interesting new features for the iPhone
The development of iOS 18 has been divided into two parts: on one hand, we have the beta of iOS 18.1 with Apple Intelligence, and on the other hand, Apple continues to develop iOS 18 with the launch of beta version number 5. This is unprecedented, although it makes sense since iOS 18 should be ready to launch.
Y This beta number 5 of iOS 18 comes with a lot of new featureswhich we believe will be added to iOS 18.1 beta 2 when it launches next week. Let’s go over them all.
All the latest news on iOS 18 beta 5
In With each beta release of iOS 18, Apple has included some exciting improvements.and it wasn’t going to be less in beta 5. Additionally, Apple continues to tweak some aesthetic details of the operating system to make everything perfect.
Control distractions in Safari
As the name suggests, Distraction Control in Safari is designed to reduce annoying elements on articles and web pages, such as login windows, cookie preference pop-ups, autoplay videosand more. It is not an ad blocker, although you can temporarily hide ads.
Apple says that nothing is automatically hidden with this feature; only elements manually selected by a user will remain hidden. This is a feature that can be enabled from Safari, from the page menu, by selecting “Hide distracting elements”. You can select the area of the page you want to hide and the static content will remain hidden.
Design changes in the Photos app
The Photos app got one of its biggest overhauls in iOS 18, but some changes weren’t exactly welcome. And Apple seems to have listened to users and tweaked one of its new features. In this beta, Apple has removed the carousel that allowed users to browse different collections from the main grid of photos. in the upper area.
Let us remember that The Photos app in iOS 18 has a unified design in which there are no different tabs; Everything appears in one place where we can move vertically and horizontally. We understand that this change will be final and will not constitute a mistake.
New options on the home screen
If you long press on the home screen and tap on the top right “Edit” button, a third option now appears called “Edit Pages”. This allows us to remove or hide entire pages of apps from the home screen.
Icon improvements with dark mode
In every beta of iOS 18, Apple has adjusted the colors of the icons in dark mode, and in this beta 5 Maps app and Search app icons have been changed. These are small changes but they gradually improve the experience.
Control center
Apple has changed the design of most of the icons that we can have in the Control Centermaking them larger in many cases, although in others the colors have been changed or the icon redesigned.
These are All the major changes found in iOS 18 beta 5. The operating system is slowly reaching the end of its development; it is already August and its launch is scheduled for mid-September, so we have 3 or 4 more betas of the system left.
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