In a recent video as part of its IOS decoded series, 9TO5MAC takes a look at a fairly interesting code found in the last iOS 18.5 beta.
This code refers and allows features that are not supposed to be part of iOS 18.5 when launched, however. Instead, it looks like experiences for what could be part of iOS 19, or perhaps even future products.
Some of these features can be shipped, others not, but at least they give us an overview of what Apple is considering. Here are the main changes of brief:
More flexible stage manager: The stage manager is very limited with the way you can position and resize the windows. In the test version demonstrated in the 9TO5MAC video, there are far fewer restrictions – you can more freely resize windows, size windows so that they obscure other windows, and even more of them almost entirely off screen.
Stage manager on iPhone: Jeff Benjamin says he saw the stage manager working on iPhone, with the care of the external display. Although it is cool, he says he does not expect Apple to send such a functionality.
Superdomino for widgets: There is a flag for the springboard (the home screen and the locking screen manager for iOS) called “SuperDomino” which shows that the clock widgets in full screen appear on only half of the screen in standby mode. This makes these widgets quite square, which corresponds well to the “Homepad” device.
Photographic styles for video: The code found by 9TO5MAC suggests that non -destructive photographic styles currently available when taking photos can be used for video. Maybe they will be called smart styles in the future, because they apply more than photographs.
Photographic styles for third -party applications: These “smart styles” can also be accessible to third -party applications with a new frame.
The rest of the video concerns certain relatively minor updates, such as certain new icons in the SF symbols font and seeing bank account numbers recorded in the Wallet & Apple Pay parameters panel, and the possibility for developers to see which Macs have been associated with their device.
Some of these things found by allowing flags and features hidden with iOS beta are simply experimental – it is the apple that works on features or capacities that never see daylight. But a lot of real features also start this way, so there is a good chance that when WWDC takes place in June, we can better understand what this hidden code is for.
