iOS 18 will let you change the speed of Photos videos on all iPhones

The new iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro will have iOS 18 installed inside. This makes sense since its sale begins on September 20 and the launch of iOS 18 will take place next Monday, September 16. The new iPhones include many new features, including a new capture button that they have called camera control, which is nothing more than a haptic button that allows you to perform a large number of functions. In addition, the improvements made to the cameras of these devices have allowed, as shown in the keynote, Change video speed (fps) directly from the Photos app.

Everything seemed to indicate that this feature would only be on the iPhone 16, but no: iOS 18 includes this feature for all iPhones.

Video speed changing is coming to iOS 18 and not just for the iPhone 16

During the September 9 keynote, Apple spent time showing off one of the iPhone 16’s features: the ability to change the speed of a video once recorded.

That is, when editing or post-processing the video in the Photos app. Everything seemed to indicate, as we said, that this was going to be a special novelty for the iPhone 16 (or even special for the Pro). However, The feature came to all older iPhones in iOS 18 release candidate.

The playback speed editor allows you to select different speeds marked by frames per second (fps): 240, 120, 60, 48, 30 and 24. Depending on the selection we make, the video will appear faster or slower, but all editable once the video is saved from the Photos app. This may look similar to the slow motion speed control available in iOS 17, but that feature didn’t let you change the fps at which the video was played, this feature is new for iOS 18 and it was not available in beta versions of all this summer.