iOS 18 arrived loaded with new features and we’ve been making the most of them for almost a week now. This is why we want to make a small compilation of the features of iOS 18 that are truly innovative.
Avoid typical news headlines that give you absolutely nothing, these iOS 18 features are on another level and they will allow you to get the most out of your iPhone and iPad.
As on many other occasions, we have decided to accompany this article with a video in which you can see how all these new features of iOS 18 work that we have told you about here. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.
More importantly, more battery
No, your iPhone battery does not increase just because you update the software version, but it has been proven that iOS 18 This is the most optimized version of the last decade, improving the battery life of the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max by up to an hour.
Many analysts have verified how iOS 18 allows better management of iPhone processor cores, especially those designed to be compatible with Apple Intelligence. The result is much more stable battery life with iOS 18 than with iOS 17.
We can therefore say, thanks to Geekerwan, that the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max have gained in autonomy with the arrival of iOS 18.
Officially this point has not been confirmed because Apple has withdrawn the iPhone 15 Pro in all its variants from the Apple Store, where autonomy data is offered.
In short, iOS 18 only starts running the high-performance kernel when our interaction requires it, which inevitably leads to less battery drain.
You can go back to the old Photos app
The new Photos app is a mess. We agree that with the implementation of Apple Intelligence, which we may see in USA in 2026, it can become a real tool, However, the current version of Photos deployed in iOS 18 is an amalgam of screens that we do not know how to manage.
Don’t worry, we at iPhone News are always here to help you. You just have to open the Photos application, dragging it all the way to the bottom, where you will find a button called “Customize and rearrange”, so that once in this section you simply deactivate all the features. This way, you will find your traditional camera roll in the iOS Photos app.
Predictive dialing, finally
Those of you who have ever been Android users will know that one of the best integrations of the Android Phone app is predictive dialing, that is, when we start dialing the phone number d ‘a user, it will inform us of several contacts that we know, to be able to dial more quickly without having to search for the contact in the directory.
Our colleague @Queliansanz26 explains it to us:
https://x.com/Queliansanz26/status/1835792765700981186
Finally this feature reached iOS 18. To do this, Simply go to the Phone app, start dialing the first few digits of your contact’s phone number and it will make a prediction of the most common numbers so you can do speed dial, was it that expensive to include it before?
Calculator built into the keyboard
Not only has the smart calculator arrived at iPadOS 18, as you have seen in some of our previous videos and tutorials. But now the iOS predictive keyboard is on another level.
We will be able to perform simple mathematical operations, you just have to write them with the keyboard, in any text box, adding the “=” symbol at the end. In just a second It will offer you the result of the mathematical operation in the predictive text box, so you can use it in your conversation.
Pause button on recordings
Not all of the improvements to the iOS 18 Camera app are exclusive to the iPhone 16, and many of these new features are also heavily detailed in older versions of the iPhone.
In this case, The new pause button appears at the bottom left of the Camera app when we’re recording. This will allow us to create interesting transitions, just like your favorite TikTokers.
The scientific calculator arrives
Forget paying for an expensive scientific calculator for your lessons. The moment iOS users have been waiting for for so many years has arrived, and we’re not specifically talking about the fact that the Calculator app has finally arrived on iPadOS.
You will now be able to use the scientific calculator directly from the official iOS Calculator application. To do this, simply go to the icon presented in at the bottom left of the native iOS 18 calculator screen, and this will allow you to open a complete scientific calculator, with sine, cosine, square roots, x, the number pi…
But not only, the function “Mathematical notes” This will allow us to perform mathematical calculations, use variables and even create graphs in a simple way from an equation.
Change lock screen shortcuts
As you well know, the iOS 18 lock screen is extremely customizable, but one of its new features is precisely the ability to change shortcut buttons. For many years we have been able to activate the camera and flashlight directly with the buttons located in the lower corners of the screen, and now we can customize them to our liking.
It makes no sense to maintain direct access to the camera, because if we swipe from left to right we can still open the camera. For that, Just customize lock screen or home screen, by making a long press.
iPhone models compatible with iOS 18
- iPhone16
- iPhone15
- iPhone14
- iPhone13
- iPhone12
- iPhone11
- iPhoneXS and XSMax
- iPhoneXA.
- iPhone SE (2nd generation or later)
iPad models supported by iPadOS 18
- iPad Pro (M4)
- iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation or later)
- iPad Pro 11-inch (1st generation or later)
- iPad Air (M2)
- iPad Air (3rd generation or later)
- iPad (7th generation or later)
- iPad mini (5th generation or later)
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