Top 5 New Features Coming in iOS 18.4

[mcled53]

All I want from AI is: 1) Set text messages from unknown senders as "read" and then delete after 24 hrs.

 

[Parowdy]

No mentioning that the back tap notification is gone?

 

[Hewhowalksbehindtherows]

I think the Siri shortcuts are the most interesting, and wonder if every user will need to turn them on to integrate with third-party apps, or if Siri will be automated with them?

 

[mitty]

Still no skipping/jump rope emoji. Come on Apple

 

[iansilv]

I would like an option where the homescreen automatically showed your most recently used Apps. That’s it. Just a homescreen that showed you in order your most recently used apps.

 

[mansplains]

I just read about the new external display support features included in Android 16 beta, cool stuff. Google seems like they are actually trying to do cool stuff..

Google throws everything at the wall and few items stick

 

[Burger Thing]

I would be happy with just 2 more festures: maybe finally a decent keyboard. And, I know this is really pushing the software capabilities of current apple developers, finally being able to move an app into a folder on the homescreen, without the folder being chased around the screen refusing to let me drop the app into it. Unbelievable that this is really still a thing after so many years.

 

[dkh587]

If they really wanna add something useful, they should go ahead and include the RCS 3.0 standard... but alas, this will probably be something for iOS 19...

 

[CG_Man]

New emoji says everything about this update

 

[TgeekB]

We’re talking about 18.4, not a brand new os update. Why are people so negative?

 

[Makanmata]

All I care about in iOS 18.4 is fixing the bug in 18.1 which broke my Mail connection to my IMAP email server that still works perfectly on every other device.

 

[GIZBUG]

We’re talking about 18.4, not a brand new os update. Why are people so negative?

Because these news articles try to hype us up…..then we read what’s in the update and are like *shrug*

 

[TgeekB]

Because these news articles try to hype us up…..then we read what’s in the update and are like *shrug*

Of course companies attempt to hype up their products. It’s called marketing. It’s been around forever and it works because consumers are impatient.

 

[Corefile]

The best thing that could happen to Apple is that they be forced to license iOS to other companies, such as Oppo, Vivo, Xiaomi and Samsung (EU Commissioners, are you listening?). These companies would not put up with the crap of the current iOS and we might actually get real improvements. If not, these companies would add their innovations on top of the base iOS. ("Innovation" is not a word Apple knows any more ... but it used to and it's surely it's not too late to focus on that?)

The wider problem is that Apple is driven by a Marketing org and a Logistics CEO. They have zero ability to innovate which is why you get garbage like the iGoggles Pro junk. The engineering orgs do want to innovate and consolidate but they have to deal with dimwits in senior management roles at Apple. As an org, it needs to be gutted and a technology focused C-level team put in place. Get. Rid. Of. Tim. Apple.

 

[haemolysis]

Priority notifications both excites me and worries me as possibly one of the most useful features in a long time… and yet likely to be made useless by the reliance on AI. I would need a lot of customisation for this. Like for instance, what happens if the AI thinks certain spam notifications are important? Would I be able to tell it to stop prioritising these? Or do I have to just turn the feature off altogether?

 

[hovscorpion12]

I fully expect iOS 18.4 to release next week

 

[TRT1968]

When one of the top 5 new features is new emojis that says it all.

Ha ha ha. I had to scroll back up and check this... I'd skipped it completely. Automatic reaction I guess.

 

[TRT1968]

I'm STILL waiting for date and time sanity checking. How long has it been now that you've been able to write emails and iMessages with guff like - "Let's meet this week! Fri 29th at 11am? Lester Square Garden tube station?" It'll happily tell you you've spelt the name of the location wrong, even if it's obvious what you meant, but the "writing checker" is oblivious to the fact that Friday is the 28th this week.

 

[Ifti]

So adding a couple of new emoji's is a 'new feature'?
I have a small handful of emojis that I may use now and then, the rest are just ignored.

 

[artifex]

I just confirmed the ambient music stuff is available to devices not eligible for Apple Intelligence (at least, my iPad 9).
The "chill" music selection seemed overly uptempo, but the sleep one seems closer fit to function. Haven't tried the others. I'm hoping they'll eventually add some for ambient natural effects (thunderstorm, breeze, ocean, etc.), because that's what I'd really like to sleep to, without having to stream from the net or pay a subscription app for. If they're going to offer forest images as wallpaper, why not add the audio?

Oh, hey, guess what?
They do actually have sounds like ocean waves and rain already built in as an accessibility feature. In the drop down center search for background sounds, then add that icon that looks like three musical notes. It actually adds two icons: the notes icon will be how you turn it on or off, and the ear icon will let you pick balanced noise, dark noise, ocean, rain, stream, and a few others, and also access more detailed settings, like whether to keep that sound on when you're also watching media, and whether to keep it on when the device is locked. (You can also find this by going into accessibility settings directly and looking for the audio/visual line, but it's pretty unwieldy to have to keep going that far every time you want to turn it on or off, so add it to the center.)
Found on my iPad 9 which doesn't get AI so probably identical for most iOS devices.