iOS 18 in one image. What are you most excited for?

RCS, I suppose, so we can stop hearing about it.

grEen BuBbLes = cYbeR bUllYIng
- Chat bubble classism/racism is unacceptable
- It actually kind of is

Why does this sub exist? To shit on Apple? Literally all the comments are neckbeards complaining about this or that. Wtf?

Because it keeps showing up on /all and the apple haters just can’t help themselves. People enjoying things drives them insane.
- Look at all these kids having a good time! Not on my watch!!! 🙃
Not a neckbearder and not really a hater, but oh my god I fear the day my family's group chat finds out about text effects.
Nah this community shills for Apple too much
- I don’t think that word means what you think it means

I rather have a real firefox browser.

And uBlock Origin🤤
Well Japan has your back now!

None, still waiting for third party stores.

Cries in non-European

Auto sorting in Mail, to be honest.

Apple recreating Google Inbox would be an ultimate power move.

No mention of the calculator app on iPadOS smh

Because this is the ios screen and there is a seperate one for iPadOS? Or am I missing the joke?
- I took it as a funny

RCS, Better Home Screen and Control Center customization, finally getting locked and hidden apps on iOS as Android has had those for years! The Photos update is pretty good, in addition to Lock Screen customization.

Apple Intelligence. The image generation and bullshit text generator aspects I’m over (although Genmoji looks cute), but the ability to process complex natural language requests using an on-device LLM so I can perform tasks via voice without laborious specificity?

I’m in. If they nail this it will be the biggest leap forward in human-computer interaction since the GUI.

The other features I already like in DB1 aren’t on this feature slide either:

The new Calendar app with a proper multi-day view is great and has already replaced the “list” view I’ve used since 2009. I like “list” but it makes every day look busy visually, and makes it difficult to see gaps in your day.
New Calculator app finally has most features people would like. Multi line, easy editing of mistakes, a history, etc. They only talked about the handwritten stuff for iPad in the keynote but the whole thing is vastly improved across all iOS platforms.
This one is on the slide but the new Photos app is great, although some don’t like it I found most features in Photos were buried and people never used the tabs in the app, just scrolling down to see everything actually works quite well. Most users seem to think that the first tab is the only one you need to use and everything else is just settings and whatnot so it’s best to just adapt to that at this point.

Well said!

Locked apps! All the porn, and all the incriminating evidence of my affair. Thank u Tim Apple! Very cool.

Jealous partners and judgmental family are going to have a harder time.

RCS support

Does anyone else have this problem: Some messages only showing up for iPhone users in the group SMS chat? For example someone will answer a question that the Android users never see. Then those questions randomly show up a week later for Android users? Hopefully RCS will fix that.

I dont really care about any of this crap. Let me install my own internet browsers, fix the poor keyboard hit boxes, let me build my own predictive text library...

iOS devices would be actually good if they literally just let you install .ipa s from anywhere (.apk equivelent for iOS). Not even unlocking the APIs that ensure Apple apps stay on top, just allowing .ipa installation.
- What IPAs do you want to install? This is a real question, I know there are a handful of apps that you need to install from outside the App Store but over the years as restrictions have loosened that has dropped to almost nothing for me.
  I used to install nzbUnity which has been fully replaced by LunaSea at this point, and with the rule change allowing emulators they really took a ton of wind out of the sails of the 3rd party App Store push.
- They would be android devices, then.
  So no. They wouldn't be good.

The one that’s not shown: Standalone Passwords app

Yes!
Eh on Mac it looks like a downgrade to keychain

The satellite thing will save lives

Great feature. Will note they did have emergency satellite messages before, iPhone 14/15.
Hmm in most countries:
Satellite connectivity isn't offered on iPhone models purchased in Armenia, Belarus, China mainland, Hong Kong, Macao, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Russia.
Apparently no paid agreements to use satellite around those regions.

Honestly, I just hope Siri transcription for iMessage gets better, and that the music app will actually do a decent job of recognizing the artist/album/thing I want to listen to.

Can’t wait for great dictation (please! 🤞)

Definitely Emoji Tapbacks

RCS, Statelite and Locked Apps.

Control screen customization I guess? Maybe the hiking thing? (But like there are already decent 3rd party apps for that…)

Not listed, but Music Haptics. I’m joking, but it’s a thing now. Super glitchy to activate in beta 1.

The new homescreen grid for sure.

So apparently parallax is quietly coming back? I’ve decided that’s now the thing I’m most excited for.

Heh disabled that so didn’t know it was gone
Battery was one reason, probably minimal of course. Might not’ve appreciated effect too, can’t remember now, would re-try
- I never got into fidget spinners, but having parallax on my iPhone’s Home Screen probably had a similar effect for me. I’d just play with it every once in a while and enjoyed it. I’ve always been mindful of battery drain, but I consciously made an exception for parallax.

The new Quick Settings, reminder integration in Calendar, maybe the coloured Icons

You should try FantastiCal

So many features, yet the calculator is still a piece of shit. What's the thing with Apple? Is it THAT hard to make something like this: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/calc-smart-calculator/id576675190

Something decent that actually shows you the entire expression with the ability to place the cursor anywhere to edit previously inserted numbers?

I just don't get it, their calculator is the most useless thing ever, you type a number, hit "+" and the number is gone.

No shame in leaving room for third party apps. I don’t really expect the built-ins to be all encompassing…
- I fucking do if you can't install whatever you want.
All of that has been fixed in the iOS 18 calculator, they just didn’t talk about it in the keynote. It has history, multi-line, and your can place the cursor anywhere and edit expressions.
Give it a shot, you might be pleasantly surprised.
- No, it hasn’t. It’s certainly better but not up to what the other one I liked is able to do.
Lots of updates coming to the ios calculator with ios18. They obviously focused on the ipad version because it has the written math notes stuff, but a lot of those features are coming to the iphone, too.
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/11/ios-18-calculator-these-conversions/
The current calculator has had a lot more options if you turn the phone sideways, but no one ever does that. Personally, I'm a pCalc guy.
They want you to buy the app for that 30% commission.
- Devious

Did apple maps really not support walking until now?!

Hiking ≠ walking
They had walking directions probably from the start, but there’s new topographical map now.
They just invented the idea (10 year fanboy here) :(

Pixel 9

Can’t wait for Google to cancel Android and replace it with a messaging service.