iOS 18 will launch next week with new ways to customize your homescreen
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Apple has revealed the launch date for iOS 18 — and it’s just days away. The update, which will add new ways to customize your iPhone’s homescreen and lockscreen, arrives on September 16th.
In iOS 18, you can freely rearrange apps and widgets on your homescreen and change their appearance. Apple is rolling out a redesigned Control Center, too, along with a new password management app and support for satellite messaging. Some other updates include new text effects in messages, a revamped Photos app, and new ways to organize your inbox in the Mail app.
However, this update doesn’t include the Apple Intelligence features coming to the iPhone 15 Pro and across the iPhone 16 lineup. The upcoming tools will help you rewrite and summarize text and generate images through the AI-powered Image Playground. Alongside a more conversational Siri, these features are going to start arriving in the iOS 18.1 public beta in October.
Apple also confirmed that macOS Sequoia, watchOS 11, and visionOS 2 are coming September 16th as well. While macOS Sequoia adds iPhone mirroring, watchOS 11 comes with new training features, and visionOS 2 includes an ultrawide virtual Mac display. There’s still no word on tvOS 18.
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Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge
Apple has revealed the launch date for iOS 18 — and it’s just days away. The update, which will add new ways to customize your iPhone’s homescreen and lockscreen, arrives on September 16th.
In iOS 18, you can freely rearrange apps and widgets on your homescreen and change their appearance. Apple is rolling out a redesigned Control Center, too, along with a new password management app and support for satellite messaging. Some other updates include new text effects in messages, a revamped Photos app, and new ways to organize your inbox in the Mail app.
However, this update doesn’t include the Apple Intelligence features coming to the iPhone 15 Pro and across the iPhone 16 lineup. The upcoming tools will help you rewrite and summarize text and generate images through the AI-powered Image Playground. Alongside a more conversational Siri, these features are going to start arriving in the iOS 18.1 public beta in October.
Apple also confirmed that macOS Sequoia, watchOS 11, and visionOS 2 are coming September 16th as well. While macOS Sequoia adds iPhone mirroring, watchOS 11 comes with new training features, and visionOS 2 includes an ultrawide virtual Mac display. There’s still no word on tvOS 18.