Apple just released iOS
18, the latest operating system for iPhones. Do you know what the
best features are and how to use them? Stick around and find out. I'm Dylan Stewart, The
MacWhisperer, and in this video, we're going to
talk all about the latest iPhone operating system. iOS 18. I'm going to teach you
some of the best features and tools and the things
I'm most excited about. But don't leave before
hearing my MacWhisperer power tip, where I show
you what's coming next for iOS as Apple begins
to roll out AI, not artificial intelligence,
but Apple intelligence. Let's hop on over the
phone and get started. The name of the game with
iOS 18 is Customizations. There's so many great
tools to completely customize your iPhone
and make it feel more personal than ever before. We're going to start
off on the home screen with some of the most
talked about features. The first thing
we're going to do is go into edit mode. You can do that by
pressing and holding anywhere on the screen
of your iPhone until everything starts
to wiggle like this. Now in the upper left hand
corner, you're going to notice a new edit button. By clicking it, you're
going to find three separate options. There's the option
to add widgets, which isn't really new. There's also the option
to edit pages, which also isn't new, but at least
it's in a better place. But the real star
of the show is the customize option. Let's click it
and check it out. When you first click on
customize down below, you're going to see
this palette that shows some basic options. First off, in the
upper left hand corner, you've got the option
to darken the tint of your home screen. You'll notice right
now the little sun has the dark spot on it. If I click on it,
it becomes brighter. To the right of that,
we've got the option for small or large. You'll notice that the
apps on my home screen are the standard size. But if I click the
large button, it increases the size and
removes the titles, making it even easier
to get to your apps. And even though you don't
see the names of the apps, the images are big
and bright and just pop. Down below that, we've
got the option for light, or dark mode. We're currently on
light mode, which is the standard mode we're used
to, but when we click over to dark mode, notice
that it gives a tint to all of your apps and all
of your widgets, bringing out the dark colors and
minimizing the whites and the light colors. To the right of
that, we've got the automatic button. This will switch
between light mode and dark mode depending
on the time of day. All of that's awesome, but
the thing I really want to talk about is this tinted
option on the far right. By clicking here, you
can actually color code all of your apps with
any color that you like. Simply using the slider,
and pulling it over to a different color. It will colorize all
of your apps with that exact color. And if you want to take
it up a notch, you can click the eyedropper
in the upper right hand corner and find a specific
color right on your home screen to really make
sure that all of your apps and your home screen
look beautiful together. It's a great new option
for customizing the way your home screen looks
and making it just a little more beautiful. There's other tools
that they've also added for the home screen .
For example, Up until
now, all of our apps have needed to be lined up. In other words, whenever
you put an app, it had to go next to the
other apps, but that's not the case anymore. You can now break
free of the grid by going into edit mode,
pressing and holding on an app, and dragging
it, and positioning it anywhere on the page. It still clumps some apps
together, but you have a lot of customization
to move things. Wherever you want,
giving you the ability to clear up your screen
so that you can see the picture behind it. or customize your screen
so that certain apps are in one section with other
apps on the other side. This is a new
customization that really allows you to take full
control of where the apps are without having
to fill up a page or worry about where the
apps are going to sit if you wanted them to move. Now they just move and
it keeps everything really simple. The next addition to
the home screen is the ability to lock or even
hide specific apps. Sometimes there's apps
that you've got that you don't want other
people to get into. Maybe your kids are
using your phone or maybe there's some
sensitive information that you just don't
want prying eyes to see. It's easy to protect
and lock an app by pressing and holding
on it and choosing the option Require Face ID. When you click
that, you'll get two separate choices. The ability to require
Face ID, which will lock the app, but leave it
on your home screen, or the ability to hide the
app so that nobody even knows you've got it. If you simply click
Require Face ID, it will make sure that no
one can open that app. without your face,
just like this. And now that app is
completely protected, but sometimes there's an app. You don't even want
people to know you have. Like, should I really
have a McDonald's app? I really want people to
know I eat at McDonald's. Let's press and hold
on the McDonald's app. Click require face ID, but
this time I'm going to say hide and require face ID. It'll confirm that this
app is going to disappear and you're not going to
see any notifications from it at all. Let's click the Hide app. Poof! It's gone. But where did it go? Well, if we come over
into our app library and scroll down to the bottom,
there's a brand new section called Hidden, and
it's completely invisible. People can't see what's
there without using Face ID to unlock it. If I want to see what's
there, I can just tap on it, it checks my face,
and immediately there's my McDonald's app. Back where I can access it
completely secretly, you can remove something from
the hidden app section by pressing and holding
on it and choosing Don't require face id, allowing
you to move it back onto your home screen and do
whatever you want with. These are some great
tools that can protect you from prying eyes or
from people getting into apps and accidentally
changing your setting. But the customizations
don't stop there. Next, let's talk about
the control panel, which has gotten some
major changes in iOS 18. The control panel is one
of the most valuable tools on the phone, giving you
instant, easy access to some of your most common
settings, like Wi Fi and Bluetooth, or some
applications like the camera or the flashlight. To access it, we still
pull down from the upper right corner of
our screen like this. And once you're in
the control panel, you're greeted by. Some squares and some
options and some choices. Back before iOS 18,
to edit the control panel, you had to go
into settings and into the control center. But now you can do
it from right here. And not only can you
add all sorts of new apps, but you can also
change the position and the size at will. Press and hold anywhere
on the screen to bring up the edit mode. And from here, you can
spread out apps, making them larger, changing
their shape, their size, and their position,
completely customizing the screen for anything
you want it to do. Down at the bottom, you'll
notice the add a control button, which gives you
access to all of the available controls you can
add to the control panel. But what's great about
this is they've really opened it up wide so
that you can add almost any setting directly
to the control panel for easy access. From home settings,
to notes, to music, shortcuts, and more. The list goes on and
on, giving us tons of available tools that we
didn't have on iOS 17. Grab something by simply
clicking on it and it gets added right onto
your control panel using the little bar in the
bottom right hand corner. You can adjust the size
of it and you can also adjust the position to
make sure that everything is exactly where you
want it for easy access. For me, I made the
flashlight nice and large so that when it's
dark and I need a little light it's that much
easier to get into it. But that's not the
end of the control panel's changes. If you look to the
right side of your screen, you'll notice
the little heart. We're on the favorite
control panel page, which is the first
one that shows up. But if I simply swipe up,
we get into the second control panel page,
which is reserved for music and music tools,
allowing you to see what music is playing and
easily access Apple Music or other music apps. Coming in here, you can
again add a control doing something like Shazam. adding it right in and
making it even easier for you to recognize
the song that's playing. One more swipe will
take us out of the music control panel
and into our network settings control panel. This gives us a full
screen of access to things like airplane mode or
airdrop or wi fi and other really powerful tools. Having this front and
center right here makes it that much easier to
change your settings without ever having to
go into the settings app. And those are some
of the best changes. in the control panel. But when it comes to
customizations, there's one more tool we need to
talk about, and it has to do with our lock screen. When you're on your
lock screen, you can see these two tools down
at the bottom corner. Usually it's your
flashlight and your camera, and it's
been those two tools since, well, it
seems like forever. But it's easy to
change them now. When you're on the lock
screen, press and hold so that it goes into
customization mode. Click the customize
button on the bottom. and click on
your lock screen. From here, you'll
get the options to remove, reorder, or
change those very apps. So if I don't need the
camera app here, I can click the minus button,
click the plus button, and then choose something
completely different. Maybe I want quick
access to a translation. or maybe right from
the lock screen. I want the ability to
immediately start a timer. You can customize
and change these at will, giving you even
an additional level of personalization
on your phone. Next up, let's talk
about the calendar. A lot of people
don't really care. love the Apple Calendar. They use third party
apps like Fantastical or other tools in order
to do what the Apple Calendar was made to do. Part of this is because
of the minimal views the calendar previously had
and the complicated way things were organized. Well, that's all
done with iOS 18. Let's click on the
calendar and check it out. The first thing you should
notice if you're in the month view is it looks
completely different. We've got more details,
we've got more room, it's clearer to see what's
happening on specific days and it's easy to just
scroll month by month. I can simply click
on any day to get additional details. But up at the top of
the screen, we've got some new tools under
this button here. There are now four
separate views for the month view. The first one is the
compact view, which crunches everything
together, giving you as many days on the
screen as possible. You'll notice the
little colored icons underneath the numbers. Those represent events
on those days in the different categories that
I have in my calendar. Clicking the view
tool again at the top and we can change it
to the stacked mode. The stacked mode gives
us more space and more details about
what's happening on the specific days. Another click will drop
us into the detail screen, which is where we started. And if you click it one
more time and go into the list view, you will
see the entire month laid out before you and
clicking on any day will give you all the details
of that day, right below it, making it easy for
you to stay in month view and still know everything
that's happening. Now, let's click it
back over to the detail view, and I'm going
to click on a day. Notice that when I click
on this day, I am in my normal day view, just
like with the month view. There's some new options. I'm going to start us off
by clicking today to get us onto the current date. Now, right here, I've
got all this information easily laid out. I'm going to Up at the
top, if I click that view icon again, I
can choose the single day view, which is my
standard, or the multi day view, which gives you a
couple of days in a row, allowing you to scroll
through it in order to see each day while still
looking at the prior day. Clicking it again will
give me the list option which shows all of my
events in order one right after the other
giving me a great bird's eye view of my entire
upcoming calendar. I personally prefer to
leave it on the single day view but there's another
change to calendar that is and this is something that
has been asked about time and time and time again. If you use the reminders
app on your phone or your computer, you may wish
that those reminders would show up on your calendar. And many people have used
these third party apps to make sure that happens. But you don't need
to do that anymore. Now, as you can
see right here, any scheduled reminders
will show up right on the calendar, allowing
you to immediately see the tasks for your day. and simply click on them
in order to complete them right from the
calendar, allowing you to take the reminders
tools and integrate it with the calendar
tools so that you always know your tasks, your
events, and everything you need to take care
of on any particular. It's a great new change
to bring reminders and calendars together,
and I'm really excited to see how it improves
productivity and helps us get more things done. The next app on the iOS
18 journey is Messages. And Messages got
several powerful tools built right into it. If you have anybody
in your life that's on an Android phone, you
know the frustration of trying to send
them photos or videos. The problems of having
an Android user inside of an Apple iMessage
group are legendary. They've created fights
between friends and broken up relationships simply
because you couldn't communicate clearly. iMessage is such a
fantastic communication tool, but when you bring
Androids in, it just throws off the magic. This is because Android
phones generally use text. an older form of text
messaging known as SMS, Simple Message Service. But Google has completely
upgraded the SMS tools on the Android phones
using a brand new technology called RCS. It's been around for
a couple of years and it's allowed Android
users to have an almost iMessage like experience,
except when they communicate with iPhone
users, because iMessage and RCS don't work. didn't talk to each other. But as of iOS 18, Apple
is now supporting RCS communications, meaning
that you can text right from the message
app freely with your Android friends and
have fewer problems. Allowing you to
have better group communications and making
sure that your Android friends can see your
thumbs up, tap backs, and other responses. Just like your
iMessage friends do. It's a really big
change and it happens underneath the surface. As soon as you upgrade
to iOS 18, RCS kicks in and allows you to have
better communication. But that's not the
only change that they made to iMessage. There's a number of
features that are really powerful that are built
right into the app . I'm going to open up a
conversation here, and I'm going to show you
the first one, which is called Message Effects. Let's type a
simple message. Before sending the
message, if you look on the right side of our
toolbar, you're going to notice this little A. This is the Motion
Effects button. Clicking on it will open
up all sorts of tools, giving you the ability
to properly format the text on a message, making
it bold or underlined. or Italic, or even using
some of the built in motion controls to give
actual motion to your messages, making them
shake or explode or bloom .
And when you send it to
the recipient, they'll see it just like you
do, giving it that fun motion to bring a
little more energy and personalization right into
our text conversation. So that's one of the
tools, but there's more. Tapbacks are one
of the best ways to communicate on iMessage. Simply pressing
and holding on any message gives you
our familiar tapback toolbar across the top. You'll notice Apple's
added some nice color to it now, giving our
hearts, our thumbs up, and our thumbs down a
little more emphasis. But notice at the
far right, we've got this crown. It didn't used
to be there. This is because with iOS
18, you can use a tapback with any emoji you've got. By clicking the emoji
button here, you'll open up your emoji toolbar,
allowing you to pick any any emoji you like and use
it as a tap back directly onto that message. Now, the next time
that you open up the tap back menu, you'll
see your new emoji on the far right side. You can change it anytime
you want, but if you find an emoji that you like
to use regularly, you can just leave it right
on the tap back bar, making it easy for you to
respond with a little sad devil anytime you like. And you can also add
stickers to any message. By pressing and holding
again, you'll notice the Add Sticker button in
the pop up menu here. Stickers are a great
tool that allows you to take any photo
you've got and turn it into a sticker that you
can use in messages or in other places like
photos on your iPhone. Clicking the Add Sticker
button will take you onto your sticker page, showing
any stickers you've already created, including
ones that have motion. Or, you can create a new
one either from the Photos app or by pressing the
plus button right here. This takes you right
into your photo library allowing you
to pick any photograph to make a sticker. Like this cute little
kitty right here. Immediately I click
add sticker on there. And there's my
new sticker. And if I tap it, when
I'm responding to a message, it will add
it right into the message, just like that. Just one more way
Apple's made it easy and fun to communicate
with your friends. But the best new iMessage
tool is one of the most common requests that I've
heard about iMessage for years, the ability to
schedule a text to send later, right from the app. So let's start off
by typing a message. But maybe it's the
middle of the night, or maybe this message isn't
ready to be sent yet, or maybe someone's got
a birthday tomorrow or next week and you don't
want to forget about it. It's easy to schedule
a text for later by clicking the plus
button on the left side here and locating
the send later option. Clicking on send later
will give you a calendar allowing you to choose
a day and time in the future for this message. Now in this case
I'm going to send it on Monday at 9 a. m. When I click the send
button, you'll notice that this message shows up
with a dotted line around it, letting you know it
hasn't been sent yet and giving you information
about when that message will actually be sent. Once you've engaged
the send later, you can send additional messages
by clicking back into the field, typing,
and clicking send. Each time it's going to
add it to the send for the day that you chose. Or you can change the
day by clicking right on this toolbar here
and doing it for another day and clicking send. Notice now we've got one
being sent tomorrow and one being sent on Friday. It's pre prepared
those messages, but they won't go out
until the right time. When you're done
scheduling messages, click the little X on
the right side here to go back to sending
things immediately. And at any given point,
you can click the edit button to either send
something now, or change the date and time. So maybe you don't want
to wait until tomorrow to send this message. You can click send
two messages and they go immediately. It's awesome and
it's powerful. There's one more tool
that I want to just briefly touch upon
with iMessage and that's something called
Messaging by Satellite. If you've ever been in an
area where your cellular signal is non existent
and you don't have Wi Fi nearby, maybe you're
trekking through the Amazon rainforest or on an
unbelievable hike through the Colorado mountains
and you still need to stay in communication,
there's a new tool that you can find by coming
into your settings section right here,
scrolling down to the bottom where it says apps. and going into messages
just like this. Down here you'll
notice the option for satellite connection. When you first click
it, it'll teach you how to do it,. It takes a few minutes
to do it, but it's really valuable to know that
even when you're out of communication range,
if you need to get a message out or receive
a message, You've got an option to do that now. Now let's talk about
my favorite app on the iPhone, Notes. We're going to start
off by clicking right into the app here. One of the nice new
functions is the ability to adjust the
colors from the iPhone. It's easy to do by
selecting any text, and then clicking on
the formatting bar at the bottom here
and clicking right on the color chooser. Clicking on any color
will color that text and make sure it stands out. And that's great and all,
but the change to notes that I'm really excited
about is the addition of voice messages. You can easily come
into any note and add a voice memo. All you have to do is
click anywhere on the screen so you've got your
cursor and then click on the paperclip icon here. You'll see some familiar
tools like taking or choosing photos or videos,
scanning documents, and scanning text, but up at
the top you've got the new record audio feature. As soon as you click
on that it opens the voice memo app. Inside of notes, giving
you the ability to easily record your
thoughts and capture them right into the note. Just like this. I'm so excited about all
of the new tools that iOS 18 has to offer. They've got some
great features and some great functions. When you're done, simply
press the quotes at the bottom to pause it and
you can then click the done button on the right
or you can click the quotes button on the left
to see a transcription of everything that
you just recorded. When you click the done
button, it will save that voice memo directly into
notes, allowing you to easily come in and click
play anytime you want. or tap on it in order to
open it back into voice memos where you have
a great feature hidden under these three dots
allowing you to copy the transcript and paste
it directly into notes. This is like being
able to dictate while saving the recording
of everything you said and still being able to
pull the transcript out. A simple button click
clicking copy will allow me to come in here and
paste all that information right down into the
note without losing the Also, by clicking on the
recording, you have other options under the three
dots like the ability to save the audio into files
or to share it, or to find specific information
in the transcript. or even continue
the recording to add additional information in. It's a powerful tool
and it gives us some amazing capability. And they even added
this voice recording feature to the phone. Yeah, that's right. If you've ever had a
situation where you needed to record a phone call,
it's now easy to do. Let me show you how. We're going to go into
the phone app here. And I'm going
to call my wife. You'll notice in
the upper left hand corner, the record
button is right here. And once you click it, it
will announce to you and the participant that this
call will be recorded so that nobody's surprised. And then it immediately
begins capturing everything that it
hears from both sides of the conversation. Just like what we did
in Notes, this voice memo will be saved as a
transcript, allowing us to pull all the words out of
this conversation without making it complicated. When you're complete,
click the stop button here and it will save
that voice memo directly into the Notes section. Let's go take a look. So when I come into
notes here and I click my back arrow to go
to the folders, you'll notice that I have a new
section up at the top called call recordings. Clicking on it will
show all of those call recordings and allow me to
play the recording of the call or tap on it, click
the three dots, copy the transcript and paste it
anywhere I want, making it super easy to capture
the important information on those business calls. or just to remember
a conversation and things that you need
to do later based on that conversation. It's a powerful new
way to pair what notes and voice memos do
together and even allow you to do it directly
through the phone app. Next, there's a brand new
app in the Apple ecosystem and it's called Passwords. For a long time, Apple
has synchronized our passwords using the
keychain on your computer and on your phone. allowing you to keep
track of passwords and save passwords easily. But it required you to
go into the Settings app to find them, which
was always a little convoluted and clunky. Well, that's over
now, because Apple's released their brand new
Passwords app, and you can see it right here. By clicking right onto
it, it'll scan your face for security, and then
it gives you access to all of your passwords,
including Wi Fi passwords, passkeys you've created,
and even authentication messages, which means
if you're using an authenticator like Google
Authenticator or Microsoft Authenticator to get into
specific websites and specific apps, you can
add those authentication codes directly into
passwords now, and the iPhone will automatically
get auto enter them so you don't have to go to
that other app to get that six digit code. It's a great way to
make it even easier to get into the apps
that you need without compromising security. It synchronizes with
the new passwords app on macOS 15 Sequoia and
on the iPad so that your passwords are always
stored wherever you want. You can even sort and
organize your passwords in many different ways and
share groups of passwords. or passwords with your
friends and family so that it's easy to make
sure that your wife can get into Netflix without
calling you and asking you what the password is. It's a great tool
that challenges some of the third party
password management apps like 1Password or
Bitwarden, or my personal favorite Roboform. For now, I'm going to
stick with the third party apps because I use
a lot of different devices that aren't always Apple
based, but I love that Apple's in this game now
and giving us a clean interface and a great way
to save, track, change, and share our passwords. And I saved the
best for last. The app that has
the biggest changes is the photos app. And when I first
clicked on it, I was a little concerned that
maybe they'd broken this elegant app. But as I've worked with it
and used it and understand what they created here,
I realized that they've given us customization for
the photo app to help us find everything easier. Let's hop on in
and take a look. The first thing you're
going to notice is there's a whole lot of
these other boxes all over the Photos app. But up at the top is
your photo library. And it's easy to
explore your library simply by tugging down. That engages the library
view, which gives you full access to
all of your pictures. You can easily pinch
to see more pictures. or spread in order to
see the pictures larger . Down in the lower left
hand corner, we've got new sorting tools
under this button here. This can allow you to
sort by recently added or by date captured. It can also allow you to
change your filters so that you only see your
favorites or your videos. or your photos or
your screenshots. Underneath that, we've
also got the view options choice, which can allow
you to zoom in or out of your library screen,
change the aspect ratio so that everything's
not square, and show or hide screenshots,
shared photos, and the shared library badge. This gives us easy access
to many of the controls that used to be locked
in the settings app. It's a pretty
great way to do it. In addition to that,
you can sort your images by all photos,
by months, or by years. This allows you to
quickly scroll back in time without having
to scroll endlessly to find your way. Whether you're looking
in the year view, the month view, or the all
view, all your pictures show up and make it
really easy to find what you're looking for. And don't overlook the
search button up at the top that can allow you
to search not just for specific things, but
for topics like boats. And immediately, with
just a quick search, all of my pictures having
to do with boats are right in front of me. The search tools have
gotten better and better in photos, allowing you
to ask for a specific place, a period of time,
a specific person, or to combine multiple
searches together so that you can find pictures
of you and your son with boats, or other
things just like that. Let's click the
Done button here. To get out of the library
view, you're going to click the little X in
the bottom right corner. That gets us back
to our home screen. The home screen has been
completely redesigned. Up at the top, we've
got suggestions. Below that, memories
and recent days and pin collections and all
these separate tools. You're saying to me, but
Dylan, those things were already in the photos app. Yeah, they were sort
of there and they were a little hard to find. But remember, the theme of
iOS 18 is customizations and the photo apps
got a ton of them. By scrolling down to
the bottom of this page, you'll notice a customize
and reorder section, which will allow you to
move things around into positions that make it
easy for you to find what you're looking for. For example, I like
the pinned collections a lot, so I'm going to
put that up at the top. And then the second
thing I do is albums. and People and Pets. This allows me to put
the specific sections I need front and center. I don't really care so
much about the trips section, and I don't
really like the recent days or memories, so I
can easily turn those off so that I don't
have to see them. Clicking the X in
the upper right hand corner takes those
changes into effect. And if we look now,
we'll see the Pinned Collections, Albums, and
People Pets right here. But the customization
goes even a step further because within any of
these sections, you can customize them as well. The Pinned Collections
section is a place to put albums and other
tools that you use all the time so they're right
there front and center. Clicking the Modify
button right here can allow you to add
different ones, remove them, or reorganize them. Coming down a step further
into our album section, if I click on the album
section, it opens up all of my albums, but better
than that, it gives me the ability to easily
reorganize them so the albums I need are top
and front and center. By pressing and holding, I
can simply drag this down into any other position
or drag something else up to make room for it. Just like that. And when I click the X
button, the album section has been reorganized with
whatever choices I made. You can even do that on
the People Pets section and in the Shared Album
section, allowing you to customize your photos
library like never before and make it easy to get
right to the picture, or the album or the
folder or the section that you've previously
been hunting around for. Now, in just a moment,
I'm going to drop my MacWhisperer Power Tip,
where we dig into Apple Intelligence and some
of the features that are coming in some of
the later operating systems this year. But before I do, if you
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said, let's get into the power tip. When Apple announced iOS
18 earlier this year, they also announced some
really big changes that are coming down the road. They call it AI, but
it's not artificial intelligence. It's Apple Intelligence. You see, now that AI
is such a big part of our lives, most people
are going to all these third party sites and
websites and separate apps in order to use
artificial intelligence. The problem with that is
that those sites aren't always secure and the
websites don't always work super well and it's
not really obvious how you should use them. But Apple is great at
making things simpler. So Apple has partnered
with OpenAI, who makes chat GPT, and
has created for us. Apple Intelligence,
bringing some of the most powerful AI tools
directly onto the iPhone. Apple Intelligence is
still in the process and it won't be released right
away when iOS 18 comes out, but we'll see the
features trickle down over the next several months,
including a completely redesigned Siri and all
sorts of tools that will impact everything we do. Apple Intelligence will
only be available for the iPhone 15 Pro and later,
which means if you've got an older phone, you
can still do iOS 18, but you won't get all the
new Apple intelligence features, which may
be enough of reason to upgrade to one of the
newer iPhone models. But I want to show
you some of the things that Apple intelligence
can do now so that you know what's
coming down the road. We'll start off
in the Notes app. The first tool we
want to talk about are called Writing Tools. And we're using the
Notes app, but you could do this in Messages, or
Mail, or really anywhere. Simply select any text
and click the little arrow to the right
of the pop up bar. You'll notice something
called writing tools. Clicking into writing
tools will bring up all sorts of different
options, allowing you to proofread what you
wrote, to rewrite it, or to change the tone. Up at the top here,
we've got a little bit of text about the
MacWhisperer Academy. Let's make it more
professional by clicking the professional
button down below. It takes a few moments. and it completely
rewrites it. It then gives us the
options to revert to our original text. or have it give it another
shot by retrying it. If you like what it's
done, you can click the Done button. Sometimes it's really
important to be able to get the tone right. In this particular
piece of text, I've got to tell a friend that
his dog passed away. Once again, I'm going
to select the text, but this time, on the toolbar
above the keyboard, I'm going to press
this new little icon. That is the Apple
Intelligence icon. And clicking that,
will also bring up our writing tool. This time I want to make
it a little more friendly. Let's click the
friendly button. And now it's rewritten
this text making it more friendly and personal
and making it an easier way to communicate
something as hard as the passage of a pet. It does a pretty good job
and I look forward to them advancing these tools and
making them even better. I'm going to show you
one more example of the writing tools by taking
this chunk of text about Apple Intelligence and
again clicking on the Apple Intelligence button
on the toolbar here. This time I want to
have it give me the key points of this text. So I click the key points
button down here, And it completely rewrites
it, showing it in bullet points and giving us very
simple information about the same text that I
wrote a little bit better. You can click the replace
button, the copy button, or the share button
at any point to either save it or send it out. But that's just the start
of Apple Intelligence. Apple Intelligence also
enables summarization in many, many apps. Meaning that when you
jump into your text app, You'll find that many
of the messages you've been sent while you're
away were summarized. You'll notice this little
symbol here showing you that's not the exact
text my son sent, but it summarizes saying
there's a request for me to turn up the A. C. and an enjoyment
of the Deadpool and Wolverine movie. Reginald down here,
says he's unwell and may reschedule
our Tuesday plans. I can easily click on
any of these messages to see the full information. Look at how long
that text is. But when it gives me
that summarization in a simple glance, I know
what's being said without having to read everything,
making it even easier. The summarization
works inside texts. and also inside of email. In email, there's
additional functions that are coming that haven't
been released yet, but the first function is the
ability to bring all of your priority messages
up to the top, giving you easy access to things
that need to be dealt with immediately, like a
security alert on Google or an appointment request. You can turn on or off
the priority messaging by clicking on the three dots
in the upper right hand corner and disabling it. If you like it, it'll
learn as you work with it, what messages
are important and you can train it. If you don't like
it, just turn it off. But in addition to that,
if you're inside of a specific message, you
can click the summarize button in the upper right
hand corner to tell you all of the important
points of that email in a paragraph, making it even
easier to read that email without hunting through
all of the details. It just brings
them all right here front and center. And the summarization
tools also exist right inside of Safari. Clicking on Safari on
any specific web page, down on the address
bar, you may notice this new icon with these
little purple sparkles. That's letting you
know that there's a summarization of this
website available. Clicking on it will bring
up the summary and allow you to capture everything
you need on that web page. without reading
the whole page. These summarization tools
make it easy to find out what texts, emails,
or websites have to say without having to read
them top to bottom. And the next Apple
intelligence tools are game changers
and they exist inside of the Photos app. Let's jump right into
Photos to talk about it. Right here we can see a
beautiful picture I took of my wife at Burning Man. As is the case when you
take pictures, sometimes there's something in the
frame that just wrecks it. This black bar that shows
up to the left of my wife is completely distracting
and in the way. Back in the day, you'd
have to download some third party app or
upload this picture into Photoshop in
order to fix it. But Apple Intelligence
brings those same cleanup tools directly
into the Photos app. By clicking on the
settings button down at the bottom here, You'll
see a new choice on the right side called cleanup. As soon as you click
on the cleanup button it's going to make it
easy for you to replace anything you want. Simply using your
finger and brushing across any item will immediately
make it disappear. Cleaning up that picture
and making it that much better without
needing Photoshop or additional apps. You can always revert
to the prior photo if you don't like
the changes that were made or click the done
button to save them. But there's one more
Apple Intelligence tool in photos and
that is the ability to automatically create
brand new memories with just a couple of words. Let's give it a try. Dylan Stewart and Julie
Stewart with family, Elton John Music. By typing in who and
what you want to see along with an example
of the music you'd like to hear and clicking
the little send button here, it will immediately
look through your entire library finding exactly
what you're looking for and immediately creating
a slideshow for you. with music that makes it
simple to share some of your favorite memories
without having to do all the work of creating
the slideshow yourself. And here we have it,
family fun over the years. Simply clicking into
it, we'll play through it, showing some of my
favorite pictures to the sound of Rocket Man,
making it so fun and easy to create memories and
share them with anyone. And those are the best
features of iOS 18 and Apple Intelligence. There's a ton of features
we didn't talk about here. If there's some you'd
like to hear more about, Drop it down in
the comments section. But there's so many
great features, ways to customize your
phone and personalize it like never before. I'm really excited to
see how iOS 18 and Apple Intelligence continue to
grow and get new tools and features over the course
of this entire year. This is going to be a
big year for Apple, with massive changes to Siri,
and Apple Intelligence, allowing the iPhone
to be more powerful and more productive
than ever before. And that's what we've
got for today's video. I'm Dylan Stewart,
The MacWhisperer, and it's my passion and
profession to help you get more done with your
Apple products than you ever thought possible. And I will see
you next time.