iOS 18

Yours. Truly.

Customise your iPhone in more ways than ever, stay connected with friends and family, and relive your favourite moments. And with Apple Intelligence, the things you do every day become even more magical.

Apple Intelligence

On all iPhone 16 models, iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, iOS 18 introduces Apple Intelligence, which draws on your personal context to give you intelligence that’s most helpful and relevant for you.

Coming in December*

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Writing, focus and communication.

New Writing Tools and language capabilities help you write, summarise longer text and prioritise notifications.

Delightful images created just for you.

Create images to express yourself, craft Genmoji for conversations, or revisit favourite moments with your own memory movies.

The start of a new era for Siri.

With richer language understanding and awareness of your personal context, Siri is more capable and helpful than ever.

Customisation

Rearrange apps and widgets

Personalise your Home Screen layout.

New look for app icons

App icons and widgets appear even sleeker with a new Dark look. Tint them all with any colour, or have iOS suggest a colour that complements your wallpaper. You can also make apps and widgets appear larger.

Locked and hidden apps

Two new ways to protect sensitive apps and the information inside them when others are using your device.

A big update to Control Centre

The redesigned Control Centre features new groups of controls, which you can access more fluidly with a single, continuous swipe down on the Home Screen.

Controls gallery

Add more controls from the Controls gallery, which displays all your options in one place, including new controls from your favourite apps.

Rearrange and resize your controls

Customise how your controls are laid out, resize them, or build your own groups of controls so they’re always just a swipe away.

Controls on your Lock Screen

Controls on your Lock Screen

Swap out your
Lock Screen controls.

Photos

Biggest redesign ever

Your entire library. Organised just for you.

Browse by helpful topics

Collections automatically organises your library by theme, so you can check out your recent days, people and pets, trips and more.

Customise Photos exactly how you like

Reorder Collections and choose items to keep at your fingertips in Pinned Collections, so you can quickly get to the content you care about most, whether that’s photos of your dog or your friends, photos you’ve recently edited, or even screenshots or receipts.

Messages

All-new ways to play with text

In addition to bold, italics, underline and strikethrough, you can apply playful animated effects to any letter, word, phrase or emoji in iMessage — many of which are automatically suggested as you type.

Tapback with any emoji or sticker

Express yourself in more ways than ever.

Schedule a message with Send Later

Whether it’s too late at night or too important to forget, you can now schedule a message to send at a specified time.

Support for RCS messaging

RCS (Rich Communication Services) messages bring richer media and delivery and read receipts for those who don’t use iMessage.1

Mail

Coming later this year

Categorisation

Have it all sorted out for you.2

Have it all sorted out for you.2

Get straight to what matters most

The Primary category helps you focus on what matters most, like time-sensitive messages and emails from friends, family or colleagues.

Messages grouped for quickly scanning

View snippets of messages like receipts, marketing emails and newsletters grouped by sender.

Passwords app

All your credentials in one place

From passwords to verifications and security alerts, find them all securely stored in the Passwords app.

Securely synced across devices and apps

Works across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Vision Pro, and Windows.

Maps

Topographic maps and trail networks

Download the lay of the land.3

Save hikes for offline access

Browse thousands of hikes that you can save to your device — along with any notes you want to add.4

Custom walking and hiking routes

Create your own routes.

Game mode

Maximise gameplay performance

Game mode minimises background activity to sustain consistently high frame rates for hours of continuous gameplay.

More responsive AirPods and controllers

Game mode dramatically reduces audio latency with AirPods and makes wireless game controllers incredibly responsive.5

Wallet

Event tickets and new event guides

Redesigned event tickets bring new features, including an event guide combining helpful information about the venue with recommendations from Apple apps.7

AirPods

Hands-free Siri Interactions

Say yes with a nod, or no with a shake.

Voice Isolation on AirPods Pro

Sound crystal clear on calls, even in windy conditions or areas with loud background noise, through advanced computational audio.

Personalised Spatial Audio for gaming

The same immersive experience that has transformed music and movies puts you right in the middle of the action of your favourite games.6

Notes

Live audio transcription

Record audio sessions within your note and generate live audio transcripts you can search through or combine with other comments, checklists or documents.9

Crunch numbers directly in your note

Enter an expression and have it solved instantly while typing.10

Collapsible sections

Simplify and hide text with collapsible section headers, making it easy to manage your most text‑heavy notes.

Highlighting

Make text stand out with colour.

Journal

Journaling for wellbeing

Log your state of mind in the Journal app. You can also automatically add the time you spent journaling as mindful minutes in the Health app.

Track goals with Insights view

View your writing streaks, a calendar with existing entries, and other fun stats to stay on top of your journaling goals.

Sort and search past entries

Easily find past entries with the ability to sort your journal and use Search to find exactly what you’re looking for.

Home Screen or Lock Screen widgets

Add widgets for writing prompts or streaks.

Apple TV app

A new way to watch Apple Original content

Select InSight in the Apple TV app to learn more about the actors and music as it all plays out onscreen.11 InSight will also be available when using iPhone as a remote control for Apple TV 4K, perfect for when you’re watching with others.

Stream Severance on the Apple TV app with a subscription

Enhance Dialogue on iPhone

Tune in to the whole conversation.

Home app

Grant specific controls with guest access

Guest access helps you manage how and when people can enter your home, providing access to the alarm systems, door locks and garage openers you select, at the times you choose.13

Hands-free unlock

Magically unlock doors as you approach, simply by carrying iPhone in a bag or pocket or wearing Apple Watch.14

Robot vacuum cleaner support

Coming later this year

Ask Siri to clean
the floors.

Privacy and Security

Control how you share contacts with apps

Decide which contacts to share with an app, rather than giving it access to all your contacts. Or give the app access only to those you message and call most.

Redesigned Privacy and Security settings

An improved Privacy and Security settings menu makes it easier to manage how much information you’re sharing with apps.

Improved Bluetooth privacy

Pair accessories with greater privacy.

And so
much more.

Accessibility.

Eye Tracking makes it possible for people to control iPhone with just their eyes.15 Music Haptics syncs the iPhone Taptic Engine with the rhythm of songs so those who are deaf or hard of hearing can enjoy the Apple Music catalogue.16 And Vocal Shortcuts helps people with severe atypical speech record sounds that trigger specific actions on iPhone.

Calculator.

Access the all-new Maths Notes calculator, a new portrait orientation for the scientific calculator, and other new features like unit conversion and history.

Calendar.

A redesigned month view makes it easier to get an overview of your month ahead. And you can create, view, edit and complete reminders from the Reminders app directly in Calendar.

Freeform.

Scenes let you organise and present your board section by section. Send a copy of your board to anyone with just a link. An improved diagramming mode makes it easier to form connections on your canvas. And align your board content just the way you like by snapping items to the grid.

SharePlay.

With enhanced screen sharing capabilities, you can draw on someone’s screen so they can see what they can do on theirs, or control their screen and take actions yourself.

Apple Fitness+.

A new design lets you jump straight into a personalised selection of workouts or meditations. The For You tab elevates activities based on preferred trainers, durations and music. And an all-new search feature makes it easy to find exactly what you love.

iOS 18 is compatible with these devices.

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  • iPhone 16
  • iPhone 16 Plus
  • iPhone 16 Pro
  • iPhone 16 Pro Max
  • iPhone 15
  • iPhone 15 Plus
  • iPhone 15 Pro
  • iPhone 15 Pro Max
  • iPhone 14
  • iPhone 14 Plus
  • iPhone 14 Pro
  • iPhone 14 Pro Max
  • iPhone 13
  • iPhone 13 mini
  • iPhone 13 Pro
  • iPhone 13 Pro Max
  • iPhone 12
  • iPhone 12 mini
  • iPhone 12 Pro
  • iPhone 12 Pro Max
  • iPhone 11
  • iPhone 11 Pro
  • iPhone 11 Pro Max
  • iPhone XS
  • iPhone XS Max
  • iPhone XR
  • iPhone SE
    (2nd generation or later)

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love iOS 18 too.

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