iOS 18 brings news that the system should have had for years

It says: "Better late than never." Pro Apple this with regard to his iOS applies doubly. We often wish for certain features that we eventually get, but only after a gap of several years. This is also the case iOS 18. 

Apple currently issued iOS 18, which still brings a relatively large number of new features, even if it lacks features Apple Intelligence. But we wouldn't find many of them in it at all if they were Apple brought already with the very possibilities of past systems from which it could be expected.

Lock screen feature shortcuts 

Loni Apple v iOS 17 introduced greater personalization options for the lock screen. This year, it improves on that by letting you change the Camera and Flashlight shortcuts. The question is why it wasn't possible right away. Samsung He explored its possibilities in his superstructure almost to the point, but he also added the possibility of changing these representatives. Apple they are only doing so now, and perhaps only because miniAt least the Camera shortcut will no longer be meaningful with the Camera Control button.

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Personalization of the Control Center 

So it was possible, but very limited. At the same time, its counterpart in the Android system offers a lot of user sorting and customization. Apple but now it goes even further. It gives us several pages, where we can add more, it also gives us full control over the organization of elements, their positioning and scaling. It has been called for for several years, but it is only now possible with iOS 18.

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Tapback in News 

Tapback gestures have been with us for many years and are widely used. But the number of reactions was strictly given and was very limited to hearts, thumbs up or down, laughter, exclamation points or question marks. Now these reactions are not only colorful, but can look like anything, including an emoticon or a sticker. Why it took so long, we don't know.

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Highlighting in Notes 

The Notes app has been in the system since the very beginning of the iPhone, i.e. since 2007. Now it gets live audio transcription, calculation integration, collapsible sections and text color highlighting. With the last mentioned, we don't know why we had to wait so long for such a small but useful detail. It was certainly possible before, but it was probably not wanted.

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News in the Diary 

The diary is still a very new application, it only came out with iOS 17, so actually a year ago. Now she Apple but it improves with many options, such as marking writing time in the journal as minutes of health mindfulness, visualizing the fulfillment of goals, organizing and searching past entries, or adding widgets to your desktop with writing prompts. It didn't work right away?