iOS 18 has arrived loaded with new features and we’ve been getting the most out of it for almost a week now. That is why we want to make a small compilation of which iOS 18 features are truly innovative.
Avoid the typical news tops that give you absolutely nothing, these iOS 18 features are on another level and they will allow you to get the most out of your iPhone and iPad.
As on many other occasions, we have decided to accompany this post with a video in which you can see how all these new iOS 18 capabilities that we have told you about here work. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Most importantly, more battery
No, your iPhone’s battery does not grow simply because you update the software version, but it has been proven that iOS 18 It is the most optimized version of the last decade, improving the autonomy of the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max by up to one hour.
Many analysts have verified how iOS 18 makes better management of the iPhone’s processor cores, especially those that are designed to be compatible with Apple Intelligence. The result is much more stable battery life with iOS 18 than with iOS 17.
Therefore, we can say thanks to Geekerwanthat the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max have gained autonomy with the arrival of iOS 18.
Officially, this point has not been confirmed because Apple has withdrawn the iPhone 15 Pro in all its variants from the Apple Store, where the autonomy data is offered.
In short, iOS 18 only starts running the high-performance core when our interaction requires it, which inevitably results in less battery discharge.
You can go back to the old Photos app
The new Photos app is a real mess. We agree that with the implementation of Apple Intelligence, which we may see in Spain in 2026, it can become a true tool, However, the current version of Photos deployed in iOS 18 is an amalgamation of screens that we don’t know how to manage.
Don’t worry, at iPhone News we are always here to help you. You just have to open the Photos application, slide all the way down, where you will find a button called “Customize and Reorder”, so that, once inside that section, you simply deactivate all the functionalities. This way you will have your traditional camera roll again in the iOS Photos application.
Predictive dialing, finally
Those of you who have previously been Android users will know that one of the best integrations of the Android Phone application is predictive dialing, that is, when we start dialing a user’s phone number, it will inform us of several contacts that we know, to be able to have faster dialing without having to search for the contact in the phonebook.
Our colleague @Queliansanz26 explains it to us:
Finally this functionality has reached iOS 18. To do this, You simply have to go to the Phone application, start dialing the first digits of your contact’s phone number, and it will make a prediction of the most common numbers so you can do a speed dial, did it cost that much to include it before?
Calculator integrated into the keyboard
Not only has the Smart Calculator arrived at iPadOS 18, as you have seen in some of our previous videos and tutorials. But now the iOS predictive keyboard is at another level.
We will be able to perform simple mathematical operations, you simply have to write them with the keyboard, in any text box, adding the “=” symbol at the end. In just a second It will offer you the result of the mathematical operation in the predictive text box, so you can use it in your conversation.
Pause button on recordings
Not all of the improvements in the iOS 18 Camera application are reserved for the iPhone 16, and many of these new features also come in great detail to older versions of the iPhone.
In this case, The new pause button appears at the bottom left of the Camera application when we make a recording. This will allow us to create interesting transitions, like your favorite TikTokers.
The scientific calculator arrives
Forget about paying for an expensive scientific calculator for your classes. The moment that iOS users have been waiting for for so many years has arrived, and we are not precisely talking about the fact that the Calculator application has finally arrived on iPadOS.
Now you will be able to use the Scientific Calculator directly from the official iOS Calculator application. To do this, you simply have to go to the icon shown in the bottom left of the iOS 18 native Calculator screen, and it will allow you to open a complete scientific calculator, with sine, cosine, square roots, x, the number pi…
But not only that, the function «Mathematical Notes» It will allow us to perform mathematical calculations, use variables and even create graphs in a simple way from an equation.
Change Lock Screen shortcuts
As you well know, the iOS 18 Lock Screen is extremely customizable, but one of its new features is precisely the ability to change shortcut buttons. For many years we have been able to activate the camera and flashlight directly with the buttons in the lower corners of the screen, and now we can customize them to our liking.
There is no point in maintaining direct access to the camera, since if we swipe from left to right, we can still open the camera. For this, We only have to customize the Lock Screen or the Home Screen, by making a long press.
iPhone models compatible with iOS 18
- iPhone 16
- iPhone 15
- iPhone 14
- iPhone 13
- iPhone 12
- iPhone 11
- iPhone XS and XS Max
- iPhone XR
- iPhone SE (2nd generation or later)
iPad models supported by iPadOS 18
- iPad Pro (M4)
- iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation or later)
- iPad Pro 11-inch (1st generation or later)
- iPad Air (M2)
- iPad Air (3rd generation or later)
- iPad (7th generation or later)
- iPad mini (5th generation or later)
Source: www.actualidadiphone.com
