Apple unveiled iOS 18 at its Worldwide Developers Conference 2024 keynote event in June, and the tech giant released the third developer beta of the software on Monday. At WWDC, the tech giant stated that the next iPhone operating system will include a lot of new features, like more ways to customize your home screen, updates to the Messages app and an updated Siri with Apple Intelligence. Apple said online that the next operating system will be available to the general public this fall.
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While many people won’t get iOS 18 until later this year, developers can download the second iOS 18 developer beta now. We recommend downloading a beta on something other than your primary device. Since this isn’t the final version of iOS 18, these features might be buggy and battery life may be short, and it’s best to keep those troubles on a secondary device.
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Here’s what we know about all the new features and improvements iOS 18 could bring to your iPhone this fall.
Customizable home and lock screens
While you’ve been able to customize your iPhone’s home and lock screens with widgets and different backgrounds, iOS 18 will let you customize your home screen’s apps and layout, as well as your phone’s lock screen functions.
During WWDC, Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, showed how iOS 18 lets you arrange your iPhone’s apps and widgets on your home screen however you want. Previously, these icons would fill your home screen from top to bottom, sometimes obstructing backgrounds you might like. But iOS 18 should let you arrange your icons around your background or in any way you want — something Android has offered for many years.
You can also easily customize the appearance of your app’s icons. You can give your icons a dark mode filter, or tint your icons to match your…
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