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iOS 18.4 Features: Everything New in iOS 18.4

I’m not seeing the food section in Apple News. Has anyone had any luck with that yet?
 
Jetson said:
I look with hope at every new release yet alas, there is still no setting to turn off, disable or hide the home bar at the bottom of the screen.

Apple seems to be proud of this useless, annoying artifact. It's weird.

Please, just give us a setting to turn it off. If you like it that's fine but don't make the rest of us suffer with it.
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I wonder if they fixed the Apple TV bug that fails to reconnect HomePods after I power off connected Bluetooth headphones. Probably not.
 
timeislove said:
Me too. I am using ip13 too.

What lang have you set for the phone system setting?

My phone is set to other Lang (not English) and I thought that is reason for not showing the new preferred Lang option in map.
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Don't think so, mine is set to English by default.
 
telepati said:
Don't think so, mine is set to English by default.
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Same again. I changed the phone lang setting to English but did not see the new option of preferred language for map app.

It sounds quite weird to have a newer phone (better hardware) for having such an option.
 
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There is an option to set a different Translation app as the default in the Default Apps section of the Settings app. In the EU, there is also an option to choose a different Navigation app.
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No apps available for choice under "Default Translation app", even though I would assume Google Translate should be there (maybe later?).

For Navigation: I have set it to Google Maps, does not do jack ****. When I click on event location in Apple Calendar, it still tries to open Apple Maps (which I removed for the better).

Also, for some reason I have Apple Store app (different from App Store) installed with this update, which is also set to Hindi (my iphone or I have nothing to do with India).

The quality of this release - 🫩.
 
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I might be alone thinking this way, but it is already for sometime that I see how iOS updates bring mostly garbage. What is worrying to be is the trend and direction. And they call an iPhone a Pro tool. Genmoji…..seriously? People interactions became so flat and poor….
 
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The Mail app Categories are interesting. I can see that Apple put some thought into this.

At first glance I don't find Categories to be useful for me so I turned the feature off for now. New mail seemed to "get lost" in the mix. I'll revisit it from time to time to see if I can find any utility in it.

Meanwhile it seems that Apple finally got the 'new mail badge' of the Mail icon on the Home screen working properly again. It's been in malfunction-land for years. Good to see something getting fixed instead of getting broken on an iOS update.
 
Will be updating my 15 Pro Max to try out Visual Intelligence and the new Priority notifications. Not sure how well the new notifications will work.
 
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Jetson said:
The Mail app Categories are interesting. I can see that Apple put some thought into this.

At first glance I don't find Categories to be useful for me so I turned the feature off for now. New mail seemed to "get lost" in the mix. I'll revisit it from time to time to see if I can find any utility in it.

Meanwhile it seems that Apple finally got the 'new mail badge' of the Mail icon on the Home screen working properly again. It's been in malfunction-land for years. Good to see something getting fixed instead of getting broken on an iOS update.
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Mail catergorisation used to work for me even phone set to Lang other than English. Upgraded to iOS 18.4 just now, it does not work.
 
Also if you’re on the old Home architecture, now you have persistent red notification badge on both Settings and Home apps telling you to upgrade…..
 
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Why developers, including Apple, include bezels in the App Store screenshots? The Smart App Banner preview highlights issues with this approach, where you see the double bezels in the Apple Store app preview.
 
Found a few announced enhancement not available for my ip13.

- New option for preferred lang in map setting;
- Indication of double tap detected;
- App review summary (require AI?);
- Mail category function lost for non English setting (used to work)

really wonder if the above require newer phones to work.

If anyone got that for map app, grateful please post a photo. Upgraded to 18.4 simply for this map update.
 
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delsoul said:
It’s there. Go under ‘messages’ and it’ll show up to be toggled on. It’ll make a big difference in texting androids
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Nope, not for me. Supposed to be supported by my carrier, but see no such options in Settings for Messages. Searching for it on top level in Settings, it does show up as available under Messages, but following that link it is nowhere.
 
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delsoul said:
It’s there. Go under ‘messages’ and it’ll show up to be toggled on. It’ll make a big difference in texting androids
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Bam thank you. I swear I checked that and it wasn't there in the first RC, I reckon I forgot to check again. Was looking under about > cellular for the RCS carrier support string.

Anyway, not sure how I missed that, so thank you!
 
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Shifts said:
Nope, not for me. Supposed to be supported by my carrier, but see no such options in Settings for Messages. Searching for it on top level in Settings, it does show up as available under Messages, but following that link it is nowhere.
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Try going down to apps, at the bottom of settings, going to messages manually, and scrolling most of the way down to the text messaging group of options. RCS should be top option.

Maybe it doesn't appear right away and has to wait for carrier settings in the background or something, I didn't see it at first either.
 
Update does the following:
  • Turns on automatic updates or download updates. If you want neither, you need to visit Setup after the update.
  • Turns on AI
  • Safari logs you out of all your websites and you need to re-trust the browser for secure websites.
  • Turns on mail privacy protection which means you need to click on each message to download images.
 
"...Apple Intelligence will show notifications that may be important..."

Am I just a curmudgeon now?

Every iteration I've seen of software/AI trying to do this over the past few years has never worked quite right, because it doesn't always get it right. And if it misses just one "important" notification it's a failure. So my response to this is always to just let me manage/decide... 🤷‍♂️
 
I honestly haven’t noticed any real improvements in iOS 18. I’m still trying to figure out if any of these new features will actually be useful to me. A lot of it just seems like fluff that only Gen Z would care about. Oh, I just noticed that it did add one new feature, as of now it occasionally crashes DuckDuckGo. 🤷‍♂️
 
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