Love you can finally get rid screen mirroring and do not disturb in the control panel.
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iOS 18 Tidbits: Enhanced Flashlight Controls, Control Center Edit Mode, and More
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Ah maybe something specific with the flash module, available on 14 PM.
Really nice improvement though, been wanting a softer light for years - no longer need to hold my finger over the light to reduce the output!
What's interesting is that the brightness can be set REALLY dim, they just don't let you do it from the control center in iOS 17 and earlier. Does the new beta let you finally go really dim natively?
I have a Shortcut called "Nitelite" that turns on the flashlight super dim for walking around a pitch black room at night without disturbing anyone, for example. The "Toggle Flashlight" shortcut command has a smooth slider for brightness and you can go *REALLY* dim, even to the point that you look at the flash module and it's just glowing softly.
Whilst it seems that iOS 18 gives you more granular control and a new option for the breadth of the flash, you can already increase/decrease the intensity of the flash from control centre in iOS 17 and below by pressing and holding on the flash icon which brings up 4 different levels.
EDIT - unless by *REALLY* dim you mean lower than what is available in control centre in iOS 17 and below? If so then fair enough!
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Now my big question. Does the passwords app hold credit card info or is it really just logins?
ICloud Keychain has credit cards. So it just makes sense for it all to be in one place
ICloud Keychain has credit cards. So it just makes sense for it all to be in one place
Yeah, Apple is bread-crumbing us. iPhone sales are tanking and Apple’s innovation has stagnated. They were caught off guard by the rise of AI. Now they are giving us the things we have been waiting for years to receive. It won’t be enough tho.
Yeah that's what I mean. Even the dimmest setting from the control panel is like the Sun at night in a pitch black room. Shortcuts can make it go much dimmer.
Yes, natively much lower in the middle option. Your shortcut may go even lower, but this is a nice option nonetheless.
Seems to turning off some LEDs on the flash module to spread the light differently depending on your option.
Can have quite a focused narrow beam too.
Controlling the spread of the flashlight would be handy when I wake up at 5am and I'm trying to find my socks without waking the missus 
Why don't they just put a dot in front of the flash light, instead of two scroll bars? Drag it farther from the light and it gets brighter. Closer dimmer. To the left narrower. To the right wider. My 2013 Toyota radio has that for adjusting the speakers. Then they can create a whole other set of settings in case you want those actions reversed. They are really missing their chance to create more bloat.
Yeah starting with the iPhone 14. Prism flash lens. Guess this what they were waiting to make better use of it.
Not present. Looks like you'll need to create a shortcut for it first, and then add it to control center.
I’m right-handed but keep my phone in the left pocket and keys/knife in the right. I didn’t even realize this was a thing.
