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iOS 19 Beta is a Month Away With These New Features for Your iPhone
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Are they ever going to add customized voices for Siri?
Samuel L. Jackson would be killer.
Or maybe have Siri have different personalities?
Samuel L. Jackson would be killer.
Or maybe have Siri have different personalities?
iOS 19 Snow Leopard. No new features. Just pure under the hood performance tuning. 🥹
Seems to me that might be a really good improvement.
I’d much rather Apple take chances and have delays then for them to play it safe and not give us the best that they can.
It would be so nice if they’d make real improvements to predictive text, the fact it still is unable to recognise basic words as part of language on a regular basis needs addressing. Perhaps the same team that’s worked on Siri developed this? Would explain so much.
Stage Manager in iOS? Apple, please, just don’t. Does anyone even use Stage Manager in iPadOS?
The first iOS 19 beta is just one month away, and there are already many new features and changes that are expected with it.
Apple should seed the first iOS 19 beta to developers immediately following the WWDC 2025 keynote, which is scheduled for Monday, June 9. Following beta testing, the update should be released to the general public in September.
Below, we recap the key iOS 19 rumors so far.
New Design With Floating Tab Bar
iOS 19 is expected to introduce a new design that looks more like the visionOS operating system on the Apple Vision Pro headset.
According to Front Page Tech's Jon Prosser, iOS 19 will have a glass-like appearance, with added translucency for menus, buttons, and other user interface elements. He also expects rounder app icons, and a new floating tab bar in Apple apps.
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman also expects iOS 19 to have a visionOS-like design, and he believes the design changes will be the biggest since iOS 7.
Stage Manager for iPhones
Last month, a leaker known as Majin Bu claimed that iOS 19 will enable support for at least a limited version of Stage Manager on iPhone models with a USB-C port.
In a blog post citing sources, the leaker said that when an iPhone with a USB-C port is connected to an external display, users will be able to take advantage of a Stage Manager-like interface with multiple apps open at once on the screen. However, he said that there might be more limitations compared to Stage Manager on iPads.
iPhone models with a USB-C port include all iPhone 15 models and newer.
iPhones with both Lightning and USB-C ports can already be connected to external displays, but only for basic screen mirroring.
End-to-End Encryption for RCS
In March, Apple said that it plans to add support for end-to-end encrypted RCS messages to the Messages app in future iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS software updates. That likely means iOS 19, macOS 16, and other corresponding updates.
Apple promising end-to-end encryption for RCS messages indirectly confirms that it will be adopting the RCS Universal Profile 3.0 specification, which also includes several iMessage-like enhancements that were originally introduced in version 2.7 of the specification. iOS 18 supports RCS Universal Profile 2.4.
Here are five new capabilities to expect for RCS conversations on iOS 19:
iMessage conversations with blue bubbles have supported end-to-end encryption by default since iOS 5. In addition, iMessage has supported in-line replies since iOS 14, while the options to edit and unsend iMessages were introduced with iOS 16.
- End-to-end encryption, which will prevent Apple and any other third party from being able to read messages and attachments while they are being sent between devices
- In-line replies
- Edit messages
- Unsend messages
- Full-fledged Tapback support for RCS messages, ensuring they always work
Apple has not indicated which iOS version will upgrade RCS, but iOS 19 or a follow-up update like iOS 19.1 or iOS 19.2 seems like a safe bet.
Live Translate With AirPods
At least some AirPods models will be getting a new live translation feature with iOS 19 and an accompanying firmware update, according to Gurman.
Here is how that feature will work, according to his report:Google already offers a similar Live Translate feature.
He also said iOS 19 will have bolstered translation capabilities, which likely means improvements are coming to the Apple Translate app.
Revamped Health App With Coaching Feature
A revamped Health app is expected to debut as early as iOS 19.4 next year.
Apple plans to offer a new AI-powered health coaching feature that offers personalized health recommendations, according to Gurman. The information provided by the coaching feature would be accompanied by videos from health experts that inform users about various health conditions and ways to make lifestyle improvements. For example, if the Apple Watch tracks poor heart-rate trends, a video could explain the risks of heart disease.
Food tracking will be another big part of the revamped Health app, which could compete with the MyFitnessPal app, according to Gurman.
Personalized Siri
In March, Apple delayed the more personalized version of Siri that it previewed at WWDC last year. The company said it anticipated rolling out the Siri upgrades at some point "in the coming year," so the features could launch as part of iOS 19 later this year. However, they could also arrive as part of a later update, such as iOS 19.1 through iOS 19.4.
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I don’t mind delays if it means a better product. Shipping unfinished, half-baked, buggy software is the real worry with Apple these days.
All I want from iOS is for it to quickly and efficiently manage the connection with my AirPods Pro 2 SO I DONT SOUND LIKE A FREAKING MORON EVERY.SINGLE.TIME I ANSWER A PHONE CALL!!! WTF are you doing Apple? Hello, you there?, you there? Hang on, damn iPhone switched from APP2 to local iPhone ear speaker. Ok, you there now? Hello, hello? There you are… FFS Apple, what are your engineers doing??? How about you focus on USABILITY? Remember that term???
Does anyone use it in macOS? Had to turn it off on my Dad’s Mac because he kept accidentally going in to stage manager and getting confused/frustrated by it.
OK, I can imagine a few specific workloads / styles where it could be useful. But for most of us, most of the time, it’s a solution looking for a problem.
Please don’t embarrass yourself - look at the linked list and tell me about the “overwhelming” majority that supports RCS. By way of example, NONE of the Swiss carriers support it. In the UK, only 2 out of 11. In Brazil, NONE of the 5 carriers. Want me to continue?
Wireless carrier support and features for iPhone in Europe - Apple Support
Choose your country or region to learn about the wireless carriers available to you.support.apple.com
First of all, notice I said "US, Canada, Europe, and China." Last I checked, Brazil isn't in any of those regions. There are some notable exceptions in Europe, but on the whole (and without digging into coverage and such) it appears the majority of European carriers support RCS (and of course not all carriers are equal, so certainly the majority of European users have a carrier that supports RCS). But no matter how you slice it, your claim that "most operators" don't support it is wrong, and dreadfully wrong in the most important markets (i.e. the US and China).
And the whole argument is pointless anyway, since it's up to carriers to support RCS, not Apple.
I wonder what good these features will be for iPhone users. I expect an update that can increase the security, enhance the existing features, and provide a top-notch design.
Everything in design is cyclical. I can’t wait until you discover fashion!
This is the only gripe in this thread that I completely agree with.
Namely, the complete inability to deal with contractions. My phone can never tell if i want "we'll" or "well", "we're" or "were", "he'll" or "hell", etc. It seems to guess wrong way more than it guesses right. And it doesn't present both options to me, just one and then two other random words.
Or use that AI chip. Get someone to read a piece of text and customise Siri to their voice.
Celebrities can license their voices so Apple gets paid.
Z-list celebs can do the same and sell them on the Siri Store.
Actually that's a farking good idea.
I don't mind stage manager so much but I'd love external display support in the iPad mini beyond partial resolution mirroring. Give me the extended desktop, dammit.
**stares at Windows 11 wondering where the 3D is**
Yeah, I don't think you're doing like-for-like. When Windows added window shadows, they did it half-assed. Apple made the foremost window a different shadow to the lower layers for ease of identification of the active window. Yet people who were unsophisticated said "windows has window shadows too".
iPadOS right now has more 3D elements than Windows 11!
For the few members of my family who do use Android phones, they have RCS and it's so handy to be able to send them full-sized videos and photos.
Hmm 🤔 I hope iOS 19 is something special I hope makes this a great iOS. It is hard to believe that the beta is only a month away.