The MacRumors Show: Our Favorite iOS 18 Features

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iOS 18 has now been officially released after months of beta testing. On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we talk through our top features in Apple's latest major software update.

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We go through some of iOS 18's significant system changes, including the redesigned Control Center and new Home Screen customization tools, as well as some of the smaller quality-of-life enhancements such as the Passwords app, RCS support, improvements to the Notes app, and emojis as tapbacks in Messages. We also touch on iPhone mirroring in macOS Sequoia, and some of the areas we'd like to see Apple work on for next year's updates. The next major version of iOS 18 will be iOS 18.1, which will start to bring Apple Intelligence to ordinary users around the world. The MacRumors Show has its own YouTube channel, so make sure you're subscribed to keep up with new episodes and clips:

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[Digital Dude]

The update on the Apple TV has been costing me some headaches when dropping out signal and just stopping all together. —Not very intelligent in my opinion. 🧠 👎

 

[bruinsrme]

I nearly fell out of my chair when you mentioned the Control panel customization.
i will venture to say 25% or even less will change anything.
If my wife’s life depended on pulling up the control center, I don’t think it would end well.

 

[Sasparilla]

Probably the most recent .0 release in recent memory where I'll actually be using some of these updates on a day to day basis. The fact alot of them were things users have been wanting makes me think this had to be a strat on the dev team when they mapped out what to do for v18.0.

Favorite is RCS simply because of a friend who's always been Android and always will be and this just make it alot better - whatever the motivation, glad to see that done. The extra stuff in iMessage, whether its time to send or the other enhancements will just get used. Will be using the UI customization for the base screens. The math enhancements will get used (for currency conversions mostly that I do occasionally - they need to get it working in iMessage consistently, currently Notes and Calculator have it working well).

I nearly fell out of my chair when you mentioned the Control panel customization.
i will venture to say 25% or even less will change anything.
If my wife’s life depended on pulling up the control center, I don’t think it would end well.

You're probably right although 25% would be a huge number.

I desperately want the Dev's to enable the Control Center power button (default upper right) so we have an easy / quick power menu trigger. Touching it seems to indicate it was put there as a button - but the plumbing didn't make it for .0 release.

 

[svenmany]

I desperately want the Dev's to enable the Control Center power button (default upper right) so we have an easy / quick power menu trigger. Touching it seems to indicate it was put there as a button - but the plumbing didn't make it for .0 release.

Seems to work for me.

 

[DaveMcM76]

I desperately want the Dev's to enable the Control Center power button (default upper right) so we have an easy / quick power menu trigger. Touching it seems to indicate it was put there as a button - but the plumbing didn't make it for .0 release.

Button works fine, but i can see how it could be a bit confusing as while it does animate slightly with just a quick press you actually have to press and hold to get the slide to power off shutdown screen to appear.

 

[NASABoomer]

Got two things today: 16 Pro and Air Pods Max. This is embarrassing though. I thought the Desert whatever color that is seemed cool on my computer so wanted that, and I decided on the 16Pro (vs P. Max) thinking they were pretty much the same but cheaper (S.O. does not drink the "Apple Cider" let's just say so price matters). I got home, opened the box and the first thing (my very liberal S.O. says is - "that's PINK!" You really want "THAT" color? Ahem, not really, I reply. Then I held the phone (before taking off the cover paper) and it was palpably smaller than my old 12 Pro Max. I knew instantly I screwed up. "Once you go big....." So, with tail between my legs, I returned to Apple store (3rd time today) - queues were even more massive than earlier, and I got a res. for the LAST ProMax Titanium. Going back later to exchange. As for the Air Pod Max - well, I waited for this update only to be disappointed that the only thing that seemed to change was a color choice and switch to USB-C. Not waiting for anything better. My purple APM are GORGEOUS.

 

[bLackjackj]

I don't understand the whole I'm sitting on a toilet face? Just smile or don't have your faces on the image. Every week you guys look depressed or that you don't want to be doing this.

 

[hagjohn]

New iPhone 16 Pro, v4 iPods and Apple Watch 10, so I spent way too much money. I decided this time to go for a Pro instead of a Pro Max.

I think the new camera control will grow on people, once people get used to it.

 

[DaveMcM76]

I’m waiting on a watch 10 (due Monday) to replace my 7 and an iPhone 16 Pro (due 26th September to 1st October) to replace my 14 Pro. Looking forward to fresh batteries ( current phone and watch are both down around 80% capacity), the camera improvements and really hoping the capture button doesn’t disappoint.

 

[rbbloom99]

My #1 favorite update is the "Send Later" option in messages.

I get my best ideas in the middle of the night, and now I don't wake up my family and friends to share my brilliant ideas at 3am

 

[svenmany]

I'm very happy I can now remove the flashlight and camera from the lock screen; I used to accidentally turn them both on a lot. I've also had someone pick up my locked phone and take tons of pictures.

 

[DaveMcM76]

I've also had someone pick up my locked phone and take tons of pictures.

Sadly removing the camera shortcut doesn’t remove the ability to swipe right on the Lock Screen to access the camera so this is still very much possible, albeit via a possibly lesser known method.

 

[Timbukstu]

iOS 18 has now been officially released after months of beta testing. On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we talk through our top features in Apple's latest major software update.

Subscribe to The MacRumors Show YouTube channel for more videos​

We go through some of iOS 18's significant system changes, including the redesigned Control Center and new Home Screen customization tools, as well as some of the smaller quality-of-life enhancements such as the Passwords app, RCS support, improvements to the Notes app, and emojis as tapbacks in Messages. We also touch on iPhone mirroring in macOS Sequoia, and some of the areas we'd like to see Apple work on for next year's updates. The next major version of iOS 18 will be iOS 18.1, which will start to bring Apple Intelligence to ordinary users around the world. The MacRumors Show has its own YouTube channel, so make sure you're subscribed to keep up with new episodes and clips:

Subscribe to The MacRumors Show YouTube channel!​

You can also listen to The MacRumors Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, or your preferred podcasts app. You can also copy our RSS feed directly into your podcast player.

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If you haven't already listened to the previous episode of The MacRumors Show, catch up for our discussion about the Apple Watch Series 10, iPhone 16 lineup, AirPods 4, and everything else that was announced at Apple's "It's Glowtime" event.

Subscribe to The MacRumors Show for new episodes every week, where we discuss some of the topical news breaking here on MacRumors, often joined by interesting guests such as Luke Miani, Matthew Cassinelli, Brian Tong, Quinn Nelson, Kevin Nether, Jared Nelson, Eli Hodapp, Mike Bell, Sara Dietschy, iJustine, Jon Rettinger, Andru Edwards, Arnold Kim, Ben Sullins, Marcus Kane, Christopher Lawley, Frank McShan, David Lewis, Tyler Stalman, Jon Prosser, Sam Kohl, John Gruber, Federico Viticci, Thomas Frank, Jonathan Morrison, Ross Young, Ian Zelbo, and Rene Ritchie.

The MacRumors Show is on X @MacRumorsShowhttps://twitter.com/macrumorsshow, so be sure to give us a follow to keep up with the podcast. You can also head over to The MacRumors Show forum thread to engage with us directly. Remember to rate and review the podcast, and let us know what subjects and guests you would like to see in the future.

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I am confused why you organize the control center for lights, I use voice (Siri) to work my lights by room and use voice to open apps light flashlight.

Am I doing it inefficiently or do you have use cases where voice doesn’t work in your environment.