Like every year around this time Apple has celebrated its WWDC or world developers conference. In it he presents his new operating systems and they have all improved: tvOS, macOS, watchOS andiOS.
The new features presented by the new iOS 12 focus, mostly and as rumored, on stability improvements and fixes. This will fix all those bugs that appeared with iOS 11. But not only that, it has also brought news.
Among all the new features of iOS 12 we find a do not disturb mode and improvements in privacy, among others:
One of the most anticipated new features in improving notifications From now on, in iOS 12, all notifications will be They will be grouped by applications and not based on when we have received them. In this way we will have a much more organized notification center. Something that many of us expected.
Also and in a very relevant way, we have the improvement of Siri with the integration with the operating system and with other apps and something very striking called Shortcuts. Shortcurts is a new app that integrates with iOS and looks a lot like what Workflow allowed to do : Create flows to automate certain operating system tasks.
The new app Screen Time
Another new app coming with iOS 12 is Screen Time . Thanks to it we will be able to know how much time we spend using our device, which app we use the most and, probably most importantly, we will be able to limit the time that a app can be used
In this WWDC they have also focused a lot on Augmented Reality. All you can offer with your new ARKit 2. In addition, the native apps Books, Stock Market, News and Photos are renewed with a new, much more intuitive and clean interface.
For example, in Stock, we will be able to find relevant news related to the values we follow, and in Photos we will be able to search more efficiently , in addition to including the "For You" section where we can find the photos that our iPhone considers relevant to us.
Residual, but not least, among the new features of iOS 12, Apple has allowed calls from FaceTime of up to 32 people and for iPhone X we now have more emojis that become Animoji and Memoji , which allow us to create our own Animoji with our skin.
iOS 12 available in September:
As usual, the final version of iOS 12 will be available in September when the new iOS devices are expected to launch .
Although there is still a long way to go, we anticipate that Apple has decided that they are compatible with the new iOS the iPhone from 5s onwards and iPads from iPad Air That is,from devices released in 2013!. Just visit our list if you want to know if your iPhone, iPad or iPod will work with iOS 12
iOS 12 features not mentioned by Apple at WWDC 18:
Obviously those in Cupertino don't have time to name everything new that will arrive with iOS 12. They only name the highlights and leave, in the background, very interesting functions that are discovered with use.
For this reason, we recommend you go through our next article, if you want to know the hidden functions of iOS 12.
WatchOS 5:
WWDC also talked about what's new coming to the Apple Watch with WatchOS 5. If you have one of the Apple watches,we recommend you visit our post. You will know everything new that will arrive for the SmartWatch of the bitten apple.
